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Leonid and Friends
Leonid and Friends is a Russian tribute band, covering primarily the music of Chicago. Launched from the success of a YouTube video, the band has released two albums, Chicagovich and Chicagovich II. Popular in the United States, they have performed three American tours and had a fourth tour cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background
Leonid Vorobiev (Леонид Петрович Воробьев), born November 6, 1954 in Chita, USSR is a music producer, engineer, composer, arranger and bassist. In 2014, as he was approaching the Russian retirement age of 60, he wanted to put together a birthday present to himself; a recording of Chicago's Brand New Love Affair, a 1975 single from the Chicago VIII album. To assist him, he asked friends he had made in his years in the industry including drummer Igor Javad-Zade (Игорь Джавад-заде) one of the best in Russia, guitar prodigy Sergey Kashirin (Сергей Каширин) and the vocalist for the death metal band Monomakh, Vasily Akimov (Василий Акимов) to duplicate the gravely, soulful baritone of Terry Kath. Leonid played piano and sang the first part of the two part song. At the last minute, it was suggested they shoot video of the session. Vorobiev edited the video and uploaded it to YouTube. Within two weeks, word had gotten back to the band Chicago. They posted the video to the band's official website. From there popularity amongst the original band's fanbase grew, along with demand for more material.

What made this so special was the high level of musicianship from all involved. But how did they learn how to play this music? There were no charts published. Growing up in Siberia as part of the Soviet Union, western music was only available by smuggled reel to reel audio tapes. Vorobiev was able to get his own copies overnight in a hotel room and from there he not only became a fan, but he developed the skill to dissect the music. The electric instruments of rock and roll were not available, so they had to make their own, doing things like carving a guitar body out of a table. On stage they tell the story of how Vorobiev read in a magazine that they could get an electronic coil to pick up the sound by using the coils in telephone handsets. The next day, every handset on every payphone in town had somehow, mysteriously been stolen. Vorobiev's ability to hear and chart what each instrument was doing helped him later in the music industry. And it is his transcriptions that carefully directs each musician what to play.

It took almost four months to post their second song, Make Me Smile, but the project was underway. He had solidified a horn section of Alexey Batychenko on Trumpet, Alexandr Michurin on Trombone and Konstantin Gorshkov on Saxophone, all senior, experienced studio musicians, along with Dmitry Maximov on Bass. The third release, Color My World included Vladimir Popov on flute. But in order to do the majority of Chicago songs, someone needed to be able to sing the tenor parts of Peter Cetera and Vorobiev did not have that in his rolodex of friends. A talent search began, aided by Trent Gardner the web manager for the Chicago website who ran a contest. From Kiev, Ukraine, Serge Tiagniryadno sent in an audition video and was hired. He was introduced on their fourth Chicago release, Woman Don't Want To Love Me. Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Starting with this first effort, Tiagniryadno records most of his parts in his Kiev studio while the rest of the band plays in Moscow. He didn't meet the rest of the band members in person until the spring of 2016.

"“Chicago has never been in Russia and none of us have attended their concerts. We have only audio records and videos (to help us learn Chicago songs).”"

- Leonid Vorobiev

By their fifth release, What's This World Coming To?, Vorobiev relinquished the keyboards to Vlad Senchillo, moving himself into the bass role. Wishing You Were Here "featured" Ksenona, (Ksenia Buzina Ксения Бузина) to add harmonies to match the Beach Boys in the original recording. A multi-lingual solo artist, also hailing from Chita, Buzina became a regular backing vocalist in subsequent recordings. A former contestant on The Voice Russia, her voice added a vocal range to the sound Chicago never had. Her movie star beauty took center stage for their touring act.

On March 4, 2017, the band released their first album Chicagovich featuring the first eleven Chicago songs they had recorded. Shortly thereafter, they made their first forays into playing live in a Moscow club. Over the summer, auditions were held and a new horn section emerged, musicians a generation younger than their predecessors. There was a confluence on the recording of Beginnings where members of both horn sections played together on an impressively full track including a host of latin percussion. Since this, Maxim Likhachev plays trombone, Oleg Kudryavtsev plays saxophone, mostly tenor and flute parts, and Belorussian Andrey Zyl plays trumpet.

Born in 1993, Zyl is perhaps the youngest of the band which spans a multi-generational age range of almost 4 decades with Vorobiev, Javad-Zade, Senchillo and Popov representing the senior side, while Tiagniryadno, Kashirin and Kudryavtsev are close to 30 years younger. And many of the video performances are supplemented by additional friends, including string quartets, full string sections and guest appearances by virtuoso specialists like Arkady Shilkloper and Arturo Sandoval.

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