Yury G. Chernavsky
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Yury Chernavsky ' onMouseout='HidePop("36073")' href="/topics/Tambov">Tambov
) is a Russian producer
, composer
and songwriter. Distinguished Artist of the Russian Federation
. Member of performance rights organisation
s such as GEMA
, BMI
, and RAO.
city, the Rachmaninov Tambov State Academy
of Music
(class of violin
), and the Tambov Branch of the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts (composition, arrangement). After relocation to the United States, took master classes, SE-Hollywood (composer, producer, audio-movie business
). Demonstrates a virtuosity in arrangement
and in playing on violin
, saxophone
, keyboards
, flute
and East Asian exotic instruments.
In 1969—1973, Yury performed in jazz orchestras of Boris Rensky, Oleg Lundstrem
, Leonid Utyosov
, etc. In 1973—1975, he was a lead saxophone and arranger in the State Orchestra of Azerbaijan, which at that time was compiled of the best jazz
stars in the Soviet Union.
Since 1976, a new era of Chernavsky's creativity had begun when he entered mainstream in music. He worked as a musical director
with Soviet vocal-instrumental ensembles Fantasy and Krasnye Maki (Red Poppies) and, later on, with rock and pop groups Carnival, Dinamik, and Vesyolye Rebyata (Jolly Fellows).
In the 1980s, Chernavsky wrote music and worked as a composer and producer. He worked with many Russian stars including Alla Pugacheva
, Valery Leontyev, Mikhail Boyarsky
, Sergei Minaev, Tõnis Mägi
, Vladimir Presniakov Jr., Anne Veski
and many others. His musical passions were more oriented towards mainstream music, R&B
and electro-fusion
than to the heavy rock
. Chernavsky was also active in the movie industry, collaborating with Georgy Jungwald-Hilkevich, Sergei Solovyov
, Valery Pendrakovsky and other prominent directors. He also created sound tracks for more than 20 animated cartoon
s, being in close cooperation with the famous animator
s Igor Kovalev and Aleksandr Tatarskiy
(author of cartoons Investigation Held by Kolobki
, Wings, Legs and Tails, Pilot Brothers, etc., that were awarded international golden prizes), and other authors.
In 1981, he created a rock group, later named Dinamik, including Yury Kitaev, Sergei Ryzhov, Vladimir Kuzmin, and Yury Chernavsky. In that group, Chernavsky was a music director, played on keyboard and saxophone, and realized as an arranger a lot of his own new musical ideas that were reflected in two first group albums, Dinamik I and Dinamik II.
From 1983, he worked as a musical leader in the group Vesyolye Rebyata where he recorded the album Banana Islands, which became popular in the Soviet Union. This audio album as well as Automatic Kit, later purchased by the EMI
Europe publishing company, represented the first international level of Russian rock music.
In 1986, Yury was acting as a founder
and president
of the pop music
studio SPM "Record" created under the auspices of the Ministry
of Culture
of the Soviet Union. This was the first in Russia largest independent professional company in the field of entertainment, with a multitude of branches throughout the country. Record gave a start in life for the famous Russian manager and producer Sergei Lisovsky, ATV
TV company, pop groups "Tеnder May", "Lube", "Mirage"
and "Class", record studios by Igor Babenko, B. Zharov, Igor Matvienko and others, a good number of prominent Russian performers including Vyacheslav Malezhik, Igor Talkov
, Andrei Razin, Alexander Malinin, Natalia Vetlitskaya, Sergei Krylov, Oleg Gazmanov
, Vladimir Presniakov and more.
The Russian superstar
Alla Pugacheva
worked closely with Chernavsky, and in 1984, together with the vocal group ABBA
, performed his songs "Through the Eyes of a Child" and "Superman" that were presented by the Swedish TV star Jacob Dahlin
). These songs for the first time ranked highest in West European charts.
Since 1990, Chernavsky had been working in Berlin, Germany, where he has established in 1993 a record company "How's that" Music Gmbh with the known hit maker Bruce Hammond
. Hits created by this company, including the Mark'Oh project with songs "Love Song", "Tears Don’t Lie" and others, held the first place in the Top Hot 100 European charts for one and a half year. At the same time, Chernavsky, with his partners Bruce Hammond Earlam
, Douglas Wilgrove
and Pikosso Records company, was involved as a producer and composer in recording Beyond the Banana Islands
and Magic Tour
albums, which were released in Europe and Russia. Those were the first albums of his produced with German, Russian and U.S. performers.
" by Backstreet Boys
, and he also worked for groups 'N Sync
, The Boys
, Rod Stewart
, Tupac Shakur
, Dance Jam, etc. Damon's creative team works as experts and masters in the computer Movie FX with many companies in Hollywood. He also worked with independent corporate FX groups such as Digital Domain
leading by worldwide known movie director James Cameron
(The Terminator
, True Lies
, Titanic
) and others companies. Currently, Damon is a co-owner of the Hollywood 3D FX studio Red Square Studios.
As an Executive Producer, Chernavsky was a contributor to Dance Jam Project, Hollywood, CA. He maintains close relations with the musical family clans of Dionne Warwick
— Damon Elliott
, the Jackson
family — Jermaine Jackson
, companies and recording studios Red Square Studios, Track Records
, Ambience Music Group, Pikosso Records, EMI
, SONY
, etc. He continues traveling and experimenting in the field of international music business with young American and European singers and musicians (in the style of R&B and rap), movie actors, and directors.
Chernavsky works on major projects in the USA and Europe to developing Russian performers, advancing new ideas on the world market, and selecting young European professional artists (e.g., a Fox group / Pikosso Records "Hollywood Dreams V. 2") and famous martial arts
fighters to present their skills at international entertainment levels.
He also teaches master classes on vocals and sound engineering
.
Tambov
Tambov is a city and the administrative center of Tambov Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tsna and Studenets Rivers southeast of Moscow...
) is a Russian producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
, composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and songwriter. Distinguished Artist of the Russian Federation
Meritorious Artist
Meritorious Artist , also translated as Merited Artist, Deserved Artist or Distinguished Artist or Honorary Artist or Honorable Actor) is an honorary title in the Soviet Union, Russian Federation, Union republics, and Autonomous republics, also in some other Eastern bloc states, as well as in a...
. Member of performance rights organisation
Performance rights organisation
Performance rights organizations provide intermediary functions, particularly royalty collection, between copyright holders and parties who wish to use copyrighted works publicly such as shopping and dining venues. Legal consumer purchase of works, such as buying CDs from a music store, confer...
s such as GEMA
Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte
Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte is a performance rights organization from Germany. It is the only such institution in Germany and a member of BIEM and CISAC...
, BMI
Broadcast Music Incorporated
Broadcast Music, Inc. is one of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed...
, and RAO.
Education
While living in Russia, obtained professional musical education in the First Music College in TambovTambov
Tambov is a city and the administrative center of Tambov Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tsna and Studenets Rivers southeast of Moscow...
city, the Rachmaninov Tambov State Academy
Academy
An academy is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership.The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece. In the western world academia is the...
of Music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
(class of violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
), and the Tambov Branch of the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts (composition, arrangement). After relocation to the United States, took master classes, SE-Hollywood (composer, producer, audio-movie business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
). Demonstrates a virtuosity in arrangement
Arrangement
The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
and in playing on violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
, saxophone
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
, keyboards
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
and East Asian exotic instruments.
Work in the USSR
From 1969—1983, Chernavsky was fully involved in concert activities.In 1969—1973, Yury performed in jazz orchestras of Boris Rensky, Oleg Lundstrem
Oleg Lundstrem
Oleg Leonidovich Lundstrem was a Soviet and Russian jazz composer and conductor of the Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra, one of the earliest officially recognized jazz bands in the Soviet Union Oleg Leonidovich Lundstrem (also spelled Lundstroem, Lundström, ; April 2, 1916, Chita—October 14, 2005, near...
, Leonid Utyosov
Leonid Utyosov
Leonid Osipovich Utyosov or Utesov ; real name Lazar Vaysbeyn or Weissbein , was a famous Soviet jazz singer and comic actor of jewish origin, who became the first pop singer to be awarded the prestigious title of People's Artist of the USSR .-Biography:Leonid Utyosov was brought up in Odessa...
, etc. In 1973—1975, he was a lead saxophone and arranger in the State Orchestra of Azerbaijan, which at that time was compiled of the best jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
stars in the Soviet Union.
Since 1976, a new era of Chernavsky's creativity had begun when he entered mainstream in music. He worked as a musical director
Music director
A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...
with Soviet vocal-instrumental ensembles Fantasy and Krasnye Maki (Red Poppies) and, later on, with rock and pop groups Carnival, Dinamik, and Vesyolye Rebyata (Jolly Fellows).
In the 1980s, Chernavsky wrote music and worked as a composer and producer. He worked with many Russian stars including Alla Pugacheva
Alla Pugacheva
Alla Borisovna Pugacheva or Pugachova , born 15 April 1949), is а Soviet and Russian musical performer. Her career started in 1965 and continues to this day...
, Valery Leontyev, Mikhail Boyarsky
Mikhail Boyarsky
Mikhail Sergeevich Boyarsky is a Soviet/Russian actor and singer, currently living in the city of Saint Petersburg. He is best known and loved for the role of d'Artagnan in the film d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers and its sequels . He was also a popular singer of the 1980s and completed several...
, Sergei Minaev, Tõnis Mägi
Tõnis Mägi
Tõnis Mägi is an Estonian singer, guitarist, composer and actor. He is one of the most influential and remarkable names in the Estonian rock music for the past 40 years....
, Vladimir Presniakov Jr., Anne Veski
Anne Veski
Anne Veski is an Estonian pop singer who has recorded music in both her native language as well as Russian, and Polish.- Biography :...
and many others. His musical passions were more oriented towards mainstream music, R&B
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
and electro-fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
than to the heavy rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
. Chernavsky was also active in the movie industry, collaborating with Georgy Jungwald-Hilkevich, Sergei Solovyov
Sergei Solovyov
Sergei Alexandrovich Solovyov is a Russian director, producer, writer and actor. He was awarded by the Russian SFSR People's Artist title.-Biography:...
, Valery Pendrakovsky and other prominent directors. He also created sound tracks for more than 20 animated cartoon
Animated cartoon
An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot...
s, being in close cooperation with the famous animator
Animator
An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
s Igor Kovalev and Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Aleksander Mihailovich Tatarskiy was a Soviet/Russian animation film director, script writer and producer, animator and an artist of Ukrainian origin...
(author of cartoons Investigation Held by Kolobki
Investigation held by Kolobki
Investigation held by Kolobki is a 1986-1987 Soviet animation by Aleksander Tatarskiy in four episodes.Episodes 1 and 2 were made by Soyuztelefilm in 1986, 3 and 4 by T/O Ekran in 1987....
, Wings, Legs and Tails, Pilot Brothers, etc., that were awarded international golden prizes), and other authors.
In 1981, he created a rock group, later named Dinamik, including Yury Kitaev, Sergei Ryzhov, Vladimir Kuzmin, and Yury Chernavsky. In that group, Chernavsky was a music director, played on keyboard and saxophone, and realized as an arranger a lot of his own new musical ideas that were reflected in two first group albums, Dinamik I and Dinamik II.
From 1983, he worked as a musical leader in the group Vesyolye Rebyata where he recorded the album Banana Islands, which became popular in the Soviet Union. This audio album as well as Automatic Kit, later purchased by the EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
Europe publishing company, represented the first international level of Russian rock music.
In 1986, Yury was acting as a founder
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
and president
President
A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
of the pop music
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
studio SPM "Record" created under the auspices of the Ministry
Ministry (government department)
A ministry is a specialised organisation responsible for a sector of government public administration, sometimes led by a minister or a senior public servant, that can have responsibility for one or more departments, agencies, bureaus, commissions or other smaller executive, advisory, managerial or...
of Culture
Culture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
of the Soviet Union. This was the first in Russia largest independent professional company in the field of entertainment, with a multitude of branches throughout the country. Record gave a start in life for the famous Russian manager and producer Sergei Lisovsky, ATV
ATV (Russia)
ATV - the oldest Russian private TV-company. It was founded in the USSR in 1988 by Anatoly Malkin & Kira Proshutinskaya. It was very popular in Russia in the 1990s....
TV company, pop groups "Tеnder May", "Lube", "Mirage"
Mirage (pop group)
VINEM sang night and day in fourth measurement.Mirage were a 1980s Russian pop group founded in Moscow in 1986 by Russian composer/keyboard player Andrey Litjagin...
and "Class", record studios by Igor Babenko, B. Zharov, Igor Matvienko and others, a good number of prominent Russian performers including Vyacheslav Malezhik, Igor Talkov
Igor Talkov
Igor Vladimirovich Talkov , was a Russian rock singer-songwriter.He is often compared to another Russian singer and songwriter of that time, Viktor Tsoi, whom, according to his diaries, Talkov highly appreciated and to whom he even dedicated a song on his death...
, Andrei Razin, Alexander Malinin, Natalia Vetlitskaya, Sergei Krylov, Oleg Gazmanov
Oleg Gazmanov
Oleg Mikhaylovich Gazmanov is a Russian pop singer, composer and poet, specializing in patriotic songs that glorify Russia and Russian history. Gazmanov is leader of rock-group "Эскадрон"...
, Vladimir Presniakov and more.
The Russian superstar
Superstar
A superstar is a widely acclaimed celebrity.Superstar or superstars may also refer to:-People:* Warhol Superstar, associates of Andy Warhol* WWE Superstar, the term used to refer to entertainers from the WWE...
Alla Pugacheva
Alla Pugacheva
Alla Borisovna Pugacheva or Pugachova , born 15 April 1949), is а Soviet and Russian musical performer. Her career started in 1965 and continues to this day...
worked closely with Chernavsky, and in 1984, together with the vocal group ABBA
ABBA
ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...
, performed his songs "Through the Eyes of a Child" and "Superman" that were presented by the Swedish TV star Jacob Dahlin
Jacob Dahlin
Jacob Dahlin was a popular Swedish TV- and radio-host.Dahlin got his big break-through with the radio-program Galaxen in the beginning of the 1980s. He later acted on popular TV-shows such as "Jacobs Stege" and "Caramba!"...
). These songs for the first time ranked highest in West European charts.
International Festivals
Chernavsky was the musical director and composer for the following major international forums:- Ice Ballet, final show at the World Festival of Youth and StudentsWorld Festival of Youth and StudentsThe World Festival of Youth and Students is an international event, organized by the World Federation of Democratic Youth , a left-wing youth organization, jointly with the International Union of Students since 1947....
, Moscow, 1985 - Goodwill GamesGoodwill GamesThe Goodwill Games was an international sports competition, created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s...
organized by Ted TurnerTed TurnerRobert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television...
and Mikhail GorbachevMikhail GorbachevMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...
, Moscow, 1986 - Soviet-Indian FestivalFestivalA festival or gala is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival....
held for a period of two years, 1987—1988, in more than 30 cities in India and Soviet Union
Work in Germany
Bruce and Bongo
Bruce and Bongo were a 1980s British electronic, New Wave duo consisting of Bruce Hammond Earlam and Douglas Wilgrove . The pair are best known internationally for their 1986 hit "Geil". The German word 'geil' is used in this context to mean 'cool' or 'awesome', but translates literally as 'horny'...
. Hits created by this company, including the Mark'Oh project with songs "Love Song", "Tears Don’t Lie" and others, held the first place in the Top Hot 100 European charts for one and a half year. At the same time, Chernavsky, with his partners Bruce Hammond Earlam
Bruce and Bongo
Bruce and Bongo were a 1980s British electronic, New Wave duo consisting of Bruce Hammond Earlam and Douglas Wilgrove . The pair are best known internationally for their 1986 hit "Geil". The German word 'geil' is used in this context to mean 'cool' or 'awesome', but translates literally as 'horny'...
, Douglas Wilgrove
Bruce and Bongo
Bruce and Bongo were a 1980s British electronic, New Wave duo consisting of Bruce Hammond Earlam and Douglas Wilgrove . The pair are best known internationally for their 1986 hit "Geil". The German word 'geil' is used in this context to mean 'cool' or 'awesome', but translates literally as 'horny'...
and Pikosso Records company, was involved as a producer and composer in recording Beyond the Banana Islands
Bruce and Bongo
Bruce and Bongo were a 1980s British electronic, New Wave duo consisting of Bruce Hammond Earlam and Douglas Wilgrove . The pair are best known internationally for their 1986 hit "Geil". The German word 'geil' is used in this context to mean 'cool' or 'awesome', but translates literally as 'horny'...
and Magic Tour
Bruce and Bongo
Bruce and Bongo were a 1980s British electronic, New Wave duo consisting of Bruce Hammond Earlam and Douglas Wilgrove . The pair are best known internationally for their 1986 hit "Geil". The German word 'geil' is used in this context to mean 'cool' or 'awesome', but translates literally as 'horny'...
albums, which were released in Europe and Russia. Those were the first albums of his produced with German, Russian and U.S. performers.
Work in Hollywood
In the 1994, Chernavsky moved to work in Hollywood, where he established a company, LA 3D Motion, with his older son Damon. Damon worked with intense computer graphics technology, CGI, in video movie industry. Chernavsky was a producer for his son who later, on his 18th birthday, received recognition on the MTV Awards for the best music-video of the year. He was awarded for his work on "Get DownGet Down (You're the One for Me)
"Get Down " is the third single released by the Backstreet Boys from their international self-titled debut album. It was later included on their US debut album as well. In some countries "Get Down" was released as their debut single. The song features a rap with the first verse by Smooth T. of the...
" by Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys
The Backstreet Boys are an American vocal group, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993. The band originally consisted of A. J. McLean, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Nick Carter and Kevin Richardson. They rose to fame with their debut international album, Backstreet Boys...
, and he also worked for groups 'N Sync
'N Sync
N Sync was an American boy band formed in Orlando, Florida, in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich, *NSYNC consisted of JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick...
, The Boys
The Boys (band)
The Boys is an American R&B quartet composed of the four Abdulsamad brothers, Khiry , Hakeem , Tajh , and Bilal . The group started out singing in Carson, California. The group had three #1 singles on the R&B charts but never had a mainstream pop #1.-Early years:The Boys were encouraged by their...
, Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....
, Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur , known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world...
, Dance Jam, etc. Damon's creative team works as experts and masters in the computer Movie FX with many companies in Hollywood. He also worked with independent corporate FX groups such as Digital Domain
Digital Domain
Digital Domain is a visual effects and animation company founded by film director James Cameron, Stan Winston and Scott Ross. It is based in Venice, Los Angeles, California...
leading by worldwide known movie director James Cameron
James Cameron
James Francis Cameron is a Canadian-American film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, environmentalist and inventor...
(The Terminator
The Terminator
The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, co-written by Cameron and William Wisher Jr., and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton. The film was produced by Hemdale Film Corporation and distributed by Orion Pictures, and filmed in Los...
, True Lies
True Lies
True Lies is a 1994 American action-comedy film directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere, Charlton Heston, and Art Malik. Eliza Dushku also appears in the film in one of her first major film roles...
, Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...
) and others companies. Currently, Damon is a co-owner of the Hollywood 3D FX studio Red Square Studios.
Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....
— Damon Elliott
Damon Elliott
Damon Elliott , commonly known as Dame, is an American producer, writer, composer, recording artist and entrepreneur. His production genre’s include pop, hip hop, rock, R&B, gospel, and more recently, country....
, the Jackson
The Jackson 5
The Jackson 5 , later known as The Jacksons, were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...
family — Jermaine Jackson
Jermaine Jackson
Jermaine La Jaune Jackson is an American singer, bassist, composer, a member of The Jackson 5, older brother of American pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and occasional film director...
, companies and recording studios Red Square Studios, Track Records
Track Records
Track Records is an English record label founded in London in 1966 by Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, then managers of hard rock band The Who. The most successful artists whose work appeared on the Track label were The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Thunderclap...
, Ambience Music Group, Pikosso Records, EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
, SONY
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
, etc. He continues traveling and experimenting in the field of international music business with young American and European singers and musicians (in the style of R&B and rap), movie actors, and directors.
In the present time
Martial arts
Martial arts are extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development....
fighters to present their skills at international entertainment levels.
He also teaches master classes on vocals and sound engineering
Audio engineering
An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
.
Songs
Yury Chernavsky is the author of hundreds of popular songs including:- White Door (performed by A. PugachevaAlla PugachevaAlla Borisovna Pugacheva or Pugachova , born 15 April 1949), is а Soviet and Russian musical performer. Her career started in 1965 and continues to this day...
) - Moon Cinema (performed by M. BoyarskyMikhail BoyarskyMikhail Sergeevich Boyarsky is a Soviet/Russian actor and singer, currently living in the city of Saint Petersburg. He is best known and loved for the role of d'Artagnan in the film d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers and its sequels . He was also a popular singer of the 1980s and completed several...
) - If You Remember (performed by M. Boyarsky)
- Princess of the Dance Floor (performed by S. Minaev)
- White Sun-Hat (performed by A. Pugacheva)
- Superman (performed by A. Pugacheva)
- Zurbagan (performed by V. Presniakov)
- Excuse Me Girl If I Broke Your Heart (performed by B. HammondBruce and BongoBruce and Bongo were a 1980s British electronic, New Wave duo consisting of Bruce Hammond Earlam and Douglas Wilgrove . The pair are best known internationally for their 1986 hit "Geil". The German word 'geil' is used in this context to mean 'cool' or 'awesome', but translates literally as 'horny'...
) - Banana Islands (performed by Yu. Chernavsky)
- Margarita (performed by V. Leontyev)
- Man of the Rain (performed by V. Leontyev)
- Black and White Love (performed by V. Leontyev)
- Islands (performed by V. Presniakov)
- Raspberry Syrup (performed by V. Presniakov)
- Millions of the Angels (performed by V. Leontyev)
- Hello Bananan Boy (performed by Yu. Chernavsky)
- I’m Coming to You (performed by Yu. Chernavsky)
- I’m a Robot (performed by Yu. Chernavsky)
- Snow Queen (performed by M. Lanick)
- Only You (performed by Mirco, a shaped CDShaped CDA shaped CD is a non-circular compact disc. Examples include business card CDs, CDs in the shape of a star, a map of a country, and more. These disks are usually made for marketing purposes and are properly read by most CD-ROM drives...
) - Gaga Juice (performed by D. Elliott)
- Café of the Dancing Lights (performed by A. Pugacheva)
- I’m OK (performed by B. Hammond)
- Why (performed by Katrine)
- Try Again (performed by Shark-Ozy)
- A Merry Christmas (performed by B. Hammond/Katrine)
… and many others that were issued on million copies of albums by numerous performers.
Discography
- Discs Go Round (producer and composer, MelodiyaMelodiyaMelodiya is a Russian record label. It was the state-owned major record company/label of the Soviet Union.-History:It was established in 1964 as the "All-Union Gramophone Record Firm of the USSR Ministry of Culture Melodiya"...
, 1980) - Automatic Кit (1984)
- Alla Pugacheva In Stockholm (2 songs, Melodiya, 1985)
- Superman (World Record Music, 1985)
- Moon Cinema (Melodiya, 1986)
- Wonderland Season (movie sound track, Melodiya, 1987)
- Above the Rainbow (movie sound track, Melodiya, 1988)
- Magic Tour (producer and composer, Max-C Ltd., 1994)
- Beyond the Banana Islands (EMI / General Records, 1994)
- The Best Russian Pop Music (Collection, Melodiya, 1995)
- Banana Islands (EMI / APEX Records Co. Ltd., 1995)
- Only You (Pikosso Records, shaped CDShaped CDA shaped CD is a non-circular compact disc. Examples include business card CDs, CDs in the shape of a star, a map of a country, and more. These disks are usually made for marketing purposes and are properly read by most CD-ROM drives...
, 1995) - On the Road to Hollywood (APEX Record, 1996)
- Santa Barbara (APEX Records, 1997)
- Yury Chernavsky. Gold Collection (2003)
- New Year Romance (movie sound track, 2005)
- Hollywood Dreams (producer and composer, Pikosso Records/Pool Music, 2005)
- Running On the Waves (music producer and composer, movie sound track, 2006)
External links
- "Goodwill Games", 1986. Opening show / music by Yury Chernavsky
- Yury Chernavsky on the site MySpaceMySpaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
- Yury Chernavsky on the site YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
- Rozhdestvenskaya, K. Chernavsky, Yury: Beyond The Banana Islands. (A review on the Russian web site Zvuki.ru dated 6 October 1999).
- Yury Chernavsky in the database Russian Animation in Letters and Figures.
- Yury Chernavsky as an Executive Producer of the Dance Jam Project, Hollywood, CA
- An example of Yuri Chernavsky records distributed by Melofonas, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Magic Tour album
- Resume of Yury Chernavsky in IMDb
- Yuri Chernavsky, Pilot Studio Films
- Cafe of the Dancing Lights. Alla, 2001, THE BEST VIDEO — #26
- Index of Yuri Chrenavsky's audio records
- Yuri Chernavsy. Above the Rainbow (2CD, 1986)
- MOSFILM, RUNNING ON THE WAVES