Ivan Popovich: biography and personal life of the artist

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Transcarpathian nightingale Ivan Popovich became famous not only for his ability to sing and write songs. He is also a talented actor who managed to conquer and fall in love with millions of viewers. In Soviet times, the people knew and loved not only his on-screen heroes, but also his wonderful voice, the songs performed by which did not sound except from irons.

Childhood and youth

Ivan Popovich, whose biography dates back to April 22, 1949, was born in the village of Osoy, located in the Transcarpathian region in Ukraine. After graduating from high school, the young man went to enter the Khust cultural and educational school. The education received was not enough, and Ivan becomes a student at the Lviv Conservatory.

Already in his student years, Ivan Popovich, whose photo can be seen in this article, became a laureate of the international youth festival, which was held in Berlin. After some time, the artist organized his own ensemble, which was very popular in western Ukraine.

In 1988, Ivan's mother died. By coincidence, he could not even attend her funeral, since he himself was in intensive care at that time andrecovered after the operation. 12 years later, he also lost his father.

Moving to Kyiv

Ivan Popovich is an actor with a capital letter. But now he is already a recognizable person with an established career. And at the time when he had just moved to Kyiv, everything was completely different. The capital taught him not only to live, but also to survive. In Lviv, he had absolutely everything:

• glory;
• friends;
• fans;
• touring overseas;
• huge apartment;
• car.

In one moment it all disappeared. In Kyiv, I had to start everything from scratch. I had a chance to live in a small room, where there were only bare walls. This is what prevented the artist from falling ill with "star fever". At the time of the move, Ivan was already married. His first wife Oksana, when she saw the conditions in which she would have to live, went back to Lviv. Some time later, she filed for divorce.

Popovich was very worried about this, he was hurt and offended. After all, moving to the capital for an artist is a huge professional growth. Later, Ivan admitted that he took his wife from a very poor family, in one dress. He loved her very much and did not refuse her anything, dressed and shod. Even after the divorce, he left her all his property. And when the artist arrived in Lviv some time later, she didn’t even let him on the threshold of her own apartment.

Second marriage

Ivan Popovich did not go to bachelors for a long time. Together with his second wife Marichka, he worked in the same field. That is how they met. When the artist released the album,the girl was engaged in its implementation. She immediately seemed to him a very reliable person. Ironically, it happened that in the morning Ivan divorced Oksana, and in the afternoon he applied to the registry office with Marichka.

Together with his new wife, the artist settled in Kyiv. They then had nothing to live on, so they had to sell the car. The salary was very small, the young family could not even afford to buy furniture. Somehow they gathered on the mattress and slept on it right on the floor.

Ivan Popovich now

Despite the fact that the actor had to go through a lot, he took place both as a person and as a professional. Over time, he acquired not only an apartment in the very center of Kyiv, but also a chic office. He also owns two houses near Kyiv and real estate in his native Transcarpathia. The artist says that in the capital he has very little time for personal life and entertainment. If not for the support of his wife, it would be very difficult for him to cope with all matters.

It was the beloved wife who gave Ivan a daughter in 1990. They called her by the Ukrainian name Solomiya. She inspired her father to many creative endeavors. After the birth of the child, Ivan Popovich began to work with renewed vigor, he had a lot of ideas. However, not all of them have been implemented. The reason for many failures was, again, the material side. Once the artist admitted that almost no one cares about the culture of his native people in his country. If you do not have enough money, then no one will be engaged in your projects and promote them to the masses.

Ivan had to go through a lot in his life. There were many disappointments and trials. But now the artist is very happy, enjoying every minute spent with his family. The daughter gave Popovich a wonderful granddaughter, who was named Sofia. As before, he is ready to bring joy to the masses with his work. But it's getting harder and harder to get it across to people.