grodno when i entered the university, yanka kupala, grodno skizel we were back and forth and it was possible to live even a month on, you know, money. well, i went twice like that and that's it, i didn't go again. well i started thinking like that career with balalaika is, well, my dream was. that's when i saw didula, that's what i understood. why was there a like not to do so. uh, before you had success you had to work hard, and in places not related to music. i know that you worked in construction. what did these strength tests teach you. oh, i don’t know, uh, they taught me how, as they say, what you studied for, continue, if you love, uh, your profession or what did you go to study if you were not forced, well, there to go there, here, here is my dream was. yes, and here it is construction is, well, i worked, and here and there i realized, no, you have to go all the way, that is, you didn’t have such an idea, uh, leave music and give up your dream of becoming artists. these are some of the most critical periods of life. you still believed that it was your business to be, well, as i always say, u need to, uh, please the people, entertain the people. this is my, as it were, my vocation, if not for music, what would you like to do, in what profession would you like to try yourself? well, as if i have a hobby and swimming, yes, and hand-to-hand combat. there are all these sections. yes i guess i went somewhere in the sport. well, he is a sport , every successful person has a certain point after which the take-off begins. what event do you consider to be such a point, after which success and recognition came to you. i remember there was a challenge contest at the university of kupala. yes, it is held in higher education. yes, he was in vitebsk in the amphitheater, he took first place. and then the whole interview began to approach me and radio television. that's it, that's it, and after this contest, uh, marina gennadievna romanovskaya thank you. she started driving me. there he performed on red square. yes, there, uh, star city on taganka, so she invited me to the slavic bazaar. so after 2007, i started here like this, i often rode around moscow. in your interviews, you have repeatedly admitted that your main inspiration is your wife svetlana when you met. when you met, you immediately liked each other. i know, probably, yes, uh, what it was, it looks like your condition. well , probably love at first sight. she went like that. i'm so opa, and she didn't know me. eh, the light is coming in. and i tell me volodya she is a colette somehow she knew that alexander would come to me here, all this is there. e in the hostel goes to get acquainted. i introduce myself as volodina, but my real name is alexander. i come to me volodya, she ’s great, i see. that’s such a girl . i'm a good science, too, all of it. well, somewhere at home there is a grasshopper. how and then how did i start? so we met, but then it was necessary take the second step. it’s not normal at the university , they saw me there, i apologized and everything went as if on its own wave, which they then learned, but then the wedding was musicians, as a rule, they look after the girl with a guitar song, does this mean that you sang serenades to svetlana to the balalaika? no, she would somehow perceive the like, so well, the guy plays the game well. yes, but when she came to the hostel, i cooked very well, then the french meat only cells and invited her, and when she was already walking from the university, she already knew where to go. which door, because she knew that everything was prepared there, everything she comes, you will eat. yes, i will chik-chik everything, and now, you, probably, this and if anything, the path to the heart of a woman, too, but not through the balalaika. well, nothing, by the way, we will return to this one as a balalaika. ah. you are not only a family, but a musical duet, which of you was the first to have the idea to perform together. uh, svetlana, she wrote a song about the balalaika, malay, so he says, well, pick something up there. well, play it let's record a duet. everything i went to the studio. it is necessary to play a backing track a balalaika. well, because the song of the abyss? in any case, you need it and that's it, and then we started rehearsing in front of the mirror, and i worked, uh, philharmonic, and so. yeah, it turns out that you have svetlana. uh, an accordionist by profession writes songs. yes, yes, no-no, she's an accordionist, uh, then uh, something didn't work for me there, well, it didn't work out. hmm, and she switched, uh, to kadim vocals. here is her vocal education. yes, and you said that she wrote the song, yes, it turns out that she also writes songs. she writes music and gives music and sings. yes , some words. we order it. this is thanks. here are some. she herself survived the song and write music m-m. and how are the responsibilities distributed within your musical duet. who? for what is responsible i do not know every man for himself. and what is most often the cause of disagreement between you and svetlana uh, i don’t even know, so when i come to a concert, she always spoils my mood. go there, go there, and the sound is normal. and that's where it starts. i say, it would be better not to take you, one ledge would go, and everything. well, this is how it starts, you know not. i'm just sure that she is only one of the best women should increasingly perform. i know that everything will be fine, but she arrives and already, well, she worries herself and this energy gives me this energy and we start before. and already when i happen to do such tricks on stage, she sings , sings, then she sings well. oh, minus minus of course, let's hp on and that's it. i start. she doesn't know that i'll start there now or i'm looking in russia or there already so that let me play three notes there. you are there and here it begins. i avenge and it’s just that she doesn’t take her performance to the end. well machines, apparently, why are you doing this? is it always like this? well, at home you also shared the areas of responsibility. no, for example, dishes, i have everything in french. i understand honestly, then i, well, now i cook less like this, well, often on tour , most of it is already what she does, but if the dishes are dirty, i will wash. i already understand that she will come from work. or if i'm at home, she's at work. i'll have it ready for the page. there immediately takes the kindergarten and everything comes. everything is ready. all this with the benefits of working together. e more or less. clear. and if there are cons, but sometimes it happens that you want to hide something, maybe not to betray, and don't discuss your eyes. no, i, but she told me, let's say those days she does. so don't be like that. well, it doesn’t look like that, then i watch the video, well, yes, or i tell her there, don’t smile there. maybe this or well or there, uh, don't hold the mic. everything, we express it is better to express everything than to go out again later and this is a mistake. as they say, we do a lot. mistakes, but does not repeat twice four years back. you have a son, vladislav. yes, you are not going to turn into your duet, uh, into a family trio. no, he takes this little ukulele right here. yes , even i do. here i am in front of the mirror. he immediately from the closet is all chirchik holder, he covers next to me, i will not force him. uh, there these music school. yes, i will lead him for the general development of the track, then yes. if not, then no. well, let him already, he chooses himself, you don’t need to force him. that's four years. i'm so old, although you can already say so, okay? and here's what i wanted to say preference and he remembers the song, he all here, uh wives, we know all the songs alexander you had no desire to become a teacher and open your own school of virtuoso balalaika playing. and i wanted to open a school in the city. grodnomic began. for 2 years now, well, i thought, well, it will also go and so few people go, you know , mugs, and then we had to leave already, like a pandemic a little, otherwise we started with concerts and more already in the minsk region. and so we moved here. well, this is my dream still remains. e and soon. i'm already planning. you often take the balalaika in your hands when it is not required, even for work. well, let's say i'm doing something similar there, yes, then i want to play something, so the hop thought came. so it is necessary. this , probably, is something i need to work out at some concert now, and then it occurred to me. well, like this, uh, i need to make the whole song, i ate it all, and i ’m already in character and instead of often two i can sit for three. forget, everything if the stumble has already gone, then everything has gone. very interesting, it turns out. you are constantly in the creative process. come back in thought. scroll through the situation. where