Andrey Shirman, known not only in Russia, but also in Europe and the USA as DJ Smash, was born in 1982 in Perm. Parents instilled a love for high-quality music in the future star. Which is not surprising: Andrei's father is a jazz musician, music teacher, leader of youth organizations and musical groups. Mom is a professor of music, choirmaster, honored worker of culture, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences. When … Read all
Andrey Shirman, known not only in Russia, but also in Europe and the USA as DJ Smash, was born in 1982 in Perm. Parents instilled a love for high-quality music in the future star. Which is not surprising: Andrei's father is a jazz musician, music teacher, leader of youth organizations and musical groups. Mom is a professor of music, choirmaster, honored worker of culture, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences. When Andrei was 6 years old, he began to attend a music school in piano.
The fact that Andrey was waiting for success in the musical field became clear almost immediately: from the age of 8 he began to write music, and at the age of 14 he already released his first album “Get funky”, which sold 500 cassettes. The record ended up on the table of the director of the most popular Perm club "Apocalypse", and Andrey Shirman turned into Dj Smash. According to the artist, he chose the pseudonym not by chance: “smash” is his favorite hit in tennis.
At the age of 16, Dj Smash created the composition "Between Heaven and Earth", which was a resounding success with the public. And Andrei began to think about conquering the capital.
At the age of 18, Andrey moved to Moscow and worked as an arranger for the Depot judge for four years. The young musician spends this time with benefit: he not only acquires the necessary knowledge and experience, but also makes the necessary acquaintances.
In 2003, Dj Smash began playing in the cult Shambhala club, where his talent was noticed by one of the founders of the club life in Moscow, Alexei Gorobiy. In 2004, Andrey became a resident of the Zima Project fashion project.
2004-2005 become iconic in the club culture of the capital, since during this period it was Dj Smash who created a fundamentally new format of nightclubs, opening the retro house fashion trend. Until that moment, Russian-language compositions did not sound in clubs at all. The culmination was a remix of Yuri Antonov's song "I Remember".
During this 2006, Dj Smash was awarded the most prestigious Night Life Awards as the best DJ, thus becoming the youngest winner in the history of this award (then he was 23 years old).
In 2007, his national hit “Moscow Never Sleeps” was released. First, the song got into the playlist of the Dyagilev club, and then into the hot rotation of all Moscow radio stations.
In 2008, Dj Smash released his first full-length album "IDDQD", which acquired platinum status. It included the tracks “Best Songs”, “I am a Wave”, “Airplane”, which have already sounded all over the country.
In 2008, at the MTV Russia Music Awards, Dj Smash received two awards at once, winning the prestigious Debut of the Year and Best Dance Album nominations.
In 2009, Dj Smash received the most prestigious Golden Gramophone award, and in December he became a full participant and laureate of the Song of the Year festival, where he was represented by the legendary Alla Pugacheva.
Since 2010, Dj Smash has been conquering European musical spaces: he has become a resident of the legendary clubs MOVIDA / LONDON and VIP ROOM (St. Tropez). In addition, the English version of “Moscow Never Sleeps” is released in Europe, recorded in collaboration with the world famous Alex Gaudino.
In 2011, the album "23" was released, which included the tracks "Bird", "It is possible without words", "From Russia With Love".
2012 is a whirlwind of events sweeping through the creative life of Andrey Shirman: in the center of Moscow, he opens the restaurant project Boom Boom Room, creates his own musical group SMASH LIVE, releases the singles "Rendez-Vous", "Moscow" (joint work with the Vintage group), as well as "Love at a Distance" - a duet with the sex symbol of the national scene, Vera Brezhneva. In the same year, he signed a contract with one of the most reputable production labels Velvet Music, the first joint "brainchild" of which was the album "New World", which was released at the end of 2012. The title track of the album, with the same name, was written by DJ Smash as the title soundtrack for the film "12 Months" (joint work with Natalia Podolskaya). In the same film, Andrei makes his debut with his first film role. The film will be released in theaters in April 2013.
At the beginning of 2013, Andrei Shirman, together with the resident of the Comedy Club show Semyon Slepakov, released the single "Kickback".
In March, DJ Smash is presented in two nominations of the MUZ-TV Award: Reboot:
DJ Smash feat. Vintage - Moscow
BEST VIDEO DJ Smash feat. Vintage - Moscow
And already in early April, he becomes a nominee for the RU.TV 2013 award:
BEST DUO DJ Smash feat. Vera Brezhneva - Love at a distance
On April 20, Andrey launched the mechanism of serial parties under the auspices of POWERFUL.
POWERFUL is an electronic music festival that will be held twice a year in Moscow, and in the future in other cities of Russia. POWERFUL is a dance party brand under which DJ Smash plans to release monthly mixes of the most trending music. The purpose of the festival is to bring together a number of Russian DJs. The parties will fully correspond to their name: the venue will be equipped with the most powerful equipment.
At the end of April, DJ Smash became the winner of the Top Hit Music Awards in the 2012 Radio Rise of the Year nomination. Andrey Shirman took fifth place in the Russian annual Top 100 Russian Artists chart (+55 positions).
On June 7, DJ Smash became the owner of a plate of the MUZ-TV 2013 Prize! The video for the song "Moscow" jointly with the Vintage group was awarded the award for "Best Video"
Andrey Shirman or DJ Smash is a popular Russian DJ and successful music producer.
Andrey's career as a musician begins in 2003 at the Shambhala club, where he was spotted by the notorious club promoter Alexei Gorobiy. It was DJ Smash who created a new format of music in Russian. Until that moment, she did not sound in nightclubs as dance hits.
DJ Smash has received numerous awards and accolades:
Many fans of DJ Smash wonder where their idol lives. Consider Andrew's house.
The DJ Smash mansion is located in the elite village of Znamenskoye on Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway. It is there that the artist lives at the moment. Andrey loves to fry meat, so there is a large brazier in the backyard of the house with a nearby gazebo. According to the artist, he compares his mansion with a dacha.
A tour of the house of DJ Smash begins with the kitchen, where there is a large vase, in which Andrey puts bottle caps that he collects. There is a dining area next to the kitchen. Not far from it is a stand, which contains all the diplomas, awards and prizes for all the creative activity of the artist. On the ground floor of the house, a digital piano has found its place. In the living room, a huge plasma TV, a fireplace and a DJ turntable with the presence of natural gold are striking.
On the second tier of the mansion, Andrey's office is located exactly there, he is engaged in the creation of new tracks and hits. There is also a rack with a collection of vinyl records. As the artist explains, this is just a small part, in fact it is much more. The rack stores all the hits starting from the year 2000.
Andrey's bedroom, which is also located on the second floor, has an original modern armchair and an antique chest of drawers in the style of the English flag.
Andrey's bathroom is no less original than the previous rooms. It also contains a rather large plasma. As DJ Smash explains, he likes to take a relaxing bath after a hard tour and watch TV.
The acquisition of such a mansion in the village of "Znamenskoye" could cost Andrei Shirman approximately 50 million Russian rubles.
The author of the compositions "Wave" and "Moscow Never Sleeps", which literally tore the dance floors of Moscow and London, tells in an interview about how he studied at school, what clubs he went to and why he ended up in a private school. Relations with parents, the first steps in the music industry - this is a brief biography of a 27-year-old guy who managed to become famous. He has a lot of plans and energy: "It seems that I have been like this all my life," he says. We read the interview and find out funny pages from the life of a DJ who felt cramped in Perm, and he made the world dance.
As befits people of his profession, DJ Smash lives at night. Lies down with the first roosters, gets up when it starts to get dark. But at the same time, he magically manages to do everything - play in clubs, record songs (over the past few years, DJ Smash has released three records, his new release, a remix album, which will be called "Remixed Grand Cru", is on the way), come up with covers for his albums, build a house, relax with friends.
By Andrei's own admission, his life has always been so eventful, from early childhood. “My dad and mom, apparently, set themselves the task of making me a super child, and from 6 to 14 years old I didn’t have any free time,” says the DJ. - Every day was scheduled by the minute. Since my parents are musicians (my father is a jazzman, he played in bands that are well known in my hometown of Perm, my mother is a professor of music, she teaches at the Perm Pedagogical University), the issue of studying at a music school was not even discussed. But besides studying solfeggio and playing the piano, I visited a chess club and sat there, despite my temperament, which was by no means a chess one, for an hour and a half several times a week.” In order to somehow escape from the endless chess lessons, Andrey resorted to a trick. “At the end of each lesson, a certain number of games had to be played. The games in chess are very long, but I knew: if I lose, they will immediately let me go home, so I quickly succumbed to my opponents and was free. But these tricks did not save, there was no more free time, because there were still classes in martial arts and, in the end, a school, but not a simple one, but with an in-depth study of English. “In general, I left the house at 7 in the morning, so I returned only at 9 in the evening. This went on until the age of 14, and then I went on a spree (well, on my scale, of course). By this age, I had already visited enough haunting places, and all thanks to my sister Katya, who was 10 years older than me, and although she didn’t smile at all to drag me to these places, my parents set a strict condition: “You won’t go for a walk without a brother! » So she had no choice but to take me with her.
It came to jokes when she went to the boy on a date and we agreed that at some point she would allegedly get angry with me and prohibit me in the bathroom, and in the meantime she would communicate with the guy. I honestly sat in the bathroom, but then I got tired of it, and I started yelling that I would tell my parents everything. Then she freed me, coaxed me in every possible way, and we went home.
Once, together with his sister, Andrey got into a real nightclub and realized: this is it! Since then, relatives saw him only in fits and starts - he spent all his free time in the club. Soon the guy was already playing his first DJ sets, at the same time his now famous pseudonym was born. “The administrator of the club calls me and says: “We are printing posters for the program, what is your name there?” "DJ Shearman," I say proudly. The answer to me was laughter and assurances that not a single person would go to a DJ with that name. “You have half an hour, think, otherwise I’ll come up with it myself!” And I didn’t smile at all about becoming some kind of DJ Poperlo (such a guy played with us, he found himself in a similar situation and got his “wonderful” name for life). I remembered that in tennis, which I then practiced, there is a stroke called "smash" ... "
At the age of 14, Andrei was already working with might and main in clubs. Most dads and moms would not have liked such an early acquaintance of their son with hot places, but Andrei's parents were calm. “They saw that I was a very purposeful boy, and at first I was not interested in any temptations at all, I worked and studied the club world from the inside. But then, of course, I began to pay attention to beautiful girls, I could never resist this. As for doping, he started drinking only at the age of 17, and even then very modestly. I quickly realized that drinking, no matter how pleasant it was, interferes with work and takes a lot of energy. But I, in addition to working at night in clubs, studied at school during the day.
By the way, Andrei almost left school at the age of 16. Already a very stormy life began for him, not before studying. “At that moment, I opened my own store, selling vinyl discs in it. All local DJs immediately became interested in my product. I also had earnings, not without it, I went to school with a mobile phone, while others had not yet seen it. It seemed to me that at that time I had achieved a lot, and at school they were trying to teach me something. At the age of 16, I had the feeling that I myself could teach anyone you want!” (Laughs.)
Andrey was already ready to say goodbye to education, but his father told him: “I’m taking you to another school now, if you don’t like it, I won’t pull you anymore.” “So be it,” Andrey decided and did not regret it. - My father brought me to one of the elite Perm schools, I didn’t even know about it, and there is beauty, a luxurious building, fashionable children, inside there are almost restaurants, they order lunch from the menu, everyone has their own locker in the locker room. How could I not go to such a school! So I finished my 11th grade.”
After school, DJ Smash entered the Perm Institute of Art and Culture, but in his second year he suddenly clearly realized that he was cramped in Perm: “I had nowhere to grow, as a DJ I had already reached a certain level and began to do other things, gradually moving away from music all farther. I traded advertising space in the city, was engaged in some other business, and I understood: a little more, and the musician Andrey Shirman would be gone, there would be Andrey Shirman, a businessman, and I didn’t like that at all. And I decided to move to Moscow.”
While still at school, DJ Smash, along with his father, often visited the capital and during these visits he was active - he delivered his demos to recording companies. And by the time when the decision to move to Moscow finally matured, Andrey's compositions were published with might and main on dance collections and he already had some name. So Andrei did not experience any ordeals and hardships that could be told in his memoirs in his old age. Moreover, unlike many other representatives of show business, for whom Moscow becomes the pinnacle of their career, DJ Smash did not stop there, soon conquering the world's club capital - the city of London. For several years he was a resident of the London club Movida, that is, he constantly played in this institution, which was in first place in all club ratings. “It really was a cool club at that time, literally all the stars that the world tabloids write about - athletes, actors, musicians, well, literally everything from David Beckham to George Clooney. And they all danced to my music.”
Andrei assures that he can capture the attention of any dance floor, whether it be Hollywood stars or the public in a provincial Russian city. “Here it is important to be a good psychologist and to determine the mood of the public and its tastes with one quick glance. If a DJ is an extra-class professional, he can control the audience without her noticing it. For example, I can keep people on the dance floor for 20 minutes, then send them to the bar for 10 minutes, and then put them back on the dance floor. And they won’t even understand why right now they were drawn to drink soft drinks, and after 20 minutes they were drawn to dance again. I know for sure that when I play in a club, the revenue in the bars is greater, and this is not just an accident.
Andrei also rests with taste and in a big way. Favorite winter holiday destination is the famous French resort of Courchevel. “There is a lot of fun! There are a lot of our compatriots there, and I like to relax with my people, to see familiar faces, to understand that everyone is glad to see me. Everything is there - both shopping and restaurants, you want Michelin stars, you want authentic village ones. This year, for example, we had a great rest with Timati and a few other friends. We rented a beautiful house, every morning we went to the mountain to ride, in the evenings we played “mafia”, we had parties.”
Like most of his friends in Courchevel, Andrey chose the same well-known place of residence for himself - a few years ago he bought a house on Rublyovka. “When I was 23, I came to visit my friend. He bought the former dacha of Maxim Gorky in this area - a huge luxurious house in a stunningly beautiful place, and I realized that I also want to live like that.
As soon as I realized my dream, my life changed somewhat. I began to understand what stekloizol*, how much does asphalt cost and how to order "KamAZ" gravel. I began to solve questions about how to deliver several pine trees 10 meters high to the site and protect them from the bark beetle.
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In general, I recognized myself from an unexpected side: I, it turns out, is a homely guy! And my husband, by the way, will turn out great from me, I know for sure. There is only one problem - I still have no one to start a family with, although it seems that at the age of 27 I am already ready for this. Attempts to establish a serious relationship were repeatedly. With one girl, her name is Olya, we lived together for four years, I met her back in Perm, moved to Moscow, and at my suggestion she began to sing in the Propaganda group. Everything was fine, but at some point the relationship reached an impasse, it was necessary either to get married and have children (and I was 23 years old), or to disperse. We chose the second. And after a while I fell in love without memory, and also with Olya. She was a model, however, despite the fact that she was pretty, I could not remember her. We were introduced to each other five times, and each time I seriously got to know her again. But when I remembered, I fell in love. I even wanted to marry her, but somehow she did not understand this.
Maybe for the better? But I am ready to create a family, and it seems to me that my way of life, contrary to popular belief, will not interfere with family life at all. I don't have a lot of tours, and the schedule is very convenient now. And even despite the crisis, there is enough work. Because Friday in Moscow is stronger than any crisis!”
DJ Smash (aka Andrey Shirman) is a well-known and respected person in the club scene. His dance compositions, as well as remixes of Russian and world hits, are very popular with modern youth. Let's study together the personal and creative biography of our today's hero.
Andrey Leonidovich Shirman was born in 1982, on May 23. His hometown is Perm. I was brought up in a creative family. Father (a Jew by nationality) received a professional musical education. And his mother is an honored worker of culture, she worked as a choirmaster for many years. Andrei has an older sister, whose name is Katya.
At the age of 6, his parents sent him to a school with in-depth study of the English language. That's not all. The boy was enrolled in a music school (piano class), which he never graduated from. Chess was one of Andryusha's main hobbies.
At the age of 12, our hero began to compose the first tracks. His main "assistant" in this matter was a desktop computer. At the age of 16, Andrei created the composition "Between Heaven and Earth". This track was liked by his friends, relatives and neighbors. Rumors about the talented teenager quickly spread throughout the city. And when Andrey Shirman released his first album Get funky, the entire circulation (500 copies) was sold out by the inhabitants of Perm in a matter of days. Local clubs began to invite young talent to their place. And he never refused. His first performance took place at the Apocalypse Club. He came up with his pseudonym (DJ Smash) in 30 seconds.
Success in his hometown pushed the young man to move to Moscow and further creative development. 18-year-old Andrey Shirman became the music producer of the Depo group. He created arrangements, worked at the sound engineer's console. Also, several times a week, our hero worked in the Shambhala club in the capital.
At the end of 2004, Andrey stopped working with the Depo group. By that time, he managed to become one of the most invited DJs in the capital's clubs. In 2005, a native of Perm became a resident of the Zima Project fashion establishment. There he played remixes of compositions by Russian performers (the Mirage group, Yuri Antonov, Valery Leontiev and others).
All-Russian fame was brought to him by the dance song Moscow never sleeps, recorded together with rapper Timati. This composition got into the rotation of the largest radio station in our country. We are talking about "Europe Plus". Soon a clip of the same name was shot, which was broadcast by MTV and MUZ-TV.
No less successful was the single "Wave" (2008). The song features the vocals of Lyudmila Sokolova, a singer from the Volgograd region.
In 2008, DJ Smash presented to the audience the debut album IDDQD, which later went platinum. It included such tracks as "Airplane" and "Wave". Separately, we highlight the composition "Best Songs", which uses the vocals of Andrey himself. The rapper Syava was involved in the filming of the video of the same name. And the director of the video was P. Khudyakov.
In 2011, A. Shirman's second disc, Twenty Three, went on sale. It includes remixes of Russian songs and English tracks.
The collaboration between DJ Smash and the Vintage group took place in 2012. Their joint composition "Moscow" appealed to many listeners. In the same year, he starred in a video with Vera Brezhneva for the song "Love at a Distance".
In 2014, a video for the comic song “I Love Oil” appeared on the Web. In the frame, Andrei appeared together with Comedy Club resident Marina Kravets. In just a couple of weeks, this video has collected several hundred thousand views.
Andrey Shirman collaborates not only with Russian, but also with foreign stars. In 2015, he recorded The Night is Young with British artist Stephen Ridley. Then the famous DJ started filming a candid video for the song Lovers2Lovers.
In 2016, together with the My Michel group, our hero recorded the track Dark Alleys. He also created arrangements for the popular girl group "Silver".
DJ Smash has several prestigious music awards, including the Golden Gramophone (2009), MTV Music Awards (2008) and the award from MUZ-TV (2013).
In 2012, Andrey created his own team. The project was called Smash Live. In the same year, our hero tried himself as a businessman. He opened the Boom Boom Room restaurant.
Shirman was not going to refuse further conquest of the Russian scene. The result of his fruitful cooperation with the production studio Velvet Music was the release of the next album, "New World".
By the end of 2012, Andrei wrote the soundtrack for the fairy tale film 12 Months. This composition was at the top of the Russian charts for several weeks. And in 2013 A. Shirman was invited to France to the electronic music festival.
From 2014 to the present, DJ Smash has been performing at the best parties in Paris, New York and other megacities. Many people offer him to become their partner in the club or restaurant business.
In 2015, our famous compatriot set a record that deserves to be included in the Guinness Book of Records. It happened at an electromusic festival in France. During the performance of the Russian DJ, more than 50,000 people jumped in one beat.
In the same year, Andrei opened two more of his restaurants one after the other - Chicha Peruvian and Mashrooms. Both of these haute cuisine establishments are popular with visitors.
Our hero has a large number of fans aged 14 to 45 years. And they want to know if their idol's heart is free. We are ready to satisfy their curiosity.
In one of the interviews, Andrei admitted that in his youth he had an affair with two girls at once. Both of them were named Olga. Everything suited the young and hot guy. But when his deception was revealed, he felt like a real scoundrel.
In 2011, A. Shirman was in a serious relationship with the model. Relatives and close friends of the couple thought that everything would end with a magnificent wedding. However, Andrei and Nastya unexpectedly broke up for everyone. The reason for the breakup of their relationship is still unknown.
We can say one thing with certainty: DJ Smash has never been officially married, he has no children.
Some curious things about Andrey Shirman:
We told you about where he was born, whom he met and what Andrey Shirman is fond of. DJ, producer, restaurateur - these professions were successfully mastered by him.
Acquaintance with music in the biography of DJ Smash began with a visit to a music school, where Andrey learned to play the piano. In 1996, the usual passion for electronic music grew into a fruitful work. So a year later the first album of DJ Smash was released.
After the release of the second album in 1999, DJ Smash's tracks became already widely known in his hometown, and Andrey himself gained the first, albeit small, popularity. A further creative stage in the biography of DJ Smash is associated with the creation of remixes for Russian songs. Such compositions were a novelty for nightclubs of those times, since the Russian format was not widely used.
For this innovation, DJ Smash received the title of best DJ and the Night Life Awards (2006). Remixes of famous Russian songs turned out to be so successful that they soon became famous even outside their homeland (for example, “The Flying Walk”, “Pasha Face Control”).
Soon after performances in the best clubs in Moscow, in the biography of DJ Smash, a period of performances in foreign clubs (London, Paris, Monte Carlo) began. In 2008, the fame and fame of DJ Smash grew even more after writing the compositions "Moscow Never Sleeps", "My Moscow" (together with Timati). In 2008, DJ Smash took 15th place among a hundred DJs in Russia.
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