Kings. Ruki Vverh.


I had first seen them in an open convertible, gliding at light May day through not so well trimed street of mid-nineties Moscow. Years had gone from 1993 october riot, and years remained to the 1998 Default. There was warm, still, and not happiness but the sense in the air that may be all bad bad is behind and something good is somewhere on the way.

So two guys come to the capital and started a group. What does the music group means? It must be cool and funny. Then why don`t begin to write cool and funny music, go to night clubs, get surrounded by splendid girls, buy convertible, paint it polka dot, and running around the town. They were simple guys and walked a straight path. Want to be the best band, be it. Also they might have been geniuses. But how many geniuses get to the top.

It must be remembered that in russian federation three kind of a pop-music exist. First official scene, they don`t need your pity money they got their huge allowance right from the government. It is scared how absolutely without any talents they might be. They sing old, boring, disgusting stuff nobody likes. Official concerts and television is staffed with them in order to prevent any rising of a level of a culture, because russian federation`s government hates and fears russians.

Second type of pop-music, let`s call it show business, does actually try to make money by singing songs. They produce groups and artists. If it happens that artist is actually fitted to the tastes of a public, they would go on very intense tours to all cranes and nooks of the country. If the product staled they sell it to the government to be the first kind of pop-music.

And the third type of russian pop-music, it is something that people really heavy listen. It`s on everybody`s playlists. Car`s mixtapes consist of it. Local night clubs play it all night and local small shops all day. People love it. We appreciate good music. Very often this kind of records are produced by genius himself. Russians are very good musicians. If good musician coincides with good businessman, he or she would make some money, but it is fifty-fifty.

Ruki Vverh was not the one of these types. They were from nowhere and enormously good in composing megahits. They were not opposite to the current pop-scene they were completely another scene. And that scene become the main one. So they build their own show business, with best clips and mad roaring concerts. They waive the official pop scene and regular show business. They are not only loved, they`re respected as well. They were not only their own man, they begets disciples, later we will talk about these groups too.

So they are kings. The duet dinamic was classic, Sergei Zhukov was leader and there was also Aleksei Potehin. Serezha Zhukov was super cute.

As Ivanushki`s wrong first song, their first clip would have nothing to do with them. Real first hit was Student. By the way in case of Ruki Vverh you should see clips, cause every second of them is great too, they got best girls in their video.

Indispensable hits are Student, Kroshka moya, Doma ne sidi, Nu gde zhe vy devchonki, Luchshii paren, Stoyat podruzhki, Vypusknoi, Tancuyut vse.