Larisa Dolina: biography

Name: Larisa Dolina (Larisa Kudelman)

Date of Birth: September 10, 1955

Age: 61 years old

Place of Birth: Baku, Azerbaijan

Growth: 169

Activity: singer, actress, People's Artist of Russia

Family status: married

Larisa Dolina: biography

Larisa Dolina is a pop jazz singer and actress. The valley bears the title of People's Artist of Russia and has won the Ovation national music award three times.

Larisa Aleksandrovna Dolina was born on September 10, 1955 in Baku under the surname Kudelman. Larisa does not hide her Jewish nationality, but later, for euphony, she took her mother's maiden name as a pseudonym.

The girl's father, Alexander Markovich, worked as a builder, and her mother, Galina Izrailevna, worked as a typist. When my daughter was three years old, the family moved to Odessa, where her parents were from. In Odessa, they lived for about three years in a cramped communal apartment, often recalling a luxurious Baku house.

At the age of 6, Larisa was sent to a music school in the cello class. Since then, she alternately dreamed of a career as a singer, then a job as a translator. Parents encouraged their daughter's craving for music, but also engaged in her general education. She attended foreign language courses, loved English.

The creative biography of the singer began very early, in childhood. The artist decided on her future at the age of 12, when she first appeared on stage in a pioneer camp. Dolina sang with the vocal and instrumental ensemble "Magellans", and the performance was a success. First, she was offered to dance with a group, and then with another ensemble, while still a schoolgirl, she began to sing in restaurants. In the 9th grade, the young singer went through a series of auditions, and Larisa Dolina was taken to the Volna ensemble. The girl even had to finish school as an external student in order to be able to engage in creativity.

Music

1973 Larisa Dolina leaves the ensemble and works in a restaurant at the Black Sea Hotel. She is becoming very popular both in Odessa and beyond. Celebrities who come to the city definitely go to a restaurant to listen to the Valley. After some time, she received an offer to sing in the Yerevan vocal-instrumental ensemble "Armina". Parents are against it, but the singer decides to leave.

The four years spent in Armenia were difficult for the singer. The girl saw life in all its diversity, had to go through periods of lack of money, faced situations where there was simply nowhere to wait for help. But the reward for the difficulties was an invitation to the "State Variety Orchestra of Armenia" under the direction of Konstantin Orbelyan.

Later, in her life, the State Variety Ensemble of Azerbaijan, the Sovremennik Orchestra under the direction of A. Kroll will be in her life. Soloist Larisa Dolina in the program "Jazz Vocal Anthology", prepared by Kroll, was received in cities with a full house. With an orchestra, she travels around the Union republics, gaining more and more popularity.

In 1979, Larisa Dolina participated in the Tallinn Pop Song Contest and received a special prize. In 1981 he went to a festival in Czechoslovakia to win first place there.

In 1982, Larisa Dolina was entrusted with the performance of the song "Three White Horses" in the film "Magicians". In 1983, the connection with the cinema does not break, and the Valley appears as an actress and singer in the film "We are from Jazz".

The energetic singer simultaneously manages to study at the pop department of the Gnessin Moscow Music College. Unfortunately, the order of the Minister of Culture to leave Moscow for all artists without a residence permit forces her to move to St. Petersburg, leaving her education.

Since 1985, the independent activity of the singer began. She moves away from jazz towards pop songs, independently puts on programs with which she travels around the country. The program "Long jump" is followed by the show "Contrasts".

In 1987, the first video with Larisa Dolina was released. It was a film-concert of the singer. In the future, the singer presented seven more video albums, first in VHS format, and then on DVD. The discs included recordings of concerts and music videos for Dolina's songs.

In 1989, the concert program "Ldinka" was broadcast on Russian television. In 1990, she presents the viewer with a new project, "Little Woman", demonstrating her endless creative power and diligence.

In 1992, she celebrates 20 years on stage. In 1993, the artist released the album "Ldinka" with the compositions of a popular concert and the title song of the same name. In 1993, Dolina became the "Honored Artist of Russia".

Crazy success awaits the singer in the mid-90s. In 1996, she performs in the concert hall. The performance of the song "Weather in the House" becomes the crown number of the show. In the same year, the artist released a new album, Goodbye, No, Goodbye. The name of the album consisted of the names of the two title tracks of the disc “Farewell” and “Goodbye”, the album also included the songs “Angel”, “Restaurant”, “Jealous of Me” and others.

It seems that Dolina can do everything: in 1997, in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, together with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov, she performed the most iconic hits of the outgoing 20th century.

During this period, Larisa Dolina also sings the "yard" song "In the Cape Town Port", which was considered urban folklore. The song was also performed by dozens of other Soviet artists.

In 1999, the Valley presents the song "The Wall". He wrote the music of the song, and the poetry -. "The Wall" became one of the last songs by the Valley on the poet's verses. In total, Larisa Dolina performed 25 songs based on Tanich's verses.

In 2002, Larisa Dolina decides to return to her favorite direction in music - jazz. Today, her jazz concerts are real events in the art world.

In 2005, the performer received the Golden Gramophone Award for the composition Flowers under the Snow. The Valley performed this song in a duet with. “Flowers Under the Snow” is not the only joint song of the duet, Dolina and Panayotov sang the compositions “Moon Melody” and “Give Me Your Hand” together.

In 2006, the artist released a new album called "Burned Soul". The title track of the album was remembered by the fans for the refrain line and in the people's memory it bears the changed name "My Burnt Soul".

The following albums by Larisa Dolina have English titles and are intended for an English-speaking audience.

In 2008, the first English-language album by the Valley "Hollywood Mood" was released. The role of producer and lyricist was performed by George Duke. Other records followed: Carnival of Jazz-2: No comments in 2009, Route 55 in 2010 and LARISA in 2012.

The talent of the singer is enough for everything and everyone. Larisa Dolina participates in the show as a member of the jury and as a contestant. So, in the show "People's Artist" she helped new names appear in show business. And in 2013, the singer becomes.

In 2015, Larisa Dolina again delighted the Russian-speaking audience and released the album Let's Take Off the Masks, Gentlemen. To date, this is the last studio album of the performer.

Personal life

Larisa Dolina got married three times. The first husband in 1983 was a colleague of the singer, the second conductor of the Sovremennik orchestra, Anatoly Mionchinsky. In marriage, a daughter, Angelina, was born, but the couple broke up. The reason for this, Larisa Dolina sees both the ex-husband's addiction to alcohol, and misunderstanding of each other. More successful at that time, the Valley had a difficult time experiencing her husband's jealousy, but, according to her, she could no longer endure outright envy.

With guitarist Viktor Mityazov, Larisa Dolina, taught by bitter experience, lived in a civil marriage for a long time.

But with her third husband, bass guitarist Ilya Spitsyn, she signed at the registry office. Ilya Spitsyn was married at the time of their acquaintance, his little son was growing up. In addition, the age difference of 20 years did not allow the Valley to take the musician's advances seriously. However, Spitsyn won the hand and heart of the singer. They are still married, but there were no joint children in the musical family.

In 2011, Larisa Dolina became a grandmother. The singer's daughter from her first marriage, Angelina, gave birth to Larisa's granddaughter, Alexander. Despite the title of "grandmother", the singer looks great. With a height of 169 cm, the singer weighs 60 kg. Fans are sure that the Valley is on a special diet, and journalists often ask the artist to reveal the secret of such a figure. The singer herself says that the feeling of "happiness" will always make a woman beautiful. This is her main secret of youth.

In addition, the singer is always busy, she travels a lot and loves hiking in the mountains. In 2015, Larisa Dolina registered on Instagram, where she began to share travel photos and stage shots with subscribers, but the page was subsequently deleted.

Larisa Dolina now

On September 1, 2016, Larisa Dolina assumed the position of head of the department of pop and jazz singing at the Moscow State Institute of Culture. The singer's teaching career was less successful than her musical one. The latest news about the work of the Valley head of the department consists of high-profile scandals. The singer reacted negatively to part-time education and promised to remove this opportunity soon. At the very first exam, the Valley expelled a third of the correspondence students.

The students are sure that studying makes sense if the curator of the group is friends with the singer, otherwise the student will face "failures" in the exams.

In May 2017, the media reported that a strict teacher had driven a student to a nervous breakdown. After the exam at the Valley, the young singer Irina Sych developed intercostal neuralgia.

Some students do not agree with the scandals in the press and consider Larisa Aleksandrovna a strict but fair teacher. The valley takes the profession seriously and turns exams into full-fledged auditions.

Discography

• "Long Jump"
• "Icicle"
• "Goodbye...no...goodbye"
• "Weather in the house"
• "Singer and Musician"
• "New Year"
• "Carnival of Jazz 1"
• "Islands of Love"
• "Thaw"
• Route 55