Alla Pugacheva
Alla Pugacheva was born in Moscow, Russia on April 15th, 1949 and is the Pop Singer. At the age of 75, Alla Pugacheva biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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Alla Borisovna Pugacheva (born 15 April 1949), is Soviet and Russian musical performer.
Her career started in 1965 and continues to this day.
For her "clear mezzo-soprano and a full display of sincere emotions", she enjoys an iconic status across the former Soviet Union as the most successful Soviet performer in terms of record sales and popularity.Her repertoire includes over 500 songs in Russian, English, German, French, Hebrew, Finnish, Ukrainian, and the discography has more than 100 Vinyl, CDs and DVDs.
In addition to Russia and the former Soviet Union, Pugacheva's albums were published in Japan, Korea, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria.
Pugacheva has sold more than 250 million records.She became a People's Artist of the USSR in 1991.
Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995).
Chevalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II, III and IV degrees.
She represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997.
Early life and education
Pugacheva was born to Boris Mikhailovich Pugachëv and Zinaida Arkhipovna (born Odegova) Pugachëva in Moscow, on 15 April 1949. In 1956, she enrolled in music school No.31, and attended the Ippolitov-Ivanov music college. She went on to study at school No.496, finishing her studies there in 1964. She then studied in the choral-conducting department of the college. Pugacheva recorded her first track "Robot" in 1965, for a morning programme on Radio Yunost.
Private life
In 1969, she married Lithuanian circus performer Mykolas Orbakas, and on May 25, 1971 she gave birth to a daughter, Kristina Orbakaitė, who is also a popular singer. Pugacheva divorced Orbakas after four years of marriage in 1973. She married film director Alexander Stefanovich (1945–2021) in 1976 and starred in several of his movies. The union was dissolved in 1980.
In 1985, Pugacheva married producer Yevgeniy Boldin, with whom she had numerous professional collaborations. She had a working and romantic relationship with a young musician and singer, Vladimir Kuzmin during this period. In 1993, she divorced Yevgeniy Boldin stating that their professional lives interfered too much with their personal life.
In 1994, she married a pop singer, Philipp Kirkorov. Their divorce was announced in November 2005.
On 23 December 2011, Pugacheva married satirist Maxim Galkin, who is 27 years younger. The couple has twins delivered by a surrogate mother. Their names are Liza and Harry.
In March 2014, Pugacheva signed a petition against the persecution of Andrei Makarevich, who protested against the annexation of Crimea and war in Donbas.
In March 2022, Pugacheva and Galkin left Russia for Israel following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. In August 2022, Pugacheva returned to Russia, saying "she would clean up the mess in people heads and put things in order". In September 2022, she spoke out against the invasion for the first time, after her husband had been declared a "foreign agent". Russian authorities began investigating Pugacheva for "discrediting" the Russian military under Russian 2022 war censorship laws. In October 2022, Pugacheva revealed that she had left Russia again for Israel.
Career
Pugacheva graduated from college in 1966 and then toured with the company Yunost' (Youth) in Western Siberia. She began performing as a piano accompanist at the State Circus Musical college the following year. She performed lead vocals for a variety of bands, including Novy Elektron (New Electron), part of the Lik State Philharmonic Society, and Moskvichi (Muscovites) in 1971, 1972–75; Oleg Lundstrem's band (Merry Folks). She recorded songs in the midst of several films.
In 1974, she finished third in the All-Union championship of musicians. She received the Grand Prix of the international competition "Golden Orpheus" in 1975, as she performed Emil Dimitrov's song "Harlequin" (heapheus). In East Germany, the Amiga label released her winning song as a single. The Balkanton label in Bulgaria also released "Harlequin" as a single on Wednesday. Pugacheva returned to the "Golden Orpheus" a year ago to perform a concert outside of the competition. As Pugacheva's first album, Zolotoy Orfey 76, the Balkanton performed the live tracks. Pugacheva recorded a number of songs for the musical drama comedy The Irony of Fate as the female protagonist's singing voice.
In 1977, Pugacheva began to work on the musical film The Woman Who Sings, a film in collaboration with the band Ritm (Rhythm). She starred as the leading lady, a well-known pop singer who sacrificed her personal life for her profession. The soundtrack, which was co-written by Pugacheva and composed of pop songs, came to a conclusion with the dramatic title ballad "Zhenshchina, kotoraya poyot." The Soviet audience, who sees the film as autobiographical, boosted the soundtrack to a record audience of the year 1979, after it was purchased by 55 million people. The soundtrack was first released in 1977 as part of her double album Zerkalo dushi (Mirror of the Soul), which was a series of her songs from 1975 to 1977. In Japan, the Victor label launched Alla Pugacheva, a collection album. Pugacheva received the Amber Nightingale Award at the Sopot International Song Festival in 1978, which would have guaranteed the Grand Prix of the Intervision Song Contest. Kansan's label, a Finnish company, in 1980, launched her above-listed works as the compilation album Huipulla (At the Top). Tonbandausgabenkompanie Bayer GmbH did the same in West Germany, releasing Alla Pugachova.
Pugacheva, a frequent visitor to Stockholm in the 1980s, was a frequent visitor. She began with multiple guest appearances on the Swedish radio show Galaxen (April 1980), directed by Jacob Dahlin, and later appeared on his TV show Jacobs Stege (Jacob's Ladder). Dahlin and Pugacheva used to perform duets, such as "Superman" in which Dahlin sings as the title character. Pugacheva, a German singer from Stockholm, released an album in English by the World Record Music label in Sweden as Watch Out and then the Melodiya brand in the Soviet Union, as Alla Pugacheva in Stockholm.