Nobody in the world knows Soviet and Russian pop musicians. Especially in the West. Nevertheless, musicians from Russia at different times fell into the Western charts.
All attempts to promote and impose our popular music on the Western public failed. Russian pop music is very secondary and backward, both technologically and stylistically.
But it has already become a good tradition to hang noodles to the Russian public about the successes of certain performers in the West. It comes down to the ridiculous.
Kirkorov traveled to Monte Carlo for The World Music Awards - a show of the best-selling artists in their countries, while finding a person in Russia who has Kirkorov's album is quite difficult. Pugachev, as you know, in 1997 took only 15 place out of 25 at the useless Eurovision.
Sergey Lazarev sings in English for some reason, the human brain is generally unable to master it. Iosif Prigozhin, whose obsession was to push Valeria to the West, once stated in a paid article in a British newspaper that his wife had sold 100 million albums in Russia.
Timati's rapper had the biggest success when the Swiss DJ Antoine made a remix for Timati's song Welcome to St. Tropez. The song went around the top of the charts in the world, except for the UK and the US. In Switzerland, the song took sixth place at the end of the year. This is the peak for our variety performers lately.
Which of our musicians really achieved high places in the Western (and this, in the musical sense, primarily the USA and Great Britain) charts and is generally more or less known in the West.
1. Composer Aram Khachaturian - 1972
One of the recordings of the music of his ballet "Spartacus" called Spartacus, which Khachaturian made together with the London Symphony Orchestra, hit the British album chart in 1972, reached the 16th position and lasted 15 weeks in it.
By the way, his music is so popular in the world that it was even used in such famous films as Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, James Cameron's Aliens and Tinto Brass's Caligula.
2. Boris Grebenshchikov - 1989
His album Radio Silence, released in England and the US, reached #198 on the Billboard200, despite being recorded with the then super-popular Eurythmics. In the video - BG's performance on the popular TV show David Letterman.
3. Gorky Park-1990
The success of Gorky Park in the US cannot be overstated. They did not conquer America. One need only look at their achievements in the charts. In the Billboard Hot 100, they were noted only by the single Try To Find Me (81st place and 6 weeks on the chart), and on the Billboard 200 - the album Gorky Park (80th place and 21 weeks on the chart).
But Gorky Park sold well in general - 300 thousand copies sold in America alone - this is a very good result. The group achieved much more success in Scandinavia. Gorky Park in Norway took 9th place, and the single Bang - 5th. In Denmark, the album Moscow Calling even went platinum.
4. Alsu-2000
With the song Before You Love Me "under Britney Spears" she got to 27th place for only a week, during the period when they tried to promote it in Europe after 2nd place at Eurovision.
5. PPK-2001
The Rostov trance project PPK with the release of a separate single ResuRection (Eduard Artemiev's melody from the film "Siberiada" by Andrei Konchalovsky with the voice of Yuri Gagarin) debuted in the UK immediately in third place!
The song became the first track from Russia to get into the hot rotation of the BBC Radio One radio station. Then ResuRection was released in other countries, where it also charted successfully - 5th in the Netherlands, 9th in Belgium, and 15th in France and 36th in Australia.
6. Tattoo-2003
In 2002, the English version of their album "200 in the opposite direction" was released and "Tatu" became generally the most popular Russian group in the world. The girls did not become stars of the first magnitude, and their success was not so long, but they sold about 10 million of their records abroad. This is an unattainable result for Russian performers.
The English-language album is now gold in four countries and platinum in Europe as a whole, the song "All the Things She Said" occupied the first line of the British chart for several weeks, and the cover of The Smiths in 2009 sounded in the TV series "Gossip Girl".
7. Leonid Agutin - 2007
The author of The Barefoot Boy and husband of Anzhelika Varum graduated from the Moscow Jazz School and from his youth was fond of not only pop music, but also a variety of acoustic guitar music - from jazz to flamenco. In the early 2000s, Agutin began to play concerts, and then he recorded the album "Cosmopolitan Life" together with Al di Meola, an American virtuoso of the genre. In Germany, the album had more than good sales.
8. Eduard Khil - 2009
A famous, sad and beautiful story, as a result of which the great pop singer is known in the world as "Mr. Trololo". On November 26, 2009, a RealPapaPit user uploaded the vocalization "I'm very happy because I'm finally returning home" to YouTube - today this video has 19 million 700 thousand views.
They say that the singer was even offered an international tour - but he refused. Both Gawker and The New York Times wrote about Khil's death.
9. Pussy Riot-2012
This is the only group here that has not been on the Western charts, but it is impossible not to mention it. Musically, it's a comical story. The group, not a single song of which no one really heard anywhere, has become the most famous musical group from Russia in recent times. Suffice it to say that in the West the Cathedral of Christ the Savior is known as the Pussy Riot Church.
Shortly after the arrest of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich, musicians around the world began to support them, ranging from Madonna and Paul McCartney to Mike Patton and The Knife and Die Antwoord.
10. Anna Netrebko - 2007-present
The opera singer was able to achieve real world fame, including the United States. She enjoys particular success in Austria, where she received citizenship. Also lives in New York. Her recordings are constantly on the classical music charts, but in some countries they also get into the general music charts. Especially in Austria and Germany. So 15 Netrebko albums got into the Austrian chart .
Bonus: The World's Most Famous Russian Music Video
Bloody viral hit "Bad Motherfucker" by the Russian band Biting Elbows, filmed in the first person and therefore more like an action video game than a music video. The clip was publicly noted by Samuel L. Jackson and Darren Aronofsky. 24.6 million views on Youtube.
, .Turning on the TV, we watch all sorts of shows, performances of our favorite artists without even guessing about their nationality. All the heroes of our article are Jews, and this is not bad at all, just looking at these artists it is very difficult to guess that they were born in a Jewish family, or at least one of the parents was a Jew. We present to your attention a list of famous artists, about whom you would never think that they are Jews.
Leonid Agutin (Leonty Nikolaevich Chizhov)
Soviet and Russian singer, songwriter, composer, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Born in Moscow, in a Jewish family of musician and tour manager Nikolai Petrovich and primary school teacher Lyudmila Leonidovna (nee Shkolnikova).
Angelica Varum (real name Maria Yurievna Varum)
Born in Lvov in the family of composer Yuri Ignatievich Varum and theater director Galina Mikhailovna Shapovalova. Tinned artist of the Russian Federation.
Father Yuri Ignatievich (Itskhakovich) Varum recalls: "My grandfather's surname is Robak, he comes from Warsaw, where my father was born. When the Second World War began, his brothers and sisters, forced to flee Poland, decided to take a rare surname" Varum " "so that after the war it would be easier to find each other. Stuck in Warsaw, my grandfather Yudka died in the ghetto along with his whole family. A deeply religious man, he enjoyed great authority, people came to him, like a rabbi, for advice, resolving controversial issues."
Larisa Alexandrovna Dolina (Larisa Alexandrovna Kudelman)
Soviet and Russian pop and jazz singer, actress. People's Artist of the Russian Federation. She was born in Baku in a Jewish family of builder Alexander Markovich Kudelman and typist Galina Izrailevna Kudelman (née Dolina). At the age of three, she moved with her parents to Odessa, her parents' hometown.
Oleg Mikhailovich Gazmanov
Soviet and Russian pop singer, composer and poet, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Technical Sciences. Father, Major Mikhail Semyonovich Gazmanov, was a professional military man, a Tatar by nationality; mother, Zinaida Abramovna (1920-2006) - a cardiologist in a military hospital, Jewish by nationality.
Tamara (Tamriko) Mikhailovna Gverdtsiteli
Soviet, Georgian and Russian singer, actress, composer, Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1989), People's Artist of Georgia (1991), People's Artist of Ingushetia, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
"I am a man of the world. I grew up in an international family. My father is Georgian. I am as emotional as he is. And my mother is Jewish. Here I am in her mind. For Georgians, I am Tamara Gverdtsiteli, and for Jews - Tamara Kofman - Gverdtsiteli I was born and raised by a Jewish mother, and over the years I feel more and more of my Jewish genes. Do I feel that I belong to the Jewish people? can only be explained by the feelings that I have in relation to my mother and to the closest people ... My grandfather Vladimir Abramovich, whom I remember very well, belonged to the Kaufman family. After the revolution, part of the family emigrated from Russia. "
Jasmine
Russian pop singer, actress, model, TV presenter. Honored Artist of the Republic of Dagestan. She was born into a family of Mountain Jews. My great-grandmother lives in Israel.
Leonidov Maxim Leonidovich
Born in the family of actors of the Leningrad Academic Comedy Theater, Honored Artists of the RSFSR Lyudmila Alexandrovna Lyulko and one of the founders of the famous skits Leonid Efimovich Leonidov (real name Shapiro). The famous Russian singer lived in Israel for six years, recorded two music albums (in Hebrew and Russian), played in a musical, starred in a movie. And then he returned to his native St. Petersburg, recorded his hit about “Vision Girl”. Now Maxim lives in Russia, but continues to love Israel
Lolita Markovna Milyavskaya (Lolita Markovna Gorelik)
Russian pop singer, actress, TV presenter and director. Mom, singer, worked in a jazz band. My father worked with my mother as an entertainer, conducted the orchestra. During the tour of her parents, little Lolita was brought up by her grandmother. In 1972, the parents divorced, in 1974, the father emigrated abroad to Israel.
Boris Mikhailovich Moiseev
Soviet and Russian dancer, choreographer, pop singer. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
In the English wiki there is a hint of nationality, in the Russian one there is not. He was born in prison, as his mother, dissatisfied with the authorities, was a political prisoner in those years. He spent his childhood in a small Jewish ghetto in the provincial Mogilev.
Marina Arnoldovna Khlebnikova
Soviet and Russian pop singer and TV presenter.
Khlebnikova was invited to the Jewish theater "Sholom" "- Why do you think you were invited to play in this performance?
- Don't know. The reason was probably the fact that I was a student of Joseph Davydovich Kobzon. Second, now I have a name. And for the theatre, this series of performances would be a bright spot. Perhaps the recommendations of Clara Novikova also played a role. And most importantly, of course, the roots.
Mikhail Borisovich Turetsky
Russian singer and conductor. Founder, artistic director and art director of the art group Turetsky Choir and Soprano 10. People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Born into a Jewish family of immigrants from Belarus. Father - Boris Borisovich Epshtein. She bears her mother's surname, since all relatives on her side died during the Holocaust and, moreover, she looks like a Russian.
Mikhail Zakharovich Shufutinsky
Russian pop singer, pianist and composer. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
Born into a Jewish family of war veteran and doctor Zakhar Davidovich
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Alexander Nikolaevich Uman and Igor Mikhailovich Bortnik - both left for Israel, Bortnik served in the army.
Elena Vorobey (real name Elena Yakovlevna Lebenbaum)
Russian pop actress, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Born in a Jewish family of Yankel Movshevich Lebenbaum and his wife Nina Lvovna.
Clara Novikova
Born in Kyiv, in the family of a front-line soldier, director of a shoe store in Podil, Boris Zinovievich Herzer. The Jewish woman Klara Novikova reigns supreme among women in the kingdom of the Russian conversational genre. The Russian surname Novikova came from her first musician husband.
Maxim Alexandrovich Galkin
A popular Russian parodist, humorist, TV presenter, film actor and singer. Currently married to Alla Pugacheva. A family from a small village near Chelyabinsk. I even managed to write down something from my grandmother's memoirs. On my father's side, there were Larins in our family. According to my mother - Odessa Jews
Alexander Viktorovich Kutikov
Famous Soviet and Russian musician, composer, vocalist, music producer. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Born into a Jewish family.
Valery Miladovich Syutkin
Russian singer and musician, author of lyrics for the rock and roll band Bravo. Honored Artist of Russia, Artistic Director of the Variety Department of the Moscow State University for the Humanities. M.A. Sholokhov.
Mom was born in Moscow, on Samoteka. Her maiden name is Brzhezidskaya, she is of Polish and Odessa blood. To put it bluntly (laughs). So I'm a normal Polish Odessa citizen. I have Jewish roots. From my mother… I am familiar with Jewish traditions.
Ukupnik Arkady Semyonovich
Born on February 18, 1953, Kamenetz-Podolsky, Khmelnitsky region. Composer, pop singer, producer of the CAR-MAN group, director of the Galla and Alla studios. "I was born in Ukraine. There, from the age of 5, I learned what it means to be a Jew, to be" a stranger among my own " "When I arrived in Moscow as an adult, I immediately noted that there is no such harsh attitude towards Jews as in Ukraine. Since then, I have achieved a lot in my life. And much has changed in the country. And, nevertheless, I am very worried about that there is MEOC, and that here I am always "one of my own".
Vladimir Natanovich Vinokur
Soviet and Russian humorist, singer and TV presenter. Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR. Born into a Jewish family of the builder Natan Lvovich Vinokur.
A person cannot live without music, it is so strange that he is arranged. Music and songs are always in our heads and souls throughout our lives. Who in Russia contributes to what we hear and what we listen to? Let's talk about "women who sing ...".
The youngest female singers
The Russian stage today is “staffed”, and new young stars appear less and less on it. Although, it is worth noting that our singers look so good on stage and screens that it is difficult to guess their age.
But just a couple of years ago, the music charts were attacked by very young singers. Largely thanks to the "Star Factory" at concerts and on the radio, girls began to appear more and more often, who were far from even coming of age. The Forge of Stars presented the stage with Julia Savicheva, Victoria Daineko, Polina Gagarina and many other beautiful and talented singers. Today, these girls have already achieved a lot: they have their own albums, awards, participation in the most prestigious competitions and charts. But, alas, age takes its toll, and they no longer fall into the top three of the rating “The Youngest Singers of Russia in 2015”.
Of course, it is indecent to find out and announce the age of a woman, so let's talk about only three of the fair sex with good vocal abilities. You can still not hide the age of these singers, but, on the contrary, be proud that in their years the girls became famous:
3. Yulia Parshuta (former member of the Yin-Yang group), a native of the resort city of Sochi. She turned 27 this year.
2. Nyusha (Anna Vladimirovna Shurochkina), place of birth, Moscow, will celebrate her 25th anniversary in August this year.
3. Nyuta Ranetka (Anna Dmitrievna Baidavletova) is from Stavropol. In November of this year, the talented and cheerful girl will turn 23 years old.
Honored and beloved singers of Russia
Everything comes and goes, but art and music live forever. Just like the music, songs and singers that we know and love for a very long time live in our hearts. For many, they evoke warm memories of childhood, carefree youth or blooming youth. Their songs are stories of love, sadness, joy and fate.
Folk singers of Russia are whole epochs both in the musical annals of the country and in the life of almost every citizen. There may be plenty of merit, awards and victories in various tops, but not everyone is awarded the title of "People's Artist of Russia (RSFSR, USSR)".
1. Pugacheva A. B. received this title in 1985, 1980 and 1991.
2. Rotaru S. M. - in 1988
3. Allegrova I. A. - in 2010
4. Zykina L. G. - in 1973
5. Tolkunova V. V - in 1987
The most persistent
Musical tastes change with each new generation. Once loved romances, then - rock and roll, music in the style of pop, chanson, rap, and so on ad infinitum. It is very difficult to always be on the crest of a musical wave. But there are Russian singers whom we have known for a very long time, they grow creatively and change before the eyes of their beloved listeners.
Valeria recorded her first album in 1992. By the way, a few years ago she received the title of "People's Artist". To date, the singer has 15 albums (56 singles).
Anzhelika Varum released her first album in 1991, 13 albums have been released to date.
Kristina Orbakaite released her first album in 1994, since then more than 150 songs, 10 albums have been released. Christina also participates in musicals, theatrical productions and acts in films.
Of course, these are not all Russian singers who have long delighted listeners with their singles. These are just three of the leaders who were popular at the beginning of the career ladder and are not losing ground to this day.
Most Popular Female Singers
In musical circles, various ratings are very often compiled. Every music show, radio station, TV channel, print publication and website considers it their duty to compile a list of the most popular musicians.
So, today the popular singers of Russia are the following representatives of the musical world:
Ani Lorak;
Elena Vaenga;
Polina Gagarina;
Anna Netrebko;
Vera Brezhneva;
The most scandalous singers
Russian singers do not earn their popularity with singles alone. Often, information from their personal lives leaks into the press at the suggestion of the artists themselves. So that the listener does not forget about the artist, even when he has a sabbatical, you need to make sure that they talk about him. Here the stars go to various tricks to raise at least a little hype around their name.
Nyusha's outfits always arouse interest and long discussions. Fashion critics and reporters go to her concerts with curiosity to express their opinion about scandalous and revealing costumes.
Masha Rasputina was famous for her spectacular introductions from the first years on the stage. Her appearance on stage and in the hall attracted the eyes of viewers, who watched the eccentric singer with surprise and a smile.
The viewer did not know what to see when Lolita Milyavskaya sings on stage. She always brought a spark to the concert program.
The plastic surgery of the singer Sasha Project has also become a scandalous topic.
The press informs the fans about the illness stories of the artists with lightning speed. Not so long ago, everyone was worried about Zhanna Friske and was horrified at how the fate of Tamara Miansarova turned out.
Modern show business surprises every year with new faces. New popular Russian singers appear on the starry Olympus more and more often, delighting fans with original, and sometimes quite banal repertoire.
The most popular singers in Russia shine at the largest concert venues, decorate glossy magazines, perform at important events and excite fans from TV screens.
Often, popular Russian singers try themselves in a different role, acting in films, or trying themselves as leading grandiose television projects, but at the same time they manage to successfully perform and tour not only in Russia, but also abroad.
Popular singers of Russia, who have long taken their place in the depths of show business, and already have their own audience of listeners and fans, cannot always boast of only impeccable vocal abilities, they have a special charm, charisma, and, to be honest, chic external data that are a defining feature of their development in show business.
Young popular Russian singers are confidently competing with Russian celebrities of the older generation, offering the public new songs, new presentation, new creative experiments.
Many popular singers in Russia, despite their star status, are very simple and open people who do not have star disease at all.
But there are popular Russian singers whose pathos rolls over. They are stellar in their behavior, in their demands, in their lifestyle.
Such popular Russian singers are not just artists, they behave and present themselves like true stars, which often stand out among the general mass of famous personalities in the world of show business.
Also in our photo top are popular Russian singers from young talents who have been on the stage for only a few years, but are already gathering thousands of concert halls, delighting their fans with good music.
And who, in your opinion, should receive the status of the most popular singer in Russia. Is he on our list of the most popular Russian singers? If not, tell me who he is - the most famous singer in Russia ...
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Popular Russian singer Sergey Lazarev 
Our list of the most popular singers in Russia could not help but include the king of Russian pop music Philip Kirkorov 
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The legend of the Russian stage and the now quite successful popular singer of Russia Valery Leontiev 
The most popular Russian singers: rapper Timati 
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Long-haired, but still very popular Russian singer Leonid Agutin 
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The most popular singers in Russia: handsome brunette Dmitry Koldun 
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