The Tale of an Idol: Andrei Gubin

The Tale of an Idol: Andrei Gubin

Andrei Gubin (Gubin Andrei Viktorovich) was born on April 30, 1974 in Ufa. After a while he moved to Moscow with his parents, but they had to stay in apartments and hop from one to another constantly because Andrei's mother did not have a registration to work, and his father's salary alone could not buy a house. An immediate result of this was that Andrei had to constantly change schools, which is not helpful if you look to build lasting friendships with your peers. The family's breadwinner was the father, Victor Viktorovich, who worked as both a scientist and an artist of political cartoons. After a while, Andrei began to help his dad with the cartoons.

As a child, Andrei enjoyed both chess and soccer; a contradictory combination, if you ask me, but that is what he liked. This continued, of course, until he broke his foot, and stopped playing soccer. Andrei also enjoyed writing to express himself, so he applied for a job in journalism, but he did not get the job. Still wanting to express himself, he naturally found music to be just as fitting. At first, he considered taking a course in song, but right after starting he felt that such a course crushed ones creativity and made you only write of what the masses wanted to hear, so he stopped that ASAP.

Andrei as a youth thus decided to sing indepentantly. This usually happened in a barbershop, where the customers were his audience. I know that sounds strange, but I am guessing that the barber allowed him to do this, similar to barbershops with jukeboxes. The only problem was that Andrei as a youth had a lisp of sorts. His doctors were extremely doubtful that Andrei could ever change this, as the problem was with his mouth, not a mental one, so no correctional moves were made. Andrei, however, was determined to end his lisping, and indeed succeeded in doing so all on his own through various books written to assess to this sort of problem.

When Andrei was 14 years old, he asked his father to buy him a guitar. Over the next couple of months, Andrei was delighted to perform for his father the various songs and melodies that he wrote. Eventually, he appeared on the television program, Shabolovke, singing and playing his guitar. When he was 15, Andrei produced his first album, on which all the songs were just recordings of him with his guitar. Needless to say, such an album only sold about 200 copies. He had his second album was released when he was 18 years old, but his third album was never able to be released properly due to financial constraints. Eventually, however, this sort of problem became a thing of the past as Andrei's songs became increasingly popular.

Andrei, having chosen singing merely as a form to express himself, does indeed write the lyrics to his songs, and if you listen to his songs, you get a very clear image of just who he is. Keeping this in mind, it is easy to see why Andrei plans on being solely a composer, writer, and/or producer of various songs as he gets older, and not perform or sing his songs anymore. This would probably make any fan of his singing quite sad, but it is good that he is being practical. Everybody knows that part of what fuels a singer's career is being attractive, and that getting older does not always help fulfill this need. It is also good to know that he will continue to write songs, as the beautifully meaningful lyrics are the elements of his songs which stand out the most. Of course, now is no time to mourn for his planning of the future, as we will still see much more of Andrei on the stage before he retreats to dictate his feelings from the shadows.

Since I love you guys so much, I have made an Andrei Gubin Winamp skin that you can download whenever you want. Simply click on the image to do so:

Oh, and don't you start complaining about it being too pink, you know that the Gubin crowd is almost all women. (If you are a man that likes Gubin's songs, well you'd probably already like pink anyway.)

Hey, come on back, you!

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The Tale of an Idol: Andrei Gubin

	Andrei Gubin (Gubin Andrei Viktorovich) was born on April 30, 1974 in Ufa. After a while he moved to Moscow with his parents, but they had to stay in apartments and hop from one to another constantly because Andrei's mother did not have a registration to work, and his father's salary alone could not buy a house. An immediate result of this was that Andrei had to constantly change schools, which is not helpful if you look to build lasting friendships with your peers. The family's breadwinner was the father, Victor Viktorovich, who worked as both a scientist and an artist of political cartoons. After a while, Andrei began to help his dad with the cartoons. As a child, Andrei enjoyed both chess and soccer; a contradictory combination, if you ask me, but that is what he liked. This continued, of course, until he broke his foot, and stopped playing soccer. Andrei also enjoyed writing to express himself, so he applied for a job in journalism, but he did not get the job. Still wanting to express himself, he naturally found music to be just as fitting. At first, he considered taking a course in song, but right after starting he felt that such a course crushed ones creativity and made you only write of what the masses wanted to hear, so he stopped that ASAP. Andrei as a youth thus decided to sing indepentantly. This usually happened in a barbershop, where the customers were his audience. I know that sounds strange, but I am guessing that the barber allowed him to do this, similar to barbershops with jukeboxes. The only problem was that Andrei as a youth had a lisp of sorts. His doctors were extremely doubtful that Andrei could ever change this, as the problem was with his mouth, not a mental one, so no correctional moves were made. Andrei, however, was determined to end his lisping, and indeed succeeded in doing so all on his own through various books written to assess to this sort of problem. When Andrei was 14 years old, he asked his father to buy him a guitar. Over the next couple of months, Andrei was delighted to perform for his father the various songs and melodies that he wrote. Eventually, he appeared on the television program, Shabolovke, singing and playing his guitar. When he was 15, Andrei produced his first album, on which all the songs were just recordings of him with his guitar. Needless to say, such an album only sold about 200 copies. He had his second album was released when he was 18 years old, but his third album was never able to be released properly due to financial constraints. Eventually, however, this sort of problem became a thing of the past as Andrei's songs became increasingly popular. Andrei, having chosen singing merely as a form to express himself, does indeed write the lyrics to his songs, and if you listen to his songs, you get a very clear image of just who he is. Keeping this in mind, it is easy to see why Andrei plans on being solely a composer, writer, and/or producer of various songs as he gets older, and not perform or sing his songs anymore. This would probably make any fan of his singing quite sad, but it is good that he is being practical. Everybody knows that part of what fuels a singer's career is being attractive, and that getting older does not always help fulfill this need. It is also good to know that he will continue to write songs, as the beautifully meaningful lyrics are the elements of his songs which stand out the most. Of course, now is no time to mourn for his planning of the future, as we will still see much more of Andrei on the stage before he retreats to dictate his feelings from the shadows. Since I love you guys so much, I have made an Andrei Gubin Winamp skin that you can download whenever you want. Simply click on the image to do so: Oh, and don't you start complaining about it being too pink, you know that the Gubin crowd is almost all women. (If you are a man that likes Gubin's songs, well you'd probably already like pink anyway.) Hey, come on back, you!