Biography of Kikabidze Vakhtang Konstantinovich

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Singer, author of many songs, screenwriter, director, film actor - all this is collected in the most amazing way in one person. Undoubtedly, you have heard the name Kikabidze more than once. The biography of its owner, a truly great man, probably interested you. How was his life path? About what he is, Vakhtang Kikabidze, the biography described in this article will tell you.

Little Vakhtang

The future People's Artist of Georgia was born in Tbilisi on July 19, 1938. His childhood passed without a father, he volunteered for the war and died in 1942, as his family was told. Vakhtang's mother, Bagrationi Manana Konstantinovna, was a famous Georgian singer. As the artist recalls, his childhood for the most part took place behind the scenes. He did poorly at school, and his mother often had to blush and cry at parent-teacher meetings. And one day, complaining about Vakhtang, the teacher upset Manana, but tried to calm her down and said: “Don’t worry so much about thisstudy! He will be your artist!”

Biography: Kikabidze V. K. in youth

At the age of 14, Vakhtang dropped out of school, began to earn extra money in different places until one day he discovered music. As a young man, he dreamed of becoming an artist, but later realized that he wanted to be an artist. He liked to play the guitar in the evenings and participated in all possible amateur groups that were in the city. As the biography says, Kikabidze V. entered the Institute of Foreign Languages at the insistence of his mother, but after some time he dropped out and decided to “knock” at the Tbilisi Philharmonic, and they “opened” him. He began his career as a member of the jazz ensembles Orero and Dielo. These were highly professional groups with an international repertoire. Then, by the power of the song, Vakhtang Konstantinovich Kikabidze and some other performers did much more for Georgia's friendship with neighboring states than many politicians.

One of the features of Vakhtang's voice, which gives his sound a special charm, is hoarseness, which he received as a result of rheumatism as a child, when he and his mother had to live in a small room with a cement floor, for the insulation of which they there was simply no money.

Biography: Kikabidze V. K. in the movies

High acting skills, a bewitching smile and a thoughtful look of the guy attracted the attention of filmmakers, and he was invited to star in the film "Don't Cry!"

As evidenced by the biography, Kikabidze Vakhtang is also a talented actor, screenwriter anddirector all in one. After the film "Don't Cry!" followed by the legendary Mimino.

He also mastered the profession of a screenwriter, but this time quite by accident. In 1979, he had to go to the hospital for a long time, he went crazy with despair and began to compose various stories for the sake of entertainment, remember his childhood, write down … After being discharged from the hospital, he gave his creation to Rezo Chkheidze to read, and the script was approved. This is how the first film by Kikabidze V. K. appeared. "Be he althy, dear!" After him there were also "Men and All the Rest", "Fortune".

Vakhtang Kikabidze today

The artist still leads an active touring life, loves his wife, two children and three grandchildren. As relatives say, Vakhtang Konstantinovich is a good family man, loves to run things, go shopping, knows how to cook fish soup.

Achievements

Vakhtang Kikabidze - People's Artist of Georgia, he is also a laureate of the USSR State Prize (for his role in the film "Mimino"), and a holder of the International Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the Order of Honor of Georgia, the Order of St. Constantine the Great, and a laureate of the KGB Prize USSR. Awarded the L. O. Utyosov, and also included in the international encyclopedia called "Who is who". The square of stars in Moscow in 1999 was replenished with the star V. K. Kikabidze. And besides everything else, according to I. Prigogine, he is a very good, amazing person.