In March 1931, a wonderful pop singer, our Soviet Edith Piaf, people's artist of Russia Tamara Miansarova was born in Ukraine. Her biography began in a creative family. Parents were gifted people, in any case, they sang everything there and always. Father - an artist of the theater, artist, mother - from simple factory workers, but actively participated in amateur performances. Once she won a vocal competition, where she noticed and appreciated her talent - then she sang at the Minsk Opera House. There the war found this family.
Biography
Tamara Miansarova was not yet, her maiden name is Remneva. For the first time she appeared on the big stage at the age of four and immediately successfully. She studied very well, showed excellent pianist performance, graduated from a ten-year music school in Minsk and in 1951 entered the piano department of the Moscow Conservatory. You can imagine what kind of environment Tamara Miansarova immediately fell into! Her biography from the very beginning grew exclusively interesting environment. In these years, piano was taught at the Moscow Conservatory Neuhaus, Goldenweiser, Shebalin, Sofronitsky ... Itās impossible to list everyone, but itās even hard to find a name that would sound brighter than others. And it was not anyone who took her to his class, but Lev Oborin himself!
There, at the conservatory, her name changed to the one that is now known to everyone, and everyone connects her with the sound of the wonderful voice of Tamara Miansarova. Her biography was now built purposefully and quickly. I must say that she played the piano very well, but the person whose name Tamara wore until her last hour did it even better. Eduard Miansarov is one of the many outstanding students of Lev Oborin (he simply didnāt have outstanding ones!), A very significant pianist: fourth prize at the First (and largest in the world) Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow. The first place is Van Cliburn, and the fourth is Eduard Miansarov. But Tamara glorified his surname even more when she began to sing.
Vocals
In 1957, Tamara also graduated from the vocal department of the Moscow Conservatory, after which she began working as accompanist at GITIS. In parallel, there was a search for yourself and your niche in art. And a year later such an event presented itself: the third place in the All-Union Competition of Variety Artists was taken by singer Tamara Miansarova. Her biography was now filled with completely different events, other meetings, different music. Traveling around the country with concerts began, work began in the Music Hall, where Tamara especially distinguished herself in her solo part in the play "When the Stars Light Up".
Of course, for her family, children were important. Tamara Miansarova did not impoverish her biography. In 1956, his son Andrei was born, who became an excellent musician, a brilliant arranger who worked with the best instrumental ensembles and soloists of the country (including VIA Gems, and for his mother he made arrangements and arranged records with the best musicians in the best studios )
New stage
In the same 1958, Tamara began to sing jazz in the quartet of Igor Granov - another new line in the biography. The family and children of Tamara Miansarova were seen less and less. Success everywhere awaited her - a graceful beauty with a beautiful nature, and even through a double conservative education with a processed voice, with an extremely strong desire to sing, she could not help but be remembered by the audience.
The singer became famous: one just needs to remember how quickly the photos of Tamara Miansarova were bought up. Children, personal life - the singerās biography should all have been pushed to the background. And so it happened. Itās good that my grandmother helped raise her son Andrei and daughter Catherine. Children should have realized how great their motherās talent is. Not to meet him - trouble and betrayal. What God gives people must be returned a hundredfold. Tamara did it too.
A family
With the beginning of a new stage in the biography of Tamara Miansarova, the family really had to go into the shadow of her victories, which were built literally next to each other, and each was more significant than the previous one. So imperceptibly and Eduard Miansarov first went into the shadows, and then in general - forever, leaving his wife only his last name, which Tamara brought even more fame.
Edwardās son Andrei is still extremely attached to his father and, judging by the interviews, this parting that happened long ago still hurts him. Well, I had to make my own biography of Tamara Miansarov! Nationality, age or marital status can neither help nor hinder anyone in such cases.
Curious public
Many are now interested not so much in the singerās creativity as in her personal life. People are also asked about nationality (most often it is precisely those who do not know anything about the singer, including the fact that in girlhood she bore an absolutely Russian surname - Remnev). And it would be better to turn on the old recordings and enjoy her magnificent voice once more, to cry with the song āEyes on the Sandā, to be touched by āBaby Stompā, to be surprised that Tamara Miansarova was the first performer of the still popular song āBlack Catā, yes and she was sung much better than all the modern celebrities who included her in their repertoire.
And then, starting in 1958, some tours followed others. The procession of Tamara in the Soviet Union was truly triumphant. Everyone has their own path in life, and biographies are formed in different ways - there are loud ones, there are quiet ones. What can you feel if you hear your own voice from each window, and fans literally tear your photo from each other? The biography of Tamara Miansarova, the family - children and adults - also fell into this whirlpool, and who, if not them, were the first to feel that glory has a burden, and it is heavy.
Festivals
At the World Festival in Helsinki (1962), a delegation of our artists made a huge impression, and the song "Ai-lyuli" by composer Lyudmila Lyadova worthily graced the biography of Tamara Miansarova. Photos took her turn in the press of the whole world. The jury of the festival, the hearts of the audience and listeners were won. Tamara received a gold medal and first prize.
And in 1963, a year later, at the International Song Festival in Sopot, Tamara Miansarova made a splash that only Alla Pugacheva could repeat many years later. For the first time, the song by the composer Ostrovsky āLet there always be sunshineā was sounded here. Maya Kristalinskaya sang it first, but the song gained real fame after her performance by Tamara Miansarova.
"The solar circle"
It was an exceptionally interesting interpretation. The hall deeply felt everything: the collapsed world and the horror of occupation in the perception of a small child, his fear, his defenselessness and such enormous kindness, the ability to give every person happiness - at least painted. It is this performance that can be called the visiting card of both the song and Tamara Miansarova herself. In Poland, the singer instantly became an idol: she was shot in a musical film, recorded several CDs, constantly invited to tour.
At home, too, they waited everywhere, everywhere they loved her. In the biography of Tamara Miansarova, children, personal life were, of course, inscribed initially, but she simply could not pay much attention to all this physically. Her songs one after another became hits: this is "Ginger" (version of the Polish song), "Black Cat", "Let's never quarrel." In 1966, a song marathon took place in socialist countries: Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic and the USSR took turns singers, and in each country there was a tour with a local national song. Tamara Miansarova won four of the six rounds and, of course, won this difficult marathon.
Donetsk
In 1970, Tamaraās career seemed to have collapsed from great heights. She was no longer invited to the New Year 's Blue Lights, and indeed on the air, concerts became rare. It sometimes happened with artists, as if from somewhere an unspoken ban came. The singer subsequently said that one of the officials of the highest echelon did not get the desired result in his claims, hence the reaction. Songs performed by Miansarova as a broomstick were swept away from television and radio programs, she had to quit the Moskontsert, even had to leave the capital.
In Donetsk, Tamara got a job at the Philharmonic Society, toured only in Ukraine. The miners continued to love her. Even at BAM, she visited exactly the village that the Ukrainian SSR was building. The concert was sold out, and, listening to the half-forgotten hit "Eyes in the Sand", many women frankly cried. And then Tamara made a present to the builders: she sang a song written by local musicians, and which she had learned literally an hour before the concert. The orchestra turned out to be so professional that it also instantly turned on. The song was about a village near Komsomolsk-on-Amur named Urgal. The ovations did not stop for a very long time, but the listeners are still grateful to Tamara Miansarova. It was in the late 70s, and a little earlier the singer was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.
Moscow
In the eighties, Tamara Miansarova returned to Moscow. It was no longer possible to rise to its former popularity. At the hands of the audience she was no longer wearing it, although her artistic and singing skills had grown significantly. However, there were music lovers who listened to Miansarova and will always listen, because her magical voice, her bewitching manner of singing, her style did not disappear anywhere. She is a master, and therefore will forever remain in the history of the Soviet and Russian pop.
At the same time (in the 80s) in Ukraine they missed her: they shot a film about the youth of Tamara Miansarova, constantly performed songs on her air. And in Poland it was even more interesting. Panorama magazine has collected readers' opinions on the most popular singers over the past quarter century. Miansarova shared the first place with the Beatles, nearby were Edith Piaf, Aznavour and Karel Gott. And Tamara Miansarova just taught vocals (again at GITIS), sometimes she "jury" contests, a little less often participated in any programs, mainly devoted to retro music. And she wrote a book of memoirs (although it's too early, she would still shine!). In 1996, she was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia.
Personal life
The singerās life was turbulent in all respects, including her personal life, about which she colorfully wrote in her own book. A few marriages, children - the biography of Tamara Miansarova contained everything. A little less than two years ago, in a most modest way, that is, almost unnoticed, was its eighty-fifth anniversary. Even son Andrei did not come to congratulate.
He well remembers all the husbands of his mother, but he could not find a common language with the latter. That is why family relations have remained unenviable. But, perhaps (even for sure!), A misunderstanding began much earlier. With endless tours. With rejection of a choice when the son decided to marry. And this rejection was automatically transferred to the appeared grandchildren. And again with the rejection of the choice, when the son decided to marry a second time. But the son turned out to be worthy of his parents in character and defended his choice. His half-sister (his motherās third marriage - with Igor Khlebnikov, the administrator) also does not visit Tamara Miansarov too often. There is a reason for it too: constant malaise after the accident, in which Catherine fell many years ago.
Disease
I donāt feel like writing about the fact that the singerās friends, children, grandchildren and neighbors readily attended āLet them talkā TV shows, where they verbally, spatially, and in places shamelessly gossiped about each other. And at this time, Tamara Miansarova could not walk after a hip fracture, gradually went blind and needed not only attention, but also the most necessary material. Charitable foundations helped, not two children and not three grandchildren.
Itās better to remember how her most famous hits were born. Tamara picked up foreign tunes on the radio, recording them immediately in a musical notebook (real musicians can do that!), And then ordered poetry to poets. That is how Leonid Derbenev established himself in the national stage. But Tamara Miansarova began to sing songs such as Letka Enka and Charleston. She also performed her own music: "Hands", "My Russia". The repertoire of the Soviet stage was really poor.
Memory
We remember her voice, her creativity. Everything else is not so important at all. Even the fact that children are not often pleased. The singer died in the Moscow First City Hospital on June 12, 2017, she was buried in the Troekurovsky cemetery. But her voice sounds!