Ask any resident of the former Soviet Union who Olga Zarubina is. The biography of the singer may not be told to you in detail, but everyone can sing her songs without a hitch. For a long time nothing was known about the artist, where she is and what she does. But in 2007, Russia heard her again, she became a participant in a project called "You Are Superstar!" Olga Zarubina’s songs again sounded from TV screens and on the air, as in the good old days.
The childhood of the future artist
Olga was born in 1958 on August 29 in the village of Moskvorechye. By the standards of those times, the Zarubin family was very wealthy - they had jewelry, a car and a garage. Unfortunately, Olga was left without a father early, when she was barely two years old, he died. The second husband of her mother was engaged in the upbringing of the girl. The stepfather worked as a watchman after three days and was a real despot. And mother Olya and her sibling Sasha practically did not see, since she worked in two shifts at a chemical plant in order to somehow feed her family. When Olga's brother turned eighteen, he fell ill with a severe form of sore throat. Complications in the form of a three-valvular heart disease put the young guy for many years in a hospital bed. Nevertheless, he managed to get back on his feet for a while, but in 1983 he died at the age of 35, like his father.
Olga Zarubina: craving for art
Even in kindergarten, Olya began to show creative abilities. She happily performed in front of the parental audience - she sang and danced. The singer with a smile recalls her first experience performing on stage. According to her, this happened in the pioneer camp named after V.I. Lenin and ended in complete failure, as she simply forgot the words. A tearful girl then told others that she would never perform again.
But fate had other plans for her. And a few years later the whole country found out who Olga Zarubina was. The biography of the singer indicates that she not only sings well since childhood, but, it turns out, and plays the piano. She studied at a music school for seven years. Not a single school performance or concert was complete without the participation of Zarubina.
Education of the future artist
Despite her addiction to music, Olga did not plan to connect her life with pop music after graduation. In 1977, Olga Zarubina was among the students of medical school No. 37 in Moscow. The singer’s biography contains the assumption that her mother and stepfather advised her to go to study, as they wanted Olya to become independent sooner. For two years, Zarubina received a medical education, passed the practice at the Institute of Neurosurgery and received a nurse diploma. But he never came in handy for her.
Beginning of a creative career
While studying at the school, Olga takes part in all the performances of the student ensemble. At one of the young talent contests, Zarubina Olga and the future lead singer of Lesopoval Sergey Korzhukov took first place, performing musical compositions from the movie Romance of Lovers. The competition was attended by the then-famous chansonnier Alexander Zaborsky, who invited young performers to become part of his group called Postal Coach. They agreed without hesitation. From here originates the creative biography of Olga Zarubina.
Once in 1977 at the Main Post Office, where the group usually rehearsed, a fateful meeting took place for Olga - she met Vyacheslav Dobrynin. He became for her a guide to the big stage, since it was Dobrynin who agreed with Mikhail Shufutinsky, the head of the Leisya, song VIA, to listen to Zarubina. The leader of the ensemble was delighted with the talent of the young girl and immediately invited her to record a collaboration. Soon, the country heard the song "You'll See."
In the same 1977, Olga Zarubina appears on television. She sings "A Song about the Captain" in the TV show "Sing, Friends!"
Soon Zarubina took part in a competition of young performers at the Gorbunov House of Culture, where one of the jury members, the famous composer David Tukhmanov, drew attention to her. He promised to write a song for the girl and wrote her last name in a notebook. Olga did not take this promise seriously. But the composer did not throw words into the wind - a year later, on the Blue Light (on the air 01.01.1979), Olga Zarubina performed the song “It Shouldn't Be That”, the music for which was written by David Tukhmanov, and the words by Leonid Derbenev. The song in a duet with Mikhail Boyarsky brought the girl real fame, the whole country began to recognize her!
After the competition in the Palace of Culture. Gorbunova Tukhmanov advised Nikolai Vorobyov, artistic director of VIA "Music", to invite Olga to work. So in the opera extravaganza called "Scarlet Sails", the main female role was played by Assol Olga Zarubina. The biography of the singer indicates that she not only brilliantly coped with the task, but also subsequently recorded many songs with the ensemble, among which are “Not Always,” “Spring Insomnia,” “Not Handsome,” “I Will Come to You” and many others.
Solo career
After the collapse of the ensemble “Music” in 1980, Olga Zarubina sets off for free swimming in the expanses of show business. She not only recorded albums as a pop singer, but also proved to be a talented TV presenter and film actress. Olga played the role of a healer, a hermit of the forest Lori McGregor in the movie Mad Lori, thereby creating one of the most feminine images in the history of cinema.
Life in the USA and return
In mid-1991, Olga Zarubina experienced a creative crisis and decided to move to live and work in the United States. There, for fifteen years, she worked as a medical translator and nurse. In 2007, the shooting of the program “You Are Superstar!” Began, to which Zarubina was invited to participate. She happily agreed and returned to her homeland. Now she is successfully touring Russia with new and old songs recorded in new arrangements.
Personal life
Olga Zarubina was married three times. Her first husband was the famous performer Alexander Malinin, with whom she lived for three years and in 1985 gave birth to his daughter Kira. Now the girl lives and works in the USA. The second husband of Zarubina, Vladimir Evdokimov, with whom the singer lived for more than 15 years, died in 2008. Now Olga’s life partner is her current director and producer, Salov Andrey, an ex-member of Tender May. A photo of Olga Zarubina suggests that she now looks beautiful, and her singing soul is still young.