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Valeria is called the Russian Madonna for her ability to work, artistry and unique style of performance.
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Valeria has a colossal number of awards and music awards. Her talent was noted at international competitions, television awards, and various song festivals. She has repeatedly reached the top of the country's charts and received several Golden Gramophone awards.
Today many people want to invite Valeria to a concert, as she has amazing vocal abilities, beautiful appearance and behaves on stage like an exemplary professional. Valeria knows the needs of the audience well and knows how to hold attention from the first note to the last verse.
The singer’s work, as well as her personal life, is always in the spotlight. There are constantly stories in the media and the global network about Valeria’s family and her plans for the future. You can find out where the truth lies and where the usual trick of journalists is by visiting Valeria’s official website. On the singer’s page, fans can find photos of Valeria, her songs, read her biography, and get acquainted with the latest news. Valeria performs not only in Russia, but also abroad. In 2009, the performer, together with the group “Simply Red,” toured England, performing at a dozen concert venues.
Valeria's videos and tracks number in the dozens. She recorded about 13 albums, including a disc with the hit “Metelitsa”. In turn, the album “Country of Love,” released in 2003, became a sales record holder, significantly exceeding the figures of previous works.
The television series “There Was Love” was filmed about Valeria’s difficult life, her personal relationships, and career path. The singer also wrote two books. The first edition tells about the difficult fate of the artist, and the second is dedicated to yoga classes, which Valeria regularly spends time on.
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Family and childhood
Alla Perfilova was born on April 17, 1968 in the city of Atkarsk, Saratov region, into a family of music teachers. Father, Yuri Ivanovich Perfilov (1945 - 2009), was the director of the Atkar music school, and mother, Galina Nikolaevna Perfilova (before marriage - Nikitina, born 1938) worked as a teacher at the same music school. Both father and mother were awarded the title of Honored Cultural Worker. 
From early childhood, the girl was distinguished by curiosity, scrupulousness and thoroughness in any matter. She enjoyed going to school and did well in all subjects, her favorite being mathematics. In addition to secondary school, Alla also studied piano at a music school, and also attended a dance club, practiced volleyball and skiing. According to her mother, the girl managed to do everything thanks to her innate abilities and high level of organization. As a result, both schools graduated with a gold medal.
But despite her success in mastering the piano, Alla did not want to become a professional pianist - she was more attracted to pop singing. While still a schoolgirl, she performed as part of the pop-jazz ensemble “Improvt” at the Atkarsky Palace of Culture. The singer later recalled: “It seemed to me then that most pop performers came from amateur performances. Where is the best amateur performance? I thought it was at Moscow State University.” And after school she decided to enter the history department of Moscow State University, department of art history. The girl’s mother was also sure that she would make a good historian.
Education
Plans for entering Moscow State University unexpectedly changed when in 1985, immediately after school, Alla was invited to work in the Reflection ensemble at the Saratov Philharmonic. In the same year, following a targeted direction from the Saratov Philharmonic, she entered the pop vocal class of the Gnessin State Musical and Pedagogical Institute, in the correspondence department. 
In parallel with her studies, Alla earned money by singing in restaurants. But work never prevented the aspiring singer from studying well: her mentors, People's Artist of the USSR Joseph Kobzon and People's Artist of Russia Gelena Velikanova, were pleased with her. The girl successfully graduated from the institute in 1990.
The rise of a solo career
In 1988, Alla Perfilova first appeared on television - she performed the song “Be with me” in the program “Wider Circle”. At the same time, in order to avoid direct competition with another Alla (Pugacheva), who already reigned on the stage, the aspiring singer took the pseudonym Valeria. Subsequently, her whole life passed under this name, and gradually this is exactly what her friends, acquaintances and even her mother began to call her - Valeria, Leroy.Valeria in the program “Wider Circle” (1988)
Soon after graduating from the institute, the singer’s musical career quickly took off. In 1991, Valeria took part in the television competition for young performers “Morning Star” and won it, after which in 1992 she won the international competition “Bratislava Lyre”, and then participated in the song festival “Jurmala-92” and received the audience award .
In the same year, Valeria met producer Alexander Shulgin and recorded her debut album “The Taiga Symphony” with music by Vitaly Bondarchuk and lyrics by Richard Niles. “Everything started happening right away: rehearsals, recordings in the studio. She had nothing, and suddenly there was an offer to record an album in Germany,” the singer’s first husband, Leonid Yaroshevsky, recalled about this time.
It was a truly large-scale work: recordings were made in studios in Munich, London and Moscow, and musicians from the groups Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Pet Shop Boys, as well as the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pavel Kogan took part in the work . The songs were sung in English, and the album was released not only in Russia, but also in several European countries.
At the same time, at the request of Olympia Disk, the singer worked on recording an album of Russian romances, “Stay with Me.” Valeria's video for the romance "Flowers" won five international awards, including "Post-Montpe-92" (France), as well as "Anigraph-92" (Russia), "Generation-92" (Russia, 2nd place) .
Valeria – Stay With Me
From that time on, Alexander Shulgin closely supervised the singer, and in 1993 she married him. He carefully compiled her repertoire, thought out her image to the smallest detail, organized performances and recordings. And the work of the family-creative tandem was rewarded: in 1993, by decision of the Union of Journalists of Russia, Valeria was named “Person of the Year.”
From the beginning of 1993, Valeria worked on recording the album “Anna,” which was released in June 1995 and immediately became one of the best-selling albums. For a long time, songs from this disc occupied the top lines in the Russian charts. The premiere of the concert program “Anna” was a success on December 3, 1994 in Kyiv, and soon Valeria was sold out at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall in St. Petersburg and at the Gorbunov Palace of Culture in Moscow.
Valeria's bright talent and her ability to control her voice were highly appreciated not only among the general public, but also in professional circles, and in 1996 the singer was invited to teach at the Music Academy. Gnesins, her alma mater, where she worked until 1998. In parallel with teaching, in 1997 Valeria released the album “Last Name, Part 1” and made a large tour of cities in Russia and neighboring countries.
In the fall of 1999, Valeria re-released her favorite songs, collecting them into a single album, “The Best.” This album also included the new composition “You’re There Somewhere,” which for a long time occupied the top lines of music ratings. In the spring of 2000, multimedia maxi-singles “Metelitsa” and “Riga - Moscow” were released, and in July the “First INTERNET album” was released. After this, the singer compiled the program “Don’t offend me” and went on a big tour, known as the “All-Ukrainian Tour 2000”.
Valeria - Don't hurt me
In September 2001, she released a new album, “Eyes the Color of the Sky,” and on September 18 and 19, 2001, her solo concerts took place at the State Central Concert Hall “Russia” to a full house. After this, due to a break with her husband and producer Alexander Shulgin, the singer stopped her musical activities and returned to her parents’ home in Atkarsk. She spent a year and a half in her native land, with her beloved parents and children, practically no longer dreaming of returning to the big stage.
Repeated success
In April 2003, the famous producer Joseph Prigozhin approached the singer, and Valeria entered into an agreement with him and his company “Knox Music”. The new producer, who is also Valeria’s new love and new husband, seemed to breathe fresh creative energy into her, and by October 2003 the album “Country of Love” was recorded with the assistance of composer Viktor Drobysh as a sound producer. 
Valeria herself admitted that working on the album was very easy and with pleasure: “It was as if I had found myself. I think I’ve always wanted to sing these kinds of songs.” The new success more than broke all previous records, and Valeria resumed her active concert activities with a large-scale tour of the cities of the Far East, Bashkiria, the Urals, Siberia and the Volga region. During the second half of 2003, the singer gave more than two hundred concerts - not only in Russia, but also in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic states, including two concerts at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall in St. Petersburg and three concerts at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow.
In December 2003, for the song “Chasiki”, Valeria was awarded the national music award “Golden Gramophone”, and in 2004 she received awards from two Russian music channels - “Muz-TV” and “MTV Russia” in the category “Best Performer”. In the same year, she was awarded three more Golden Gramophone awards and the MTV Russia Music Awards for Best Song. The singer’s stunning success was noted at the highest level, and in 2005 singer Valeria was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia.
Valeria – Watch
In April 2006, Valeria released the album “My Tenderness”, and in the fall she made a new tour in support of it, the culminating point of which was a concert at the Olimpiysky sports complex in Moscow. After this, the singer wrote and published an autobiographical book, “And Life, and Tears, and Love.”
At the end of 2007, Valeria and Joseph Prigozhin announced the cessation of touring activities in Russia and reorientation to the Western market. For these purposes, the family moved to London: “The time has come to try to release the album and video in the West - in England, France, Switzerland, Japan and other countries. To do this, you need to go on TV, give interviews, meet different people. It’s impossible to promote while living in Moscow!”
In March 2008, Valeria released a new album, “Out of Control.” Many famous musicians, authors and producers took part in the work on the album: Ray St. John (author of Sade’s song “Smooth Operator”), David Richards (producer of the group “Queen”), Chantal Kreviazuk (author of the hits Avril Lavigne, Gwen Stefani and Kelly Clarkson), as well as Francesca Aeschlimann, George de Angelis and Sergei Galoyan (the author of hits for the Tatu group). The album was mixed by Simon Gorgerley (2006 Grammy winner for his work on the U2 album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb).
Valeria - My heart is broken
The album also includes a cover version of the song “Stayin Alive” by the Bee Gees, which Valeria sang in a duet with its author Robin Gibb. The famous artist was pleased with this collaboration, he spoke warmly about Valeria: “She is really a top artist in Russia, and she is really good!”
In the fall of 2008, a video for the song “Pain! (Happiness in pieces)", in the English version - "Wild" (director - Alan Badoev).
In 2009, Valeria took part in many significant international concerts: in a charity concert at Battersea Evolution (together with Melanie C, Level 42, Atomic Kitten and Bill Wyman), at the opening of the world's largest professional music exhibition "Midem" in Cannes , as well as on the “Simply Red” tour of the UK and at a joint concert in Moscow. “Simply Red” soloist Mick Hucknall noted that Valeria’s performances are always a success. He was very pleased to have such a special guest on the program, and was also pleased to help promote the Russian singer in the UK.
In 2010, the singer’s album “My Love is in Me” was released, which included, in particular, the songs “Magic House” (for the anniversary of Oleg Mityaev) and “It’s not me in your eyes” (for the anniversary of Alexander Kostyuk). In 2013, the album “On the Serpentine” was released, and in the same year Valeria was awarded the title of People’s Artist of Russia, and in 2014 the singer presented a large concert program “Valeria and Friends” in the famous London Albert Hall, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of British conductor Paul Bateman.
Finally, in 2016, a new disc “Oceans” was released, which included, in particular, the song “You are mine,” sung together with daughter Anna Shulgina. In addition, the album includes the song “The Body Wants Love” - a video was shot for it, authored by singer Slava. The main male role in the video was played by classical ballet dancer Ivan Vasiliev, and Valeria herself appeared in the provocative image of a fatal blonde in a sexy silk slip, which caused a lot of criticism.
Valeria – The body wants love
“I absolutely do not like all this rubbish, when all and sundry go to great lengths, not excluding the most worthy,” the famous journalist Otar Kushanashvili commented on the scandalous clip, and this is the softest of his statements. For the singer herself, the defining mood in this case was her passionate love for ballet.
Personal life of Valeria
In the life of the singer Valeria there were three spouses - three men, each of whom played in their own way a key role not only in her female destiny, but also in her creative career. The first of them was Leonid Vladimirovich Yaroshevsky (born in 1960) - a Saratov musician, a graduate of the Saratov Music College. He led the jazz-rock ensemble “Reflection” and the group “Impulse” at the Saratov Philharmonic, where young Alla Perfilova began her creative activity. It was he who inspired the girl to enter the Gnessin Institute - they went together to “conquer Moscow” in the late 80s. 
For a long time, Leonid simply looked after the aspiring singer and helped her, without asking for anything in return, and only two years later he proposed to her. “I lived the life of Alla, her successes overshadowed my career for me,” Yaroshevsky recalled about this time. He tried to produce Alla as best he could, but the young couple had absolutely no money for videos and “promotion.” For the sake of his beloved wife, Leonid even had to quit the conservatory, but this did not help. “I did it without regret, like everything I did for Alla, because I loved her madly,” he later admitted. The young couple agreed to any part-time job, just so as not to go hungry.
The situation changed dramatically in 1992, when Alla met producer Alexander Shulgin (born in 1964). The singer’s creative career immediately took off, but on a personal level, she was not immediately able to part with her selflessly devoted first husband. Finally, in 1993, the producer and singer officially got married. By this time, the couple had already had a common daughter, Anna (1993), and then sons Artemy (1994) and Arseny (1998) were born.
But, despite successful joint activities and the birth of three children, Valeria’s marriage with Alexander Shulgin could not be called happy: the husband turned out to be a domestic tyrant. “My husband beat me until I was purple, locked me in a dog enclosure in the winter cold, constantly and sophisticatedly humiliated and insulted me,” Valeria recalled.
The children also suffered from him physically. In addition, he took all the singer’s income for himself and managed to almost completely subjugate her to himself. Shulgin motivated this by the fact that if not for him, Valeria would have remained a “restaurant diva,” and only years later she realized that this was not so. Finally, in 2002, the singer could not stand it, left her husband and returned with her children to her parents’ home in Atkarsk. Subsequently, she spoke in detail about her unhappy marriage in her autobiographical book “And Life, Tears, and Love,” published in 2006 with a circulation of 200 thousand copies.
Alone with everyone: Valeria
A year and a half after breaking up with Shulgin, Valeria still found her female happiness in the person of producer Joseph Prigozhin (born in 1969), with whom she lives to this day. Prigogine not only became a reliable support and “stone wall” for the singer, but also became close to her three children from a previous marriage, truly replacing their father.
Unfortunately, Valeria was unable to make good friends with Prigozhin’s son and daughter from her first marriage. The singer herself believes that the meeting with Prigogine hit her like a ninth wave, which carried her in a “bright and correct” direction. Much to the couple’s chagrin, they were never able to give birth to another child together: in 2014, Valeria became pregnant, but lost the child in the sixth month.
Valeria is especially proud of her healthy lifestyle and excellent physical shape. With a height of 170 centimeters, the singer maintains a weight of 58 kilograms throughout her adult life. “Instead of sweets, sports!” - this is her motto. In 2010, she wrote and published the book “Yoga with Valeria.”
Views and social activities
Singer Valeria and her husband Joseph Prigogine quite often make political statements on the topic of the day; they provide enthusiastic support for the domestic and foreign policies pursued by Vladimir Putin. Valeria characterized her attitude towards the president as follows: “I am sure that in Russia there is not yet a person who could cope with presidential responsibilities better than Putin. And those who believe that I was bought or persuaded are wrong.” In 2012, the singer was officially registered as a confidant of Russian Presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.Valerie about Putin, Sobchak and Pussy Riot
In the same year, her statement regarding the protest performance of the Pussy Riot group in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior caused a wide resonance: “Punishment must be felt so that others will be discouraged.”
At the same time, the singer’s statements about the problems of the LGBT community are not entirely clear: in 2008 in the UK, she happily performed in a video for the LGBT portal “Pink News” and assured the portal of her love and support, but already in July 2013 she called homosexual orientation “biologically unjustified” and actively supported the adoption of a law banning the so-called “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations.”
Valeria about gays
In March 2014, after the referendum on joining Russia took place in Crimea, Valeria and Joseph Prigozhin were listed as signatories of the document “Russian cultural figures - in support of the president’s position on Ukraine and Crimea” on the website of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, but in 2016 the couple stated that they did not sign this document.
In 2014, Valeria was banned from entering Latvia due to her support for the annexation of Crimea to Russia and critical comments about the policies of the Ukrainian authorities. In addition to her, the Latvian blacklist includes Joseph Kobzon, Oleg Gazmanov, actors Mikhail Porechenkov and Ivan Okhlobystin. Ukrainian activists accused Valeria and Kobzon of “openly supporting terrorist organizations - the DPR and LPR,” and in 2015, the Security Service of Ukraine included Valeria on the list of cultural figures whose actions pose a threat to the national security of Ukraine.
Valeria now
In recent years, Valeria has given almost no solo concerts in her homeland, with the exception of private performances and “corporate events.” However, she continues to enjoy popularity as a singer and media personality. 
She is a frequent guest on the largest radio stations and federal television channels, was a member of the jury of the television competition for young performers “The Secret of Success” (“X-Factor”) on the Russia channel, and also repeatedly participated in the work of the jury of the International competition of young performers “New Wave” in Jurmala .
Valeria in the show “Secret to a Million”
On September 2, 2017, the singer was a guest on the talk show “Secret for a Million” on the NTV channel, where she shared some of her secrets. Valeria continues to release new songs and videos, for example, on August 30, 2017, the premiere of the video for the song “Heart is Broken” took place. On April 20 and 21, 2018, the singer’s long-awaited anniversary concerts are scheduled to take place at Crocus City Hall in Moscow.
In 2010, based on Valeria’s autobiographical book “And Life, and Tears, and Love”, a 16-episode television film “There Was Love” was filmed.
Popularity did not come to Alla Perfilova right away. Before the woman became the country-famous singer Valeria, the future star went through a series of failures and difficulties.
The same thing happened with the artist’s personal life: before finding the long-awaited female happiness, Valeria experienced two divorces, one of which was zealously discussed by the public.
Childhood and youth
Valeria met her third husband, Joseph Prigozhin, back in 1991, while performing at the Morning Star competition. Then the famous producer could not even think that he would tie his fate with this girl. However, having met Valeria 12 years later, he fell in love with her at first sight.
At first, the singer was rather cool towards the new producer, since she swore off having office romances again. But Joseph’s sincerity melted the pop star’s heart, and already in 2004 the lovers got married. Today Valeria and Joseph Prigozhin live in perfect harmony; the third husband of the star has an excellent relationship with the children of his beloved wife. The man considers the boys family.
However, the producer himself has three children from two previous relationships. In marriage with Elena Prigozhina, Dmitry and appeared, and in a civil union with Leila Fattakhova, a daughter, Elizaveta, was born.
Millions of fans on social networks watch the artist’s personal life and career biography. "Instagram". There, Valeria regularly shares work photos, pictures from travel and events with subscribers. In addition, the singer has an officially verified profile in
