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Photo: Relatives and colleagues are accompanied by ‘Opus Pro’ leader Alex

On December 30 of this year, the legend of Latvian rock music, co-author of several popular hits and leader of the group “Opus Pro” Oleg Andreev, better known as Alex, was spent at the Riga Crematorium. The musician passed away on December 27.

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The musician was born on October 10, 1962 in Daugavpils.

Alex is a co-author of legendary songs such as “You and I”, “Pink Rain”, “Family”, “Last Stop”, “Champion”. Father of two daughters – Aija and Laura.

His family members came to say goodbye to the Latvian rock music legend, including a daughter – singer Aija Andrejeva with her husband, The Sound Poets leader Jānis Aišpurs. Musicians Gundars Lintiņš, Kārlis Būmeisters, Aivars Hermanis, Māris Mihelsons, TV presenter Kristīne Komarovska and many others also accompanied the leaders of Opus Pro.

Alex has been at the core of the Opus Pro group since its founding in 1986 with guitarist and songwriter Harry Zariņš. In the early 1990s, he also worked in the United States as part of the Latvian group Riga. In 2011, after a long break, he returned to the stage, then actively collaborated with the former member of the group Harijs Zariņš, his daughter Aija Andrejeva, as well as actively performed as a member of “Opus Pro”.

Participated in the recordings of the album “Family”, “I am going to steal you”, “You and I” (together with Aija Andrejeva), “Story No. 13”. In 2015, some of Alex’s original songs were included in Harry Zariņš’s album “Love Rock Ballads”.

25 years later, in 2015, the album “Riga in America”, recorded in the USA in 1990, was released by the group “Riga”, in which Alex participated with Ainars Virga, Uldis Marhilēvičs, Igo and Guntis Vecgailis.

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