To the top musical Olympus. The secret of success largely lies in the unique voice of soloist Alexander Shoua. The artist masters many instruments in the musicians' arsenal - the man knows how to play the guitar, drums, piano, and keyboards. The talent is multifaceted: Showa is also the author of the music and lyrics of the lion's share of the singles that come from his lips.

Childhood and youth

Sasha was born in the Abkhaz town of Ochamchira in musical family. My father had excellent skills in playing the drums and guitar, my uncle sang well and also masterfully handled many musical instruments. From the age of four, the boy was attracted like a magnet to the piano standing in parental home.

And at the age of 9, Alexander was already shining with his peers in the local children's ensemble"Anban". The team's teachers taught their students to play the guitar and drums professionally.

A little later, Sasha went to the Sukhumi School to gain new knowledge, enrolling in the pop department. But plans and life at home were destroyed by the outbreak of a military conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia. Parents decided to move to Russian capital, where I had to start my life all over again. Financial situation family left much to be desired, Alexander also had to earn his bread. The young man changed a lot of professions, even worked as a loader in a store.

Music

IN biographies of Showa Positive changes began after meeting a musician from the Aramis group. The team invited the talented Alexander into their ranks, where he tried his hand as a keyboard player, arranger and backing vocalist. Earnings have increased significantly, allowing relatives to no longer need anything.

Song by Arthur Best and Alexander Showa “I will steal her”

One day during a noisy youth party a representative of one of the presenters met Sasha record companies Europe "PolyGram". The musician received tempting offer- move to Cologne. Showa agreed and for the next few years he “turned on” people in a nightclub, and also performed own songs on concert venue"Globe". It quickly became popular here and won the love of the regulars of these establishments.

However, the role of the club performer did not suit him talented musician, over time, I outgrew this activity, I already wanted more. Alexander decided to return to Moscow to create his own project. With a future colleague musical project The paths crossed back in 1999. And in 2002, after leaving Germany, Showa found a girl and offered to form the pop duet “Nepara” together.

The name was born painfully: they went through a lot of options - they quarreled, made peace, fought again. The idea was suggested by producer Oleg Nekrasov. The man casually said that the guys didn’t look much like a duo, “not a couple at all.”

Alexander took charge of creating music and lyrics, and a year later the guys presented debut album"Another Family" The group instantly became famous, the duet was expected in every corner of Russia, and was invited abroad. Alexander and Victoria plunged into a rich tour life.

Song “God Invented You” by the duet “Nepara”

The following records “All over again” and “Doomed/Betrothed”, released in 2006 and 2009, also appealed to the army of fans. The singles “Another Reason”, “Cry and See”, “They have known each other for a long time” turned into hits immediately after the premiere.

After the release of the last album, “Nepara” lasted three more years. Ambitious and hardworking (zodiac sign Capricorn) Alexander Shoua dreamed of a solo career, so he boldly set off on a solo voyage. The singer created beautiful composition“The Sun Above My Head,” which managed to reach the top of the radio charts. He also shot colorful videos; the videos were invariably included in selections of music television programs.

Alexander Shoua's song “Your Voice”

However, Showa could not stand being alone for long. Already in 2013, the young man met Victoria and offered to reunite. The singer seemed to be waiting for this moment - she agreed without hesitation. The duo sparkled on stages again, delighting fans with new songs. The first single was “A Thousand Dreams”.

However, Alexander Shoua managed to solo at the same time. Fans received the song “Remember” especially warmly. And in 2016, the musician presented his debut solo album“Your Voice”, the creation of which he worked on during the period of the group’s collapse. The album included 16 compositions.

Personal life

Alexander Shoua is an Abkhazian by nationality, with a short height of 165 cm, but the man is not short of charm. He managed to get married twice, the musician has two children. I first visited the registry office even before the formation of the Nepara group; a daughter, Maya, was born in this marriage.

The musical duo performed the songs so soulfully that fans attributed an affair to Sasha and Vika. Interviews appeared in the press in which Victoria allegedly admitted that she had more than just a professional relationship with her partner. Alexander himself in conversations with journalists recent years speaks:

“You never know what anyone is thinking about. The question here is that the stage and life are completely different things. I don’t mix one with the other.”

The singer’s second wife was Natalya, a lawyer by training. Showa calls this union ideal; there are rarely quarrels with his wife; the woman has become a real support, a reliable rear. A daughter, Taisiya, is growing up in the family. The girl loves to dance and dreams of becoming a ballerina.

Alexander shares news with page subscribers in "Instagram". The photos tell about the artist’s life and his hobbies. In addition to music, Showa loves fishing, wherever he has been with a fishing rod. He says the most big fish found in Norway and Kamchatka.

Alexander Shoua now

Today, Alexander Shoua, together with Victoria Talyshinskaya, tours a lot, concerts are held in Russian cities and abroad.

In 2018, Alexander Shoua performed the song “Enchanted, Bewitched” in the show “Three Chords”

In the spring of 2018, Alexander participated in “Three Chords”. In that music show the main Russian channel Showa performed the familiar songs “My Myasoedovskaya Street”, “Enchanted, Bewitched”, “Girl in a Chintz Dress”. The musician's rivals were: As well as other actors and pop stars.

Discography

• 2003 - “Another Family”
• 2006 - “All over again”
• 2009 - “Doomed/Betrothed”
• 2016 - “Your Voice”

The duet “Nepara” was very popular in the early 2000s, and interest in its participants continues to this day. It must be said that Victoria Talyshinskaya’s first husband, Eldar, whose last name the singer still bears, was involved in the birth of this musical union. Victoria married him while still a student; he was twenty-one years older than her, but the marriage did not last long.

The singer sees the reason for the breakup of this marriage in the fact that it was too early, moreover, Eldar was too loving and not indifferent to female, and Victoria could not come to terms with this. The relationship between them gradually cooled and they separated. Later, Eldar left for Israel, and when Victoria was there on tour, she met his second wife and daughter.

Meeting with Showa

At one of the birthday parties for her husband’s friend, Victoria met Alexander Shoua, who performed for the guests. She did not miss the opportunity to demonstrate her vocal abilities and sang with him. The duet turned out great and Alexander invited his new friend to perform with him at corporate events. To her surprise, her husband was not against the fact that his wife would do what she loved, and even wrote the words for the song “Fork” for him and Shoua.

In the photo - Victoria Talyshinskaya and Alexander Shoua

Their duet existed for ten years, and during this time Alexander not only taught Victoria a lot, but also for some time became the hero of her novel. At first they hid their relationship for a long time, but they living together turned out to be short-lived - two creative individuals, and it’s also difficult for those working in the same duo to get along. Victoria says that loud quarrels often occurred between them, after which they not only didn’t want to perform together, but also didn’t want to see each other. However, when they found themselves on the same stage, passions subsided.

When the romance between them ended, they continued to perform together, go on tour, but remained only stage partners.

Marriage with a criminal connotation

Victoria Talyshinskaya's second husband was Stas Chepurov, whom she married in 2009. And the next year, the singer’s husband became involved in a scandal involving big money. At first he borrowed a huge amount of money to provide for his wife luxurious life, but could not pay off his creditors. It is not known how this story ended, but nothing more is heard about Stas, with whom Victoria divorced two years after the wedding.

In the photo - with Stas Chepurov

Towards new love

Victoria had known Ivan Salakhov for a very long time - they studied at the same school, but life brought them together much later. Victoria Talyshinskaya's third husband works as a restorer at the Tretyakov Gallery. He is the son of the famous Azerbaijani artist Tair Salakhov, the brother of the gallery owner Aidan Salakhova. They got married in 2015, and a year later Victoria gave birth to her first child, daughter Varvara.

In the photo - Victoria Talyshinskaya and Ivan Salakhov

Two months before this happy event, she, along with her mother and husband, left for America, where until the birth she enjoyed walking with Ivan along the ocean shore and basking in the warm sun. After the birth of her daughter, Victoria Talyshinskaya is not going to stay at home for long. maternity leave– in 2013, the group “Nepara” reunited and she can’t wait to go on stage again.

They are with Alexander Shoua, who tried to build solo career, realized that apart they would not be able to achieve such success as they did in their duet. After the separation, a lot changed in their lives - Victoria got married, Alexander got married, and the relationships in the group became more mature, its members began to appreciate each other more. The initiator of the reunion was Alexander Shoua, and Victoria immediately agreed. Now that they have become just partners on stage, there are almost no conflicts between them, and if they argue, it is only on professional themes. Talyshinskaya quickly found mutual language with his wife Alexandra, and now they are family friends.

Fans of the group, for whom its breakup in 2012 was a real shock, were delighted that they would again be able to hear songs performed by Victoria Talyshinskaya and Alexander Shoua. Their songs have become even more meaningful, although they still sing about love and separation. Vika is happy about the revival of the Nepara duet, because it was a big part of her life, parting with which was very painful.

A little about life

Victoria's creative streak was already noticeable in early childhood- She sang with pleasure for the neighbors, but her mother took her daughter not to the choir, but to the ballet studio. However, the girl was not attracted to dancing and she did it without any pleasure. At the age of nine, Vika failed the entrance exam to a choreographic school, upsetting her mother, but not upset herself. Then she was sent to the Grenada ensemble, and Vika realized that she was in her element.

After several years of performing in this group, Victoria enrolled in the studio at the Gnessin School, and at the age of fifteen she was invited to television to participate in the competition “ morning Star", where she received the Audience Award. At the final exam at the school. The Gnesins were brought to the attention of Victoria by the director of the Jewish state theater“Lechaim” and invited Reizl to play the role of “Wandering Stars”. Thus, young Vika first met professional theater stage. After school, she entered the RATI in the variety department.

Alexander Shoua, singer, musician, member and ideological inspirer of the Nepara duet, announced his departure from the group and the start of his own solo career.
During the ten years of its existence, “Nepara” caused a lot of rumors regarding the reasons for its creation and the relationship between the soloists. Alexander and Victoria were credited passionate romance, joint family life and even family ties. Today Alexander Shoua admits that the moment has come when even long-term joint activities are not able to keep people together. He does not deny the fact of the affair between him and Victoria, but claims that the feelings have long since become obsolete. It was Showa who initiated the departure from the team. A musician with extensive experience, Showa has long not only performed, but also written words and music. He is the author of many of the group’s hits, such as “Another Reason”, “How So”, “Fork”, “Everything Will Be” and others. And recently Alexander began work on musical arrangement full-length feature film. As the musician admits, he clearly understood that the time had come to move forward, open new doors, conquer new heights. One of which became solo project, in which he hopes to realize himself in a new way, without looking back. Alexander Shoua makes no secret of the fact that in Lately relations in the duet became increasingly tense, which also served as a definite impetus for the start of their own project. Today, his repertoire includes six full-fledged compositions and the same number are at the arrangement stage. The song “The Sun Above My Head” recently started on the music charts and a video for it is planned to be shot in the near future. Alexander Shoua does not plan to perform songs from the “Nepara” repertoire in the future. The musician of the group is Sergei Nedzelsky (drums), in official group duet in one of social networks thanked fans: " Thank you all! If it weren't for you all, this would have ended much sooner"

Since the emergence of the “Nepara” duet, listeners have had more questions than answers. Their hits “They have known each other for a long time” and “Another reason” left no stone unturned among the top radio stations. The tabloid newspapers were full of headlines: did Sasha and Vika live together, did they have a child, and so on. But the name of the duet itself speaks volumes about their relationship.

Everyone was talking about them. Simply because the songs were so good, simply because they were sung truly touchingly. Consistently high-quality video clips only increased the public’s love for the duet of the feminine, graceful Victoria and the outwardly stern, but at the same time romantic Alexander.

Group members Alexander Shoua and Victoria Talyshinskaya did not talk about their personal lives. For a long time, an affair was attributed to colleagues on stage, but is it true? The group broke up in 2012, but later Alexander and Victoria reunited in creativity.

In 2016, Victoria Talyshinskaya became a mother for the first time. What was the fate of the second member of the team?

They themselves fueled the rumor of a romance between Showa and Talyshinskaya: young people were often seen together, they sang love songs together. But there was no other evidence of the presence of “lamours” between the singers.

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Victoria herself revealed the secret about the relationship, but she did it after the breakup of the duo. Indeed, there were feelings between Vika and Sasha, but since the young people worked together, their love cracked. Even when things happened between the participants of “Nepara” serious conflicts, they were obliged to perform together, to portray high feelings on stage, but when people have problems with communication, their joint work at some point becomes unbearable.

As a result, everything was destroyed: both the common project and the relationship. Victoria married restaurateur Ivan Salakhov and gave birth to a lovely daughter.

The work of the Nepara group can be fully characterized by the name of one of their main hits - “Cry and See”. They sing songs about love, the appearance of which usually greatly complicates the lives of the characters. Love, like the performers of songs about it, can be very different. “Nepara” is best at singing about the feelings of adults who have gone through a lot, but are still in search of their happiness.

The brutal half of the Nepara group, represented by Alexander Shoua, was born in Sukhumi. The future singer studied piano in his homeland, but did not graduate School of Music due to the military conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia in the early 1990s. Showa left his homeland and ended up in Moscow, where he first worked as a grocery store loader.

The musical path nevertheless took its toll, and Alexander, after numerous part-time jobs as a session vocalist and keyboard player, met Victoria Talyshinskaya. So in 2002 the duet “Nepara” appeared. Alexander wrote the words and music, and a year later they released their debut album, “Another Family.” It received platinum status and remains to this day the most striking achievement of the duo.

“Nepara” is interesting because it stands out from the general range of performers in Russian show business. They do not create scandals and give almost no reasons for getting into the maelstrom of gossip columns.

In 2006, the group released its second studio album- “All over again...” Critics greeted him ambiguously. For example, it was noted that the number of passable compositions was excessive even for the Russian pop scene. In the song “Seasonal” they found a fragment similar to ditties, the source of inspiration for which was the work of Yuri Khoy.

The third and last album of the duet “Doomed/Betrothed” to date was released in 2009. In 2012, the group broke up due to Alexander Shoua’s desire to start a solo career. However, the very next year “Nepara” found the strength to reunite and continue joint creativity. Instead of recording albums, the performers concentrated on individual hits and videos for them, resulting in the songs “A Thousand Dreams”, “No Matter”, “Favorite People” and others.

Nepara spent the end of March and beginning of April 2017 on tour. True, the duo is not currently counting on large venues and audiences of many thousands. His concerts usually take place in small clubs in the capital or cultural centers in the regions.

Bonus for the most persistent. Yes, the members of the Nepara duet had some romantic relationship. They themselves admitted this in 2013. But this did not last long, and now Victoria Talyshinskaya is married to painting restorer Ivan Salakhov, to whom she gave birth to a daughter, Varvara, on October 29, 2016.