Propaganda: Band Biography

According to the fans of the Propaganda group, the soloists were able to gain popularity not only due to their strong voice, but also due to their natural sex appeal.

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In the music of this group, everyone can find something close for themselves. Girls in their songs touched on the theme of love, friendship, relationships and youthful fantasies.

At the beginning of their creative career, the Propaganda group positioned itself as a teenage group. But over time, the soloists have matured.

Following the singers, the musical compositions of the group began to grow up. Now a rich femininity was visible in the songs, which led to a change in the image of the soloists.

The composition and history of the musical group "Propaganda"

The date of foundation of the musical group "Propaganda" is 2001. The history of the emergence of a musical group is both complex and simple. Victoria Petrenko, Yulia Garanina and Victoria Voronina dreamed of their own group. The performers walked a thorny path to their goal, and soon they achieved their goal.

Propaganda: Band Biography
Propaganda: Band Biography

Interestingly, some of the girls knew each other even before the group was founded. So, Vika Petrenko and Yulia Garanina grew up in the provincial town of Chkalovsk. They attended the same school and soon became friends. In adolescence, girls began to get involved in rap.

They were not only into rap, but also followed the image of hip-hop culture. They wore stylish sneakers, wide trousers and bananas. Julia and Vika stood out from the rest of the class, so they were outcasts.

And if this broke other teenagers, then the girls, on the contrary, learned to overcome difficulties and go against the system.

After graduating from the 9th grade, the future soloists of the Propaganda group left to conquer Moscow. Vika entered the circus school, and Yulia became a medical student.

A similar biography accompanied the third member of the "golden composition" of the Propaganda group, Vika Voronina. Victoria also went through a wall of misunderstanding at school. Vika studied brilliantly and with enviable ease.

Propaganda: Band Biography
Propaganda: Band Biography

The girl could write a test in 5 minutes, and the rest of the time she composed poetry. Victoria's mother was a musician by profession, so most likely Voronina's genes worked in her favor.

Victoria passed the exams externally for the 10th and 11th grades, and then got into the troupe of the theater. B. A. Pokrovsky. The girl worked in the theater for 7 years. The future "propagandist" took part in voicing the New Year tree in the Kremlin, along with Oleg Anofriev and Mikhail Boyarsky.

Victoria dreamed of entering the theater institute. However, her plans changed dramatically after she met Vika Petrenko and Yulia Garanina.

By that time, Garanina and Petrenko were already on the local television of Chkalovsk. The girls skillfully read rap in English on the air. Then the girls were warmed up by the performer Danger Illusion, but Vika and Yulia got bored of being in the background.

The idea of ​​creating a trio belongs to Yuri Evrelov, a vocal teacher at the circus school. It was he who saw the potential in Voronina. Yuri helped with the arrangement and participated in the recording of the first phonogram.

The "golden composition" of the musical group admitted that they rubbed each other very hard. Each of the soloists had her own views on how this or that musical composition should “look like”. It even got to the point that the girls fought.

The debut performance of the trio took place in one of the Moscow nightclubs "Manhattan". Then the girls performed under the name "Influence". However, the presenter, who announced the group's release, made a mistake with the name and called the group "Infusion".

After a successful performance, the girls decided to call the group "Propaganda". This name is definitely impossible to confuse.

Propaganda: Band Biography
Propaganda: Band Biography

The first round of popularity came to the girls when they performed on the Arbat. There, the trio, who came up with a circus performance for each musical composition, was seen by the director of the recording company Alexei Kozin.

He was pleasantly impressed by the talent of the Propaganda group, so he brought the girls together with Russian producer Sergei Izotov.

In the fall of 2001, music lovers heard about the birth of new stars. On Europa Plus radio, the debut composition of the Mel group sounded, which gave the girls numerous fans.

Soon the group "Propaganda" released the musical composition "Nobody". And soon the trio presented the first full-length album, which was called "Kids".

Most of the songs for the debut album were written by Victoria Voronina. In the wake of popularity, the trio released several remix records with the name "Who ?!" and "Who invented this love."

Video clips appeared on the tracks "Chalk" and "Nobody". The clips got into the rotation of Ukrainian and Russian channels. In 2002, the group presented the album “Not Children” to fans of their work.

The Propaganda group was on the wave of popularity, so when the fans found out that the team had broken up, it was a huge surprise for them. In 2003, Petrenko and Garanina left the group.

The producer had no choice but to replace the departed soloists with Olga Moreva and Ekaterina Oleinikova. And although many fans were not happy with the departure of their favorites, they favorably accepted the new tracks of the Superbaby group and Quanto costa.

Propaganda: Band Biography
Propaganda: Band Biography

In the same 2003, the updated line-up of the group presented the new album So Be It. This is the most lyrical album of the Propaganda group. A poignant musical composition based on Voronina's poems "Five Minutes for Love" appealed to music lovers.

In the spring, the musical group received the prestigious One Stop Hit award. A few months later, at the Golden Gramophone ceremony, which was broadcast on Channel One, the soloists of the Propaganda group presented their fans with a new track, Rain on the Roofs.

At the end of 2003, the trio presented one of the brightest and most memorable works "Yay-Ya" ("Yellow Apples"). The performers tried on the image of Eve, thereby increasing the army of fans represented by the stronger sex.

By the end of the winter of 2004, the musical group took the first positions in the country's music charts with its "apple" composition.

Later, the girls presented a video clip for their ballad Quanto costa. With this, the soloists of the Propaganda group became laureates of the Song of the Year festival.

In 2005, the group rarely appeared on the screens due to insufficient funding, and in 2007 Sergey Ivanov became the producer of the group.

The fruit of the joint efforts of Ivanov and the girls was the album "You are my boyfriend", coolly received by music critics and listeners. Due to a series of failures, Vika Voronina, the only one from the "golden composition", left the Propaganda group.

In 2004, there was a change in the soloists of the group again - Maria Bukatar and Anastasia Shevchenko replaced Irina Yakovleva and the departed Voronina. In 2010, sexy girls presented the musical composition "You Know".

In 2012, the trio became a duo. Since 2012, the soloists of the Propaganda group have been Bukatar and Shevchenko. In 2013, the singers presented the album "Girlfriend" to fans.

Before the fans had time to enjoy the new disc, in 2014 the girls presented the Purple Powder disc. The top tracks of the album were the tracks: "It's a pity", "A banal story" and "Not yours anymore".

In the spring of 2015, the musical group "Propaganda" presented the song "Magic", which immediately got into rotation. Six months later, the reality show “Get in Propaganda” started on the Russian Music Box.

The essence of the show is the selection of new soloists of the group. As a result of the selection, the new soloists of the group were: Arina Milan, Veronika Kononenko and Maya Podolskaya.

Music group Propaganda

The soloists of the group began their creative path with such a direction as rap. Later, the girls experimented with styles such as pop, pop-rock and house. Fans were not always enthusiastic about musical experiments, demanding melodic rap from the participants.

Anastasia Shevchenko and Maria Bukatar said in one of their interviews that a change in the musical direction of the group was a necessary condition. Any change is primarily the development of a musical group and an increase in the number of new fans.

After this interview, the girls left the Propaganda group and went on a solo "swimming". For the period of recording the song and the video clip "I'm leaving you" with the rapper TRES, the girls returned to the group.

Musical group Propaganda today

In 2017, the soloists of the group presented a new album "Golden Album", it included the top compositions of the group "Propaganda" for 15 years.

In addition, music lovers heard new works: “You are my weightlessness”, “Meow” and “I forget”, recorded by the new line-up of the group.

In the same year, the soloists of the group presented the musical composition "I'm not like that." In the fall, a video clip appeared for the song. The work was warmly received by fans.

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In the spring of 2018, the Propaganda group pleased fans from Krasnoarmeysk and Omsk with their performance. In 2019, the soloists presented a number of tracks: "Supernova", "Not Alyonka" and "White Dress".

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