Few people know that the popular hit "New Year's Toys" more than fifteen years ago was first performed by all the beloved Sofia Rotaru, a talented performer and author of many songs, Arkady Khoralov. After that, many artists sang it, and the song became a real anthem of every New Year. Arkady Khoralov, in addition to being a keyboard player and vocalist of the legendary Red Poppy band, wrote many musical masterpieces for other pop stars. His songs were performed by Alsu, Lyubov Uspenskaya, Taisiya Povaliy, Anita Tsoi, Alexander Lominsky, Irina Arkhipova, Vitas and many other artists.
The beginning of the way
How did the career of a talented musician, poet and composer develop? Where was he born, what did he do, how does he live now? All these and many other questions are of interest to music lovers and fans of Khoralov’s work. Let's try to find answers to them.
Arkady Khoralov is a native of Ukraine. He was born on January 26, 1951 in the city of Melitopol, Zaporizhzhya region. In 1957, he became a first-grade student in a comprehensive school in his hometown. In parallel with his studies at the school, Arkady Khoralov received a musical education - he completed eight classes at the local music school in the piano class.
The future artist did not forget about sports - he was a member of the city’s youth national football team, and also was involved in athletics.
Education of the future musician
In 1967, Khoralova received a certificate of secondary education with honors and became a student of the State Tauride Academy. In 1972, he received a diploma stating that he had mastered the profession of an engineer in technology and organization of machine repair.
It contains a biography of Arkady Khoralov and a stage of military training. Four years of training at the military department were not in vain - he received the rank of lieutenant of engineering troops.
Throughout the entire period of education, Arkady Khoralov found time for music. He also regularly appeared on stage as a vocalist of the Academic Variety Orchestra.
Career and recognition
From 1972 to 1974, Arkady Khoralov was a vocalist and instrumentalist in the VIA "Singing Guitars", whose artistic director was Valery Muratov, Honored Artist of the USSR. Then the musician joined the VIA Chervona Ruta collective and began to sing on the same stage with Sofia Rotaru, People's Artist of the USSR. Under the leadership of the talented composer Konstantin Orbelian, Arkady Khoralov soloed in the State Variety Jazz Orchestra of Armenia.
In the period from 1976 to 1979 he sang in the Moscow VIA "Gems" under the direction of Yuri Malikov, Honored Art Worker.
In VIA "Red Poppies" to the Honored Art Worker Joseph Mikhailovsky, the artist ended up in 1980, where he soloed until 1984.
The mentoring of such amazing people, real professionals, did their job in the career of Khoralov - he grew up as an artist, discovered the talent for writing and the talent of the composer.
Solo career
At various times of cooperation with VIA, numerous records of Arkady Khoralov were recorded. In 1984, he started his solo career. In the period from 1985 to 1992, the albums of Arkady Khoralov were recorded and released. They presented compositions of his authorship to the verses of Andrei Dementiev. The first minion of the artist included such songs as “Without You”, “Abandoned World”, “Sunday” and others. The album was an incredible success and sold across the country with a circulation of 3.5 million copies.
In parallel with the release of new songs, the musician actively participates in many national concerts along with other artists of Russian and foreign pop.
In 1988, his second album, titled "The Strange World", was released, more than a million listeners bought it. In total, the singer’s career had 13 albums, each of which found its listener.
In 2010, Arkady Khoralov, whose biography is already quite eventful, gave an anniversary concert in the Kremlin. His close friends, Yuri Antonov, Vyacheslav Dobrynin, Alexander Serov, Vladimir Vinokur, Nikolai Noskov, Lev Leschenko, Alexei Glyzin, Vladislav Medyanik, Yuri Malikov, Lolita, Igor Sarukhanov, the Blue Bird, Gems groups, also performed with him. and others.