Sofia Rotaru anniversary. Sofia Rotaru: “If the President of Russia gave me a Russian passport, I would not refuse

Sofia Rotaru turned 69 years old. On August 7, the singer intends to participate in various television programs and concerts. Sofia Mikhailovna Rotaru was born on August 7, 1947 in the village of Marshintsy, Chernivtsi region of Ukraine. The girl was the second of six children. In 1962, she won for the first time the regional humanitarian competition, and at the regional competition...

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Sofia Rotaru, singer and composer, celebrates her birthday on August 7, 2016: today she turns 69 years old. Long creative path Rotaru continues, more than one generation remembers it: having started its singing career Back in the USSR, Sofia Mikhailovna managed to become a star even after the collapse of the huge state. Fans of her talent have always supported their favorite singer, and she, in turn, never disappointed them.

Sofia Rotaru - rare case on modern stage, since her name never appeared in the tabloid press. Sofia Mikhailovna has never had any scandals, fake novels, or lawsuits. All she can do as an artist is to spread joy and inspiration with her songs. What she has been doing successfully for almost half a century now. After all, Sofia Rotaru received her first success back in 1962.

Sofia Rotaru was born in Bukovina: on August 7, 1947, a girl was born into the Rotarov family (that’s what the singer’s surname originally sounded like) who, from an early age, amazed with her musicality and artistry. IN school years Sofia independently mastered the accordion and domra and participated in amateur performances and dreamed of becoming a singer. Because of her voice, a beautiful and strong alto, her fellow countrymen called her the “Bukovinian Nightingale.” By the way, the name Sofia Rotaru appeared on the stage thanks to Edita Piekha: she advised Sofia to write her last name in the Moldavian way - with the letter “u” at the end.

Until 1940, the village of Marshintsi, where the singer was born, was part of Romania. This was the reason for the different spellings of Sofia Rotaru’s first and last names. In the credits of the film “Chervona Ruta” the artist’s surname is Rotar. And on earlier filming they wrote the name Sophia. This is how Sofia Rotar glorified her name.

Sofia Rotaru: singer's career in the USSR

After the success of the musical film “Chervona Ruta” in 1962, Sofia Rotaru travels to Kyiv for the Republican Festival of Folk Talents. And here success awaits her; a couple of years later, Sofia is already on the cover of the magazine “Ukraine” for 1965. This is the photo I fell in love with future husband Anatoly Evdokimenko was a young musician who was putting together a vocal and instrumental ensemble at that time. The meeting with Sophia helped make the dream come true: Rotaru got its own Music band, Sofia already had experience as a singer: in 1964, she soulfully performed “Mama” by Bronevitsky, Piekha’s then husband, on the stage of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.

Sofia Rotaru: world recognition

Sofia Rotaru has made a dizzying career, and she gained her fame with blood and sweat. Colleagues have always admired Sofia's willpower and desire to play high-quality music. In 1968, Rotaru won a gold medal on the international stage: Jury IX World Festival youth and students in Bulgaria admire the star from the USSR.

The world recognition of Sofia Rotaru strengthened in 1983: tours in Canada and the album “Canadian Tour 1983” released there, however, did not add points to the young performer. In the USSR, singers were recommended to record exclusively with the state recording company Melodiya and nothing else. An exception was made only for Muslim Magomayev and Vladimir Vysotsky. Having been banned from traveling abroad for five years, Rotaru toured the USSR - the huge country enthusiastically welcomed Rotaru, already in 1985 Rotaru received a “Golden Disc” for the albums “Tender Melody” and “Sofia Rotaru”. Their sales are even higher than Alla Pugacheva's discs.

It was from the mid-eighties that the myth of the rivalry on the stage between two stars began: Alla Pugacheva and Sofia Rotaru. This myth still makes the singers laugh to this day, because few people can understand that each singer has her own audience, and in Soviet times a huge audience of fans was guaranteed to both singers.

Sofia Rotaru: personal life and novels

Sofia Rotaru lived all her life in happy marriage with Alexey Evdokimenko. He became her accompanist, manager, best friend. In addition, he became the father of her son Ruslan, who was born in 1970.

The marriage of Rotaru and Evdokimenko was considered ideal; the spouses had nothing to hide. Both are hardworking and generous, both tried to bring only the best to the stage. Records and records created in marriage with Alexey Evdokimenko are dear to Sofia Rotaru as a reminder of the most happy years. Never and nowhere have they said a bad word about the Evdokimenko-Rotaru couple.

The end of the eighties and the collapse of the USSR gave a new impetus to Rotaru’s creativity, but the husband suddenly dies from incurable disease. For a year, Sofia Rotaru was in mourning and did not appear in public, but after that she returned to the stage and continued her husband’s work. Sofia Mikhailovna also had an affair with a young guitarist, but this relationship did not last long: in order to win such luxurious woman like Rotaru, one must constantly make efforts, and only her former husband Anatoly could do this, notes Sofia Mikhailovna herself.

If geographically and politically Soviet Union has long been dead, in pop culture it continues to exist as if nothing had happened - in the person of such figures as Edita Piekha, who recently celebrated her 80th birthday, or Sofia Rotaru, 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 Moldovan family; in the early 90s there was a joke that during negotiations in Belovezhskaya Pushcha The leaders of Russia and Ukraine wondered “how we will 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 ten years earlier and consisted of many steps - regional, then republican competitions amateur performances, conducting and choral department of the Chernivtsi music school, in the absence of vocal.

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The key to Rotaru’s success was a clear and even in the best sense words a calculated mixture of national and cosmopolitan repertoires: so, from the very beginning creative activity continued her collaboration with composer Vladimir Ivasyuk from Lvov, but at the same time sang songs by Arno Babajanyan, David Tukhmanov, Yuri Saulsky, Raymond Pauls, Vladimir Matetsky; texts for them were written by Robert Rozhdestvensky, Andrei Voznesensky and other poets who need no introduction. 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. A possible reason was the 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 a 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, same name 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 Andrei Makarevich and Alexander Zatsepin, and Rotaru’s partner was Mikhail Boyarsky, who was then at the peak of his 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 to the point of being funny - representatives of a German concert agency once received a paper in response to an invitation: “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 - Arseny Tarkovsky’s 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: some amazingly 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 - but now they sound like the last memory of that utopia of the country’s unity and friendship of peoples, which the Soviet Union at least tried to approach and the final collapse of which we are witnessing now. And that is why there is a risk that many leaders of countries sharing this singer will remain minor political figures of the era of Sofia Rotaru.

Oh, what did she do in her life, she worked in a mine or at a factory, she cleaned the house, the servants prepared the food, the cook, what she was burdened with, she sang and that’s it.

I was always confused about who was older: Alla Pugacheva or Sofia Rotaru. There was always competition between these two great women.

May Alla Borisovna forgive me, but I like Sofia Rotaru more. Feminine, beautiful, always young and in great shape, she sings beautifully and is an example for many women.

Sofia Mikhailovna Rotaru will turn 69 years old in 2016. But you can’t tell by her appearance, she looks very young and good. She celebrates her birthday on August 7th. Next year famous singer will be anniversary.

Popular Russian singer Sofia Rotaru was born on August 7, 1947. In 2016 she will celebrate her 69th birthday. But in next year it will be her anniversary. She looks very good for her age.

She looks very good for her age. What did she do in life besides sing? She was burdened with physical labor, she cleaned the house or cooked food, the servants did everything, They were all already greedy with the crowd

Popular Russian singer Sofia Rotaru will turn 69 years old in 2016. Her birthday will be on August 7th. The years go by, but she practically does not age. And all thanks to the efforts of plastic surgeons and expensive beauty salons. The singer performs regularly. releases new songs and videos and delights ordinary viewers with her creativity.

Sofia Rotaru, Ukrainian, Soviet singer, was born in the village of Marshintsy, Chernivtsi region (Ukraine) in 1947 on August 7.

In 2016, Sofia Mikhailovna turned 69 years old.

But, like many of her colleagues on the stage, she looks much younger.

For popular singer Sofia Rotaru two thousand and sixteen is a pre-anniversary year, since in the first ten days of August, namely on the seventh, Sofia celebrated sixty-nine years.

Against the backdrop of incredible activity and grooming, it’s hard to believe that Rotaru is so old.

In 2016, Sofia Rotaru will turn 69 years old and this will happen on the 7th of August.

This wonderful singer was born in 1947, so in 2017 Sofia will celebrate her seventieth birthday.

Despite her age, Sofia Rotaru looks great, sweats great and is very energetic, which is very important for the stage.

She will be 69 years old in August. The anniversary is coming soon. Nowadays, you can easily afford to look good with good money. That’s why she doesn’t look nearly 69 now. And, therefore, she can still sing. And the voice allows you to do this.

Aunt Sofa is the same age as my mother) A woman, especially one so luxurious, is never reminded of her years. This should not be done) May he live long and please his fellow countrymen - Ukrainians, Moldovans, and us Crimeans with his creativity.)

She looks very good for her age. What did she do in her life besides sing? She was burdened with physical labor, she cleaned the house or cooked food, the servants did everything, They were all already greedy there among the people.

Sofia Mikhailovna was born on August 7, 1947. Therefore, in She will turn 69 years old in 2016. Yes, the age is already honorable, but, as for me, Sofia Rotaru does not age)))

I really love her work, she sings such deep songs. I especially love the song One viburnum at the vino, one homeland at the table... I always think that the song is about pure love, to the family that Sofia Mikhailovna deserves to sing! She is simply a role model for many pop stars in this matter.