CHISINAU, January 18 - Sputnik. One of the most talented Georgian singers on the Russian stage, Tamara Gverdtsiteli, is celebrating her 55th birthday.
The singer's father is from the ancient Georgian noble family Gverdtsiteli, her mother is Jewish, the granddaughter of an Odessa rabbi.
Gverdtsiteli performed with Michel Legrand, who, introducing the singer to a three-thousand audience, said: "Paris! Remember this name." And Tamara conquered Paris.
She performs songs in more than ten languages: Georgian, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Armenian, German, etc. Tamara Mikhailovna's talent is unlimited - the artist sings in operas and musicals, acts in films, and also participates in various musical and entertainment projects on television, Sputnik Georgia reports.
Russian and Georgian singer Tamara Mikhailovna Gverdtsiteli was born on January 18, 1962 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Her mother is from Odessa (Ukraine), her maternal grandfather was a rabbi, with the outbreak of World War II, he took the family to Vorkuta for evacuation, then made the family move to Georgia. Mother worked as a teacher of Russian language and literature. Father is a cybernetician.
In the early 1970s, Tamara performed in the Mziuri children's pop ensemble, in which she toured extensively in the former Soviet Union.
After graduating from a special music school, she entered the Tbilisi Conservatory and graduated in composition and piano, and also graduated from a special college (vocal class).
At the age of 19 Gverdtsiteli won the First Prize of the international competition "Red Carnation" in Sochi, participated in the competition of popular music in Dresden (1982). In 1988, the singer won the first prize at the international competition "Golden Orpheus" in Sofia. As a special guest, she performed at pop song festivals in Sopot (1989) and San Remo (1990).
In 1991, Tamara Gverdtsiteli was invited to Paris, where she met the French composer Michel Legrand. In the same year, their joint concert took place. In 1994, the singer gave a solo concert in the Olympia Hall in Paris. In 1995, Tamara Gverdtsiteli gave concerts at the New York Carnegie Hall, in which Legrand and the Arsenal ensemble Alexei Kozlov took part. In April 1996, Tamara Gverdtsiteli and Michel Legrand performed at New York's Assembly Hall.
At the end of 1995, the singer decided to return to the concert venues in Russia and the CIS countries.
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Gverdtsiteli has several studio albums with songs not only in Georgian and Russian, but also in French, Italian, Spanish, English, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Armenian, German and others, RIA Novosti reports.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli performed the part of Carmen on the stage of the Dnipropetrovsk Opera House with the Milanese baritone Giovanni Ribichiesu.
In 2016, the singer performed at the international festival "Spasskaya Tower", where she, in a duet with the famous French singer Mireille Mathieu, performed the composition "Eternal Love" at the closing ceremony.
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Since 2004, she has been busy in the role of Aldonsa-Dulcinea in the play "The Man from La Mancha" at the Theater of the Russian Army, where she played in a duet with Vladimir Zeldin.
In 2000, Gverdtsiteli received Russian citizenship.
The singer has received many titles and awards. In 2004, she was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation. In 1991 she was awarded the title of People's Artist of Georgia, in 2006 - People's Artist of Ingushetia.
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Tamara Gverdtsiteli is rightly called a legend of the national stage, performing lyrical, patriotic songs, as well as Russian and Georgian romances. Over the years of her career, the artist has found her audience, who try not to miss any of her concerts. At one time, Tamara could do what she loved in France and America, but because of her love for Russia, she invariably returned to Moscow.
Gverdtsiteli is usually not verbose when it comes to her personal life, however, in one interview she admitted that now her family consists of her mother and son, who is preparing to defend his dissertation in London. The artist cannot imagine herself without music, so she cannot be just a wife or lover, perhaps because of this her relationship with men does not add up.
Tamara was born in 1962 in Tbilisi. Her descendants were aristocrats, descendants of an ancient Georgian family. The grandmother of the future singer taught music, her father was a programmer, studied cybernetics, and her mother, Jewish by nationality, grew up in Odessa and worked as a teacher for many years. She also has a younger brother, Pavel, who is an engineer. Parents tried to give their children a comprehensive education, so the girl studied music and sang, becoming a soloist in a children's ensemble. After leaving school, she studied at the conservatory and performed at competitions, where she was able to repeatedly win.
After the performance of the songs "Music" and "Blossom, my land", fame came to the aspiring singer. Gverdtsiteli performed not only for her compatriots: she sang at festivals in Sopot and San Remo, and in 1991 she was introduced to the French audience, whom the Georgian beauty was also able to conquer. I got acquainted with her work and the public from America, where Tamara went in 1995. In 1989, her talent was noted: the singer was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR, and in 2004 she became the People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
In the photo Tamara Gverdtsiteli with her family: first husband Giorgi Kakhabrishvili and son Sandro
There were three marriages in Gverdtsiteli's personal life. In 1984, she married theater director Georgy Kakhabrishvili, who was much older than the bride. She met her future husband when he invited her to play in his production. In 1986, their son Sandro was born. However, the baby did not hold together the spouses, who began to quarrel due to the fact that the singer often had to go on tour. In 1995, the couple broke up.
Acquaintance with her second husband, lawyer Dmitry, happened in America, where Tamara was on a big tour. The man was originally from Baku, but at that time he settled in Boston. A vivid feeling flared up between them, but a year and a half later, Dmitry died due to a long-standing heart disease. The singer tried to improve her personal life for the third time, and her chosen one was the surgeon Sergei Ambatelo, whom she met during health problems. However, this union did not become long-term, and at the end of 2005 the couple divorced.
In the photo Tamara Gverdtsiteli with her only son Alexander Kakhabrishvili (Sandro)
Tamara does not hide the fact that now her heart is free, but she does not feel lonely, as she is surrounded by family and friends. Also, the star maintains a good relationship with the father of her only son. Sandro did not follow in the footsteps of his mother, choosing a different path. The young man was educated in America, and now he is studying in the UK and is already preparing to defend his dissertation, the theme of which is the study of the culture of the 20th century. He has not yet married, but the singer herself hopes that his future wife will be an educated and intelligent girl, a Georgian by nationality.
But the new lover of Gverdtsiteli, according to her confession, should know her songs and work, and also understand that she is primarily an artist. Despite the fact that the star loves home comfort and can cook a delicious meal, she is not going to be a housewife and wait for her husband to come home from work.
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Published on 01/17/2017
As one amazing pop artist said - a woman should be able to proudly wear her age. The author of this quote is the incomparable Tamara Gverdtsiteli. The biography of this stately and bright woman is filled with a musical "flavor". She is one of the most beautiful and talented singers of the post-Soviet and modern stage. She is admired. She is loved. She is worshiped by millions.
Childhood and early years
The main tool for tracing the path of a person's ascent to the heights of a career is a biography. Tamara Gverdtsiteli was born in the homeland of cognac and wine - in Georgia. There, on a winter day on January 18, 1962, in the city of Tbilisi, the future artist was born. Her mother instilled her love for music. Thanks to her, Tamara sang from an early age, and at the age of three she zealously practiced on an old home piano: she selected notes for famous compositions. The giftedness of her daughter did not go unnoticed, and the girl entered a music school.
Victory at the Golden Orpheus musical talent competition (1988), performances in Poland and Italy - her biography begins to replenish with bright events. Tamara Gverdtsiteli a year later becomes a well-deserved artist in her homeland. In 1991, the performer is already known to the public as the People's Artist of Georgia. Her concerts and performances gather thousands of audiences.
World fame
In the same year, the talented performer met Monsieur Legrand (composer, author of music for the famous film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg"). This meeting gave Tamara a contract with an amazing musician. This was followed by a concert in one of the most famous concert halls in the world - Olympia.
After 4 years, Tamara Gverdtsiteli performs at Carnegie Hall in the USA. After which she decides to stay in America. First, the performer lives in New York, and then moves to Boston. In 1996, the first album of the singer “Thank you, music, to you!” was released.
After some time, Tamara returns to Russia, where she continues her concert activities, records albums and, at the same time, acts in films and participates in performances. Success throughout the country was marked by the assignment of the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation to the talented singer. This happened in 2004.
A year later, she made her debut on the stage of the Theater of the Russian Army, where she successfully played Dulcinea in the production of The Man from La Mancha. As a movie actress, she first appeared on the screens in the film "Stalin's Wife". It was also the debut of the director of this tape - Mira Todorovskaya.
Personal life
A million audience looks with mute admiration at the creative successes achieved by this brilliant performer - Tamara Gverdtsiteli. Biography, personal life and family are sometimes more interesting to the public than their mistress. Journalists need sensations, and ordinary people need the feeling that stars are ordinary people with the same troubles as everyone else. If in the creative field the performer has achieved high results and worldwide recognition, then her personal side of life cannot please.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli was married three times. With their first husband, George, they had a son, Alexander. The second marriage "knocked on the door" to the performer in the United States. Her husband was businessman Dmitry, who died in 1998. With her third husband, cardiac surgeon Sergei Ambatelo, Tamara lived for 4 years. Then followed a divorce.
Tamara (Tamriko) Gverdtsiteli is an honored and people's artist, singer, pianist, actress and composer. Performs songs in more than ten languages of the world. She was born in January 1962 in Tbilisi. Father - from the ancient Georgian noble family Gverdtsiteli. Mother is Jewish.
She has been involved in music since the age of seven. In the early 70s she became a soloist of one of the children's ensembles, with whom she toured the country a lot.
In the late 70s, she graduated from high school and entered the Tbilisi Conservatory, the piano and composition department, and also graduated from the vocal department of the college. Repeatedly participated in various festivals and competitions and took, if not victorious, then certainly prize-winning places. In the early 90s, she performed for the first time in Paris, winning the love and recognition of the Parisians. Later she performed in New York and Boston.
Personal life
Was married three times. From her first marriage in 1986 she gave birth to a son, Alexander. The second husband Dmitry, a lawyer by profession, died of a heart attack. She divorced her third husband, Sergei (cardiac surgeon), at the end of 2005.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli's apartment
The singer has a country house in the suburbs, in the design of which she expressed her love for France and Tbilisi. I added a large fireplace and candlesticks, donated by Sergei Parajanov, to the interior. The decor is full of warm wood and furniture brought from all over the world.
But she still considers herself a city dweller and prefers to live in the city, so in the mid-2000s, with the help of Luzhkov, she was able to purchase housing in Moscow on Krasnoproletarskaya Street. At this address there is not only an apartment, but also a workshop of the singer.
She developed the number of rooms and the interior on her own and settled on four: her own bedroom and bedrooms for mom and son, a kitchen and a huge living room, visually divided into several zones. On one side is a soft area for relaxing and watching TV, on the other is a dining area, and on the third is a snow-white piano, which she periodically moves to the window. Previously, the artist had a black piano, but she decided to give it to a music school, and friends presented her a new piano for her birthday. Next to it lies a handmade carpet of 1930, it was presented by friends from Azerbaijan.
The overall design style is designed in classic colors, with unobtrusive interior elements. All walls in the classic Georgian design are painted white. The hostess ordered light-colored furniture from an Italian store located nearby, but she inherited something. For example: a suitcase made of genuine leather with metal rivets passed to her from her ancestors, and in America she was presented with a small bookcase and a vase from Versace. The whole interior consists of all these items, as well as wardrobe items and small souvenirs and paintings.
All the walls are hung with paintings by famous Georgian artists, but a special place is occupied by a painting by Sergei Parajanov, under which a composition is built from a chest of drawers, on which there is a jug and a woman's hat made of shells and flowers. In the dining room, there has recently been an antique sideboard, which houses a cupronickel coffee service brought from Paris.
Since there is no dressing room for stage costumes in the apartment itself, and they require a lot of space, they are stored in the workshop. Over time, scores and notes began to accumulate in all the rooms, for which there were no cabinets, so now the hostess turned to a familiar architect to think over special shelving.
Fans are another passion of the hostess. They are laid out everywhere and even special glass cabinets are installed for them. Even at the age of twenty, after one of the concerts in Spain, one of the fans gave her the first fan. Since then, if she meets this accessory somewhere in an unusual design or finish, she will definitely purchase it in her collection.
Recently, Tamara Mikhailovna has been actively engaged in repairs. She plans to radically change the interior and this time she is helped by a professional architect.
According to CIAN, 4-room apartments on Krasnoproletarskaya Street are offered at prices ranging from 34 to 85 million rubles.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli is a wonderful singer who has managed to become a real symbol of Georgia over the years. Her music intoxicates and bewitches, and therefore at present the life and fate of her beloved artist is always in sight.
But what do we know about the singer, whose name has long become a kind of synonym for musical art in the CIS? We decided today to sort everything out and trace the entire life of the singer. Are you with us? It will be interesting.
Early years, childhood and the family of Tamara Gverdtsiteli
Tamara Gverdtsiteli was born on January 18, 1962 in the city of Tbilisi. Her family was international. The father was a representative of an ancient Georgian family. And my mother, Jewish by nationality, was born and raised in Odessa. As noted in most sources, it was she who at one time insisted that her daughter begin to study music.Already at preschool age, the woman took Tamara to a music school operating at the Tbilisi Conservatory. And subsequently, she always supported her daughter in everything.
Perhaps, thanks to the help of her mother, our today's heroine, already in childhood, began to surprise everyone with her bright musical talents. In the early seventies, she began to perform as part of the Mziuri children's ensemble, with which she very soon began touring the cities and towns of the Soviet Union.
After graduating from secondary school, our today's heroine began to improve her musical skills at the Tbilisi Conservatory. In this place, she studied piano and musical composition. In addition, later the artist also graduated from a special music college, in which she honed her vocal skills for some time.
Having received the necessary education, Tamara Gverdtsiteli began to often give concerts in various Georgian houses of culture, and also regularly appear at music competitions in different parts of the USSR. At the age of nineteen, the artist became the winner of the Sochi Red Carnation competition, as well as the second prize winner of the Dnepropetrovsk festival.
In 1982, our today's heroine managed to cross the borders of the Soviet Union, presenting herself at a song contest in Dresden, Germany. Subsequently, our today's heroine also successfully performed at festivals in Polish Sopot, Italian San Remo and many other cities. In 1988, the singer won the Bulgarian Golden Orpheus competition, after which she became very popular in the USSR and beyond.
Star Trek of the singer Tamara Gverdtsiteli
Tamara began her journey on the Soviet stage with two albums presented to the public in the eighties. Both discs had rather strange names for modern listeners - “Debut. Tamara Gverdtsiteli (minion)" and "Music: Tamara Gverdtsiteli sings."T. Gverdtsiteli D. Dyuzhev - Juno and Avos - I won't forget you
In addition, in the eighties, the artist managed to release a huge number of hits that instantly became popular in the USSR. It is noteworthy that already in this period the songs of the artist were distinguished by polylingualism. Tamara sang in Georgian, Ukrainian, English, French, Spanish, Russian and other languages. Some of the singer's compositions were performed as part of certain cinematic films.
In 1989, the success of the Georgian singer was noted in her homeland. Our today's heroine received the title of Honored Artist of the GSSR. Two years later, the singer also became the People's Artist of Georgia.
Subsequently, many prestigious state awards were presented to the singer in other states. In 2004, our today's heroine became the People's Artist of Russia. Her track record also includes the titles of the People's Artist of Ingushetia, the order “For the revival of Russia. XXI century”, the Order of Honor, the “Guardian of Peace” award, as well as a huge number of other awards of the most diverse kind.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli - Dedication to a Woman
Returning to the theme of her musical work, we note that, unlike many other singers, Tamara Gverdtsiteli did not get lost on stage even after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Over the years, she released fourteen studio albums (twelve after the collapse of the USSR), and also took part in an unimaginable number of concerts, festivals, and competitions. In many reviews of young performers, the Georgian artist participated as a member of the jury or an honored guest.
In 1991, Tamara Gverdtsiteli began performing on the European stage. Having signed a contract with the composer Michel Legrand, the artist performed at the Paris Olympia, after which she became a frequent guest in France.
Over the years, her concerts were held in the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, as well as many other countries in Western and Central Europe.
In recent years, the artist often tours the cities of the CIS. In the late 2000s, Tamara Gverdtsiteli often sang on the stage of the Dnepropetrovsk Opera House, where she performed for some time with the Italian Giovanni Ribichiesu. Subsequently, our today's heroine took part in several musical productions of the Theater of the Russian Army. At a certain period of time, Tamara Gverdtsiteli often performed with actor and singer Dmitry Dyuzhev.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli today
In 2006 and 2010, our today's heroine also worked as an actress. So, in particular, the artist starred in the films "Stalin's Wife" and "House of Exemplary Content".Over the years, the Georgian singer also participated in the projects of the Russian First Channel "Phantom of the Opera" and "Two Stars".
Today, the artist, as before, gives concerts and performs with various musical programs.
Personal life of Tamara Gverdtsiteli
In the life of the artist there were three spouses. For nine years, the artist was married to the director and head of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of Georgia, Giorgi Kakhabrishvili. In this marriage, the son of celebrities, Sandro (born 1986), was born. 
Subsequently, the artist was also married to a Baku lawyer named Dmitry. The second husband of the singer emigrated to the United States, where a few years later he died of a long-standing heart disease.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli also did not live long with her third husband. The marriage with cardiac surgeon Sergei Ambatelo broke up in 2005 after several years of marriage.
