Looking at truly folk singer Sofia Rotaru, it’s impossible to believe that today, August 7, she celebrates her 70th birthday.
Of course. Cosmetic surgeons can work wonders. And many observers claim that the artist owes part of her fabulous beauty and youthful appearance to them. But even spiteful critics admit: her activity, youthful enthusiasm, and mobility can be envied.
True, embarrassments do happen. In March of this year, the star Soviet stage included in the “shooting stars” rating. At one of the concerts she could not resist too much high heels and collapsed, fortunately, not on or off the stage, but into the reliable hands of composer Ruslan Kvinta.
Fortunately, he was also on stage at that time and provided support for the “comet” of Russian and Ukrainian show business in time. Rotaru was not at a loss then. We must give her credit, she recovered from the fall quickly. She asked the musician for forgiveness, and then joked: “Hold me tight!” And then she calmly continued her speech.
And Sofia Mikhailovna decided to celebrate her 70th birthday in a close circle of close people, away from the bustle, from annoying reporters and not always adequate fans. She and family members flew to Sardinia on a private jet.
The celebration takes place in a rented villa with a gorgeous, fantastic view of the Mediterranean Sea. Members of the star family have already started posting photos and videos about this little summer adventure on the Internet.
The “rehearsal” for the anniversary was Sofia Rotaru’s creative evening, held as part of the “HEAT” festival, which recently ended in the Azerbaijani capital Baku. Together with the hero of the day, her granddaughter Sofia shone on stage. The singer's namesake is making a career as a model, and is already quite successfully mastering the European catwalks.
Anniversary show: Channel One will show Sofia Rotaru’s concert today at the festival “Heat - 2017”
On Sunday, September 3, there will be a screening on Channel One anniversary evening Sofia Rotaru on her 70th birthday, which she celebrated on August 7th. The concert took place as part of the International music festival"Heat - 2017" in Baku.
This year Sofia Rotaru celebrates 70th anniversary and 55th anniversary creative activity, if we consider the artist’s first singing success in a regional amateur art competition in 1962.
But at age Sofia Mikhailovna hard to believe. Perhaps the secret of her ageless soul, unfading beauty and power of voice lies in recognition and calling. How Sofia Rotaru herself openly told the public in Baku at the festival " Heat - 2017": when she hears applause, she feels strong, young and very, very happy.
Spectators Channel One in the television version of Sofia Rotaru’s anniversary evening at the festival in Baku, they will see hits performed by the People’s Artist - “ Chervona rue», « Farmer», « One viburnum», « You are the best"and other hits.
The hero of the occasion will also appear on stage with others popular performers to sing your favorite songs together.
So, we will see the singer in a duet with Grigory Leps, Emin, Nastya Kamenskikh And Potapom. Besides, Valeria, Lev Leshchenko, Glucose, Ani Lorak, Svetlana Loboda and other singers will also perform songs of the birthday girl.
And let’s add that Channel One has already shown four parts of “Heat - 2017”. These are gala concerts of the festival and a creative evening by Grigory Leps. In the near future, viewers will still be treated to a full-fledged prima donna concert. national stage – Alla Pugacheva.
Don't miss the TV version of Sofia Rotaru's anniversary show on Sunday, September 3, on Channel One. Start musical evening at 16:20.
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Anniversary evening
Sofia Rotaru in Baku
ANNIVERSARY EVENING
SOFIA ROTARU IN BAKU
If geographically and politically Soviet Union has been dead for a long time, then in pop culture it continues to exist as if nothing had happened - in the person of such figures as, who recently celebrated her 80th birthday, or Sofia, who turns 70 on August 7.
The biographical information about Rotaru alone seems to contain the entire history of the country - she was born in the village of Marshantsy in the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine in a Moldavian family; In the early 90s, there was a joke that during the negotiations in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, the leaders of Russia and Ukraine asked themselves the question “how will we divide Rotaru.”
Her career began to develop at a time when Soviet ideologists finally allowed the flowers of national cultures to bloom.
Seventies
Many believe that Rotaru’s fame began to really accelerate with the musical film “Chervona Ruta” of 1971, in which Rotaru played main role and the name of which she then took for her ensemble. In fact, the Festival of Youth and Students, held in Bulgaria three years earlier, can also compete for the title of the launching pad of her career - she won a gold medal there, performing songs in Ukrainian and Romanian.
And the first success came about ten years earlier and consisted of many stages - regional, then republican amateur art competitions, the conducting and choral department of the Chernivtsi Music College, in the absence of a vocal one.
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The key to Rotaru’s success was a clear and even in the best sense the words are a calculated mixture of national and cosmopolitan repertoires: for example, from the very beginning of her creative activity she continued to collaborate with composer Vladimir Ivasyuk from Lvov, but at the same time sang songs by Arno Babajanyan and Vladimir Matetsky; Other poets who need no introduction also wrote texts for them. And the point is not only that collaboration with the highest caste of Soviet pop composition and poetry workshop served as a pass to the big stage.
Such omnivorousness allowed her to organically weave songs from the Soviet outskirts into different languages into your program and skillfully use - at least the declarative - course Soviet authorities to support national cultures.
And thus everyone will like it: Mosconcert officials, residents of Russian capitals, and their fellow countrymen on both sides of the Ukrainian-Moldovan border.
It’s interesting that the singer, seemingly favored by the authorities, had her share of disgrace in her career. More precisely, it worked out - in 1975, she had a conflict with the local Chernivtsi regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and therefore she and her ensemble moved to Yalta. Nothing definite is known about its causes until now - Rotaru herself said that she moved to Crimea due to the onset of asthma. Possible reason there was an increased share of the repertoire in Ukrainian and collaboration with authors from Western Ukraine. It is interesting that the shake-up and stress gave new impetus to her career: the singer’s records (first long-players) began to be released by the Melodiya company, and she herself was invited to Munich to record a disc at the Ariola company. Then she had a large-scale tour of Western and Eastern Europe.
Eighties
The decade of transition from stagnation to perestroika became the peak of her career - it was at this moment that, with the help of radio and television, she became a constant presence in the life of the country, coming to almost every home and sounding from every window. And the trigger for this popularity, again, as in the case of “Chervona Ruta,” was cinema—more precisely, two films with her songs and participation. In 1980, “Where Are You, Love?” was released, a kind of adaptation of the plot of “Come Tomorrow” to more modern realities. The picture was quite autobiographical - in it, a young girl came to an amateur song competition with a composition by Raymond Pauls, the same name as the film, and left as its main triumph.
The film turned out to be mega-popular - Melodiya released a record with songs from the film, and the whole country sang songs based on poems by the best Soviet poets.
A year later, another picture was released - “Soul”, an autobiographical melodrama about the singer’s loss of her voice and reassessment of values. The participants of “Time Machine” starred in it as musicians, the songs were written by and, and Rotaru’s partner was who was then at the peak of popularity. The second picture completed the formation of a personal mythology around her, and her triumphant tour in Canada gave her the status of a real export star, in the language of trade, suitable for both domestic consumption and export.
However, it seems that it was this stardom and this status that became the reason for the actual second disgrace - she was prohibited from foreign tours (for which there were more and more requests).
It got ridiculous - representatives of the German concert agency Once, in response to an invitation, they sent a paper: “This kind of person doesn’t work here.”
Nevertheless, Rotaru actively participated in “Songs of the Year” and continued to collaborate with both top Russian-language authors and Moldovan poets - for example, Gheorghe Vieru, who wrote the songs “Romantica” and “Melancolie” for her. However, it ended - it was a failure, it must be admitted - it fell into disgrace only with the beginning of perestroika.
A turning point in this sense can be considered the beginning of collaboration with Vladimir Matetsky, which entailed (or, conversely, was the reason) for a change in image - instead of a chansonnier with folk roots, Rotaru turned into a disco and rock vocalist. More precisely, she was still an ideal opponent for the rock musicians of the Leningrad Rock Club and the Moscow Rock Laboratory, however, starting with the quite romantic “Lavender”, she eventually began to perform fast things - the very ones for which she is still remembered por: “Moon, moon”, “It was, but it’s gone”, “Only this is not enough.” The latter was a completely bold experiment - a poem full of nostalgic sadness was turned by Matetsky into a real rock action movie. They worked together for 15 long years - until the end of those very 90s, when honored artists were decisively scrapped, and new ones were nominated in their place.
Nineties - today
Moreover, it is worth noting that Rotaru never became an archival star - like a generation pop stars generation older, quietly and with dignity retired into teaching and “Old songs about the main thing.”
She, who began her career with the help of her mother, a trader at the collective farm market, had some amazing, as they say these days, marketing sense: in some amazing way, at the right moments in time, she guessed the situation and the time when she needed to change her image or do something new.
So, for example, it was she who at one time - back in the early 90s - noticed a trend among new pop stars to perform with backup dancers and invited the then not very famous troupe "Todes" to perform with her.
The head of the dance theater, Alla Dukhova, said that these concerts were the first step towards the future fame of the dance troupe.
At the same time, she is not at all characterized by a passion for continuous updating and oblivion of the old repertoire - she did not shy away from anniversaries, nostalgic reissues, etc. In 2012-2013, she launched a big anniversary tour dedicated to the 40th anniversary of her creative activity. Rather, on the contrary - carefully and tightly mixing old hits with new ones, she presented her songs as part of one, never interrupted (and, by and large, not influenced by time) process. Moreover, it seems that in her case this is not a concept, but a philosophy - because both her biography and her statements indicate that for her this is a way of life.
Another feature of her philosophy remains her political position. Although it would be more correct to say humanitarian - a Kiev resident by registration and a Yalta resident by actual place of residence, in 2004 she distributed food on the Maidan to representatives of both opposing camps.
And later, in the wake of the great advent of Ukrainian musicians into politics, she even tried to run for the Rada from the Lytvyn bloc. At the same time, at the present time, she in every possible way refrains from any involvement in the foul-smelling Russian-Ukrainian propaganda wars that cause suffering to both peoples: after the annexation of Crimea, she did not accept Russian citizenship (according to her, because of registration in Kyiv) and especially noted that is a citizen of Ukraine.
At the same time, in fact, she and her songs remain part of the life of divided citizens of a once united country.
Informals of the 80s considered her songs an example of Soviet pop officialdom - now they sound like last memory about that utopia of the unity of the country and the friendship of peoples, to which the Soviet Union at least tried to get closer and the final collapse of which we are witnessing now. And that is why there is a risk that many leaders of the countries sharing this singer will remain small politicians era of Sofia Rotaru.
Singer Sofia Rotaru celebrates her 70th birthday today. People's Artist USSR Sofia Mikhailovna Rotaru was born on August 7, 1947 in the village of Marshintsy, Novoselitsky district, Chernivtsi region of Ukraine.
Sofia Rotaru has had a love of music since childhood: The singer’s father, Mikhail Fedorovich, loved to sing with his wife at home. And Sofia’s older sister Zina, after an illness, lost her ability to see, but the illness sharpened the girl’s hearing. It was Zina who taught all her younger brothers and sisters to sing. Therefore, subsequently, not only Sofia, but also Aurika and Lydia Rotaru became singers and actively performed, singing in duets and trios. And the brothers Anatoly and Evgeniy worked at VIA Orizont.
The first success came to Sofia Rotaru in 1962. Victory in the regional amateur art competition opened the way for her to the regional show, which took place in the city of Chernivtsi, and there she was also the first. In 1964, she took part in the Republican Festival of Folk Talents and won again! In the same year, Sofia Rotaru first appeared on stage Kremlin Palace congresses.
Sofia entered the conducting and choral department of the Chernivtsi Music College.
In 1968, Sofia Rotaru married Anatoly Evdokimenko, Honeymoon The newlyweds spent time in the dormitory of the 105th military plant in Novosibirsk, where the husband did his university internship.
Rotaru was delegated to Bulgaria for the IX World Festival youth and students, where she won a gold medal and first prize in a folk song competition.
In 1971, Evdokimenko, who became not only a husband, but also a producer of Rotaru, organized Music band"Chervona Ruta" at the Chernivtsi Philharmonic, of which Rotaru became a soloist. For more than 30 years, Anatoly Evdokimenko was the fulfiller of any of her desires, producer, program director, director, director, bodyguard... His tragic death in 2002 after a difficult long illness became a big blow for Rotaru in her personal life.
In 1974, Rotar was given an almost fatal diagnosis - pulmonary tuberculosis. She was then diagnosed with asthma, and later nodules appeared on her vocal cords - an occupational disease for singers. But this did not break the singer.
The disease was defeated. True, the singer had to move to Crimea - only the local healing sea air saved her lungs. Then an operation was performed on the ligaments, and later another one. After her, the singer was forced to speak in a whisper for a year.
Rotaru still performs today. Last time she appeared on stage on July 28 as part of the Heat festival in Baku.
For my singing career Rotaru performed more than 400 songs, many of which became classics of the Soviet and Ukrainian stage. The singer has released over 30 albums, including recent years- “And my soul flies...” (2011), “Forgive me” (2013), “Let’s have a summer! (2014), “Winter” (2016).
