Tamara Gverdtsiteli is a bright woman with an interesting biography, personal life, where there was more than one marriage and there is a child, she fascinates fans from all over the world with her singing. It is considered a true symbol of Georgia. Her life, like almost any person from show business, is in plain sight. The name and surname of Tamara Gverdtsiteli has almost become a household name, a kind of synonym for art associated with music in the post-Soviet space.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli: d childhood
In 1962, on January 18, a daughter was born in the international family of Gverdtsiteli, who was named Tamriko.
This is exactly what the Georgian father chose for his child, but soon the girl's mother began to call her sonorous to her real name, Tamara.
Tamara's mother, Jewish by nationality, made a huge contribution to her daughter's musical development. It was she who took her daughter to a music school that worked at the Tbilisi Conservatory.
They were not just a mother and daughter, Tamara was lucky, they did not contradict her and supported her in everything, giving her the right to make decisions on her own.
Maybe thanks to this support from her parents and, of course, Tamara's desire and hard work, her life has developed so brightly and interestingly. Tamara Mikhailovna showed from early childhood that she was able to achieve a lot on the musical Olympus.
When she was not yet 10 years old, Tamara Gverdtsiteli became a member of the Mziuri children's ensemble. And soon they began to take her with the team on tour, which took place throughout the USSR.
Studies
Having received a diploma of graduation from a secondary school, Tamara Gverdtsiteli immediately went to take the documents to the Tbilisi Conservatory.
She entered the class of piano and musical composition.
She also graduated from a music college, where she improved her vocal skills.
After receiving diplomas, Tamara became a frequent invited guest to various houses of culture in Georgia.
The singer also tried her hand at various competitions throughout the USSR. At the age of 12, she won one of the Sochi, which was called "Red Carnation".
But everything Tamara Mikhailovna was not enough at the age of 12, she went to conquer the city of Dresden in Germany.
In her competitive and festival piggy bank there were performances in Poland, Italy and many other cities.
Real popularity came to Tamara Gverdtsiteli after taking gold at the Golden Orpheus competition in Bulgaria in 1988. She was talked about as a real talent all over the world.
Creation
Fame came to Tamara Gverdtsiteli quite quickly, although a lot of work was invested in it. In 1982, the first small album was released, and almost immediately after it, the second.
So Tamara spun in the tours, which were replaced one after another. Both young people and elders listened to her records.
In confirmation of her talent and, most importantly, professionalism, Tamara began to receive offers to participate in competitions, but as an expert jury.
For Tamara Gverdtsiteli, the whole decade of the 80th year was very significant for events related to both work, personal life, children and, in general, biography.
In 1989, the singer made a checkmate by recording a cassette with her performance of the composition from the "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and, through third parties, gave it to Michel Legrand, who was the composer of this song.
But due to the maestro's employment, the material was delivered to him almost two years later.
But the fact that he received it did not mean that he would get acquainted with the work of the singer and that the recording would be listened to.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli was lucky her cassette received the attention of Legrand, he was fascinated and invited the singer to Paris to perform at Olympia.
This was not the end of their partnership. When their personal meeting took place, the maestro immediately insisted that Tamara return in a few weeks. He offered her a job on a project.
The singer was afraid that there might be a problem with leaving Russia, with obtaining a visa, but everything turned out well and she was lucky to work with two of the greatest French composers Michel Legrand and Jean Drejac at once.
A career in France at that time did not work out for Tamara Gverdtsiteli due to insurmountable circumstances.
Almost after her debut on stage in France, she received a contract for two years of work in this country. But she could not take her son and mother there and she was forced to give up work.
Personal life
In the biography of Tamara Gverdtsiteli, not the last place is occupied by personal life, family and children. She was married three times, but unfortunately, all marriages broke up.
But as Tamara said, the reason for this was not her creative life, career, but other reasons.
The first husband of Tamara Gverdtsiteli was director George Kakhabrishvili. The man was prominent and had a good position at the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of Georgia.
They were married for about eleven years. In 1986, a joyful event happened in the family, whose son was named Alexander.
It is known about his son that he studied abroad in the USA, where he remained as a teacher at the University of the Arts London.
The second husband of Tamara Gverdtsiteli was the lawyer Dmitry, whom they met in America when the singer was on tour. Their marriage has not passed the test of distance. Dmitry lived in the USA, and Tamara in Moscow.
The third union was perhaps the most emotional, cardiac surgeon Sergei Ambatelo doted on his wife, but he was very jealous.
They met when Tamara, after the next tour, realized that she should be examined because of her pace of life. She turned to the clinic for help and got to see him.
In 2001, Sergei proposed to the lady, and she agreed. But in 2005, Tamara was tired of enduring constant jealousy scandals, and it was decided that it was time to get a divorce.
A little later, after the third divorce, the media started talking about the fact that Tamara Gverdtsiteli had an affair with Azerbaijani Novruz Mammadov. Their acquaintance took place when Tamara decided to make repairs in her Moscow apartment and asked for help from a company owned by Novruz.
Television career
Tamara Gverdtsiteli today continues to be actively engaged in creative activities, she performs as a singer and artist at various events, travels around the world on tour and participates in music shows and programs.
One of the brightest was the project "Two Stars", where the singer, together with Dmitry Dyuzhev, took first place and received golden microphones.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli also took part in such musical projects as The Phantom of the Opera in 2001, which was broadcast by Channel One and Voice of the Country in 2014, it was shown on Ukrainian 1 + 1.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli has been the winner of many awards in her career, there are about 20 of them in her piggy bank. She also received awards, of which there are about fifteen in her entire career.
In her youth, the fortuneteller predicted great success and great love for Tamara Gverdtsiteli. By that time, the singer had already successfully toured, was married and raised her son - and therefore did not attach due importance to the words of the fortuneteller. But everything happened exactly as she predicted.
Best years
In 1974, Tamara, a 12-year-old girl from Tbilisi, experienced a very difficult divorce of her parents. She remembered these emotions for the rest of her life: how impossible it is to believe that people close to each other break up and begin to live new lives and families ... The father soon had a new family, and the children - Tamara and her brother - stayed with their mother. She found consolation in her work: from childhood, having a strong voice and perfect hearing, Tamara, at the age of 10, became a soloist in the Mziuri children's pop ensemble. In its composition, she traveled all over the Soviet Union and even foreign countries, learned to stay on stage and realized the most important thing about herself: this is her real vocation, she cannot be without a stage. 
Just starting to study at the conservatory, Tamara Gverdtsiteli began to work solo. She remembers these years as some of the best of her life. In the evenings, large groups of her friends and classmates of her brother, students of the Polytechnic, gathered in their small Khrushchev. They often stayed up late, and someone stayed overnight with them.
These noisy parties did not interfere with Tamara's studies. At the age of 19, she already received the first prize at the All-Union Competition for Young Performers in Dnepropetrovsk, and then conquered the audience in Dresden at the international festival.
When receiving a diploma from the conservatory, Tamara understood that she completed the first part of the program at least for a Georgian girl - she received an education. The maximum program implied compulsory marriage.
"Don't hurry, Tamara"
They met at work: Gverdtsiteli was invited to a role in a TV show, and Georgy Kakhabrishvili was its director. As soon as she saw this stately, confident man, she realized that there would be something between them.
Georgy was 15 years older, and did not delay courtship for a long time: he immediately invited Tamara to drink coffee together. A few days later, all of Tbilisi was discussing a probable romance between a famous director and a young talented singer. Their relationship developed very rapidly - with loud quarrels and emotional reconciliations. “It was not possible to be calm. I behaved according to my age - impulsively, sometimes not at all wisely. In a relationship with a mature man, somewhere you need to remain silent, give in, do as he wants - I didn’t know how to do this, ”Gverdtsiteli recalled. However, her feelings for George were strong. And his marriage proposal helped her cope with a difficult test.
During those years, there was a war in Afghanistan. Tamara Gverdtsiteli, along with other artists, decided to go with concerts to the place of hostilities. George was against it, but he could not forbid it, because he was not her husband.
The trip exhausted Gverdtsiteli not so much physically as mentally. Talking to the soldiers, she understood that they did not even know where they were - they thought that they were somewhere not far from Tashkent. “None of us had the courage to tell them the truth. Everything I saw around me terrified me. From the realization of the senselessness and horror of war, I experienced a shock. Before the concert, she gathered her strength, and then sat for a long time, staring at one point, ”she said. Once she called her mother in Tbilisi, but George answered the phone. To his question "How are you?" Tamara answered with difficulty that everything was in order, while she herself could hardly hold back her tears. He understood everything - and after a long pause he said: “I am waiting for you. Take care of the dress."
She risked her life and bought the ivory piece on the streets of Kabul. After returning to Tbilisi, the two of them delivered letters from soldiers to their parents around the country. Then they began to prepare for the wedding. Tamara's father did not want to give his blessing on their marriage for a long time. He urged not to rush, to think more, found more and more excuses. George got his consent only on the eve of the celebration - the father seemed to feel something.
After the wedding, their quarrels did not become less violent, but still love reigned in the family for a long time. Two years later, their only son Alexander (Sandro) was born. Tamara wanted to spend all her free time with him, but she could not give up her favorite business either. Gverdtsiteli tried to combine the incompatible for the Georgian tradition: career and family. Mom helped with the housework and with the upbringing of her son in her absence. But her husband's dissatisfaction with her long tour was growing. When the child was one year old, Tamara began to take Sandro with her on tour - and Georgy also did not agree with this.
France
Paris came into her life during a period of desperate thoughts about family and marriage. But a sudden turn in his career distracted from gloomy thoughts. The agent organized a tour in France, where Gverdtsiteli met the great composer Michel Legrand. The result is an incredible success with the public and the offer of an annual contract.
She did not immediately agree: a war broke out in Georgia, and a visa was not given for a long time. When Tamara arrived in Paris, her family lived in Tbilisi in terrible conditions: water and electricity were often cut off, food was not available, the city was under martial law…
A month later, she brought her first suitcase of food to her relatives - and did so until the end of the contract.
From France, Tamara Gverdtsiteli returned to Moscow and soon brought her son and mother there. George stayed in Tbilisi. It was the point of no return for their marriage.
America
Sandro quickly got used to the new environment, my mother continued to do housework, Tamara sang and from time to time flew to Russia on tour. Everything went on as usual until she met him.
Lawyer Dmitry, an emigrant from Baku, was among those invited to visit their mutual friends. That evening she sang “I was looking for you everywhere” by Legrand - and tried to find his face among the audience. She can no longer live without him. “Sometimes you meet a person and it seems that you have known him for many years. Dima's words, voice, mannerisms, laughter - everything was absolutely familiar. The feeling of kinship was fascinating, ”said Tamara. It was true, mutual, happy love. But the choice - family or work - still faced Gverdtsiteli. This time it was about the huge distance between America, in which the beloved lived, and the country where the viewer loved her - Russia.
He invited her to move to Moscow - he was ready to sacrifice his own business and start all over again. In response, Tamara said that she would first try to move. For five months she lived in their house, taking care of the child and the household, and Dmitry took her to the cinema, theaters and restaurants, trying to somehow entertain her. She didn't succeed. Tamara Gverdtsiteli could not live without a stage. She again left to give concerts in Russia, he was in touch by phone. One evening Dima said that he would come soon. A call woke her up late at night.
She was informed that Dmitry had died. Sudden cardiac arrest.
The only man
Until now, when she sings on stage that song - "I was looking for you everywhere" - she feels that he hears her. Trying to survive her loss, Tamara remarried - to cardiac surgeon Sergei Ambatelo. Now she calls it the biggest mistake of her life. “He failed to understand me or my feelings.” For more than 10 years she has been living alone, devoting herself only to her family and creativity. The only man in the life of Tamara Gverdtsiteli is her son Sandro. She is sure: God cannot twice give such love as they had with Dima.
In Georgian women there is some kind of mystery, some kind of mystery and a kind of proud beauty. Tamara Gverdtsiteli is a real Georgian, she shines with inexpressible mountain beauty, nature has endowed her with a beautiful voice.
From her songs, one wants to cry, then soar from an excess of feelings in heaven. An unusually talented woman - composer, singer, actress. Soviet, Georgian and Russian goddess of art! Tamara Mikhailovna was born in Tbilisi on January 18, 1962. Georgia gave the world a uniquely talented person. The biography of Tamara Gverdtsiteli is worthy of attention.
Childhood Tamriko
She began to sing before she learned to speak, absolute pitch, a deep voice penetrating into the very soul - the girl was born to be a singer, this is undeniable. How did her biography begin? Tamara Gverdtsiteli from childhood was the pride of her parents, they helped her daughter climb the ladder of fame.
Tamriko's father, cyberneticist Mikhail Pavlovich Gverdtsiteli, belongs to an ancient Georgian family. Mother, teacher Inna Vladimirovna Kofman, originally from Odessa. Tamunya - so affectionately the parents called their vociferous miracle. The first concerts of the future singer were held at home, instead of a stage there was a simple chair, climbing on it, Tamriko sang her favorite songs.
Mom in many ways contributed to the fact that Tamara became a singer. When the girl was six years old, Inna Vladimirovna sent her to a music school at the conservatory. Since that time Tamuni's life has been connected with music. At the age of 10, little Gverdtsiteli became the soloist of the Mziuri ensemble, which was very popular, it included 20 girls, they sang beautifully and accompanied themselves on various musical instruments. The young nuggets of Georgia - that was the name of the little artists.
At the age of twelve, Tamriko wrote her first song. It was dedicated to a tragically deceased friend, with whom the girl sat at the same desk. The lines of the song make the heart shrink.
Gverdtsiteli - the oldest Georgian family
Inherits the surname of the great ancient Georgian family Tamara Gverdtsiteli. Biography, her personal life from this becomes even more interesting. The surname Gverdtsiteli consists of two words: "tsiteli" - "red" and "gverd" - "side". In the XIV century, in a battle with the Turks, the ancestor of a glorious family was wounded in the side. From that time on, he and his entire family began to be called "Red Side" (Gverdtsiteli).
Singer's Relatives:
- Paternal grandmother - music teacher Tamara Ivanovna Gverdtsiteli.
- Maternal grandmother - Shulamith Solomonovna Rosenshtekh.
- Brother - Pavel, engineer, lives in Tbilisi, father of two children;
- Great-grandmother - Princess Khidirbegishvili-Amilakhvari, studied in Paris;
- Great-grandfather - the rabbi of the Odessa synagogue Solomon Rosenshtekh.
Path to glory
The biography of Tamara Gverdtsiteli after graduation was marked by a new event. Having received a certificate and parting words from school teachers, the graduate easily entered the Tbilisi Conservatory.
At nineteen, the girl won the Red Carnation competition in Sochi, after which there were still many competitions and victories. Since 1987, young Tamara herself has been a member of the jury of musical projects. 1989 gave the singer the title of Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR, 1991 - People's Artist of Georgia, 2004 - People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Here is such a rapid rise! In 1991, Tamara was able to conquer the three thousandth hall in Paris. Michel Legrand, addressing the audience, said: “Paris! Remember this name! The beautiful Georgian girl made the hearts of the Parisians tremble with her singing.
Now the whole world knows the singer Tamara Gverdtsiteli. The biography of the famous Georgian woman is of interest to many people in different parts of the world! Unique vocal abilities, talent, hard work brought the actress to the top. She sings songs in many languages: Georgian, Russian, Ukrainian, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, German, Armenian, and this is not the whole list. Aren't they unique abilities?
Tamara Gverdtsiteli: biography of the actress
As mentioned earlier, the talent of the Georgian singer is multifaceted. But the biography of Tamara Gverdtsiteli also includes interesting works in cinema.
Filmography of the actress:
- "House of Exemplary Content" - 2011;
- "Stalin's Wife" - 2006;
- "Griboedovsky waltz" - 1995;
- "Mziuri" - 1973.
Gverdtsiteli Tamara. Biography: family, personal life
The family happiness of the singer was not very successful, she got married several times. First husband, Giorgi Kakhabrishvili, director, deputy chairman of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of Georgia. Tamara married him in 1984, two years later the son Alexander (Sandro) was born to happy parents. The artist decided to give him the best education in England and the USA. In 1995, the marriage of George and Tamara ended in divorce.
With her second husband, businessman and lawyer Dmitry, the singer met in 1996 in the United States of America. Almost immediately after they met, the lovers signed. Family happiness did not last long, in 1998 Dmitry died of heart failure.
In 2001, the singer decided to marry Sergei Ambatelo again. This is a very talented and respectable person, a cardiac surgeon, a candidate of medical sciences. The marriage was unsuccessful and broke up after four years.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli is worthy of great love, Michel Legrand himself could not resist the singer's charming voice and appearance. This is a great man, the best of melodists, there is no repetition of his "Cherbourg Umbrellas" in the whole world. The joint work of these two brilliant people led to a mutual feeling.
Biography of Tamara Gverdtsiteli keeps a lot of interesting facts. She is a woman, though famous, she has her own superstitions and rules.
- So, Tamara does not like to perform, sitting at a white piano, if possible, she stipulates in advance a fad in the contract that the piano should be black.
- Since childhood, on all trips, the famous singer has been accompanied by two favorite dolls, these are talismans for good luck.
- Tamara Mikhailovna will never enter the stage from the right backstage, she always appears in front of the audience from the left.
The true symbol of Georgia was the singer Tamara Gverdtsiteli, whose biography is incredibly interesting. Possessing a charming voice, she began her path to the heights of art in early childhood. Today she is one of the most sought-after performers on the stage, People's Artist of Georgia and the Russian Federation, laureate of numerous awards, holder of the Order of Honor.
Biography
The future artist was born in 1962 in Tbilisi, on January 18. Tamara is a representative of an international family. Mom Inna Volfovna Kofman comes from a Jewish family, was born in Odessa, but during the war years she went to the evacuation to the city of Tbilisi, where she later worked for many years as a teacher of Russian language and literature at school. The father of our heroine, Mikhail Pavlovich Gverdtsiteli, is a Georgian, a native of an old noble family.
Many fans of the singer's work are interested in how many years she devoted to music. While still a preschooler, Tamara, at the initiative of her mother Inna, began to study music. Then she entered a special music school, located at the Tbilisi Conservatory. The mother's heart did not fail, the girl from the beginning of her studies surprised her peers and teachers with her bright talent.
In the 70s, the young talent, being a soloist of the Mziuri children's vocal group, toured numerous parts of the Soviet Union.
The leader of the community was Rafael Ghazaryan. Together with other members of the ensemble, the girl performed folk Russian, Georgian, Ukrainian songs. Participation in tours, frequent concert performances gave the future star experience on stage.
During the period when the aspiring singer conquered the Soviet public, her parents divorced, and the comfort of Gverdtsiteli's house was violated. This event deeply hurt the soul of the girl, since now she, along with her brother Pavel, lived only with her mother.
Tamara did not leave creativity and continued to improve her skills. At the age of 16, the girl became a participant in the audio performance "Our friend - Pinocchio". After graduating from school, she entered the Tbilisi Conservatory. Here she studied piano and musical composition. Having received a diploma, the girl purposefully underwent vocal training at a music college.
The learning process did not interfere with practical creative work. As a 3rd year student at the conservatory, Tamara joined the pop symphony orchestra. At the age of 19, the artist won the Red Carnation competition held in Sochi. Here she sang the songs "Music" and "Blossom, my land." The compositions brought the singer incredible popularity. In the same year, the young performer became the winner of the All-Union Festival, held in the city of Dnepropetrovsk.
After completing her studies at the conservatory, the girl regularly performed at concerts in various institutions in Georgia, and continued to compete with other talents in the USSR music competitions. In the early 80s, the artist was able to go beyond the borders of the country and took part in several international events. One of the first was the Dresden vocal competition. This was followed by the Polish and Italian festivals.
In the same period, the girl released her first album under the laconic title “Debut. Tamara Gverdtsiteli.
The next album, recorded in 1985, "Music: Tamara Gverdtsiteli sings" instantly scattered throughout the USSR. It was impossible to determine the age range of the singer's fans. Everyone listened to Gverdtsiteli's songs. Fame brought victory in the competition "Golden Orpheus", held in Bulgaria in 1988. Here the artist received 1 prize of the competition.
In the late 80s, Tamara received recognition of her talent and a high appreciation of her own professionalism. This was expressed in the fact that the singer was regularly invited to competitions as a member of the jury or as a guest of the festival. In 1989, the Georgian SSR declared the singer an Honored Artist.
The 90s were difficult for performers, including Tamara Gverdtsiteli. The situation was complicated by the Civil War in Georgia. However, in 1991, the heroine of the article was recognized as the People's Artist of the Georgian SSR, and also gets a chance to perform on the French stage. After the composition from the work “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” recorded by her was heard by the Parisian musician Legrand, she was invited to perform at the Olympia in Paris.
Gverdtsiteli's personal acquaintance with the composer gave her the opportunity to work for several weeks in alliance with such composers as Michel Legrand and Jean Drejak. The singer decided to reject the proposal to conclude a contract for 2 years, because she could not take her mother and little son out of the country. As a result, the family moved to Moscow, and then to the USA, where she lived until the end of the 90s. Here the artist gave concerts, toured American cities and Canada.
In the late 90s, the singer and her family went to Moscow. Breaking through to the heights of Russian show business was not easy, but possible. The competition in this area was high, however, thanks to her extraordinary talent and her own determination, she withstood this fight and was able to record several songs that became hits.
In the period from 2000 to 2004, the artist recorded 6 albums. In subsequent years, she successfully participated in musical television projects, shot videos, recorded new songs, including duets with other musicians. In addition, the singer regularly performed at concerts. Solo programs of Gverdtsiteli gather many thousands of halls.
In 2006 and 2010 Tamara made her film debut. With her participation, the pictures "House of Exemplary Content" and "Stalin's Wife" were shot. And in 2008 she participated in the filming of the documentary film “Vladimir Zeldin. Don Quixote in love. No less successfully plays Gverdtsiteli on the stage of the theater. With the participation of the star, the musical "The Man from La Mancha" was held at the Theater of the Russian Army. In 2010, she brilliantly coped with the part of Carmen at the Dnepropetrovsk Opera House.
Among the achievements of the singer are awards and titles that are difficult to calculate. "Order of the Peacemaker", the Order of St. Sophia, the Order of "Honor", the Order of Honor, the Order of Catherine the Great I degree - awards recognizing the merits of Tamara Mikhailovna and her contribution to the development of culture.
Numerous awards indicate kindness, mercy and compassion, creation and love. These are the qualities that a famous artist possesses.
Tamara's personal life
Tamara Gverdtsiteli had three spouses for many years, with each of whom the singer lived in an official marriage. The first lover was Giorgi Kakhabrishvili, a Georgian director who held a senior position at the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of Georgia. The marriage was concluded in 1984.
During the years of the Civil War, Tamara's first husband plunged into politics and moved away from the family, which was forced to emigrate from the country. In the mid-1990s, the couple separated.
The second husband of the singer was the lawyer Dmitry, who moved to Boston from Baku. Dmitry died of cardiac arrest a few years after the resettlement.
Tamara lived with her third husband until 2005. It was Sergei Ambatello - Doctor of Medical Sciences, who worked as a cardiac surgeon.
Does the singer have children?
The family is of great importance for the singer, however, a quarrel between parents and childhood experiences may have influenced the fact that she never created her strong cell. From her first husband George, the artist has a son, Sandro, who lives and studies in England, mastering media communications. Born in 1986. Full name - Alexander Georgievich Kakhabrishvili. He received his first education in the USA.
Songs of Tamara
The musical works of Tamara Gverdtsiteli are filled with deep content, and the singer's performance is mesmerizing. The artist has a unique style of singing and an amazing voice. At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, the singer recorded songs that allowed her to royally ascend the Olympus of Russian show business. This was the composition "Vivat, King"! The song "Mom's Eyes" touched the hearts of fans with a soulful performance and vital meaning.
In 2016, at the New Wave competition, the premiere of the song “Barefoot Through the Sky”, another name “I will ascend for you”, took place.
With the first line of the verse “I will definitely come back to you”, the artist seems to be addressing the listener. The singer performed with the work at several concerts, she also entered the album "Tamara Gverdtsiteli".
Repeatedly Tamara performed the works of other musicians, and did it brilliantly. One of these works is the composition of Evgeny Martynov "Swans flew over the earth." Gverdtsiteli sang "Swan Fidelity" on the program "Property of the Republic".
Among the last songs performed by Gverdtsiteli is "Landmark of Love". A video was shot for the composition, which is still popular on the network.
Duets of the singer
Tamara's exciting and captivating voice adorns the performance of any performer, even a non-professional one. In the television project of the first channel "Two Stars", her partner was the theater and film actor Dmitry Dyuzhev. The artists looked amazingly harmonious on the stage and became the winners of the project.
On their account are the works "Argo", "How young we were", "Love Story". The duet of Dyuzhev and Gverdtsiteli, at the end of the project, performed more than once at concerts and festivals.
The composition “My Love” recorded with the group “Bi 2” was a success. In 2018, Oleg Shaumarov became a partner in a concert number at the Slavianski Bazaar festival. The couple sang the song "You are in my heart", the music for which was written by Shaumarov himself.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli, whose biography is so meaningful, walks in the world of art like a queen. Stateliness and beauty, grace and inspiration, a captivating and alluring timbre - this is what certainly characterizes the singer. Her performance is recognizable by ear, already by the first notes you can determine the vocalist. Uniqueness in creativity is evidence of a great gift. And numerous awards are an indicator of the singer's determination and hard work.
Here is Tamara Gverdtsiteli. Only dresses she wears, already according to European habit, are no longer black, but bright. But this, however, does not matter.
Tamara says that the further she goes from her homeland, the more she feels her roots and her Georgian blood. And she really goes further and further away. The route of life: Tbilisi - Moscow - Paris - New York - Boston - Moscow ... At the same time, Tamara is not even forty yet, so - obviously - everything is still ahead.
It so happened that her name - even if very far away, by hearsay - is familiar to everyone (maybe someone is unfamiliar, but I have not met such people). This exactly happened, because Tamara herself did nothing special for this, and, probably, never aspired to this. I just always sang.
She was born and raised in sunny Soviet Georgia. Such Georgia can be seen today only in film magazines: winemakers lovingly tying vines under the unbearable sun, flocks of sheep on the slopes of the mountains, May Day demonstrations, an all-Union health resort on the Black Sea - now we will not know if everything was really so happy. Tamara Gverdtsiteli too - from these newsreels. She was ten years old when her mother brought her to the Mziuri children's ensemble. Her voice was already special then - strong, beautiful, recognizable. "Captain, captain, pull yourself up!" - sings a small, short-haired Tamunya, captured on a black-and-white film of a Soviet film magazine.
"Mziuri" traveled not only throughout our large country, he traveled all over Europe. In Georgia, the name of Tamriko Gverdtsiteli was known to everyone, she was recognized on the streets, and from that time her star status began, in which she lives all her life. We do not have exact data on how the child's psyche adapts to "stardom" (as for the adult psyche, we can definitely say that in 90 cases out of 100 a "star" disease begins), Tamara, apparently, got used to and learned to live a normal human life. Which, probably, is not so easy when everyone knows your last name - even by hearsay.
Then Tamara entered the conservatory. Piano class and composition.
Of those girls who sang with her in Mziuri, almost no one became a musician. It would be incorrect to say that, they say, Tamara was the most talented, and therefore ... It's just that talent is not only talent, it's talent and work. And to work, to bring your art to perfection - this is about Tamara. Another thing is that singing for her is how to live. She always sings, not only on stage, in the studio or at a rehearsal, but even when cutting some salad or just relaxing.
However, luck was also on her side. At the age of 19, Tamara received the first prize at the Red Carnation competition in Sochi. Then there were more competitions, more victories - festivals in Dresden, San Remo, "Golden Orpheus" in Bulgaria - there were tours, there were recordings of a young, very young singer with a symphony orchestra. Records: beautiful love songs in Georgian and quite a few Soviet, patriotic songs that don’t sound vulgar or funny today, but in such a way that you involuntarily begin to feel nostalgia for that Soviet Georgia, in which the gardens somehow especially bloomed and somehow especially people spoke different languages. There were performances in front of the soldiers in Afghanistan, when during the concert the bombing began, and Tamara sang by candlelight, lit in the hall.
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There was also a wedding. Tamara married the chief director of the Georgian television drama studio. Margaret Thatcher was at their wedding - however, not because Tamara was already so well known in England, but because it was during their registration that Thatcher was brought to show the best registry office in Tbilisi.
And then Sandro was born, the main man in Tamara's life, as she herself says.
Of course, Tamara is a real Georgian woman. But probably not typical. Because just a Georgian woman is always next to a man, she does not create her own destiny, and almost certainly lives in Georgia all her life. Once, in one TV program, Nani Bregvadze, the most recognized metress of the Georgian stage, was asked about Tamara. "She left everything and left here, I wouldn't have been able to do that ... - and, after thinking, she added, - But I understand her, she is obsessed with music." It may seem strange to us, but not everyone in Georgia understood it. Some also believed that Tamara abandoned her homeland - when her fate, career, luck called her to other countries and capitals, to the most famous halls of the world. And when tanks went along Tbilisi, along Rustaveli Avenue, and she took her mother and son and sent them away, away from the war - to New York.
1991 Tamara is a well-recognized, successful young singer, living, however, somewhat apart from the whole world of show business. She is not an ethnic singer, not a "performer from a union republic", although she sings songs in Georgian, incomprehensible to the majority of the population of the Soviet Union, she is simply a different breed, too aristocratic to be in the general stream. Too delicate taste to sing popular music. Only the song "Vivat, King!" becomes a hit, which to this day immediately appears in people's memory as a reaction to the surname Gverdtsiteli.
So, 1991. Tamara's agent sends her cassette to Paris to the famous composer Michel Legrand. As they say, dozens of such cassettes come to the composer's office every day, and despite this, three days later Tamara got a call and was told that Monsieur Legrand would be happy to see her in Paris. Until now, when Tamara talks about this, a genuine feeling of a miracle is heard in her words. It's strange, while it doesn't seem strange to us that a talented singer was invited to work in Paris (if not her, then who?!), Tamara does not seem to fully believe in the reality of this time spent in France. Parisian streets, chestnut trees, Parisian accordions, the city of Edith Piaf, beloved since childhood, her repertoire, which, performed by Tamara, brings the Parisian public to ecstasy ... Every morning meeting in the studio with Legrand, author of "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" ... The culmination of Parisian life : concert in Olympia, the main hall of the country. She and Legrand played two pianos, four hands, improvised: "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" - jazz, blues, rap (the first and last time Tamara worked in this style), "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" - gypsy ... Then she sang and the audience burst into applause. Tamara laughs when she recalls how the entertainer, sweating from the heat of passion, shouted into the hall: "Tamara ... Tamara ... - here he tried several times to pronounce her last name, but to no avail, then waved his hand, - Remember this name - Tamara!"
The Paris contract ended, she returned to Moscow, and soon left for America with her family. And again, she was not going to conquer the New World at all, just living there, for some reason, it was easier and more convenient for her than anywhere else. She traveled around America and Canada on tour, performed mainly in front of a Russian-speaking audience, although when her concerts in prestigious halls were preceded by good advertising, an English-speaking audience also came (in Canada - a French-speaking audience). She came and went in complete delight, because in her repertoire Tamara is an absolute man of the world. She has a gigantic repertoire, where seven languages are intricately mixed (in parentheses, we note that Tamara herself speaks English, French, Italian and a little Hebrew - this is not counting her native Georgian and Russian). She sings ancient folk songs (according to Khava Nagila, the audience rises), many composers write music specially for her voice, she performs opera arias, French chanson and songs of her own composition (favorite - to Tsvetaeva's poems). She is invited to sing in musicals. And she honestly admits she is shy about singing jazz and blues.
So Tamara lived in America, and one day a man fell madly in love with her. He saw her somewhere at a party, and did not even know that she was a singer. He was a lawyer from Boston. He offered her everything that he could offer and that is usually offered in such cases. And Tamara and her family ended up in Boston. However, this did not particularly change her life: in all the cities where she lives, her life goes on in the same rhythm, and if someone asks Tamara "What are you doing?", She answers "All the same, of course. Music what else?".
A little more time passed, and in the summer of this year, Moscow newspapers and magazines in their gossip columns wrote "Tamara Gverdtsiteli's family returns to Moscow." And a photograph - a smiling, foreign Tamara in black glasses, her mother Inna Vladimirovna and Sandro, who has already grown to almost two meters. Tamara herself came here even earlier, and in anticipation of her family, she bought a new apartment - in the very center, on Mayakovskaya, near the Pekin Hotel, in whose room she lived for two years in her past life in Moscow. And again - the questions "how", "why", "why"? Probably, only close people know why this actually happened, but Tamara, as usual, laughs off the questions of journalists. Says: "Destiny!". In this, she is, of course, an unchanging Georgian who will never be frank in public (even Oksana Pushkina failed).
But what are we talking about? Have we forgotten that Tamara has long been a man of the world, and she does not care what language her neighbors speak. She just has no time to pay attention to it. "For the last 20 years, I've only been doing what I've been doing on tour: from plane to plane, from train to train," Tamara says rather indifferently, and with some shudder I remember the schedule of her concerts for one month: Surgut - Baku - Baltic States - Tbilisi - Moscow - Chicago. Such a life for 20 years is not only a thunder of applause (flowers, fur coats, diamonds, cars), but also undermined health. Once in Odessa, before a concert, she lost consciousness, and if the doctors had not been on the spot almost at the same second (amazed that a person could live without feeling even a shadow of anxiety from a terrible danger inside himself), God knows what could have happened . Then she was seriously ill, but even if the doctors prescribed a different lifestyle for her (who knows, maybe they did), she still could not live differently. And how could it be otherwise?
Reason for moving. Wherever Tamara is, she calls home every day, mother and son: "Mom always brings me up, even to this day. I call her from the ends of the earth, and she continues her upbringing by phone." With fifteen-year-old Sandro, they are friends, the best, and therefore also suffer greatly from long separations. Today, Tamara spends more time here, and it is not surprising that the family will be around.
