The city of Poltava, the eighties - it was there and then that young Andrei Danilko suffered from unrequited love. His initial data (a poor single-parent family, poor academic success and an ordinary appearance) did not allow him to hope for reciprocity from his classmate, an excellent student Anya Serdyuk.
He did not hope. But one day he promised her and himself that he would make her name famous.
Conductor
It was his vocation to amuse and entertain people, but Andrei did not immediately understand this. Therefore, after school there was a vocational school, where he not only studied, but participated in KVN and Yumorin. Then the miniature was painted, which became the first step towards the image that glorified him - “The Conductor”.
With this number, Danilko went on tour and collected awards. Two years later, it became clear that the work of life had been found - and Andrei entered the circus variety school in the department of the colloquial genre. He did not plan to sing then.
His heroine - eccentric, loud, not very well-mannered, but very sincere Verka Serduchka (hello classmate) fell in love with the audience immediately. Everyone was sure that she was played by a woman! Danilko himself hid the truth for the time being. And only when Serduchka became truly famous, he decided to expose himself in one of the TV shows.
“When I entered the studio, there was deathly silence. No one understood, looking at me, what kind of teenager it was. I was very thin and so shy of it that I specially put on a sweater under a denim shirt. The people who found out that I was Verka Serduchka had a shock "
Soon, Verka already had its own show on Ukrainian television, which, after a year of existence, moved to Russia. Under the guise of the conductor of the sleeping car Serduchka, he talked with the legendary artists - Lyudmila Gurchenko, Semyon Farada, Alexander Demyanenko ... And gradually formulated his own unpretentious mission: to entertain people, to give them the opportunity to relax.
“I know that many artists hate corporate events as a format and even consider it humiliating. But it seems to me the opposite: if you know how to work at a corporate party, you can focus on yourself, organize these millionaires so that they forget that they are millionaires, and remember that they also once ate potatoes with eggs, and they start dancing and turn into children - this is the most important task, ”says Danilko.
Hits from Serduchka
At some point, it became clear to Andrey: for Verka's popularity to continue to grow, one colloquial genre is not enough. And he (or rather, she) began to sing.
Serduchka's concerts were sold out, not a single "Song of the Year" or "Blue Light" was complete without her participation. Danilko had doubles: with his own eyes he saw posters of impostors inviting people to a concert allegedly by Verka Serduchka. By that time, the real one had partners on the stage: the actress Inna Belokon played Verka's mother, Olga Litskevich and Radmila Shchegoleva played the silent Gelya.
The personality of Andrei Danilko himself began to acquire myths in the 2000s.
He was credited in turn with novels with all his colleagues on the stage, illegitimate sons and, at the same time, non-traditional sexual orientation. There was little truth in this - so the artist refused to comment on the rumors.
After the triumph at Eurovision in 2007 (Verka Serduchka took 2nd place with the song "Dancing Lasha Tumbai") Andrey felt tired. Entering the stage no longer pleased him as before, he wanted to stop and change his role. The attempt was not very successful: the lyrical album “After You”, released in 2015, was coolly accepted by fans.
Verka did not let go - and Andrei had to put up with it. He did it with difficulty.
“Before the concerts, I started to shake right away - I didn’t want to go on stage so much, I began to sleep badly, gain weight ... At such a moment, it is advisable to take a break. But there is a responsibility to the people who work with you. After all, this is their main income.
In 2017, Danilko nevertheless made up his mind: the artist announced to his fans that he was starting preparations for a farewell tour, which would begin in 2019 and last for two years. What will happen after, Andrey himself does not fully understand.
He only admits that he really wants to just relax: travel around the world like an ordinary tourist, and not a visiting star, walk the streets, be alone. Danilko got used to his loneliness - and is no longer going to fight it.
“I never dreamed of becoming Verka Serduchka,” he admitted in an interview. However, it was this odious woman who helped him achieve what Andrei Danilko, a schoolboy from Poltava, could not even dream of.
Danilko Andrey Mikhailovich(stage image - Verka Serduchka) was born on October 2, 1973 in a poor Poltava family. From the first marriage, Svetlana Volkova, Andrei's mother, had two more children, but the eldest boy died at the age of five months. Sister Galya (Galina Grishko) is 10 years older than Andrei. Mikhail Semenovich Danilko, Andrei's father, abused alcohol and died of cancer when his son was seven years old. Andrei Danilko's mother was forced to work as a painter in three shifts to feed her family. Now Svetlana Mikhailovna lives in the village of Klimenki near Poltava.
Andrey Danilko's education
Andrey Danilko studied at Poltava school No. 27, which is located near the Concord shopping center (for some time there were rumors in Poltava that Andriy Danilko is the owner of this shopping center). From the first grade, Andrei Danilko studied at an art school, and from the age of ten - in a theater studio. Despite his shyness, Andrei Danilko was the captain of the KVN school team. Grammar, mathematics and other "serious" school subjects were given to Andrei poorly. According to rumors, Andrei Danilko's classmates "threw" him for clothes for school graduation, because the guy had problems with money.
After leaving school, Andriy Danilko tried to enter the Poltava Music College. N.V. Lysenko, but did not pass the competition. Then Andrey submitted documents to the Poltava Pedagogical Institute, but "cut off" on Ukrainian literature. As a result, Andrey Danilko ended up in vocational school No. 30 (now reorganized), where he received the specialty "cashier-seller of food products." After graduating from vocational school, Andrei Danilko repeated his attempt to enter a music school, but again unsuccessfully. There was also a third attempt, but even then Andrey was actually refused "out of the door". In addition to vocational school, Andrey Danilko graduated from the school of artists-designers.
Already being famous, in 1995 Andrey Danilko entered the Kiev Circus Variety School at the Department of the Colloquial Genre, but he studied there for only a year and a half out of the prescribed four. Having left the circus school, Andriy Danilko entered the Kiev State Institute of Culture and Arts in 1997 (specialty "stage director of mass spectacles"), from where he was expelled in the fourth year due to failure of two sessions.
Verka Serdiuchka
Verka Serdiuchka- the most famous stage image of Andrei Danilko - was invented by him at school to perform in a theater studio. Verka Serdyuchka got her “name” from Andrei’s classmate, Anya Serdyuk, with whom he sat at the same desk and whom he probably courted. Now Anya is married, but occasionally calls Andrei on the phone.
In April 1992, at an amateur art competition among vocational schools in the Poltava region, Andriy Danilko acted as a colorful saleswoman with breasts of the 8th size. Together with Andrei Danilko, Inna Belokon also studied at vocational school No. 30, who later began to play the role of Verka Serduchka's mother, Inna Adolfovna.
On April 1, 1993, Andrey Danilko's performance at a humor show in Poltava was a resounding success and brought the artist his first popularity. After that, Andrei Danilko, together with his troupe, traveled around the country for a long time. And although their performances practically did not bring money to the artists, thousands of Ukrainians knew quotes from Danilko's monologues by heart.
In September 1997, Andrei Danilko, in the image of the conductor Verka Serduchka, became the host of the SV-show, which was broadcast on the 1 + 1 TV channel for a long time, and then “migrated” to Russia. The meaning of the transfer was a dialogue between the host and the guest "star" on the stage, which was stylized as a train sleeping car.
Gradually, Andrei Danilko moved from performing humorous numbers to singing songs. In 2001, he radically changed the image of Verka Serduchka - from a rude and ill-mannered conductor, she turned into an outrageous pop star. Many songs of Verka Serduchka have become incredibly popular - almost no Ukrainian wedding can do without them.
The image of Verka Serduchka also gained immense popularity in Russia. So, the album "Ha-ra-sho!" was sold in Russia in the amount of more than a million copies and became the album of the year according to the Muz-TV channel.
In 2007, Verka Serduchka was chosen as the official performer from Ukraine at the international Eurovision Song Contest according to the voting results. This event caused a flurry of protests - many people were convinced that Verka Serdyuchka would disgrace Ukraine with her image. Nevertheless, on May 12, 2007, Verka Serduchka with her song "Dancing Lasha Tumbai" took second place at Eurovision, losing to a singer from Serbia. After the successful performance of Verka Serduchka, the Russian media hyped the message that the words of her song "Lasha Tumbai" resembled "Rush, goodbye", which caused an unofficial boycott of Verka Serduchka in Russia.
In 2007, Andriy Danilko was awarded the title of honorary citizen of Poltava, and in 2008 - People's Artist of Ukraine.
Interesting facts about Andrey Danilko and Verka Serduchka
When Andrei Danilko studied at vocational school, he was the only boy in a group of 30 people.
Andrey Danilko does not like lard and Ukrainian borscht.
Despite the fact that the stage image of Andrei Danilko is a conductor, he does not like to travel by train.
Andrey Danilko is tolerant of gays, but he doesn't like it when men paint their eyes, do manicures and wear women's clothes.
Andrei Danilko loves hooligan girls who do not lose their femininity.
Andrey Danilko is not happy with the fact that Verka Serduchka is constantly listened to at weddings.
Verka Serdyuchka is a unique and controversial phenomenon of the Ukrainian stage, beloved, however, as a native, throughout the entire CIS. Unique - because, probably, no man dressed as a woman in the world has gone so far and achieved so much. Contradictory - because "always to be in a mask is my destiny", whatever one may say, sounds sad. But it was precisely this fate that the talented artist Andrey Danilko chose for himself, known to everyone under the name of Verka Serduchka much more than under his own ...
Andrey Danilko was born in Poltava in the family of a driver and a house painter. A simple family, in which, in addition to Andrei, there was also an older sister, Galya, lived normally for the time being. However, when Andrei was 7 years old, his father died of cancer. From that moment on, in order to raise children, the mother had to work three jobs. And it still wasn't enough. The family lived in such poverty that the classmates who loved Andrei were once even forced to chip in for his clothes.
From early childhood, the boy grew up very artistic. He played in the school theater, and at the same time he was fond of KVN at school, and so successfully that he was soon entrusted with being the captain of the team. And not in vain. Led by Danilko, the team has always been distinguished by funny jokes and won first place.
Nevertheless, despite the obvious presence of acting talent, the fate of the guy was not going to spare. It came out right after school. When Andrei tried to enter several universities at once, he was not taken to any. At the music school, the guy was told that he did not look good on stage, at the pedagogical institute they gave a deuce in Ukrainian literature, he simply did not have time to go to the Kharkov theater. In desperation, the future favorite of the public, Andrey Danilko, enters ... a local vocational school for the specialty of a sales assistant-cashier.
What the artistic Andrey experienced and felt at that time, only God knows. However, apparently, it was in these torments at that time that one of the brightest and funniest stars of the modern stage was born. And she was born in 1990. Since then, Andrey Danilko no longer tried to break into closed doors: in 1991, his creation itself opened the door to the big stage. And, from the foot. This year, Verka Serduchka, a long-distance train conductor with magnificent forms, appeared at Yumorin in Poltava, and, having literally made a splash, has not gone anywhere else from the big stage.
Already in the same year, in the image of Verka Serduchka, Andrey Danilko begins a victorious procession through the cities and towns, first in Ukraine, and then in the former CIS. At first he just gives concerts, and then appears on television, rapidly gaining fame. On this wave, Andrei Danilko creates his own theater, which he calls Danilko Theatre, where now, speaking in the colloquial genre, he can afford to speak not only on behalf of Verka, but also on his own behalf, getting used to various roles - that of a policeman , then into a soldier, then into a ballerina. In 1997, on the popular Ukrainian channel "1 + 1", and then on Russian TV6, Verka Serduchka's author's program "SV" began to appear, where she, a busty conductor of a sleeping car, leads unhurried "road" conversations with the stars. The program is praised not only by viewers and critics, but also by the stars themselves, recognizing in Danilko another undiscovered talent: he interviews gently and inoffensively, but in detail and cheerfully. The stars happily one by one get into the Verkin car.
As Serduchka's popularity grows, Andrey comes up with more and more new versions of the show for her. So, in 2000, with the light hand of her "dad", Verka sang. Funny "kitsch" songs for his character are often written by Andrey himself. Serduchka's popularity begins to go off scale beyond all acceptable limits. And, oddly enough, it was at this moment that the "firebird" Serduchka befell the fate of Icarus.
In 2007, it was decided to send Verka Serduchka to Eurovision. Andrey Danilko writes the song "Lasha Tumbai" for his protégé. Later, the author had to explain what he meant. I had to explain myself after one of the Russian music critics heard the phrase “Russia, goodbye!” in this verbal gibberish! Did Andrei Danilko, forgotten in his glory, really sing this dubious phrase, or was the fatal critic simply set on him by enemies? Now this will probably remain a mystery. But the fact remains: Serduchka's popularity in Russia has greatly faded after this incident. So much so that the concerts that followed Eurovision in Russia failed due to the absence of the public.
Nevertheless, Andrey Danilko does not give up. Periodically, it can be seen in musical films that are filmed on television for the new year. And in his native Ukraine, he even recently appeared in some way in politics, creating his own political party "For Verka Serduchka."
Data
- The family in which Andrei Danilko grew up was so poor that before graduation, classmates chipped in money to buy Andrei sneakers and a shirt.
- Andrei is still friends with the prototype of Verka Serdyuchka - classmate Anya Serdyuk. Once in childhood, he promised that he would glorify her surname, and he kept his promise, however, with a reservation. All the same, he glorified not the surname Serdyuk, but the school nickname Serdyuchka.
- In January 2013, at the Coys Of Kensington auction, Andrey Danilko bought a Rolls-Royce car that previously belonged to Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury and donated it to the Queen Museum.
Awards
2000 - Cup named after Arkady Raikin at the festival "Cup of Humor" for the character Serduchka
2003 - "Golden Gramophone" for the song "I did not understand."
2004 - "Golden Gramophone" for the songs "Chita-drita" and a duet with Glukoza "I wanted a groom."
2004 - "Muz-TV Award" for the album "Ha-ra-sho".
2005 - "Golden Gramophone" for the song "Tuk tuk tuk".
2007 - "ZD Awards" in the nomination "Person of the Year".
2008 - President of Ukraine V. Yushchenko awards the title of People's Artist of Ukraine
2011 - "Golden Gramophone" for the song "Dolce Gabbana".
Movies
2002 - "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka"
2002 - "Cinderella"
2003 - "Crazy Day, Or the Marriage of Figaro"
2003 - "The Snow Queen"
2004 - "For two hares"
2005 - "Sorochinsky Fair"
2005 - "Three Musketeers"
2006 - "1st Ambulance"
2006 - "The Adventures of Verka Serduchka"
2007 - "Very New Year's movie, or Night at the Museum"
2010 - "Morozko"
2011 - The New Adventures of Aladdin
2012 - Little Red Riding Hood
Albums
1998 - "I was born for love"
2001 - Pie
2002 - "Unreleased"
2003 - "HA-RA-SHO!"
2003 - "Chita Drita"
2004 - “I wanted a groom. Unreleased»
2004 - "After you (Andrey Danilko)"
2006 - "Tralli-Valli"
2007 - Dancing (Single)
2007 - Dancing Europe
Andrey Danilko (Verka Serduchka)
Andrei Mikhailovich Danilko, known as Verka Serduchka. Born on October 2, 1973 in Poltava. Ukrainian singer, composer, producer, director, screenwriter, TV presenter, actor. People's Artist of Ukraine (2008).
Andrey Danilko, who became known under the stage name Verka Serdyuchka, was born on October 2, 1973 in Poltava.
Father - Mikhail Semyonovich Danilko, a driver, died of lung cancer in 1980.
Mother - Svetlana Ivanovna Volkova, worked at the factory as a house painter.
The elder sister is Galina Grishko (born 1963).
Like Andrei, childhood was marred by his father's frequent drunken antics. Although the father himself was a good person, he changed beyond recognition when drunk: “I planted windows. I ran around with a stool, called the police. It was such a normal tradition. I saw the effect on a normal person of alcohol and the consequences."
The family lived in poverty, especially after the death of his father. According to Andrei, they lived in an annex, it happened that in winter he woke up covered in frost, and the wallpaper on the walls curled up from the cold. From an early age I got used to independence.
Since 1984, he studied at an art school, was a member of the KVN school team, where he received his first experience of performing with humorous and song numbers. Andrey also performed annually on the stages of summer pioneer camps.
In high school, he worked as a journalist - a freelance correspondent for a local newspaper, according to his stories, he interviewed such stars of that time as Natalya Gulkina, Andrey Razin, Sergey Chelobanov, Anzheliki Varum. “I can’t imagine how we crawled through the police cordons with some kind of passes for freelance correspondents of some provincial newspapers ... But we begged the guards so much that they let us through out of pity,” he recalled.
In 1991 he graduated from secondary school No. 27 of the city of Poltava. Then he entered vocational school No. 30.
In the same 1991, at a review of educational institutions, he presented two miniatures - "Dining Room" and "Conductor", with these numbers in 1993 he was sent on tour to the Stavropol Territory.
On April 1, 1993, at Humorin in Poltava, he first demonstrated the image of Verka Serduchka. In the same year, he received the first prize of the Kursk Anomaly competition for the best acting work and, with the performance "The Conductor", became the winner of the All-Smih competition in Kyiv.
According to Andrey, Verka Serduchka is based on the image of his aunt: "Roughly speaking, I just play my aunt. This is such a correct image, so it's easy for me to improvise." In this connection, he practically does not need to get used to this image - he dressed appropriately and went to perform.
At the same time, Serdyuchka and Danilko are two completely different people. The first one is cheerful, broken, self-confident, carrying from the stage such that the ears are folded into a tube. The second is a quiet, modest, restrained, non-witty and avoiding people loner. Verka Serduchka is his way to overcome complexes. Andrei admitted: “Yes, I am very frightened, twitchy by nature. I don’t like, for example, when there are a lot of people. Paradox, right? I even say at concerts:“ Guys, don’t be afraid, don’t be shy, clap, fool around, sing along. I’m 15 complexed for years, there is nothing to remember "".
Verka Serduchka - compilation
On April 1, 1994, he won the Humorina Grand Prix in Kharkov, and soon made his debut on television (the Cheese program of the Kharkiv Privat TV studio).
In March 1995 he received the Grand Prix at the competition of young performers of the international festival Sea of Laughter.
On April 1, 1995, a miniature of Danilko was shown at the "Day of Laughter" in Kyiv. This year he entered the circus variety school at the department of colloquial genre. In the summer of 1995, he starred in an advertisement for Privatbank in the image of Verka Serduchka. At the end of the year, he took part in the Vybryki program.
Later, Danilko was often reproached for the fact that, having an undoubted talent for reincarnation, he never expanded the gallery of images, but got used to one and only. Although at the beginning of his artistic career, he freely reincarnated as a saleswoman, and a policeman, and a soldier, and even a ballerina. But since the people demanded Serduchka, he exploited this image.
In 1996, he began working with music producer Yuri Nikitin and the Ukrainian record company Mamamusic, in 1997 the first song, Just Vera, was released.
Since November 1997 - the host of the SV-show program on the Ukrainian TV channel 1 + 1 (in the image of Verka Serduchka), in the spring of 1998 the program switched to TV-6, later to STS. On December 13, 1997, the concert "Christmas Meetings of Verka Serdyuchka" took place in the National Palace "Ukraine".
In 1998 and 1999, two music videos by Verka Serduchka were released for the songs “A Little Bit” and “Controller”.
In May-June 1999, in the halls of Kiev theaters - at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater and the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama - ten premiere show performances of "Titanic, or the Floating Country" were held. From this moment, Andrey Danilko's active tours in Russia and the CIS countries begin, his performances are accompanied by increased interest from the public and the media.
In the fall of 2000, he received the Name Cup at the Cup of Humor festival. In the same year, he became the host of the program “Come on, get up!” on Gala Radio.
He received two Golden Gramophones for the songs Chita Drita and Wanted a Groom. Album "HA-RA-SHO!" received Muz-TV awards as the best album of 2004.
In 2005 he released an instrumental album "After you ..." with compositions for piano, acting as a composer.
In 2007, he performed at the Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki with the song "Dancing Lasha Tumbai", taking second place. Then he released the album "Doremi doredo", which included eleven tracks. In the same year he was awarded the title of People's Artist of Ukraine.
Verka Serduchka - Dancing Lasha Tumbai (Eurovision 2007)
Verka Serduchka's song at Eurovision led to a scandal in Russia - allegedly the artist sang "Russia Goodbye".
Andrei himself said about this: “I came up with “Lashia Tumbay” immediately after Ruslana’s victory at Eurovision. If you play this song in a different style, then it turns out to be Chinese, then Japanese, then Jewish, then Ukrainian. There are the words “I want you see Lashia Tombay", which translates as "I want to see you Lashia Tombay". And in the first version I had "tonight". But this "tonight" that has set the teeth on edge is in every song in English. Therefore, I decided to replace it. Mine " Lashia Tumbai" people can interpret as they want - for example, "I want to see you rich, happy, loved", etc. But I can't send the libretto of the song to everyone. Some, for example, managed to hear "Masha to buy", that is, Masha for sale. I never thought in my life that this song would cause such a reaction. "
In 2009 he wrote the music for the tragicomedy The Merry Men.
In 2011, he received another Golden Gramophone award for the dance hit Dolce Gabbana. In 2012, in the image of Verka Serduchka, he hosted the Saturday Evening program on the Russia-1 TV channel.
He starred in several films - "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka", "Cinderella", "Crazy Day, or the Marriage of Figaro", "The Snow Queen", "Chasing Two Hares", "Sorochinsky Fair", "Three Musketeers". Then came "The First Ambulance" and "The Adventures of Verka Serduchka."
In 2010, he starred as a stepmother in the film Frost.
In 2011, he starred in the fairy tale film The New Adventures of Aladdin, and in 2012 he played the lead role in the film Little Red Riding Hood. Later, tapes with his participation "Three Heroes" and "Spy" were released.
Andrey Danilko in the film "Three Musketeers"
Andrey Danilko in the film "Little Red Riding Hood"
Andrey Danilko in the movie "Three Heroes"
The artist has repeatedly admitted that he would like to try himself as a film director, but due to the peculiarities of his character, he could not be realized in this capacity.
"I have always been interested in cinema and music. I, for example, have my own vision of comedy. I like the humor of old films that simply diverged from quotes. But in order to create your own cinema, you need to know its technology. I would really like to learn from some some good director, for example, Nikita Mikhalkov. But because of the innate complex of the exam, I can’t cross my own “I”. In addition, this stupid recognition and biased assessment from others, "he said.
Socio-political position of Andrey Danilko
In 2007, he decided to try himself in politics, he was going to take part in early elections to the Verkhovna Rada.
He first announced that his electoral bloc would be called "Against All" - as he explained, because people in Ukraine "do not understand who to vote for, they are tired of elections, consolidation and confrontation, and politicians at this time are fighting near the stands." Andrei said that Serduchka also did not understand anything, "but she can fight just as well, and shout in the Verkhovna Rada that everything is bad." She is "very kind and able to influence people," and if they give her bribes, she will take them. “But she will spend this money on helping children,” the artist noted.
Then his bloc was renamed "For Our Own" and the Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine, the "Women of Ukraine" party, the Workers' Party for Verka Serdyuchka, as well as the virtual party "For Verka" decided to enter it. But just before the end of registration, it became known that Danilko decided not to participate in the elections with his bloc.
In those 2007 elections, he supported the Party of Regions.
At the end of 2014, he gave a concert at the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin as part of the World & Peace Tour, since then there have been constant rumors about living in Berlin due to the political situation in Ukraine. However, on the official pages of the artist in social networks, it was indicated that Danilko lives in Kyiv, leaving him only for the duration of the tour.
He sharply criticized the Maidan regime and the order that came in Ukraine after the Euromaidan: “Unfortunately, now in Ukraine, shame is becoming pride, debauchery and lies are the norm, crime is a triumph, and decline is an achievement. We are degrading and decaying already so much that everyone is gradually turning away from us. Propaganda of debauchery and perversions goes beyond common sense. Freedom of speech sounds like a mockery here. We are already a threat to Europe, a real threat, normal Europeans tell us directly that there is no place for us in Europe and tighten the screws on the border "Assimilation to Europe did not improve our life, but, on the contrary, created an atmosphere of lack of rights, arbitrariness and insecurity of citizens in the country. Jumpers on the Maidan and those whom they brought into the corridors of power created not Europe in Ukraine, but Somalia in the worst possible way," he said.
Secrets of Verka Serduchka
Andrey Danilko's height: 178 centimeters.
Andrey Danilko's personal life:
Not married and never have been. Have no children.
Andrei Danilko does not advertise his personal life and tries to keep it a secret from the public.
In May 2017, in an interview with one of the Ukrainian publications, he admitted to being completely alone, which, according to him, suits the artist: “The age has come when you don’t want a family at all. I wanted a family when I was 22. And then over the years, everything less and less, but now I don’t feel like it at all. I need to be alone and have my own closed territory. I think this is due to the glut of communication with people. I have, rather, social phobia, and it occurs in me from fatigue. "
Previously, the actor was credited with an affair with Inna Belokon. Inna is 6 years older than Andrei, they met at the very beginning of his career and together developed the image of Verka Serduchka. In the fall of 2016, a photo of the couple's joint vacation in Miami appeared, in which Inna and Andrei kiss. However, they themselves did not give official comments. Inna has a husband and a daughter.
Filmography of Andrey Danilko:
2001 - Evenings on a farm near Dikanka - village moonshiner
2002 - Cinderella - Brunnhilde
2003 - Crazy day, Or the marriage of Figaro - Cherubino, page
2003 - The Snow Queen - Xenia, a shaman
2003 - For two hares - Svetlana Markovna / maniac Anton
2004 - Sorochinskaya Fair - Khivrya
2004 - Three Musketeers - Madame Richelieu
2006 - First Fast - cameo
2006 - The Adventures of Verka Serduchka - cameo
2007 - Very New Year's movie, or Night at the Museum - Ghost
2010 - Morozko - stepmother
2011 - The New Adventures of Aladdin - Jinsha
2012 - Little Red Riding Hood - Little Red Riding Hood
2013 - Three heroes - Baba Yaga
2015 - Spy - Cameo
Discography of Andrey Danilko:
1998 - I am for love
2001 - Pie
2002 - Unreleased
2003 - Ha-ra-sho!
2003 - Chita Drita
2004 - I wanted a groom. Unreleased
2005 - After you (instrumental album)
2006 - Trali Vali
2007 - Dancing (Single)
2007 - Dancing Europe
2008 - Doremi Doredo
2008 - The Best
Video clips of Andrey Danilko:
1998 - "A Little Bit"
1999 - "Controller"
2001 - "Pie"
2001 - "Gop-hop"
2001 - "Vera plus Misha"
2003 - "Everything will be fine"
2003 - "Chita Drita"
2003 - "I didn't understand"
2003 - "You got drunk like a pig"
2004 - "Knock-knock-knock"
2005 - "I fell for love"
2005 - "Tralli-valli"
2005 - "It's good for beauties"
2005 - "Doll"
2006 - "After you"
2006 - "Take everything (that I have)"
2006 - "And I laugh"
2007 - "Dancing Lasha Tumbai"
2007 - "Kiss Please"
2008 - "Doremi"
2008 - "Evro Vision Queen"
2008 - "Essen (Tim-Tim Taram)"
2013 - “Thank you” (with Olga Gorbacheva)
In the family of a driver and a worker. The Danilko family lived in poverty, in a small barrack room with outdoor amenities. The family's income was so low that before the school graduation party, classmates chipped in and bought Andrei sneakers and a shirt.
And here is what Lyudmila Zayats, director of the Poltava school No. 27, where the star studied, told Telesem: “Andrey was a modest boy. I would never say that a shy schoolboy and Verka Serdyuchka are the same person. He didn’t stand out in the class, he even hid behind his back so that they don’t notice him. He studied mediocre. But our school KVN team, captained by Danilko, always took first places. From the age of ten, Andrei played in an amateur theater. "
At the end of school, Andrey takes exams at a music school. And it does not pass: the examiners decide that he ... does not look good on stage. A graduate goes to storm the pedagogical institute, but gets a "deuce" in Ukrainian literature. Desperate, he goes to a vocational school and studies as a cashier-seller. In the store, the future star knocks out checks ... for two days: he cannot see how his colleagues steal. He is going to go to enter the Kharkov Theater, but he is late for the train.
Career. In 1990, he begins creative work and creates his most striking character - the conductor Verka Serduchka. On April 1 of the next year, Serduchka was officially presented at a humorine in Poltava. A bright image makes a splash, after which A. Danilko goes on his first tour of the Stavropol Territory (RF). Following Serduchka, the artist creates other characters: he performs in the form of a policeman, teacher, soldier, ballerina ... Thus, the whole Danilko theater was born, which successfully tours the cities of Russia and Ukraine.
In 1995, Andrei entered the circus variety school, but he studied for only a year and a half. Further study Danilko was not given. But the artist collects laurels on stage. At the International Festival "Sea of Laughter" A. Danilko receives the Grand Prix.
Spring 1997. Popularity fell on Verka Serduchka when she acted as the host of the "SV-show" program (first on the Ukrainian channel, and then on the Russian TV-6). In the compartment of the noisy, talkative conductor and her eternal companion Geli (actress Radmila Shchegoleva), pop stars dropped by. Serdyuchka called these programs "talks about nothing."
In 2000, Andrey became the owner of the Arkady Raikin Cup at the Humor Cup festival for the character Serduchka.
In 2002, toured the CIS and Baltic countries. Throughout the year, the Danilko Theater shows the program "I am the Revolution".
In 2003, Verka Serduchka's disc "Ha-ra-sho" was released - already the fourth in a row and the first truly successful one. "The album was recorded in record time - two weeks," says Yuri Nikitin, producer of Ha-ra-sho. "I have never met a more hardworking person than Danilko."
“At the beginning of my career, I didn’t even think about writing songs,” says the performer. “Somehow, after a concert, a girl came up to me and asked me to compose a song about apricot. I was surprised: why about apricot? But I went and composed it. Since then, the songs began to pour river from me."
Summer 2003 - concert tour "I was born for love" in Russia and Ukraine. Awarding the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine.
"Living legend" Verka Serduchka at the end of the year receives a "Diamond Disc" for 500 thousand sold copies of the album "Ha-ra-sho".
In 2004, on New Year's Eve, the musical "Chasing Two Hares" was released on television, in which Danilko-Serdyuchka plays Pronya Prokopovna. It turns out that the artist played this role in the performance of the school miniature theater "Kompot".
“From the very beginning, “Chasing Two Hares” was conceived under Danilko,” the director of the film, Maxim Papernik, told TELESEM. “Andrey has a difficult character, his main feature is hypertrophied exactingness. playground, takes the script, reads it and says: "So! I do not like it. Now we'll redo everything, and it will be fine. "He needs the funny to be born right before his eyes. And in between tours and filming, he is often sad."
In January 2004, the Danilko Theater went on tour in the United States. In New York, at the Millennium Theater, Serduchka's six solo concerts are held, which are attended by about 40 thousand people. In total, concerts were held in 17 cities in North America.
In 2005, Verka Serduchka received the most prestigious Russian award in the field of popular music "Muz-TV" for the disc "Ha-ra-sho", which became the album of the year. As of 2006, over a million copies have been sold in Russia and over 500,000 in Ukraine. The same fate befell the next album "Chita Drita". All this time, the artist has been successfully touring, participating in rating television projects. He is already a recognized star of the Ukrainian and Russian show business, a friend and friend of such long-hyped stars as Alla Pugacheva, Philip Kirkorov and others.
In 2007, a successful performance in Helsinki at the popular Eurovision Song Contest (2nd place) followed by a successful rotation of the composition "Lasha Tumbai" in Western Europe.
In 2009 he wrote the music for the tragicomedy The Merry Men.
In 2010, he starred as a stepmother in the film Frost.
In 2011, he starred in the fairy tale film "The New Adventures of Aladdin", in 2012 he played the main role in the film "Little Red Riding Hood".
In 2012, in the image of Verka Serduchka, he hosted the Saturday Evening program on the Russia-1 TV channel.
In 2014, in the image of Verka Serduchka, he starred in the film "Spy".
In 2016, Andrey Danilko first became a member of the X-factor jury on the TV channel, joining Yulia Sanina and Anton Savlepov.
On June 28, 2017 in Kyiv, as part of the Atlas Weekend Festival, a concert was held dedicated to the return of Serdyuchka to the big stage of the CIS.
In 2018, in the 9th season of the X-factor project, Andrey Danilko continued his refereeing.
Scandals. Some of the representatives of show business in Russia heard the phrase "Russia, goodbye" in the set of words for the song "Lasha Tumbai", prepared specifically for Eurovision. This topic was quickly picked up by the Russian media, after which A. Danilko was declared an unofficial boycott in the Russian Federation. For example, the artist, contrary to tradition, was not invited to the New Wave International Competition for Young Pop Music Performers.
At a press conference dedicated to the closing of the festival, the journalists once again asked about the reasons for the absence of Serdyuchka, to which the organizers of the competition replied: “Serdyuchka is not on any TV channel now, because Konstantin Ernst (general producer of Channel One, - ed.) went to the Kremlin and personally persuaded the authorities that Andrei Danilko should not be in our country anymore. We believe that this is sheer insanity ... Even Pugacheva herself has already talked to the authorities on this topic ... Andrei himself understands everything, he called Igor Krutoy and congratulated him on his day births ... Some shifts periodically occur in society. But artists have something to do with it? Artists should sing. Lasha tumbay, Russia goodbye, Masha - what's the difference?"
However, by the end of 2007, tension subsided, and Danilko-Serdyuchka again became a desirable object for Russian show business. So, on February 1, 2008, "Ukrainian Cinderella" became the person of the year according to the prestigious Russian ZD Awards.
Firsthand.“I can safely walk around the city,” says Danilko, “and no one rushes to take my autograph. Even after the concert: the audience is waiting for Verka Serduchka, but they don’t recognize me. Once a woman, “without waiting,” decided to take a picture with my producer She came up and said to me: “Boy, press the button.” Everyone imagines me older, bigger, more vulgar.”
Verka's name was Anya. The stage name Verka Serduchka was born to Andrey during his school years. He promised his girlfriend, an excellent student, Anya Serdyuk, that he would glorify her name throughout the country. And so it happened, only instead of a serious surname, the artist took her cheerful nickname. At the beginning of his career, Danilko called Anya to the stage at concerts so that the audience would be convinced: Verka and the prototype are not at all similar. With Anya, Andrei calls back to this day.
Discography."I was born for love" (1998), "Pirozhok" (2001), "Unreleased" (2002), "Ha-ra-sho" (2003), "Chita Drita" (2003), "Unreleased. I wanted a groom" ( 2004), "Unreleased songs of Andrey Danilko" (2004), "After you ..." (2005), "New songs of Verka Serduchka" (2006), "Dancing" (2007).
Preferences. Dish: ear. Transport: airplane. Actress: Faina Ranevskaya. Host: Leonid Parfyonov. Type of woman: bold, hooligan and at the same time feminine, uncomplexed smart student
