Those who grew up in the 60s or 70s remembered the music that sounded from the "bells" in all the parks of culture and recreation of our vast Motherland. “Ferris Wheel”, “Heart in the Snow”, “No Need to Frown, Lada” and other wonderful songs of those years were performed by Magomayev, Obodzinsky, Mulerman.
The biography of Vadim Iosifovich differed little from the life path of most Soviet pop stars who began in the sixties. An excellent vocal school, passed in a specialized educational institution (a studio at the Shevchenko Theater), then served in the Armed Forces, where she also had a chance to sing. Then - participation in song contests and victory in them.
Stars and thorns
In 1966, the singer Mulerman received his first prize, which opened the way for him to the Soviet pop Olympus. Then there were international competitions: Bratislava (1968), Prague (1969). He continued his education at the conservatory, and then learned to become a director at GITIS itself.
Everything went perfectly at first glance. The first performer of the songs of the best Soviet composers was, as a rule, Vadim Mulerman. The biography of the star, who took a place in the sky of the Soviet stage next to Eduard Khil, Joseph Kobzon, Edita Piekha, Leonid Utesov, suddenly slowed down its rapid pace after the conflict with Lapin, who held the post of chairman of the State Radio and Television in the early 70s. He unequivocally expressed the desire next year to do without any “Mulerman and Mondrusov” (Larisa Mondrus is also an excellent pop singer of those years, “Wake up and sing”, “Snowflake”). The quick-tempered singer called the big boss anti-Semite and fascist.
Opal Bitter Bread
After such an affront, “The Lame King”, “Under the Iron Ringing of Chain Mail”, “Belated Love” ceased to please the radio listeners. Television was also inaccessible, and for some reason the records stopped publishing, although before that they were well sold out.
In 1971, the question arose of recording music for the new television series Seventeen Moments of Spring. Director Lioznova, knowing about Vadim’s ability to sing “like Tikhonov”, insisted that Mulerman perform the songs. The singer’s biography could be replenished with this important episode, because both the film and the music for it, written by Tariverdiev, were doomed to success. But the persecution did its job, and the disgraced performer was deprived of this opportunity.
Nevertheless, the concert activity continued, Vadim Mulerman performed with first-class orchestras (Kroll, Utesov, Saulsky, Kazhlaev).
Emigration and return
In 1992, for family reasons, the singer left for the United States. My brother fell seriously ill, and there was no way to earn money for his treatment in those difficult years in the USSR. Passengers of a New York taxi, sitting in a yellow car, could not imagine that the famous Soviet pop singer Mulerman Vadim would drive them. The biography again made a sharp turn, and, it seemed, forever.
But such people do not give up, despite heavy losses. And in America, the singer found his place by organizing a children's studio in Florida.
A true artist cannot live without his audience, and she is here, on her native side. Returned to Kharkov and Vadim Mulerman. His biography began in this city, and now he can walk along the streets familiar from childhood, enjoying communication with compatriots who love and value his work. He teaches talented young performers at the Song Theater for free vocal skills. Despising the soulless show business, Vadim Iosifovich worships living art and passes it on to a new generation, which, there is such hope, will do without phonograms.