After completing the designer studies in the city of Riga, Latvia, he moved to Moscow to pursue music career under the pretence of being a foreign pop star. His personal life was wrapped in mystery despite his rapid shot to stardom and much talk caused by it nationwide. And the talk was not always a pleasant one. Giving him credit for his extraordinary gifts and merits in music people noted unanimously that he was very hard to deal with. The rumor has it that Shura enraged the whole crew at the shooting of his first video Cold Moon. He was angry with just about everything; the plot, the cast, the crew, the director, even the weather. And he was expressing his indignation very fervently, stomping, shouting. He found two cross-dressers at the site of the filming (actually, Candyman gay club in St. Petersburg), brought them to cast and demanded 200 dollars' fee for each of the two.
1997-1998 was the most fruitful period for him as he released his major hits Cold Moon \Holodnaya luna\, Summer Rains Ended \Otshumeli letnye dozhdy\ which were in heavy rotation and topped many charts and radio airplay counts. 2001 earned him another success with Do Good Things \Tvori dobro\ single. He was extensively touring Russia and it was the time when he started to develop his now trademark bizarre feminine outfits and iridescent stage persona. Another notable feature of the performer's image was his toothlessness of which he constantly boasted, singing with conspicuous lisp (at least on his first three albums as he had had his teeth fixed later on). Since 2001 his fame began to fade and for the past 6 years he has moved out of the limelight.
He continues to tour Russia and post-Soviet countries today, performing chiefly his old material and playing small venues like night-clubs or private parties for business tycoons. In 2010 he put out a new single Balloons (Vozdushnye shary\ to almost zero publicity.
Shura is reportedly gay though in May 2010 he revealed the prospect of marrying Liza, his long-time friend.
Вечность
Шура Lyrics
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Праздник мне устроить не спеши,
Молча ждёт меня голодный зверь
Ты не дай ему меня найти.
Я падал в небо сотни лет назад.
Я падал в свете призрачной звезды.
Всё то что никогда нам не понять,
На краю земном среди потерь
Праздник мне устроить не спеши,
Молча ждёт меня голодный зверь
Ты не дай ему меня найти.
Я падал в небо сотни лет назад.
Я падал в свете призрачной звезды.
Всё то что никогда нам не понять,
Я видел в зеркале большой воды.
The lyrics of Шура's song Вечность speak of being on the edge of the Earth, amidst losses and despair, where the singer is hesitant to celebrate and have joy. The lyrics paint a bleak picture of a hungry beast silently waiting for the singer, as if death is imminent. The singer has fallen previously, hundreds of years ago, in the light of a phantom star, and has seen everything that humans may never understand in the reflection of a vast body of water. These are eternal experiences that have a deep, profound impact on the singer.
The song is a reflection on human existence, mortality, and the human capacity for understanding the complexity of the universe. It suggests that humans can never understand everything, and that some things must be experienced to be understood truly. The primal, feral nature of the beast reminds us of the inevitability of death, and perhaps even the insignificance of human life in the grand scheme of things.
Line by Line Meaning
На краю земном среди потерь
Amidst losses at the earth's edge
Праздник мне устроить не спеши,
Do not hurry to arrange a celebration for me
Молча ждёт меня голодный зверь
A famished beast awaits me in silence
Ты не дай ему меня найти.
Do not let him find me
Я падал в небо сотни лет назад.
I fell into the sky hundreds of years ago.
Я падал в свете призрачной звезды.
I fell in the light of a phantom star.
Всё то что никогда нам не понять,
All that we will never understand,
Я видел в зеркале большой воды.
I saw it in the mirror of the great waters.
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