Biography of Dolina Larisa - a successful Russian jazz singer

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

One of the most successful Russian pop jazz singers, Dolina Larisa, whose biography will be briefly described in this article, was born in sunny Baku and bore her father's surname Kudelman as a child. Valley is her mother's maiden name, which her daughter took for herself in her youth. What is interesting about the biography of the Larisa Valley? How did she achieve worldwide fame, and what did she have to go through?

Biography of Larisa Valley: difficult childhood

The singer was born in the family of the glazier Alexander Markovich and the typist Galina Izrailevna in 1955 on September 10th. Three years later, the family left Baku and moved to live in their parents' hometown, Ukrainian Odessa. There, as Larisa recalls, it was not easy for her. The girl and her parents lived in a damp basement, and in a communal apartment, where about twenty other people lived in addition to them. The room was very damp, and Larisa developed chronic bronchitis there, which sometimes even nowmakes itself known. A seriously ill grandmother (mother of Galina Izrailevna) lived with them in the same room for several years. When she died, the family decided to move. This time, little Larisa with her parents ended up in a room in a communal apartment, which was even smaller than the previous one. There was no place even to put a crib, so the girl slept on a cot for many years, which ruined her spine. Since Larisa comes from a Jewish family, at school her peers often called her “Jew”, which she was very offended by, until she found out that this word simply means “Jew”. The girl's parents wanted a better life for their daughter, and her mother took Larisa to a music school to learn to play the cello, which she hated for the rest of her life. She really didn't like acting, but she always loved to sing.

Biography of the Larisa Valley: the beginning of a creative path

After school, Larisa entered the "Gnessin" music school for a vocal class. In 1971, the girl sang in the variety orchestra "We are from Odessa", and this was the beginning of her career. Later, she was a soloist in the State Variety Orchestra of Armenia, the State Variety Orchestra of Azerbaijan, and Sovremennik. The solo career of the singer began in 1985. With the first program, she traveled all over the country and gained long-awaited popularity. At the same time, she begins to develop as a director of various programs. Her television “children” are the programs “Long Jump”, “Little Woman”, “Icicle”, “Contrasts”.

In 1988 the worldI saw the legendary rock opera called Giordano, in which Dolina played the main female role, while Valery Leontiev got the male one.

The singer repeatedly received prizes for participating in various competitions and festivals, in 1991 she was called the "Best Singer of the Country". The biography of the Larisa Valley is rich not only in pop achievements, the artist also successfully sings in the cinema. 1993 gave Dolina the title of Honored Artist of Russia.

Singer Larisa Dolina: biography. Family

The artist has been married three times. Anatoly Mionchinsky, jazz musician and conductor of Sovremennik, was the first husband of Larisa Dolina (between 1980 and 1987). From him, in 1983, she gave birth to a daughter, Angelina. The second husband of the singer was Viktor Mityazov (bass player), with whom she lived until 1998. She left him for producer Ilya Spitsyn, who is still her life partner.