Irina Ponarovskaya’s biography is a success story, which her fans could observe only from a purely formal point of view: the singer and actress never spoke candidly with reporters and carefully hid their personal lives from everyone. What does Irina Ponarovskaya do today? And how did her career develop throughout her life?
Biography of Irina Ponarovskaya: The Early Years
Irina was born in Leningrad. It seemed that the biography of Irina Ponarovskaya was destined from above: all members of the family of the future singer were related to musical art. Irina's father led a jazz orchestra, her mother taught at the Leningrad School of Music.
Despite the fact that the girl from an early age studied piano and harp, she showed more interest in singing than in playing the instruments. This trait of Irina’s character was noticed by her grandmother and insisted that the “little singer” be shown to vocal teachers. As a result, Ponarovskaya studied the art of singing with one of the most famous Soviet teachers - Lina Arkhangelskaya. The idols of Ponarovskaya in their youth were the singers Claudius Shulzhenko and Edita Pieha.
After school, Irina became a student at the Leningrad Conservatory, which by then had already graduated from her older brother. In 1976, Ponarovskaya received a diploma of a professional pianist.
Music career
Biography of Irina Ponarovskaya is inextricably linked with music. Already during her studies at the conservatory, it was clear that the singer had a unique voice. That is why she was invited to become a soloist of one of the most popular VIA in the USSR - “Singing Guitars”. And then Irina’s career rushed up: the main role in the rock opera “Orpheus and Eurydice”, a tour with Oleg Lundstrem’s orchestra .
In 1976, Ponarovskaya with the song “Prayer” won the music festival “Sopot-1976”.
In the 80s, Irina became a regular guest of a variety of musical television shows: “Blue Light”, “Song of the Year”, “Morning Post”. In 1986, after a long tour, structural changes took place in Ponarovskaya’s voice: her “company hoarseness” appeared. The singer was not able to recover, so she could only say that she always dreamed of such a timbre.
In 1988, the popularity of Irina Ponarovskaya grew so much that the singer finally had the opportunity to give large solo concerts in the concert hall "Russia". Soon the Soviet Union collapsed, but the singer successfully continued her solo career. So her two solo albums appeared: “So My Life Goes” and “A Woman Is Always Right”.
Cinema
Ponarovskaya is undoubtedly a beautiful woman, so she could not go unnoticed by filmmakers.
In 1976, the singer played a major role in the detective story "It Doesn't concern Me." She got the role of a process engineer in a factory where the OBKhSS inspector Shubnikov is conducting an investigation performed by Alexander Zbruyev (“Poor Sasha”).
In 1977, Ponarovskaya played a fairy in the fairy tale "Krakatuk Walnut." In 1978, Irina got a role in the musical film "City Fantasy" with Mikhail Boyarsky. In the same year, the singer played a girl of easy virtue in the movie "Robbery at Midnight."
The 80s were marked for the artist by roles in such films as “Thank you for bad weather” with Alisa Freindlikh, “The Trust That Burst” with Nikolai Karachentsov, “Golden Fish” with Alexander Kalyagin and “Blue Cities” with Kirill Lavrov. The last roles of the singer in the cinema were the short film “Rain Music” and the criminal film “He will receive his own”.
Irina Ponarovskaya: photos, style features
In matters of style and fashion, Ponarovskaya has always been “ahead of the rest”. She is the first Soviet artist who in the 70s allowed herself to cut her hair “like a boy”.
In 1987, the singer again radically changed her style: she changed her natural brown hair color to a dazzling blonde.
One of the most striking images of the singer is an extravagant black dress with a deep neckline and a neckline on the back, in which the diva appeared on the 50th anniversary of Lev Leshchenko. In those days, not a single domestic artist allowed himself such shocking behavior.
In 1992, at the Boris Moiseyev show, Ponarovskaya surprised everyone with a Japanese wig on her dark cherry head. And the singer did such experiments throughout her life.
The sense of style and taste of Ponarovskaya was highly appreciated abroad: the famous designer house Chanel awarded her the title "Miss Chanel of the Soviet Union" in 1990.
Personal life
The personal life of Irina Ponarovskaya resembled a “swing”: either she is happy in marriage with her next husband, then she enjoys loneliness. The singer officially married three times: for musician Grigory Kleimits, for jazz singer Weyland Rodd and for doctor Dmitry Pushkar. Also, the star had several civil marriages.
At the moment, Irina is not in any relationship. The son of Irina Ponarovskaya from her second marriage lives in Norway, and the singer herself spends almost all of her time with his family and her own grandson. Occasionally, Irina agrees to corporate concerts, which, according to her representatives, cost 20 thousand euros.