Having a unique voice, singer Vitas, whose biography will be the topic of this article, burst into Russian show business in 2000. His unusual manner of dressing, acting on stage and singing with falsetto was immediately remembered by millions of listeners, many of whom became his loyal fans. Vitas's biography is rich in events. The singer has received many awards for participating in various festivals. In March 2002, he set a record and became the youngest performer to perform in the Kremlin with a solo program.
Vitas biography: the beginning of the artist’s career
Singer Vitas, whose real name and surname is Grachev Vitaliy, was born in 1980 (February 19) in the Latvian city of Daugavpils. As a schoolboy, he attended a music school in the accordion class. After school, he worked for some time in a voice parody theater, where he met his future producer Pudovkin Sergey Nikolaevich.
Vitas Biography: Highlights
In December 2000, the singer first performed in front of the general public with his composition “Opera No. 2”. In parallel with his musical activity, Vitas manifests himself as a designer, and in 2002 he presented his first collection of designer clothes, Autumn Dreams. At the end of the same year, the singer took part in the filming of the multi-part film “The Bastard Beloved”, where he plays the role of a provincial artist who blew up the capital’s scenes with his voice. His career in the theater is developing successfully: in 2003, he plays a nine-year-old boy in the dramatic play Victor, or Children in Power. In the same year, he takes part in the Indian Film Festival in Delhi, where he performs at the opening ceremony.
Over the entire period of his work, the singer gave the largest number of concerts in the Baltic countries, as well as in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Israel among all Russian performers. In the period from 2004 to 2006, Vitas was known as the most popular and popular guest performer. His album, entitled “An Eternity Kiss,” broke all records - more than two million copies were sold in six months. Over the entire period of the artist’s work, fans bought more than ten million of his discs.
Vitas biography: recognition in Asia
The artist gave hundreds of concerts in countries such as Germany, Kazakhstan, USA, Australia, Canada, Israel and, of course, Russia, where millions loved him. In 2005, Vitas went on a concert tour to conquer Asian countries. Despite the fact that the way of perception and thinking of people in the countries of the East is very different from European ones, Vitas’s work found its audience there too. Residents of Singapore, Japan, China, Taiwan are regular guests of his electronic fan club on the Internet.
Vitas: biography - family, wife, children
For a long time, viewers and critics doubted the "normality" of the artist. His eccentric behavior and personal life, which he categorically refused to talk about, misled everyone. But recently it became known that the artist is married, his wife is twenty-nine-year-old Svetlana Grankovskaya. The couple also has a daughter, Alla, who was born on November 21 in 2008. For many years, the singer has been pleasing his fans with a wonderful mood, an amazing voice, light and joyful music, the basis of which is probably not only the undoubted talent of the artist, but also his happiness in his personal life.