Singer Kamburova Elena: biography, photos, songs

Kamburova Elena Antonovna is a talented Soviet and Russian singer, winner of state awards, holder of the title of People’s Artist of Russia, founder and artistic director of the Theater of Music and Poetry in Moscow. Her voice is known to Russians in cinema and cartoons, which the singer had the chance to voice. Today, there are about fifty records and more than twenty CDs on which the best songs of Elena Kamburova are recorded.

Origin

The singer’s pedigree comes from the Greeks of Azov, who lived in Crimea from the middle of the eighteenth century. Her ancestors were teachers, clerks, doctors, and spiritual servants. Some of them were subjected to repression and persecution. Parents of Elena Kamburova met in Novokuznetsk (then Stalin). In July 1940, they had a daughter. The singer’s father was an engineer, his mother a doctor. The Kamburova family was very friendly and musical. In the evenings, little Elena listened to songs performed by her mother and grandmother to the accompaniment of her father, who owned a good guitar.

Path selection

In childhood, the singer did not even think about a musical career. The girl was more interested in dramatic art and poetry. Being unsure of her talent, after graduation, the girl became a student at the Institute of Light Industry in Kiev. Two years later, the future singer tried to enter the Shchukin Theater School. Having failed the third round, Elena decided to stay in Moscow. After working for a year at a construction site, the singer entered the pop department of the State Circus School. From that moment, the biography of Elena Kamburova made an unexpected turn. Sergei Kashtelyan, who taught at the school, discerned musical talent in the student. He invited Elena to perform the song of Novella Matveyeva "What a great wind." So the first performance of the singer took place, which did not leave the audience indifferent.

Sixties

The first talented songwriters that Elena Kamburova was lucky to work with were Novella Nikolaevna Matveeva and Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava. Their poetry possessed the piercing that was not enough for the performers of the sixties. Therefore, the singer began to stand out sharply in the musical environment of that time. Together the songs were created and performed:

• "Everything is muffled music of the soul."
• "The main song."
• "Georgian song".
• "Why should we be on you."
• "King".
• "Prayer".
• "Musician".
• "He finally appeared in the house."
• "Hope painted door."
• "I do not believe fate and fate."
• "The old jacket."
• "Sentinels of love."
• "An old soldier's song."
• "Outskirts".
• "Song of the Hills."

In the mid-sixties, the singer became acquainted with another talent - composer Larisa Kritskaya. Elena and Larisa chose verses from various poetry collections to which Cretan wrote music. Thus, the songs of Elena Kamburova were born:

• "Everything will be tomorrow."
• "Departure".
• "Another woman."
• "The death of the Titanic."
• "The old alphabet."
• "Bird cherry".
• "Didn't talk."
• "Elegy".
• "I have in Moscow."
• "Cry".

In the same years, the first records with voice recordings of the singer appeared. These were eight collections of "Horizon", "Songs of Bulat Okudzhava", "Songs of Soviet Composers", "Elena Kamburova Sings".

In the late sixties, Alexander Kurochkin’s children's film “Passenger from the Equator”, in which the singer sang the song “The Little Prince”, was released on the big screens. This was Elena’s first film work.

Seventies

1970 was marked by the release of the film-concert of Elena Kamburova: "Monologue". The same year gave the singer the first solo disc. Continuing to collaborate with Cretan, the artist began to work with other composers. Songs were written to the verses of Voznesensky, Pozhenyan, Mayakovsky, Gumilyov, Blok, Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Tyutchev, Levitan. The music was written by Mikael Tariverdiev and Vladimir Dashkevich. The singer’s talent in Soviet cinema turned out to be very popular. In the seventies, one after another, pictures began to come out with her voice acting:

• "Secret City".
• "Great space travel."
• "Unusual friend."
• "Slave of love."
• "Princess of the Underwater Kingdom."
• "Pony runs in a circle."
• "Mama".
• "I thought of it, congratulations!"
• "Yaroslavna, Queen of France."
• "Adventure Electronics".
• "Jumble".
• "Appointed as a granddaughter."
• "My love is in my third year."
• "Casket with a secret."
• "The earth is entrusted to you."
• "My chosen one."
• "Love me like I love you".

Career heyday

Since the eighties, the singer has become a real star of the Soviet stage. Romances of Elena Kamburova adorned Soviet cinema. She was invited to the voice acting of the films: “Once Twenty Years Later”, “Dulsineya Tobosskaya”, “Night Witches in the Sky”, “We Were Not Crowned in the Church”, “Without a Family”, “The Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin”, “Captain Frakass”, "Peppy Long Stocking," "Peter Pan," "Midshipmen, Go!", "Promised Heaven," "White Clothes," "Unlike."

The singer happened to meet and have collaborated with many talented people: Vladimir Vysotsky, Edith Piaf, Gennady Gladkov, Yuri Saulsky, Charles Aznavour, Yuri Entin, Alexandra Pakhmutova, Nikolai Dobronravov, Irina Bogushevskaya.

Elena had a chance to try herself as an actress in the films: "Monologue", "Clown", "Remembering", "My dearly beloved detective", "Free fall", "Story twist". For many years, viewers have been listening to Elena Kamburova’s lullaby, "Sleep, my joy, sleep."

Theatre

In the early nineties, Kamburova decided to create her own theater, in which she could act as an artistic director and performer of roles. She succeeded, and in 1992 the first premiere of the Theater of Music and Poetry: the play "Game of Dreams." The theater is still popular. Performances based on the works of world classics are staged in it: Tchaikovsky, Bach, Schubert, Vivaldi, Schumann, Haydn. Folklore and contemporary music does not go unnoticed. Elena Antonovna believes that the song is Art with a capital letter. She tries to convey this idea to the viewer from the stage of her theater. Talented musicians are involved on the stage of the theater and perform such performances as:

• "Drops of the Danish King."
• "I dreamed of a garden."
• "Antigone".
• "Happy roads."
• "Absinthe".
• "Victory. Requiem."
• "In his unusual manner."

In addition, the theater hosts literary evenings, concerts of jazz and chamber music, and evenings of songwriting and poetry. The theater was awarded the Crystal Turandot Prize for staging the performance "Silence beyond the Rogozhskaya Zastava".

Personal life

Despite her creative openness, Elena Antonovna is not ready to share her secret. She prefers not to comment on her personal life. It is known that the singer met her first husband while studying at the circus school. It was a pianist and composer Kirill Akimov. It was he who introduced Elena to Bulat Okudzhava. For this acquaintance, the singer is grateful to her first husband to this day. The marriage lasted six years and ended in divorce. About the reasons the couple chose not to spread.

The second time the singer married her colleague Alexei Voznesensky. He participated in writing songs Kamburova, was her accompanist. The singer admits that she felt the support of Alexei until the last days of his life. Children in both marriages did not appear.

Now

Currently, Elena Kamburova directs her theater, takes part in his performances, continues to tour. The singer can be seen both on the Russian stage and on the stage of the following countries: Germany, Finland, USA, Greece, Portugal, Canada, Great Britain, Israel, Netherlands, Sweden.

In addition, the singer is engaged in charity work. Elena has three cats and a dog, she cares about the fate of homeless animals and dreams of someday opening a shelter for them.

Awards

For her long and fruitful career, Elena Kamburova was awarded:

• Moscow Komsomol Prize;
• the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR;
• the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation;
• for concert programs of 1995-99 - the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of art and literature;
• for the strengthening of international cultural ties and personal contribution to the formation of the cultural life of the Russian Federation - Tsarskoye Selo art award;
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh (III degree);
• for merits in the musical and literary field and for many years of fruitful work - the Order of Friendship and the Order of Honor;
• Certificate of Honor of the Government of Moscow;
• the memorial sign "Man of the Millennium";
• Prize "Your own track" for the twentieth anniversary of the Theater of Music and Poetry;
• for the organization of theatrical affairs - the International Stanislavsky Prize;
• Honorary Diploma of the President of the Russian Federation.

Discography

You can get acquainted with the work of the singer by listening to the records and discs of Elena Kamburova. The best is presented in the following of them:

• "A Farewell to Arms!" - 1970 year.
• Vision No. 10 - 1975.
• Songs from the movie "The Adventures of Electronics" - 1980.
• "Tales of Italy" - 1980.
• "Club and amateur performances No. 5" - 1981.
• "Listen!" - 1981 year.
• Encore Song - 1981.
• Rock opera of Alexander Gradsky "Stadium" - 1985.
• "Peppy Long Stocking" - 1985.
• “May Silence Come” - 1987.
• "Midshipmen, go!" - 1988 year.
• "Amour Writing" - 1996.
• "Sandman" (Russian lullabies) - 1997.
• "Drops of the Danish King", "Blue Trolley", "Magic Violin" - 1999.
• "The Road" - 2000.
• "Love and Separation", "Songs from the Movies" (2 parts) - 2001.
• "Romance of Life and Death" - 2005.
• "Last Love" - ​​2006.
• "Remembrance of the organ", "Requiem", "The Little Prince" - 2007.
• “Far Away, Across the River” and “Dolphin Country” - 2010.

And now Kamburova has many fans and loyal listeners.