Noggano biography of the singer

Latest news Biography Vasily Vakulenko Basta is a popular Russian rap artist, composer and television and radio host. The famous rapper proved himself not only in music, but also achieved special success in the role of a screenwriter, director and producer. Also known under the pseudonym Noggano. Childhood and Youth Vasily Mikhailovich Vakulenko was born in Rostov-on-Don on April 20 in the family of the military personnel.

His parents were not related to the world of art, but, noticing that his son had musical abilities, they took the boy to a music school. But in his youth, the future performer of RAPA realized that conducting is not what would come in handy for self -realization. As a teenager, he showed interest in the new phenomenon for Russia X-rap culture. Even at the summer, music was written by the young musician the first rap text, and at 17 Vasily was taken to the group “Psycholic”, soon renamed the “Casta”.

In his native Rostov, Vakulenko was known as Basta Eskya. During this period, his debut track in the style of rap called “City” appeared. Gradually, the composition of the performer became more and more popular. From that moment on Vakulenko, along with friend Igor Zhelezka, who is also a rapper, began to tour the cities of the Black Sea coast of Russia. They went on a kind of musical tour in the Krasnodar Territory and even in the North Caucasus, performing at a wide variety of venues.

At times, 6-7 thousand were collected in stadiums. The artist began to have drug problems, and concert activity quickly came to naught. The singer did not perform concerts for several years. Yuri hair, a friend of Vakulenko, suggested making a studio at home, equipping it with the necessary sound equipment. Vasily, who had long missed creativity, quickly restored his old compositions and wrote new ones.

But no one remembered rapper Basta, and finding a producer was a difficult task. About this difficult period of his life, Vasily later wrote a song under the speaking name "Dumb Labla, lack of chance." By a happy chance, Demodisk Vakulenko came to Bogdan Titomir. The musician liked the compositions of young performers, and he invited them to the Russian capital. In Moscow, Titomir brought Basta and hair to the studio of the Gazagolder creative association, where the rappers accepted and showed interest in them.

In the first year of stay in the capital, the singer created musical material for several discs, but decided not to rush, but to release albums with a temporary interval. Lovers of RAP perceived the debut album "Basta 1" positively. This long -awaited success was so inspired by the performer that he gave out 2 new clips under the names “Autumn” and “Once and for Forever”.

For quick distribution, he used the Internet. In the year, the album “Basta 2” appeared, where the duets with the singer Maksim and Raper Guf, and a number of new clips, were the most striking of which were “like spring”, “our summer”, “internal fighter” and “tea drunkard”. In just 3 months, the second collection was dispersed by a circulation of 50 thousand. The composition of the “graduation” “Stealok” became one of the main in the career of the musician.

In social networks, users called it one of the best, suggesting that such a single will play in schools for a long time. Many fans think that this song is written on the basis of real events. However, the singer in an interview said that the basis is a fictional story, but he did not have a graduation. In the future, the rap artist paid more attention to working with other representatives of Russian show business.

Together with the Nerves group, he created a video “Hope for Wings”, which impressed the Russian viewer. In the year, Vasily Vakulenko was recognized not only under the pseudonym of Bast, he also became Noggano. Three albums of the rapper came out under this name: in m - “first”, in m - “warm” and in m - “unrelated”.

In the year, Basta pleasantly surprised fans with the new album N1NT3NDO, which struck the unusual style of Cybergang, and fans of his work awaited other innovations. The cooperation of Vasily with the singer Polina Gagarina was successful. The songs “I have little a whole world” and “Voice”, as well as the composition “Angel of faith”, presented in the year, were especially remembered by fans.

The album "Basta 5" was the seventh work in the discography of the rapper. After a while, Vasily pleased the fans of Noggano, releasing the Laksher disk. Vakulenko collaborates with famous musicians in creating new masterpieces. Together with the singer Alena Omargalieva, he sang the composition "I rise above the ground." Surprised fans and the performance of Soviet songs.

The cover version of the lyrical song “The Dark Night”, written by the composer Nikita Theological and the poet Vladimir Agatov, became the unique work of Basta. Then the song “Master and Margarita” was recorded together with the young. This single can be attributed to completely different works that have no similarity to already familiar compositions. The song entered the soundtrack to the full -length artistic film “I and the Ud.Among the works of the musician, which became part of the film projects, the song “Giv Mini”, which included in the soundtrack of the crime comedy “Load”, the cover version of the composition “Paradise apples”, which sounded in the drama “Vysotsky”.

Thank you for alive. " The tapes that use the songs of the rapper included “Homeland”, “Ked”, “Attraction”, “Street”. Basta-“Samsara” fans expected from Vakulenko and unique concerts that few rap artists were decided on, because April remained in the memory of fans when he was the first of the Russian rappers to perform with a symphonic orchestra at the Olympic stadium, the largest concert venue of the Russian capital.

Therefore, in the year, the rap artist organized a concert in the Kremlin Palace and again with the participation of a symphony orchestra. Vakulenko continues to master new creative horizons, not stopping at the achieved. In the year, he became the holder of the GQ Magazine Prize in the nomination “Musician of the Year”. A year later, the performer presented the Live album "so alive." It included the old songs of the singer, recorded in live sound during a concert tour in Russia and America.

Among them - “Sansara”, “Master and Margarita”, “Where we are not”. Thanks to acoustic performance, everyone's favorite hits have acquired a new sound. In August, Basta, together with the singer, Zivert released the composition "Neoles". The song is dedicated to the relationship of a man and a woman whose love fades away. In honor of his summer anniversary in November, the rapper released the 6th studio solo album "Basta 40", which included 23 compositions.

The presentation of the collection was scheduled for July at a concert of a musician at Luzhniki. The artist himself described the collection as "Farewell to himself - young, young, daring, fatal." Now the artist is performing on private holidays, and also resumed touring, which were suspended in connection with quarantine. Actual information about concerts is published on the official website of Basta.

Basta met the New Year with his family in Dubai, where he also gave a large solo concert. One of the songs - “Sansara” - was performed with him by the eldest daughter. This year’s bright novelty was the video for the composition “Youth”, which was performed with scriptonitis and entered the album “Basta”. The “finger on the cut -off” plate included not only musical compositions, but another 12 stories and 12 storitelling.

Basta pleased fans with the new song “Family Business”. And Vakulenko took part in the program “Candy”, performing the composition “Man” of the unknown author Vyacheslav Leontyev. At the end of the year, the performer surprised the listeners with a series of new tracks. In a duet with MakSim, he released “Found the summer 2. Television in the year became known that the rap artist became a mentor of the 4th season of the Voice project, and he was compiled by Polina Gagarin, Alexander Gradsky and Grigory Leps.

In the year, the show “Voice of the streets” started, which the creators positioned as the most honest rap battles of Russia. Of the 60 thousand applicants at the casting, 30 participants were selected who fought for the cash prize and the opportunity to work with the Gazgolder label. The jury included Basta and hip-hop performer restaurateur Alexander Timartsev.

Children ”, where the seats of judges also occupied Pelageya and Valery Meladze. The ward of the rapper Sofia Fedorova with the song “For Dessert” took 2nd place in the superfinal. In the 7th season of the show, vocalist Vasily Olesya Kazachenko became a winner, and the singer himself became the best mentor. In M, the rapper took part in the 7th season of the Voice television show, the maximum result of his wards was the 4th place of Shaan Hovhannisyan.

But in the 9th season, Basta became the best mentor based on the results of the vote, his vocalist Vasily Pasechnik took 4th place. Vakulenko entered the list of members of the jury of the 2nd season of the show "Song" on the TNT channel. The rap artist appeared on the humorous television show "True", where Timati was his opponent. In February, the show “Voice. Children ”, along with Svetlana Loboda and Yegor Creed Raper, took the place of the mentor.

At the “Evening Urgant” program, the artist told the presenter Ivan Urgant about his mentoring and the competition between professional boxers that the Gazfight Baste promotion company is satisfied. In April, the rapper became the captain of the team at the Azamat Musagaliev show “Musical Intuition” and fought with the Pelagia team. And at the end of the year he competed in the art of lies with Alexei Shcherbakov as part of the show “I don't believe you”.

Soon, the shooting of the 9th season of the project “Voice. Children ”, where Vakulenko again became a mentor. Together with him, teams from the talented young stars Polina Gagarin and Yegor Creed gathered. The place of the presenters remained for Dmitry Nagiyev and Agatha Musenitsa. In the fall of GO it became known that Basta would again take one of the chairs of the mentors of the show “Voice.

Children ”in the m season, the company was already habitually compiled by Creed. But Maxim debuted in this capacity on the Channel One project.A peculiar debut also happened in Yana Churikova - she first became the leading of this project, until that time headed by Dmitry Nagiyev for 10 years.