In this material, a biography of Alexandra Strelchenko will be presented to your attention. This singer and vocalist became the artistic director of the workshop of folk art in the Moscow cultural institution Moskontsert. She was awarded the title of People's Artist, which was awarded to her in 1984. She was born on February 2, 1937.
Biography
Alexandra Strelchenko was born in the Dnipropetrovsk region at the Chaplino station. Her father's name was Ilya Strelchenko, and her mother was Polina Pavlovna. In total, the parents of Alexandra Strelchenko had three children. Valentina, the elder sister, took her aunt to her. Alexandra remained an orphan at 8 years old.
She and her younger brother Anatoly were sent to an orphanage. The father of the future performer died at the front, and his mother also died at the end of the war. After graduating from school, Alexandra worked as a nanny. Then she was educated at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute in the correspondence department.
During the tour of the Voronezh choir, which took place in 1958, the girl visited his collective concert, after which she left school and decided to devote herself to musical creativity. In the period 1959-1962, Alexandra collaborated with the Lipetsk Philharmonic.
So, the girl managed to go through an annual internship at the All-Russian Workshop of Pop Art. In 1971, the performer for the radio recording of the folk song "Bela Zorenka" in the framework of the International Competition in Bratislava received the second prize and the silver ear "Silver Ear".
Disease
In the mid-90s, Alexandra Strelchenko and her second husband had an accident. After that, she started having problems with the hip joint and spine. Each step was given to the performer at the cost of severe pain. After the scandal surrounding the apartment, Alexandra Strelchenko found herself with a stroke in a hospital bed.
The singer suffers from high blood pressure. In 2017, it became known that she was also struggling with Parkinson's disease. She rarely leaves home, but visits the hospital regularly. Sometimes the performer finds strength to visit various holy places.
In particular, she was in Dmitrov, in a monastery. The national artist has not been interviewing for many years, the doors of her house are closed for everyone. She explains this with a desire to be remembered beautiful.
Personal life
The first husband of Alexandra Strelchenko, Vladimir Chekalov, was an employee of the KGB, his title was Major General. Drummer Vladimir Morozov became her second husband. The singer has no children. She noted that she did not have time to give birth from her first husband, and from the second she did not want to. She lives in the center of Moscow in an old high-rise building; she also works in the capital.
In her free time, the performer is interested in jazz, folk melodies, ballet, music, classical Russian literature, loves flowers, animals and nature. Her favorite artists are Tabakov, Arkhipova, Mordyukova and Vedernikov. Alexandra was a favorite performer of Brezhnev and Khrushchev.
The singer was called the queen of folk song. Rare feasts dispensed with her compositions “Curly Mountain Ash” and “Give Me a Scarf”. Alexandra's voice adorned the films Kalina Red and War and Peace. Now Alexandra was left alone with a serious ailment. Among the awards and honorary titles of the artist: Order of Honor, Honored Artist, People's Artist.
The performer also received a gold medal at the International Competition held in Sofia as part of the Youth Festival.
Discography
The songs of Alexandra Strelchenko composed several albums. The first of them was published in 1972. He received the name "Alexander Strelchenko sings." Her authorship also owns records with the following names: “Native tunes”, “Two flowers on the window”, “Autumn is knocking on the window”, “Lacemaker”.