City health. Alexander Gradsky appeared on the set of “The Voice” in a wheelchair

On the set, Gradsky was accompanied by assistants

Alexander Gradsky, who returned to the mentorship of the TV show “The Voice,” appeared on the set in a wheelchair, accompanied by assistants. The video posted online captures the moment when he was moved to the jury chair.

A video has appeared on the Internet in which 67-year-old singer and composer Alexander Gradsky is transferred from a wheelchair to a place for mentors of the TV show “The Voice”. It is reported that the singer returned to the jury of the popular television project with a broken leg. To participate in the filming of the new, sixth season, Gradsky was forced to interrupt his sick leave.

On the set, the returning mentor was accompanied by assistants. With their help, he was moved to his workplace - to the chair of a jury member.

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Previously, Alexander Gradsky, considered one of the members of the “golden cast” of “Voice” mentors,. In his interview with ELLE magazine, the composer said that last season the mentors failed to work together.

At the same time, according to some media reports, the channel’s management decided to change mentors under pressure from fans who were irritated by the figures of Grigory Leps and Polina Gagarina. RBC wrote about this, in particular, citing sources familiar with the situation.

Musician Alexander Gradsky is seriously ill. In addition to obesity, diabetes and frailty, a broken leg has recently been added. But still, the 67-year-old artist did not refuse to participate in the filming of the new season of the super project “The Voice”.

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In order for Gradsky to easily occupy the chair of a jury member, a special ramp was installed in the studio, thanks to which he climbed onto the platform. The assistants helped the master take a seat in the chair. And only after that the director gave the command “Motor!”

The singer believes that a broken leg will not interfere with the filming process. And I took part in the blind auditions with interest. “I’m incredibly tired of “The Voice”! Especially because people began to recognize me on the streets, come up to me, ask for a selfie or an autograph. And “The Voice”, I think, is already tired of me. In general, before going there, I thought about two months, but then I realized that the idea was great,” the musician assured on the eve of filming.

Let us remind you that Gradsky, together with Pelageya, Bilan and Agutin, will judge the participants in the sixth season of “The Voice”. The director of the music editorial office of Channel One, Yuri Aksyuta, announced this on the evening of August 13. As they say, Gradsky’s participation in the previous “series” ensured a comfortable existence for several years to come. In just one season he received two million dollars. Pelageya, Bilan and Agutin, according to rumors, are earning a million dollars from the project. And the presenter of “The Voice” Dmitry Nagiyev – about two million.

During the “Voice” show on Channel One, all the creative youth of the project fell in love with mentor Alexander Gradsky. What kind of compliments were showered on him! It would seem, where did the talk come from that he has a disgusting character? However, as “Yellow Gazeta” found out after communicating with the singer’s once close people, this is not gossip.

Played the guitar with his teeth

Writer Ilya Voytovetsky recalled the People’s Artist:

– I babysat Sasha at the time when we were housemates with his parents. His dad worked late, and his mother studied in a drama club and ran away to classes in the evenings. And they asked me to sit with Sasha. Years passed, and he, a recognized artist, came on tour to Israel, where I already lived. And I just published the story Maestro, where I remembered Gradsky’s parents with a kind word. And I called Sasha and reminded him of myself. He told me about the book and suggested reading it. He refused, and rather rudely: “I can’t read everything that various graphomaniacs write!” “Alexander Borisovich,” I answered, “but I nursed you little, and you peed very warmly on my lap.” “Since then, I’ve managed to desecrate all of Russia,” the singer answered unkindly. I apologized and hung up.

And here is what Muscovite, now famous astrologer Vadim Levin, told ZhG.

In the distant 70s, he and Gradsky were part of the musical crowd.

The group “Skomorokhi”, which the singer created, thundered throughout the country.

“The halls were packed, there were a lot of girls,” Levin told us. “As soon as Gradsky started singing, the girls began to take off their bras and throw them at his feet with a squeal. Gradsky played the guitar with his teeth on a dare while kneeling. Many girls after concerts caught him and were ready to give themselves up. But he dismissed them very unkindly.

For example, he could say that the girl has crooked teeth or legs. His bandmates called him a charming impudent man. By the way, they sometimes got girls whom Alexander had previously rejected.

The first wife ran away to her best friend

It is known that Alexandra Gradsky there were three wives. The crowd was chatting as if he was leaving each one for young fans. But that's not true.

– The first wife, Natasha Smirnova, was able to withstand his extremely difficult character only three days after the wedding. And then she ran away,” Vladimir Mikhailovich Polonsky, who worked in “Buffoons,” admitted in an interview. –

Subsequently, she married Gleb May, also from Skomorokhov. And I’m happy with him to this day.

May was Gradsky's best friend. Now he lives in the Moscow region, teaches vocals at a music school, and writes classical music. Gleb Borisovich told us that he and Gradsky have not communicated for many years. But Gleb Borisovich flatly refused to remember the past!

The maestro's second wife, famous actress Anastasia Vertinskaya , still calls the ex-blessed nothing less than Gadsky. They lived together for only 4 months.

The marriage with his third wife was a guest marriage - they lived in different apartments. Apparently, this was the secret of the relationship, which lasted as much as 20 years.

From his third wife, the singer has a son and a daughter. Viewers of the show “The Voice” saw their daughter Maria. The son is an economist and is interested in extrasensory perception. According to friends, he is a fan... of the star of “Battle of Psychics-13”, American Vita Mano, and even belongs to his fan club.

The fourth, common-law wife of the 63-year-old maestro, Marina, managed to stay close for almost 10 years. Despite the fact that they live together. The artist himself voices the secret of a long relationship this way: we are both Scorpios according to the horoscope, we “bite” and understand each other without words.

Gossipers are chattering that the native of Kyiv is simply comfortable next to the famous and wealthy. Marina works in one of the modeling agencies in Moscow. She graduated from VGIK, but played only small roles in passing films. But as a model she is not so in demand - after all, she is already 30. There is a high probability that her wife will head the Gradsky Theater, which the maestro plans to create this year.

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Alexander Gradsky is a people's artist, owner of a unique voice, who worked with Western stars: Liza Minnelli, Charles Aznavour and others. The maestro is also known for making sharp negative statements about his colleagues and show business in general.

So, he called the stage “f...business”, and the artists – “shit...stars”. Many artists do not like Gradsky. For example, the Presnyakov family. Once Gradsky spoke unflatteringly about the vocal abilities of Vladimir Presnyakov Jr.’s wife, Natalya Podolskaya. “Yes, I heard something squeak,” he commented on her Eurovision number. But in “The Voice” we saw a completely different Gradsky: not aggressive and even a little sentimental. Getting old?

Alexander Gradsky is a famous personality with versatile talents in the field of poetry, music and vocals.

The founder of rock in Russia, People's Artist of the Russian Federation and winner of a number of state awards that were awarded for outstanding achievements in the field of theatrical, musical and pop arts.

Childhood and youth

Alexander Borisovich Gradsky was born on November 3, 1949 in the city of Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk region. He was the only child of his parents - mechanical engineer Boris Abramovich Fradkin and actress Tamara Pavlovna Gradskaya. The future artist spent his childhood beyond the Urals, but in 1957 his family moved to Moscow, where he entered a music school at the age of 9.

Young Gradsky experienced studying at a music school through force - he was exhausted and oppressed by daily classes, but they did not discourage young Sasha’s passion for music. Alexander Borisovich was no different in his achievements in secondary school. As a child, he was more interested in the humanities and literature, which allowed Gradsky to write his first poem at the age of 14. At the same age, the future artist became interested in Western music - his favorites were the musicians of the group.

At the age of 16, Alexander Borisovich had already firmly decided that he would become a singer and musician. Then he took his mother’s surname, under which the artist’s first performances took place as part of the Polish student group “Cockroaches”. Alexander Gradsky’s first song, “The Best City on Earth,” was then performed at many regional concerts.

In 1969, Alexander entered the faculty of academic singing at the Russian Academy of Music. Gnesins. In 1974, he graduated from the university, during which he received his first experience of solo performances. Gradsky later attended the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with the Soviet composer.

Music

After graduating from GMPI, Alexander Gradsky’s musical career quickly began to gain momentum. He became one of the first musicians in the country who boldly experimented with Russian-language lyrics in rock. While still a student, he created the group “Skomorokhi”, whose repertoire consisted of Gradsky’s songs.

With “Skomorokhs” Alexander Gradsky toured the country, gathering full houses of fans. His popularity at that time simply went off scale - the musician gave several solo concerts every day lasting 2 hours. In 1971, the group also took part in the prestigious All-Union Festival “Silver Strings”, where in 20 minutes of performance they created a sensation and received 6 out of 8 prizes.

During the same period, Alexander Gradsky created the legendary songs “How beautiful this world is” and “How young we were,” which the musician did not perform at any of his concerts until 1990, despite the expectations of the audience.

Alexander Gradsky's solo songs were not his only direction in his work - the musician simultaneously worked on creating musical accompaniment for a number of films. “The Romance of Lovers,” written and performed personally by Alexander Borisovich in the film of the same name, became a breakthrough in Gradsky’s creative biography.

For this composition, in 1974 he was recognized as “Star of the Year” according to the music magazine Billboard, whose experts assessed Alexander Borisovich’s creative activity as “an outstanding contribution to world music.”

According to the musician, at that time he earned more than other famous people who could be seen on TV. He jokingly called his relationships with other music stars “neutrality.”

Alexander Borisovich wrote musical accompaniment for almost fifty feature films, as well as several dozen cartoons and documentaries. He also participated in some films as an actor.

In 1972, Alexander Gradsky played in “A Courtesy Visit”, in 1979 he made a cameo in the 2-part film “Tuning Fork”, and in 1991 in the film “Genius”. The musician performed vocal parts in another 20 films. Also appeared in 5 documentaries and 2 video clips.

Alexander Gradsky also proved himself in the fundamental format of stage productions. In 1967-1969 he participated in the work on the rock opera “The Fly-Tsokotukha”.

His next creation, also a rock opera, “Stadium” (1973-1985), became much more famous. The plot of this production was based on real events: the military coup in Chile in 1973. The general who came to power began massive repressions that led to thousands of deaths. One of the victims of this regime was singer Victor Jara, whose fate formed the basis of the rock opera.

The work does not mention the name of the hero or the place of action, but the entire outline of the narrative ambiguously points to Chilean events. The role of the Singer was performed by Gradsky himself. The main characters were presented by popular Soviet artists -, and.

At the end of the 70s, Alexander Gradsky released several records and began teaching at his native institute. Gnesins and at GITIS, where he headed the vocal department.

Since 1985, Alexander Borisovich has been working on the music for the first Russian rock ballet “Man,” based on the novel.

Afterwards, the musician works on two more ballets: “Rasputin” and “Jewish Ballad”. As a performer, Gradsky performed in 1988 at the Bolshoi Theater as the Astrologer in a production of the opera “The Golden Cockerel” under the direction of conductor Evgeny Svetlanov.

In the early 90s, when Gradsky had the opportunity to perform abroad, he decided to reduce his touring activities, becoming carried away by the development of the Theater of Contemporary Music. However, even with a “shortened” concert program, he managed to gain popularity abroad - he participated in joint musical projects with John Denver, Diana Warwick, Kris Kristofferson and other world-famous artists.

For his musical activities, Alexander Gradsky was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia in 1997, and in 2000 received the highest honorary title of People's Artist of Russia. The President of the Russian Federation personally congratulated the rock musician on this award.

Alexander Gradsky continues to be active in music to this day. 15 discs were released under his authorship. Among the latest works, one cannot fail to note the opera “The Master and Margarita” with a unique cast of participants, on which Alexander Borisovich worked for more than 13 years.

The composer began working on the rock musical “The Master and Margarita” back in the 90s. The libretto, written by Pavel Grushko, lay idle for several years, Gradsky worked on the musical for another 7 years, and by 2009 the production was ready - but was never shown on stage.

“The Master and Margarita” exists only in the form of a recording, where the roles are played by Alexander Borisovich’s star friends, and he himself performed 4 parts of the central characters. Other parts went to musicians such as Joseph Kobzon and others.

As Alexander Borisovich later claimed, he manages to finish works on time only if there is a customer, and the author is ready to redo his works for years.

From 2012 to 2015, Alexander Gradsky participated in the show “” as a mentor. He became a representative of the golden jury, which also included, and. On the show, the maestro worked together with his daughter - he invited Masha as an adviser when a decisive choice had to be made.

The legend of Soviet and Russian rock music for several seasons in a row led his players to victory in the country's main vocal project. Among them are , and . According to some reports, it was Alexander Borisovich who was considered the highest paid judge of the project. Reporters voiced the figure of $7 thousand per day, while other mentors had the amount half as much. The musicians did not comment on whether this is actually true.

In addition, Alexander Borisovich was remembered by the participants and spectators for the fact that he determined their age based on the performers’ voice data. The musician made a mistake only twice: he did not recognize Daniil’s son in the 3rd season of “The Voice” and did not understand who was behind the screen when Dima Bilan performed the song in the 4th season.

In 2013, publicist and television journalist Evgeny Dodolev published the book “Alexander Gradsky. The Voice". According to the author, he collected material for the publication for 20 years; it included interviews with the maestro and statements from his loved ones.

Alexander Borisovich became the founder of the Gradsky Hall musical theater. The best members of the mentor’s team from the “Voice” project, including Busha Goman and others, become the actors of the theater group. His eldest son Daniil also works with his father. The young man is engaged in PR and promoting the official website of the theater.

Personal life

The personal life of Alexander Gradsky is quite bright. The founder of Russian rock was married three times. The first marriage took place in the early youth of the musician. His chosen one was Natalya Smirnova, with whom the man lived in official relations for only 3 months.

Gradsky himself calls this marriage a “youth act.”

In 1976, Alexander Borisovich married for the second time. The actress became his wife, but the rock musician could not find family happiness with her either.

Gradsky lived in an official marriage with his third wife Olga for 23 years. In this union, the musician had two children - in 1981, a son, Daniel, was born, and in 1986, the wife gave her husband a daughter, Maria. In 2003, this marriage also ceased to exist.

Since 2004, Alexander Gradsky has been living in a civil marriage with a Ukrainian model who is 30 years younger than the musician. He was always distinguished by humor and high self-esteem, so he met a girl right on the street, inviting her to “touch history.” Kotashenko did not recognize the star of Soviet and Russian rock, but called back two weeks later. Already on the first date, it became clear that Alexander Borisovich charmed the young lady. With Gradsky, Marina felt calm and at ease.

Gradsky’s young wife gave him a child in 2014, who was named Alexander. The birth of his son Alexander Alexandrovich took place in New York in one of the prestigious clinics. Gradsky’s wife maintains an even relationship with the other children. Gradsky's daughter Maria, who now lives in Miami, even accompanied Marina on her trip to America, where the baby was given birth. It is interesting that Alexander Gradsky Jr. was born on the birthday of his grandfather, Boris Fradkin, September 1.

Sasha grows up under the close attention of her mother - the girl refuses offers from film directors for the sake of her family, despite the fact that she graduated from the acting department of VGIK in the mid-2000s. They bought the boy a real guitar, but for now a child's size, and Alexander Alexandrovich has already mastered the song repertoire from his favorite cartoons and children's programs. In the future, the parents plan to send the young musician to the appropriate studio.

In the summer of 2016, photos of Gradsky and his wife on the beach spread around the Internet. Evil tongues called the couple “beauty and the beast,” and even the musician himself admitted that he was lucky that Marina chose him and did not find a younger couple.

Kotashenko herself never became a reason for gossip and gave no reason to doubt her attitude towards her husband. Now Alexander Gradsky lives with his family in the Moscow region in the village of Novoglagolevo, where he built a house with an area of ​​400 square meters. m, writes classical music and teaches vocals. Despite his popularity and active life position, the musician considers himself a marginal and apolitical person.

Gradsky does not like representatives of the press. Because of their annoyingness, he nicknamed the reporters “journalists.” The word took root in the musician’s vocabulary and went “to the people.” The composer has a personal website, where he introduces fans to the latest releases of his work, but the musician does not have an account on Instagram.

Alexander Gradsky now

In September 2017, after a break, Alexander Gradsky returned to the “Voice” project and again led his charge to victory. The winner of the first place in the 6th season of the television competition was.

Many fans of the show expected to see the maestro in the next season. But a year later, the name of Alexander Borisovich did not appear in any of the judges’ lists of three launched projects, including “Voice 60+” and “Voice. Children". The musician himself did not comment on the news.

In November 2018, it became known that Marina Kotashenko. Son Ivan became the girl’s second child and Gradsky’s fourth. The musician and his wife do not comment on the information.

Discography

• 1972 – “How wonderful this world is”
• 1974 – “A Romance of Lovers”
• 1979 – “Only you believe me”
• 1987 - “Let's get started”
• 1989 – “Monte Cristo”
• 1994 – “Untimely Songs”
• 1996 – “LIVE in Russia”
• 2003 – “Reader”
• 2009 – “The Master and Margarita”
• 2011 – “Unformat”
• 2014 – “Romances”

Some time later, in 1976, Alexander Borisovich met a new love; actress Anastasia Vertinskaya became his chosen one. At the beginning of family life, everything was fine, but then reproaches against Alexander and endless omissions began. The marriage could not be called happy; they soon separated.

The third marriage became longer than the previous ones. He lived with his wife Olga Gradskaya for 23 years. They had two beautiful children. Son Daniel was born in 1981, and daughter Maria in 1986. The family was happy, but for reasons unknown to the public, they divorced in 2003. Relatives and friends were extremely disappointed by this news.

Alexander was not alone for long. In 2004, the musician began his life together with model Marina Kotashenko. Alexander is a full 30 years older than his girlfriend. The age difference amazes everyone. Alexander was always cheerful and his self-esteem was always in order, so, without embarrassment, he met a girl on the street and approached her with the offer to “Touch history.”

In 2014, his young wife Marina gave birth to Gradsky’s son, who was named Alexander. The son was born in one of the best clinics in New York under the strict supervision of doctors.

Marina maintains friendly relations with the musician’s children; they immediately found a common language.

A year ago, photographs of Marina and Alexander in beach outfits leaked online. Caring people said about them “Beauty and the Beast”. The lovers were not embarrassed by the pictures for a minute. Gradsky is sincerely glad that his wife is such a beauty. He was lucky that she chose him.

Gradsky’s life has improved, he is happy with his family. They live together in the Moscow region, he teaches vocal lessons and continues to write music.

Kotashenko herself is a closed person and there has never been any gossip about her that she is unfaithful to her husband or does not love him.

Alexander Gradsky and Marina Kotashenko do not like to give interviews and talk about their family’s leisure time, but this time they made an exception. They talked about little Sasha, who is growing up as an energetic and very inquisitive child. Sasha turned three years old at the beginning of September.

“Sasha speaks well, he has talents: he sings songs, plays the guitar. He tells poetry. He’s already trying to read,”- Marina said.

A close friend of the Gradsky family, journalist Evgeny Dodolev, said that a nanny helps Marina cope with her son. And a whole staff helps keep the big house clean and tidy. It is difficult for a fragile and young wife to run a household alone.

“Marina is the wife of a famous and wealthy man. She won’t peel potatoes, wipe pianos, or clean the pool herself. Her concern is the child. Well, Gradsky, like any man, also loves attention,”- said Dodolev.

Alexander and Marina Kotashenko have lived in a carefree marriage for 13 years, and how many happy years still await them. Before meeting Marina, the artist had, to put it mildly, had no luck in marriages. His relationship with Marina is now the purest and most noble. He is sure that his wife could have met someone better, but she fell in love with Alexander with all her heart.

After going through the failures of past relationships, they found each other and fell in love. No matter what the difference in age, all ages are submissive to love.