Our today's heroine is the singer Varvara. Her biography will be discussed below. It's about about the Russian singer. She performed in the troupe State Theater stage performances. Awarded the title of Russia.
Biography
Varvara is a singer who was born in 1973 in Balashikha. Studied at Later entered GITIS. I studied in absentia. Chose the specialty "artist musical theater».Creation
Varvara is a singer who started her solo career after leaving the theatre. In 2001, NOX Music released debut album our heroine. They called him "Barbara". Work on this disc continued throughout 2000. It should be noted that Varvara is a singer who collaborated with He was the author of a number of her songs. In 2002, our heroine received an offer from Norn Bjorn, who is the founder of a Swedish studio called Cosmo, to record several compositions with symphony orchestra. The first song that was created in this collaboration was "It's Behind". It can be attributed to the style of modern r'n'b. Our heroine decided to continue recording the rest of the compositions in Russia.
Fame
Varvara is a singer who performed at the "Song of the Year" contest in 2002. There she performed the song "One-On". Soon this song appeared on the air of various radio stations of the country. In 2003, Ars-Records released the second album of our heroine called "Closer". Most of the compositions were recorded at the Brothers Grimm studio. Work on the next album began in 2003. It was marked by the release of the song "Dreams". Thus, a new ethnic direction was laid in the singer's work. On an island called Valaam, a video was shot for this composition. It became a romantic saga that tells the story of a foreign girl.
Today, Varvara could easily sing the main female part in any of the many musicals taking place on the stages of Moscow theaters. She graduated from Gnesinka, where her teacher was Matvey Osherovsky, director of the sensational production of The Threepenny Opera in Odessa. The eccentric genius repeatedly kicked the artist out, called her "a mile from Kolomna" and even threw boots at her.
However, Varvara did not go to the operetta through no fault of his - she just wanted a "free flight", without directors and producers. Later, working in the theater of variety performances by Lev Leshchenko, she graduated from GITIS in absentia with a degree in musical theater artist. After leaving the theater, Varvara began her solo career.
In 2001, the company "NOX Music" released the artist's debut album, which was called: "Barbara". Work on this record continued throughout 2000. Most of the songs were written by unknown young authors, and only the name of Kim Breitburg - the main songwriter of Boris Moiseev - said something to the listeners. Young musicians-multi-instrumentalists, united in one group, named after Varvara, took part in the recording of the disc.
It was then for the first time that the DJs of the leading radio stations thought: what style should this music be attributed to? There are echoes of all musical cultures- from Russian to Arabic; the sounds of live instruments are combined here with electronic samples, tragic compositions invariably coexist with one hundred percent dance pop hits, and at the same time, poetry comes to the fore!
The songs of the debut album, despite all their informality, were a success with the audience: the title "Barbara", "Butterfly", "On the Edge" and "Fly into the Light" really bathed in the air. But the fact that in Nicole Claro's book "Madonna" one of the chapters was called "On the Edge" went unnoticed - such subtle moments always pass by the attention of listeners.
In the summer of 2002, Varvara received an unexpected offer. The founder of the famous Swedish studio Cosmo (it was this company that “made” the last records of A-ha and Britney Spears) Norn Bjorn invited her to record several compositions with the Swedish Symphony Orchestra. Cooperation with the Swedes resulted in the song "It's Behind", designed in the style of fashionable r?n?b. But Varvara decided to continue recording the rest of the songs for the future album in Russia. She believes that today Russian sound producers are able to work at the European level.
Barbara travels in music as she travels in life. AT United Arab Emirates, where she often comes with her family, she has already been offered to record an album of songs in Arabic. But besides the east, Barbara is also attracted by northern Europe, with its harsh sagas and Celtic tales, with the cold music of Enya and the salty smell of the ocean. Perhaps that is why in the song "Two Sides of the Moon" from her second album, which should be released in February 2003, Norman notes are felt so much. “I am in love with Europe of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. When I come to France and wander through the castles of the 16th century, I feel the Norman spirit preserved in these walls. I get the feeling that I lived there: I stroke the walls, and I want to shoot clips there.
Experiments with music videos are, perhaps, Varvara's main passion. “I always wanted to sing songs and shoot videos in which I could finally prove myself as a character actress,” says Varvara.
March 2003 will again become the month of Varvara - the company "Ars-Records" released her second album, called "Closer". Most of the compositions for it were recorded at the Brothers Grimm studio - it was in this company that they managed to find arrangements and sound adequate to the ideas of the singer.
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Barbara(real name Alena Vladimirovna Susova, in girlhood - Tutanova; genus. July 30 (1973-07-30 ) in the city of Balashikha, Moscow region) - Russian singer. Honored Artist of Russia (2010). Performs songs in Europop, ethno-pop and folk styles. The artist has six studio albums: “Barbara”, “Closer”, “Dreams”, “Above Love”, “Legends of Autumn” and “Linen”.
In 2002, Varvara for the first time becomes the debutant of the music television festival "Song of the Year" with the single "One-on". In 2003, 2004, her songs were also awarded diplomas of the festival. In 2003, her second album "Closer" was awarded the "Silver Disc" award as the best pop vocal album. Varvara is the only performer who brought Russia first place in the song contest of the international fan club of the Eurovision Song Contest - OGAE. In 2004, her single "Dreams" won. The year 2005 was marked by the release of the next, third studio album, Dreams, which was sold in Russia with a circulation of several dozen copies. The single "Letala, yes sang" becomes one of the main hits of 2005 in Russia and the CIS countries. The follow-up "Let me go, river" also becomes a successful radio hit. Both tracks reach the top 5 and top 15 of the Russian Tophit radio chart, respectively.
In 2005, 2008 and 2013, Varvara's albums "Dreams", "Above Love" and "Legends of Autumn" receive nominations " best album of the year” for the Russian Top award, which is held annually by the largest Russian music publication NEWSMuz. At the same award, the artist also received the nomination "best performer of the year" in 2012 and 2015. In 2010, Varvara was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. In 2014, the song "Two Ways" became the soundtrack to the feature film "Alien Life" of the TV channel "Russia-1". A year later, the singer receives the nomination "Best Folk Artist" at the "Russian National Music Prize". In 2016, the artist became the headliner of the international festival of cultures of the peoples of the world - "Territory of Peace" in Kaliningrad.
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Biography and creative path
early years
Elena Vladimirovna Tutanova was born on July 30, 1973 in Balashikha in a family of engineers. She graduated from a music school in the accordion class.
Intending to enter the Institute of Light Industry, Varvara simultaneously worked as a soloist in a musical ensemble. Thanks to this experience, a month before entering the university, I prepared a program for entering a musical institution. Varvara graduated from the Russian Academy of Music named after the Gnesins. One of the teachers of the course was the director of the sensational "Threepenny Opera" Matvey Osherovsky.
After leaving the theater, Elena began her solo career under the pseudonym "Barbara".
2000-2003: debut album and pop-rock experiments
In 2000, Varvara received the Grand Prix of the Kinotavr competition in the special project Kinodiva [ ] . On June 20, 2001, the debut album was released on NOX Music. solo album singers "Barbara". Work on the album continued throughout 2000. Dmitry Bebenin ("Sounds of Ru") considered that the singer "prefers to move in a more advantageous, promising direction, outlined recent works Madonnas", in the magazine "PLAY" also noted the complete mixture of styles on the debut album: soul, reggae, funk, traditional "pop pop". Varvara described the debut album's style as "Euro-pop with alternative instruments". However, Intermedia considered the disc unsuccessful due to the lack of a hit material. The song "Butterfly" becomes the most notable song on the record. The track of the same name "Barbara", meanwhile, reaches the 4th position of the hit parade of the Russian radio station "Europe plus". Work on the second album began in July at the studio "Brothers Grimm" [ ] . The composition “Heart, don’t cry” was recorded, the video and the song were aired in September [ ] .
Since 2002, she began to give concerts with musician brothers Vadim and Evgeny Vinkenshtern, who continue to work in the singer's team to this day, they also took part in the recording of several of the singer's videos. In the winter of 2002, Varvara received an offer from the founder of the Swedish studio Cosmos Norn Bjorn record several compositions with a symphony orchestra in Sweden. The first song recorded in collaboration with the Swedes was the song "It's Behind", in the style of modern R&B [ ] . Varvara decided to continue recording the rest of the songs for the future album in Russia. In February, on the air of Our Radio in the program Do you need it? the song "I'm Alive" started. Despite the informality, the song collected 30% of the audience's sympathy. In June, the radio stations premiered the single "One-on", the video for which was filmed based on the story of Ray Bradbury "It's all summer in one day" [ ] . The video was released in September. The composition became a notable radio hit and entered many charts in the country, including the Golden Gramophone. On November 30, 2002, Varvara with the song "One-on" for the first time became the debutant of the television festival "Song of the Year".
In March 2003, Varvara signed a contract with the company Ars Records, which releases the second studio album of the singer - "Closer", designed in the style of pop rock. The album was released on April 3rd. The album received wide support from the Europa Plus radio station, five songs from the disc were broadcast on the radio. As critics of Intermedia later noted, this is the merit of the “European sound” in most of the works that Varvara managed to achieve, almost the first at that stage in the development of the Russian music industry. Most of the compositions were recorded at the Brothers Grimm studio, working with young authors A. A "Kim, J. Moss and Vladimir Molchanov, Varvara managed to achieve the desired sound, according to the singer. In support of the LP, a single was released, as well as a clip," Closer". The song is successfully rotated on Russian radio, in the "Europe plus" hit parade it reaches the 29th line. The video was directed by Gosha Toidze. The album received a large number of positive reviews from critics who compared it with Madonna's extreme works [ ] and some T.A.T.u. . The site Gazeta.ru called the disc "one of the most striking pop events of the season", and the site "Map of Music" noted that the sound received "new shades and motives, and the verses acquired a new pleasant form." "Intellectual alternative Euro-pop in the spirit of Madonna and Garbage", - they spoke about Varvara's music in "S M". The album was awarded the Silver Disc Award for Best Pop Vocal Album [ ] . Varvara herself said that “the second album [to her] is really closer than the first. Closer means I'm halfway there in search of the perfect sound, the perfect word, and the perfect method of communicating with the audience. But the closer I get to my ideal, the harder it gets.”
On May 15-18, the singer represented Russia at the Days of Russian Culture in Paris. During the festival, the singer gave concerts twice: in a castle on the banks of the Loire and in a local club. In the same year, the artist began working on her third studio album. The first song from the upcoming disc was the composition "Dreams", which marked the beginning of a new, ethnic direction in the singer's music. In the melody of the track, the sounds of drums of the Finno-Ugric peoples and Karelians sounded. In September, a video was filmed for this song [ ], on the island of Valaam - for the first time in history. The director was Gosha Toidze. Filming took place in difficult weather conditions for several days. But it was thanks to the video that hit all the music TV channels that the song reached the listeners and gradually became a hit even without wide radio support, because many radio stations boycotted the track because of the “non-format”. In November, the premiere of the video was held in the Morning Mail program of the Rossiya channel. Earlier, in October, the singer conducts a promotional tour in support of the album "Closer" in the cities of the Urals, Siberia and Ukraine. In mid-October, on the air of the Rossiya channel, Varvara presents for the first time new song at the concert "RTR gathers friends." The performance was staged and attended by students of the Moscow State Theatre Dance “Gzhel” under the direction of Vladimir Zakharov. With the same number, the girls perform in December Varvara at the television festival "Song of the Year" [ ] .
2004-2009: album "Dreams" and participation in the qualifying rounds of "Eurovision"
In 2004, Varvara became the only performer in history who brought Russia first place in the song contest of the international Eurovision fan club called OGAE [ ] . According to the results of the voting of European countries in 2004, her single "Dreams" won, thanks to which it was held in Moscow in 2005 [ ] . Work on the next clip of Varvara "The snow melted" took place in March 2004. In the summer, Varvara, together with the Turetsky Choir with Andrew Lloyd Webber's aria "Memory", opens the New Wave festival in Jurmala, takes part in a number of concerts. In December, in the final of the festival "Song of the Year" he presents a new song "Flew, yes she sang."
At the beginning of February 2005, the single "Flew, yes she sang" was released, a video of the same name, filmed in December in Morocco, started on music TV channels. Also on February 25, with this composition, Varvara performed in the final of the national selection of the Eurovision 2005 contest and took 4th place [ ] . On October 18, Varvara's third studio album "Dreams" was released. Guru Ken (NEWSMuz) noted that "it turned out to be a solid album." The album has sold several tens of thousands of copies in Russia. Three tracks from the album hit the top 20 of the Russian radio chart, including the single "Letala, yes sang" reached the peak position 8 [ ] in general and up to 5th in Moscow [ ] , in the annual - up to the 55th [ ] . The song was aired on radio stations in Russia and the CIS 218,658 times during active rotation and became the most notable hit in the singer's career. In the chart of the most rotated performers, Varvara became the 47th [ ] . The album receives the category "Best Pop Album of the Year" at the "Russian Top" award of the NEWSMuz music publication, but does not win, dropping to 18th line.
In January 2006, the single "Let me go, river" was released from the album "Dreams". The ensemble "Chukotka" took part in the filming of the video, as well as in the recording of the album [ ] . The song becomes a radio hit and reaches the 15th position of the Russian radio chart, occupies the 45th line in the general annual. In the winter-spring of 2006, the track was aired 225,688 times. With the English version of the track called "We'll Be There" [ ] Varvara participates in a private qualifying round Eurovision Song Contest 2006, but in the final is inferior to Dima Bilan. On June 10, the radio stations will get the first single from the new album, "Beautiful Life", which reaches the 31st position in the Russian radio chart, according to the results of 2006, took the 79th line of the annual radio chart. In the same year, Varvara worked with Ruslana on the joint duet "Two Ways". The premiere of the song took place in September on the air of Channel One at the opening of the All-Russian contest-festival "Five Stars" [ ] . Varvara was included in the list of the 30 most rotated performers on radio stations [ ] at the end of 2006.
Since 2006, Varvara has been actively touring with concerts in South and Central Europe, countries in the Balkans in clubs.
In 2007, the lyrical and autobiographical composition "Aliens" was released. In the top of the most intricate musical novelties of the season, compiled by the New Life publication, the song is placed in 7th place. In the general radio chart, the song occupies the 36th line, in the annual it reaches the 71st. Collection of the best lyric songs, new album titled "Above Love" was released in November 2008. Varvara dedicated it to all mothers. The record is compared with the work of the VIA Gra group (Guru Ken, NEWSMuz). The disc receives a nomination for the "Best Pop Album of the Year" according to the "Russian Top" award of the NEWSMuz edition and takes the 6th line. In 2008, Varvara entered the top 100 sexiest girls in Russia according to MAXIM magazine [ ] . Also, at the end of the year, Varvara became the 45th in the list of the most popular artists countries according to the publication "7 days" [ ] . The following year, Varvara took part in the Festival of Russian Culture in London with new program"Dreams" [ ] . The artist also presented a new show in many cities of Russia. In March-April passed tour around Moscow, with "Dreams" Varvara presented 10 concerts [ ] .
2010-2014: the show "Origins" and the album "Legends of Autumn"
In early 2010, Varvara started recording an acoustic album. In July, as part of the Slavyansky Bazaar festival, together with the Moscow Bagpipe Orchestra, she performed the Russian folk song "Along the St. Petersburg". Varvara was also awarded for her contribution to culture and the creative embodiment of the ideas of friendship between the peoples of Belarus and Russia with a special diploma of the Union State [ ] . On August 16, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation D. A. Medvedev, Varvara is awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia. In December, the singer will make her debut with Silva's aria in the production of The Bat at the Helikon-Opera Moscow Musical Theater under the direction of Dmitry Bertman [ ] .
On March 2, 2011, the premiere of Varvara's musical performance entitled "Origins" took place on the stage of the Small Academic Theater. The author of the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating the show "Origins" was the singer's husband, Mikhail Susov. Special guest performances were the "Orchestra Pipers Moscow", as well as the ensemble "Chukotka" [ ] . In 2012, the show was released on DVD and Blu-Ray.
On March 31, 2012, Varvara again presented the Origins concert on the stage of the Meridian Central Cultural Institute. On May 2, on the air of Russian Radio, the premiere of Varvara's new single "Pipe" took place on the verses of Anna Akhmatova and the music of Vyacheslav Malezhik. In September, a video of the same name was released on music channels, filmed by director Alexander Filatovich in Kyiv. On the YouTube music portal, the video scored 1,000,000 views [ ] . In November, together with Buranovskiye grandmothers, Varvara presents the song “But I won’t get married”, which is performed at government concerts and on television [ ] .
In July 2013, the filming of the television musical television project of the First Channel "Universal Artist" was held in Moscow, in which, along with others Russian performers(Larisa Dolina, Sergey Galanin, Teona Dolnikova, Sergey Lazarev, etc.) Varvara also took part. The brightest number of the artist on the project was the cover of “Ice Ice Baby” Vanilla Ice, in which Varvara rapped [ ] . The jury also gave high marks to her numbers in the genres of "rock" (she sang the hit "Trouble" by singer P!nk) and "patriotic song" (performed the famous "Katyusha"). As a result, the artist took sixth place. In October, a tour of the Sakhalin Island took place with the program "Origins", in which the singer performed in 11 cities, ending the tour with a performance at the Blagoveshchensk OCC with a capacity of almost 1000 seats [ ] . On October 17, Varvara performed in her native Balashikha with charity concert"Origins".
On October 30, Varvara announced the release of a new album. On December 4, in support of the record, the single “Who seeks, he will find” starts on radio stations. On December 9, Varvara releases her fifth studio album entitled "Legends of Autumn". It includes 12 compositions, including both previously presented songs and 3 new tracks. The album had an extensive promotion on the central channels of Russia and the CIS and radio stations, in which Varvara performed songs from the record on various television shows and radio programs [ ] . Rita Skeeter from Intermedia gave the album a mixed review, considering Varvara's new LP to be well-recorded, but not conceptual: "for folk to be folk". The reviewer noted "weak hints of Celtic rhythms" in several songs, but this, according to Rita, is extremely rare [ ] . Despite this, the album receives a nomination for the "Russian Top" award of the music publication NEWSMuz in the category "best vocal pop album" and is included in the list of the 10 best Russian albums of the year recorded in the genre of pop music [ ] .
In January 2014, Varvara and her husband Mikhail Susov became torchbearers of the Olympic Torch Relay in the city of Kursk [ ] . February 28 on the stage of the Moscow concert hall"Meridian" Varvara demonstrated version 2.0 of the show-performance "Origins". The set list included the main hits of Varvara, folk songs and the best rooms from the show “Universal artist”: covers for the hits Vanilla Ice, P!nk, as well as a cover for Avicii’s song “Wake Me Up”, performing with a guitar for the first time in his work [ ] . Part of the program was dedicated to the presentation of the new album "Legends of Autumn". Participated as a special guest American composer and singer Michael Knight from the USA and the Moscow Piper Orchestra. In March-April, Varvara, with a small tour of Russia, performed in several cities with the "Origins" program. On April 9, the single "Pain and Love" was released from the album "Legends of Autumn". On April 10, within the framework of the international festival "Slavianski Bazaar" in Vitebsk, the singer became the chairman of the jury in children's competition arts [ ] . The event took place at the Moscow House of Composers. On June 8, Varvara played her set at the VIII German-Russian Festival in Berlin [ ] .
On May 14, the release of the first single for the folk record - "The Legend of the Barbarian" took place. On June 12, Varvara with the song “Who seeks, he will find” performs at a concert for the Day of Russia “Young Russia” on Red Square. In mid-June, the TV series “Alien Life” (directed by Andres Puustusmma) was released on the Russia-1 channel. The official soundtrack for it was Varvara's composition "Two Ways". At the end of June, Varvara played the Origins program as part of the XVII All-Russian festival folk art dedicated to the composer A.P. Averkin in the Ryazan region. On July 28, the radio stations released Varvara's new single "The whole world is for us." During the first day on the Primemusic portal, the track was downloaded about 1000 times, on July 29 it became the leader in downloads. In early August, as part of the For Life festival, the singer spoke out in defense of the preservation family values. On October 20, the single "Solnyshko" is released in support of the folk album. October 24, the artist takes part in the acoustic set of the Orchestra Pipers Moscow "OBM: 10 years of endurance" in the club of Alexei Kozlov [ ] . On October 25, Varvara presents an acoustic program live on the Russian News Service radio station. On November 14, together with Michael Knight, Eteri Beriashvili and Karina Flores, the singer presents the project “Voices Of Love” (“Voices of Love”). On December 14, the show was played again, in the Svetlanov Hall [ ] .
2015-present: "folklore" Varvara
presented in January the best songs program "Origins" as part of a live concert of the TV show "He came to us ..." on the channel "A-minor" [ ] . March 4, 2015 at the Moscow International House of Music Varvara again participates in the concert "Voices Of Love". In March, together with designer Elena Shipilova in Moscow in Gostiny Dvor, she presented the fashion collection "Return to the Origins" [ ] . In April, the singer begins a tour in support of the Len album with a new program, Where Love Is..., giving a number of solo concerts in the cities of the Moscow region, Kaliningrad and the Kaliningrad region. On September 25, Barbara's sixth studio album "Lyon" is released. It includes folklore and ethnic compositions of the peoples of Russia, including both well-known songs and old compositions of villages and villages found during expeditions [ ] . Filming took place in October, and in December - the premiere of the video for the song "Who seeks, he will find." The video was directed by Alexander Syutkin. Despite its informality and ethnicity, the video was warmly received and got into the rotation of the country's main music TV channels: RU.TV, Music box, Rusong.TV and others. In November, Varvara received the nomination "Best Folk Artist" for "
Two sides of the same moon
pipe
Winter
Ivushki (duet with A. Vorobyov)
Cossacks in Berlin
Beautiful life
Who seeks will find
She flew and sang
Fly into the light
Blizzard
Do-no
Bridges to Paradise
Music of Christmas
On the verge
On the edge
Nowhere to run
One
Autumn
Let me go river
Heart don't cry
Sun
glass love
melted snow
Aliens
It's behind
I'm alive
I know
Biography (story) of the singer Varvara
Russian singer Varvara(real name Elena Vladimirovna Tutanova, after marriage - Susova) was born on July 30, 1973 in the city of Balashikha in a family of engineers.
About childhood, which was densely saturated with events that served the development future star Barbara remembers reluctantly. It's hard to believe, but once this gorgeous blonde with the appearance of a fashion model was shy of her appearance and kept among her peers as a "gray mouse". A girl from Balashikha, from an ordinary family of engineers, simply did not like to study, and, of course, they forced her. And today, sometimes Varvara, sighing, says: "I didn't have a childhood." However, some things bring back nostalgic memories for her - for example, School of Music in the accordion class, although she finished it "from a triple to a deuce, from a deuce to a stake." Or the accordion given to four-year-old Varvara by her grandfather: although it has been worn out for a long time, and many valves do not work on it, the singer cherishes this gift.
With pleasure, Varvara was engaged only in dancing and sports, so at school she was responsible for organizing all evenings and matinees, being the head. cultural sector. Surprisingly, she showed almost no interest in solo singing and even almost entered the Institute of Light Industry. Fortunately, one fateful event stopped her. Once in the House of Culture, where Varvara was dancing, she passed by the door, because of which crazy guitar sounds like AC / DC were usually heard. But, having heard a virtuoso variation of Paganini instead of hard rock, Varvara listened and really stuck to the door. Further development events was comical: the door opened, and the girl literally tumbled into the room. But the perspicacious guys did not laugh: they instinctively felt that something serious was behind this impulse, and gave Varvara an instant audition.
The next day, she did not go to the institute for courses, but went to a rehearsal with the ensemble. A few days later, the group unanimously decided that Varvara had an individual, strong voice - and something had to be done about it. A month before the entrance exams to universities, together with a choir teacher in the same recreation center, Varvara prepared a mini-program ... And she entered the Gnessin School with a competition of 12 people per place - according to the results of the first round. Varvara owed such success to her teacher - director Matvey Osherovsky, who at first glance saw in her an outstanding creative personality. To this man, who once became famous for the scandalous production of The Threepenny Opera in Odessa, she owes the nickname "Kolomenskaya Mile" - this is how the professor called Varvara when he was especially dissatisfied with her. Despite the fact that the relationship with the teacher was difficult - he repeatedly kicked the artist out and even threw shoes at her - Varvara invariably returned and stubbornly continued to learn from the eccentric genius. In the last year of Gnesinka, quarrels with teachers became constant: they tried to convince the girl that an operetta was “crying” for her, and Varvara explained that she only agreed to free flight. And after graduating from college, throwing aside all prejudices, she went to sing "in a tavern." The very first performance turned into a disaster: “Some uneven sobs poured out of the microphone. I thought: in figs I was finishing something at all ... But after a few months I learned to get rid of the acquired syndrome of“ dome ”singing, characteristic of all classical singers: voice became more flexible, and I went into a rage."
Some time later, Varvara unexpectedly found herself in the troupe of the State Theater of Variety Performances, headed by the master of the national stage, Lev Leshchenko. At the same time, the singer graduated from GITIS with a degree in pop artist. For several years she has been tirelessly touring with the theater as a soloist - and performs the classics of the Soviet stage. It got to the point that during a tour of US cities, Barbara often woke up in the middle of the night and walked around the room like a sleepwalker, repeating songs from the program. But it was then that she had the opportunity to perform her own songs as part of the big theater concerts. Soon Varvara in the theater became crowded, and she set off into free flight.
In 2001, the company "NOX Music" released the artist's debut album, which was called: "Barbara". Work on this record continued throughout 2000. Most of the songs were written by unknown young authors, and only the name of Kim Breitburg - the main songwriter of Boris Moiseev - said something to the listeners. Young musicians-multi-instrumentalists, united in one group, named after Varvara, took part in the recording of the disc. It was then for the first time that the DJs of the leading radio stations thought: what style should this music be attributed to? There are echoes of all musical cultures - from Russian to Arabic; the sounds of live instruments are combined here with electronic samples, tragic compositions invariably coexist with one hundred percent dance pop hits, and at the same time, it’s scary to think, poetry comes to the fore! The songs of the debut album, despite all their informality, were a success with the listeners: the title "Barbara", "Butterfly", "On the Edge" and "Fly into the Light" really bathed in the air. But the fact that in Nicole Claro's book "Madonna" one of the chapters was called "On the Edge" went unnoticed - such subtle moments always pass the listeners' attention.
Barbara's first album turned out to be as ambiguous as the singer's on-screen image. Exquisitely beautiful and insanely sexy, charming shy and lonely wanderer - all this series of images was simultaneously issued by Varvara in three video clips shot for the first album. The first video for the song "Fly into the Light", directed by Varvara's longtime friend Fyodor Bondarchuk and cameraman by Vlad Opelyants, turned out to be a harsh experiment in its genre. He was filmed at the factory, and Varvara, at a temperature of minus 5 degrees, had to portray "mischief" in a light T-shirt. The next one - "Butterfly" (dir. D. Makhamutdinov) - was filmed in Egypt, in radically opposite conditions. "I wanted to make a clip in the form of a mini-movie. The plot is this: while relaxing in Egypt, I find a bracelet with a butterfly that once belonged to Cleopatra. And the queen's soul moves into my body. I live her life: love with Caesar, war with the Romans, death by snakebite.Specially for filming, we went to Egypt in ancient city Luxor. The temperature went off scale over 70 degrees of heat, stones began to melt ... I literally almost laid my hand on myself - it was so hot. But, plunging into the atmosphere of the famous "garden of columns", the alley of sphinxes, the temple erected thousands of years ago by the mysterious Queen Hatshepsut, you involuntarily begin to understand the very essence ancient egypt". The third video "On the Edge" did without extreme situations, but was entirely built on the conceptual idea of director Sergei Kalvarsky. According to the idea of the video, behind the visual metaphors of a snake and a dagger, there is a relationship between a man and a woman who has already been burned in life, but finally met The filming of "Butterfly" was preceded by another unexpected event in Varvara's life - in 2000 she won the Grand Prix at the "Kinodiva" competition, writes./../... The competition held as part of the Kinotavr festival was not as much a beauty pageant as a pageant acting skills.
Young cinema and theater actresses, as well as pop singers, acted out sketches, danced minuets and, according to well-known scenario, played queens Catherine in Tsaritsyno park. “I was not interested in participating in this show. At that moment I was the product of the producer’s folly. The only funny moment was how Vyacheslav Dobrynin and I portrayed Little Red Riding Hood and gray wolf. Moreover, Dobrynin completely refused to use the proposed text and improvised with might and main: "Don't rub salt in my wounds" and so on. In fact, it’s much more pleasant for me to remember another competition - “Show Queen”, where I took a well-deserved second place. "Throughout 2000 and 2001, Varvara did not stop her concert activity - except for a short break that fell during the birth and upbringing of her daughter the singer, also named Barbara. For some time the singer lived in her beloved United Arab Emirates - and also gave concerts there with a program of ten songs in Arabic. The singer's Scandinavian appearance, coupled with her deep, oriental flexible voice, made such an impression on the Arabs that Varvara was offered to record an “Arabic album.” Someday his time will come ...
The first album was a kind of strength test for Varvara. Musical critics, confused that there were no analogues to Varvara's music on the Russian stage, tried to put her on a par with the exalted Linda and the magnificent Valeria. "I will always be against drawing any analogies between my work and what pop artists do in Russia. They exist in their own field, artificially created twenty years ago, and are afraid of any infusions from outside. Pop music in Russia may be another twenty years will not change unless we catch the wave that is sweeping the world today.The pop music of a single country is not interesting if it does not contain elements of all other music, if it does not become world-pop-music.My best analogy I can guide the music myself: Mylène Farmer, who in France can't be classified either as a traditional rock, or as a "pop", or even more so as a chanson.
But if, after this phrase of mine, they begin to compare me with Mylene Farmer, this will be the biggest stupidity of the comparison. "Thinking about recording a second album, Varvara looked into the" mirror "of the first one again. And appreciated all its shortcomings: it is too slippery in terms of style, uneven in emotions, too "flirts" with the audience. Shaking a lock of blond hair, Varvara decided that it was time to do what had always been closer to her. Once again she listened to her favorite records: Enya, Madonna, Garbage, Shani Twain, Sheryl Crow ... And went to work for almost two years. Most of the compositions were written at the Brothers Grimm studio - it was this company that managed to find arrangements and sound adequate to the ideas of the singer. The first material recorded by Arthur A "Kim and Dmitry Moss turned out to be so fresh that the question of defining style sounded new. It was at that moment that Varvara received an offer from the founder of the famous Swedish studio Cosmo, Norn Bjorn, to record several compositions with the Swedish Symphony Orchestra. It was impossible to miss this unique opportunity - to hear yourself in the "Euro-processing" of the sound producers who worked on the latest records of A-ha and Britney Spears. Cooperation with the Swedes resulted in the song "This is behind", designed in the style of fashionable r "n" b, but Varvara decided to continue recording other songs for the future album in Russia. "We had the opportunity to compare. I used it.
The ideas of the "Brothers Grimm" studio turned out to be closer to me, and the sound they achieved was fully consistent with the European level. "In the summer of 2002, Varvara's song" I'm Alive "suddenly sounded on Our Radio" on the air of the program "Do You Need It?". This produced the effect of an exploding bomb - until that moment, the so-called "pop artists" did not appear on Our Radio. Legend has it that the choice of the song was personally carried out by Mikhail Kozyrev. However, contrary to all expectations, the listeners of the country's main "rock and roll" radio station did not succumb to provocation and refrained from scourging Varvara, who was presented by the presenter precisely as a pop singer.30% of the audience who took part in the Internet voting bombarded the Nashe Radio forum with indignant messages on the topic of the presenter's incorrect actions and demanded satisfaction.This experiment was another confirmation of the fact that Varvara's work lies "on the verge" between pop and rock music... The compositions "I'm Alive", "Heart, Don't Cry" and "You Can-Impossible" came out in the summer on a separate single, which instantly scattered across radio stations. Soon, Varvara's industrial-aesthetic clip "Heart, Don't Cry" appeared on the air of the leading music TV channels. It became the first video work in which Varvara tried to realize her idea of timeless clips, where everything is based on acting. A little later, a video for the song "Od-na" appeared, filmed in an abandoned workshop of the ZIL plant among black oil puddles and construction debris. On November 30, Varvara took the stage of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses: she performed in the final of "Song of the Year" with the composition "One-on". Behind the scenes, aggressive journalists tried to press the singer with questions - however, Lev Leshchenko, who represented Varvara, did not let the process go out of the normal course. In December 2002, the singer recorded the last song, which gave the final name to the album - "Closer". "This album is a rethinking of everything that happened to me before, a reflection on the past. After it, I will go forward, and you should be ready for this."
In December 2004, the singer received an honorary diploma from the TV festival "Song of the Year" for the song "Letala Yes Sang", for which a month later she shot a video in Morocco.
In 2005 Varvara passed the national selection International Competition"Eurovision-2005", in the same year she took first place in the Internet voting conducted by the International Club OGAE and received the right to represent Russia at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Eurovision in Denmark.
Since 2006, the singer has been actively touring the cities of Russia and European countries, introducing foreigners to the ethnic creativity of Russian musical culture.
In 2009, the singer participates in the Festival of Russian Culture in London with her new program "Dreams", which contains her best works, in musical arrangements of which there are the sounds of the Yakut tambourine, the beats of the North Caucasian drums and the melodic sounds of old Russian horns. The musical group of the singer tries to use as much as possible folk instruments thus emphasizing the scale of Russian culture.
Per last years many tours, festivals and a wide variety of events could not do without the active participation of Varvara. She has participated in various music festivals both in Russia and abroad.
In 2010, Varvara was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia.
In 2012, a new single and a video clip of the singer called "Pipe" are released. The authors of words and music are V. Malezhik and A. Akhmatova.
The singer is also the artistic director and CEO own production center called "Art Center "Barbara"".
Personal life
Having experienced the failure of an early marriage, she met on the way the man of her dreams - businessman Mikhail Susov, who became her support in her work. A reliable rear enables her to create original works that differ from other performers. The couple are raising four children. After all, she is Barbara, she is not like everyone else!
The appearance of Varvara on the Russian stage marks a new era in the development of the Russian popular music industry. The songs she sings exist outside the traditional "rock" or "pop" formats, because her music is a subtle fusion of almost all the world's musical traditions. Alternative and symphonic music, ethnics of northern Europe and the East, electronics and new age, seasoned with a modern sound - these elements, according to Varvara, should form modern popular music. In this quest to find the perfect form of pop music that would sound organically in any language in any country in the world, Varvara is really the closest thing to Madonna changing styles like gloves. And in this sense, Varvara is a foreigner among colleagues in the pop scene. One of Madonna's critics recently described the style of her latest album "Music" as "romantic techno rock dance". It is well known that Madonna is a recognized experimenter in the field of contemporary music. Varvara's musical experiments can lead to the fact that we will finally have high-quality popular music, with which we are not ashamed to enter the world music markets. Varvara does not like to play with definitions, but for those who like to put "excise stamps" and "factory marks" on the sound and voice, a definition was found: Varvara makes an intellectual alternative euro-pop. With some caution, it can be added that in Russia it was the first to enter this promising road.
Honored Artist of Russia (2010).
Barbara - Russian singer. Honored Artist of Russia (2010).
Varvara graduated from Gnesinka, where her teacher was Matvey Osherovsky, director of the sensational production of The Threepenny Opera in Odessa. The eccentric genius repeatedly kicked the artist out, called her "a mile from Kolomna" and even threw boots at her.However, Varvara did not go to the operetta through no fault of his, she just wanted a “free flight”, without directors and producers. Later, working in the theater of variety performances by Lev Leshchenko, she graduated from GITIS in absentia with a degree in musical theater artist. After leaving the theater, Varvara began her solo career.
In 2001, the company "NOX Music" released the artist's debut album, which was called: "Barbara". Work on this record continued throughout 2000. Most of the songs were written by unknown young authors, and only the name of Kim Breitburg, the main songwriter of Boris Moiseev, said something to the listeners. Young musicians-multi-instrumentalists, united in one group, named after Varvara, took part in the recording of the disc.
In the summer of 2002, Varvara received an unexpected offer. The founder of the famous Swedish studio Cosmo (it was this company that “made” the last records of A-ha and Britney Spears) Norn Bjorn invited her to record several compositions with the Swedish Symphony Orchestra. Barbara travels in music as she travels in life. In the United Arab Emirates, where she often comes with her family, she has already been offered to record an album of songs in Arabic. But besides the east, Barbara is also attracted by northern Europe, with its harsh sagas and Celtic tales, with the cold music of Enya and the salty smell of the ocean. Perhaps that is why in the song "Two Sides of the Moon" from her second album, which should be released in February 2003, Norman notes are felt so much.
March 2003 will again become Varvara's month. Ars-Records released her second album, called Closer. Most of the compositions for it were recorded at the Brothers Grimm studio, it was in this company that they managed to find arrangements and sound that were adequate to the ideas of the singer.
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