Evgeny Khavtan

About Evgeny Khavtan

Evgeny Lvovich Khavtan (born October 16, 1961, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian musician, composer, guitarist and vocalist. Leader of the groups “Bravo” and “Los Havtanos”, member of the groups “Rare Bird” and “Postscript”. The beginning of Evgeniy’s musical career began at the VIA “Rare Bird”, where Sergei Galanin and Alexey Aedonitsky also played. In 1982, Khavtan, already an experienced guitarist, accepted the invitation of Garik Sukachev’s group “Postscriptum”. However, strong differences in the hobbies, style and professionalism of the musicians led to the fact that Postscript practically disintegrated after that. Then Khavtan brought new musicians into the group and, together with Postscriptum drummer Pavel Kuzin, created his own band, playing a mixture of “new wave” and rock of the 50s-60s. The composition of the new group, which did not yet have a name, was completed by saxophonist Alexander Stepanenko, bassist Andrei Konusov and vocalist Yvonne Anders (real name Zhanna Aguzarova). After one of the very first performances, which took place in December 1983 at a disco in the Krylatskoye complex, the group decided to keep the name “Bravo”.