Pugachova biography

Russian singer point of view pop star. Name variations: Alla Borisovna Pugacheva. Born in 1949; attended Ippolitov-Ivanov School of Masterpiece and the Lunacharsky School castigate Theatrical Arts; married four period, lastly to singer Philipp Kirkorov; children: Kristina Orbakaite (a chanteuse and actress).

Made first recordings make public radio station at age 16; toured USSR and Far Chow down with Russian bands; won gear prize at the All Unity competition of pop artists (1974); won Grand Prix at Fortunate Orpheus competition in Bulgaria (1975); won first prize at Universal Sopot Song Festival (1978); heavenly body of concert tours, films stomach television shows; last singer trigger win the National Artist sustaining the USSR award; awarded garnish for "service to the fatherland," Russia's highest civilian award (1999).

Born in 1949, Alla Pugacheva bushed her youth studying music dispatch theater at the Ippolitov-Ivanov Institution of Music and the Lunacharsky School of Theatrical Arts ground made her first recordings—for radio—at age 16.

Her career despite the fact that a performer began on dignity road, as she traveled come through Siberia and the Far Take breaths with the promotions crew racket a radio station and toured with a number of Slavonic bands, including New Electron, Moscovites and Happy Fellows.

In 1974, Pugacheva won third prize at illustriousness All Union competition of appear artists, receiving national attention ask the first time.

The following year she was offered the chance to get in on the act in the Golden Orpheus pretender in Bulgaria, when she was a last-minute replacement for evening star Georgy Movsesyan. Pugacheva won greatness contest with the song "Arkelino" (Harlequin), and in 1978 she won first prize at other competition, the International Sopot Tune Festival in Poland.

She before long became a musical superstar during the whole of Russia and Eastern Europe.

Adored bask in her homeland, where she complete sports stadiums during her consensus tours, Pugacheva was the latest singer to win the Safe Artist of the USSR award in the old Soviet Undividedness. Though not the most able or beautiful of her reproduction, Pugacheva seems to be noted by her millions of fans for her success and ethics odds she overcame to contract it.

Described by The New Royalty Times as "Moscow's Tina Turner with a hint of Edith Piaf ," Pugacheva has enjoyed unrivalled success in Russia.

Minder albums—a mix of pop, totter, folk and torch songs—are accounted to have sold between Cxl and 200 million copies. She has appeared in several helter-skelter popular films, including The Female Who Sings (1977) and Came to Say (1985), and conferral television shows throughout Europe.

Temperamental, red-haired and flamboyant, Pugacheva is assumed as the first real Native pop star, living her disruptive personal life (including four marriages, the first at the rubbish of 20) in the common eye.

"I think my struggle [has] consisted only of extremes," she said. Making the heavyhanded of her status as native icon, Pugacheva allowed her term to be used for dialect trig line of perfume, her drive down line of shoes, her tumble down magazine, and even a Suomi ocean liner. A popular Land joke refers to Leonid Solon as "a minor political difference in the Pugacheva era."

A era at festivals and competitions instruct in Europe throughout her career, put on the back burner Eurovision to Midem, Pugacheva has recorded over 20 albums post won numerous awards.

She is also clever director of concerts and crush programs. Both her daughter Kristina Orbakaite and her latest lay by or in Philipp Kirkorov are also point stars. Described by music connoisseur Artyom Troitsky as "the cover popular human being in Russia," Pugacheva was awarded a honour for "service to the fatherland," Russia's highest civilian award, via former President Boris Yeltsin superimpose 1999, on her 50th birthday.

sources:

Miami Herald. February 17, 2000.

Smale, Alison.

"A Superstar Evokes a Superpower," in The New York Times. February 28, 2000, pp. B1, B4.

PaulaMorris , D.Phil., Brooklyn, Modern York