Today, Guru Groove Foundation is a bright trend that is inexorably in a hurry to acquire the title of a bright brand. The musicians managed to achieve their sound. Their compositions are original and memorable.
Guru Groove Foundation is an independent musical group from Russia. The band members create music in genres such as jazz fusion, funk and electronica.
In 2011, the group received the prestigious Golden Gargoyle Award. The musicians became the best dance project of the outgoing year. The team performed on the same stage with De-Phazz and Zap Mama, Janelle Monae, Ronnie Wood and Johnny Marr.
The long-playing formation of the Russian team began with jazz fusion familiar to music lovers. The musicians actively use the brass section, catchy funk melodies and the charisma of the main vocalist Tatyana Shamanina.
The history of the creation and composition of the Guru Groove Foundation
The English-speaking collective Guru Groove Foundation was created in the very heart of the Russian Federation - in the city of Moscow. At the origins of the team are:
- Tatyana Shamanina;
- Egor Shamanin;
- sound producer Gennady Lagutin.
Gradually, the composition of the group expanded, and today it is associated with such members as: Tatyana Shamanina, Yegor Shamanin, Salman Abuev, Gennady Lagutin, Anton Chumachenko, Alexander Potapov, Artyom Sadovnikov.
Despite the fact that each participant made a lot of efforts and devoted a significant amount of time to the "promotion" of the English-speaking group, most music lovers associate the group with Tatyana Shamanina.
She was born in the Siberian and provincial city of Nizhnevartovsk. Her parents were not connected with creativity. Mom and dad are engineers. In her youth, Tatyana was engaged in dancing and did not dream of becoming a singer. Shamanina even participated in dance competitions, at one of them she was offered to sing. Then it became clear that the girl has excellent vocal abilities.
Since that time she has taken part in many music festivals. Often she returned with a victory in her hands. The girl dreamed of a stage, but her father asked her to get a higher education. The obedient daughter did not object to the head of the family and entered the Pedagogical University.
Soon Tanya realized another dream. The girl went to Moscow and entered the pop-jazz school. She managed to win the hearts of teachers. Many loved the girl for her strong and spontaneous character.
The first group where Tanya sang was the Supersonic project. The girl failed to make herself known in the team, so she soon left the little-known project.
Soon she met Maxim Fadeev. The producer invited Shamanina to audition and approved the girl for the place of the backing vocalist in the group "Silver».
After some time, the singer joined the Party team. In this group, she became the main vocalist. After two years of active concert activity, Tatyana decided to leave the band. Together with her husband Yegor Shamanin, the singer created her own project Guru Groove Foundation.
The creative path and music of the Guru Groove Foundation
In 2009, the new team took part in one of the Russian festivals. The musicians presented to the public a number of author's works, which became very popular.
In 2011, thanks to the Sixteen Tons club, the band implemented the author's project GGF Four Seasons 2011. Then the band members won the Avianova flying musicians competition. The fact is that they held an unplugged concert at an altitude of 10 thousand meters.
In the same 2011, the group's discography was replenished with a debut disc. We are talking about the LP Call Me Up. The collection is based on lyrical and philosophical tracks. Among the new compositions, music lovers noted the following compositions: Moscow, Golden Love, My Baby and Call Me Up.
A few years later, a video was filmed for the composition Moscow. It was directed by Alexei Tishkin. The video was filmed using stop-motion technology. Filming took place a little more than three weeks, 60 people took part in the creation of the work. In addition, in 2013 the group became a participant in the closing ceremony of the Universiade in Kazan.
Stop-motion is the movement of inanimate objects in the frame, from which an animated video is obtained.
In 2014, the musicians presented their second studio album One Hour. It was stylistically indie rock. And the soloists of the group are sure that the compositions are more logical to attribute to such a genre as electropop.
The second studio album did not remain without bright hits. Tracks became top compositions: Jump Into My Arms, Strong Enough and Ghost. The record was received very warmly not only by fans, but also by music critics.
Awards and further activities
2016 was marked by the release of the mini-LP Over You. The collection was topped by only four compositions. Stylistically, the team made the disc a bit like a debut LP.
The first track of the mini-compilation was recorded in collaboration with Jimmy Douglass (aka Senator). Thanks to the track, the team received the Muz-TV award in the Best Foreign Language Song category.
In the summer of 2016, another interesting stage began in the creative biography of Tatyana Shamanina. She, as a permanent member of the jury, took part in the filming of the Casa Musica music competition on MTV. Soon, the singer took part in the musical project "Voice", which was broadcast on the Channel One TV channel.
At the project, she presented the judges with the composition of Eva Polna. It's about the track "Dislike". She managed to attract the attention of a strict jury. She performed brilliantly and impressed the audience very much. Almost all the judges turned to Tatyana, except for Dima Bilan.
The singer got into the team to Polina Gagarina. Tatyana said that she preferred Polina only because they are on the same musical wavelength.
Group Guru Groove Foundation: interesting facts
- For their debut performance, which took place in 2009, the musicians created five tracks in a few weeks.
- The video clip for the track Moscow was created using innovative stop-motion technology. It consists only of photos, and there are about 4 thousand of them in the video.
- The musicians worked more than 20 thousand hours on the creation of the One Hour LP.
- Musicians do not often please with the performance of tracks in Russian.
- Tatyana often takes her little daughter with her to concerts.
Group at present
In 2018, the group's discography was replenished with another novelty. We are talking about the LP Just Another Day. The album was received incredibly warmly by the fans.
In 2020, the musicians presented a cover version of the band's song "DDT" "Do you have a son". By the way, this is the second case when the musicians sang in Russian. Due to the fact that the concert activity of the group was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, Tatyana decided to slightly improve her financial situation. In her Instagram, she created a post in which she wrote that she was ready to take two people who she would teach vocals online.
On December 12, 2020, the group's online concert was filmed. The offline party took place in a close circle of fans of the Guru Groove Foundation. On their official social media page, the musicians wrote:
“We have a hot punch and a gift for everyone. With you - New Year's mood (it is now especially lacking)!
