Zhenya Belousov

Yevgeny Viktorovich Belousov (Russian: Евге́ний Ви́кторович Белоу́сов; September 10, 1964, Zhikhar[1] — June 2, 1997, Moscow), better known as Zhenya Belousov (Russian: Женя Белоусов) was a Soviet and Russian pop singer, popular in the late 1980s — early 1990s. His best-known hits include My Blue-Eyed Girl, Night Taxi, Alyoshka, Devchonka-Devchonochka, Evening-Evening, Hair Cloud, Golden Domes, Short Summer, Dunya-Dunyasha, In the Evening on a Bench.[2]

Zhenya Belousov
Zhenya Belousov in 1991
Zhenya Belousov in 1991
Background information
Birth nameEvgeny Viktorovich Belousov
Born(1964-09-10)September 10, 1964
Zhikhar, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR
DiedJune 2, 1997(1997-06-02) (aged 32)
Moscow, Russia
Occupation(s)Singer
Years active1985-1997

Biography

Yevgeny Viktorovich Belousov was born on September 10, 1964, in the village of Zhikhar, Kharkiv Oblast.[3]

He graduated from vocational school No 1 as mechanic-repairman[3] and later studied at the Kursk Music College, learning bass guitar. He was not conscripted to the army due to heavy concussion he suffered in a car crash as a schoolboy.

In the mid-1980s Bari Alibasov saw Belousov playing in a Kursk restaurant and invited him to join his band Integral as a singing bassist. In 1987 he started a solo career and enjoyed success with a series of hits, collected in three studio albums, My Blue-Eyed Girl (1988), Night Taxi (1990) and Devchonka-Devchonochka (1993).[4]

Starting with 1993, Belousov's health started to deteriorate and his popularity nose-dived. His stint as a distillery businessman in Ryazan proved to be a failure and he was accused of tax evasion.[5] In March 1997, he was taken to the Sklifosovsky Institute with acute pancreatitis. A month later he suffered a stroke (earlier head injuries and alcohol abuse cited as possible causes) and underwent a brain surgery.[3]

On 2 June 1997 Belousov died at the Sklifosovsky hospital, and was interred in the Kuntsevo Cemetery.

References
  1. Перепечатка статьи из «Комсомольской правды», 1990
  2. Эпитафия (in Russian)
  3. Евгений Викторович Белоусов: биография и песни
  4. Евгений Белоусов. Биография Archived September 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Женя Белоусов (in Russian)
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