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Igor LIKHUTA: "In Poland, I danced a male striptease - the Wild West forced me. As a result, I got on the pages of an erotic magazine and received an offer to star in a porn film for three thousand dollars"

The most famous Ukrainian producer celebrated his 45th birthday
The queen, as they say, is played by the retinue, and who leads this retinue, who commands? I don’t know how at court, but on stage, of course, the producer. Workaholic Igor Likhuta is one of the brightest representatives of this powerful clan. Not without irony, he calls himself a man with a flexible psyche and mind, and, perhaps, there are no such feats that Igor is not able to accomplish for the sake of art and his beloved wife Taisiya.

The queen, as they say, is played by the retinue, and who leads this retinue, who commands? I don’t know how at court, but on stage, of course, the producer. Workaholic Igor Likhuta is one of the brightest representatives of this powerful clan. Not without irony, he calls himself a man with a flexible psyche and mind, and, perhaps, there are no such feats that Igor is not able to accomplish for the sake of art and his beloved wife Taisiya. Together with Taya and instead of her, he is ready to attend parties, sit on the jury of a stripper competition, walk the catwalk, and even threaten to have plastic surgery if the interests of the case so require. Interestingly, for a start, Igor stepped on the throat of his male ambitions, leaving Taya the name of her first husband: for the stage, they say, Povaliy is more harmonious, and most importantly, this is a ready-made brand. It's no secret: show business is cynical. In Moscow, for example, inventive producers can decorate a famous singer's billboards overnight with the words "Whore" to sell out tickets to her concert, and then brag about a successful publicity stunt. For Igor Likhuta, such, so to speak, frills are unacceptable. At the very beginning, he gave his beloved the image of a lady with chic suits, hairstyles, diamonds, limousines, and since then he has been tirelessly watching him. Today this brilliant couple has all-Ukrainian and all-Russian fame, fashionable, expensive clips, the highest connections and financial well-being. Looking at them, it's hard to believe that they started from scratch, and it seemed as if the whole world was against their love. Igor, for example, was immediately disliked by her mother-in-law, whose "well-wishers" literally buzzed her ears: "He left two wives and Tae will ruin her life." Taya, in order not to injure her son, who was turned against her by her former mother-in-law, had to become a “Sunday mom” for a while, and what scandals with breaking dishes broke out in their nest when Igor was called by his ex-wives! The settled spouses are reluctant to remember this, and the mother-in-law now does not care for her son-in-law. In their large comfortable house, not matriarchy, not patriarchy, but a good mood reigns, but Igor still wanders around all day on business. There are also shops, bazaars, filling the family refrigerator ... At the same time, Likhuta does not get tired of joking, joking, conquering, conquering: there is no woman who can resist his irresistible charm. ... Once the daughter of Pavel Zibrov, then two years old Diana, was asked what to give her for her birthday. "Husband!" she replied. "What?" parents were surprised. "Igor Likhutu". - "So he's married to Aunt Taya," the adults tried to reason with the child. "Let him leave her!" It seems that this extravagant choice has only one explanation: from an early age, the girl dreams of becoming a superstar and subconsciously already knows who exactly is able to turn Cinderella into a queen.

"WE WORKED IN PARALLEL WITH STATE SECURITY BODIES"

- Most people naively think: "If a singer is very talented, he will definitely become a superstar." Alas, this is far from the case. It is impossible to climb to the top of the musical Olympus alone - you need a highly professional producer. Today, in my opinion, you are beyond competition among Ukrainian producers, you are the best...

I just want to say...

-...it is not so?

That I am categorically against such rigid definitions: the best is not the best. It is only in sports that someone can be first, second or third - there, in the end, you can see by the result. We have a lot of talented people in show business.

I think I understood: you, Igor, are not the best - you are modest. At the same time, I think you will not deny that you put your whole soul into your work and have never in your life walked forward over other people's bones and corpses. You were born on April 11, 1961, and on the 12th, Yuri Gagarin flew into space. All over the country, the boys who were born were then called in honor of the first cosmonaut Yurami - why did this fate pass you by?

And you know, no less famous Ukrainian producer Yuri Thalesa was born just on April 12, 1961, only somewhere in the Urals. We have four hours difference with him, but if you take into account the time zones, we were born almost at the same time.

Then, on April 12, many journalists went to maternity hospitals, and the medical staff gently and unobtrusively suggested calling the newborns the fashionable name Yuri, but my mother is a non-standard person, she did not want her son to be like everyone else. That's why they named me Igor.

To be honest, I absolutely can’t imagine myself as Yuri. Looking in the mirror, I sometimes think that the name of each person is predetermined from above, and if they already called me Igor, then so be it.

Before the fateful, as far as I understand, meeting with Taisia ​​Povaliy for both of you, you managed to get married twice, have two children, play in many restaurants not only in Kyiv, but also in Poland ...

Also Sweden and Norway...

- Sorry for the indiscreet question: was restaurant music making a profitable business in Soviet times?

Ltd! In those years, I considered myself probably the happiest person in the world. Why? Well, firstly, at the age of 22 I already labal in one of the best taverns in Kyiv - an insanely pretentious establishment at the Rus Hotel, which was opened in 1980 for the Olympic Games. Gorgeous audience, three halls...

-... the most severe access control...

Undoubtedly. Many foreign tourists stayed at this hotel, and, of course, the State Security Committee kept a close eye on all of them.

- You helped our bodies?

No, we worked, so to speak, in parallel.

Knocked, then, but in a different direction? By the way, there is an anecdote about this. Our academic symphony orchestra comes to the decaying West, and with it, of course, an escort from the KGB. At the very first concert, he settles in the front row and is perplexed: all the musicians play in the sweat of their brows, and the drummer only occasionally: boom! boom! During the break, the vigilant committeeman calls him up. “Comrade,” he says, “I’m watching here, everyone is playing, and you just hit “boom!” with a stick and then again be silent for a long time.” The musician was confused: "Sorry, comrade, I just have such a party." - "No need: we have one party, but we need to knock more often" ...

-(Laughs). I've only played morse code on drums. By the way, at one time he was even the secretary of the Komsomol organization of the Kyiv Association of Musical Ensembles. KOMA (many jokingly called it coma - in the medical sense) united musicians who worked in city restaurants. Then this organization was the most powerful musical get-together, where the best forces were gathered.

The maximum salary of a tavern labukh - I emphasize, it is the salary! - was 140-150 rubles, and when a musician just got a job, they could put him 90 rubles. It was quite modest money (although at that time they somehow managed to live with such people), but do not forget: in our brother's taverns there was one big plus, and it was called "parnus". It was received for performing songs to order, and depending on the status and pathos, catering points ran different amounts. If you got along with the leadership of KOMA, you were given the opportunity to work in central restaurants where richer people went, where there were more orders and, accordingly, earnings were more solid. If, however, relations with the authorities suddenly deteriorated sharply, you were sent into exile somewhere on the outskirts: to the Forest Range or to Darnitsa, to a wretched, small restaurant with poor cuisine ...

-... and with bad people...

Well, yes: bandits, showdowns, assaults... Naturally, there was less money and more expended nervous energy. So, at the age of 22, while still studying at the Glier Music School in the class of percussion and having an official rate of 90 rubles, I earned 300-400 rubles of parnus per month. And this is in the 82nd year! ..

-... with an average salary of 150 rubles ...

Believe me, this money was enough for us that sometimes they even forgot to come to KOMA for a salary. Moreover, it is impossible to say that we plowed to the point of wear and tear: from 19 to 23 hours four sections played for 40 minutes each. Beauty, the whole day is free! When it's summer, we disappear on the beach: we sunbathe, swim ... The guys are strong, healthy, money in their pockets, around the beautiful Soviet reality ...

-...everywhere you look, absolutely trouble-free and selfless girls...

Well, I can’t say that they are absolutely trouble-free, but that the most beautiful ones are for sure. Of course, when you are young, and even in good shape, girls still treat you without self-interest, although I like the ingenious phrase that some, in my opinion, Odessa sage, said: "A rich man cannot be old."

Of course, we loved our country, and what then did our people know about the same America? She could only be judged by publications in the comic magazine "Pepper". As I remember now, there was a heading "Visti z that retinue", where the Western way of life was rather viciously ridiculed.

Like all normal young people who had access to foreigners, we gambled. We could buy "Levi's" or "Lee" jeans for 180 rubles from tourists from Asian countries or from African students, we could bargain sneakers from Romanians, we didn't have gum in our pockets...

"MY FATHER NAMED LESHA BEMS WAS VERY FAMOUS IN MUSICAL CIRCLES"

- We went, probably, exclusively by taxi ...

Well, it's when, because, as far as I can remember, I have always been married.

- Since childhood?

From 19, to be exact. I had to curb myself a little: I knew that I had to provide for my family, feed and clothe the child. From a young age, I had a heightened sense of responsibility towards my loved ones. In 1972, my father, now, unfortunately, deceased, contracted to play at the wedding, but suddenly fell ill. What to do? To replace him, my mother took me. As I remember now, I played decently and earned 15 rubles. Then I was 11 years old.

Was your father also a musician?

Leonid Likhuta, nicknamed Lesha Bams, was a chic jazz drummer, very famous in musical circles.

In general, under the communist regime, I did not feel disadvantaged at all, another thing is that with age you begin to understand what the alignment really is. Probably, one had to live both then and now in order to realize what advantages and disadvantages were in our country then and what are available under the current political system.

I remember the song with which the young Kolya Hnatyuk once debuted: "The drum was bad, the drummer was God." He didn't sing about you? Did you play well?

If without false modesty, very good, but as for the drums, they were different. At the age of 17, still a tenth grader, I earned fifteen hundred rubles - just think about what that amount was!

- You're a terrible person!

I played in the Kiev suburb - in Brovary. Then "On the fork" - Brovarians have such a stop - there was a restaurant "Prolisok", and I, living on Otradnoye, went there through all of Kyiv. I returned home at half past one, at one in the morning, and in the morning I went to school. Arriving, he hastily did his homework and went to bed, because in the evening he had to go to Brovary again.

I earned 250-300 rubles a month, and when I collected (fortunately my parents helped to organize everything correctly) one and a half thousand rubles, I bought myself an Amati drum kit - absolutely new (got it by pull), chic, shiny! I put it at home and literally could not stop looking at this beauty. The thought was especially warming that he himself earned money for it, with his own labor.

- I think your parents respected you ...

Most importantly, I respect myself. I am convinced - this is my principled opinion! - that, while protecting, protecting, supporting and instructing our children to the maximum, we must at the same time teach them to rely solely on their own strength. Personally, I am in favor of our children learning to get their own piece of bread as early as possible, and if a boy or a girl can somehow - naturally, within the law, in an honest way - earn money, I only welcome this. It’s bad when a child grows up in greenhouse conditions, knowing that any of his desires will be fulfilled and his parents will do everything for him. He is relaxed, lacking initiative, and if, God forbid, something happens to his parents, he goes into shock, he does not know how to continue to live.

Igor, it was no coincidence that I called your meeting with Taisiya Povaliy fateful for both of you. By the way, do you remember the first time you saw her?

Of course - this television broadcast has radically changed the life of both mine and Taina, and our former halves ...

-... and, now, the life of Kolya Baskov...

- (Laughs). At that time, I worked under contracts in Poland, Norway, Sweden - I went there for three months, played in nightclubs and restaurants ... Then, in the late 80s and early 90s, all this colossus called Soviet The union collapsed, broke. I remember in Poland - I'm madly in love with this country! - Poles friends with malice said: "Igor, Zvensk Radetzky south is dumb - he eats Spulka of the Panstv of the Indecent." Well, like, the Soviet Union no longer exists - there is the Union of Independent States.

- Did you speak Polish well?

Gorgeous, almost no accent. I have a musical ear, plus languages ​​- Ukrainian, Russian and Polish - are very similar. Although we spoke with the musicians in Russian, we constantly inserted Polish words, and when I came home to Kyiv, many said: "You have an accent." Indeed, I adopted the manner, even some subtleties ... Up to the point that we nod: “Yes, yes!”, And I, like the Poles in such cases, said: “But, but, but!”. ..

In short, on one of my visits to Kyiv, I watched a TV broadcast of some government concert from the Ukraina Palace at home. Naturally, I didn’t know the artists who went on stage - well, maybe, with the exception of Vitaly and Svetlana Bilonozhko, Alla Kudlay, Lilia Sandulesa ... When the general curtain was closed (behind the scenes, apparently, they were changing the scenery), I got distracted and suddenly I heard - "Dawn Blues". I go to the TV, I look: a young lady is standing on a narrow strip of the stage and singing so that I was thrown into a sweat.

My favorite singer - I repeated this a hundred times - has always been Larisa Dolina: I really like her timbre, manner of performance. In principle, she was considered the only super-professional jazz singer in the Union, and suddenly I heard such powerful vocals! Then the credits rolled, but the name of Taisiya Povaliy told me absolutely nothing.

Immediately I called my friend composer and arranger Anatoly Karpenko: "Tolik, who is Taisiya Povaliy?" He was surprised: you, they say, what? It's like a super trouper jazz singer. "Can you introduce me to her?" - I ask. "Why not?".

"TAYA LOOKED VERY COLDLY AT ME:" SOME IMPRESSIVE, IMPRESENT STUD"

- Sorry, did you like Taya as a woman, as a singer or both?

At first - as a singer: I really did not have time to consider her.

Why did you want to meet her?

I just didn’t know that they could sing like that in Ukraine, I couldn’t even imagine. It was European, world level.

In general, the shooting of the New Year's "Spark" just turned up, and Tolik said to me: "Listen, don't you want to play the drums a little? We will portray musicians in front of the TV camera." That's where Tai and I met.

- Did you impress her?

None! Moreover, when we already began to communicate, Taya admitted that the first meeting was a minus for me. It turned out that Tolik, knowing my Polish history with participation in a male striptease, did me a disservice.

- You danced a male striptease?!

Well, what - the Wild West forced. I was heavily in debt...

- Card?

No, thank God, but in order to pay off, I had to take part in the annual Polish competition "Mr. Erotica and Dances" ...

- So you were almost Tarzan!

Well, yes! (Screams throatily imitating Tarzan). Ah-ah-ah! Almost Tarzan, Narzan, Borjomi and even "Morshinskaya". 17 people participated in the competition. On an empty stomach, I drank 100 grams of vodka with ice and went to show everything I could to the song: "Ra Ra Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine". I molested the chairman of the jury, did incredible steps with her ... Today I would not have done this even at gunpoint, but then ... As Bogdan Benyuk says, I was 30 years old, I was 90 meters tall and I had blue eyes, so everything went great. As a result, I took second place, got into the pages of an erotic magazine and even received an offer to star in a pornographic film for three thousand dollars.

No, no, I was quite satisfied with the fact that I paid off my debts.

Of course, I told this story to my friends, and Tolik Karpenko introduced me to the girl in all its glory. "Taya," he said, "Igor Likhuta, by the way, a sex symbol, took second place at a striptease contest in Poland." She looked at me very coldly: "Some impudent, impudent stamp."

- Well, did the girl strike you at first sight?

How to say... I liked that she was modest, restrained, with amazing charm and dignity. Sometimes you look: a lady, for example, does not have legs up to her ears, not the eighth size of her chest, her waist is not 54 centimeters and her height is not 75 meters or 80 meters, but there is some kind of zest in her, and this outweighs everything that I have listed.

"I SAID:" YOU WILL HAVE BOTH A CAR AND A FUR COAT "

- Didn't it seem then that it was for you that your mother grew a little card?

At that moment, no. Anyway, when we started dating...

-...did you start dating right away?

At first, exclusively on musical matters. In general, I suggested that Taya try my professional qualities.

- In what sense?

As far as I knew, she had neither a director nor a producer - she took care of herself.

But she had a husband!

Yes, Volodya is a very good, professional musician.

Were you also married at the time?

The second time, my son was growing up ... The ways of the Lord are inscrutable: having begun to communicate, Taya and I saw that we had a lot in common! We thought in the same categories, we didn't have to explain musical terms to each other. Well, let's say if I came home and wanted to listen to jazz or jazz-rock, my second wife said: "Make the music quieter." This does not mean that the wife is bad, no, she just was brought up on other music and loved calmer, more pop music. With Taya, we had, have and, I hope, will have common interests in everything, although, of course, the grinding went on for a very long time.

Under what circumstances did you kiss for the first time?

The circumstances were somehow erased, but I remember the feeling - it was very sweet.

Then we were preparing for two contests: named after Volodymyr Ivasyuk, which was held in Chernivtsi by Nikolay Mozgovoy, and for the "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk". We were faced with a choice: to go to the Ivasyuk competition or to the Chervona Ruta - they took place almost in parallel. I confess honestly: we proceeded primarily from mercantile interests. If at the Chervona Ruta festival for the Grand Prix, relatively speaking, a two-cassette tape recorder "Iva" or a TV set "Hitachi" were awarded, then Nikolai Petrovich Mozgovoy, we must give him his due, the winner received five thousand dollars.

- Not bad for those times!

Still would! Then, in 1993, we really needed money, and we knew what we were going to fight for. Exactly the same amount - five thousand dollars - was due for the victory at the "Slavianski Bazaar".

In general, thanks to the competition of Ivasyuk and Taya, I first came to Chernivtsi. For me, everything there was insanely interesting and wild ... I mean competitive meat grinder, cruel gossip, when competing teams slandered each other all sorts of nonsense.

It was simply impossible not to give Tae the first place. I'm not saying that other artists are bad, but she was much taller and brighter, she stood out so much against the general background that the jury, headed by Mozgov, awarded her the Grand Prix. Now we have a bronze statuette of Vladimir Ivasyuk at home...

"...and it's got five thousand dollars in it?"

When we received this money in Kyiv, they immediately decided to spend it. At that time there were still dollar stores, currency - and went there. So we started dressing Taya, sculpting her image.

A little earlier, especially for the Ivasyuk competition, we sewed for her - on credit! - suit for $150. To be objective and honest, I must admit that, besides me, two more people put a lot of effort into the Secret success: composer and arranger Anatoly Karpenko (by the way, the husband of the wonderful Ukrainian singer Zhanna Bodnaruk) and sound engineer (and now producer) Oleg Stupka. We've got a great team.

- In terms of financial promotion, you were absolutely penniless: neither you nor Taya had a penny for their souls ...

We were the same as most citizens of our country, and this level is not even average, but low. We lived on a salary, traveled by subway and trolleybuses...

Once Taya confessed to me that once, when you got off the bus, a car stopped literally two steps away and a luxurious woman in a chic fur coat got out of it. Looking at her, Taya almost cried, and you said to her: "Taya, you will have an even better car and a fur coat" ...

I am convinced that you need to set some kind of goal in front of you and stupidly (in the good sense of the word), without exposing others to trips, without doing nasty things to anyone, without sending curses right and left, go towards it. Only then will God (or the Higher Mind, which exists somewhere in the Universe) see that you are working, that you are a normal person ...

-...and will reward you according to your deserts?

Yes, you just have to really want it and believe in it. Once, on my way to the next tour, I took the newspaper "Sovershenno sekretno" with me on the train. There was printed a large article about faith. Not about the name Vera, not in a religious sense, but in a human one. It was said there: if you truly believe in something, your faith takes on a physical shape, materializes, but unbelief materializes in the same way. In other words: what you do not believe in will not come true and vice versa. Taya and I had no doubt that we could achieve everything, achieve, and this inner energy was transferred, probably, to those around us, gave us strength.

"WE DRINKED 50 GRAMS, AND I ASKED:" TAYA, CAN YOU ALWAYS COOK?

- After the success at the Ivasyuk Competition, you won the "Slavianski Bazaar", although, as far as I remember, there was a scandal there ...

Yes, someone doubted that Taya - she was a chubby then - is not 30 years old. We showed our passport, but Nadezhda Babkina said that the document was fake (another confirmation of how serious the struggle was). 37 very strong singers from 12 countries participated in the competition, and here is the first round. The jury includes the late Vladimir Mulyavin and Igor Nikolaev. They talked, wrote something, drank lemonade, but when Taya came out and sang, they immediately fell silent. Mulyavin put on his glasses, glanced at the lists, and turned his gaze to the stage. Again on the lists, again on the stage ... He was clearly puzzled: who sings this? Where does such a voice come from?

-...SMS?

And not only. These songs, both to the words of Kolya Brovchenko, stood out for their range, their, let's say, American, Italian roots - they were a little non-Slavic. Nikolaev even said in his interview: “I don’t understand why a singer of such a level as Taisiya Povaliy should come to Slavyansky Bazaar at all.

Then, according to the rules of the competition, the Grand Prix was awarded only on the condition that the winner broke away from other contestants by at least 20 points. Tai and the singer who took second place had a difference of 22 points, that is, she was professionally head and shoulders above everyone else.

So, you won two very impressive victories, but both you and Taya must have faced the question: what to do next? After all, it was necessary to decide something with the families ... Divorces turned out to be painful, or did everything work out as if by itself?

Of course, the process was painful. Taya must be given her due: despite her fragility, she is a very strong woman internally, and if she decides something, no one and nothing can stop her. She explained the situation to her husband, and Volodya agreed that they should try to live separately. I had the same conversation at home. Naturally, I left the apartment to my wife and son and left light.

As I remember now, in Obolon, near the Natalka grocery store, I rented a one-room hotel for $ 55 a month - then, in 1993, it was crazy money. The same Tolya Karpenko, in his car, transported the bundles into which Taya tied her things, helped bring them in ... When he left, we drank 50 grams each, and I began to unpack everything. Then, often with laughter, we recalled the first question that I asked. "Taya," he asked, "do you even know how to cook?" As it turned out, she not only sings well, but also cooks deliciously, however, now she doesn’t do it so often anymore.

- I can imagine what would have happened to her if her relationship with the kitchen had not developed ...

To be honest, even if she didn't know which side to approach the stove from, I wouldn't give a damn about it, pardon the expression.

What threw you into each other's arms - strong love, passion, from which your heart sank and your head was spinning?

Definitely a strong love. She was and is now, and although people who have been married for 11-12 years, the volcano of emotions is replaced by more stable, calm feelings, you still understand that you cannot live without this person.

- Did Taya and her ex-husband, did you and your ex-wife have scandals during the divorce?

To be honest, I don't remember any. They are reasonable, mature, normal people. Yes, it was hard, but we resolved all issues peacefully, based on the fact that this is life and you won’t be forced to be nice.

- When you started from scratch in a hotel near the Natalka grocery store, did you have a desire to return everything back?

I don’t know about Tai, but I never have. It was different: I was haunted by the thought that my wife is a singer, that I took her from the family and now I am responsible for her.

- A sense of responsibility - how many men lack it! ..

Leaving at eight in the morning, I returned at nine in the evening (then we didn’t have a car) ... I went around all the radio and television editorial offices, brought new Mystery songs there. How many radio stations were there in Kyiv then? "Promin" and one FM-ka, it is also the only Ukrainian-American megapathic station "Music Radio" in the country. Now that we have become good friends with her boss Andrei Vasin, I know that he is a smart, decent person, a professional to the marrow of his bones, and then it was no easier to get an appointment with him than to audition for Hollywood.

I flew through these radio stations and, looking people straight in the eyes, giving my heart and energy, I explained: “Guys, Taisiya Povaliy is super ...

This is a mega-, maxi-, turbo ", as Sasha Egorov says, who has only excellent values ​​in use. By the way, this wonderful composer and singer also worked with us. We often met, he wrote songs for Taya, and we recorded duets Then, in order to avoid any nuances, Sasha helped us with intra-family problems... So, with his light hand, I tried to convince the people that Povaliy was a super singer, and I did it absolutely sincerely, knowing that I did not sin against the truth with a single word.

"I LOOK, TAYA LIES AND CRYS, AND BLOOD IS FLOWING FROM HER LIPS"

- Well, of course, you had something to sell - you had a product ...

To clarify: there was a great singer with an amazing voice, but there were no songs. Only when such hits as "Just Taya", "Chortopolokh", "Sweet Sin" went on, when we took up the album with the wonderful composer and poet Zhenya Rybchinsky, did the real flourishing begin.

- Do you remember your first fee? How much were you paid?

Then domestic artists worked for rather modest amounts. We, Ukrainian producers, even scored a shot, where we agreed: from now on, we won’t go on stage for less than, relatively speaking, 400 dollars. Some of the dissatisfied tried to hook me, called, as I remember now, from Chernivtsi and said: "We pay you 399, will you go?" But I was firm: "No, and don't call here again. Only for 400." We agreed, how can we?

- It seems that you alone fulfilled the terms of the contract ...

But why? At that time, in 93-94, she was a megastar in Ukraine - and now she remains! - Ira Bilyk. A group of professionals worked with her: Yura Nikitin, Zhora Uchaikin, each of her songs became a hit. In addition to the fact that Ira is a great singer, she is also an outstanding actress, so she turned every song into a performance. In addition, such a guard as Pasha Zibrov, Ivo Bobul, Vanya Popovich worked with might and main - a whole galaxy of chic singers.

- And yet you did not name the amount of the first fee ...

Now it's hard for me to say: in my opinion, 100 or 200 dollars. Then it was crazy money, because, firstly, the prices were different, and the dollar was quoted much higher. Sorry, I don't remember what we spent them on.

I know brilliant singers, superstars, including Russian ones, who have everything in life: a repertoire, a voice, and money. There is only a cool producer, and therefore their life goes awry. Many believe that, ideally, a producer and a singer should be either husband and wife, or lovers. Do you agree with this?

On the one hand, yes, because every normal man feels responsible for the woman who is next to him, and does everything for her, sometimes even more than he can. Therefore, apparently, such couples as Yuri Thalesa and Ani Lorak, Yura Kvelenkov and Katya Buzhinskaya have achieved success. Now they, as far as I know, live separately, but this is not so important. Yura Nikitin and Ira Bilyk had a crazy tandem. By the way, I learned a lot from Yura, although he is younger than me. Smart guy, talented professional...

On the other hand, sometimes you have to be tough with a singer (or a singer, it doesn’t matter), but you don’t have enough spirit, because this is a close, dear person. Well, how to send a sick wife to the stage: “Go sing! I don’t know anything, I have a contract”? With someone else, maybe it would be possible to do this, although ... Any person, probably, is a pity.

- Taya still had to send?

No, I would never go for it. In extreme cases, he could say: "Taechka, maybe you can take some pills, bring down the temperature?" She answered: "Igor, I have 40. What concert?".

In principle, Taya, although a fragile woman, will give odds to many men in terms of endurance, internal discipline and commitment. December 15 marked exactly 12 years since we were together, and for all these years, literally two or three times she did not go to the concert, because it was beyond her strength.

- Was it overworked?

The temperature was 40 or 42. The person could not stand, let alone sing, although the organizers persuaded: "Maybe we'll put a plus sign?". She was indignant: "What plus? I'm not even able to open my mouth!". There was another situation when they were waiting for us, in my opinion, I'm afraid to make a mistake, in Kuznetsovsk, Rivne region. A city of nuclear scientists, a large hall ... We then had a huge number of concerts, and Taya simply could not stand it - she lost consciousness, fell right in the bathroom and broke her lip.

I saw that she was lying on the bed, and I said: "Taya, it's time for us to leave." I walk up to her, but she doesn't respond. "Taechka, what happened?" I look, and she cries, and blood flows from her lips. "Igoresha, I just got up off the floor. I lost consciousness, fell down...". I’m on the phone: “I’ll call now, I’ll cancel the concert,” and she: “No, wait, I’ll lie down for about 15 minutes.” Then she drank some kind of valocordin or corvalol, took Relanium ...

- And went?

Yes! I lay down in the back seat of the car, slept for three hours (despite the fact that we were driving along a terrible road), got out, worked out a solo concert ...

-... then got behind the wheel...

Yes (laughs) like in that joke. Do you remember what Lyon Izmailov told you? “Yesterday I met one pilot. We drank one, two, three ... I pour him a fourth, and he shakes his head: “I can’t take it anymore - I’m still driving after the flight.”

Seriously, Taya was so ready that none of the one and a half thousand spectators noticed anything. They could not even imagine that a few hours ago the people's artist was lying unconscious in the bathroom with a broken lip. Only after the concert did she allow herself to burst into tears.

Igor, Taya is a beautiful woman and, I'm sure, from fans who show unambiguous signs of attention and expect something in return, she has no end. Surely there are among them powerful, very influential men who already have absolutely everything - for the exotic, only, as Lolita says, the girl from the TV is not enough. Tell me, have there been delicate situations in your life when one of the people with money and power sought special favor from Tai?

Of course, we had to communicate with the powers that be, but these people treat the artist (whether a woman or a man) the way he puts himself. Taya immediately managed to clearly indicate the distance, the border that must not be crossed. No one could ever pat her on the shoulder: "Girl, Taechka!" - the treatment has always been very respectful.

You know: with many people who either used to be in power, or today, in fact, they are, we have established excellent relations. Taya and I are monogamous and do not change our views for the sake of the situation, we do not change love for dislike, depending on some processes taking place in the economy or politics. We are either friends with a person or we are not friends, but not because he is, say, a president, prime minister, minister or banker.

Of course, I am aware that one cannot be good for everyone. Everyone cannot love Alla Pugacheva, and even Sofia Mikhailovna Rotaru has not only ardent admirers. This also applies to presidents: both the current one and the previous one, but if you love someone and someone loves you, these relationships should be treasured, they should not be betrayed.

"SEX IN A CAR? I HAVE NOT TRIED IT! UNLIKE AMERICAN CARS WE HAVE SMALL"

- Okay, Igor, let's talk about you. You are an interesting man, in the recent past, a sex symbol, with money ...

Money is everything.

Nevertheless, you are the husband and producer of a star, and, after all, you are also a star. Has Taya ever thought that you can afford something on the side?

- (thoughtfully). This question should be asked to Tae. Maybe it slipped...

-...maybe even more than once...

Well, what is there to hide - I'm a living person, I travel around the cities by car. If Taya is driven by a driver, then I, as a rule, drive myself.

- So, of course ... Girls walk the streets ...

Which we have in Ukraine, as you know, the most beautiful in the world. Of course, sometimes, especially in spring and summer, the head turns after them so that the cervical vertebrae pop out, and you have to go to the chiropractor to put them in their place. And yet, after all, after all... Firstly, I respect Taya and respect myself, and secondly, even if I wanted something, there is no time...

- That's the trouble!

Dima, I am scrupulous about this matter. We are adults - well, where to go with a lady? To a hotel, to a front door, to a rented apartment? People know me, conversations will immediately start: to whom did you go, why did you leave from there?

- Igor, have you tried it in the car?

Unlike American cars, ours are small, but you understand: I'm joking. Today I am completely satisfied with my family. Think ahead? What for? No one is given to know how the card will fall and what awaits us next ...

The country recently celebrated the anniversary of the Orange Revolution. For millions of people, this event became really joyful, but a year ago you and Taya had cats in their souls, because for you the victory of the Maidan turned into a moral trauma. Like many other artists, Taya campaigned to vote for Viktor Yanukovych, and did not shy away from side to side after his defeat. When your colleagues, who managed to check in on the Maidan on the last day, shouted that they were already with this government, you said bluntly: "Yes, we voted for Yanukovych, we supported and continue to support him." Tell me how you felt in those days? Did any threats sound in your address and did the thought come to you to drop everything and run wherever your eyes look?

-(Sighs). It was very hard, but I think that representatives of both camps received moral trauma, because no one then knew how it would all end. I call this period the time of emotions. Huge emotions. Well, imagine, the entire Internet, all e-mail (I mean my address), was filled with malicious messages, which I can’t quote - there is sheer obscene language. We were threatened: “We will hang you on Khreshchatyk!” We were insulted: “The Kuchma administration had you in different places every day!” - and all in the same vein: "We will finish you, tear you, tear you to pieces ...". My cell phone did not stop: continuous threats and obscenities rushed from it, for two weeks armed guards lived around the clock at our house.

- And from whom did the threats come? Whether from colleagues on shop?

To be honest, I never thought about it. Friends offered me to change my mobile number, but I refused on principle - I didn’t want anyone to take it as a sign of weakness. I'm not afraid of anyone or anything...

“After all, you didn’t do anything to be afraid…”

Moreover, I believe that not only deputies, but all of us, ordinary people, must learn to respect someone else's choice - this is a matter of our political culture. If someone votes for this or that politician, this is his right, and the person should not make excuses later. Even if he preferred this presidential candidate only because he likes blue eyes, while his opponent has brown ones, his opinion must be reckoned with.

Igor, did it happen that artists, maybe even less talented and popular than Taya, told you in those days: “Well, thank God, your hegemony has ended, now we will sing without you”?

They didn’t tell me this openly, to my face, because they knew my quick-tempered character, they knew that they could get melon in a melon. But there were people who supported morally. For example, I am very grateful to Sasha Ponomarev - he called and said: "Igoresh, if you have any problems, please contact me." We met a couple of times in a cafe, in a restaurant, he gave me some advice, because the time was really difficult and dangerous.

Some of my friends led the district headquarters of Viktor Andreevich Yushchenko in the elections, but when their employees began to gloat: “Well, do you see what your girlfriend is?” !".

You see, that’s what friendship is for, in order, in spite of everything, to lend a shoulder to a person ...

Tain's birthday is December 10, and the year before last we celebrated it just at the height of the events on the Maidan. Then Alik Noyabrev confessed: “When I went to congratulate Taya, I thought that I would come alone. They told me: “Are you going to Povaliy? Have you lost your mind or something?". Nevertheless, we survived this time of emotions, and thank God that everything went peacefully. I hope this became a lesson for all of us, a lesson not in terms of what choice we made, but in that we have kept the peace is the most important thing.Having behind us the experience of such political battles, it seems to me that we will go through the new election campaign much more calmly, balanced and soberly.

"INSTEAD OF KOLYA BASKOV'S HEAD A PIECE OF GOLD"

- There would be no happiness, but misfortune, they say, helped: just during the concerts in support of Viktor Yanukovych, the wonderful duet Taya with Nikolai Baskov was born, which gave a big impetus to their collective and individual creativity ... Taya began to unwind in Russia, she is now known and loved there, and today for many Russians Taisiya Povaliy is a symbol of Ukraine. Tell me, was it thought out and calculated in advance, or did it happen by accident?

In fact, the promoter Valentina Basovskaya muddied everything - it was she who introduced us to Baskov. Valya advised: "You should definitely sing together."

We recorded the song, planned to perform it in the Kiev solo concert "Nikolai Baskov and his friends", in which many Ukrainian artists participated, but ... At that time, Taya was on a solo tour in Ukraine, and in order not to postpone the concert again Kherson (we have already postponed it twice, and people, once deceived, treat the artist with distrust and are reluctant to buy tickets later), I suggested a knight's move. “Let’s,” I say, “take Taya on video, and when Nikolai sings on the stage of the Ukraine Palace, she will perform her part on the big screen.”

At one time, the wonderful singer Natalie Cole did this, singing as if with her late father. She is on stage, and her father, who is no longer in this world, is on the screen ... It was brilliant, the whole audience just sobbed. In the same way, by the way, Celine Dion sang with the late Frank Sinatra. Such, if I may say so, an interesting directorial move, I proposed to two, thank God, living artists ...

-... barely alive after the tour...

But Basovskaya convinced us that this was still not the same, she insisted that Taya come on stage. Once again we postponed the Kherson concert, nevertheless I am grateful to Valya for everything, because our creative and human friendship with Kolya began with this duet. He is an amazing person: kind, generous, decent...

And, I will add, at 29 years old, very smart. That's what I said to Kolya: "Soon you will be a deputy of the State Duma." He smiled: "At 34, I will become the Minister of Culture of Russia." Watching him long enough, I have no doubt: it will happen!

I once told him: "Kolya, I want you to become the president of Russia." "No," he waved it off, "I'll be a minister." - "Let's argue!" - I suggest. I don’t know ... Sometimes something like that, sorry for the expression, I blurt out, and then everyone is amazed: “How did he know?”. But what if? Kolya is really very smart and hardworking: he sleeps two or three hours a day, monitors radio stations and television, learns songs on the go, rehearses them in the car ...

- Awesome head!

Instead of a head, a piece of gold.

I heard somewhere that the President of Russia invited Taya and Kolya to his place for dinner, and the three of them talked about something for a long time. About what, if not a secret?

In July, Taya and Nikolai performed in Sochi at a concert dedicated to Vladimir Putin's meeting with the Turkish Prime Minister. When we asked what to sing, we were very gently told: "Guys, you are from Ukraine, but we have not heard Ukrainian songs for a long time." Taya chose "Two colors", "Guy, green guy", "Chervona Ruta" ...

The next day, Taya and Nikolai were invited by Vladimir Vladimirovich to dinner. Communication was extremely warm and democratic...

We talked about the fact that the Ukrainian language is very melodious and it is a pity that our songs - due to the fact that we are now somewhat distant - have been forgotten in Russia. Maybe that's why the Russians are now doubly pleased to listen to us, and it touches them to tears. Very often in Russian concerts and TV programs, Taya performs Ukrainian songs. To the best of our ability, we are trying to promote Ukrainian culture both in the Baltic States and in Kazakhstan.

Russian public - I know it! - I am convinced that Nikolai Baskov took Taisiya Povaliy away from her husband. Now, they say, they travel together, play pranks, record duets, and poor, abandoned Igor Likhuta is quietly crying, abandoned, in Ukraine. Do you even know this?

Of course - many publications and Internet sites write about it. The life of a public person cannot be closed, and we accept this as a fact. Often gossip and stories are not true, but if they are chewed in every possible way, then the artist is interesting.

You're amazing at telling jokes and you're known to be good at it. Would you please in the end with something fresh?

In fact, I am far from the luminaries from the Golden Goose program, such as Ilya Noyabrev, Volodya Bystryakov, the late, unfortunately, Tolik Dyachenko, Valera Chiglyaev and others like them. These guys are geniuses at telling jokes.

I will tell you the one that I consider the strongest for the last quarter. It is very subtle and at the same time characteristic.

43rd year, the Patriotic War is in full swing. Moscow Kremlin. Stalin calls Voroshilov and says: "Comrade Voroshilov, please tell me why, at the moment when the entire Soviet people are fighting the Nazi occupiers in unison, representatives of the Jewish community somehow withdrew themselves from this struggle?" Voroshilov's hands were at his sides... A week later he reported: "Comrade Stalin, on your instructions, a powerful Jewish division has been created and is ready to be sent to the front." Stalin nodded dryly: “Send it!”, and Voroshilov hesitated: “Comrade Stalin, the only thing they asked for was 10 rubles for each killed or captured German.” - "Are you crazy, Kliment Efremovich? The country is in ruins, the people are starving, what money?" He backpedaled: "They said: no, no." The commander-in-chief thought: "Well, well! Say: Stalin allowed it as an experiment."

A week passes, and in the editorial of the Pravda newspaper it says: "A large German group fell into the cauldron near Berdichev. 80,000 were killed, 50,000 were taken prisoner." A week later: "The Soviet Zhytomyr region was liberated, the enemy lost 200 thousand killed and 100 thousand captured." A week later: "Vinnitsa and Khmelnytsky regions are ours again. 250,000 invaders were killed, 120,000 were captured."

Crowded trains with captured Germans go to Moscow, there is nowhere to place them. Stalin calls Voroshilov again: “Comrade Marshal, you are my dear man! Comrade Stalin was wrong, I admit it. Our Jewish comrades are fighting beautifully! , and seven each. Every penny goes to the front: we will consider this a wholesale purchase. " Voroshilov shook his head: "Comrade Stalin, they do not agree to seven rubles." - "Why?". - "The fact is that they themselves take seven from the partisans" ...

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"I betrayed my family. I was blown away by love, and I could not help myself," admitted the once famous singer Taisiya Povaliy. Every time she remembers the separation from her first husband, tears well up in her eyes. Her whole life was planned out. Together with her mother, they decided that she would first build a career, and only then she would think about her husband and children. Her plans came to an end when she saw the musician Vladimir Povaliy and fell in love for the first time. No exhortations from her mother could stop her then.

Taisiya Povaliy was born in the small Ukrainian village of Shamraevka. The girl was 13 years old when her parents divorced. "My father was very jealous, he could raise his hand. But my mother said:" It's not he who makes it, but vodka. He is good." I was the initiator of the parents' divorce. I said: "Mom, why do you put up with all this," the singer recalls.

At the age of 15, the girl went to Kyiv, where she entered the Glier Music College. There she met her first husband, musician Vladimir Povaliy. “I met a man who was the complete opposite of my father. He didn’t drink, didn’t smoke, he played the guitar perfectly,” Taisiya recalls. They dated for a year and then decided to get married. Taisiya moved to her husband, his parents adopted her as a daughter. Soon the couple had a son, Denis.

The mother-in-law helped the actress take the first steps in her career. "She showed me an ad in the newspaper. Singers were recruited for the vocal group of the Kyiv State Music Hall Orchestra. And I went," Povaliy said. She worked in the music hall for several years, after which the team was disbanded. At some point, her husband even suggested that she forget about the stage and take care of home and family.

Everything changed when Taisiya met Igor Likhuta. “I never thought that I could fall in love like that again. My husband and I toured a lot, but I didn’t even think about leaving the family. Igor was married for the second time at that time, he had two children,” said the singer. After 11 years of marriage, Taisiya decided to leave the family. The artist's son was having a hard time with the divorce of his parents. Relatives set him up against his mother and said that Taisia ​​had betrayed her family. “Once I came to pick him up, and at that moment he was playing a prefix. He said that he would not go anywhere. I got angry and broke the prefix,” the singer said.

Igor Likhuta was the only one who believed in Taisiya's talent and persuaded her to participate in music competitions. This was the last chance for the singer, who at that time was already 28 years old. In 1993, Povaliy received the Grand Prix at the Vladimir Ivasyuk competition in Chernivtsi, and then in Vitebsk, Belarus, at the International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar". After that, the singer's career took off. She became a real star, loved by millions of viewers. Taisia ​​Povaliy began to be called the "golden voice of Ukraine."

Why did Taisiya not give birth to children in marriage with Igor Likhuta? How was she able to build a relationship with her only son? And does she regret anything? Answers - in the program

Taisiya Povaliy is a famous singer who is a People's Actress of Ukraine. Recently, she was a people's deputy. A distinctive feature is the strong timbre of the voice. She managed to reveal her talent only when she met producer Igor, who became her second husband. At the top of the musical Olympus, she turned out to be swift and began to run in almost all competitions. The People's Artist surprises her fans with her talent even today.

Childhood and adolescence

Taisiya Povaliy, whose biography is very rich, had a different surname before marriage - Giryavets. She was born in 1964 on December 10 in the Ukrainian village of Shamraevka. From an early age, a talented girl sang. The real first tour took place with Taya at the age of 6. For her performance at an away concert, Taechka received a real fee. She spent her first earnings on making a good present for her mother. The applause for Tai was the most sincere. She remembered them for the rest of her life.

After the eighth grade, the girl entered a music school and began to professionally engage in vocals, which was a fateful step for her. The teachers were sure that a capable student would have a better future in opera.

The talented performer is sure that without academic skills she would not have been able to perfectly master all the skills of singing, and would not have become a real star.

With my parents I am connected forever by a thread of magic. We feel each other from a distance.

The girl's parents were ordinary people and did not have extra funds to advance their daughter up the career ladder. The Soviet family - mother Nina Danilovna and father Nikolai Pavlovich, adhered to a strict upbringing. From an early age, Taya was accustomed to discipline. She was quite restrained in her emotions and dress. The singer herself believes that she was very intimidated, therefore, as a child, she could not fully reveal her talent.

Carier start

Difficult times for Povaliy began during the period of revolutions. During the Maidan, she performed in the Kremlin, after which she congratulated the Ukrainians on the Independence Day of the Russian Federation on the territory of Yalta. Such actions have caused indignation on the part of politicians and the common people of Ukraine. In 2014, she and a group of deputies appeared in the State Duma with the slogan "For Stability and Peace." Such a trip was considered disrespectful and a betrayal of his native country.

In response to such acts, the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case regarding encroachment on the territory of Ukraine. After that, the singer had to cancel the planned concerts so as not to provoke negative rumors. In the spring of 2014, Taisia ​​left the party and practically left the political sphere.

A little about personal

Povaliy married at the age of 18 for Vladimir, who at that time was 24 years old. He was a member of the Musical Hall, in which Taya came to work. He specialized in phonogram-backing tracks. At the moment, he has achieved a promotion and became an arranger in the orchestra of the President of Ukraine.

Often lovers cannot understand each other. I think it's ok.

The firstborn in a young family appeared in 1983. The boy was named Denis. After 10 years, Povaliy broke off relations with her husband, and they divorced. The son decided to live with his father.

The second spouse was Lihuta. Igor was the producer of Tai and a love relationship began between them. Povaliy admitted that laziness, which is not easy to cope with, prevents her from achieving greater success. Likhuta became not only an inspiration for the singer, but also a loving husband. The strict boss did not let him relax, so Taisiya's life quickly changed for the better.

At the initial stage, it was not easy for them to build a relationship, because they had other families behind them. They turned a blind eye to everything, because a hurricane of emotions hit them. Not only their spouses, but also parents and children suffered from the love of Taisiya and Igor. They could not do anything with their feelings, continuing to revel in their love. Having broken with past relationships, in the winter of 1993 they signed.

Likhuta opened the way to real show business for Povaliy, launching the mechanism of her popularity. He did everything he could to make Taya popular.

The secret of beauty and youth

How old is Taisiya Povaliy, most fans can only guess. She is still confident that the appearance is not influenced by makeup and plastic surgery, but by the state of mind. Happy women are visible from afar - their eyes glow, and a smile does not leave their faces.

Undoubtedly, a woman should take care of herself: visit a beautician and properly care for her skin. Lifestyle matters a lot. Taya lives with Igor in a country house, where there is a garden and a large garden. She hired people to tend the gardens and harvest the crops. The singer prefers to eat her vegetables and fruits. Hazel trees are a great pride for her, which give a good harvest. In the presence of free time, Povaliy makes preparations for the winter with his own hands.

Povaliy Taisiya, whose photos are very diverse, is still a child at heart. She loves various outfits and jewelry. He is afraid of two things - death and heights. He tries not to think about his fears and does nothing to overcome them. She is grateful to her fate for her parents, son and husband. I would not want to change anything in my life, except for the mistake that I made when I got married at a young age.

The most interesting

Taechka will turn 55 next year. She is attractive and successful. Despite her popularity and a lot of opportunities, the star does nothing to help her son. Denis makes his own way in show business, learning from his own mistakes and rejoicing in his achievements.

Despite the fact that Taisiya was not lucky enough to become a mother in her second marriage, she is not going to use the services of a surrogate mother, like many other artists. The reason for the absence of a second child is health problems. Surrogate motherhood is not accepted because she is very jealous and will not tolerate another woman carrying their child.

Being a real beauty, Taya is still jealous of her husband. Experts associate this with the element of fire. Even the singer's work reflects her essence. In one of the clips, she burns down the house of her unfaithful spouse.

The artist prefers to relax away from people. She gets tired of long tours and chooses to relax not popular or branded places, but quiet corners. Taya prefers solitude with family and friends to secular parties. He goes on vacation to the mountains or to the sea, away from the resort towns.

Povaliy will continue to delight us with his work. Plans to find a new talented singer in order to create a unique duet, unlike others. Now the singer is open to new proposals for the joint performance of songs. He considers cooperation with Nikolai Baskov exhausted. Russia agrees to sing with a golden voice, only if she is offered a song that will not be similar to previous compositions.

FULL NAME: Povaliy Taisiya Nikolaevna

DATE OF BIRTH: 12/10/1964 (Sagittarius)

PLACE OF BIRTH: s.Shamraivka, Kyiv region, Ukraine

EYE COLOR: Grey

HAIR COLOR: blond

MARITAL STATUS: married

A FAMILY: Parents: Nikolai Pavlovich Giryavets, Nina Danilovna Giryavets. Spouse: Igor Lihuta

GROWTH: 170 cm

OCCUPATION: singer

Biography:

Ukrainian singer.
When the future singer was only 3, her parents moved from the village of Shamraevka to Belaya Tserkov. There, the future star graduated from the regular and music schools. Taya continued her studies at the Kiev Musical College named after R. Glier, choosing the conductor-choir department. At the same time, she was engaged in academic vocals, perfecting the performance of classical works, operas and romances. The teacher strictly forbade the girl not only to perform, but even to listen to pop music, believing that this could ruin her tastes. She was supposed to become a brilliant opera singer, only fate decreed otherwise.
Taisiya Povaliy did not immediately conquer the stage. Although friends and teachers prophesied her a career as an opera singer, she got a job at the Kyiv State Music Hall. At first she sang in a group, and then began solo performances. Taya got her first touring experience there, because every day she worked out two or three concerts. Without days off, giving all the best. Several times Taisiya Povaliy participated in various competitions. And although the jury noted her professionalism and talent, she was not awarded the main prize. That is why the victory in 1990 in the USSR radio contest "New Names" became so sweet. In 1992, another event took place that changed the girl's life dramatically: she met Igor Likhuta. It is under his strict guidance that Taya receives her first recognition and success on stage. In 1993, at the competition named after Vladimir Ivasyuk, Povaliy received the first prize and the Grand Prix, won the Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk. Further, the star's career developed rapidly. She received the title of the best pop singer at the New Stars of the Old Year contest, in 1996 she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine.
A beautiful and successful woman is very happy in her ordinary life. The first husband of Taisiya Povaliy - Vladimir - gave her a surname and only son. They met when the girl was still studying. Vladimir was at that time already a well-known arranger and composer. But after eleven years of marriage, the couple broke up, as fate brought the singer to a new man. Igor Likhuta turned Taya's life upside down. This was a man who had connections, was the best drummer in Ukraine, and he believed in her more than she believed in herself. The future spouses met on the set of the New Year's program. They immediately liked each other and a year later they began to live together. Likhuta, without a doubt, left his second wife, and Povaliy left her first husband. Today, Igor and Taisiya are very happy, and their creative tandem can be safely considered one of the strongest and most successful on the Ukrainian music scene.

(1965)

Taisia ​​Povaliy was born in the Kyiv region in the village of Shamraevka on December 10, 1965. Mother dreamed that Taya became a singer, achieved success, therefore she supported her daughter in everything, who had a great desire and love for music.

Since childhood, Taisiya knew the stage well, as she sang in a children's ensemble and her first tour took place when the girl was not yet seven years old. The future singer graduated from high school with honors.

Interesting times in the biography of Taisiya Povaliy begin when she goes to study in Kyiv in 1980. There she met her future husband Vladimir Povaliy. At that time she was only 17 years old. Taisiya goes to study at a music school in the department of choir conducting, and optionally engages in vocal art. Soon, the future star gave birth to a son, who was taken in by her parents, so Taya could safely continue her studies.

Soon Taisiya Povaliy goes to work in a music hall, where she worked first in a vocal group for five years, and then became a soloist. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the music hall ceased to exist, and the singer lost her only source of income. It was during these difficult times that Taya met Igor Likhuta, who was a musician. Igor offered Taisiya cooperation in a duet with Alexander Eremenko.

Serious professional growth of Taisiya Povaliy as a singer begins with participation in the festival in Chernivtsi, where she wins the Grand Prix and a $5,000 award. Immediately after the festival, Taisiya Povaliy achieved victory at the "Slavianski Bazaar" in 1993.

Likhuta and Povaliy got used to each other very much during the tour, and they no longer wanted to part. In one of the interviews, Taisiya admitted that they had a common interest - this is music that connected their hearts.

In 1994, Taisiya Povaliy was recognized as the best voice of Ukraine at the national television festival.

The creative biography of Taisiya Povaliy is a collaboration with famous musicians and composers, which had a positive effect on the creation of the popular albums of the star - “Panel Kokhannya”, “Sweet Sin”, etc. Together with Joseph Kobzon, Povaliy recorded a collection of Ukrainian songs “One-United”, which immediately became popular hits.

A peculiar report of the creativity of the Golden Voice was the release of the DVD in 2003 "A Star Is Born by Ukraine". A new page in the biography of Taisiya Povaliy was participation in 1999 in the All-Ukrainian tour dedicated to the children of Ukraine.

Each performance of Taisiya Povaliy is a live sound, a lot of enchanting scenery and impressive costumes.

A separate stage in the musical work of the singer was the collaboration with Nikolai Baskov. Their duet performances won the love and recognition of fans.

The national star owes her ideal physical form to a special express diet, thanks to which Taisiya Povaliy's weight is always normal. She loses 7-9 kg in a short period of time, eating only wild rice. The diet involves the exclusion of salt and seasonings, the menu consists exclusively of vegetables, chicken and lean beef.

Today, Taisiya Povaliy is married to her producer Igor Likhuta, has a son, Denis, who is 16 years old. She actively takes part in various charity events and is truly a people's artist.