Background
Dobrynin was born in 1946 to an Armenian father and a Russian mother.
Dobrynin was born in 1946 to an Armenian father and a Russian mother.
He studied at Moscow State University and received a diploma as an "art historian and theorist" in 1970.
He was awarded the People"s Artist of Russia in 1996. He subsequently worked at the Tretyakov Gallery and Pushkin Museum. As an amateur musician and singer he participated in different Beatles-style groups.
Dobrynin started to compose songs in the late-1960s and from 1971 co-operated with the Oleg Lundstrem orchestra, "Vesiolie Rebiata", "Samotsvety" and other bands.
He has written more than 1000 songs, often based on poems by Leonid Derbenyov, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Mikhail Tanich and Ilya Reznik. in 1998 Dobrynin get star on the Star Square in Moscow. In the 1980s Dobrynin started to record his own songs, and in 1990 he founded "Doctor Shlyager" band.
Dobrynin"s songs are mostly dedicated to unhappy love and romantic events of a person"s life. Among his most popular hits are:
Vsyo, chto v zhizni yest u menya
Rodnaya zemlya
Ne syp mne sol na ranu
Gde je ty byla
Kachaetsya vagon
Siniy tuman
Dve svechi
Belaya cheryomukha
Na teplohode muzika igraet
Luitza muzica
Ne volnuites tetia
Kapitan Zapasa
Yagoda Malina
Babushki-starushki
Koldovskoe ozero
Cazino
Ti mne ne snishsia
Tak Vot Kakaya Ti
Ti razbila moe serdce
Kto Tebe Skazal
Ya bous tvoey lubvi
Ni minuty pokoya
Ne zabivaite druzei
Napishi mne pismo
Pikovaya dama
Ya toskuyu po tebe
Ya svoe otgulyal
Nikto tebya ne lyubit tak kak ya
Sumashedshiy dozd
Do Chego Ya Nevezuchiy
Nezhnaya
Nezabudka
Proshay.