Interview with singer Maxim. Exclusive interview with singer MakSim

It's nice to communicate with a strong, self-sufficient person. The singer MAXIM is exactly like that. A musician with absolutely individual thinking, she also thinks paradoxically in life. Now MakSim is having a truly happy time. She is in love and expecting her second child. I confess that during our conversation I quickly fell under the spell of this beautiful woman, which, like an arrow, pierces with its sharp gaze. And of course, her voice is mesmerizing - so soft and melodic, not only when MakSim sings, but also when she talks. So, the recorder is turned on.

Dear MakSim, can I call you Marina? This is your native name.

Of course, call it. My mother calls me Marina, so you can be my mother for a little while. ( Smiling.)

“Being your mother” sounds good. Why did you take a pseudonym? Is this some kind of gap between real life and the stage?

The point is that my pseudonym has always been closer to me than my given name. Also in adolescence I was “Maxim”, “Max”.

That's your older brother's name, isn't it?

Yes. I grew up like a boy. I played sports with my brother, loved karate, and no one found femininity or any grace in me.

What kind of grace and femininity is there if the girl is a karateka?!

Well, I didn’t want to be a girl in the usual sense. I don't know what influenced me. I grew up, in general, with a normal orientation, but I didn’t like, for example, women’s clothes. I didn't like the stereotypes that usually exist in women's companies. It was less interesting for me with my girlfriends than with my friends.

And today too?

I have a friend, my only one, she lives in Kazan. We communicate with her, share a lot, sometimes we write one song between us.

Apparently, the definition of “black sheep” suits you perfectly.

I really felt like a black sheep. This is also in primary school felt strongly. Even when I became a fairly public person, I remained closed and exist separately from others - unfortunately or fortunately. Living “wide open”, as is often the case with artists, is definitely not my thing. It has always been easier for me to talk about myself through creativity. Maybe this is my character, my nature. My mother, for example, is very modest. She is quiet, such a “dandelion”. My mother worked as a kindergarten teacher all her life.

How did it happen that your mother-educator let you go free at the age of 15 - to sing in clubs, restaurants, and even far from your native Kazan?

I left not at 15, but at 17. Of course, it was a shock for my mother. All people not from the world of show business have their own prejudices associated with this area of ​​​​activity. Therefore, my mother categorically did not want to let me go. Dad let me go.

So dad has a broader view on such things, right?

Dad was always a very active person, loved music and always supported me. And to this day it is he who supports me more often, while my brother finds better mutual language with mom. After all, my mother and I are very different, and in my difficult adolescence we spent a lot of time discussing with her the reasons for mutual misunderstanding.

Did you figure it out as a result?

We figured it out. My mother began to support me only when she realized that my quest was not just a desire to do something contrary. When, while still a teenager, I told my parents that I would go to Moscow, they set the condition: “Only first you finish school well and go to university yourself.” It was almost impossible because I missed a lot of classes. I was a creepy little net. But in the end I succeeded! Of course, I cheated and then entered the Kazan State Technical University at the most unpopular department of public relations. Then I switched to the correspondence course, but I studied honestly: at school I was taught to be independent and responsible. These qualities came in handy in Moscow, where I eventually left. I associate the first years of living in the capital with the Lenin Library. I really liked the atmosphere there: these huge doors, tables, green lamps... And these clocks that chime the time in silence. I don’t know whether they hang there now or not, but they complemented that magical atmosphere for me.

I immediately remembered the film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears,” where Muravyova’s heroine went to the Lenin Library with one goal - to catch suitors: “Can you imagine what kind of contingent there is? Academicians, doctors, philosophers... There is also a smoking room there.”

(Laughs.) I haven’t looked at this picture for a long time. At the time when I went to Leninka, the Internet already existed, so it was difficult to meet potential suitors there. By the way, until recently I myself did not use the Internet. I love reading books, I write everything down in notebooks and on papers.

And songs too?

Yes. I'm not good with computers. More precisely, now I can already read the news there.

Maybe that’s why your songs are so sincere, lively, “non-computerized”. But about Moscow... Lenin Library- this is, of course, great. But still:
Is it true that your motivation for conquering the capital was the desire to prove to your lover that you can achieve a lot without him?

I most likely wanted to prove it to myself, not to him. This is how my youthful maximalism manifested itself. To be honest, I really didn't like this feeling. true love, I was afraid of him and it was from him that I fled to Moscow.

Horrible! At a young age, on the contrary, everyone wants to fall in love for a long time and seriously.

You know, Vadim, it was some kind of internal struggle with everything that surrounds you. For some reason I wanted to break all the stereotypes. I fell in love and understood that this feeling was stronger than me. But I immediately protest against things that force me to do something, whether psychologically or physically.

So, escape to Moscow, to meet your real self?

I ran away, but at the same time continued to live with the same feelings and memories. The object of my love remained in Kazan. I had a crazy addiction to this man, and yet I did not return to him. All my feelings poured out into music, into creativity.

I wonder if the young man from Kazan told you: “Marina, you’re crazy. We love each other, why artificially create barriers?

He said something like that, of course. He wanted to marry me and absolutely did not understand my actions. My mother also told me that with my character I need to get married and have a child as soon as possible - they say, then I would calm down, start wearing frilly dresses, get a job in some office and turn into a normal woman.

How did your romance end? Although such an exotic relationship cannot even be called a romance.

This lasted for seven years, then the feelings grew into friendship and even family connection. Then he got married: how long could you wait for me? Moreover, he is ten years older than me. And then I caught myself thinking that I really wanted this person to be happy, to have a healthy son, just as they wish for their relatives.

And yet it’s hard for me to believe that you drove away love temptations from yourself.

I really haven't fallen in love for a very long time. I even envy those who can do this - find new love every month.

Were you not afraid that in this way you would get the taste and forever remain the Snow Queen?

That's what I wanted.

When did new colors appear?

Recently. I fell in love, and it felt like the first time. I understand that I no longer fight this feeling. Suddenly I caught myself thinking that I began to obey the man I loved and became a house cat.

Marina, but a year ago in the magazine OK! there was your luxurious photo shoot and interview, where you said that your then boyfriend, Alexander, proposed to you. However, it recently became clear that this was a PR stunt. Explain what is true and what is not.

I can’t say that this was a hundred percent PR move; it would be difficult for me to play such games. It all started really sincerely - we planned to record new song, but then we developed easy friendships.

Friendship, but not love?

Now I understand that no. It was a relationship that exists between two best friends. I could tell Sasha anything, talk some nonsense, and all this was perceived very easily, without jealousy, without intrigue, without envy. But even then I understood that in the end I would not marry him.

So did Alexander propose to you or not?

Yes, I did, but again everything was somehow easy and superficial, as if it wasn’t real. Although, on the other hand, he helped me a lot and became friends with my daughter. They still communicate and are friends. Alexander lives in St. Petersburg, and when he comes to Moscow, they go somewhere together, to the zoo, for example, or just walk all day.

If it was not love, then why was it necessary to imitate it?

Because I didn’t want anything serious at that moment. I felt very calm, nothing bothered me. Now Alexander has a much more difficult time than me, mentally. Because behind all this ease and play he had a deep feeling. And I thought that if I left a person who was so devoted to me, I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself.

When did you stop communicating closely?

When I fell in love. And this feeling completely absorbed me.

I know that on principle you do not want to give the name of your current companion.

Yes. He, like all princes on a white horse, wants to become famous good deeds. (Laughs.)

Nevertheless, the paparazzi are watching over you: there are yours on the Internet joint photos and even video. It is known that he is a serious businessman and is far from the world of show business. Perhaps this is exactly the kind of man you needed?

Maybe. For me, he is a man from another planet.

Can you formulate what makes it “alien”?

In everything, starting with the daily routine, where everything is clearly regulated, and ending with responsibility for every word spoken.

You are probably an alien to him too.

Of course, our hipster party causes him some confusion. To say that we adapt to each other is not true. Now I get incredible pleasure just from communication and tactile things. You try to explain something, and not always what you are sure of turns out to be the only true one. I find it interesting to watch how he reasons. He is also interested in knowing what I think. At the same time, he does not ask me banal questions that usually interest everyone: how did I become popular? How do I write songs? If he sees what I’m composing, he simply says: “Well done.” In general, I now have a feeling of calm and confidence - I have never had this before.

I feel your peace, which is probably associated with another happy circumstance - your pregnancy.

Now I'm wildly happy about everything. I wake up and it seems to me: “Oh, what a nice rain.” Everyone says: “This is slush.” But I think it’s so beautiful, the gray sky is cool. It's like I'm in flight. This pregnancy is very different from the first. When I was carrying Sasha, I toured for a long time and experienced all the pros and cons of being pregnant. I was very worried about any issue, I constantly pestered my attending physician: “Do I need to buy an oxygen tank to breathe? fresh air? and so on. Now I have only positives, everything goes easily, without anxiety.

In general, a complete idyll!

It is such happiness to see next to a person who is stronger than you, but who at the same time does not crush with his power, but commands you internal forces. Every time I thank God that they still give me this feeling of unconscious, causeless happiness.

Are you going to get married?

I don’t know what will happen tomorrow, I don’t have a feeling of stability, but maybe I don’t need it now. But this has a positive effect on creativity: I recently wrote a new song - “Wedding”. True, under the impression of other people's weddings - thoughts about your own have nothing to do with it. Yes, these thoughts are not there: thinking about what will happen tomorrow is always scary. As it will be, so it will be. Life will put everything in its place, regardless of us. What is happening now is much more important to me.

This is probably the right position. How did your daughter perceive your chosen one?

Wary. Sasha suddenly told me: “I know why you fell in love.” Why, I ask. "Because he's handsome." But the daughter understands that, under all circumstances, she has a mother who loves her madly.

Are you expecting a boy or a girl?

Do not know yet. But this is not so important. When we first met, I said that I didn’t want nervous shocks, I didn’t want to be hurt, but this is still inevitable when there are feelings. Yes, I said, I want to have another child, but you definitely won’t be the father of the child, so don’t waste your time. He still laughs and says: “Well, what? Will I not be the father of your child?

That's right, never say never. Marina, is it easy to write songs in such a positive state?

I can’t boast that I’m writing especially a lot now. Probably due to a state of inner peace. I am friends with the songwriter Sasha Shaganov, and he once told me: if creative person If he doesn’t write for at least a week, then all the understatement remains inside. During this period it is better to read more.

Now your emphasis has shifted, and this is understandable, but let’s hope that soon you will give your fans new hits.

I think that these will be no less emotional, but completely different songs. Although I remain, in essence, the same, I do not change myself. When I was pregnant with Sashka, as I now understand, I didn’t take care of both of us at all. She was born, and then my maternal instinct appeared. I suddenly realized: there was a little man living inside me, and I was jumping, galloping around the stage, tormenting her for some reason. It seemed to me that I could not be a good mother. I thought that during the next pregnancy everything would certainly be different. However, character and love for extreme sports make themselves felt. Yesterday, for example, I drove into a ditch on an ATV. Now I'm covered in bruises.

Why did you, a pregnant woman, get on an ATV?!

As my mother says, “we were not born with a sense of self-preservation.” I can’t bring myself to sit still and go to classes for pregnant women.

How did your boyfriend let you get on this same ATV?

He grumbled, of course, like a leaky hot water bottle, but he didn’t see it. In fact, we spend our time very actively. I hope that a sense of self-preservation will definitely appear later.

Maybe you simply didn’t have a reason for global fear in your life?

I was scared. Once again, falling off your skis, you, already in flight, realize that maybe that’s it, period. And here it’s strange, but it’s not scary. But, I hope, everything is fine with my sense of responsibility, I know how to stop myself, if anything happens. But for my daughter Sasha, the instinct of self-preservation works for two. In this regard, she educates me. She was still very little, learning to walk, and had already looked ten times when and where it was best to fall. I was warned that I needed to close cabinets and remove door handles, because small children would pull everything out and break it. Sasha never opened boxes without asking: if you say that you can’t come here, she will immediately stop rushing. This is such a unique child who, before taking food from the table, asks: “Can’t this be bitter?” Now she roller skates and wears a helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads. I say: “What’s the joke? Children must fall." But she doesn't have bruises. At all! We ride together, I tell her: “Take off your helmet, don’t disgrace your mother!” And she: “Mommy, I might fall.”

Your daughter already has a sense of character - her mother’s, strong-willed... How important are new impressions for you, in your current situation? I mean trips, travel.

How important! We try to travel around Russia more often. I came to the conclusion that more beautiful places than in our country, no. I’ve been to many places and realized that I feel most comfortable here. You can go to the Urals or Altai - the energy there is crazy. And we go there. I am for active recreation.

Can you really spend the night in a tent?

It happened. Previously, I didn’t really understand how to organize it all, but here’s the main thing good company people with extensive travel experience who love such recreation and sports. Such a pastime quickly restores me and gives me a lot of positive emotions for creativity.

Tell me, are your musicians jealous of your new life?

Of course, they, being young and ambitious musicians, are not very happy about the upcoming, albeit short, break, but I feel that they are happy for me. I remember how they greeted me and Sasha from the maternity hospital, with gifts and balloons. Subsequently, they supported her very much from the first months of her life. I think we can handle it now.

Well, Marina, I want to wish you to be in such a romantically high mood for as long as possible! You undoubtedly deserve it.

Marina Abrosimova, known as singer MakSim, long years remains one of the most popular singers in the country. She sings in a half-childish voice about love and death, good and evil, and does not participate in endless blue lights, and takes a whole rock band with him to concerts, with whom he performs “Murka”. We found out whether the singer remembers her difficult age and got inside information about the new album.

— Good evening, Marina. First of all, thank you for the concert. It's unusual to hear that your sound has become much more rock-intensive, with drum solos and hard-hitting guitars.

— We will soon present to listeners new album and completely new program. With the album “My Paradise” I came with a rock lineup, with musicians who always played hard underground or even metal. This is exactly what I wanted, so that the songs would sound different at the concert. With my “pi-pi-pi” songs about love, but the music should be hard and clear. And now we want to invite to new performances, firstly, an acapella group, and, secondly, a group that plays in the style of soul and rhythm and blues.

First of all, congratulations on the release of the album “Loner”. Tell me, those extraneous conversational remarks that ended up in the track “Loner”, did they get there deliberately?

Yes, this was inserted deliberately. Although it was really written down “not for publication.” We often record our rehearsals, and they usually take place in a fairly friendly, imposing atmosphere. Friends-musicians come in, even those who do not take part in the recording, drink tea... Their presence is important for us, so that they listen from the outside as we play... And it seemed to us that suddenly this atmosphere would interest those who are curious about how our songs are born , how we prepare for meetings with listeners.

But you know, this track has already given birth to a wave of criticism on the Internet. You are condemned for using obscene language, which you, however, slightly veil: “Fuck you.”

Still, I don’t think I said anything swearing (laughs).

Yes, it was said as if in a pillow, but people immediately deciphered it. The girls write: MakSim no longer exists for me, I thought she was like this, but she is like this...

Why hide it, sometimes I swear during creative process. I’m generally an idealist-maximalist, and if we don’t agree on something for a long, long time, I can have a big fight. But you can’t judge me directly by the tracks. Many, after listening to the song “Loner,” wrote: “Oh, MakSim, so he smokes? Oh, she’s so, so growing!” So: if tomorrow I write a song about space, do you think I’ve been there?

Are you a bossy person or just harsh? Can you give in to someone, obey?

To obey - maybe not exactly about me, but rather to obey. The people I respect, I consider to be professionals. I even follow their example, which makes me happy. I try to approach what I do sensibly, I understand: this is by no means the crown of my creativity, I want to continue to grow as a professional, and have someone to learn from.

After the speech, MakSim answered questions from local media journalists at a press conference.

Maxim, this is your first time in Syktyvkar, what do you remember?

For now only concerts. But I think now we will meet someone in the city and have fun. We'll have a hearty meal and walk around the city. Moreover, it is warmer here than in Moscow. The north is there now!

Why were your concerts in the republic cancelled?

They explained to me that those people who brought the equipment here were afraid of 40-degree frosts. Like, the equipment will fail. But this never happened because of me.

How do you like the local crowd?

You saw everything yourself! Soulful, amazing people. It’s great that the parents brought their children. I myself have been a mother for almost a year. It is important when you understand your child, and he understands you. I am for common interests.

What gifts were you given at the concert?

These are mainly handmade products. They seem to depict symbols of your city. This is very original, you won’t find anything like it in Moscow. By the way, recently they gave me diapers, and another time they put a jar of jam on stage.

A year ago, when singer MakSim was just about to buy her first own apartment, she promised that her apartments would be very compact. During this year she managed to give her first solo concert in the prestigious Olympic Stadium, receive many awards and strengthen even more firmly at the top of the Russian musical Olympus. It would seem that it would be possible to reconsider the concept of minimalism by purchasing housing that is more appropriate to one’s status. But MakSim turned out to be true to herself.

“I bought an apartment in a huge, pompous new building, which in appearance looks more like not a city building, but a real royal palace. And when people look at it, they have no doubt that there can only be vast mansions inside,” the singer grinned. - In fact, it is so. All apartments, except mine, are “family estates” with marble columns and other frills. And I chose the smallest one and I’m incredibly happy about it. There is only a dining room, a living room and a bedroom - all more than modest in size, but this is exactly how I imagined my home.”

MakSim loves children very much and does not refuse to take pictures with them.

– For me, the passing year is just a fairy tale. I became a mother - and this is the main thing! No awards - even if there are a million of them! – they don’t make me as happy as my daughter.

I’m so pleased that girls at concerts give me toys “for Sasha.” We already have a whole toy store! When my daughter grows up a little, we will go together to some orphanage and give our trophies to the kids. I want her to understand: if you have something in abundance, you definitely need to share it with those who are less fortunate.

By the way, in Ufa, fans gave me a wonderful doll - a copy of me in a dress that brought me luck when I was just starting to perform. The girls admitted that they spent the whole night sewing the outfit, and even made a tattoo on the doll’s hand - it turned out very similar! I'm touched. My daughter also liked the girl’s gift. We will never part with him for anything!

— Do you prefer it when people address you by your pseudonym or by your real name?

- I enjoy both. Because my parents naturally call me Marina, it would be strange if they called me “Maxim”. I have an older brother – Maxim.

- Oh, I didn’t give you flowers!

- It's OK. Let's go now!

- I give! It is for you!

- Thanks a lot!

- Thank you for the concert.

— I don’t really like jazz, I don’t understand rock at all, I’m more inclined to your style - that is, to pop music. But I honestly cannot say that I am a great connoisseur of MakSim’s work. Of course, I hear your songs, because they have been heard everywhere for several years now.

— I anticipate your first question. Why - Maxim?

— Is that what your friends called you in your native Kazan?

- They called me since childhood. Brother - Max, me - Maxim.

— Do you have many friends?

— I can call only 5 people my friends, by the way, only one of them is a woman. After one difficult period, I began to choose my social circle more carefully.

- All your friends are from your hometown?

— Yes, I met them in Kazan. But in Moscow I found many close people. They scared me that Moscow was a very dangerous city, and I would certainly be deceived. On the contrary, I met even more good people than in Kazan. I'm sure I'm lucky.

- Are there any friends among famous people?

“I wouldn’t say friends, just a warm relationship.” But not with those in the frame, but with the musicians.

Singer Maxim says in an interview:
How is Love for Life expressed, advice from singer Maxim.
What does success consist of?
What main qualities or sensations should a woman acquire in order to be ready for the birth of a child?
What type of vacation does MakSim prefer? The importance of being alone with your thoughts.
How can one get into the MakSim School of Arts and what results do students achieve?

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School of Arts MakSim

Visiting Women’s Time magazine MakSim (Marina Maksimova) – Russian singer, singer-songwriter, music producer and the ideological mastermind and director of the School of the Arts.
The singer MakSim School of Arts began its activities in September 2015 - this is a unique institution for children and adults, accessible to everyone who strives to unleash their creative potential. MakSim is pleased to conveyaccumulated experience for his students, helping to realize their cherished dreams. The School of Arts is focused on training true professionals in their field; all the skills that the school’s students acquire in the future will allow each graduate to decide on a career choice, a future direction in life and gain connections in the musical field.

MakSim charming mother of two beautiful daughters. In the interview, MakSim will share with us his love for life, his advice in relationships between parents and children, and will also talk about the importance of creativity in life and revealing one’s own creative potential.

Maria Prokopchenko: The theme of this issue is “Love of Life,” so first of all I would like to ask: how does love for life express itself for you, how does it manifest itself, and what can you advise people who want to find a creative flow within themselves, but do not know where to begin. Can a person start with any creative activity, without even understanding whether he has chosen the right direction, and then suddenly understand where to go?

Singer Maxim: My love for life is expressed in the sun, in children and in the fact that we are in this world.

The hardest thing is always to start. It all depends on what kind of work we are talking about: if it is, say, poetry, then there is nothing left to do but just sit down and write something, and then read it to as many people as possible, without necessarily telling who the author of the work is.

It is better, of course, if a person starts with creative activity from childhood. It’s not for nothing that parents send their children to all sorts of creative clubs. Just to unleash the child’s creative potential.

It also happens that a person, already in old age, decides that he wants, for example, to paint pictures, and not do business - this is his choice, and in this case he can help himself with this decision. At least it’s never too late to get creative.

Maria Prokopchenko: Which are the most important stages on the path to becoming an artist? Tell us from your experience how you came to this.

In general, I always say that success comes from little things. If this or that event had not happened, it is unlikely that we would be talking now, including you, and everything could have turned out differently. Therefore, each stage is important and must be completed.

As for me, the fact is that I never dreamed of being an artist. I thought songwriting was a very natural process and I didn't understand why others didn't write. Fate brought me to this and put me in that very right place - it was a foregone conclusion, no matter how much I strived for some other peaks. The stage has always accompanied me throughout my life, it has not gone anywhere, and for me it has always been very natural.

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Success came to MakSim with the release of the album “Difficult Age” in 2006, which sold more than 1.5 million copies; in 2007 MakSim became the most commercial successful singer in Russia. At the Russian Music Awards ceremony of the MTV channel and the Muz-TV Award, MakSim twice won in the category “ Best Female Performer" MakSim is the owner of 13 Golden Gramophone statuettes. The singer’s second album, “My Paradise,” sold more than 1.3 million copies. MakSim is the only singer whose 7 singles consistently took first place in the overall radio chart of the CIS countries.

Maria: You are a wonderful mother of two daughters, tell us from your experience what main qualities or feelings a woman should acquire in order to be ready for the birth of a child?

MakSim: I think that this is a natural, instinctive feeling that comes unconsciously, and a woman’s desire to have a child arises even in a dream. And a woman can no longer think about anything else, this is her destiny from Above.

Maria: Was there an event in your life that radically changed it, gave it a special meaning - an event that made you realize “I’m not living in vain”?

MakSim: Such events happen to me very often, because the flow of life runs ahead of me, and I generally like to go with the flow of life.

Maria: What's the best way to relax for you? Do you like to be alone with yourself and your thoughts?

MakSim: I prefer active recreation. The best way getting rid of negative thoughts is playing hide and seek with children, or running. I love holidays with children, I prefer children's discos to various social events.

I have never suffered from loneliness, so sometimes I want and even like to be alone, this state leads me to the right outcome and the right thoughts.

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Maria: We know that you opened an Art School. What do children achieve, what results do they achieve and how does it help them not only in professional activity, but also in life itself?

MakSim: Opening your own Art Schools– my old dream, the realization of which I have been going for a very long time.

Absolutely all people who want to engage in self-development and unleash their creative potential can get into my school. My oldest student is 48 years old, my youngest is 3 years old. For each age we have our own groups, our own teachers, our own disciplines. Since I myself came from a poor family and money was never my priority, I opened the school specifically for middle-class people, I believe that they have the greatest desire to learn and experience. And for those who can't afford additional education or courses, I periodically give away training certificates at various talent competitions.

We try to take into account the interests of each student and have an individual approach to each one. My students will perform at various talent competitions, we will do reporting concerts, the school has its own recording studio and production center, where students can record a song, under the guidance of specialists they will create duets and groups, shoot videos, and create albums. The school will help with admission to music and acting universities.

Under New Year we made a fairy tale for parents and everyone on stage alone large area Moscow. The fairy tale was prepared quickly, and in just a few weeks we put together an amazing performance, where I played the role of the Snow Maiden, and the children and I sang my song “Christmas Lullaby.”

Maria Prokopchenko: It’s very cool when dreams come true, I’m sure that studying with you, with your light hand, all students will find their way. What are your wishes for our readers?

Welcome spring with the smile that the first sun will give you. To do this, just look out the window.

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At some point, MakSim realized that she would best be able to convey her emotions and experiences in music. So she began to write poems and compose music for them. As MakSim herself says, everything in life was easy for her. It was exactly the same with the songs - she simply described her most vivid experiences and emotions, and they turned into beautiful poems.

- Marina, how do you “feel” music? Does it depend on your mood?

As a rule, music depends on my mood, and sometimes, on the contrary, music sets the tone for my mood. In my new album “Good” you can immediately “catch” the state in which I was when I wrote it. Therefore, this album turned out to be the most emotional, I often say that it is “an intimate reflection of me.” In my personal life I have enough hidden man, I believe that it is called “personal” for a reason. But in music I sometimes express what I cannot say in words.

- How did your relationship with music and stage begin? Why not painting, for example?

As a child, I didn't plan to be an artist. For example, I wanted to be a fireman who saves dogs and cats, and I even wanted to be a dolphin! (laughs).

My mother, so that I would not be “loitering” without anything to do, enrolled me in various creative circles. School of Music instilled in me a love of working on myself, efficiency, and perhaps even resilience. And then everything went by itself. I think the key to my success depends on my love for music, luck and my listeners. By the way, I often talk about them in interviews as a source of pride - I believe that I have the most intelligent and understanding fans, and even criticism from them sounds more like good advice than a reproach. Many of them have been with me for many years, are family friends, come to my concerts with their children, sometimes even coming to another city. They love to give me various surprises, organize flash mobs, pleasantly surprise me with gifts given with my own hands, I often receive painted portraits, and this is worth a lot.

- Do you write the words and music for your songs yourself?

For the most part, yes. But I'm always happy good cooperation. It's interesting when a musician has a completely different vision of music, which is radically different from mine. From such collaboration wonderful songs are born.

- Who is your ideological inspirer?

There is no one person, this collective image. Poets inspire me Silver Age, I really love Akhmatova, Blok, at the same time I can be under a long impression from the film I watched, I even walk silently, not talking to anyone. Captures beautiful view, for example, I can be inspired by the view of the Altai Mountains.

- Tell us about those people who are “behind the scenes”? Choreographer, makeup artist, stylist, maybe an acting teacher?

For 10 years I worked with Warner Music, formerly Gala Records. At the end of the contract, I decided to go my own independent way, but I am very grateful to the entire Warner team for creative work they always let me do it, and for me this is one of the most important points. This is probably why I have never worked and will never work with producers.

Now my team consists of a small number of people who are passionate about what we do together, and I am very pleased with the results.

I go on stage with my musical group, with whom we have been together for many years, and went through fire and water, sometimes working 30 concerts a month. Now, of course, I can’t afford it due to the fact that I have a responsibility to the children, and I try to be an adequate mother and spend maximum time with my daughters.

- In what direction are you still developing?

Just recently I opened my own art school. I can’t say that this is a business for me, but rather the fulfillment of an old dream that I have been striving for for many years. I believe that it is necessary to pass on the accumulated musical experience to the younger generation.

My eldest daughter Sasha pushed me to create a school. Looking for the perfect creative circle We went to many places, and there were always some disadvantages: the room was too uncomfortable, but I understand that a child should go to extra classes with joy and feel at home. The teachers are not qualified enough. But the main problem is a rather narrow set of disciplines. This is how the idea arose to create a certain ideal place with friendly, professional teachers, big amount creative disciplines where you want to return with pleasure.

- You opened your art school in the fall, how can you get there?

Absolutely all people who want to engage in self-development and unleash their creative potential can get into my school. My oldest student is 48 years old, my youngest is 3 years old. For each age we have our own groups, our own teachers, our own disciplines. Since I myself came from a poor family and money was never my priority, I opened a school specifically for middle-class people. And for those who cannot afford additional education or courses, I periodically give away training certificates at various talent competitions.

- Do you directly teach any subjects there or are you just a leader?

I do not have a teaching diploma, so I act as an ideological inspirer, a leader, guide students, help with advice and sometimes give master classes on various topics.

- What are the prospects for young talents after graduation?

We try to take into account the interests of each student and have an individual approach to each one. After only 4 months of work, we are staging a fairy tale on the stage of one large venue, this is New Year's a charity concert, in which more than 30 students from my school will take part.

My students will perform at various talent competitions, we will do reporting concerts, the school has its own recording studio and production center where students can record a song, duets and groups will be created under the guidance of specialists, videos will be shot, and albums will be created. The school will help with admission to music and acting universities.

- How do you manage to combine such a busy concert activity with your personal life? With raising a child?

I try to manage my time effectively. I'm always with the kids at all times important events, this is a priority: this year the eldest daughter went to first grade, and the youngest celebrated her one year anniversary.

After concerts in other cities, I take the first flight home. Of course, there is no time to walk around the city on a tour.

- Will your daughter follow in her mother’s footsteps?

All I can do is watch my daughters grow and guide them. How will the personality be formed? Will it be creative activity, it’s hard to say yet. I don't think so. The eldest daughter Sashka is very serious, not like her mother. (laughs) But if they decide to connect their lives with music, then I won’t be against it. I didn’t see anything bad in this profession.

- Our shooting took place in an unusual format, how do you feel about fast food? Or are you a supporter of healthy eating?

On film set it smelled very tasty and the props were mercilessly eaten by me right during the shooting. (laughs) Although I don’t often treat myself to such food. But I never exhaust myself with diets. In general, I like to “sharpen” the refrigerator at night.
I believe that every woman can devote an hour a day to herself or go in for sports, even if it’s an ordinary walk with her children in the park.

- Do you like to experiment?

Yes. In music I can call myself an experimenter. I love collaborating with artists of a different genre. I have a duet with the rock group Animal Jazz, and tracks with hip-hop artists such as Basta, Legalize. I'm always for interesting experiments!

- You have a tattoo on your hand, what does it mean?

I even have two of them. On my wrist is a phrase in Latin “The wolf changes its skin, but does not change its soul”, which for me means double meaning: people don’t change, and you shouldn’t be too gullible. And no matter how much they told me that tattoos would bother me, I have never regretted getting them.

- At what age did you do it?

At the age of 13, she got a tattoo on her right shoulder with the image of a cat, although it looked more like a marten.

- Follow fashion trends?

I'm not used to being bothered by fashion trends. In this regard, I was lucky with my job. There are almost always stylists on the set who live for this and earn their living by helping me look stylish.

- In all interviews you indicate that you do not wear perfume, what is the reason for this?

I think that age and skin condition allow me to smell fresh and good soap.

I recently released the single “Good” from my new album. The listeners liked the track and got into rotation on all the top radio stations in the country. I'm planning to shoot a video for it soon.

Active is underway preparation for the first fairy tale from the art school. By the way, I will play one of the roles in the fairy tale.

And if we talk about long-term plans, I want to open my own charitable foundation.

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Marina Maximova’s first fee was enough for a cake and four toothbrushes for the whole family. Several years passed - and the singer MakSim ended up in Forbes rating as one of the most influential women Russia.

The artist's nickname as a child was Terminator. And today this “terminator” is a concentrate of femininity: princess dresses, thin legs in high heels, cat-like habits and intonations.

MakSim lightly quotes Yesenin, Tsvetaeva and his beloved Dovlatov. But for most, he remains the author of “tearful texts for teenage girls.”

First higher education MakSim - public relations (PR technologies). The second is the Faculty of Theology. Where is PR, and where is the soul, and why her whole life is a complete contradiction - we asked MakSim herself.

- This is not a contradiction! And it's definitely not false. I’m not lying about all this - I’m just very different. I, like all twins, am characterized by duality. Duality... And terrible maximalism. Either the way I decided... Or not at all.

- And it is maximalism that forces you to adhere to this tour schedule: every day - flight and new town? Yesterday - Kazan, today - Minsk, tomorrow - St. Petersburg...

— And you still don’t know about closed events... (Smiles.)
I actually started adjusting my schedule when I became a mother. Now I don’t have more than 12 concerts a month. On the one hand, it seems like a lot. On the other hand, it’s three to four days a week. This is how I manage to get into the mode of my children and spend most of my time with them.

And once upon a time there were 30 concerts a month. I wanted everything at once. I understood that I had been working towards this for a long time and had no right to refuse if people were waiting for me. As a result, both I and my entire huge team - and these are grown, hefty men - destroyed ourselves. Both mentally and physically. The fatigue was unbearable.

Therefore, now - only a healthy schedule and correctly set priorities.

MakSim admits: being strong is difficult. But even more difficult, the worst thing is to become dependent on anyone.

- Can you even turn on the girl? Well, this: “I’m weak and I want to be held”?

- I'm studying! With all my might. But it's mine a big problem, which is difficult to step over.

— And you also study theology. Tell us how a PR specialist with a first degree and an artist by vocation suddenly became interested in theology?

- Well, not suddenly. Everyone experiences postpartum syndrome differently. After Masha was born, it was like this: I really wanted to study. I started with history - to restore it in memory and expand it in consciousness.

This is very interesting, but I admit, I’m lost: in history Russian state, in the world - even more so. I got confused in the positions and reinterpretations of different authors... What can I say, even if I can’t get out of the history of painting. I have a huge book about her, and, to be honest, as soon as I finish reading it, I’ll start again - because it’s impossible to remember all this the first time.

At some point, theology appeared - it was she who sorted everything out. She gave me the main thing: an understanding of what I was learning.

- What are you studying?

— The most important thing that theology teaches is love. Love is global, not related to the individual, to something united. Love for yourself, for the world, for nature, for life - and gratitude for what it has been given to you. And, you know, it turned out: there are moments when only this can calm and save.

- IN Lately Only close people help me. Even those whom I, in fact, did not consider close. They just - even knowing how busy I was and the fact that in some things I was always a black sheep and remained alone - surrounded me unconditional love and warmth.

At a particularly difficult moment, when, on top of everything else, I had health problems, I had terrible thoughts: “Actually, I have seen everything that a person can survive in a hundred years.” I experienced everything I wanted to experience, I made the main choice - both external and internal. Do you know what saved? Awareness: all this must not only be experienced, but held in your hands.

— Your autobiographical book ends with a story about parents who separated “forever” 4 times, but then returned to each other again. Are you ready to step into the same river twice?

— It came as a surprise to me recently: it turns out I can! And how - with triple zeal! (Laughs.)

I think that the book about my life can be safely renamed. Do you know what we'll call it? "Rake Runner"!