Nadezhda Chepraga: biography, creativity and personal life of the singer

Chepraga Nadezhda is a Soviet and Moldavian singer. She is a Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, as well as a member of the Council for Culture at the Orthodox Church of Moldova. At the moment, Nadezhda Alekseevna has released three vinyl records and eleven discs. In addition, the singer played a movie several times.

Biography

Nadezhda Chepraga was born in 1956, September 1, in the village of Raspopeni (Moldavian SSR, Rezinsky district). Her father was the cavalier of the Order of V.I. Lenin, Alexei Pavlovich Chepraga, who at every opportunity pleased his family with playing the violin. The mother of the singer, Zinaida Denisovna, loved to perform folk compositions.

Being in the fourth grade, Nadezhda took part in the song festival, thanks to which she became the soloist of the ensemble "Dumbrava". A couple of years later, the girl starred in the short film "At the Grape Harvest" as one of the participants in the aforementioned team. Studying in the ninth grade, Chepraga performed in the framework of the popular children's program "Alarm Clock" with the composition "Merry Wedding". Nadezhda wrote poems for this song herself, and the composer was the Moldavian composer Eugene Doga.

Then the young singer appeared in the program “The Screen Gathers Friends”, broadcast on Central Television. In collaboration with the orchestra conducted by Y. Silantyev, Chepraga Nadezhda recorded “Merry Wedding” for “Blue Light”.

Musical creativity

At the age of 16, the girl went on a tour to France with Joseph Tumanov, during which she took part in a folk song contest and won a gold medal. In 1973, the singer sang the song "Doina" at the tenth World Festival of Students and Youth in Berlin. This performance was awarded the Gold Medal. Soon Chepraga went to study at the music school. S. Nyagi (Faculty of Choral Conducting and Vocal). Then she became a student at the Conservatory. G. Musical in the capital of Moldova.

For about 10 years, Nadezhda Chepraga worked as a soloist in the State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra. In parallel, she managed to participate in dozens of competitions and festivals, including the Czechoslovak “Intertalant”, “With a song for life”, “Star of Bulgaria”, “Vilnius Tower-74”, etc. After speaking on the program “Song-77” about the artist learned all the citizens of the USSR. In 1993, she took part in the festival “Melodies of the Heart”, held in San Francisco, where she won the Spectator Prize.

Video clips have been shot for such songs by Chepragi Nadezhda as “Roma Roman”, “Do Not Forget”, “You are a stranger”, “Breeze”, “Three Lilies” and “Slave of Love”. At the moment, the singer managed to perform about 200 songs. Chepraga is a jury member in the youth song contest "Russia in the Heart and Fate." In 2017, the artist was a guest of the talk show T. Ustinova "My Hero".

Filming a movie

The second tape with the participation of Nadezhda Alekseevna was the Dniester Melodies, shot at Telefilm-Chisinau studio. The singer's vocals can be heard in the 1978 Ukrainian musical "Tale Like A Tale." Then the world saw three concert films dedicated to the artist's work - “Meeting with Nadezhda Chepraga”, “Poet” and “Sketches for the portrait”. In 2001, NTV also shot the documentary film “Two Shores”, which tells about the singer’s life. A few years later, the actress played herself in the detective "Kulagin and Partners."

Personal life

Before the wedding, the singer was looked after by his son Nika Ceausescu and the Sultan of Brunei. In the end, the spouse of Nadezhda Alekseevna was the professor and doctor of economic sciences Evgeny Litvinov. She met her future husband in Leningrad during the Days of Moldavian Culture. After the singer’s performance, Eugene, who was 12 years older than her, handed the girl a bouquet of white roses. Nadezhda recalls that the first time she was haunted by the age difference. The young people got married in the fall of 1977, then their son Ivan, who lives in Germany today, was born in their family. Evgeny Alexandrovich passed away in 2009. Shortly before his death, he underwent surgery on the heart and lungs.

Since 2001, the Moldavian singer has been living in Moscow. She prefers to spend her free time sewing, watching films and reading. In addition, Chepraga Nadezhda, the photo with which you can see above, is engaged in gymnastics, jogging and swimming. Favorite artists of Chepraga are E. Leonov, M. Ladynina, M. Pugovkin and L. Smirnova. In the singer’s house, there is a cocker spaniel named Annie and two cats. The artist has a unique collection꞉ in her life she managed to save about three hundred pairs of shoes in which she ever performed.