Each story has a lot of success as unique and some shared with other similar stories features. But in each case you can see some features more special or general. It's safe to say that the ratio of original and standard creative way Valery Leontiev can safely claim to be "unique". While the majority of the representatives of the scenic "old guard", begins in the Soviet era and successfully adapted to Russian conditions, were more or less direct route to success, Leontiev on this road had pretty wag.

"The boy with the North"

Valery Leontiev born March 19, 1949 in the village of Ust-Usa, Komi Republic, representatives of the family of the indigenous nationality of the North, Mansi, Yakov Stepanovich herders and Katherine Leontievs .  However, Valery Leontiev went to school and began to sing in the school choir ("the loudest squeak," as he calls it) in the Arkhangelsk Region, more adapted for life .  In 1961 the family moved to the town Leontievs Yurievets Ivanovo region, where the future singer and graduated from high school .  About any stage if he did not think his childhood dream was to become oceanologer .  Actually, he has already prepared the documents for admission to the Far Eastern University and prepared himself for the entrance examination, but it turned out that the money in a modest family budget will be enough only for one-way ticket .  This meant that in case of failure in the exam Valery was doomed to remain on the other side of the country without a penny .  With the dream of studying the mysterious ocean depths had to say goodbye .  Then Valery remembered that the children's ensemble, he spent several years singing and dancing, it seems to be good at it, also was behind a finished music school, piano .  So he decided to try to enter the GITIS and even filed papers in this renowned university, but at the last moment load clear set of provincial Leontiev thought that he had no chance, and changed his mind .

"Excellent work in the countryside"

It start time in the life of Valery Leontiev, that all bases could be entitled as "a difficult creative throwing" .  To start Leontiev some time tried his hand as a manual worker: in Yuryevets whom it just does not work, and an auxiliary worker in a brick factory and a postman, and tesёmschikom-smazochnikom on flax factory .  In the end, following the insistent advice of transferring to demands from the older sister Leontiev decided to pursue higher education and enrolled in Vorkuta branch of the Leningrad Mining Institute .  But it is precisely here, Valery Yakovlevich made a final choice in favor of music lessons .  It all started, as expected in these stories with a creative initiative .  In this area, Vorkuta Leontief quickly became a prominent figure in the local DC in April 1972, held its first concert, after which it became clear - the scene is his calling .  In the same 72nd he won Syktyvkar Philharmonic held a talent contest, and together with a team called "The Dreamers" this very Philharmonic began to travel with the musical-variety program on Settlements of varying size .  Leontiev It quickly became the leader of this team and the principal author of its music programs .  Touring successes led, first, to the fact that in the mid-1970s, Leontyev received the title of "Excellent work in the countryside", and secondly, to the emergence of attention to it from the capital of composers and songwriters .  In 1978, the singer first came to the really big stage - the stage of one of the largest concert halls of Leningrad "October" .

"For Soviet music I was too loose and relaxed"

In the following 1979, the year of Leontiev becomes a creative worker of the Gorky Philharmonic and, more importantly Bole, starts cooperation with one of the best songwriters of the Soviet Union, David Tukhmanov .  It is in tandem with Tukhmanov artist then becomes the winner of the All-Union competition for the best performance of songs of the socialist countries, and reaches the summer of 1980 the main prize at the festival "Golden Orpheus" in Bulgaria .  But conservative leaders of the then Soviet music is not allowed Leontiev immediately develop their success: from 1981 to 1984, the broad masses of the audience had not heard anything about the singer, who also just then had surgery on vocal cords .  But the efforts of the same David Tukhmanov 1984 Leontiev began to appear with performances on television - and immediately got enormous popularity .  A considerable role in that Leontiev concerts in Leningrad and Moscow in the second half of the 1980s invariably collect notices, played by the fact that Valery Yakovlevich became one of the first true showmen on our stage .  After graduating from the director's department of the Leningrad Institute of Culture, it largely became not only singers, but also the director-director and choreographer of his speeches .  A similar approach to the work of Leontiev kept in conditions of the Russian show business and became perhaps the first local artists who brought the concept of super show (what were his concert program "Full Moon" (1993), "On the way to Hollywood" (1996) "Nameless Planet" (2001)) .  It is this originality and even a certain revolutionary creativity helped Valery Leontiev become and remain one of the "pillars" of the first stage of the Soviet and then Russian show business .

Alexander Babitsky

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