Sofia Rotaru

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Rotaru, nicknamed "Bukovinsky Solovey" ("the Nightingale from Bukovina"), emerged in 1966 as a pop folk star in the movie Solovei iz sela Marshyntsi (Nightingale from Marshyntsi) in the Romanian and Ukrainian-speaking world after her manager and future husband Anatoliy Yevdokymenko made her change her music style from folk to pop music with Chervona Ruta.

In 1972, she released the multilingual album Sofia Rotaru, re-released three times and covered by numerous singers, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in the countries of the former Soviet Union. She first gained international recognition after participating in 1968 in the International Youth Song Festival in Bulgaria and winning first prize at the Golden Orpheus in 1973 and second prize in the category of Polish songs at the Sopot International Song Festival in 1974. In the former USSR her career was marked by her stage success and numerous controversies. She has been acknowledged by the Kyiv Patriarchate.

Rotaru has been performing for more than 40 years. and topped the Moscow airplay with "Ya nazvu planetu imenem tvoim" in 2008.

She reported the highest income of all celebrities in Ukraine in 2008 and 2010.

Her repertoire consists of more than 40 albums and 400 songs recorded in many languages. She has received awards, deemed a Meritorious Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, People's Artist of Ukraine, People's Artist of Moldavian SSR, Laureate of the Young Communist League Prize, Hero of Moldova, and Cavalier of the Republican Order of Moldova. In August 2002 former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma and President of Russia Vladimir Putin gave awards to Sofia Rotaru for her 55th birthday, bestowing upon her the high rank of the Hero of Ukraine for her "outstanding personal merits in the sphere of art", and the Russian order "For merits before the Nation", respectively.

Rotaru's official surname is Yevdokymenko-Rotaru (Ukrainian: Євдокименко-Ротару). Yevdokymenko was the surname of her late husband. Yalta is her main residence, although she also has homes in Moscow, Kyiv, and Baden-Baden.

Early life

Sofia Rotaru, who comes from the Romanian minority in Ukraine, was born in Marshyntsi (Marșenița), Chernivtsi Oblast to a family of brigadiers and wine-growers. Marshyntsi is a village of Novoselytskyi Raion (Noua Suliță), close to the border with Moldova and the majority of its population is Romanophone (Romanian language speakers). She was the second child in a family of six children. Her siblings are Zina, Lidia, Aurica, Eugen and Anatol. A passport office employee misreported her birthdate on her passport as 9 August; as a result, Rotaru reportedly celebrates her birthday twice.

Her father, Mykhail Fedorovich Rotaru, spent World War II as a heavy machine gunner and traveled to Berlin. Injured, he returned home only in 1946, and was the first person to join the Communist Party in the village. Her older sister, Zinaida ("Zina"), was born on 11 October 1942. Zina endured severe childhood illness and went blind, but possessed perfect pitch and easily memorized new songs so she taught Sofia folk songs. Sofia said of her elder sister: "We all learned from her – what a musical memory, what a soul!". Zina spent hours listening to the radio and learned numerous songs, as well as the Russian language, which she later taught to her brothers and sisters. At home, the Rotaru family spoke only Romanian. As a child, Sofia participated in regional competitions of pentathlon and running.

She started singing from the first grade in the school choir, as well as in the church choir. However the latter was not acceptable to the school officials. Hence, she was threatened with an exclusion from the Young Pioneer organization. Rotaru was attracted by the theatre. She practiced in drama classes and sang popular folk songs in vocal classes. In the evenings, she used to take the only bayan at school and hide in the barn trying to find the proper melodies for her most loved Moldavian songs. Rotaru said:

Personal life

Aurica, Sofia's younger sister, has also performed professionally, combining a solo career with performances as a back-up vocalist, as well as dueting with sisters Lidia and Eugenia. In 1992, Aurica ended her singing career. Sofia's husband, Anatoliy Kyrylovich Yevdokymenko (1941–2002), was a People's Artist of Ukraine. He was the son of a conductor from Chernivtsi. He first saw Rotaru on the cover of the magazine Ukraine No. 27 in 1965 and immediately fell in love with her. At the time, Yevdokymenko was a serving his military duty in Nizhny Tagil, Ural region. After military service, he looked Rotaru up. Yevdokymenko had graduated from a musical high school, played the trumpet, and planned to create his own band. As a student at the University of Chernivtsi and a trumpeter in the student pop orchestra, he helped Rotaru discover the pop orchestra.

Singing in different languages caused fierce arguments about which culture Rotaru identifies with: Moldavian/Romanian, Ukrainian, or Russian.

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Career

In 1962, Rotaru's triumph at a vocal competition of amateur performers opened the way to a regional review. She obtained her first degree at the national amateur art college in Chernivtsi in 1963. She was named a finalist at a youth festival in Kyiv in 1964. On this occasion, she photographed her on the back of No. 13's No. 6 magazine. In 1965, Ukraine hosted 27 of the magazine Ukraine. Rotaru wanted to become a performer after high school and enrolled in the Chernivtsi Musical College's vocal and conductor department. In addition, she learned from the respected singer and actress Sidi Tal at Chernivtsi Philharmonic. Rotaru appeared at the State Kremlin Palace in 1964. Alexander Bronevitskiy's first pop song was "Mama" by her.

Rotaru performed as a representative of an artistic group in 1968, following graduation from college. She received first prize in the competition for singers of folk popular songs. "21-year-old Sofia has conquered Sofia, Bulgaria's newspapers were full of headlines: "21-year-old Sofia has conquered Sofia," bulgarian newspapers read. "Na kameni stoyu" (Standing on the Stone), Moldavian folk pop songs, and Gheorghite's "Valentina" made headlines. Valentina Tereshkova, the first female cosmonaut, was dedicated to the second song in the concert hall, was dedicated to her. Rotaru married Anatoliy Yevdokymenko, who at the time was a student at Chernivtsi University and a trumpet player in a student pop band.

Roman Alekseev, a 1971 film maker, shot Chervona Ruta for Ukrtelefilm. The story was about a girl from the mountains (played by Rotaru) and her friendship with a man from Donetsk's industrial city. The film's name refers to regret, a flower that is derived from an ancient Carpathian legend. Rue is only blossoming on Ivan Kupala Night, and the lady who succeeds in finding a blooming rue will be happy in love. Volodymyr Ivasyuk and other writers were co-performed by Zinkevich, Yaremchuk, and other performers. The film had a huge success. Rotaru was given an invitation to work with the Chernivtsi Philharmonic Society and a backing ensemble named Chervona Ruta after the film was announced. Anatoliy Yevdokymenko, Rotaru's husband, became the ensemble's artistic director.

A series of songs was written based on the roots revival content in a orchestration characteristic of the 1960s and 1970s in Continental Europe. Rotaru gained a following in the Soviet Union, particularly in Ukraine. Due in large part to the fact that the Soviet authorities eagerly promoted her art as an example of international Soviet culture, as she was a ethnic Moldavian/Romanian chanter of Moldavian/Romanian, Ukrainian, and Russian languages. Rotaru's result was regular airplay on state radio and television, and was consistently billed for state-funded concerts.

Rotaru and Chervona Ruta appeared on the Polish Cultural Union Pesny Strany Sovetov (Songs and Dances of the Country of Soviets), during 1972.

Sofia Rotaru performed the Ukrainian version of his hit from the 60s "Syzokrylyi ptakh" in the same year.

She received the First Prize at the international competition of Golden Orpheus in Burgas, Bulgaria, in 1973, ("My city") and Second Prize in the category of international performance of a song in Bulgarian script. In 1973, she was also named Meritorious Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. The songs, "Codru" and "Moy gorod," which she performed in the Moldavian/Romanian dialect, became soundtracks for the film Vesennye sozvuchiya – 73.

Rotaru graduated from the Chişin Art Institute of Gavriil Musicescu in 1974 and appeared in the Sopot International Song Festival in Poland, singing "Vospominaniye" by B. Rychkov (Remembrance) and "Vodohrai" by Ivasjuk. For her appearance of "Kto" ("Someone"), she received second prize in the Polish music category. She went from Chernivtsi to Yalta in 1976, transferring from the Chernivtsi Philharmonic Society to the Crimean Philharmonic Society. A number of songs by Moldavian composers appeared in her repertoire penned by the Teodorovici brothers after Volodymyr Ivasyuk's death in 1979. Rotaru had ceased to collaborate with Moldavian authors, mainly Eugen Doga.

"Verne muzyku" (Inna Waiting) and "Domaine Precishe" (Bring Me the Music Back) by Rotaru's Music Rhythm); "Aman's – "Dya kryshe") and "Aur a zhdya") (British Musicians), "Autumne") and "Valu's" by Keith Smith; "At My Home); "Aboutput: "A

"Lebedina Vernost" ("Swan Fidelity"), "Yabloni vs. Tsvetu"), and "Ballad About Mother" were among Eugene Martyunov's songs, as well as "Ballada o materi" ("Blossoming Apples"), and "Ballad About Mother" ("Ballad About Mother" ("Ballads" ("Ballad). "Be Happy, My Earth"), a patriotic song named "Shchastye tebe, Zemlya moya" ("Be Happy, My Earth") caused some political indignation.

Rotaru won first prize for her appearance of the Yugoslav song "Obeshchaniye" (Promise) in 1980 and was awarded the Order of Honour in Tokyo. She continued to experiment, becoming the first Soviet female singer to perform wearing trousers on stage. When doing this, she performed "Temp" (Tempo) with music composed by Aleksandra Pakhmutova and lyrics written by Nikolay Dobronravov. The songs "Temp" and "Ozhidaniye" (Waiting) were specially written for Moscow's cultural program in 1980. The song was used as the soundtrack for the drama film Ballada o sporte (Ode to sports), directed by Yuri Ozerov. Rotaru also received the All-Union Song of the Year award for her appearance on "Ozhidaniye" in the same year.

Rotaru appeared in the leading role in a Moldova-Film film released in 1980, titled Gde ty, lyubov'. (Where is your adoration? Rotaru performed "Pervy dozhd" (First Rain) in the film, among other tracks (First Rain). The film featured her riding a motorcycle on a narrow sea embankment without having a stunt double. According to the autobiographical story, a village instructor is invited to perform in a group and win the Grand Prix at an international festival with the song "Gde ty, lyubov" ("Gde ty, lyubov"). Raimonds Pauls' music was mixed by him and lyrics by Ilya Reznik. The soundtrack's double album was released. In 1980, more than 25 million moviegoers saw the film. By Gennadiy Cherkassov, director of the music department, the film's title song was barred from state radio.

In 1981, the film was awarded by the jury for popularizing the singing art of Soviet composers in the section of drama films. This film was the first public view of Rotaru in a dramatic role. Critics chastised the film, but it received audiences' approval and some of the film's themes became popular. Rotaru's next artistic period began with a new feel – rock music. In 1981, the film Dusha (Soul) with Rotaru's new rock band Mashina Vremeni was released, with songs by Aleksandr Zatsepin and Andrei Makarevich. When she was sick, her doctors recommended that she not attend the film screening and that she cancel all concert appearances.

Alexander Borodyansky and Alexander Stefanovich were compelled to write an autobiographical story about the singer's life, portraying her loss of voice with an opening of her soul. This was shown in a conversation on a pier with an older man that included a reevaluation of her values. Rotaru agreed to act in the film and decided to temporarily forego all concert appearances after seeing the latest rewritten scenario and new songs, written in a completely different style. Rotaru was the subject of a national concert tour of Canada, which was arranged by the National Concert Agency Inc in 1983. The concerts were subsidized by Cansov Exchange Inc.'s issue of an LP titled Canadian Tour 1983 and published by Cansov Exchange Inc.

The mid-1980s turned into a turning point in the singer's image's development. The latest film Monologue of Love (1986), contrary to previous Vas priglashaet Sofia Rotaru (Sofia Rotaru Invites You), (1985), delves into the modern art's aesthetics. Only one song, "Techn voda" (Water Flows), by Ihor Poklad, carried on the folk music theme, presenting an image of a farm girl who became a star.

In 1985, "Lavender" (Lavender), written by Vladimir Matetskiy for a duet with Estonian Jaak Joala, began a new collaboration. She changed direction with the relatively unknown Moscow songwriter in 1986. He supervised the change of Rotaru to a Europop style ("Bylo No Proshlo" (Once It's Over), "Luna"), which includes elements of hard rock "Moya Vita" (My Time), "Tol'ko etogo malo" (That's Not Enough). Matetskiy and his co-author, Mikhail Shabrov, collaborated heavily with Rotaru over the next 15 years. They performed songs, the bulk of which were included in her concert programs from 1990 to 2000.

In Ukraine, the switch to a Russian language caused a certain degree of animosity. The state producer unions, philharmonic societies,, and concert companies, which were losing touch with the concert and tour companies in Rotaru as a result of economic reforms, were among the accusations of national culture betrayal of national culture.

She refused to attend the Chervona Ruta festival in Chernivtsi in 1989 to prevent major scale protests. The depletion of a percentage of Ukrainian songs was largely due to the lack of high-quality lyrics in Ukrainian. Mykola Mozghovyi, "Krai, myi ridnyi krai" (Homeland), "Minaie den" (Day Passes); Blizniuk, "Vividlunnyr virtu") ("Matelity), "Under Aegis" (British); and "Chekai") "Tuman" (Wait); and "Balyna" (Mo (Ma);

Some people from the audience produced a poster in Ukrainian, which translated into "Sofia, a heavy penalty is waiting for you" at a concert in Lviv. Rotaru did not appear in Ukraine until the 1990s, after President Leonid Kuchma's personal request. Rotaru also launched a new concert series that was first introduced to the public in 1991.

Rotaru has remained a top market figure and has a loyal audience, including the Russian speaking diaspora in Europe, USA, Australia, and Israel, following the dissolution of the USSR and commercialization of post-Soviet music. Rotaru was voted the Best Ukrainian Pop Singer of the Twentieth Century in 2000. Rotaru's first solo concert series Zhyzn's Life Is My Love was released in 2001. In a new way, the program combined new songs with the hits of the previous years. In 2002, Sofia Rotaru was named "Hero of Ukraine."

Rotaru stopped touring for a while after her husband's death in 2002 and the death of her parents. Rotaru revived her concert and recording careers, placing her at the top of the Russian, Ukrainian, and Moldavian charts once more.

With appearances in the Koncertny Zal "Rossiya" of Moscow, dedicated to the opening of her statue in front of the hall, a new period began in 2003. Ruslan Kvinta ("Odna kalyna"), Oleg Makarevi ("Beca tanets"), Konstantin Meladze ("Ya svete"), as well as lyricist Vitalij Kurovskij, all worked with Rotaru, included Ruslan Kvinta ("Odna") and Konstantin Meladze"), as well as lyricist Vitali Yedynomu (for the Only One), 2003, (Sheaven – It's Me), and "Didn't I Love Him" ("Didn't Love Him," 2005), are among her albums.

In 2007, she celebrated her 60th birthday. Hundreds of thousands of fans, as well as musicians and politicians, descended on Yalta to congratulate the singer. Sofia Rotaru was given the II Degree Order for Merits by Ukraine's President. In the presence of the President of Russia, the President of Ukraine, and the President of Moldova, her official reception and birthday party took place at the Livadia Palace in Yalta. The case was broadcast live by Ukrainian and Russian state television channels. Celebrations of her birthday lasted into September in Sochi, where one of the young performers' music festival days, "Five Stars," was dedicated to Rotaru. In October 2007, more birthday concerts took place in Moscow at the State Grand Kremlin Palace, featuring Russian singers performing her songs.

Rotaru was a hit between 2006 and 2007. Tuman (Fog) in Eastern Europe, and two albums exclusively for the German market, Serdtse ty mo (You Are My Heart) and Kakaya na serdtse pogoda (What's the Weather Like in the Heart) were released; Several TV shows and concert programs, as well as a documentary made for Ukrainian television were among the year's highlights. From March to June 2007, a Russian Anniversary Tour ran from March to June 2007. "Beauty Requires" is another TV musical program, with Rotaru playing the song "Lavanda" ("Lavender") premiered on March 8, 2008.

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