The first producer of the "Tea for Two" group was Sergey Kuryukhin.
He gave them $2,500 in 1994 (the annual salary of the average Russian at the time). This is because Stas Kostyushkin's father, Mikhail, played saxophone in many of Kuryukhin's projects.
However, Kuryokhin did not live to see the release of the group's first full-length album for several months.