Singer Anatoly Kasheparov is not just a popular Soviet performer. He is a legendary and talented vocalist. He is the golden voice of Belarus. He is the glorious soloist of Pesnyarov. Anatoly Kasheparov is a timeless idol of several generations.
Childhood
Little Tolik was born in October 1950 in the huge capital of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Music has always beckoned to this pretty, fair-haired boy. A guitar or a piano, singing or dancing - everything was equally interesting and attractive to him. He enthusiastically listened to the talented performers of his time and, possessing a beautiful, outstanding voice, tried to imitate them.
Acquaintance with Mulyavin
Having received secondary education, Anatoly Kasheparov entered the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute, on the basis of which the Blue Guitars VIA group arose. Being the main vocalist of the ensemble, young Anatoly performed in restaurants of various large hotels, especially Intourist. It was there that Vladimir Mulyavin noticed him.
Vladimir Georgievich was the head of VIA Pesnyary, who performed Belarusian folk songs in a modern twist, and was nine years older than Kasheparov. Despite his experience and popularity, Mulyavin was a simple and sociable person and greatly appreciated true talent in a person.
Having heard Kasheparov’s sonorous and strong, but still insufficiently set voice, the head of the famous collective invited him to his audition.
VIA "Pesnyary" then only came into fashion, but has already received wide fame and love of the public. He gave many concerts, gathered huge halls. As Anatoly Efremovich Kasheparov himself admits, he was afraid to go to Mulyavin for an audition. The night did not sleep, getting ready and ... chickened out. I didn’t go.
After some time, Vladimir Georgievich again saw a talented guy and again invited him to his audition. And then, Kasheparov realized that fate itself gives him the opportunity to adequately realize his talent and become famous.
After that historical audition, Anatoly Efimovich Kasheparov, whose biography is changing radically, becomes the leading soloist of the famous Belarusian group.
“Songs”
The vocal-instrumental ensemble “Pesnyary”, formed a few years before the arrival of young Kasheparov and only a year ago changed its original name, was a new, ultra-modern group of Soviet performers.
The team was international, it did not aim at any separate audience, divided by nationality or social status. Songs were written for ordinary people, ordinary inhabitants of the great Union, who found in their favorite hits a reflection of their Self, a piece of personal individuality and originality.
It was a modernized ensemble, with a unique colorful Belarusian folklore and at the same time with fashionable rhythmic sounds and bright extraordinary performances. This was what won the hearts of two generations - the progressive youth of the seventies and the archaic, not keeping up with the time adult population.
Together with the group, Anatoly Efimovich Kasheparov went on tour throughout the Soviet Union. His unprecedented stamina and industriousness, fueled by a tender love for creative art, helped to perform the repertoire with high quality and without hack-work, laying out on the stage one hundred percent.
Repertoire
The most famous songs performed by Anatoly Kasheparov are “Vologda”, “I can not do otherwise”, “Until the Third Cocks”. Interesting and entertaining stories of the creation of these compositions.
For example, “Vologda” was written and performed back in the thirties. Therefore, the melody and lyrics had to be slightly changed, adjusted to a modern audience.
“Pesnyary” recorded the composition quickly, in fifteen minutes, and were surprised when it was enthusiastically received by the public. For the first time this happened at the Moscow House of Unions (at one of the leading concert venues in the Soviet Union). The hall literally exploded from rapturous applause and selfless applause. The audience persistently asked to sing again, and when the musicians performed the composition again, the audience simply froze in delighted silence.
Since then, it has become a tradition to call “Pesnyarov” an encore, asking them to perform some songs two, or even three times.
At one of the performances in the capital's restaurant, for the song “Vologda”, Kasheparov was presented with forty-eight bottles of champagne from different tables!
In addition to light simple hits, the group performed serious deep things. These were concert programs (“Out loud” - to Mayakovsky’s poems, “Through the war”, “Merry beggars” - to Burns’s poems) and rock operas (“Song of the Share”, “Guslyar”).
USA tour
At the age of twenty-six, Anatoly Efimovich Kasheparov went on tour to the United States as part of the famous ensemble. By the way, “Pesnyary” was the first collective in the Soviet Union to which such trust was placed.
An amazing, unfamiliar world opened in front of the Belarusian guys. Luxury hotels, the feeling of constant celebration and freedom, the continuous attention of the press ... It was dizzy and at the same time pulled back to the native Union.
The tour on American soil was accompanied by interesting, and sometimes even comic situations. For example, musicians, having at their disposal one hundred and twelve dollars a week, chose gifts cheaper and more modest for their relatives in stores. But as soon as the paparazzi began to take them off, the guys began to touch luxurious, expensive things so as not to hit their faces in the mud. From this came the rumor about motovost and the viability of the Soviet ensemble.
Team Leave
Anatoly Efimovich Kasheparov for nineteen years performed together with “Songs”. It was an unforgettable, magical time, a time of youthful enthusiasm and creative pursuits, fruitful hard work and sweet flattering recognition.
But Kasheparov understood that this could not go on forever. As time goes on, generations change, musical perception also. In addition, the collapse began in the economic and political environment - the time has come for perestroika.
Thinking about the future, Anatoly Efimovich tried to get a special higher education. Making every effort to properly combine the stage with studies, the vocalist graduates from the Polytechnic University, the Institute of Culture, as well as GITIS.
Due to personal workload, Kasheparov had to leave his favorite ensemble and devote all his time to training. About six months he sang in another band, and then decided to move to the States.
Life in exile
It was not easy to adapt to new conditions and an unusual way of life. Having received many bitter lessons, having lost most of his financial savings, working days and nights, Anatoly Efimovich tried to comprehend the American business world and find his place in the sun.
Moving several times, establishing a restaurant business and torn between concert performances in his homeland, Kasheparov finally decided - he and his family moved to a permanent residence in Florida.
Florida attracted the Belarusian singer with its warm mild climate and bright bright sun. It is good to relax here after hard workdays, feeling like a happy carefree person.
In the States, Kasheparov has his own musical project, where he participates as a leader and performer. In addition, he tours a lot as a former “songwriter”, giving concerts in Russia, Belarus and other CIS countries.
A family
Anatoly Kasheparov, whose family is located in the United States, has a wife and three children. It is interesting that the youngest son of the singer was born already abroad.
Having received the necessary education, the children are already working and live their own lives. The wife plays music and in everything supports her active husband.
Anatoly Efimovich Kasheparov does not regret that he went abroad. Despite many trials, here he found himself and presented his children with a beautiful, secure future.
And in front of him there are still a lot of concerts, performances and new creative compositions.