Rock star's 'Twists of Fate':
Dmitry Chetvergov
You are obviously a successful musician, it’s impressive what you’ve reached.
- But tell me, how did you come to this? At what age have you felt your gift for music? And why the guitar?
- My journey into music started in my childhood, since the age of 5. First i learned to play the piano. I started with the guitar at the age of 12-13, when i heard songs in the yard played by the fire. Probably it happens to all the guitarists more or less the same, the guitar is a mobile instrument and an easy way to win a woman's heart.
- Are your parents musicians? Is it them who gave you love to music?
- My parents are not musicians, but music lovers. Music always played in our house.
- Each artist has a senior artist who once showed him the way into music career, helped him in some way. Do you have someone who first noticed your great potential and discovered the "New Star"? Maybe it was just your teacher? Who deserves a "thank you" today for your successful creative past and present?
- My first piano teacher Olga Rudakova saw an artistic talent in me. Her dream was to see me one day as a grown up young man in the form of a naval officer with my fiancée, sitting at the piano and performing the ‘Splash of Champagne’ tango. There were many other people who helped me. I remember everyone and there is a never ending ‘Thank you!’ in my heart toward each of them! Special thanks to my first idol - Svyatoslav Richter. Special thanks also to western rock and roll, starting for me with The Beatles. I would like to thank my first ‘mentors’ Ritchie Blackmore and Jimmy Page, whose soloists I imitated in my youth, and many other outstanding guitarists. All this brought me to the professional scene.
- What was your child dream? Was it about the stage? Or have your tastes changed throughout your life? What are the brightest hobbies in your life, in the past and now?
- My dream, as by many boys, was to be a driver, astronaut, firefighter, hockey player. So I became a driver, in my youth I was a driver, I have a professional license. I didn't think about the stage, I had an image of a musician in my head. I liked long hair, Middle Ages knights. Some of my fans used to compare my image with D'Artagnan, and now they compare it with Cardinal Richelieu. As you see, I have climbed the career ladder for my fans. As a child I read books about musketeers and was fond of hockey. The sword of a long-haired musketeer, or a stick in the hands of a Canadian long-haired hockey player looks very romantic! A musician also has an instrument made of wood, but with strings. Eventually, the image is pretty the same.
Apart of hockey, cars and girls, things like alpine skiing, a bathhouse, pouring cold water, collecting musical instruments, good books, films, pleasant interlocutors traveling and meeting new people came in my life. Also communication with my growing daughter and everything else that an average person might need.
- If you hadn't become a musician, who would you like or could you become?
- Probably I would become a surgeon. As a child, dissecting frogs was interesting. Or I could become a fashion designer ... a porn actor, at worst.
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- World celebrity who inspires you the most?
- Charlie chaplin
- Write a piece of advice for young musicians.
- Love music with all your heart, not yourself in music.
