Biography of Roxana Babayan: the path to glory

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

Roxana Babayan's biography begins in Tashkent, where she was born in May 1946. Roxana sang from childhood and dreamed of making a singing career after school. However, her father was against it, and the girl became a student at the construction department of the Tashkent Railway Institute.

And yet, the biography of Roxana Babayan did not become a biography of an engineer-architect - her vocal talent was noted already in her first years, and after her studies she ran to study and perform in the orchestra of Konstantin Orbelyan. So, the career of a railway worker was forgotten, and already in 1973 Roxana moved to Moscow: she was invited to the then-famous VIA "Blue Guitars". Working in this group, Roxana gains experience and improves her vocals, and three years later, in 1976, she receives the first prize at the Schlager Festival competition, which was held in Dresden.

Roksana Babayan, whose biography was replenished with such facts as participation in the "Bratislava Lira" (1979) and Cuban pop festivals (1982-1983), begins to collaborate with a group of vocalists from the company"Melody" under the direction of Boris Frumkin.

1977 - the debut of the singer in the competition "Song-77" and the beginning of solo performances. Her repertoire - "feminine" themes, pop music with elements of jazz. Artistry, beauty and a unique voice made Roxana popular. Famous composers and poets begin to write songs for her: V. Matetsky, L. Voropaeva, A. Levin, N. Levinovsky, V. Dobrynin, G. Garanyan, V. Dorokhin. The singer began to tour actively.

In 1983, the biography of Roxana Babayan was marked by receiving an external diploma of higher education - administrative and economic (GITIS). In 1987, the singer was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

Roxana Babayan's biography underwent a personal change in the 1980s - she met Mikhail Derzhavin. He invited her to his friend's birthday, where the singer met all the friends of the famous actor: Eldar Ryazanov, Andrei Mironov, Mark Zakharov and many others. As Roxana later found out, these were a kind of "bride". Friends said: "We must take." Since then they have been together - Mikhail Derzhavin and Roxana Babayan. Biography, children, success - everything is now for two of them. It is hard to imagine them without each other, they have been living together for over 20 years. Derzhavin has a daughter Masha from a previous marriage, the spouses have no joint children.

Firm "Melody" has released 11 records of the singer, among them giant discs:

• "Roxana Babayan sings";
• "When I'm with you";
• "Roxanne";
• "Another woman".

In 1991, an animated video was drawn for Roxana's song "The East is a delicate matter" (for the first time in our country), directed by Alexander Gorlenko. The year 1996 was marked by the release of Babayan's first CD en titled "Sorcerer's Enchantment".

Roxana Babayan, whose biography includes not only a singing career, also starred in such films as "My Sailor Girl", "New Odeon", "The Bridegroom from Miami", "The Third Is Not Extra" and others. She was a singer and TV presenter - in the 1990s she hosted the program "Breakfast with Roxanne".

In the late 1990s, the singer decided to quietly end her creative career without holding farewell concerts. She again goes to study - now in the humanities and, having received her third diploma, defends her Ph. D. on the topic of personality problems in adolescence. Roxana also serves as chairman of the Animal Welfare League.