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Igor Krutoy: the biography and personal life of the famous maestro are interesting to his fans, since his fate, like that of any truly creative and extraordinary personality, consists of ups and downs. Everything that Igor Yakovlevich has now - wealth, recognition and unprecedented popularity - he owes to many years of work, sincere devotion to his favorite work and, of course, talent and charisma.

The difficult path to music

Igor Krutoy is an interesting personality in all respects, he is interesting both as a musician and as a man. At the same time, it doesn’t matter to women how old Krutoy is. He absolutely defies age.

The future famous composer was not born and raised in creative family: Yakov Aleksandrovich, the musician’s father, worked at the factory as a freight forwarder, and his mother, Svetlana Semyonovna, was a former laboratory assistant at the sanitary and epidemiological station.

Igor was not only child in the family: he has younger sister Alla, after whose birth Svetlana Semyonovna left her job and devoted herself to taking care of the children and providing a strong rear for her husband. Currently, the sister lives in the USA and works as a TV presenter.

WITH early childhood Igor literally lived for music, his abilities for which appeared already at such a tender age. And then the mother decided to take the boy to a music school. Already in his school years, the boy could rightfully be considered a real star:

• at all holidays, Igor accompanied the school choir on the button accordion;
• in the sixth grade he created his first creative creation - his own ensemble.

After graduating from school, Igor, like any graduate, faced a choice of profession. On the advice of Svetlana Semyonovna, who takes an active part in musical life son, the guy tried to enter a music school. But here his first creative failure awaited him: one of mandatory conditions passing the entrance exam was piano proficiency. I had to postpone my enrollment for a year and study the instrument, which only benefited my musician’s career.

Obstacles and achievements

Igor Krutoy’s youth was also filled with music. And on creative path New thorns awaited him in the starry horizon.

Having graduated with honors in 1970 from the theoretical department of Kirovograd music school, the young man decided to try his luck at the Kyiv Conservatory, but did not enter.

Having worked as a teacher for a year music school in his native Gayvoron, Krutoy became a student in the conducting department of music pedagogical institute city ​​of Nikolaev.

Combining his studies with work as a waiter in a restaurant, Igor met Alexander Serov. The meeting became fateful - he began to write songs for the performer.

Further creative destiny Krutogo is interesting and rich:

• In 1979, Krutoy received an invitation to work in the Moscow Panorama orchestra, where Vladimir Migulya worked. And later he moved to the Blue Guitars ensemble;
• After 2 years, Igor Krutoy was offered a position as a pianist in Valentina Tolkunova’s ensemble with subsequent leadership;
• In 1986, Krutoy became a student again, but after studying for a year at the Saratov Conservatory, he withdrew his documents.

Glory comes to the maestro

A year later, his first hit “Madonna” was released based on the verses of Rimma Kazakova, which, as you know, was performed by Alexander Serov. Following “Madonna,” “How to Be” and “Wedding Music” were born, also performed by Serov. A talented composer noticed megastars Valery Leontyev, Sofia Rotaru, Lev Leshchenko and others no less famous performers.

They still use his services to this day. Besides, performs songs based on his music and the younger generation of performers:

• Marina Khlebnikova;
• Alsou;
• Nikolay Baskov;
• Zhenya Gor and some graduates of the “Star Factory”.

In 1997, Igor Krutoy himself sang: the song “ Unfinished novel", which he performed in a duet with Irina Allegrova, became a real hit.

In 1989, Igor Krutoy became artistic director"ARS"- youth center.

Over the 9 years of the company’s existence, Krutoy rose to the position of its president. "ARS" contributed to popular programs: "Song of the Year", "Soundtrack" and "Morning Mail" (later - " Good morning, a country!").

In 1994, Igor Krutoy began organizing creative evenings, where both already well-known performers and young ones were invited, for whom such evenings were a chance to express themselves. The event was successful in other countries as well.

In 2000, Krutoy released his own album called “Without Words.”

In 2003, due to the scandal with “Star Factory-4,” Krutoy became an undesirable person for Channel One for several years.

Personal life of the composer

In Leningrad, in 1979, after 3 days of dating, Igor proposed to the girl Elena, to which she agreed. In 1981, Elena gave birth to a son, Nikolai. The divorce on her initiative was so painful that for some time Elena prevented meetings between father and son.

At the New Year's celebration in New York with light hand Primadonna Igor met Olga, who later became Krutoy’s second wife. At that time, Olga was married and had a daughter, Victoria. And Igor was still worried about the separation from his previous family.

The biography of Olga Krutoy is remarkable. Olga was born on November 11, 1963 in St. Petersburg in the family of a staunch communist and a housewife. The parents tried to instill rigor and modesty in their daughter. According to the father, a woman should take care of the house, which is what his wife did - she maintained the home and raised her daughter and son.

Olga was calm and easy-going, but by the age of 17, being a true daughter of her time, Olga noticed that a girl her age could stay out late and wear jeans. Nothing came of the late walks, but Olga defended the right to wear jeans.

But strict upbringing coupled with a rebellious character bore fruit: as a result, Olga Krutaya is a successful businesswoman.

After graduating from school, Olga, in defiance of her father, received an economics education. But despite the fact that she chose this path out of spite, in the future her economic education served her well - both in business and in competently managing the family budget.

While a student, Olga got married and gave birth to a daughter, Victoria. And after graduating from university, she decided to live with a friend in America, and she stayed there, taking her daughter six months later.

It was there that she met Igor, who immediately fell in love with her. But Olga, mistaking Krutoy’s sister, who accompanied him with his mother, for his wife, did not attach importance to the acquaintance.

A month later, the maestro, realizing that he could not forget the beauty, dialed her number. That's how the romance began. He developed rapidly - already on the third date, Igor proposed to Olga, but they got married only 2 years later.

The wedding was celebrated on a grand scale: they walked for two days, a huge number of celebrities were invited - Alla Pugacheva, Irina Allegrova and many, many...

Igor Krutoy - Russian composer, singer and producer. Owner of company ARS, TV channel Muz TV, radio stations "Love-radio", X-FM And "Radio Dacha", founder of the festival « New wave» in Jurmala, producer of the show “Star Factory - 4”.

Achievements Igor Krutoy in modern Russian music show business one can paint endlessly. He has authored more than three hundred compositions for Russian pop stars: Alla Pugacheva, Joseph Kobzon, Philip Kirkorov, Alexander Serov, Laima Vaikule, Dmitry Hvorostovsky, Lara Fabian and others.

Composer Igor Krutoy is the holder of the title of People's Artist of Russia and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree.

Childhood of Igor Krutoy

Igor Krutoy born on July 29, 1954 in Gayvoron, Kirovograd region, in the family of Yakov Krutoy, a freight forwarder at the Radiodetal city plant, and Svetlana Krutoy, laboratory assistant at the sanitary and epidemiological station. In 1959, Igor Yakovlevich had a sister, Alla.

Musical ability The future composer's qualities appeared already from childhood. In 1974, he graduated with honors from the theoretical department of the Kirovograd Music School, and a year later Igor Krutoy entered the Nikolaev Music Pedagogical Institute at the conducting department, working as a button accordion teacher in his free time from studies in his hometown.

“My life is crazy. I, a boy from the Ukrainian regional center of Gayvoron, made my way, entered the circle of such people, my songs were sung best singers countries, my concerts sold out the largest halls in the world, including the 18,000-seat Madison Square Garden. Perhaps the stars somehow aligned in my favor.”

The creative path of Igor Krutoy

In 1979, Igor Krutoy was invited to the Moscow concert orchestra "Panorama", where he performed with Leonid Smetannikov, Vladimir Miguley And Poladom Bulbul ogly. In 1980, Krutoy worked at VIA " Blue guitars" In 1981, Krutoy received an offer to work as a pianist for Valentina Tolkunova, but almost immediately he became the leader of the ensemble famous singer. At the same time, the composer tours with Evgeny Leonov.

In 1986 Igor Krutoy entered the composition department of the Saratov Conservatory named after L.V. Sobinova. Creative activity began with the advent VIA team "Blue guitars", and in 1987 Steep wrote a song "Madonna" for my old friend Alexandra Serova. It was resounding success: television festival "Song of the year" called this composition the best.

In 1989, Igor Krutoy became the artistic director of the production center ARS. Today it is one of the largest Russian concert and production companies. She is responsible for organizing performances Jose Carerosa in 1995 and Michael Jackson in 1996. Among the artists of ARS Records: Alexander Buinov, Boris Moiseev, Diana Gurtskaya, Irina Dubtsova and others.

“All my colleagues have been in business for a long time. Laima makes creams and sells some women's stuff. Kobzon, it seemed to me, was generally in big business. Valera Meladze is a member of the bank’s board of directors. And only me is considered a businessman. Why is that? But I only work in the music field. My interests include television production, radio stations, competitions, awards...”

Igor Krutoy’s albums with instrumental music “Without Words” were released twice.

In 2004, composer Igor Krutoy produced the fourth episode of the popular reality show “Star Factory”.

“Factories” are incubators with their own ceiling, above which you cannot jump. In captivity, talent will not manifest itself. That’s why I gave the guys at my “Factory” a lot of freedom. There was such revelry there, even sex under cameras. I don't see anything wrong with this. For young people, sex is like going to the toilet. Now everything is much simpler. The guys, due to my conflict with Channel One, received a serious kick at the start of their artistic biography. Piekha and Larina got out the easiest. They betrayed me. Now I think that if I had not had this conflict, almost all the “manufacturers” would have been superstars. That’s how I selected them.”

In January 2017 it became known that Igor Krutoy became one of the mentors of the project “You are super!” "on the NTV channel. Participants vocal competition became pupils of boarding schools, orphanages, as well as children from foster families. Krutoy’s colleagues on the show were singers Margarita Sukhankina and Yolka. Even before the start of the project, its creators announced that the finalists of “You’re Super!” will perform at the children's “New Wave”, and will also take part in the production of the musical “Republic of SHKID”.

In March 2019, the third season of the project “” started on the NTV channel. Igor Krutoy became a mentor to the contestants along with and singer Yolka.

Personal life of Igor Krutoy

Sister of Igor Yakovlevich Alla in 1992 she married an American of Italian origin, took his surname Baratta and moved to the USA. In 1997, she began working on television in Philadelphia, then on the satellite Russian-language channel RTVi, where for 13 years she hosted the Sunday program “Vis-Avis”, whose guests were: Mstislav Rostropovich, Ernst Neizvestny, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Alexey Yagudin, Oleg Kalugin, Rudy Giuliani, Alla Pugacheva and many others. Currently, on the TV and Radio Broadcasting Company “Ukraine” he hosts the “Welcome” program, also dedicated to meetings with celebrities.

The first wife of Igor Krutoy in 1979 was Elena from St. Petersburg, who gave the composer a son in 1981 Nicholas. In 2010, a daughter, Christina, was born into the family of Krutoy Jr., and in 2016, Margarita.

In 1995, Igor Krutoy married for the second time. Wife of Igor Krutoy Olga lives in New Jersey with their daughter Sasha(born in 2001). When famous musician proposed to Olga, he was very worried that he would have to live in two countries, but today this does not bother the couple at all.

“Our family life mainly takes place on airplanes: first Olya flies to me, then I fly to her, we spend our holidays together in Europe.”

Eldest son Igor Krutoy from his first marriage Nikolai works in a Moscow metallurgical company, and her stepdaughter Victoria(born 1985) studies at New York University drama school. In the summer of 2014, Victoria got married. The wedding celebration was held twice, and it was Igor Krutoy who led Vika down the aisle.

Igor Krutoy: “Yes, I agree, now my surname is somewhat iconic, but before, in childhood and adolescence, I was very embarrassed by it. Still, she is quite unusual, they made fun of her, teased me. But when my songs began to be heard on the radio, on television, when success came to Sasha Serov, who performed them and was loved by all women, I, in some incomprehensible way, took off with him. People became interested in the personality of the composer with strange surname, and, as they say, the process has begun...”

Winter 2019 64-year-old Igor Krutoy surprised fans with his youthful look (in a sweatshirt, dark jeans and a baseball cap with the visor turned backwards) and with how extreme he lost weight. The producer starred in the video “ Steep", in which the young singer jokes that he is "cool like Igor Krutoy." The video has received over 10 million views on YouTube.

Discography of Igor Krutoy

Confession. Songs of Igor Krutoy, EP, 1986.

Alexander Serov, Madonna, LP, 1987.

Alexander Serov, I'm crying, LP, 1991.

Sisters Rose, How is it in Russia? CD/CC, 1992.

Collection of songs by Igor Krutoy, Starfall CD/CC, 1994.

Collection of songs by Igor Krutoy, Love Like a Dream CD/CC, 1995.

Arkady Arkanov, Arkanov-Krutoy, 1995.

Irina Allegrova, I will part the clouds with my hands... CD/CC, 1996.

Vadim Baykov, Queen of my dreams CD/CC, 1996.

Songs by composer Igor Krutoy, Part 1 CD/CC, 1997.

Songs by composer Igor Krutoy, Part 2 CD/CC, 1997.

Alexander Buynov, Love Islands CD/CC, 1997.

Irina Allegrova, Unfinished novel CD/CC, 1998.

Mikhail Shufutinsky, Once Upon a Time in America CD/CC, 1998.

Songs by composer Igor Krutoy, Part 3 CD/CC, 1998.

Songs by composer Igor Krutoy, Part 4 CD/CC, 1998.

Valery Leontyev, Rope Dancer CD/CC, 1999.

Rose Sisters, You Are Me CD/CC, 1998.

Laima Vaikule, Latin Quarter CD/CC, 1998.

Alexander Buinov, My finances sing romances CD/CC, 1998.

Songs by composer Igor Krutoy, Part 5 CD/CC, 1999.

Igor Krutoy, Without Words, Part One CD/CC, 2000.

Igor Krutoy, Friends and Songs, DVD/VHS, 2000.

Creative evening of I. Krutoy at the State Palace of Culture DVD/VHS, 2001.

Songs by composer Igor Krutoy, Part 6 CD/CC, 2001.

The Snow Queen, soundtrack New Year's musical CD/DVD/VHS, 2003.

Igor Krutoy, Without Words, Part Two CD, 2004.

Igor Krutoy, The Best, Part One CD, 2004.

Once in a lifetime it happens... 50, Creative evening of Igor Krutoy DVD/VHS, 2004.

Igor Krutoy, What the pianist is playing about DVD/VHS, 2006.

Igor Krutoy, Without Words, Part Three CD, 2007.

Igor Krutoy, The Best, Part Two CD, 2008.

Dmitry Hvorostovsky and Igor Krutoy, Deja Vu, 2 CD + DVD, 2009.

Lara Fabian and Igor Krutoy, Mademoiselle Jivago, CD, 2010.

Igor Krutoy, Without words, Parts four and five 2 CD, 2012.

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Today it is difficult to imagine that the creator of numerous hits, composer Igor Krutoy, once did not even have money for food. Only decades later he will become a famous musician, producer, organizer of competitions and a very popular person, whose army of fans will number millions. All his life, Igor Krutoy, who will celebrate his 63rd birthday at the end of July, had women around him. Each of them played a role in the fate of the maestro.

An incorrigible romantic, girls always liked him. I fell in love myself. Igor Krutoy proposed to his first wife Elena on their third date. She agreed without hesitation. The young people got married in 1979 in Leningrad. The celebration was modest, the guests gathered in Elena’s small apartment. They set a long table and ran around the neighbors for forks and spoons. In a word, it was noisy and fun. But family life turned out completely different.

26-year-old Igor Krutoy did not have a regular income, which made his young wife very nervous. As a result, Elena left her husband while pregnant.

“I am grateful to her for this, for her honesty, for the fact that she made such a decision, because every year it would have become more and more tragic,” Igor Krutoy will say decades after the divorce.

For some time, Elena tried to prevent communication between her father and little son If. Igor Krutoy admitted that sometimes he had to be cunning and ask the boy’s nanny to arrange a date for him with the heir. But later everything fell into place. After a bad experience family life Igor Krutoy tried to protect his son from irreparable mistakes. But young man Still, I had to go through a divorce, practically repeating my father’s fate.

After ten years of bachelor life, in the early 90s, Igor Krutoy met the woman who became his destiny. At one of the banquets in America, Igor was introduced to the bright and beautiful business lady Olga. “I didn’t even think that women could be so beautiful,” recalls his first meeting with future wife Igor Krutoy. But there was no question of a novel. Olga was married and raised a daughter. And Igor had a job waiting for him in Moscow. But their love turned out to be stronger than distances and conventions. At one of the following meetings, Krutoy proposed to Olga.

“I went all-in,” Igor Yakovlevich recalled in an interview. “We haven’t had any relationship yet, but I’ve already made an offer.” He immediately asked the question: “Will you be my wife?” And she immediately agreed.”

The meeting with Olga filled the composer’s life with new meaning. Thanks to this woman, Krutoy wrote his most beautiful and lyrical songs. “They fell in love with each other at first sight,” said the maestro’s younger sister Alla Baratta. – Igor began to compose extraordinary songs. I remember my brother came to visit me in Philadelphia, sat down at the piano and played a beautiful melody. I asked: “What is this? What is it called? He replied: “It’s called “Olenka.” The result was the song “I love you to tears...”.

The couple have been together for more than twenty years. In 2003, Olga gave her husband a daughter, Sasha. And they still live in two countries - Olga in America, Igor in Russia. “I’m in demand here,” says Igor Krutoy. - Of course, we miss you very much. But we try to see each other more often. We usually spend the summer together somewhere in Europe.”

Childhood and adolescence

Igor grew up as an ordinary boy, played football with friends and at first was no different from his peers. In the Krutys’ house they kept an old trophy accordion, which my father sometimes picked up during family gatherings. Igor also liked to finger the keys of the dilapidated instrument, and he himself did not notice how he learned to play it.

This activity fascinated the teenager so much that he began performing at local discos, masterfully performing compositions from the repertoire of the legendary Beatles on the button accordion. Seeing her son's obvious abilities in music, his mother insisted that after the eighth grade he enter a music school. To do this, it was necessary to master the piano, so, despite the difficult financial situation in the family, Igor was bought a used piano.

Carier start

Even then, Krutoy began to write his own songs, which were successfully performed by artists of the Nikolaev Philharmonic, but he was unable to break through further. In those days, young artists had to overcome difficult barriers from various artistic council auditions, which only the most talented and stubborn managed to pass.

Success

Thanks to Tolkunova’s patronage, in 1988 Serov managed to get to the international musical competition in Budapest with Krutoy’s song “Madonna” and become the winner there. Half the job was done, now all that was left was to get on television. For the first time, the song “Madonna” was heard on the air of the program “Before and After Midnight”; by the morning the whole country was already singing it.

Igor Krutoy’s song “Madonna” performed by Alexander Krutoy

Overnight, Serov became a megastar, and Krutoy became one of the most sought-after composers on the Russian stage. But the real burden of fame fell on Igor Krutoy’s head after his duet with Irina Allegrova in the video “An Unfinished Romance.”

Krutoy’s songs have taken their rightful place in the repertoire of such stars of the pop scene as Irina Allegrova (more than 40 songs, including “I will part the clouds with my hands”), Valery Leontyev (more than 20), Laima Vaikule (including “ Chestnut Branch,” which they sang as a duet), Alexander Buinov (more than 30) and Alla Pugacheva (“Love Like a Dream,” “Ah, Lieutenant,” etc.).

In 1989, Igor Yakovlevich created the ARS production center, within which he organized grandiose musical projects on a global scale. The composer’s creative evenings invariably aroused great interest, and his music festivals in Jurmala and Sochi to this day are among the most significant events in domestic show business.

Igor Krutoy also became the producer of the fourth “Star Factory”, successfully collaborated with Lara Fabian, wrote music for films and theatrical productions.

Igor Krutoy and Lara Fabian - “Fallen Leaves”

The popular composer has released more than one disc with recordings of his songs. So, one of the first was an album called “Songs of the composer Igor Krutoy” (parts 1–6), in 1997 a collection performed by Alexander Buinov “Islands of Love” was released, two years later “My Finances Sing Romances”, in 2002 followed by the album “Songs of the Composer - Star series“, and Irina Allegrova recorded an album with Krutoy’s songs “I will part the clouds with my hands” and “An unfinished novel.”

Igor Krutoy writes a lot of instrumental music. So, in 2000 he released the album “Without Words”, and also at the beginning of his career wrote music for three feature films: “Thirst for Passion,” “Hostages of the Devil,” and “Souvenir for the Prosecutor.”

Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy (July 29, 1954) is a world-famous Russian composer and producer, who today owns several radio stations and even his own music website on the Internet. Thanks to his incredibly attractive compositions, in 1996 he received the title of People's Artist of Russia, and in 2011 he became People's Artist Ukraine. Among other things, since 1992 Igor Yakovlevich has been an Honored Artist Russian Federation.

Childhood

Igor was born on July 29 in the city of Gayvoron, located on the territory of the Kirovograd region, in an ordinary average family, where at that time his older sister Alla was already being raised. Igor’s father is a worker at an engineering plant who has devoted his entire life to work and maintaining a good and stable condition in the family. The mother of the future composer, Svetlana Semyonovna, was a laboratory assistant at the sanitary and epidemiological station and, because of her work, was often forced to travel. In her absence, the boy was looked after by his older sister, since his father worked at the factory until late in the evening.

Musical ability little boy were visible to the naked eye since school years. At first, young Igor independently mastered musical literacy, and then even learned to play the button accordion (by himself, too!). In addition, he did not neglect to participate in school plays and productions, often performing compositions own composition.

And, despite the fact that the musical numbers, as a rule, were only minute-long, Igor’s school friends and teachers noted the boy’s incredible talent, predicting him a successful future in the world of show business. But, despite such flattering reviews, Krutoy was in no hurry to immerse himself in music, making it his profession. So far, for him it was just a fun hobby, which, moreover, attracted the attention of his friends to him.

Youth and the beginning of a musical career

Igor Yakovlevich began to think about the fact that he seriously wanted to take up music and, moreover, to connect his whole life with it, after his successful graduation. high school. So, he goes to the theoretical department of the Kirovograd Music College, where people like him young talents begin to comprehend the basics of complex craftsmanship.

In 1974, Krutoy graduated with honors. educational institution. At that time, he dreamed of entering the conservatory, but, due to circumstances unknown to anyone, the young and gifted guy was denied admission.

Frustrated, Igor goes to teach at one of the local schools. It seems that the dreams and aspirations of becoming a professional pianist have come to an end, but Krutoy does not give up. In parallel with teaching, he successfully passes the entrance exams and ends up at one of the faculties of the Nikolaev State Pedagogical Institute named after Belinsky. Of course, studying at this institution was very different from what the future musician initially expected, but there is no choice.

Studying at a pedagogical school was difficult for Krutoy, mainly due to serious financial problems. Despite the fact that several friends helped him at once, the guy barely made ends meet to stably pay for tuition and living in the school dormitory. Then he decides that he is no longer able to ask for a loan from friends and goes to one of the restaurants in the city, applying for the position of a waiter.

After much persuasion, the owner of the establishment hires the guy, giving him an ultimatum - if he shirks, he will be fired right away! But Krutoy doesn’t even think about relaxing on his dream job; on the contrary, he tries in every possible way to earn more. By the way, his first meeting with Alexander Serov takes place there, for whom Krutoy would later compose lyrics and music.

Gaining popularity

In 1981, Krutoy’s creative rise began. Thanks to the same Serov, who, having met a talented guy, becomes a listener to several draft compositions, Igor is offered to become a pianist in the artistic ensemble of Valentina Vasilievna Tolkunova. Having proven himself well before the leader, Igor Yakovlevich quite quickly becomes her best friend, and then, after Tolkunova left, as the new artistic director.

During this period, Krutoy wrote compositions for several domestic performers at once, the main one, naturally, being Alexander Serov. With the help of beautiful and lyrical melodies, he even wins the “Song of the Year” festival, after which Igor Krutoy begins to receive orders several times a day, making the composer more and more famous.

Until 1989, Igor Krutoy was in the musical field only as a composer. He collaborates with Alexander Serov, tours with Evgeny Leonov and writes music for such compositions as “In Spite of Fate”, “You Love Me”, “Madonna”, “Inspiration”, “How to Be”, “Wedding Music” and others.

Producing

Since 1989, having gained experience in the musical field, Igor Yakovlevich opened his own production company called the ARS Youth Center (later shortened to the abbreviation ARS). The company's goal is not only to collaborate and support many domestic celebrities, but also to attract new and unknown performers.

Since 1994, the ARS Youth Center has held monthly creative evenings, in which about a dozen pop celebrities constantly take part. The events are radically different from each other each time, as are the compositions performed on stage, the author of which is, of course, Krutoy. It is worth noting that over the 11 years of its existence, ARS has proven its success, became one of the three largest and most popular music companies in Russia and was even able to organize performances abroad (in particular, in Germany, Israel and the United States of America). On this moment, Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy has over a hundred successful contracts with such domestic stars scenes such as Irina Allegrova, Nadezhda Kadysheva, Nikolai Baskov, Nadezhda Babkina, Oleg Gazmanov, Alsou, Vlad Stashevsky, Prokhor Chaliapin and others.

Personal life

At the beginning of 1979, at one of the charity concerts Igor Krutoy meets his first love - journalist Elena, who is an ardent fan of the composer's work. A few months later, a rumor appears in the press that Krutoy secretly married a young girl, which he openly admits in one of his interviews.

In 1981, the couple's son Nikolai was born, but the couple was not destined to be together - by 1985 the press learned that Igor Yakovlevich left the family, having become carried away by the young businesswoman Olga Dmitrievna. The couple was in no hurry to tie the knot, and a couple of years after meeting the composer, the woman went back to New Jersey, where she continues to do business and maintain active correspondence with Krutoy, raising his daughter Alexandra.