Oleg Alekseevich Garkusha February 23 1961 Leningrad Soviet and Russian musician singer and TV host showman member of the group Auktsion The author of texts and the executor the poet the actor In 1980 he graduated from the Leningrad Film College For some time after graduating from the technical school he worked as a projectionist in the Sovremennik and Titan cinemas According to Garkusha himself on the stage he got by accident In 1985 he was asked to sing a couple of phrases of a song verses to which he wrote He sang everyone liked it So he became a participant of Auktsion After his arrival in the team the image of Auktsiona radically changed The bands performances turned into eccentric shows with a buffoonery A distinctive feature of these shows was the character and recognizability of each character Especially good was Garkusha in the role of unruly eccentric punk red clown galloping on stage In the group Auktsion Garkusha was not only a showman and a vocalist but also an author of lyrics along with the poet and musician Dmitry Ozersky Only if Ozersky wrote the texts to Fedorovs compositions according to the principle of the libretto then Garkusha brought his own poems to which the music was then written The wellknown songs of Auktsyon laid on the verses of Garkusha are Money is paper Wolf Airplane Pioneer and Bird written by Garkusha in 1991 in the days of the August putsch Album Ass of 1990 consists almost entirely of songs on Olegs poetry Oleg Garkusha played in the films The Burglar 1987 The Presumption of Innocence 1988 Khrustalev the car 1998 I Want 2012 Garkusha also played the role of the Crocodile in the staging of The Stolen Sun by the KS group In 1991 he participated in the concert Rock Against Terror At one time Garkusha tried his hand at becoming a public figure when he headed the YouthPublic Committee for the preparation of the 300th anniversary of the city Garkusha conducts a weekly program on the night air of Petersburg television Another sphere of Olegs activity is work in the club Garkundel which was located in the cinema Spartak One of the organizers of the festival Windows Open Oleg Garkusha is the author of several collections of poems The first The Boy as a Boy was released in 2001 Also the rock musician released the second book of poems The Crow Wikipedia