Singer Basta (real name - Vakulenko Vasily Mikhailovich) was born into the family of a military man on April 20, 1980 in Rostov-on-Don. According to the sign of the zodiac - Monkey. Vasily Basta studied at a comprehensive school and, at the same time, on the advice of his grandmother, attended a music school.
From the age of 15, impressed by the work of the Wu-Tang Clan and Ol' Dirty Bastards, he began to learn to rap. After graduating from school, Vasily Vakulenko enters the music school as a conductor. But after the first year of study, he leaves the school, realizing that musically he chose the wrong path.
In 1997, Vasily takes the stage name Basta Khryu instead of his real name and joins a rap group called Psycholyric. Soon the group became known as "Casta". In the same year, the group recorded their first album, "First Impact". But already in 1998, the singer left this group and recorded his first song called "My Game", which immediately became a hit for decades. With this song, real popularity came to Basta. From the end of 1998 to 2002, Basta practically did not engage in musical activities.
The reason for Basta's return to the stage was a proposal from a close friend to create a home recording studio. In his native Rostov, this idea did not materialize, so there was a decision to move to Moscow. In Moscow, the rapper's songs fell into the hands of Bogdan Titomir, who liked them. Titomir agreed to become Basta's producer. With its help, it was possible to record 19 tracks of the rapper. A few months later, the first video called "Autumn" was released. This work of Vasily Basta was so successful that it inspired the rapper to shoot another video "Once and For All".
2007 was a significant year for the artist. After all, it is in this year that the album “Basta 2” and several video clips (“So Spring Cries”, “Our Summer”, “Inner Fighter”) are released. In three months, 50 thousand records were sold with the recording of the album. In the same year, the developers of the Rockstar computer games offered Basta cooperation in voicing various game quests. Basta becomes a co-owner of the famous label "Gazgolder". At the end of 2007, the rapper comes up with a new pseudonym for himself - Noggano. With the change of the pseudonym, the style of performing songs also changes. The lyrical songs are being replaced by tougher and more daring hip-hop compositions. Using a new pseudonym, Vasily Vakulenko releases three albums: "First" (2008), "Warm" (2009) and Unreleased (2010).
In 2008, the clip "City of Roads" was awarded the MTV award. In the same year, the rapper tries himself in new genres: actor, producer, director and screenwriter. Based on his own script, Vasily shoots the film "Tea Drunkard".
In 2011, changing the pseudonym again to "Nintendo", the singer releases a new album with the name identical to the new pseudonym. This album consisted of songs performed in the Cyber Geng style.
In the early autumn of 2015, Vasily Basta became a mentor and at the same time a judge of the famous Voice project. Basta's biography and personal life are well known to his fans, so he does not make any secret of this. In 2018, it is planned to launch Basta's new musical project on the air.
Basta - personal life
Vasya Basta boasts a measured and smoothly flowing personal life. The singer met his wife Elena by chance. In early 2009, Vasily and Elena registered their marriage. The wife of rapper Basta is the daughter of a well-known journalist Tatyana Pinskaya.
Later, the son-in-law recorded soundtracks for many of Tatiana's documentaries. In December 2009, the first daughter, Maria, was born in the family. After 4 years, in January 2013, Basta's second daughter was born under the beautiful and romantic name Vasilisa.
Basta's wife
Basta's wife Elena Pinskaya - Vakulenko is a real girl of high society. This girl combines refined French manners and the businesslike character that she inherited from her own father.
Elena was born in 1980 in a fairly wealthy family. Elena's father, Dmitry Pinsky, was a co-founder of a popular wine brand. Her mother worked as a journalist covering all the news in the fashion world. In the turbulent nineties, the situation around the family was quite tense. Rampant crime in the country forced to apply increased precautions to all family members. So Elena attended classes at school, accompanied by two guards. Elena's parents, for her safety and their peace of mind, decided to send their daughter to France, where she was to study at a private boarding school. For a comfortable stay in this country, the girl had to urgently learn French.
In early 1997, Elena returned to Russia, believing that European life was too boring for her. In the same year, the girl decides to enter the university. As a result, after five years, Elena graduated from the Moscow School of Business and the State Institute of Management. After graduating from high school, she goes to work in her father's company, where she begins her career from a seller of a wine boutique and rises to a specialist in wine cellar equipment. At the peak of her career, the girl was in charge of four wine cellars with elite drinks. In the future, Elena planned to replace her father, but the meeting with Basta radically changed her life.
Basta met his wife at the Simanev elite entertainment club. Vasya Basta often performed in this club and Elena liked his work very much. After they met, the lovers began to appear together in public. Elena's friends were shocked by her choice, because her chosen one seemed to them an inappropriate party.
Vasily Vakulenko offered Elena to become his wife and the girl, after some thought, agreed. The Basta family became a real sensation among the artistic beau monde. But after a while, all acquaintances and friends of Elena Pinskaya began to recognize the fact that the resulting family is an example for many married couples. Basta's wife and children create all the conditions for the successful work of the artist, and he answers them with love and care.
Vasily Vakulenko, aka Basta, Noggano and Nintendo, is a Russian media phenomenon: rap artist, musician, TV and radio host, actor, screenwriter, director and producer. And this is only the main list of areas of activity of a simple guy from Rostov, who managed to get over the psychological barrier, behind which is work for a wide audience.
Vasily was born in the Olympic year 1980 into a military family, in Rostov-on-Don, a city that half of the country's population is known as Rostov-Papa.
In addition to the general education school, he studied at the music school (which was initiated by his grandmother, saying: “You are now suffering, granddaughters, you play, and then you grow up and it will come in handy for you”).
At the age of 15, he first tried to record rap, gathered his own group, which was called Street Sounds - Street sound.
He studied at the conducting department at the school, where, however, he did not stay longer than the first year, realizing that his circle of interests lay far from the school program. Hip-hop became the most vital and attractive for Vasily.
Almost nothing is known about his exact place of residence during this period: it is only known that throughout his childhood and adolescence, until moving to Moscow, Basta lives with his family in Rostov-on-Don, in the Oktyabrsky district of the city.
Vasily lived leading a peculiar way of life, typical for teenagers of that time - running away from home, walking and wandering.
In 2002, Basta and like-minded people in Rostov create their own studio, where they restore old tracks, write new ones, and formulate a personal compilation of what is happening.
Moscow and adulthood
At the invitation of Bogdan Titomir, producer and founder of the Gazgolder club, Basta leaves for Moscow. The year 2005 begins to unwind a new spiral in Vasya's creative life. The move to the capital gives great new hopes and at the same time challenges and shatters the illusions of the young ambitious artist.
Basta appears on the air of the popular NEXT radio station, both as part of the hip-hop headings and with new tracks. Basta becomes a frequent and welcome guest at local parties. Collaborates with the club "Gazgolder", with which the Moscow stage of the artist's life trajectory is inextricably linked, and from where he begins to lay a new route for attacking hip-hop and show business.
In 2009, one of the most important moments comes in Vasily's life - the formation of his own family: a wedding with his beloved Elena Pinskaya and the birth of his first daughter, Maria.
By this time, Basta is a well-known, independent and wealthy artist in the rap industry and not only. He lives in the capital and has released several albums, many music videos, production and director's material. Among the broad masses, Basta is called the main workaholic of Russian hip-hop. He collaborates with many performers, for example with Guf, about whom.
In 2013, replenishment in the artist's family - the birth of the second daughter Vasilisa.
Basta lives with his family in an apartment in the central administrative district of Moscow, in its historical part. The eight-story building where the apartment is located is located on Aptekarsky Lane 3/22, not far from the Baumanskaya metro station, in the Basmanny district of the city. The non-serial brick house was built according to an individual project in 1928.
In 1981, the house was reconstructed and overhauled with the eviction of residents. As in all old-style apartment buildings, the ceilings of the apartment have a height of 3 meters or more. The decoration of the rapper's apartment is done in a light tone.
Basta also has a country house. A picturesque place where you can relax and hide from the bustle of the capital is located in the Lyubertsy municipal district of the Moscow region in the urban-type settlement Malakhovka.
With the house number (No. 161), which is located on Shchepkina Street, and Vasya's hometown, a parallel can be drawn - it is the numbers 61 and 161 that are the car code for the region of the Rostov region and Rostov, to which the rapper dedicated many tracks in his work.
On the territory of the district where the show-man site is located, there are practically no large industrial enterprises that can significantly pollute the environment, and forests, including those protected by the state, occupy about a third of its area, so this corner of the Moscow region is one of the few areas that where you can breathe easily and freely.
Life today
Today, Basta is one of the most successful and influential media people in the domestic show business. Vasily continues to engage in solo work on all his alter ego projects, successfully manages and develops the Gazgolder creative association, directs and produces films of his own production and not only. Raises two wonderful daughters.
Not so long ago, Basta became one of the mentors of the fourth season of the Voice project on Channel One.
“I have long understood the images, and I use them for my own purposes. With my mother, wife, children - I am a loving and caring Basta, with friends, when you can not be ashamed of anything, I become Noggano. This is how I live.”
Real name:Vasily Vakulenko
Alias:Basta x Basta Khryu x Basta Bastilio x Noggano x N1NTENDO
Date of Birth: 20.04.1980
Zodiac sign: Aries/Taurus
City: Rostov-on-Don
Nationality: Russian
Growth: 181 cm
The weight: 95 kg
Basta (Vasily Vakulenko) is a brand name that is familiar to every student,a simple hard worker, a big businessman and even a president. After all, all these people find their reflection in the multifaceted work of Basta.
Basta is a real musician, creative figure and caring mentor for all Russian hip-hop (Voice, Voice of the Streets, Gasgolder and so on).
For the reader who is still not familiar with creativityBasty , one has only to look at these two videos with honors of more than 20 years, and everything will immediately fall into place.Basta is a person who made perhaps the most significant contribution to the development of the genrewithout stopping for a second in front of difficulties.
In the first part of Basta's biography, the site will tell in detail about the busy period of lifeVasily Vakulenko before he met Evgeny Antimony (business partner) and became part of Gazgolder
Basta - Childhood / Basta's parents
On a warm April day, in a family of hereditary military men, a smallVasya Vakulenko (Basta) . Mom was 19 years old. At that time, Basta already had an older brother who overtook him by 11 months.
Interesting fact about Bast:
Admire his brother. A specialist with two red diplomas, an engineer on the railway.
Childhood Vasily Vakulenko could hardly be called good, he himself does not like that period very much, and has repeatedly stated thatreturn never go there would not want to.
Since the parents were divorced,Basta almost all the time lived with his grandparents,native Ukrainians from Kyiv and Krivoy Rog. And my mother, with two higher educations from Moscow State University with honors, was forced to work tirelessly, selling yogurts.
“I believe in people endlessly. As my mother used to say, “A thousand will deceive, the first thousand will become a friend!””
From an early age, Vasya was a great lover of the street,because there were no rules. The excellent, but conservative upbringing of grandparents infringed upon the freedom-loving nature of the rapper.Basta was not a big hooligan or scoundrel,but still he liked to play pranks. By virtue of practical freedom from parents,Basta nevertheless, he reports that he has never been a “bastard”, but from early childhood he understood what strings to pull in order to get his benefit.
For unknown reasons,Basta met his fatheronly at the age of 7. Later, with Mikhail Vakulenko (Father of Basta), there was an accident in which he fell under the wheels of a car and becamedisabled person of the first group.At that time, he almost died, but still got out of the other world.
Interesting fact about Bast:
I wanted to be loved more in childhood. Lacked attention.
Dad was a big rock lover, and listened to different music, which is considered a classic to this day.In the house atBasty Deep Purple, Queen, Beatles and other stars played constantly.Basta himself was never a fan of them, but he treated them with great respect.
To this day, when creating music, he often recalls elements of those songs, using themas a subject of inspiration or sampling.
In addition, the rapper, by virtue of a military family, had to travel to different military camps, the name of which, for natural reasons, he does not mention.
“For me, a street is not just a street in the literal sense. For me, the street is the preservation of some rules, moral values, some code within myself, that's what I call the street.”
Basta School and Music College
At the age of 6, Vasya goes to secondary school No. 32 in Rostov, and a little later, his grandmother helps him enter a music school, where in the futureBasta mastered piano and accordion. young Noggano had to devote to playing instrumentsabout 4 hours a day
He is grateful to his grandmother for her perseverance, but he himself admitted that bothschools were a real test for the young rebel.
Interesting fact about Bast:
In addition, it has recently become known that Basta sang in the children's church choir, and even more than that, he was a sexton in charge of the bell and he has a spiritual dignity that allows him to wear a cassock and sing liturgies.
After 9th grade Vasily Vakulenko enters the music school as a conductorHowever, he left him due to poor academic performance and failed exams. Then rap gradually began to penetrate his life, which eventually turned it upside down.
Basta - First steps in rap / Basta's First Track
At the age of 15 Basta, together with their street friends, they passed the line of the “Gaza Strip” and began to listen to the stars of American rap. At the same age, grandmother givesBaste electronic synthesizer Yamaha 51.
The rapper confesses that he neverhad no talentand in his first texts, he made every effort to plot at least 4 lines. Exactlyaspiration and constant workover himself helped him excel in hip-hop.
Interesting fact:
I was afraid to disappoint my parents. He wants his children not to be afraid and to find their own way.
The first and indelible impression on Vasily, who previously preferred hardcore, was made by the groupOnyx . Then he began to play in tape recordersWu-Tang and Busta Rhimes (by the way, there is a theory thatBasta borrowed his pseudonym from him).
The boys started a bandBlack Tob and at the request of senior comrades, recorded their first song,talking about the local gym.
“Rap is a very convenient way of expressing thoughts. You can invest volume in a short period of time”
Due to the small, but, at that time, already powerful hip-hop party in Rostov,Basta is noticed by familiar guys from the group “Psycholyric”(first namecastes) and invite them over. He agrees.
Interesting fact:
Vladi recalls that Basta has always been the soul of the company.
1997 - Vasily Vakulenko (Basta)writes the trackCity”, which becomes a local hit. Listening to this song today is hardrecognize in him the current Bastubut that's when it all started.
“It's budget music, you don't need much talent to get started. Lighthouse tape recorder, Yamaha synthesizer, dad accumulated the whole thing and we started writing”
Basta - First Girl
It is interesting that the first love of such a charismatic guy today appearedonly at the age of 16. He does not give her name, but shares that he was a very shy teenager, showing signs of attention to her, he did not dare to take the first step.
The situation was saved by friends who were tired of hearing Vasya's daily “nagging”. They themselves talked to her, after which the girl herself invited Vasya to go for a walk.
Basta Khryu as part of "Psycholyric"
In the same year, the Psycholyric group released the album “First Impact”, which excited the whole of Rostov-on-Don. It included a solo track “City” and verses on other compositions. Rappers shared that this record was inspired by the soundwu tang clan. At that time, Basta wore a rather eccentric pseudonym Basta Khryu.
The first glory of Basta / Basta - My Game / “United Caste”
After some timeBasta offers the founder "Psycholyric ” Vladi change title to “Castu ', with which the former agrees.It's hard to believe, but in the future both of these performers will change the entire domestic hip-hop.
In 1998 Basta Oink writes his first hit "My game", which conquers the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people. Speaking with him at the Rostov Palace of Sports, the next dayBasta wakes up already local star.
“As a friend told me: “You chose a name with which no one would ever achieve anything in life.”
On the wave of success, he draws large crowds at his performances,conquering Rostov, Crimea and even regions of the Caucasuswith their tours. Such a wave of success turned the head of young Basta,and all the accompanying attributes appeared - alcohol and drugs.
Basta - Problems with Drugs
Vasily begins to have serious problems with heroin,which ruin all his work for several years.
Due to addiction, many comrades break ties with him, and he secretly leaves the team."Caste", remaining left only to the family.
And to this day Basta calls himself a very weak personwho learned to ask for help only recently.
But here, too, problems arise.The complex character makes Bastudo everything exactly the opposite of what he is advised. This feature, according to the artist, is inherent in him today.
Interesting fact:
In my youth, I often thought about suicide
Apart from intravenous heroin use, Basta tried all forbidden fruits.He got injured, lost consciousness and caught overdoses that completely deprive his memory.The rapper calls this time years of total hopelessness.
On this narcotic basis, Basta ends up in the 6th department of the psychiatric dispensary "Kovolevka", in Rostov.
“I have always been a fan of bright, new, adventurous sensations. And drugs are an adventure. A deadly sport.”
Basta - Creative crisis 4 years long
From 1998 to 2002 Basta was in drug-creative crisiswithout recording a single track.
“Somehow it was as if Balabanov (approx. - Russian director) wrote the fate of those years. I didn’t like to feel myself in this world, that’s why I found salvation there”
In the same year, an old friendVasily Yuri Volos (Zhora)practically savesBastu from the heroin trip, offering him his home studio so that Vasya could resume creativity.
“If then the death woman let me through, then now, probably, you shouldn’t be afraid anymore”
April 22, 2003 Bastacompletely abstinent from drugsafter which his affairs sharply rush uphill.He writes down old texts, creates new ones and resumes concerts.
The guys fail to attract the attention of Rostov producers, and they take a risky step -trip to Moscow. Hanging around looking for a contract and a releasing studioBastu is found by the famous author of the hit “MMM” Bogdan Titomir. He offers to buy some songs from Vasya, which he receives a sharp refusal.
“I just gave them to him. We must pay tribute to him, he has a flair for good songs - p ... c.
But after a short time, in 2005,Titomir comes to Basta againto introduce him to the producerEugene Antimony.He was just opening his club "gas holder”
Basta and Eugene Antimony
It is worth noting thatEugene Antimony was considered a former criminal elementand a raider involved in illegal fraud with gasoline and other people's property. Even then he was the owner of the club (not the studio yet)gas holder, which was built on the site of a former gas storage facility.
He liked the musicBasty and he helped him with money and connections, as it was with Titomir. It can be boldly stated thatno matter what moral qualities Evgeny possessed, without him there would be neither Basta nor Noggano.
In the premises of the former Moscow factory "arma"was open club"gas holder”, in which closed parties were held with the entire Russian underground beau monde.
A recording studio was also set up there.Basta disappeared for days and nights, preparing for the release of his debut album“Basta 1” , which revealed the legendary artist for the entire CIS.
“I do not divide people into criminal and non-criminal. There are only those who are worthy or not.”
Basta (real name and surname - Vasily Mikhailovich Vakulenko) is a prominent representative of rap in Russia. Vasily Vakulenko - singer, actor, TV presenter, radio host, producer, director. In addition to the pseudonym Basta, the singer is known under the creative names of Noggano and Nintendo. Rapper Basta is also the owner of the Gazgolder label.
Childhood and education of Vasily Vakulenko
The biography on the Know Everything website reports that Basta's father was a military man.
Vasily's musical abilities were noticed by his parents in early childhood. At the initiative of his grandmother, the boy was sent to a music school. There, unlike an ordinary school, Vasily studied well and made obvious progress.
Basta's biography says that almost everyone in his family was a military man. Both grandfathers served in the armed forces - one in the artillery, the other in the civil defense forces. Vasily's father served in the missile forces, his uncle was a helicopter pilot and fought in Afghanistan. Another uncle served at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Even Vasily's mother worked as an economist in a military unit. But Vasily did not gravitate towards military service, the future rap star was drawn to creativity.
Having matured a little, the future rapper began to get involved in the Wu-Tang Clan, Ol "Dirty Bastards and Busta Rhymes. At the age of fifteen, the guy first tried to rap. He succeeded, and Basta began to improve in this direction, deciding to make a career as a rapper.
At the same time, Basta did not work out with a musical education. After school, Vasily Vakulenko entered the music school at the conductor's department. However, after the first course, he realized that this was not for him.
School No. 32, where Vasily Vakulenko studied, is located in a difficult area, between the Rabochy Gorodok and Nakhalovka, two well-known settlements in Rostov. “Basta's texts are vital, because they are saturated with their own experience and feelings. And yet - they are very patriotic towards Rostov, ”about Bast in the media.
In his youth, Vasily Vakulenko was also a sacristan, served at divine services and rang bells. Basta also began to sing in the temple - in the church choir. It was then that he met Mikhail Osyak, who is now Bishop Mitrofan of Gatchina and Luga. In 2016, the clergyman invited the rapper to the service in honor of his birthday, Vasily took part in the Divine Liturgy at the Pavlovsk Cathedral in Gatchina, before his concert in St. Petersburg.
Basta's career in show business
In 1997, Vasily Vakulenko came up with the pseudonym Basta Khryu. At this time, he became a member of the Psycholyric rap group, later renamed Casta. With the participation of Basta, the group recorded the album "First Strike" (1997). But a year later, Basta left the group.
When Basta was 18 years old, he wrote the song "My Game", which he considers the best in his work. Basta felt popular, after that Vasily began to work actively as a musician, gave concerts in Rostov and along the entire Black Sea coast, in the Krasnodar Territory, in the cities of the North Caucasus.
In the photo: musician Vasily Vakulenko (Basta) during a performance at the international music festival KUBANA (Photo: Artem Geodakyan / TASS)
For some time Basta, he left the stage, but returned in 2002, when his friend Yuri Volos(aka Zhora) offered to create a home recording studio. But none of the producers dared to collaborate with little-known rappers. In search of a label that would take them under its wing, the young rappers moved to Moscow.
The singers are lucky. Demo CD of Basta (Vasily Vakulenko renamed himself Basta Bastilio) caught Bogdan Titomir.
The popular musician became the producer of Basta under the auspices of the Gas Holder. Under this label, Basta's first album, Basta 1, was released, which included 19 Vasily's solo tracks. The composition of the disc included "My Game", which Basta traditionally performs at every concert. Then Basta released the first clip "Autumn", then the video "Once and For All" appeared.
In subsequent years, Basta worked hard. In 2007, he released his second album "Basta 2", with which expressive video works appeared: "Our Summer", "So Spring Cries", "Inner Fighter". The LP sold out 50,000 copies in 90 days. In the same year, foreign computer game developers from Rockstar became interested in Basta, and Basta's song "Mama" sounded in Grand Theft Auto IV, released in April 2008.
Basta's biography on the Know Everything website says that Vakulenko became a co-owner of the Gazgolder label. Soon a new pseudonym appeared in his work - Noggano. Noggano's new tracks featured harder, bolder, and nihilistic hip hop. Noggano, according to Vasily Vakulenko himself, is “a hooligan project. This is a swindler, a womanizer and a bastard. Asocial and immoral type. Naturally, the audience of Basta and Noggano, although they are characters of the same person, is slightly different: Basta's is more decent, Noggano's is "tougher".
In 2008, Noggano shot a video for the song with the palindromic title "City of Roads" and received the MTV Russia Music Awards as "the best performer who came out of the Internet."
Under the new name, Vasily Vakulenko released three albums: "First" (2008), "Warm" (2009), "Unreleased" (2010).
In 2010, the joint work "Basta / Guf" appeared - a disc in a gray booklet and virtually without a name.
After some time, Vasily Vakulenko became interested in writing. He liked writing scripts. Basta actively took up a new business for him, and soon the audience saw his work called "Tales for Adults".
In 2010, Basta received the Muz-TV award for the song "Turn around", he was also awarded as "the best hip-hop project".
In the photo: musician Vasily Vakulenko (Basta), who won in the category "Best hip-hop project", at the annual national television award ceremony in the field of popular music "MUZ-TV" (Photo: Mikhail Dzhaparidze / TASS)
In 2011, Basta delighted his fans with the new Nintendo album, which struck with the unusual cyber-gang style.
In the same 2015, Vasily Vakulenko won the Best Hip-Hop Artist nomination at the First Russian National Music Award.
In the photo: musician Vasily Vakulenko (Basta) (right), who won the Best Hip-Hop Project nomination, at the First Russian National Music Award ceremony (Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS)
In 2016, it became known that Basta became one of the mentors of the fourth season of the Voice project, and he was accompanied by Polina Gagarina, Alexander Gradsky and Grigory Leps.
At the end of 2016, Basta became the main star of Rostov-on-Don, after the head of the administration of the Don capital Sergey Gorban solemnly he received two medals at once - "For services to the city of Rostov-on-Don" and "185 years of Baikov Andrey Matveyevich." These two new awards, initiated by Gorban, were established last year, exactly to the 266th anniversary of the city.
Vasily often performs with other representatives of Russian show business. Together with the group "Nerves" Basta released the video "With hope for wings." Basta's creative union with singer Polina Gagarina was also successful. The fans were impressed by the songs “The whole world is not enough for me without you” and “Voice”. In 2016, Basta and Polina Gagarina also created the composition "Angel of Faith".
In general, Basta never ceases to amaze his fans with the variety of themes of his concerts. Here he is with the singer Alena Omargalieva presented the listeners with the composition “I rise above the ground”, and suddenly surprised them with the performance of Soviet songs. Basta's original work was a cover version of the song "Dark Night", which at one time sounded in the film "Two Soldiers" performed by Mark Bernes.
The single "Master and Margarita" is one of Basta's last works, the song became the soundtrack to the feature film "Me and Uda. Redemption".
The album "Basta 5, Part 1", which, according to Vasily Vakulenko, included compositions composed by him over the past three years, appeared on the Apple Music service on April 19, 2016. As a media outlet, Basta took the top positions in both Russian iTunes ratings. The first place in the album chart was taken by his new album "Basta 5, Part 1". Among the compositions of the song chart, the first place was also taken by Basta's creation - the single "Voice", which Vasily Vakulenko recorded together with Polina Gagarina.
In April 2017, Basta presented a new video - "Samsara". The song itself was dedicated to family values, and rock musicians took part in its recording Diana Arbenina, Alexander Sklyar, Sergey Bobunets and Andrey Zaporozhets(Sunsay). The clip used real photos of little Basta and his friends.
Basta in the cinema
Basta often appears in films. Back in 2008, Basta tried himself as a screenwriter, director, producer and actor. This happened during the filming of his film "The Tea Drinker". Then there were cameos and small appearances in the films "Moats", "Pruha", dubbing. In 2013, Basta took part in the project “Vladimir Mayakovsky. Third wheel".
In 2014, the creative association "Gazgolder" released a full-length film of the same name, where Basta played the main role.
In 2015, Basta recorded the soundtrack for the film Petra Buslova"Motherland". This film tells about the fate of the Russians who ended up in the famous Indian resort of Goa. “The Russian share, we have every right to this share in the share. The motherland will not let go, it gave birth to itself, it will crush itself, ”this is how Basta feels about a person living in a foreign land, but still yearning for his native Russian expanses.
In 2015, film news reported on the filming of the new film "Gasholder" - "Klubar". Basta wrote the music for the film and took part in the filming.
Vasily Vakulenko is the owner of the clothing brand "Gazgolder".
At the end of 2014, Vasily Vakulenko purchased a black Cadillac Escalade. One of the most famous and expensive American jeeps fell in love with the Rostov rapper so much that Basta did not regret a very tidy sum. The photo of the "boar Kadi", as Basta dubbed his new acquisition, gained tens of thousands of likes on the musician's page on the social network.
Basta's personal life
From the biography of Basta it is known that he met his wife Elena by accident. The initiative was shown by the girl herself - a longtime admirer of the rapper's work.
In the photo: Basta with his wife Elena (Photo: Sergey Bobylev / TASS)
Elena is the daughter of a famous journalist Tatyana Pinskaya living in France. At first, the future mother-in-law, seeing the brutal rapper in tattoos, was horrified, but after reading his texts, she changed her anger to mercy. The woman agreed that the guy is very talented. Basta wrote soundtracks for Pinskaya's documentaries about artists Erica Bulatov and Oscar Rabin. Father-in-law Basta, Dmitry Pinsky, runs the company DP-trade, dealing with expensive wines.
In 2009 Vasily Vakulenko and Elena Pinskaya legalized their relationship. On December 4, 2009, Vasily and Elena had their first daughter, Maria. Three years later, another daughter, Vasilisa, was born.
In the photo: Basta with her daughters (Photo: instagram.com/bastaakanoggano)
Basta loves and sings puer tea in songs.
Vasily Vakulenko often shares photos on Instagram, where he has over 2 million followers.
Vakulenko Vasily Mikhailovich is a famous Russian singer who reads author's songs in the style of rap and beatbox. Vasily, or Noggano, or Basta, or Basta Khryu is not only a songwriter, but also a composer, actor and producer.
He never ceases to delight his fans with directorial work, as well as television shows. The young man not only adores his own daughters, but also all the kids who were part of his team in the television show “Voice. Children". Fans of the guy's talent claim that Vasily was distinguished not only by his professional attitude towards every talented child, but he always fulfilled what he promised even to the smallest man.
It is worth noting that all the fans of the handsome man are trying not only to find out the details of his personal life, but also his height, weight, age. How old is Bast (Vasily Vakulenko) is also easy to find out, simply by specifying the date of his birth.
Vasily was born into this world in 1980, that is, he was already thirty-eight years old, although Basta (Vasily Vakulenko): photos in his youth and now have not changed much, because the guy not only plays sports, but also carefully monitors his health .
Basta received from the zodiac circle the sign of an ambitious, talented, stable, successful, passionate Aries monogamous.
The eastern horoscope endowed Vasily with the character traits of the Monkey, that is, dexterity, artistry, charisma, sociability, cunning.
Vakulenko's height was one meter and eighty centimeters, and the guy weighs no more than ninety-five kilos, but he does not complex about this.
Biography and personal life of Basta (Vasily Vakulenko)
The biography and personal life of Basta (Vasily Vakulenko) also often attracted the attention of fans.
Father - Mikhail Vakulenko - a hereditary military man, since Vasily's grandfather was also an officer, therefore he successfully used military drill when raising his grandson.
Mother - a young man rarely shows his fans, although he respects her immensely, because a woman with several higher educations received at the prestigious Moscow State University washed floors and sold yogurts in the nineties to feed her family.
Vasya has an older brother, with whom they are the same age, since the age difference between them was eleven months. He resembles his youngest in size, went in for sports and loved to read. The guy was more diligent and accommodating than his brother, so she received two higher educations and works as an engineer on the railway.
Vasily was a freedom-loving and hyperactive boy, he constantly ran away to his yard friends. The boy was nicknamed Piggy because he littered and was sloppy, he was cheeky as an adult and fought.
By the way, until the ninth grade, he studied quite tolerably, wanted to become a clergyman and often talked about God, but then he became interested in music and was expelled from school in disgrace, so Vasya did not have a graduation. At the same time, the teachers kindly remember the guy, because he was a ringleader, mass worker and an avid KVN player. They recall that Vasily loved to be in the spotlight and grabbed all the knowledge right on the fly.
Then the guy entered the Rostov School of Music at the conducting department, but was expelled from it for absenteeism. He organized the youth group Black Tob, and he himself took a pseudonym from the singer Basta Rhimes.
From the age of seventeen, Basta has been writing compositions in the style of rap and touring with the Psycholyric (Casta) group. After that, there was a lull in his life associated with star fever, drugs and alcohol. But in 2002, his friend Yura Volos organized, in tandem with Vasya, a recording studio at home.
In addition, Bogdan Titomir came across his disc, who introduced Vasily to the Gazgolder association, sponsoring his hits and videos. At the same time, Basta completely refuses alcohol and drugs, and his work flies up. He constantly disappears into the recording studio, releasing albums one after another.
Basta collaborates with well-known performers Guf, Smokey Mo, Nerves, City 312, Godfamily, AK-47. He became the official voice of the Yandex. Navigator”, Ambassador from Rostov for the FIFA World Cup this year.
Vakulenko writes soundtracks, is on the jury of many show programs, acts in films, acts as their producer, director and screenwriter. Basta's filmography includes thirteen works, including the films "Klubare", "How the style was tempered", "Spring in Florence", "Ghetto", "Moats".
The personal life of Vasily Vakulenko is not too stormy, he first fell in love at sixteen, but does not name the girl. He was a shy boy, so he didn’t dare to confess his feelings, and then there was a “classic drama”, because she went to another.
After the guy turned twenty, another nameless girl entered his life. By the way, the guy decided to go to conquer the capital, and the beauty simply did not wait for Vasily and married his friend Maxim.
Basta's family and children (Vasily Vakulenko)
The family and children of Basta (Vasily Vakulenko) are very unusual, but they are his support and reliable rear. It is worth clarifying that Vasya met his dad when he was seven years old. And then I almost lost it, because Mikhail got into a terrible accident and almost died, but got out and received the first group of disability.
It was the father who influenced the further attitude of his son to music. Because he was an avid Beatle fan, he often played Deep Purple and Queen records. However, Vasya often said that in his family he often lacked the attention of his parents. He grew like grass on his own, and was naughty to be scolded.
Vasya was greatly influenced by his grandmother, who sent him to a music school to study accordion and piano. Forcing you to practice at least four hours a day. She brought the boy to the church, where he sang in the choir and was a sexton, Vasily sings the liturgy and has a church rank. By the way, the grandmother presented the first professional Japanese synthesizer for performances to a talented fifteen-year-old guy.
The boy's parents arranged their personal lives, so the boys were educated by their grandfather and grandmother, who came to school and raised the tomboys as best they could. Vasily says that because of his dull childhood, he tries to do everything so that his daughters feel his love.
Most of all, Basta was afraid that he would do something that would disappoint his parents, and he himself wants his daughters to never experience this feeling and grow up self-sufficient.
Vasily's children live in love, he constantly shoots clips about them, takes them with him to concerts and travels around the world. Basta never yells at children and does not require any super knowledge, believing that life will teach everything.
Both girls simply adore their daddy, and the rapper dedicates his songs to them, including the piercing hit "Samsara". The guy is convinced that parents and children are "just swapped", and his girls will certainly "be better than us."
By the way, only at a concert at Vasily's are all children who want to be invited to the stage and seated on chairs so that it is convenient for them to watch the performance. And his wards from the program “Voice. Children" tour with him and receive the full support of the coach.
Basta's daughter (Vasily Vakulenko) - Maria Vakulenko
Basta's daughter (Vasily Vakulenko) - Maria Vakulenko - was born in 2009, she inherited the genes of the famous daddy, since Mashenka plays the piano and sings great. And Basta often replaces the girl's mother, in infancy he fed and treated her, dressed and entertained, so dad is the most important person in the girl's life.
She performed with her father on the stage of the Olimpiysky, while Vasily repeats that it doesn’t matter to him how his daughter sings, he is always ready to support her in all endeavors.
The girl looks like her father in appearance and has a bad temper, but she is an excellent student at school. At the same time, Masha is very kind and understanding, she was happy to voice a cartoon about an autistic boy Dima, in which she asked many questions about the features of such children, which were answered by her on-screen “mother” Olga Shelest.
Basta's daughter (Vasily Vakulenko) - Vasilisa Vakulenko
Basta's daughter (Vasily Vakulenko) - Vasilisa Vakulenko - is the second child, she was born in 2013, which Basta instantly announced on his Instagram. The baby is more like dad and was named after him.
Vasilisa is very active and inquisitive, she sculpts from plasticine, draws and works in a developing studio. The baby is incredibly artistic, she is ready to sing anytime and anywhere, for example, recently a video appeared on the Internet where Vasilisa and Masha sing with dad in the car, and then perform a patriotic spy song at home.
Vasilisa is engaged in vocals, but not yet on a professional basis, she tries to play the piano and appears in children's fashion shows.
Basta's wife (Vasily Vakulenko) - Elena Pinskaya
Basta's wife (Vasily Vakulenko) - Elena Pinskaya - is the beloved and only one in the guy's life, because she never betrayed him and always understood. The guys met in the closed club "Simachev", where the girl was relaxing in the company of her friends, and Vasya performed.
Lena was a fan of Basta, so she went on stage to him to express her delight, she was not shy about another nameless passion of Vasily. It was this independence and perseverance that conquered the guy, he went to see the girl home, it turned out that they were practically neighbors. At the same time, few believed in the future of the bully and the daughter of a winemaker and a French journalist.
Basta was used to fighting, he conquered the girl's parents with excellent manners, gallantry and creativity, as well as the fact that in 2009 he not only got married, but also married Lena.
Instagram and Wikipedia Basta (Vasily Vakulenko)
Instagram and Wikipedia Basta (Vasily Vakulenko) have been around for many years, and the information posted there is relevant, it satisfies the needs of fans. On Wikipedia, you can find reliable facts about childhood, parents, children, spouse, education, personal life of Vakulenko. It will be realistic to find disco and filmography, videos and soundtracks of a young man, as well as about his awards and prizes.
At the same time, 2,300,000 people have already signed up on Basta's Instagram, who have access to photos and videos from the celebrity's personal and creative archive. All materials can be evaluated and commented on, and the benchmark is relevant to criticism addressed to him.
