Sergei Shnurov.
Photo: Ivan MAKEEV
The music did not last long – Sergey Shnurov got rid of the Zoya project with soloist Ksenia Rudenko, whom he introduced to the public a year and a half ago as a “million-dollar project.” As he found out on the KP.RU website, on January 25, the musician left the founders of Zoyaproduction LLC, leaving the group to a business friend, Moscow restaurateur Ilya Esterov.
Meanwhile, the breakthrough promised by Shnurov, as, for example, on Leningrad, did not happen with Zoya. The vociferous brunette was never offered millions of fees, and even in foreign currency, and the official accounting of the group shows a sad result: in 2022, Zoya did not earn a penny, the losses amounted to 25 thousand rubles.
Though on YouTube, disconnected from monetization, the group managed to make a whisper over the past year. Cordons with Rudenko were “wet” by garbage in the city by the St. Petersburg authorities (many then suspected that they were in charge), they sang about foreign agents, sanctions for oligarchs, emigration … In a word, they were always in the forefront of the agenda, stamping simple clips twice a month and garnering several million views for each. And the hit dedicated to Ksenia Sobchak turned out to be the most scandalous, where a former friend accused the presenter of not only Infogypsy, but also a boy who had moved away from his lover … In addition, the author of the text Sergey Shnurov conducted all these dirty tricks with the voice of your favorite.
– I was not afraid to “fly” for this song. I, as Alla Borisovna said, have an eraser with which I erase all sorts of unpleasantness, hatred, etc., Ksenia Rudenko only wrote off the scandal at that time.
But in Shnurov, whom the soloist called exclusively Sergei Vladimirovich, she saw an indisputable authority and a paternally caring mentor, with whom she had a long collaboration. However, something went wrong…
Meanwhile, there is still no official comment on Shnurov’s “Zoya” solo swimming – neither the musician himself nor his PR manager have responded to calls from KP.RU.
