Irina Shvedova: biography and creativity

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Irina Shvedova is known for many songs, and “White W altz” and “America the Razluchnitsa” are her visiting card. This Russian singer also realized herself as a film and theater actress, theater and variety director, songwriter and musician. She was born in 1959, April 28, in Chisinau. There, the future performer spent the first three years of her life, after which the family went to Kyiv, to their historical homeland.

Biography

Irina Shvedova was always surrounded by songs. Her father Vasily Yakovlevich Tretyak, a dramatic tenor, was a soloist of the Ukrainian Opera and Ballet Theatre, People's Artist of the USSR, was buried in Kyiv, at the Baikove cemetery. Lyudmila Stanislavovna Tomashevskaya, Irina's mother, was an actress at the Kyiv Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko.

The performer bears the name of her stepfather. He is the writer Igor Aleksandrovich Shvedov. He was a People's Artist of Ukraine and was buried in Kyiv at the Baykove cemetery. From the age of 6, the future singer was engaged in classical dances, Englishlanguage and music. In 1968, she began going to the studio of young announcers on the Ukrainian radio.

During this period, Irina performed the first significant vocal part in the children's operetta Queen Toothbrush. This performance was accompanied by the Variety Symphony Orchestra of Ukrainian Radio and Television. The singer's partners in the performance were Polina Nyatko and Nikolai Yakovchenko. From 1969 to 1973, the future performer attended a fine arts studio.

In 1974, Irina graduated from music school No. 5. There she already took up songwriting. Three of them were recorded on the radio in 1977. In the period 1974 - 1980, Irina was engaged in ballroom dancing in the Rhythm ensemble.

She was a participant in international competitions in class A. After graduating from school in 1976, the future star sang in the variety orchestra of I. Gass, led dance clubs for children, worked as an accompanist, typist and secretary.

The future singer was trained at the University of Marxism-Leninism, which operated under the Kiev City Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. She studied from 1976 to 1978 at the Faculty of Ethics and Aesthetics and graduated with honors.

In 1979, she became a student at the Kyiv State Institute of Theater Arts named after Karpenko-Kary. Irina graduated from this educational institution in 1983. She studied on the course of Mikhail Karasev.

Creativity

In 2010, Irina Shvedova composed the music for the composition "I Love Forever", which became the anthem of the "Festival of Pregnant Women" held in Moscow. PoetryA. Shvedov and S. Dzhigurda wrote for this composition. In 2011, Irina Shvedova wrote the music for the song "Our Victory". The lyrics for this composition were written by Nikolay Bandurin.

For the first time the song in the author's performance could be heard on the Day of the City of Moscow, as part of a concert held on Red Square. In 2012, the singer created and performed the song "Let go" for the film "Reflection" with Olga Pogodina in the title role.

On the stage of the Kyiv Ukrainian Drama Theater. Franco embodied the image of Tatyana in the production of "Wild Angel". In addition, she played in the performances "Golden Chicken", "Reportage", "Wooing on Goncharovka", "Chasing Two Hares", "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Leopold the Cat's Birthday", "Sunny Valley Serenade", "Queen of Hollywood".

Since 2015, the actress has been collaborating with the Moscow Drama Theater of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. On this stage she played in the performances “Theater. Eternal Love”, “Twelve Months”, “New Year's Adventure”, “White Crow”, “Vaux de Ville”. In 2017, the audience saw Irina's solo performance called "The Soul Keeps".

Discography

Irina Shvedova released a solo work called "The Witch". You can also hear it in the following albums: "White W altz", "Above the City", "White Crow". Irina Shvedova's video collection "America the Razluchnitsa" was published in 1999. In 2009, the performer pleased the audience with an album with the Stargorod ensemble.

Interesting facts

Song "America-Razluchnitsa”, performed by Irina Shvedova, headed various charts in the nineties and sounds in the film“Muslim”. Since 2002, the singer has been directing various musical performances in the city of Podolsk, at the Children's Art Center called "The Blue Bird".

She staged the performances "The Last Veteran", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina". Since 2010, Irina has been acting in TV shows and movies: the film "Reflection", the TV series "The Case of the Doctors" and "Before the Court", a project called "Don't lie to me".

In 2011, as a producer, she worked on an exhibition of the artist Anatoly Shinkarchuk. In 2017, the artist's benefit performance in the Kremlin "30 Years on the Stage" took place. The performance was attended by Anatoly Rykunov, Felix Tsarikati, Valery Semin, Levon Oganezov.