Singer Kamburova Elena: biography, photos, songs

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Kamburova Elena Antonovna is a talented Soviet and Russian singer, laureate of state awards, holder of the title of People's Artist of Russia, founder and artistic director of the Theater of Music and Poetry in Moscow. Her voice is known to Russians from movies and cartoons that the singer happened to voice. To date, there are about fifty records and more than twenty CDs on which the best songs of Elena Kamburova are recorded.

Origin

The pedigree of the singer comes from the Greeks of the Azov region, who lived in the Crimea from the middle of the eighteenth century. Her ancestors were teachers, clerks, doctors, spiritual servants. Some of them were subjected to repression and persecution. Elena Kamburova's parents met in Novokuznetsk (then Stalinsk). In July 1940, their daughter was born. The singer's father was an engineer, her mother was a doctor. The Kamburova family was very friendly and musical. In the evenings, little Elena listened to songs performed by her mother andgrandmothers to the accompaniment of his father, who played the guitar well.

Choosing the path

In her childhood, the singer did not even think about a musical career. The girl was more interested in dramatic art and poetry. Being unsure of her talent, after graduating from school, the girl became a student at the Institute of Light Industry in Kyiv. Two years later, the future singer tried to enter the Shchukin Theater School. Having failed the third round, Elena decided to stay in Moscow. After working for a year at a construction site, the singer entered the stage department of the State Circus School. From that moment on, the biography of Elena Kamburova took an unexpected turn. Sergei Kashtelyan, who taught at the school, saw musical talent in the student. He invited Elena to perform Novella Matveeva's song "What a Big Wind". This was the first performance of the singer, which did not leave the audience indifferent.

Sixties

The first talented songwriters with whom Elena Kamburova was lucky to work were Novella Nikolaevna Matveeva and Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava. Their poetry had that shrillness that the performers of the sixties lacked. Therefore, the singer began to stand out sharply in the musical environment of that time. Songs were created and performed together:

• "The music of the soul is becoming more muffled".
• "Main song".
• "Georgian song".
• "Why should we be on you".
• "King".
• "Prayer".
• "Musician".
• "He finally came to the house."
• "Hope painted door".
• "I don't believe in destiny".
• "Old jacket".
• "Sentinels of Love".
• "An old soldier's song".
• "Outskirts".
• "Song of the Hills".

In the mid-sixties, the singer met another talent - the composer Larisa Kritskaya. Elena and Larisa chose poems from various poetry collections, for which Kritskaya wrote music. Thus, the songs of Elena Kamburova were born:

• "Everything will be tomorrow".
• "Departure".
• "Another woman".
• "The sinking of the Titanic".
• "Old alphabet".
• "Bird cherry".
• "We didn't talk".
• "Elegy".
• "I'm in Moscow".
• "Crying".

In the same years, the first records with recordings of the singer's voice appeared. These were eight collections "Krugozor", "Songs of Bulat Okudzhava", "Songs of Soviet Composers", "Elena Kamburova Sings".

At the end of the sixties, the children's film by Alexander Kurochkin "Passenger from the Equator" was released on the big screens, in which the singer sang the song behind the scenes "The Little Prince". This was Elena's first film work.

Seventies

1970 was marked by the release of the concert film by Elena Kamburova:"Monologue". The same year gave the singer the first solo disc. Continuing to collaborate with Kritskaya, the artist began to work with other composers. Songs were recorded to the verses of Voznesensky, Pozhenyan, Mayakovsky, Gumilyov, Blok, Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Tyutchev, Levitansky. Music for them was written by Mikael Tariverdiev and Vladimir Dashkevich. The talent of the singer was also in great demand in Soviet cinema. In the seventies, one after another, pictures with her voice acting began to come out:

• "Secret City".
• "Great space trip".
• "An unusual friend".
• "Slave of love".
• "Princess of the Underwater Kingdom".
• "The pony runs in circles".
• "Mom".
• "Got it, congratulations!".
• "Yaroslavna, Queen of France".
• "Adventure Electronics".
• "Yeralash".
• "Assigned as a granddaughter".
• "My love is in my third year".
• "The Secret Box".
• "You are entrusted with the land".
• "My chosen one".
• "Love me as I love you".

Career blossoming

Starting from the eighties, the singer became a real star of the Soviet stage. The romances of Elena Kamburova adorned the Soviet cinema. She was invited to dub films: "Once Upon a Twenty Years Later", "Dulcinea of Toboso", "Night Witches in the Sky", "Uswed not in the church", "Without a family", "The Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin", "Captain Fracasse", "Pippi Longstocking", "Peter Pan", "Midshipmen, forward!", "Promised Heaven", "White clothes", "Unsimilar".

The singer happened to meet and collaborate with many talented people: Vladimir Vysotsky, Edith Piaf, Gennady Gladkov, Yuri Saulsky, Charles Aznavour, Yuri Entin, Alexandra Pakhmutova, Nikolai Dobronravov, Irina Bogushevskaya.

Elena had a chance to try herself as an actress in the films: "Monologue", "Clown", "Recollection", "My dearly beloved detective", "Free fall", "Plot twist". For many years, viewers have listened to Elena Kamburova's lullaby "Sleep, my joy, sleep."

Theatre

In the early nineties, Kamburova decided to create her own theater, in which she could act as an artistic director and performer of roles. She succeeded, and in 1992 the first premiere of the Theater of Music and Poetry took place: the play "Game of Dreams". The theater is still popular today. It staged performances based on the works of world classics: Tchaikovsky, Bach, Schubert, Vivaldi, Schumann, Haydn. Folklore and modern music are not left without attention. Elena Antonovna believes that the song is Art with a capital letter. She tries to convey this idea to the viewer from the stagehis theatre. Talented musicians are involved on the stage of the theater and performances such as:

• "Drops of the Danish King".
• "I dreamed of a garden".
• "Antigone".
• "Happy Roads".
• "Absinthe".
• "Victory. Requiem".
• "In my own unique way".

In addition, the theater hosts literary evenings, jazz and chamber music concerts, author's song and poetry evenings. For staging the performance "Silence behind the Rogozhskaya Zastava", the theater was awarded the "Crystal Turandot" award.

Private life

Despite her creative openness, Elena Antonovna is not ready to share her innermost. She prefers not to comment on her personal life. It is known that the singer met her first husband while studying at a circus school. It was the pianist and composer Kirill Akimov. It was he who introduced Elena to Bulat Okudzhava. For this acquaintance, the singer is grateful to her first husband to this day. The marriage lasted six years and ended in divorce. The couple chose not to talk about the reasons.

The second time the singer married her colleague Alexei Voznesensky. He participated in the songwriting of Kamburova, was her accompanist. The singer admits that she felt the support of Alexei until the last days of his life. There were no children in both marriages.

Now

Currently, Elena Kamburova runs her theater, takes part in its performances, continuesto tour. The singer can be seen both on the Russian stage and on the stage of the following countries: Germany, Finland, USA, Greece, Portugal, Canada, Great Britain, Israel, the Netherlands, Sweden.

In addition, the singer is involved in charity work. Elena has three cats and a dog, she cares about the fate of homeless animals and dreams of one day opening a shelter for them.

Awards

For her long and fruitful career Elena Kamburova was awarded:

• Moscow Komsomol Prize;
• title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR;
• title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation;
• for concert programs in 1995-99 - State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of art and literature;
• for the strengthening of interethnic cultural ties and personal contribution to the formation of the cultural life of the Russian Federation - the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize;
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh (III degree);
• for merits in the musical and literary field and for many years of fruitful work - the Order of Friendship and the Order of Honor;
• diploma of the Government of Moscow;
• commemorative sign "Man of the Millennium";
• award "Own track" for the twentieth anniversary of the Theater of Music and Poetry;
• for the organization of theatrical business - the International Stanislavsky Prize;
• Diploma of the President of the Russian Federation.

Discography

You can get acquainted with the work of the singer,listening to the records and discs of Elena Kamburova. The best is featured in the following:

• "Goodbye weapons!" - 1970.
• Krugozor 10 - 1975
• Songs from the movie "The Adventures of Electronics" - 1980.
• "Tales of Italy" - 1980.
• "Club and amateur performances No. 5" - 1981.
• "Listen!" - 1981.
• "Song for an encore" - 1981.
• Rock opera by Alexander Gradsky "Stadium" - 1985.
• "Pippi Longstocking" - 1985.
• "May Silence Fall" - 1987.
• "Midshipmen, forward!" - 1988.
• "Writing Cupid" - 1996.
• "Drema" (Russian lullabies) - 1997.
• "Drops of the Danish King", "Blue Trolleybus", "Magic Violin" - 1999.
• "Road" - 2000.
• "Love and Separation", "Songs from the Movies" (2 parts) - 2001.
• "Romance of life and death" - 2005.
• "Last Love" - 2006.
• "Memories of the hurdy-gurdy", "Requiem", "The Little Prince" - 2007.
• "There, beyond the river" and "Country Dolphinia" - 2010.

And now Kamburova has numerous fans and devoted listeners.