At the age of 7 he entered the music school. Prokofiev to the violin class to the teacher A. Kanevsky. At seven and a half, he began to be a soloist in the school choir, went on tour to Turkey at the international Children's Song Festival. At the same time, he was invited to the radio, where he recorded songs for the Bim-Bom Album broadcast, etc. At the age of eight, he first appeared on the stage of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses with a solo song at the Kind Heart festival, where he won the first prize. He was given a huge plush lion and a bag of candy.
After that, Yura firmly decided that he would become a singer.
At the age of 15, after graduating from the 10th and 11th grades as an external student, Yura Titov entered the Variety and Jazz Studio on Ordynka at the music school of the same name. school immediately for the second year to the teacher Stepanov A.Yu. At the age of 16, Yura passed the exams at the ISI and was enrolled in the first year of the Faculty of Music in the class of teacher Dubovitskaya Natalia Mitrofanovna.
At the age of 17, Yura Titov, hiding his age from the jury (participants only from 18 years old were allowed), took part in the project "Become a Star", where he successfully "cut off" in the second dance round. This excerpt was shown on TV Titov proudly stands in the center, dancing, and five beautiful girls are diligently doing complex “pas” around him. “Well, I didn’t have time to learn the task, since I had one of the last serial numbers,” Yura explained his “failure” to reporters. Exactly six months later, as soon as Yura turned 18, he rushed to conquer a new Olympus this time it was the People's Artist project. Here, the young man who did not give up was more fortunate - he brilliantly passed the qualifying, then the first and all other rounds and entered the coveted "thirty". At the competitive performance with his solo song "Castle from the Rain" from the repertoire of V. Presnyakov, Yura seemed quite successful, his performance was highly appreciated by the producer of the project Evgeny Fridlyand. He also prophesied into the camera that the audience would definitely vote for Titov. But alas and ah! According to the results of the audience voting, Yura was only in sixth place and thus did not reach the semi-finals. After experiencing quite strongly, but not for long, Yura Titov rushed through new thorns to new stars to the "Star Factory 4". Having passed the first qualifying round, Yura caught a cold (he left the Ostankino in an open jacket in severe frost) and collapsed with a temperature of 41. Not that there was no voice there was no strength to get up. He lay barely alive, his mother ran and put ice on his head, and he asked in a whisper to give him more medicine and not to call a doctor. The next day was to participate in the next round. Mom stood over her son and repeated like a spell: “Yura, don’t. Yura, don't go. Yura, God bless this "Factory". But Yura only croaked: “This is an empty conversation. I'll go anyway." And he asked to light a candle at the icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker, which stood on a shelf above his head. The candle burned all night.
And in the morning it turned out that Yura could not get out of bed. The temperature is slightly lower, but the legs do not obey and the eyes do not open. The complexion, despite the heat, is blue-green. All in a cold sweat. “Put me in the car and take me to Ostankino,” Yura ordered his parents in an angry, hoarse whisper. Mom and dad dressed him, loaded him into the car in the back seat. So, lying down, he drove to Ostankino. And then he got up and left.
In Ostankino, it turned out that he would not be able to sing a solo with nothing. Compassionate guys began to give him medicine to restore the vocal cords. Useless. Then he raised his eyes to the sky and asked: “Lord, give me a voice for five minutes. Only for five minutes."
And then a MIRACLE happened: Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy calls him and says: "Sing." Yura opens her mouth and... sings!!! It was "Another time" by Harry Moore. Then this moment was also shown on television more than once: Titov sings a melodic beautiful song with feeling, and the jury listens and nods favorably to the beat ... Yura finished singing, went out into the corridor, sat on the floor against the wall and asked the guys to call a taxi. I was driving home in the back seat. Somehow I got up on the elevator, entered the apartment and collapsed into bed in an almost unconscious state.
When all the tours were over and the last formalities were left - a medical examination, fluorography, etc., it turned out that Yura had suffered severe pneumonia. Doctors prescribed antibiotics and then took the "manufacturer" for repeated examinations already from the star house.
And the rest happened quickly and, according to Yura himself, great. “It was a great success for me,” says Yura Titov, “to get to the Factory, to meet and start working with such a master as Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy. I am grateful to fate for this meeting.
Now Yura Titov, “one of the idols of the youth,” as the maestro himself calls him, is doing what he loves, touring, recording his first solo album and ... paying off debts in his native ISI that have accumulated due to long tours. Yura has music at home from morning to night mostly Western performers, but Yura also loves to listen to the voices of his friends colleagues: Angelica Varum, beloved by him since childhood, Polina Griffiths, brilliant jazz singer Teona Kontridze.
And Yurina's little sister Nastya (who Yura, despite the 15-year age difference, often takes with her to "parties", to shops, to sushi bars) distributes postcards in kindergarten with the image of her popular brother and teaches children to her beloved song: “In the void-ee-e-e ... I hear words-a ... and sounds-and ... So I want-y ... your lips-and ... and ru-u-ki .. .". Children listen and with pleasure sing together with Nastya the “imperishable hit” “Pretty” from Yuri Titov.
Yury Titov, a graduate of the Star Factory-4 project, writes music and songs himself. As many as 12 years have passed since the singer's participation in the TV show, and he is still remembered by the girls who waited for each performance of Yura on Channel One and sang the hits "Pretty", "Kiss Me" and "Forever". Now the musician has new jazz compositions in his piggy bank, he travels with concerts all over Russia. The artist talked to StarHit and spoke about his successes and dreams, and also remembered how Star Factory 4 changed him. The young man got there at the age of 19, so he had to pass the test of fame and not develop a star disease in himself. Titov claims that he has not changed a bit over the years.
Yuri, once your name was known to the whole country, hundreds of thousands of young girls who had already grown up, became wives and mothers, spoke about you. What should they know about today's Yuri Titov?
I try to treat myself with humor. I became more comfortable both on stage and in life. I write music, lyrics. I have not seen this before. I made my debut as a composer when we recorded the track “My happiness” with Alexa. Many then asked the question: “Whose song is this? Igor Krutoy? ”, - because everyone is already used to the fact that Igor Yakovlevich is inextricably linked with us as a music producer. You can imagine how flattering such a comparison was for me, as an author. The collection of my songs is gradually replenished. I plan to release a new single soon and sing in a duet. By the way, my concert program has also changed significantly: now it contains jazz compositions, including those in English. Today's Yura Titov is as happy as ever.
Are there any other fans who still listen to you from 2004 to 2016, maybe you became friends with some?
Of course, there is one most devoted, in my opinion, fan and friend who recently became a mother. We've been friends since 2004 to this day. There are also new listeners, the list of which is growing every day. I just love the audience.
Many of your colleagues, with whom you were once at the "Factory" with a shudder, remember the period when you lived under the guns of cameras. For example, Alexa spoke about the terrible conditions in which all of you, graduates of the Star Factory, had to work, about penny fees, lack of sleep ... What can you say about this time?
Of course, it wasn't easy. But at the same time, it was incredibly exciting. Like on a roller coaster. I don't think Alexa can argue with that. You see, if we talk only about the camera that hung over us in the shower and in the toilet for three months, then it was not easy. And if you remember that I met Lara Fabian, who came to visit us, it was unforgettable. I sang with Garu - it was amazing. At the age of 19 I started working with one of the best musicians in our country, Igor Krutoy. I see many positive situations that happened to me at the Star Factory. They discolor the negative aspects of this project. Tours and fees are a separate story, not related to music.
Has fame changed you? Did you subsequently have to reconsider your attitude towards her and the world around you?
Psychologically, at 19, you can’t help but prepare for such a TV show. In a good way, you should be led by a psychologist. And this is not "glory", this is the promotion of your physiognomy. This is just a show. For me, everything that happened then became a lesson. The point here is not at all that a person is arrogant, but that at that age the psyche of a teenager has not yet grown stronger.
Many of your colleagues from the "Star Factory" have achieved unprecedented heights in the profession - Irina Dubtsova, Stas Piekha, Dominik Joker ... Do you follow the success of your friends? Do you keep in touch with them?
Despite the fact that we rarely communicate with the three listed colleagues, I believe that all three named artists are very talented, but the work of Ira Dubtsova is closer to me. I maintain warm friendly relations with many guys. We even go on tour with many of them: with Anton Zatsepin, Masha Weber, Nikita Malinin, Nadezhda Igoshina, Prokhor Chaliapin.
After the release of the album “Room”, you took a break in your work. How have you been making a living all these years? Where did you work and in what capacity?
The Room album was an experiment. Five songs from this album were written by Igor Krutoy, the other five by Anton Kokh. I did not take a break in creativity, the contract with the record company just ended. I am interested in jazz, musicals, acting, and even opera. I make a living by touring, fortunately I don't do anything else.
You spend a lot of time with your family, even go on vacation with them. You have a lot of photos with your mom on Instagram. Have you been so close to her since childhood?
I'm not a sissy, if that's what you mean. But, fortunately, it so happened that for me my mother is both a friend, a colleague, an adviser, and a fair critic. We communicate with her on equal terms, and we are very interested in her.
Have you ever thought about creating your own strong family. We know that you have a child. Do you help raise your daughter?
“It’s all about love, and I’m so offended - it’s just that you can’t see tears in your eyes ...” - a few years ago, the words of this song were heard, if not from every iron, then from every receiver for sure. And its performer, a short brunette with a languid look named Yuri Titov, was a frequent guest on television and an idol. Time does not stand still, and some stars are destined to go out. So Yuri disappeared from sight. How was his fate? We will talk about this further.
Childhood
Yuri Mikhailovich Titov was born on Cosmonautics Day in 1985 in the Moscow region of Kuntsevo. The family was musical. The example of his parents influenced the choice of the life path of little Yura - as a child, he firmly decided to also become an artist.
As a singer, you can talk about Yuri Titov from the age of six - it was then that he first sang. And a year later I got into a music school in the violin department, where I studied with pleasure and made progress. The news of Yura's talent also reached the ordinary general education institution where he studied, and soon the boy was already appointed there as a choir soloist. Together with him, Yuri visited Turkey at the children's song festival. And he won his first prize a year later, at the age of eight, when he won the first prize at one of the festivals. Then he was given sweets and a plush toy.
Singer Yuri Titov: the beginning of the journey
At the age of 15, our hero graduated from the last two classes as an external student and entered the second year of the pop-jazz studio. A year later, the young man was admitted to the Faculty of Music. And then, as they say, away we go ...
When Yuri was 17 years old, the start of the casting for the project "Become a Star" was announced. It was she who Titov dreamed of becoming. Therefore, he hid his age from the jury (only children from the age of 18 were allowed to participate) and was admitted. However, he did not go far - the second (dance) round let the young man down. Yura simply did not learn his number, but did not despair. This was only the first project in a series of many others in the biography of Yuri Titov. The singer visited many of them - both on Channel One and Channel Two. But first things first.
After the project "Become a Star" there was "People's Artist" (a year later on the same channel). Filling out the questionnaire before the casting, Yura wrote that he strives for sincerity on stage. Perhaps these words also played a role. One way or another, but he was taken into the project. And they didn’t just take him - there he won true love, including from the masters Yevgeny Fridlyand and Larisa Dolina, since he showed himself as a professional, talented singer. Yuri Titov was able to enter the top thirty contestants, but, unfortunately, that was all. Nevertheless, he received an offer to go on a tour, which he did not accept due to personal circumstances.
It was 2004. For the fourth time, the project of the First Channel "Star Factory" opened its hospitable doors for young ambitious talents. Among the sixteen participants who came out to the audience at the first concert was nineteen-year-old Yuri Titov.
"Star Factory"
The story of the young man getting on this show is interesting, which once again proves the singer's determination. Yuri Titov, having successfully passed the first round, jumped out into the street unbuttoned. It was winter, Yuri was sweating indoors. As a result, in the morning he had a high temperature, he lost his voice and not only could not sing, but could not even speak. Parents insisted on calling doctors, but for Titov there was no question of hospitalization. He didn't want to lose his chance. And so, barely on his feet, he went to the second qualifying round, still not really knowing how he would behave there - without a voice. However, a miracle happened. Having stepped on the stage, Yura felt so confident and good that he sang. His vocal cords succumbed to his unshakable self-confidence and perseverance. Yuri successfully became a participant in the project and after all the castings he found out that he had suffered severe pneumonia on his legs.
Life in the Star House was not easy. In all rooms, even in the bathroom and toilet, there were cameras, it was impossible to hide from the sight of which, day or night. Every day there were vocal lessons, dance training, acting and other activities. But it was also necessary to prepare for the weekly reporting concerts! And in general, spending several months side by side with complete strangers is not an easy task.
However, Yura remembers the project more good than bad. He not only gave him friends and useful connections in Russian show business, but also gave him the opportunity to perform with various artists, including world-class ones. And this is only nineteen years old! With some "factory" colleagues, the artist maintains relations to this day. In addition, Yuri Titov considers his meeting and work with the composer Igor Krutoy to be a great success - it was Igor Yakovlevich who was the producer of the fourth release of the “manufacturers”, as well as the author of the hits with which the singer Yuri Titov conquered star Olympus at the beginning of the 2000s.
At the "Factory" Yura moved much further than in his previous attempts - he reached the final, although he did not become the winner. Nevertheless, the artist does not consider this a loss. When the project ended, the manufacturers went on a long-term tour of the cities and villages of their vast country. Went on tour with colleagues and Yuri. Such a mobile life also had many disadvantages, including the small fees that tired "stars" received for their performances. But in Yura's character - to look for the good in things that happen. Trips around Russia brought him a lot of acquaintances, some of which then resulted in a strong friendship for many years.
Life after "Star House"
Immediately after the “Factory”, Yuri Titov was shot a video for the sensational song “Make Fun” (another name is “All About Love”). It was followed by the second - "Forever". Filming for magazines and TV programs, broadcasts on radio stations - the name of the artist constantly flashed in the press. In 2005, he was a participant in the New Wave contest in Jurmala, two years later he released the first (and only at the moment) album "Room" with eleven songs recorded and two video clips of the singer. Reviews about Yuri Titov and his work were mostly only positive. And suddenly everything disappeared as if by magic. Yuri disappeared from the screens, as his songs and videos disappeared from the air. The old ones were replaced by a new generation of "stars".
Nowadays
Yuri does not hide in his interviews - he never did anything except music. When the popularity had to be "paused", he toured, thereby earning a living. In addition, his work received a new round - he became interested in jazz, writing lyrics and music himself, which he had never done before. Still touring a lot.
He does not lose hope until now to remind himself, to give a new birth to himself as an artist. To this end, Yuri constantly appears at various music competitions. So, a couple of years ago I tried myself at the casting of the show "Main Stage" (channel "Russia"), this year I went to the casting of the project "Voice-6" (Channel One), but both there and there failed. In response to perplexed questions, they say, why do you need this, Titov throws up his hands and replies that he cannot live otherwise.
Yuri Titov: the personal life of the singer
Possessing a rather interesting appearance, Yuri has always been popular with girls and did not hide his passion for the female sex. So, at the "Star Factory" Titov was carried away by two of his colleagues at once - Irina Dubtsova and Zhenya Volkonskaya. But if the first immediately gave the young man a turn from the gate, then the second reacted to his courtship more favorably. However, their romance did not last long, and immediately after the end of the project, Yuri began a relationship with jazz performer Teona Kontridze. After some time, they also ended, and after parting, Theon told Titov that she was expecting a baby. Yuri did not marry her, but he took and is taking part in the upbringing of his daughter. The girl is already over ten years old, and she and her father maintain a relationship, according to the singer himself.
Now the personal life of Yuri Titov is shrouded in the darkness of obscurity. He does not talk about his hobbies, however, he posts photos on social networks hugging girls. However, they are all different. In an interview, Yuri says that his heart is free, but he knows for sure that his future wife should be related to creativity.
Here are some interesting things about the Star Factory graduate:
- In his free time he goes in for sports.
- He likes to read poems, the lyrics of Marina Tsvetaeva are especially close to him.
- He dreams of starring in a musical film as himself.
- He maintains a very close relationship with his mother, whom he considers to be his best friend.
- Plays piano and violin.
- He likes to listen to Madonna, Michael Jackson, A-Studio group.
- Tries to treat himself with humor.
- Interested in design, could try himself as a fashion designer.
- He could try his hand in a group, but still prefers a solo career.
- Recently, he began to write songs himself.
- He has a younger sister, Nastya (the age difference is 15 years).
Not everyone succeeds in staying afloat, breaking through in the cruel world of show business. Sometimes talent alone is not enough. However, if there is a will to win and perseverance, more than one rock can submit. Obviously, Yuri Titov thinks about the same way. And with such thoughts, he will definitely succeed!
Yuri Titov was born on April 12, 1985 in a family of musicians. Yuri, like his parents, decided to devote his life to music. Yuri Titov not only sings amazingly, but also knows how to play the violin and piano. In addition to music, the singer is very interested in the work of a designer and fashion designer and loves sports. Yuri Titov is a participant in the Star Factory-4 project and the New Wave 2005 contest in Jurmala.
Probably, the singer has not lived a day in his life without music. Already at the age of 7, Yuri Titov entered the music school. Prokofiev. The singer learned to play the violin, and A. Kanevsky taught him. Six months later, Yuri was already a soloist in the school choir, went on tour to Turkey to the international Children's Song Festival, was invited to the radio, where he recorded songs for the Bim-Bom Album program and much more.
At the age of eight, Yuri Titov won the first prize at the Good Heart festival, where he was presented with a huge plush lion and a bag of sweets. It was then that the singer first appeared on the stage of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. At the age of 15, after graduating from the 10th and 11th grades as an external student, Yura Titov entered the Variety and Jazz Studio on Ordynka at the music school of the same name. school immediately for the second year to the teacher Stepanov A.Yu. At the age of 16, Yura passed the exams at the ISI and was enrolled in the first year of the Faculty of Music in the class of teacher Dubovitskaya Natalia Mitrofanovna. And at the age of 17, although children only from 18 were allowed, Yuri Titov, hiding his age from the jury, took part in the "Become a Star" project. But here he was a little unlucky, and the singer dropped out on the second, dance, round. This excerpt was shown on TV: Yuri Titov proudly stands in the center, dancing, and five beautiful girls are diligently doing complex “pas” around him. “Well, I didn’t have time to learn the task, since I had one of the last serial numbers,” Yuri Titov explained his “failure” to reporters.
As soon as Yuri Titov turned 18, he immediately ran to participate in a new project. This new project was "People's Artist". Here he performed with the solo song "Rain Castle" from the repertoire of Vladimir Presnyakov and passed the qualifying round, and then all the others. And most importantly, Yuri Titov entered the top thirty best performers. The producer of the project, Yevgeny Fridlyand, highly appreciated Yuri Titov and prophesied that the audience would certainly vote for him. But the singer was only in sixth place, which means he did not qualify for the semi-finals. Yuri Titov was very worried about the failure, but did not despair and rushed to the "Star Factory-4". Here a new attack awaited him. After the singer passed the first round, he went out into the bitter cold in an open jacket and caught a cold. At home, it turned out that his temperature had risen to 41 degrees. What kind of singing is there if in the morning the singer could not even get out of bed. All night Yuri Titov lay barely alive, and his mother stood over him and repeated like a spell: “Yura, don’t. Yura, don't go. Yura, God is with this "Factory". But Yura only croaked: “This is an empty conversation. I'll go anyway." And he asked to light a candle at the icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker, which stood on a shelf above his head. The candle burned all night. And in the morning, when it was necessary to go to participate in the next tour, the singer ordered his parents to take him to Ostankino. His parents dressed him, put him in the car and took him. And when they arrived at the place, Yuri Titov got up, got out of the car and went.
In Ostankino, it turned out that Yuri Titov could not sing. They tried to help him in every way they could. The guys from the "Factory" gave the singer medication to restore the vocal cords, but to no avail. Then Yuri Titov raised his eyes to the sky and asked: “Lord, give me a voice for five minutes. Only for five minutes." And now the singer is called by Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy and asks to sing. And then a miracle happened - Yuri Titov sang! Yuri Titov performed Harry Moore's song "Another time". After this moment, they showed it on TV more than once: Yuri Titov sings a melodic beautiful song with feeling, and the jury listens and nods favorably to the beat. And after the speech, Yuri Titov, going out into the corridor, sat on the floor against the wall and asked the guys to urgently call him a taxi. In a taxi, he was lying down, then somehow got to the apartment and collapsed into bed. Subsequently, during a physical examination, it turned out that the singer had severe pneumonia. Doctors prescribed antibiotics to Yuri Titov and then took the "manufacturer" for re-examinations already from the star house. Then the singer was doing well both with health and with the "Factory". As Yuri Titov himself says, “It was a great success for me to get to the Factory, to meet and start working with such a master as Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy. I am grateful to fate for this meeting.
Now Yuri Titov is one of the most popular artists, especially among young people. Finally, the singer is doing what he loves. Yuri Titov tours a lot, he also records his first solo album and pays off debts to the ISI, which have accumulated due to long tours. The singer does not part with music even at home. Yuri Titov's music plays day and night. Most often these are Western performers, but also Yuri Titov loves to listen to the voices of his friends - colleagues: Angelica Varum, beloved by him since childhood, Polina Griffis, brilliant jazz singer Teona Kontridze. And how much her little sister Nastya loves her brother and his songs, whom Yury Titov, despite the 15-year age difference, often takes with him to "parties", to shops, to sushi bars. She has already taught all the children in her kindergarten to sing a song by Yuri Titov: “In the void-e-e-e ... I hear words-a ... and sounds-i ... So I want-u ... your lips-i ... and ru-u-ki ... ". Children listen and with pleasure sing together with Nastya the "imperishable hit" "Pretty" from Yuri Titov, which can be listened to and downloaded in the "MP3" section. She also distributes postcards and photos of her popular brother to all the children in the same kindergarten.
Yuri Titov's debut album is called "Room". The album contains 11 tracks, plus two video clips for the hits "Pretty" and "Forever". The clips were filmed by director Rezo Gigineishvili. The songs in the album included different musical styles, and some of them were written by Igor Krutoy himself: (“Kiss me”, “Pretend”, “It's just not easy”, “Forever”, “Enemy”). Today, Yuri actively performs at various events and holidays. In the meantime, fans of his talent are looking forward to the next album appearing in his discography.
Former member of the "Star Factory" Yuri Titov does not hide the fact that he has a daughter, but prefers not to talk about the relationship between them. In addition, for a long period of time, no one knew that they did not maintain contact. In the program "You won't believe it!" the singer admitted: he is not allowed to communicate with the heiress.
“My daughter and I do not live together yet. Now appearing and talking like in Mexican TV shows is stupid, ”the artist explained.
Many years ago, Titov had an affair with jazz artist Teona Kontridze. She gave birth to a daughter, whom she called the rare name of Radi-Mariam. Yuri claims that he lived with Theon in a civil marriage. "I remain the biological father," the singer added.
The ex-participant of the popular TV project refused to marry because he was afraid of obligations. According to him, at that time, a career was much more important than a family.
The artist claims that Theon did not enter his name in the column "father" in the girl's birth certificate. Titov is not going to go to court and defend his rights, as he is afraid of Theona's further actions. Presumably, she can completely forbid him to communicate with the heiress.
“When this may affect the child, there is no need to sue at all,” Yuriy noted.
Theona denies that the girl was born from Yuri. The artist's mother persuades him not to mention his daughter once again, so as not to anger Kontridze.
“We met with my mother and stepfather, whom my granddaughter calls dad. There is a very good family there, ”said Titov’s parent at one of the events.
The ex-participant of the "Star Factory" believes that in the future he will be able to find happiness. “I am looking. Now my heart is free. But I know for sure that my wife will be a creative girl, ”Yuri shared in an interview with StarHit.
