When Stas Piekha came to the casting of “Star Factory-4”, which made him famous, of all the producers present at the selection, only Viktor Drobysh . He helped the young man become a real star and continues to work with the singer to this day. Although he admits that his ward’s character is not a gift. Edita Stanislavovna Piekha does not live on the stage alone . What else does the artist do and what is happening on the performer’s personal front, AiF.ru tells.
Sober life
Stas is one of the few representatives of show business who openly spoke about the fact that he had serious problems not only with alcohol, but also with hard drugs. The artist became addicted to such “doping” when he was only 12 years old! Only at the age of 34, having suffered a heart attack, Piekha was able to say goodbye to his addictions: “For me, the starting point was the heart. I still remember that terrible day when I thought I was going to die. I was on tour, doctors diagnosed a heart attack and incredibly high blood pressure. They were constantly giving me something, fussing, calling other doctors. There was a feeling that you were hanging by a thread... From that moment on, I realized that there was probably no chance of playing these games anymore - because if I had already had a heart attack, then the second time everything could end sadly. I called my friend and asked her to come to my apartment and throw out everything I had left, pour out all the alcohol and take me somewhere away from home. From that moment my total sobriety began,” the singer said in an interview with Amurskaya Pravda.
Article on the topic Stas Piekha: “The whole family needs to help addicts” Despite the sober life that Stas has been leading for several years, he is in no hurry to call himself a former drug addict: “I am a drug addict, let’s call a spade a spade. There are no former drug addicts, there are people who recover and are in remission for 30...50 years. But I still have a certain mindset,” the artist confessed in the “Secret to a Million” program.
For five years, Piekha not only leads a sober lifestyle in all respects, but also helps others free themselves from addictions. Together with his sister Erica, the singer opened a drug treatment clinic, where he communicates with patients and talks about his many years of struggle with alcoholism and drug addiction.
Stas Piekha: “They hated me most about my last name”
— What principles and principles of life did you approach the age of 40 with?
- Yes, I’ve always been principled. And now I try not to betray myself in any direction: neither for the sake of money, nor for the sake of some kind of emotions. I have certain internal needs, desires, and if I want to say “no,” then I say it.
If I want to say yes, then even if someone doesn't like it, I say yes. Because as soon as I betray myself, it’s as if I’m taking something away from myself, some kind of inner freedom, faith in myself. At such moments, in my eyes, I become a worthless person who is forced to please, to be not myself in order to please everyone.
And when I listen to myself and my desires, only then do I begin to truly love myself - the way I want and the way I need. And in this devotion to oneself there is a huge resource. This can be called my main principle - loyalty and devotion to yourself, your word, desires, needs. This mirrors people too, when you are honest with yourself, you begin to be honest with people. When you love yourself, you begin to love people. When you move towards yourself, you begin to open up to yourself more. This is the algorithm of my life for today.
— What didn’t come true that you wanted? And what, on the contrary, came true?
— I don’t plan to achieve any goals towards certain milestones. But I probably thought that by the age of 40 I would be incredibly popular, I would be in the first echelon of artists, but this did not come true. I am not the most popular artist in Russia, although, in fact, my ambitions in this regard have subsided. It’s enough for me that I have a job and that my songs are played on the radio.
If five years ago I said that I would be the first artist in Russia, now I can say this: I don’t mind being the first artist in Russia, but this is absolutely not my goal. Now I understand that I have no such real desire. I know my worth. I have found my niche and feel like I am in the right place. It’s enough for me that I know about myself - I’m a good artist. There are other musicians who are better than me in some ways and worse in others. Someone dresses better, someone hits a higher note, and so on. But in some ways I will always be the first.
— How do you plan to celebrate the anniversary?
— On the shore of the Istra Reservoir, where I lived throughout the entire period of self-isolation. It’s nice and beautiful there, and I decided to organize my birthday there with my closest people.
-What do you regret?
— Probably about some kind of unconscious existence of mine, when I didn’t know how to take into account the needs of my body: that I needed to sleep, eat, rest... I seemed to ignore all the signals and often drove myself into nervous breakdowns and problems with the immune system. Today I try to listen to my body. I exploited it simply to achieve my goals.
Now I understand that both the goal and my body are one single whole, this is me. And that this snail cannot be exploited all the time so that it drags its shell. Because if there is no snail, there will be no shell. I regret that I couldn’t or didn’t want to recognize the true needs of my body, my soul, my body, my psyche - now I’m trying to do this and I’m succeeding.
— What new work and projects?
— We are currently writing several different songs. At the same time, we are not in a hurry, we try to do it efficiently. And when we have enough material for a new album, we will release it immediately. Perhaps there will even be enough material for two albums in different genres.
There is also a book of poetry in the project, but due to this whole pandemic, due to the fact that my sister Erica, with whom we are working together on the release of the book, are now in different cities, all this has been postponed, but everything will certainly happen. I also want to make an album of indie music of English origin, but in Russian - this is the music that I like and is very close in genre. Among other things, I plan to study child psychiatry and neuropsychology - this is a very important project that we are currently working on. I have already practically made a presentation, I will soon be ready to present this project, but I will tell you more about this later.
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- What are you dreaming about? Do you realize your age or can’t believe you’re already 40?
“I don’t see anything like that at this age... Many of my friends are forty-five, but they don’t feel their age.” Yes, and I don’t feel age. Numbers don't matter to me. But when I turned 30, I experienced a powerful crisis! I then had the feeling that I had no one else and nothing to rely on. Now I have to be the one the family leans on. What if it doesn't work out? I struggled with this emotional-somatic crisis for a long time. But now, on the contrary, age is not felt at all.
—Are you going to get married again?
- I don’t plan yet... And in general, I think that now everything in the world is changing, and personally, I have not yet found logical arguments for myself in favor of marriage. But maybe someday this will change.
- Is your heart free?
— I carefully hide my personal life, because I think it is very intimate and absolutely non-public.
— During what period of your life and work did you have the most haters?
— Maybe during the “Star Factory” I had haters who said: “Why did he come with that last name?”
- When no one sees, I...?
- More calm. (laughs)
— What is your biggest fear today?
“I guess I’m afraid of being afraid of something.” I am a person who is always worried about some processes, and it has gotten to the point where I am constantly worried about something: something is wrong with my health, something won’t work out at work, something won’t work out in relationships will come out. In general, somewhere something will not work out. But somehow it always worked out! Regardless of whether I'm afraid or not.
This is probably the main fear - the fear of living in some kind of anxiety, which only complicates my life. I just want to live as it is lived, not to be afraid of anything! And if something goes wrong, then it’s normal to face this feeling as if it were something so natural. And it’s easy to accept, and live calmly - and not stew in these anxious feelings.
- What are you dreaming about?
— Relax, do what I can and truly love, enjoy every day.
- What is your greatest joy?
— People who strive to become better, to change themselves and the world around them, who do something for this. Communication with these people energizes me, motivates me, gives me great pleasure and, probably, makes me happy. Because I don’t always have the strength to move through change, but such people energize me a lot.
Classified as "secret"
The artist’s personal life has always been a taboo topic for journalists. When Piekha got married, even his relatives were not aware of the events that had taken place, let alone the press. And yet, being a public person, the singer did not manage to hide his wife and especially the appearance of his son for long.
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model Natalya Gorchakova in one of the clinics where he underwent acupuncture procedures: “We walked around with needles on our fingers and waited for the therapeutic effect. It was there that I noticed Natasha. She was so beautiful, mysterious, self-absorbed... with white, wavy hair,” the artist recalled in a conversation with Lera Kudryavtseva . After a year and a half of relationship, Piekha proposed to the girl. They arrived at the registry office in casual clothes; the bride had neither a veil nor a white dress. Instead of Mendelssohn's march, at the artist's request, Tchaikovsky played. After the wedding ceremony, the singer did everything to prevent the press from finding out about what happened: “I turned on the 90s and then said: “Believe me, if anyone finds out about this, you will have serious problems,” Stas said in the program “ A million-dollar secret." In 2014, the couple had a son, Peter. Of course, the boy’s parents also hid this event from the media. True, now that the child has grown up, Piekha sometimes even publishes photos with the heir on Instagram.
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At the moment, the singer is still officially married to Natalya, but the couple have not lived together for more than four years. According to the artist, they decided to separate from his wife because of his breakdown, after which another treatment followed: “I myself was not ready to immerse her in all this, and it was all difficult for her,” said Stas. For some time, the former lovers did not communicate, but in the end they reconciled and now characterize their relationship as “friendly,” but do not plan to file an official divorce: “We are against divorces. This has a bad effect on the child’s psyche,” Gorchakova said in a conversation with Lera Kudryavtseva. Piekha helps his son and his still official wife with money, and it seems that both are satisfied with this non-standard situation.
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09 October 2009
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(WHY SUDDENLY HVOROSTOVSKY SINGED HIS SONG) “He didn’t just sing. The other day we already released a double joint album “Deja Vu”. And from November we will go on a world concert tour. The show uses a lot of special effects. Dima also decided on an experiment that was extremely unusual for himself - he starred half naked in a video clip for one of the compositions. Everyone has the same question - is this the body of a stunt double? So, Dmitry is a sports person, and his body is his own.”
(WHO IS PAYING FOR THIS PROJECT) “Nobody. This is a joint project from which we both expect a new positioning. As for earnings, it will depend only on concerts and CD sales.”
(ABOUT WORKING WITH LARA FABIAN) “Lara has already recorded ten of my compositions. In November she will go to Ukraine to visit director Alan Badoev. We plan that she will film eleven video clips there, which will be shown all over the world as a music video. Our joint world concert tour is planned for next fall.”
(WHY NOT PRODUCING BEGINNING ARTISTS) “I’m not interested in this. I have some moral debts to the guys from the fourth “Factory”, so I help them. But this is not a business."
(WHY CAN’T OUR ARTISTS BE BROUGHT TO THE WORLD STAGE) “We don’t have such bright performers. This again comes down to the internal Russian level - is this a “Russian Radio” format or not? Today only a few are interested in the appearance and promotion of new songs and performers. I consider myself one of them, but one in the field is not a warrior.”
(IS IT TRUE THAT STAS PYEKHA IS RETURNING TO HIM) “No. I dislike traitors most of all. And he is a pure traitor, who thought that Channel One would destroy me. That's why he betrayed me at the very beginning of the conflict with the First. So where should he go back?
(WHO STOPED THEIR CONFLICT WITH CHANNEL ONE) “They. And I am grateful to them for this. With the persecution that was organized against me, I lost a lot of creative strength. Apathy set in, no movement in the soul to create. For a long time I didn’t go near the piano at all. When sitting down at the instrument, you need to feel something, you need to pass everything through emotions. But I had no time for music. In general, creative crisis is a very scary thing for people like me. But today I am completely immersed in creativity. I’m constantly flying somewhere, doing some crazy things... At this moment, the last thing I want to think about is the promotion of some artist of “Lilliputian” size, the advertising or program strategy of “Love Radio” or “Muz-TV”. It has its own management. Of course, as the owner, I can influence the decision they make, but professionals work there. Therefore, I see no point in interfering.”
(IS IT TRUE THAT HE LIVES IN AMERICA) “No, I live in Moscow. I have Russian citizenship, and I don’t want to leave here. I am in demand in my country and I want to create here. But two daughters and a wife live in America.”
(ABOUT FAMILY CRISES) “I have been married for fifteen years. Therefore, I can testify that crises happen in any family. In our country, every crisis is a reason for divorce. Then you start to unscrew it back and realize that the reason is some kind of trifle. But no one turns on the reverse gear, and everything turns into a snowball.”
(DOES YOU CHOOSE SPOUSES FOR YOUR CHILDREN) “I don’t choose. And he influenced relationships with young people. Fortunately, they listen to my recommendations. Of course, I would like a union with a normal family, so that there would be similar values and topics for conversation. But if this does not happen, there will be no tragedy. Other religions don't scare me either. I am Orthodox. But with incest, children are born talented. So I’m for gifted grandchildren.”
(ABOUT REWRITING HISTORY BY UKRAINE) “Everyone has their own truth, but the truth is one. Rewriting history is blasphemous. I am familiar with Viktor Andreevich Yushchenko. In communication he is a pleasant and wise person. But the question of how his presidency will be perceived after some time is a very painful one. Although I still believe that he is a liberal and a democrat. But the question is: did he bring more benefit or harm to Ukraine? Based on his sharp attacks towards Russia, people suffered. And this despite the fact that from time immemorial the Ukrainian people have been dear to us.”
(ABOUT ORBAKAYT’S CONFLICT WITH BAISAROV) “I was with Christina in Italy and saw what was happening to her when they began to tell her this information over the phone. A few days ago I met with Alla Borisovna. She also didn't look like the kind of person who would plan such a PR stunt. The situation is real and complex. And I would like to ask the audience watching what is happening to be tactful!”
(“Arguments of the week”, 08.10.09)
Still with Drobysh
In Stas’s creative life, everything is much more stable than in his personal life. Since the beginning artist Piekha got to Star Factory-4, he has been collaborating with the same producer for more than 15 years - Viktor Drobysh. Piekha calls Viktor Yakovlevich a “creative brother” and assures that over the years of cooperation they have developed a very trusting relationship. Recently, he touchingly congratulated the producer on his birthday: “My dear friend, we have gone through a lot together: doubts, joy, trials, ups and downs, growing up and a new level of acceptance. I hope that you have a life ahead, devoid of worries and doubts, which so maliciously take away the childish part that is capable of creating, delighting, creating and observing life with genuine interest and enthusiasm! — Piekha wrote. Viktor Yakovlevich values his friendship with the singer no less than himself, although the latter’s character is not sugar: “He is vulnerable, a delicate nature. Stas is not late, no, he just sometimes doesn’t come to meetings. It doesn’t make the job easier, but overall it’s normal for me because he’s a subtle person.” It was Drobysh who wrote many hits for his ward and continues to do so today.
