Larisa Dolina enjoys great prestige like admirers of domestic show business, adherents of the so-called pop music, and at least an ardent opponent of the popular pop fighters with this very pop. The answer is simple: The valley is, on the one hand, one of the most successful and well-known figures of the Russian showbiz, on the other - no one can record it among the most gray and unremarkable representatives of pop for the simple reason that her talent, and her Outstanding vocal obvious to everyone.

Cello almost deprived us of the wonderful singer

Larisa Kudelman was born September 10, 1955 in the capital of sunny Azerbaijan, in Baku .  Her parents, builder Alexander Markovich, and Galina Israelevna typist, no direct relation to art, of course, had no .  It had no relation to the art by virtue of the very young age and Larissa, while the whole family moved in 1958 in Odessa, where he had to care for a seriously ill grandmother on my mother's side .  The next three years were all family members Kudelman real test: four of them lived in a room in a communal apartment in Odessa .  However, to call this room could be a stretch: in fact, it was an ordinary damp basement, where the existence of the hardships were compounded by serious illness grandmother and dangerous conditions for little girl .  Larissa had been ill with a severe form of whooping cough there, the memory of which remained at a lifetime of chronic bronchitis .  After his grandmother's death the family was able to find a way to stay in a private apartment and life situation began to build .

By the time the daughter of musical talent became obvious to parents and 7 years old, she began training at the School of Music in piano .  However, with this tool Larissa did not find a common language, and after three years of unsuccessful attempts to cope with them went into the classroom, where he studied the cello .  Cello, things went better, and after six years of study Larissa successfully graduated from music school .  However, as a teenager, she felt a strong attraction to the vocal art, which is also fueled by a successful example of a close friend of Tatiana, who was a few years older and by the time she sang in one of the restaurants in Odessa .  After Larisa 12 years for the first time performed the song at the reporting concert in camp, it is literally sick singing .  Shortly afterwards, having gone with Tatiana to audition for the company in one of Odessa ensembles, Larissa, and all of a sudden for itself successfully passed the competition and soon became an actress of the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra and soloist of pop "We - the Odessans' .  To do this she had to, first of all, go for distance learning and so to finish school, and secondly, to change the name of the father to a more neutral maiden name Maturin Valley: still with obvious Jewish name Kudelman far to go on the stage, it was almost impossible .

Not everyone falls to sing a song symbol

That is exactly what began a long and difficult career Larisa Dolina as a soloist in various Soviet musical groups .  Uneasy despite the fact that almost every one of these groups Larisa pretty quickly became a true leader and achieved recognition as the professionals and popularity among viewers .  After the start of the orchestra "We - the Odessans' it while singing in local restaurants, and within four years was a soloist of the State Variety Orchestra of Armenia .  The last team she did not really have a relationship with the artistic director Konstantin Orbelian, because of which she eventually went to the State Variety Orchestra of Azerbaijan .  In 1978, the Valley took part in the II All-Russian contest of Soviet Song in Sochi, where he took second place, but, most importantly, it drew attention to the artistic director of the famous pop group "Contemporary" Anatoly Kroll .  In this collective priority was given to jazz, and this was a life-changing career Larisa Dolina .  Nature Valley's voice, her temperament and personal preferences so perfectly matched with a jazz sound, with his usual jazz improvisation that Larisa has quickly become one of the most outstanding performers of the Soviet vocal jazz parties .  Especially thundered nationwide concert band "Contemporary", "Anthology of jazz vocals", which in 1981-1982, was held with great success throughout the Soviet Union .  One sign of the emerging popularity of the Valley it was an invitation in 1983 to become a cult musical film by Karen Shakhnazarov "We're from Jazz" .

Since the mid-1980s began a solo career stage Larisa Dolina .  In the context of restructuring and fundamental changes in the Soviet stage, the birth of the Russian show business, she became one of those singers that harmoniously fit into the new environment: for example, her concert 1987 "Icicle," in which the main emphasis has been placed on the typical -estradnyh compositions, has become one of the major musical events of the time .  And since the early 1990s, and did it turned out that the Valley against the background of obsolete or creatively Soviet pop Guard or voiceless young growth is perhaps the only truly "vociferous" and creatively wealthy unit .  Moreover, in tandem with Michael Tanichev and Ruslan Gorobtsov she managed to create a real song-symbol of his time, which manages not everyone even outstanding singers: first performed in late 1996, the song "Weather in the house" quickly became and still remains virtually classical, folk anthem quiet female happiness Female happiness - at everyone? . Awarded in 1998, the high title of People's Artist of Russia, the Valley is not stopped in the creative development, but on the contrary: the 2000s were marked for her return to the origins of jazz and several highly successful jazz concert programs.

Currently, Larisa Dolina is the third marriage to musician Ilya Spitsyn, her first husband was a jazz musician Anatoly Mionchinsky, married to the singer who in 1983 gave birth to a daughter, Angelina, the second - Victor Mityazov.

Alexander Babitsky

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