Yuri Okhochinsky. We didn't break up

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

Yuri Okhochinsky is a representative of the ancient noble family of Valberg-Okhochinsky. Grandmother served as a maid of honor to the wife of Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna. Great-grandfather was a famous painter and favorite artist of A. S. Pushkin himself. My grandmother's brother is the founder of Russian ballet. During the years of repression, almost all family members were shot, only Natalya Ivanovna von Walberg, the grandmother of our hero, miraculously survived. She initiated Yuri into the history of the family (which, by the way, is more than three centuries old), telling him in detail and for a long time about the famous descendants.

Yuri Okhochinsky: biography

He was born in April 1958 (those who want to congratulate their favorite artist on his birthday should do it on the 20th). The future famous Russian singer from childhood had a good, sensitive ear and was very fond of singing. From the age of five, he sang in the children's boy's choir, and at the age of eight he already played on the same stage with professional actors of the young royal page in the play "Dog in the Manger" byplay by Lope de Vega.

His grandmother was involved in his education and upbringing: she took Yura to the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, taught him to understand and feel classical music, instilled a taste for the beautiful and the real.

Yuri Okhochinsky gathered his ensemble at school and performed with it at all festive concerts and school parties. In those days, he listened to foreign performers, whose music was not at all like Soviet. But he felt in his heart: this is what he would like to devote his life to. The voices and manner of performance of Tom Jones, Elvis Presley, Engelbert Humperdinck delighted him so much that he asked heaven to give him the same gift!

Study and early career

After graduating from school, Yuri Okhochinsky in the same year enters LGITMIK - the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography, acting department. Having successfully completed mastering the profession, he has been working in the theater of the Singing Guitars ensemble for two years. The young artist is busy in the first roles in the musical and rock opera.

Since 1983, he decides to start a solo career and does it with success. His first song "We did not part" instantly "shoots" and becomes a hit, sounding from all windows. Yuri Okhochinsky selects songs for his repertoire in accordance with his stage image of a romantic. The clip "My brig" made more than one woman's heart skip a beat from the feeling that here he is - Captain Gray, who appeared for his Assol under the scarletsails.

Russian singer Yury Okochinsky becomes a welcome and regular guest of TV shows watched by millions of Soviet citizens. These are such as "Song of the Year", "Wider Circle!", "Morning Mail" and others.

Life twists and turns

Few people in life everything is easy and simple, like in a fairy tale. There were difficult times for our hero. When transformations began to take place on the stage, and far from for the better, Yuri Okhochinsky did not want to put up with them. Very painfully, he experienced the dominance of "stars" and "stars" on the stage, for whom the path to the stage was opened not by professionalism and talent, but by sponsors' money and the big names of their parents. And he left this, as he himself later determined, into the "world of illusions." Companies and alcohol help to forget for a while. Everything could have ended too sadly, but Yuri Okhochinsky is a man of strong will and stubborn character. Vera and his grandmother, his guardian angel, helped him return to real life and his beloved work. The singer decides that indignation and moaning about the fall in tastes and the voicelessness of pop representatives do not solve the problem, and you just need to do your job honestly and professionally.

In 1992, the singer released his first big album called "Come back, my love." After that, he gives solo albums and starred in a television program dedicated to him alone. At the 1994 Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, she was honored to sing atopening and closing of this outstanding event. And again concerts (jazz project in memory of Frank Sinatra "Romantics of Jazz"), CD recordings ("My Love", "Night in Venice", "Hi, Artist!", "All for You", "The Best: My Velvet April", "The Story of My Love"). Yuri realizes his ideas as a playwright: he creates the author's radio program "Stars are falling from the sky". The ORT channel invites the artist to voice the documentary television project "Ether Stars". W alt Disney Studios trusts the singer to record the main theme in the animated film "The Adventures of the Emperor".

Dreams come true

Such perseverance and efficiency, which distinguishes Yuri Okhochinsky, cannot pass unnoticed and unmarked by Fate. This lady gave the singer a personal acquaintance with the idols of his youth - T. Jones, H. Iglesias, E. Humperdinck. They even recorded a duet song Maybe This Time with the latter.

Yuri launched a new author's program on the radio "King of the Song", which is also duplicated on television.

This talented person composes music, paints pictures, published the book "Always with Music in the Heart". And he continues to search for the very pure sound that his teacher Sergei Yursky told him about.

Family

Such an imposing man as the hero of our article cannot be alone. Yuri Okhochinsky is securely married. Having made a single woman happy, he remains the subject of sweet dreams for millions.fans. For more than 20 years, Yuri and Anna have been going hand in hand through life. They have two children - daughter Natalie, whom he named after his grandmother, and son Roman. The girl is engaged in music, and with her son Yuri, they often support their favorite football teams "Zenith" and "Real" together.

We did not break up

It's just a great happiness that we did not part with such a wonderful singer, his God's gift, which he willingly shares with us. His velvety baritone, his cut diamond, continues to captivate us and take us into the world of beauty and dreams, which is typical of crooner singers (their romantic play simply "adores" the microphone). The timbre of his voice envelops us with warmth and tenderness in the middle register and calls to answer his plea when the singer moves to higher notes. But in low tones, it sounds almost intimate.

He is so amazing and extremely talented - Mr. "Velvet voice of the city of eternal rains and white nights"…