The famous singer is preparing to celebrate the anniversary
In a couple of weeks, Sofia Rotaru will turn 70 years old. She will celebrate the holiday with her family: with her son, daughter-in-law, grandson and granddaughter. At the end of July, Sofia Mikhailovna will give a big concert - a creative evening dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the artist will be held in Baku at the "Heat" music festival. The People's Artist of the USSR has the strength and desire to work, but she looks at least 20 years younger. Plastic surgeons say that without the skillful hands of their colleagues, it is impossible to preserve the youthfulness of the skin at this age. The hero of the day herself is not recognized in beauty operations. But it is difficult to hide the obvious - from the photo published below, one can trace the evolution of Sofia Rotaru's appearance: over the years, she is becoming more and more beautiful and interesting.
The singer is in good physical shape and in a great mood. You can look and feel like this at 70 only thanks to daily work on yourself. Sofia Rotaru talks about the secrets of beauty willingly.
Sofia Rotaru in 2016. Photo: Evgenia Guseva. Beauty and health rules of Sofia Rotaru:
Sofia Rotaru with an unusual hairstyle and "thick" eyebrows is hardly recognizable in this photo. Photo: personal archive. 1) The singer advises to worry less, not to waste energy on vain experiences. For example, a celebrity has never traded on the market, not because of lack of time or unwillingness to save money, but because it takes energy and it is not always possible to get positive emotions as a result.
2) You need to eat little, sometimes Sofia Mikhailovna eats only oatmeal and vegetables. Never eats after six in the evening, excluded salt from the diet. Loves Japanese cuisine.
3) Having gained a couple of extra pounds, the artist immediately goes on a diet. For three days there is boiled rice without salt, then for three days only vegetables in any form, then for three days only fruits.
4) Rotaru has a gym equipped at home - the singer works out daily: the intensity of the loads and the training plan depend on how you feel. Recall that since school, Rotaru loved sports: she went to athletics competitions, and often won. Still regularly swims in the pool.
Sofia Mikhailovna at the music festival "Song of the Year-2015". Photo: Larisa Kudryavtseva
5) Sauna and massage are included in the mandatory wellness program of the star.
6) Rotaru advises everyone to fall asleep to classical music, as it helps to relax, mentally free yourself from problems and worries. Sofia Mikhailovna loves to get enough sleep under Mozart and Vivald.
7) Be sure to plant something, mess around in the beds, so that it becomes possible to directly contact the ground. According to the singer, it charges with strong positive energy.
8) Daily turn to God with prayer, not only in grief, but also in joy. Sofia Mikhailovna says that prayer heals not only the soul, but also the body: “Real faith makes the soul beautiful, and that changes the body for the better.”
9) Washes with ice cubes from frozen mineral water.
10) Sofia Rotaru is grateful to her genes, but still calls communication with her loved ones the main source of strength.
Cosmetologist Ekaterina Pogranichnaya commented on the secrets of youth of Sofia Rotaru for the Teleprogramma magazine: “The artist did rhinoplasty, after which her nose became much more elegant - more refined and neat. The singer at 69 looks at least 20 years younger! A similar effect is achieved with a circular facelift. This operation restores contours, tightens sagging skin, and eliminates deep wrinkles. In addition, Sofia Mikhailovna did a circular lift in the neck area - this provides skin and muscle lifting, emphasizes clear jaw lines, restores tissue elasticity and generally rejuvenates the neck area.
Photo: archive
an icon of the Soviet stage, which has retained its status at the present time almost unchanged. "Gazeta.Ru" - about the reasons for its success.
If geographically and politically the Soviet Union has long been dead,
then in pop culture it continues to exist as if nothing
happened - in the face of such figures as Edita Piekha, who recently noted
80th anniversary
In the biographical information about Rotaru alone, it seems
the whole history of the country - was born in the village of Marchantsi in the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine in a Moldovan family; There was a joke in the early 90s
that at the talks in Belovezhskaya Pushcha the leaders of Russia and Ukraine
asked the question, "how we will divide Rotaru."
Her career began to develop at a time when Soviet ideologists finally allowed the flowers of national cultures to bloom.
Seventies
It is believed by many that Rotaru's fame began with the 1971 musical film "Chervona Ruta", in which Rotaru played the main role and the name of which was then taken by her.
for your ensemble.
In fact, for the title of the take-off site of her career,
to argue and the Festival of Youth and Students, held in Bulgaria
three years before that, she won a gold medal there, singing songs in Ukrainian and Romanian.
And the first success came about ten years before and consisted of
many stages - regional, then republican amateur art competitions, the conductor-choir department of the Chernivtsi Music College, in the absence of a vocal one.
Is source: Ekaterina Chesnokova/RIA Novosti
2017 Sofia Rotaru performs at the ZHARA International Music Festival in Baku
The key to Rotaru's success was a clear and even in the best sense of the word prudent mixture of national and cosmopolitan
repertoire: so, from the very beginning of her creative activity, she continued to cooperate with the composer Vladimir Ivasyuk
from Lviv, but at the same time she sang songs by Arno Babadzhanyan, David Tukhmanov, Yuri Saulsky, Raymond Pauls, Vladimir
Matetsky; texts for them were written by Robert Rozhdestvensky, Andrei Voznesensky and other poets who need no introduction.
And it's not just that cooperation with the upper caste
Soviet pop composers and poetic workshop served
admission to the big stage.
Such omnivorousness allowed her to organically weave the songs of the Soviet outskirts in different languages into her program and skillfully use -
at least declarative - the course of the Soviet authorities to support national cultures.
And in this way everyone likes it: both the officials of the Mosconcert and
residents of Russian capitals, and their countrymen on both sides
Ukrainian-Moldovan border.
Interestingly, at the same time, the singer, who seemed to be treated kindly by the authorities, was not without disgrace.
More precisely, it worked out - in 1975 she had a conflict with the local Chernivtsi regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, in connection with which she and her
The ensemble moved to Yalta.
Nothing definite is known about its causes so far -
Rotaru herself said that she moved to the Crimea in connection with
open asthma. A possible reason was the increased
share of repertoire in Ukrainian and cooperation with authors
from Western Ukraine.
It is interesting that the shake-up and stress gave a new impetus to her career: the singer's records (long plays at first) began to be released by the Melodiya company, and she herself was invited to Munich to record a disc
at Ariola. Then she had a large-scale tour of Western and Eastern Europe.
Eighties
The decade of transition from stagnation to perestroika was for her
the peak of her career - it was at that moment that she, with the help of radio and television, began to be constantly present in the life of the country,
coming to almost every house and sounding from every window.
And the trigger of this popularity is again, as in the case of
"Chervona Ruta" became cinema - more precisely, two films with her songs
and participation. In 1980, "Where are you, love?", A kind of
adaptation of the plot "Come tomorrow" to more modern
realities.
The picture was quite autobiographical - in it a young girl came to an amateur song contest with the composition
Raymond Pauls, of the same name as the name of the film, and left his main triumph.
The picture turned out to be megapopular - "Melody" released
a record with songs from the film, and songs based on verses by the best Soviet
the whole country sang poets.
A year later, another picture came out - "Soul", an autobiographical melodrama about the loss of a singer's voice and a reassessment of values.
In the role of musicians, the participants of the "Time Machine" starred in it,
songs were written by Andrey Makarevich and Alexander Zatsepin, and
Rotaru's partner was then at the peak of popularity
Mikhail Boyarsky.
The second picture completed the formation of personal mythology
around her, and a triumphant tour in Canada - the status
a real export star, in the language of trade, suitable for both domestic consumption and export.
However, it seems that this stardom and this status have become
cause of the actual second disgrace - she was forbidden by foreign
tours (requests for which became more and more).
It got ridiculous - once, in response to an invitation, representatives of a German concert agency were sent a paper:
"That one doesn't work here."
Nevertheless, Rotaru actively participated in the "Songs of the Year",
continued cooperation both with top Russian-speaking
However, it ended - unsuccessful, it must be admitted - fell into disgrace only with the beginning of perestroika.
The turning point in this sense can be recognized as the beginning of cooperation with Vladimir Matetsky, which led (or, conversely, was the reason) for a change in image - instead of a chansonnier with folk roots, Rotaru turned into a disco and
rock vocalist. In fact, she's still been the perfect opponent.
for rock musicians of the Leningrad Rock Club and the Moscow Rock Laboratory, however, starting with the quite romantic Lavender,
she eventually began to perform fast things - the very ones
for which she is still remembered: “Moon, moon”, “It was, but it has passed”,
"Only this is not enough."
The latter was a very bold experiment - a complete
nostalgic sadness, the poem of Arseny Tarkovsky was turned by Matetsky into a real rock action movie.
They worked together for a long 15 years - until the end of those same 90s,
which honored artists were decisively scrapped, and new ones were put forward in their place.
Nineties - today
Moreover, it is worth noting that Rotaru never became an archival
a star - like a generation of pop stars a generation older,
quietly and with dignity retired, into teaching and
"Old songs about the main thing."
She, who began her career with the help of her mother, a merchant on the collective farm market, had some amazing, as they say
these days, marketing flair: in some surprising way
at the right moments of time, she guessed the market situation and the time when it would be necessary to change the image or do something new.
So, for example, it was she who at one time - back in the early 90s -
noticed a trend in new pop stars to perform with backup dancers
and invited the not-so-famous Todes troupe to perform
together with her.
The head of the dance theater, Alla Dukhova, said that it was these concerts that became the first step towards the future fame of the dance troupe.
At the same time, she is not at all characterized by a passion for continuous
renewal and oblivion of the old repertoire - she did not shy away from anniversaries, nostalgic reissues, etc. at all. In 2012-2013, she rolled a big anniversary tour dedicated to the 40th anniversary of her creative activity.
Rather, on the contrary - carefully and densely mixing old hits with new ones, she presented her songs as part of one, never interrupted (and by and large - not affected by time) process.
Moreover, it seems that in her case this is not a concept, but a philosophy - because both her biography and her statements indicate that for her this is a way of life.
Another feature of her philosophy is her political position. Although it would be more correct to say humanitarian - a resident of Kiev and a resident of Yalta at her actual place of residence, in 2004 she distributed food to representatives of both opposing camps on the Maidan.
And later, in the wake of the great coming of Ukrainian musicians into politics, she even tried to run for the Rada from the Lytvyn bloc: after the annexation of Crimea, she did not take Russian citizenship (according to her, due to registration in Kiev) and emphasized that she was a citizen of Ukraine.
At the same time, in fact, she and her songs remain part of the life of the divided citizens of the once united country.
The informals of the 80s considered her songs an example of Soviet pop officialdom - now they sound like the last memory of that utopia of the unity of the country and the friendship of peoples, to which the Soviet Union at least tried to approach and the final collapse of which we are witnessing now.
And that is why there is a risk that many leaders of countries that share this singer among themselves will remain petty political figures of the era of Sofia Rotaru.
She is irresistible!
This year, the incomparable singer and charming woman Sofia Rotaru has a seventy-year anniversary! But you instantly refuse to believe it, as soon as you see photos of this singer. She looks amazing despite her age. Today, absolutely everyone knows her, and her compositions are still sung in many countries.
Despite her age, Sofia Rotaru is not shy about unusual outfits. For example, her appearance at the “Heat” festival in Baku recently made a splash. Sofia Mikhailovna amazed everyone! According to the artist, the preparation for this concert took her more than three months. Concert costumes were created for this show, arrangements were made, new songs were recorded.
On the eve of the anniversary, the singer decided to leave for Italy with her relatives. She celebrated her birthday in a narrow family circle. It is worth noting that some of them had a hand in its current popularity. The singer's son helps his star mother not only at home, but also at work. He acts as its concert director.
And the creative director and at the same time the stylist of the artist is her daughter-in-law Svetlana. But the artist's grandchildren did not follow in the footsteps of the famous grandmother, although this does not negate the fact that they also made their choice in favor of creative professions. The granddaughter, for example, is engaged in the modeling business, and Sofia's grandson is a fashion photographer.
Sofia Mikhailovna Rotaru turns 70 on August 7, but the famous singer clearly does not look her age. It seems that it is like a fine wine - it only gets better with age.
For many years, the singer has adhered to one image: long straight hair in the middle.
But not always Rotaru followed this style. Let's trace the evolution of Sofia Rotaru's appearance. Real success came to the singer already in the early 70s. In 1971, she played one of the main roles in the musical film Chervona Ruta. At the same time, Rotaru created an ensemble of the same name.
Rotaru is gradually becoming a popular singer in the USSR, and soon receives the title of Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and becomes the laureate of the LKSMU Prize. N. Ostrovsky.
Almost all of Sophia Mikhailovna's outfits are with ethnic motifs, and the makeup is always spectacular: red lips, wide arrows or bright shadows.
In the 80s, the artist began a new stage not only in her work, but also in life. She was “left” from the ensemble, she was losing her voice, but did not give up.
During this period, she appears on stage in typical outfits for that time - dresses embroidered with rhinestones, clothes with voluminous sleeves.
Hair styling, bright makeup - all this did not go beyond the then fashion.
The collapse of the USSR practically did not affect the activities of Rotaru - she remained the favorite singer of millions of people.
In the 90s, she often sang songs in Ukrainian, but it is almost impossible to see her in national costumes. At the heart of her wardrobe are concert costumes with gold embroidery and sequins.
In 2002, the singer loses her life partner - her beloved husband Anatoly Evdokimenko. At that moment, she practically drops out of show business.
Upon her return to the stage, she appears in loose dresses with sequins and sequins and short jackets in various colors.
In recent years, Sofia Mikhailovna increasingly prefers trouser suits, but remains true to sequins.
The modern image suits the singer the most. The appearance of Rotaru can be admired endlessly!
Despite the fact that the singer's birthday falls on August 7, she has already celebrated it at the Heat International Music Festival together with her sister Aurika, son Ruslan, daughter-in-law Svetlana and granddaughter Sonya.
For the past few years, the star has rarely appeared on stage, so her appearance at the festival caused a sensation. The guests were delighted with Sofia Mikhailovna: she looked as if she had lost twenty years!
“When I see your smiles, hear your applause, I immediately feel young and cheerful,” the singer commented on the delight. The star delighted the fans with the performance of everyone's favorite hits.
“No one calls me grandmother,” Rotaru admitted. “Grandchildren say that not a single person believes that I am their grandmother, I look so young.”
The singer considers love to be the secret of her unsurpassed appearance. Love for life, loved ones, the audience - that's what makes her truly happy.
Looking at the truly folk singer Sofia Rotaru, it is impossible to believe that today, August 7, she is celebrating her 70th birthday.
Of course. Cosmetic surgeons can work wonders. And many observers assure that the artist owes her fabulous beauty and youthful appearance to them in part. But even spiteful critics admit: her activity, youthful enthusiasm, mobility can be envied.
True, confusion does happen. In March of this year, the Soviet pop star got into the rating of "shooting stars". At one of the concerts, she could not resist on too high heels and collapsed, fortunately, not on the stage and not from it, but into the reliable hands of the composer Ruslan Quinta.
Fortunately, he was also on stage at that time and hedged the “comet” of Russian and Ukrainian show business in time. Rotaru was not at a loss then. We must give her credit, she recovered from the fall quickly. She asked the musician for forgiveness, and then she joked: “Hold me tight!” And then she calmly continued her speech.
And Sofia Mikhailovna decided to celebrate her 70th birthday in a close circle of close people away from the hustle and bustle, from annoying reporters and not always adequate fans. She and family members flew to Sardinia, on this voyage they went on a private jet.
The celebration takes place in a rented villa with a chic, fantastic view of the Mediterranean Sea. Photos and videos about this small summer adventure have already begun to be posted on the Web by members of the star family.
The "rehearsal" of the anniversary was the creative evening of Sofia Rotaru, held as part of the "ZHARA" festival, which recently ended in the Azerbaijani capital Baku. Together with the hero of the day, her granddaughter Sofia shone on the stage. The namesake of the singer is making a career as a model, and is already quite successfully mastering the European catwalks.
