Russia - a multinational country, and this can not but be reflected in its culture. Another thing is that in the domestic show business is a reflection of how a less visible than, say, Soviet stage, which has always been famous for the bright and the national artists, from the representatives of the peoples of the North to the Baltic, almost foreign singers. Evil tongues would say that the point here is that show business directly to the business has much more to do than to culture. However, today there are at the scene of the Russian representatives of the fraternal peoples who have achieved a lot of success. One of the most famous of these is Valery Meladze.

Tomboy from Batumi

Valery Meladze was born in the Georgian port city of Batumi June 23, 1965 .  Incidentally, the Georgian's name sounds like Valerian, Valery is more familiar to the Russian ear option .  So, Valerian, who soon became Valery grew typical street child .  In the context of the Georgian-1970s and early 1980s, this means the following: the school children learned little, because for them there, by and large, do not teach .  Master limited to the most trivial set of knowledge and skills (the ability to write, read, count) and transferred students from class to class for the sky taken with the "troika" .  So that the younger generation has been given to themselves, and Valery was one of the ringleaders and gang leaders such children, scurrying for days on city streets .  In the end, it ended for Meladze Registration with the police and expulsion from school - a few guys, including Valeria was accused of having stolen some parts from standing on the territory of Batumi Oil Refinery tractor .  However, soon all the "criminals" in the school restored .

But from the beginning of the adult life Valery Meladze has not become easier - from school anyway because there was no confusion. So the first year after graduation, he worked for, and successfully, in the position of telephone operator on the local telephone exchange. But fairly quickly, he realized that he wanted more, a year intensively engaged in self-education, and the summer of 1983 was able to successfully pass the exams in Nikolaev Shipbuilding Institute, from which he graduated in 1987. It must be said that Ukraine, where Valery lived for more than 10 years, the singer is due much. Here he graduated here met a girl, Irina, whom he married in 1989 and with whom he soon had a daughter, Inga, here is a place with his elder brother Constantine, he began his musical experiments.

The music in a roundabout way

Certainly in the history of the music industry there are still cases where the performer has achieved success later began his career thanks to his knowledge in electronics. But it is unlikely such cases was too much, so that the case of Valery Meladze can safely assume that if not unique, then, at least, original. In fact, the road to show business opened a Konstantin Meladze: being a graduate of the music school, he in the middle of the 1980s, accidentally hit the rehearsal amateur musical group "April", which quickly became a keyboardist. It soon became clear that the team needs some sound engineer and then Constantine thought of his younger brother Valeria, who by virtue of interests, and by virtue of education in radio was on "you." So Valery Meladze was the first sound engineer and then a second vocalist "April".

In 1989 amateur recording "April" somehow got to Kim Breitburg, musical director finishes reap the benefits of the former pop group "Dialog" .  Breitburg invited brothers Meladze in your team, as part of which they released two albums: "In the middle of the world" (1991) and "Fall Creek hawk" .  Soon, Valery and Konstantin realized that sending work "Dialogue" they do not close, but the cooperation with this team played a big role in their career - they realized that they could create a song (Konstantin began to actively write music and lyrics) and execute them in a professional level .  And with the end of 1993, Konstantin got into the skin of a music producer, made a bid for his brother .  Lyrical song "Do not disturb my soul, violin" with which Valeri made his debut in the "adult" Russian show business, has become one of the biggest hits of 1994, Meladze awarded by Alla Pugacheva invitation to its "Christmas meetings", and in 1995 he released his first solo album called "Sir" .  At the same time Valery receives the award "Star" and "Ovation" and it became apparent that a new star .  Star, which has confirmed its status as the release of the 1996 album "The Last Romantic" and that continues to shine and to this day, firing since 6 more albums and won numerous music awards and honors .

Alexander Babitsky

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