Valentina Tolkunova biography

The latest news biography Valentin Tolkunov was called the soul of the Russian song and the crystal voice of the Soviet stage. It is interesting that the stage image of the artist is long hair, aristocratic posture, a maximi dress and a minimum set of cosmetics and decorations remained for a long career. Valentine's childhood and youth was born in the city of Armavir of the Krasnodar Territory, but for the first 1.5 years she lived in the village of Belorechenskaya.

There served the father of Tolkunova, Vasily Andreevich, a military railwayman. Evgenia Nikolaevna’s mother worked at the railway station. The family arrived from Transbaikalia, although the father was from the Saratov region. Three years after the birth of Vali, the younger brother Sergey appeared, who also became a singer, an honored artist of Russia. In the year, the Tolkunov family moved to Moscow.

Valentine grew not only in a friendly and loving family, but also surrounded by good music. The house was constantly played by the records of Leonid Utesov, Claudia Shulzhenko, Peter Leshchenko, and Valya learned their songs and sang along with her beloved performers. In the year, the girl was accepted into the choir of the central house of children's railway workers.

The team was ruled by Semen Osipovich Dunaevsky, and Tatyana Nikolaevna Ovchinnikova became a teacher, who helped the future singer master the basics of musical literacy and know the secrets of vocal skill. The first team of Valentina Tolkunova was the vocal and instrumental orchestra "VIO", led by Yuri Saulsky, the future spouse of the artist. There, the young singer performed songs to jazz music, and later began a solo career.

Songs by the star start for the creative biography of the young artist were the performance of songs on the verses of Mikhail Ancharov and the music of Ilya Kataev to accompany the film “Day after Day”. After the film is released on the screens, the song “I stand on a half -wall”, performed by Valentina, was singing the whole country. Tolkunova instantly became famous, and the record did not linger on the shelves of music stores.

Later, at the Artloto contest, the young singer won the first prize with this fable. The first solo performance of Valentina Tolkunova took place in the year as part of the anniversary concert of Leo Oshanin. The artist performed the composition of Vladimir Shainsky “Ah, Natasha”, and since the concert was broadcast on television, a millionth audience saw her and heard her.

There, Valentina Tolkunova first met with Claudia Shulzhenko, a singer, which the girl idolized since childhood. And already with Go Tolkunov regularly became a member of the television book "Song of the Year". The melodic affectionate voice of the singer made her a truly national artist. Bags of letters from the audience came to television with requests to show the performance of the beloved singer again.

Valentina Tolkunova - “Talk to me, mother” Valentina began to appear in the programs “Morning Mail”, “Blue Light”, as well as on the broadcasts of creative evenings of outstanding composers from the column hall of the House of Unions. The second wave of fame overtook Tolkunov after the premiere of the song of Vladimir Miguli “Talk to me, mother” on the All -Union radio.

The composer wrote it for Lyudmila Zykina, but, having heard the composition performed by Tolkunova, changed the decision. The highlight of Tolkunova was that the artist always sang about people and for people, in her repertoire there were actually no Soviet slogans and socio-political connotation, which was a rarity for that time. For Valentina Vasilievna, each song was someone's fate, someone's life history.

She performed not only her own songs, but also compositions from the repertoire of popular singers. So appeared in her performance “Where have you been before?” In the year, a fateful meeting of Tolkunova and her scene partner - instrumentalist and composer David Ashkenazi, took place. Colleagues have cooperated for 18 years. A jointly performed by the hits was the romance “The Gray -Glazy King” to the music of Alexander Vertinsky and the verses of Anna Akhmatova.

The songs “Silver Wedders”, “Seryozha”, “Evening of School Friends” were very popular. The hit “I can’t otherwise” literally returned people to life, giving hope for the future, about which Valentina Vasilievna later learned from grateful spectators. Valentina Tolkunova - “I can’t otherwise” and, of course, one cannot but say about the children's song “Tired toys Sleep”, which has become the output of the evening program “Good night, kids!

Another children's song Tolkunova-“Nock-Kurdosyki”-was especially loved by fans of the singer’s talent. This composition was presented to the performer by the author Boris Emelyanov for the birth of his son Nikolai. In the year, Valentina Tolkunova first made a solo concert. Creative evenings consisted of popular and folk songs, but more and more often the singer began to pay attention to musical compositions about the Great Patriotic War, the first of which was "if there were no war." The performance of the song was not easy for the artist: it was necessary to create a small monoscope of a difficult female fate.

At the request of Valentina Vasilievna, inserts with a military march were added to musical tissue.For 10 years, 22 songs appeared in the performer’s repertoire about the military share, which Tolkunova released with a separate plate. In years, the repertoire of Tolkunova was replenished mainly by spiritual songs: “My Angel”, which was composed by the artist herself, “Christmas Night”, “Prayer”.

Thanks to the album “My invented man”, which included the songs of the author of Vasily Popov, Valentina Tolkunova received the Award of the Russian Culture International Charitable Fund. The last song recorded by her was the composition “Spring May” Viktor Petrov. The Tolkunova Talent demanded other work, and the opera “Russian Women” came out of the pen of Ilya Kataev in the year, which was created for the performance of Tolkunova.

The premiere of the opera took place in the concert hall "Russia". The role of the Siberian governor was tried on by Innocent Smoktunovsky. This is not the only film in the piggy bank of the performer. Previously, she used her acting talent for the embodiment of episodic images in the paintings “Summer of Private Grandfather” and “Black Prince”. But mainly in the cinema Valentina Vasilievna was invited to create musical design.

In the melodrama “Romance of lovers”, she performed “Lullaby”, in the comedy “Bride from the North” - “White Pushwoman”. The compositions performed by Tolkunova sounded in animated films: the song “If there was no winter” was decorated with the famous cartoon “Winter in Prostokvashino”. The singer’s magical voice was loved by the children thanks to the radio shows “Fire” and “Bunny-Handmade”.

In addition, Tolkunova organized the Moscow Theater of Musical Drama and Songs, the production of which “spray of champagne”, “how to be happy” enjoyed the special love of the audience. The last concert production was the solo musical program “I will break the silence today,” which appeared on the stage of the theater in the year. The artist became the heroine of documentaries.

So, a project with the working name “Iron Valechka” was created to one of her anniversaries. The singer did not let journalists into her personal life, therefore, they never managed to interview her relatives. The singer’s personal life throughout the whole creative path adhered to a special style. Valentina Vasilievna decorated the long hair with a thread of pearls, which can be seen in many photos of Tolkunova.

In early youth, it occurred to her to cut a thick braid, but the hairdresser did not allow her to do this. In the first ensemble, Valentina Tolkunova met with the composer and conductor Yuri Saulsky, who became her husband, but this marriage lasted only 6 years. The big difference was affected, because the singer was only 19 years old at the time of marriage, and his wife - the novel developed rapidly, and after a couple of months the lovers became husband and wife.

Soon, the son of Nikolai, the only child of the people's artist, was born. But Valentina did not succeed in his second marriage. Yuri Paporov traveled on foreign business trips, and in one period was absent at home for 10 years. The son of Nikolai received a legal education, worked as an artist in the world in the theater of musical drama and songs, later engaged in small businesses, moved to Bulgaria.

According to the former director of the singer Nikolai Basin, Valentina had another romantic page in his personal life, associated with the name of physicist Vladimir Baranov. Valentine called this man “husband from God”, but neither he nor she dared to leave her families. The woman lived with Yuri Paporov until the last days of her life, and her husband survived the wife for only 1.5 months.

Vera Valentina Tolkunov always reached for the temple, and later she was shaking. The singer even acquired a house near the monastery in order to be able to devote more time to church service and prayers. In addition, the artist financially helped the arrangement of temples, giving charitable concerts. Tolkunova became a sponsor of the restoration of the cross on one of the temples of the Zadonsky monastery in the Lipetsk region.

The artist often visited Diveevo, visited the Holy Land. During one of the trips to Israel, Valentina Vasilievna almost died during the attack of terrorists, after which her faith intensified. Disease and death in the year at Valentina Tolkunova, breast cancer was found. After surgery and a course of chemotherapy, the disease receded, but after 16 years she still returned.

And later, the artist additionally diagnosed the brain tumor. Valentina Vasilievna refused to go back under the knife again and continued to tour. The singer gave the last concert on February 16 in Mogilev, after him the woman was hospitalized. Since then, Tolkunova has been in the hospital, but the help of doctors was already powerless. Metastases in the brain caused the death of the artist.

The singer’s funeral went to the Troekurovsky cemetery, where relatives and fans come now. On the grave next to the sculptural statue stood a portrait photo of the singer. A year later, the solemn opening of a memorial plaque on the building of Moscow State University of Culture and Arts and a monument in the city of Belorechensk took place.The name of the singer was assigned to music schools in the homeland of her father, in the city of Rtishchev, and in the village of Rodniks of the Belorechensky district, and a museum appeared in Armavir.

The memory of the performer was immortalized in the project “She couldn’t otherwise” and the documentary “I will always love you”. From the year, the holding of the Valentina Vasilievna Tolkunova festival “Soul of Russia” began.