Sofia Rotaru nationality biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Its repertoire has more than five hundred compositions in twelve languages. People's Artist of the Soviet Union, the owner of many other titles, regalia and awards, among which is the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker “To increase the good on earth” and the Order of Friendship of Peoples. Hero of Ukraine and winner of the Order of the Power, a multiple laureate of the Golden Gramophone Award.

Muse Andrei Voznesensky, who devoted the singer the poem "Voice". In the photo: Sofia Rotar, of course, is difficult to accommodate all the facets of talent and all the vicissitudes of the difficult life of the great artist. In this biography, we tried to list the most significant moments from the life of Sofia Rotaru. Childhood: Marshinites - Chernivtsi in the year, shortly after the end of the Great Patriotic War, the wounded machine gunner Mikhail Rotar, who ended in fighting in Berlin, returned to his native Ukrainian village of Marshinsky Novoselitsky district, where his wife Alexander who had moved to a typhoid and blinded daughter Zina was waiting for him.

This is the second child of the spouses - the firstborn did not survive. The name of the singer also has Romanian roots. Translated into Russian “Rotar” means “Kolesnik”. In his native village, Mikhail held the post of foreman of vineyards. In the summer of the year, another girl was born in the family, she was called Sofia. In the post -war period, there was no particular order in the passport documentation, and the baby, in fact born on August seventh, was recorded in the metric with a ninth number.

Sofia Rotaru in childhood in the photo on the right from the early age of Sonya was the main assistant to her mother, who woke up her daughter darkly: it was necessary to make a cow, feed the chickens and the rest of the cattle, and then go with vegetables to the market to take a better place. Near Alexandra and Sophia there was always a line, their counter was so clean and neat.

The young brothers Evgeny and Anatoly and the sisters Lydia and Aurik soon also joined his sister and from the early morning they took up the work on the household. Sisters Rotaru: Aurika, Sofia, Lydia in the family, due to prevailing ethnic circumstances, everyone spoke Moldavian. But the older sister, who, due to loss of vision, developed an absolute musical hearing, listened to the radio receiver, easily remembered the songs and independently learned the Russian language.

Soon, thanks to Zinaida, younger children also knew him. Sofia Rotaru and Sister Zina in the center of musical was the whole family. The head of the family at one time also wanted to sing professionally, but did not work out - the war came, hunger. But the man did not lose the passion for singing, he was a company singing. In the village, a violin, domra, cymbals, button accordion sounded everywhere: at weddings, evening evening, dancing and gatherings.

In such an atmosphere, Sofiyka lived, who knew many folk and pop songs on the first class. And as soon as she went to school, she immediately signed up for the choir. Sofia Rotaru in his youth on the right when the girl was already a pioneer, it turned out at the school that she was singing in the church on Church. The student was threatened with an exception to the pioneers, but more for the Promise, because in those days even the teachers themselves secretly prayed and consecrated Easter Easter cakes.

Moreover, Sonya also showed herself as an athlete, defending the honor of the school at sports events in all -around. They sent a young athlete to Chernivtsi, where she won the races on a hundred -meter and eight hundred meters. Youth: Chernivtsi - Moscow managed to manage, and study well, and play the button accordion, which her father taught her. She participated in amateur performances, delighting her unusual voice at first, and then all the Bukovinsky fellow countrymen, who first heard the young performer in the view of regional talents.

She, as a winner, was sent to a republican competition, where she also became the first that the journal “Ukraine” wrote about, publishing a photo of Sofia on the cover. Dmitro Gnatyuk himself predicted to the girl that she would become famous. At the age of seventeen, the Bukovinnsky Nightingale, as fellow countrymen called it with love, first hit the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Sofia Rotaru in her youth at that time she was already studying at the Chernivtsi Music School of the Cescient Court.

I entered this course, since there was no vocal department at that time. The girl performed at the ninth World Festival of Youth and Students with folk Ukrainian songs, and also performed the song “Valentina” dedicated to Valentina Tereshkova, who was present in the hall. Musical film with Sofia Rotaru. Together with her, the novice soloists of the Chernivtsi Philharmonic Vasil Zinkevich and Nazariy Yaremchuk starred in a music film.

All of them performed the songs of the unique Bukovinsk composer Vladimir Ivasyuk. Its famous “chervona ruta” and “watering trough” to this day decorate the repertoire of the popular singer. And at that time, an ensemble with the same name was created under the Philharmonic, which gained incredible popularity not only in Ukraine, but also at the international level. Sofia Rotaru and Vladimir Ivasyuk tragic departure from the life of his beloved composer was a great loss for the singer, who continued to sing his songs.Mikhail Ivasyuk, the writer and father of Vladimir, in front of a thousands of audience called on fellow countrymen to bow low to the girl who prompted his son's songs around the world.

Evgeny Doga’s song “My City” in its performance is still considered the hallmark of Chisinau. Sofia Rotaru is my white city from the film "Dniester Melodies" of the seventies of the XX century were very saturated and fruitful for the singer.

Fans of her work by heart know “apple trees in color”, “in my house”, “swan fidelity” and other unforgettable compositions. The only of the Soviet singers Rotaru was invited to participate in the creation of a large disk of the Munich studio of the recording of Ariol. Soon, the singer made up a duet with the Czech performer Karelle Gott, performing the song “Father's House” on one of the “blue lights”, who did not do without the participation of all her beloved artist.

Sofia expands the circle of cooperation with composers from Moldova and Armenia, Yugoslavia and Germany. Sofia moves to the Crimea, becomes a soloist of the Yalta Philharmonic. But this episode is from the category of legends, as well as the rumors that the head of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Shcherbitsky was so good about Rotar that he forbade Alla Pugacheva to perform in Ukraine.

Rotaru and Pugacheva - two producers of the Soviet stage, and, meanwhile, starred in the cinema. At first she played Marchela, a music teacher in the melodrama Valery Gazhu “Where are you, love? The partners of the People's Artist for filming were Rolan Bykov and Mikhail Boyarsky, and the group of singer Victoria Svobodina, the main character, played the team of “Time Machine”.

The plot of the picture was autobiographical related to dramatic events in the life of Sofia itself. Sofia Rotaru in the film “Soul” also in the eighties, the singer released the long -playing plate “Tender Melody”, after which she was awarded the Melody with the Golden C lice prize for two albums - Sofia Rotaru and “Melancolie”. Both of them became the best sold in the USSR in the year.

Another serious reward of the same year is the Order of Friendship of Peoples. Sofia Rotaru is the moon, the moon in the nineties continued to surprise fans, experimenting with image and styles. She celebrated the twentieth anniversary of a creative career in the concert hall "Russia". The songs "Khutorinka", "Tango", "Wild swans" appear. Two CDs of the singer saw the light: Sofia Rotaru and Lavender.

Also, the artist participated in the project of the first channel “Old Songs of the Main”, where she played the brigadier-attendant. At the end of the nineties, the premiere of her large solo concert program called “love me” in the Kremlin Palace took place. Sofia Rotaru in the new millennium Rotaru remained, as before, young and beautiful. She performed with the solo program “My Life is my love!

I released the albums “I still love you”, followed by “the sky is me”, “lavender, a farm, then everywhere ...” and to top it “I loved him”. Its significant personal merits in the development of art were noted, as well as selfless labor "to preserve national-cultural traditions and the increase in the heritage of the Ukrainian people." In the year, the album of her deceased wife Anatoly Evdokimenko, “the only one”, was released.

In it, the singer performs songs in Moldavian, Romanian, Ukrainian and Russian. A huge number of friends and colleagues of the artist from different parts of the world gathered in Yalta. Then celebrations continued already in the Kremlin Palace, where the anniversary concerts of Rotaru passed. According to some estimates of those years, Sofia Mikhailovna belongs to the absolute record of performed songs in the finals of “Song of the Year” - their number has almost a hundred compositions.

Rotaru is loved both in Russia and in Ukraine, the seventh anniversary of the artist was celebrated by a creative evening at the Baku Musical Festival "Heat", where she was congratulated by her colleagues in the workshop, singing songs from her repertoire. In the year, Sofia Rotaru sang a new song “Love is alive! Then the singer for some time stopped touring in Russia, but fans of her work are always waiting for new concerts of her beloved performer.

Sofia Rotaru - Love is alive, Sofia Rotaru's personal life in the year, Sofia meets a young man who fell in love with her only when he saw her photo on the cover of the Ukrainian magazine during military service in the Urals. After the army, the young man became a student at the Chernivtsi University, prestigious university in the Soviet Union. Knowing that his lover works as a teacher at the Chernivtsi music school, he found a girl.

Sofia Rotaru and Anatoly Evdokimenko in her youth Sonya fell in love with Anatoly Evdokimenko from the first meeting and soon married him. The honeymoon of the student orchestra and the novice singer spent in Novosibirsk, in the hostel of the military factory, where Anatoly was practiced. Sofia indulged her husband and his colleagues with delicious dinners, and in the evenings pleased with her singing from the stage of the Club "Rest".

Sofia Rotaru and her husband and son flew for three months like one moment, the young family left for her homeland. Two years later, the son of Ruslan was born, and Rotaru became the soloist of the ensemble “Chervona Ruta”, at the origins of the creation of which her husband stood.The singer recalls that at that moment she became really scary: we were worn in her arms, cars were raised at concerts.

It seemed to the guys that they could count on success and without me, that I am wrong to treat them, not the repertoire that they get little money ... When Tolik and I left for their homeland, they gathered and decided that they did not need them. And left. With a scandal and the name "Chervona Ruta." The year in the life of the singer was the year when her beloved, with whom they lived for more than thirty years, died of a stroke, a few months after the death of her mother.

The family, rallying in a common grief helped the artist, helped the artist. Only a year later, Rotaru again went on stage, dedicating her first performance to the untimely departed husband. After the death of her husband, Sofia Rotaru devoted her life to her son and grandchildren the son of Sofia became a musical producer. His wife Svetlana gave Rotar her grandson Anatoly G.

Anatoly is fond of photography and, being a real handsome man, poses in front of the lens. The grandson of Sofia Rotaru, Anatoly's granddaughter, the namesake of the famous singer, lives in the capital of Great Britain and works in the modeling business. She also tries herself in creativity and released her debut song “The Indestructible” under the pseudonym Sofia Eve.

In the summer of the year, information appeared in the press about the relationship of a girl with the French businessman Marco Dumenil.