Singer, author of many songs, screenwriter, director, film actor - all this is collected in an amazing way in one person. Undoubtedly, you have heard the name Kikabidze more than once. The biography of its owner, a truly great man, probably interested you. How was his life course? About what he, Vakhtang Kikabidze, the biography described in this article will tell you.
Little Vakhtang
The future People’s Artist of Georgia was born in Tbilisi on July 19 in 1938. His childhood passed without a father, he volunteered for the war and died in 1942, as his family was told. Vakhtang's mother, Bagrationi Manana Konstantinovna, was a famous Georgian singer. As the artist recalls, his childhood was mostly spent behind the scenes. At school, he studied poorly, and his mother often had to blush and cry at parent meetings. And once, complaining about Vakhtang, the teacher upset Manana, but tried to calm her down and said: “Do n’t worry so much for this study! He will be an artist for you! ”
Biography: Kikabidze V.K. in youth
At the age of 14, Vakhtang dropped out of school, began to look for jobs in various places until one day he discovered music for himself. As a young man, he dreamed of becoming an artist, but later realized that he wanted to be an artist. He liked to play the guitar in the evenings and participated in all possible amateur clubs that were in the city. According to the biography, V. Kikabidze entered the Institute of Foreign Languages at the insistence of his mother, but after a while he dropped out of school and decided to “knock” at the Tbilisi Philharmonic, and they “opened” him. He began his career as part of the jazz ensembles "Orero" and "Dielo". These were highly professional groups with an international repertoire. Then, by the force of the song, Vakhtang Konstantinovich Kikabidze and some other performers did much more for Georgia’s friendship with neighboring states than many politicians.
One of the features of Vakhtang’s voice, which gives it a special charm, is the hoarseness, which he received as a result of rheumatism as a child, when he and his mother had to live in a small room with a cement floor, for the insulation of which they simply had no money.
Biography: Kikabidze V.K. in the movie
High acting abilities, a bewitching smile and a thoughtful look of the guy attracted the attention of filmmakers, and he was invited to star in the movie "Do not Cry!"
As the biography testifies, Vakhtang Kikabidze is also a talented actor, screenwriter and director all rolled into one. After the film “Do not Cry!” followed by the legendary Mimino.
He also mastered the profession of screenwriter, but this time by accident. In 1979, he had to go to the hospital for a long time, he went crazy with despair and began to entertain for the sake of composing various stories, remembering his childhood, writing ... After discharge from the hospital, he gave Rezo Chkheidze his work to read, and the script was approved. So the first film of V.K. Kikabidze appeared “Be well, dear!” After him were still “Men and all the rest”, “Fortune”.
Vakhtang Kikabidze today
The artist still leads an active touring life, loves his wife, two children and three grandchildren. According to relatives, Vakhtang Konstantinovich is a good family man, loves to host, go shopping, knows how to cook fish soup.
Achievements
Vakhtang Kikabidze is a People’s Artist of Georgia, he is also a laureate of the USSR State Prize (for his role in the film “Mimino”), and holder of the international order of Nikolai the Miracle Worker, Order of Honor of Georgia, Order of St. Constantine the Great, and USSR KGB Prize winner. Awarded the L.O. Prize Utesova, and also entered into the international encyclopedia under the title "Who is who." The area of stars in Moscow in 1999 was replenished with a star V.K. Kikabidze. And besides everything else, according to I. Prigogine, he is a very good, amazing person.