Creative path and biography of Rotaru Sofia Mikhailovna

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

Sofia Rotaru is an outstanding singer of our time. Her songs are loved by millions. Despite her 66 years, she impresses the audience with an irresistible appearance. They say about her that "looking perfect in any situation and under any circumstances" is her lifestyle.

Sofia Rotaru: biography, family, photos

Those who lived in the Soviet Union are not surprised by the stories of artists who, having been born thousands of kilometers from Moscow, managed to achieve fame and recognition throughout the country. Real talent was valued in this country. Rotaru's biography originates in the distant village of Marshintsy in western Ukraine, where in 1947 the future Soviet pop star Sofia Rotaru was born into the family of wine grower Mikhail Rotaru. Her childhood was not easy. The girl had to get up before sunrise and go to the market with her mother, stand behind the counter, and sometimes work in the field. After all, there were six children in the family, and Sofia was the eldest, after the blind sister Zoya, which means she was the main assistant to her parents. Despite many difficulties, the large Rotary family was not burdened by their lives. always in their housethere was music: all the members of the family sang. From the first grade, Sofia sang in the school choir, as well as in the village church during the service. Her first musical instruments were bayan and domra. Nevertheless, Rotaru's biography as a singer begins in 1962, when fifteen-year-old Sofia, having won the regional competition, enters the regional show in Chernivtsi. Here she also becomes the winner. The next step is a trip to Kyiv to the republican festival “Young Talents”. And again, the girl is waiting for victory. In 1964, she performed on the Kremlin stage for the first time and received many positive reviews regarding her voice. It seems her fate is sealed. Sofia decides to seriously take up vocals and enters the music school in Chernivtsi.

Personal life and creative success

After graduating from college in 1968, she went as part of a delegation to the Ninth World Youth Festival in Sofia. As Bulgarian and Soviet newspapers and magazines later wrote, “Sofia from Ukraine conquered Sofia.” After this triumph, her photo is placed on the cover of the magazine "Ukraine". At the same time, somewhere in the Urals, a guy from the city of Chernivtsi, Tolya Evdokimenko, is doing military service, who, having accidentally seen his compatriot on the cover of a magazine, falls in love with the girl in the photograph and decides after the end of the service to find her by all means. The main thing is that he knows her name.

The biography of Sofia Rotaru (photos from the wedding are still kept in the family album of Sofia Mikhailovna) in 1968 makes a sharp turn, and she, beinga very young girl, marries, having made a promise to her mother that this marriage is for life. So it will be. Sofia and Anatoly were inseparable until the end of his days (A. Evdokimenko died in 2002). Two years later, the happy couple had a son, Ruslan. And this is, of course, the most significant of all the events that Rotaru's biography tells about. Soon the musical film "Chervona Ruta" will be released, in which the main role is played by the Ukrainian singer Sofia Rotaru. Participation in this project brings the young woman all-Union fame. She creates her own ensemble, which she names the same as the film that contributed to her success - “Chervona Ruta”. Her husband becomes the artistic director of the ensemble. Together with her team, Sofia Rotaru traveled all over the Soviet Union and the countries of the socialist camp. Her name was on everyone's lips. Such celebrities as Arno Babadzhanyan, Oscar Feltsman, David Tukhmanov and others wrote songs for her. Any song sung by Sofia was awarded the Song of the Year award. However, the songs of the composer V. Matetsky became the most hit: “Lavender”, “Moon, moon”, “It was, it was, it was, but it has passed” and others.

Conclusion

After the collapse of the USSR, the People's Artist of the three republics (Ukraine, Moldova and Russia), as well as the entire Soviet Union, retained all her fans. Rotaru's biography continues to be replenished with new facts today, telling about awards, grandiose concerts, presentations and performances of an outstanding singer of our time.