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Born on February 6, 1961, Dzerzhinsk, Gorky Region, USSR - Soviet and Russian actor, musician, songwriter, poet, singer and guitarist.
Until he was twenty-eight he lived in the city of Dzerzhinsk (Nizhny Novgorod region) - one of the centers of the chemical industry.
In the sixth grade, brother Volodya, who is 9 years older than Sergei, teaches him to play the guitar. Since the age of 14, Sergei has been performing together with his brother in local ensembles, replacing absent musicians. The first song performed - Alexander Gradsky "Blue Forest". At the same time he received the nickname Chizh, inherited from his brother.
In Dzerzhinsk he graduated from the music school. Scriabin in accordion class. After - a music school, from which he was first expelled for absenteeism, but then reinstated, after graduation (with good grades) he received a referral for further admission.
In 1982 he came to Leningrad for the first time and entered the Leningrad State Institute of Culture named after Krupskaya at the Department of Orchestral Conducting and Folk Instruments in the accordion and orchestral conducting class. After graduation, he goes to work in the specialty in cultural education at the department of folk instruments.
From 1983 to 1985 he served in the army in Ventspils (a port city in Latvia) in the tank troops (military unit No. 01351), plays the guitar and writes songs.
After the army, he goes to the correspondence department of the LGIK and studies at the jazz studio of the Leningrad Conservatory as a drummer.
Returns to his native Dzerzhinsk, where he works at school No. 33 in Dzerzhinsk as a music and singing teacher, and also plays with a gypsy ensemble at weddings.
In early 1986, after six months of work at the school, being already quite popular among local musicians, he received an invitation to join the Dzerzhinsk group "GPD" (Extended Day Group). The style of music is hard rock.
In March 1988, at the 3rd (or second) Gorky Rock Festival, he unexpectedly met the band of the same name from Kharkov, which he was described in absentia as "punks".
In 1989 he graduated from LGIK and in the same summer moved from Dzerzhinsk to Kharkov, where he joined the Kharkov "GPA".
Upon arrival in Kharkiv, Chigrakov joins Alexander Chernetsky, Pavel Mikhailenko, Oleg Klimenko and Alexei Sechkin, and the group changes its name to Different People. The group's repertoire consists mainly of songs by Alexander Chernetsky and Pavel Mikhailenko.
After a while, due to the deteriorating health of Alexander Chernetsky, the group begins to perform songs by Chigrakov, upon the return of Alexander Chernetsky, the repertoire is divided equally.
In 1991, the album "Boogie-Kharkov" was recorded, for the first time consisting entirely of Chizh's songs. The group also performs with constant concerts.
A few years later, Chizh left the “Different People” group. In addition to disagreements in the group, the reason for leaving was the offer from Igor Berezovets and Andrey Burlaka to record their own disc. And in 1993, already in St. Petersburg, Chizh, with the support of Boris Grebenshchikov, recorded the first solo album called simply "Chizh", which was released on vinyl under the OsoAviAkhim label. Since at that time Chizh did not have a group, famous Petersburg musicians helped him in the recording: BG, N. Korzinin (St. Petersburg), A. Brovko (DDT), Mikhail Chernov (DDT) and others. The sound engineer of this recording was the legendary St. Petersburg musician and sound engineer Yuri Morozov.
In late 1993 and early 1994, Chizh gave several concerts in St. Petersburg clubs with a group of musicians, which includes Alexey Romanyuk and Alexander Kondrashkin, who later became members of Chizh & Co.
Inspired by the reaction of the St. Petersburg public, Chizh finally decided to move, and on May 1, 1994 he moved to St. Petersburg. A month later, he had already assembled the permanent group Chizh & Co. The following version was invented for journalists. The recruitment to the Chizh & Co group was carried out in a non-standard way: Sergei Chigrakov sent out a bunch of advertisements to all places where they were taken, including the magazines "Young Naturalist" and "Tekhnika - Youth".
In 1996, to record a video for the song "Polonaise" Chigrakov together with the group went to America. In addition, this year was marked by various solo projects of the band members. Chizh took part in the recording of two albums "Mitkovskie songs", along with such famous performers as: BG, Yuri Shevchuk, Vyacheslav Butusov, Alexander F. Sklyar and others who sang in a new way the good old songs of the war and Soviet peacetime.
In 1998 Sergey visits Israel and records with the group the concert album "New Jerusalem". There was also a trip to London with a concert at the Astoria club.
In 1995-2001, Sergei Chigrakov took part in the recording of three albums of sacred songs by priest Oleg Skobli - "Forged Cross", "Procession of the Cross" and "Angel of Prayer".
After a three-year silence, in 2001 Chizh's solo disc "Haydn will be" was released, where he sang and played all the instruments, without involving producers and other musicians. The sound engineer, according to tradition, was Yuri Morozov. In the same year, Chij turned 40 years old.
In June 2004, Sergei Chigrakov once again crossed the Atlantic in order to realize his old dream - to play with black blues musicians. The joint project of Chizh and Herbert Maitlandt Band was called the Chizh & Blues company. The repertoire consisted of Chizhov's blues. The result of joint music making were concerts in Boston and the legendary "China Club" in New York.
Upon his return from a foreign tour, Sergei Chigrakov, with the help of Alexey Romanyuk and Igor Fedorov, finished work on recording the soundtrack for the series, tentatively titled "The First Way". Continuing his collaboration with "Different People", he released the album "Acoustics".
on November 15 in 2014 performed in Moscow at the Crocus City Hall with an anniversary concert dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the group. On October 23, 2015, a new work of old friends was presented. Fly away my hangover. Chigrakov co-wrote with Romario and Evgeny Margulis. The latter performed most of the vocal parts. The performance took place in the Chartova Dozen program.
In February 2018, he wrote the music for the song "Love is tired in secret" on the verses of Mikhail Gutseriev, performed by Sergei Lyubavin and Nastya Nicole.
