Its popularity has not waned. What is her secret, read on.
Comes from childhood
Igor Krutoy was born in 1954 in Ukraine. In Gaivoron, Kirovograd region, he spent his childhood. Parents are ordinary people. My father worked as a forwarder for Radiodetal, my mother worked as a laboratory assistant at the local sanitary and epidemiological station. 
Igor with his mother and sister
Good hearing in the child appeared early. Not a single school matinee was complete without Igor's accompaniment on the button accordion. It was thanks to the grasp of melodies and the natural ability to select melodies that he did not arouse suspicion among the teachers of the music school for six months: they were absolutely sure that the boy knew musical notation perfectly. I had to start from the basics. But Igor was stubborn from childhood, justifying his surname. In the 6th grade, he already led the school ensemble, and in the senior classes he organized dance evenings to the accordion. Therefore, they did not bother with the choice of a future profession for a long time. On the way to being a musician, on the advice of his mother, Igor began to prepare for entering a music school. For this, it was necessary to learn how to play the piano. A guy from a provincial town had to play scales for a whole year before he went to the district center to apply. From 1970 to 1974 Igor Krutoy is a student of the Kirovograd Musical College. He brilliantly graduated and dreamed of entering the Kyiv Conservatory. However, Igor was cut off in the history of the CPSU (most likely, there was another reason: the notorious fifth point then did not give a ticket to many talented people. The 70s was the heyday of anti-Semitism in the USSR. a certain nationality was almost impossible to enter). Igor had no choice but to return to his native Gayvoron and engage in teaching the younger generation to play the button accordion in the district. But he did not betray his dream of studying. In 1975, Igor became a student of the conducting department of the Nikolaev Musical and Pedagogical Institute. 
Studying away from home is unsweetened, you can’t live on one scholarship, and in the evenings Igor worked part-time in a restaurant, where he met Alexander Serov, who later brought the composer his first laurels. In 1979, Igor graduated from the university, in his immediate plans - the conservatory. And again he was disappointed. But he did not give up: the perseverance inherent in the surname manifested itself in full. Igor continues to work in restaurants, got a job at the VIA "Singing cabin boys" at the Nikolaev Philharmonic. This group was a favorite on all the dance floors of the city, it performed not only the popular songs of the Beatles, but also hits written by Krutoy. 
The talent did not go unnoticed, and Igor was invited to the Panorama Moscow Concert Orchestra. Here he met famous musicians: L. Smetannikov, V. Miguley, P. Bulbul ogly. And in 1980 he composed for the Blue Guitars. A year later, he already directs the ensemble of Valentina Tolkunova. In 1986, Igor entered the Saratov Conservatory. He became a student of the composer faculty. And a year later, Alexander Serov with "Madonna" Krutoy won the "Song of the Year 87". And in 1988, the same performer took first place in international competitions with Krutoy's songs "Inspiration" and "Destiny Spite". After this triumph, the first recognition of merit came to Igor. In 1988, she became a laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Honorary Prize.
Way to the top
Igor justifies the secret of his popularity not only with his talent. He believes that the surname also played a role. In the late 80s and early 90s, the word "cool" took on a different meaning. To become such meant to be the very best. Therefore, many believed that this is a pseudonym. In fact, the last name is real. It was worn not only by Igor's father Yakov Aleksandrovich, but also by his grandfather and great-grandfather. “The surname is destiny,” the composer thinks so. A lucky coincidence: a sonorous surname, the success of songs and the rise in popularity of this word. 
Since 1988, the songs of Igor Krutoy have been in the repertoire of many famous singers: A. Pugacheva, Irina Allegrova, Valery Leontiev, Laima Vaikule, Alexander Buinov. His hits are performed by Alexei Glyzin, Laura Fabian, Abraham Russo, Alsu, Igor Nikolaev, Mikhail Shufutinsky, Iosif Kobzon, Philip Kirkorov, Kristina Orbakaite, Vladimir Presnyakov, Lev Leshchenko, Sofia Rotaru, Nikolai Baskov and others. Igor Krutoy is known not only for his songs: he is also a great organizer, talented and enterprising producer. His firm "ARS" promotes young talents. It is he who produces the "New Wave", "Song of the Year", "Morning Mail", "Good Morning, Country!", "Hot Ten", "Sound Track". In addition, Krutoy's projects are the Muz-TV channel, Star Factory, he supports Love Radio and Radio Dacha, and is the founder of the Music1.ru music website. As he himself says: “My most successful project is Igor Krutoy.” Krutoy is also famous as a film composer. In 1989 he wrote the music for "A Souvenir for the Prosecutor", in 1991 for "The Thirst of Passion", and in 1992 for "The Devil's Hostages". All these melodies, as well as instrumental music, were included in his disc "Without Words", released in 2000. In 1992, he became an Honored Art Worker of Russia, in 1996 he was awarded the honorary title "People's Artist of Russia", and in 2011 th he was recognized as a People's Artist of Ukraine. In 2004, he tried himself as a rap artist in a duet with Raymond Pauls at the New Wave festival in Jurmala. In the same year he received his first award - the Order of Friendship, and in July 2009 - the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.
My family is my treasure
Wife
Igor Krutoy was twice. His first wife, Elena Krutaya, from Leningrad, gave birth to a son, Nikolai. 
His second wife, guiding star Olga Krutaya, who lives in New Jersey (USA), is engaged in business, raising Igor's daughter Alexandra. 
Krutoy's adopted daughter Victoria also bears his surname and followed in her stepfather's footsteps: she works in the dance music genre with American DJs. 
Sisters Alexandra and Victoria Cool
About his youngest daughter Sasha, the composer says that she is the “coolest” in their family. 
Igor Krutoy is a happy grandfather. Son Nikolai gave him a granddaughter Christina. 
Interesting Facts
Igor Krutoy has a younger sister, Alla Yakovlevna Baratta, now an American and Ukrainian TV presenter. Her husband is Italian American. She began working in Philadelphia in 1997, then on the satellite Russian-language channel RTVi with the program “Viz-Avi”. The heroes of her programs in different years were Russian and foreign celebrities: Mstislav Rostropovich, Alexei Yagudin, Ernst Neizvestny, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Alla Pugacheva, Rudy Giuliani and others. She has a daughter, Natalya, and a grandson, Yakov, named after his grandfather. Igor Krutoy is a fan of the Donetsk football club Shakhtar. ARS is not Serov's Artistic Joy, as many people think. The production center is named so because the word "ars" is translated from Latin as art. The name was really given to him by Alexander Serov.
Igor Krutoy is not only a composer. He sings his own songs and accompanies himself. In 2009, Igor received an unusual Silver Galosh award. She is awarded for dubious achievements in show business. The composer was awarded the Silver Galosh for "plagiarism". The organizers of this award found in his song "My finances sing romances" performed by Alexander Buinov "Beatle" notes. By tradition, Igor Krutoy celebrates his birthday in Jurmala at the New Wave festival. Igor Yakovlevich loves to dress from Armani. His culinary preferences are sushi, borscht. Igor Krutoy is a fan of the Beatles, Tom Jones and Muslim Magomayev. He considers himself a sex symbol for 65-70-year-olds. Igor Krutoy is the owner of a personalized star on the square near the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall. There are similar stars with his name in Jurmala and Kyiv. 
Personalized star in Jurmala 
Nominal star in Kyiv From 1987 to 1999 he released 14 discs. Igor Krutoy lives and works in Moscow. In the ranking of the most successful producers, he competes with Igor Matvienko, sharing the first place. Under the auspices of the ARS company in Moscow in 1995, a concert of Jose Careros was held at the Bolshoi Theater, and in 1996 at the Dynamo Stadium - Michael Jackson.
In 2011, he bought a luxury apartment in Manhattan (New York) with an area of 560 sq. meters overlooking Central Park. 
Krutoy's apartment in New York on the 12th floor above the famous Plaza Hotel 
luxury interior
Igor Krutoy: the biography, personal life of the famous maestro are interesting to his fans, since his fate, like that of any truly creative and extraordinary personality, consists of ups and downs. Everything that Igor Yakovlevich has now - prosperity, recognition and unprecedented popularity - he owes to many years of work, sincere devotion to his beloved work and, of course, talent and charisma.
The hard way into music
Igor Krutoy is an interesting person in all respects, he is interesting both as a musician and as a man. At the same time, it doesn’t matter to women how old Krutoy is. He is absolutely ageless.
The future famous composer was not born and grew up in a creative family: Yakov Alexandrovich, the father of the musician, worked at the factory as a freight forwarder, and his mother, Svetlana Semyonovna, was a former laboratory assistant at the sanitary and epidemiological station.
Igor was not the only child in the family: he has a younger sister, Alla, after whose birth Svetlana Semyonovna left her job and devoted herself to caring for children and providing a strong rear for her husband. Currently, my sister lives in the USA and works as a TV presenter.
From early childhood, Igor literally lived with music, the ability for which manifested itself already at such a tender age. And then my mother decided to take the boy to a music school. Already in his school years, the boy could rightfully be considered a real star:
- on all holidays, Igor accompanied the school choir on the button accordion;
- in the sixth grade, he created the first creative brainchild - his ensemble.
After leaving school, Igor, like any graduate, faced the choice of a profession. On the advice of Svetlana Semyonovna, who takes an active part in her son's musical life, the guy tried to enter a music school. But here the first creative failure awaited him: one of the prerequisites for passing the entrance exams was the possession of the piano. I had to postpone admission for a year and study the instrument, which only benefited the career of a musician.
Obstacles and achievements
The youth of Igor Krutoy was also filled with music. And on the creative path to the starry sky, new thorns were waiting for him.
Having graduated with honors in 1970 from the theoretical department of the Kirovograd Musical College, the young man decided to try his luck at the Kyiv Conservatory, but did not enter.
After working for a year as a teacher at a music school in his native Gayvoron, Krutoy became a student at the conducting department of the Musical Pedagogical Institute in the city of Nikolaev.
Combining his studies with work as a waiter in a restaurant, Igor met Alexander Serov. The meeting became fateful - he began to write songs for the performer.
The further creative fate of Krutoy is interesting and rich:
- In 1979, Krutoy received an invitation to work in the Moscow Panorama Orchestra, where Vladimir Migulya also worked. And later he moved to the Blue Guitars ensemble;
- After 2 years, Igor Krutoy was offered a position as a pianist in the ensemble of Valentina Tolkunova with subsequent leadership;
- In 1986, Krutoy again became a student, but after studying for a year at the Saratov Conservatory, he took the documents.
Glory comes to the maestro
A year later, his first hit "Madonna" was released to the verses of Rimma Kazakova, which, as you know, was performed by Alexander Serov. Following "Madonna", "How to be", and "Wedding Music", also performed by Serov, were born. The talented composer was noticed by megastars Valery Leontiev, Sofia Rotaru, Lev Leshchenko and other equally famous performers.
They still use his services to this day. Besides, performs songs to his music and the younger generation of performers:
- Marina Khlebnikova;
- Alsu;
- Nikolay Baskov;
- Zhenya Gor and some graduates of the Star Factory.
In 1997, Igor Krutoy himself sang: the song "Unfinished Romance", which he performed in a duet with Irina Allegrova, became a real hit.
In 1989 Igor Krutoy became artistic director of ARS- youth center.
Over the 9 years of the company's existence, Krutoy has grown to the position of its president. "ARS" contributed to popular programs: "Song of the Year", "Sound Track" and "Morning Mail" (later - "Good morning, country!").
In 1994, Igor Krutoy began to arrange creative evenings, where both already well-known performers and young ones were invited, for whom such evenings were a chance to prove themselves. The event was also a success in other countries.
In 2000, Krutoy released his own album called Without Words.
In 2003, due to the Star Factory-4 scandal, Krutoy became an unwanted person for Channel One for several years.
Composer's personal life
In Leningrad, in 1979, after 3 days of dating, Igor proposed to the girl Elena, to which she agreed. In 1981, Elena gave birth to a son, Nikolai. The divorce on her initiative was so painful that for some time Elena prevented the meetings of father and son.
At the celebration of the New Year in New York, with the light hand of the Diva, Igor met Olga, who later became the second wife of Krutoy. At that time, Olga was married and had a daughter, Victoria. And Igor was still going through a breakup with his previous family.
The biography of Olga Krutoy is remarkable. Olga was born on November 11, 1963 in St. Petersburg in the family of a staunch communist and a housewife. Parents tried to instill strictness and modesty in their daughter. According to the father, a woman should take care of the household, which his wife did - supported the hearth and raised her daughter and son.
Olga was calm and accommodating, but by the age of 17, being a true daughter of her time, Olga noticed that a girl of her age could walk out late and wear jeans. Nothing worked out with late walks, but Olga defended the right to walk in jeans.
But strict upbringing, coupled with a rebellious character, has borne fruit: as a result, Olga Krutaya is a successful business woman.
After graduating from school, Olga, in defiance of her father, received an economic education. But despite the fact that she chose this path out of spite, in the future, economic education served her well - both in business and in the competent management of the family budget.
As a student, Olga got married and gave birth to a daughter, Victoria. And after graduation, she decided to live with a friend in America, and she stayed there, taking her daughter six months later.
It was there that she met Igor, who immediately fell in love with her. But Olga, having taken Krutoy's sister, who accompanied him with her mother, for his wife, did not attach any importance to the acquaintance.
A month later, the maestro, realizing that he could not forget the beauty, dialed her number. And so the romance began. He developed rapidly - already on the third date, Igor made an offer to Olga, but they got married only after 2 years.
The wedding was celebrated on a grand scale: they walked for two days, a huge number of celebrities were invited - Alla Pugacheva, Irina Allegrova and many, many ...
Name: Igor Krutoy
Age: 63 years old
Place of Birth: Gayvoron, Kirovohrad region, Ukraine
Growth: 176 cm
The weight: 78 kg
Activity: composer, producer, singer
Family status: married
Igor Krutoy - biography
The composer whom he knows loves Russia and many foreign countries. He himself perfectly performs his songs, is a producer. He is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, People's Artist of Russia and Ukraine.
Childhood, composer's family
Ukraine is the birthplace of Igor, or more precisely, the Kirovograd region in one of its regional centers. His mother worked as a laboratory assistant at the sanitary and epidemiological station, and his father worked as a freight forwarder at the Radiodetal plant. Parents first saw each other on the dance floor and almost immediately got married. The family had a son, Igor, and a daughter, Alla.
Music has fascinated Igor since birth, but his dream was to become a driver. The musician's biography began from the moment when his father noticed his son's musical talent. He bought a button accordion, which Igor mastered already at the age of five or six years.
Then he accompanied the school choir, and from the fifth grade, playing the accordion, created a musical ensemble. Somehow, in the House of Culture, Igor began to play the piano, and the result of all his independently mastered instruments was a music school, where he entered after graduating from the 7th grade of a comprehensive school. The teachers determined that the teenager had perfect hearing, and said that they would enroll in the trainees if he mastered playing the piano in 12 months. Igor succeeded.
Professional musician
The biography of a professional musician began from the moment Krutoy graduated from college in Kirovograd with honors. After that, the graduate submitted documents to the Kyiv Conservatory, but to no avail. For a whole year he had to work as a rural music teacher, then he passed the exams at the Nikolaev Pedagogical Institute for the department of choral conductor.
Igor had a good friend Alexander Serov. Together they worked in a restaurant: one played, the other sang. After graduating from the institute, the future composer wanted to enter the Saratov Conservatory, but first he moved to Moscow and searched for a job for a long time.
Luck
Krutoy was invited to join the tour of one group. He made trips around the country in the company of Serov, whom he also called with him. Fame did not come immediately, only after the song “Madonna” written by him and performed by a friend.
And immediately in the biography of the composer appeared the first title of laureate of the Song of the Year contest. Inspired by success, Igor wrote several successful compositions that brought victory to Alexander.
Krutoy's creations have been awarded with many awards and prizes. The first prize for merit in music was the Lenin Komsomol Prize. The composer managed to produce, he not only acts as the president of the ARS organization, which arranged concerts, he takes it to a new level. Russian pop artists organize their concerts through the firm of Igor Krutoy.
Hits
Songs written by a talented creator became hits, and concerts and creative evenings were held in Russia and abroad. The maestro still composes popular pop works. Igor Krutoy considers his work with children to be the most important achievement. Especially for talented children, he organized the Children's New Wave festival, similar to the adult New Wave.
As a composer, Krutoy composes not only songs, but also instrumental music, has already released several albums. He recorded one of them with a well-known performer, operatic baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky. And since 2010, he began collaborating with singer Lara Fabian. Their joint project was based on the singer's own poems and Igor's music.
Performers of Krutoy's songs
During his career, the composer had to work with a large number of talented performers. At first he worked in a concert orchestra in Moscow called "Panorama", meeting for the first time with Vladimir Miguley and Palad Bulbul ogly.
Later there was work in the vocal and instrumental ensemble "Blue Guitars", then he accompanied Valentina Tolkunova in the ensemble. And only in 1986 Igor Krutoy realized his old dream - he began to study at the composition department of the Saratov Conservatory.
Igor Krutoy - biography of personal life
The composer first married a native of the northern capital of Russia, a girl, Elena, who gave birth to her husband's son. The couple could not live together and divorced. Son Nikolai already has his own family. Fifteen years Igor Krutoy devotes himself to work. And only after meeting Olga, his second wife, he decides to start a family again. The wife lives in the States, she is a successful businessman. And they were introduced in New York by the prima of the Soviet and Russian scene
Many people think that the composer took a beautiful pseudonym that speaks for itself in show business, but in fact he inherited a sonorous surname. Igor Krutoy was born on July 29, 1954 in Ukraine, in the Gaivoron district center of the Kirovograd region. His family was far from music and, moreover, show business. Father, Yakov Aleksandrovich Krutoy, worked as a freight forwarder at a radio components factory, mother, Svetlana Semyonovna, worked as a laboratory assistant at the city sanitary and epidemiological station. However, my father had an amazing ear, he brought a trophy accordion from the war, which he played perfectly and could pick up any melody by ear. Igor was not the only child in the family: five years later his sister Alla was born, who later became a TV presenter.
The future composer began to gravitate towards music at an early age, as a junior schoolboy he himself learned to play the button accordion, then entered a music school. Igor always played music - at first he accompanied the school choir, and in high school he played dances. As the composer later recalled, thanks to this, he was famous in the area "almost like the Beatles."
After the button accordion, Igor Krutoy mastered the piano - this was required in order to enter the Kirovograd Musical College. Upon admission, the teachers made the young man an indulgence - he lacked theoretical knowledge, but absolute pitch and abilities spoke for themselves - Igor was admitted to the school on the condition that for the first year he would fill in the "gaps" in his musical education, which was more self-education.
Krutoy graduated from college in 1974 with a red diploma, after which he went to the exams at the Kyiv Conservatory, but did not pass the competition. The following year, the young man worked as a music teacher in a rural school, and then entered the Nikolaev State Pedagogical Institute. Belinsky. In 1979, Krutoy became a certified music teacher and conductor - he received a composer's diploma more than ten years later, graduating from the composer department of the L.V. Saratov Conservatory. Sobinova
While studying in Nikolaev, the young musician did not sit idle: he worked part-time, worked at the Philharmonic, played in a restaurant. In the restaurant, he met the aspiring singer Alexander Serov, a casual acquaintance over time turned into friendship and long-term cooperation.
In the late seventies, Igor left for Moscow: at first he worked in the Moscow Panorama Concert Orchestra, then in the Blue Guitars ensemble. At that time he began to write the first songs. In 1981, Igor Krutoy was called to work in the ensemble of Valentina Tolkunova - first as a pianist, and later as the head of the ensemble, and in the early eighties he often toured with concerts with actor Yevgeny Leonov. Great success came to the young composer in 1987, when he wrote the song "Madonna" for Alexander Serov to the verses of Rimma Kazakova. This was the first recognition, and what a one: Serov with his song immediately became the laureate of the "Song of the Year". The successful tandem continued: in collaboration with Kazakova Kruta, he wrote such hits for the singer as "Wedding Music", "How to Be", "You Love Me". Although the composer himself believes that his first hit was the song "Confession" to the verses of his friend Alexander Zhigarev, which was performed by Serov. As Igor Krutoy recalls, when he came home, he heard all of Ukraine singing: “I will always love you, I will share my life with you ...”.
Cooperation with Serov was long enough - but as often happens, when business comes into play, a crack appears in the relationship of friends. However, a long quarrel with Serov did not lead to creative downtime - gradually Igor Krutoy became an increasingly sought-after composer, and very soon he gained the fame of one of the main domestic hit-makers. In the mid-nineties, Alla Pugacheva, Irina Allegrova, Valery Leontiev, Alexander Buinov, Igor Nikolaev and other stars sang his songs. And in 1997, after the release of the video “Unfinished Romance”, in which he sang a duet with Allegrova, the whole country recognized the composer by sight, they began to take autographs from him on the streets. Many were worried about the question: “Did Igor Krutoy have an affair with Irina Allegrova?” Of course it wasn't.
Igor Krutoy met his first wife Lena when he came to Leningrad on tour in the late seventies. And in 1979 they got married. At first, the young lived in Leningrad, but Igor could not get a job in the city on the Neva. And then he was just invited to Moscow, to the Panorama orchestra. In the same year, their son Nikolai was born. At first, the couple rented a house, then Elena exchanged a Leningrad apartment for a Moscow one. However, after a while, family relationships cracked - and as a result, Elena filed for divorce. After Igor Krutoy wandered around rented apartments for about a year, until Evgeny Leonov and Valentina Tolkunova “knocked out” a room in a communal apartment for him in the executive committee - he lived there for a long time.
The second time Igor Krutoy married in 1995, his wife Olga is in business, lives in New York, but the couple often fly to each other. As the composer laughs, it does not happen that they do not see each other for more than a month. He always treated Olga's daughter from Victoria's first marriage (she was born in 1985) as his own, and in 2003 Igor and Olga Krutykh had a daughter, Alexander.
In addition to composing, in the late eighties, Igor Krutoy took up producing activities - in 1989, thanks to his efforts, the Ars company appeared (at first it was called the ARS Youth Center), which quickly became one of the largest concert and production organizations engaged not only in "promotion" artists and the release of audio and video, but also the production of television programs, the organization of tours of foreign stars. Also, starting in 1994, Igor Krutoy began to hold his annual creative evenings with the participation of Russian pop stars. These concerts once again prove how hard Krutoy works: every year the concert participants present new songs to his music.
In 2003, Igor Krutoy, together with Raymond Pauls, organized the New Wave competition for young performers, and then the Children's New Wave, and in 2004 he became the producer of Star Factory-4. In addition to songs for artists, Krutoy writes a lot of instrumental music, in addition, he wrote music for the films “A Souvenir for the Prosecutor” (1989), “Thirst for Passion” (1991), “Hostages of the Devil” (1992). In total, the composer has released more than fifteen albums, for the entire time of his work he has written more than three hundred compositions for Russian pop stars.
Data
- Igor Krutoy has a sister, Alla, who is 5 years younger than him. In 1992, she married an Italian-American and moved to the United States, to Philadelphia. There she began working as a TV presenter, after a divorce from her husband, she returned to her homeland and began to broadcast on Ukrainian television.
- Igor Krutoy graduated with honors from the Faculty of Music Theory of the Kirovograd Musical College.
- Having entered the Pedagogical Institute in the city of Nikolaev after college, Igor Krutoy also worked part-time by playing in the Philharmonic and in a restaurant. In a restaurant, he met aspiring singer Alexander Serov, who sang there in the evenings, and Krutoy accompanied him. It was Serov who began to persuade him to move to Moscow.
- The first time the composer married in 1979. In 1981, his son Nikolai was born, but they soon broke up with his wife. The second wife of Igor Krutoy - Olga (they got married in 1995) lives in America, is engaged in business. In 2003, their daughter Alexandra was born. Olga also has an adult daughter from her first marriage, Victoria. When she got married, Igor Krutoy led her down the aisle.
- The composer got an excellent ear from his father - he could pick up almost any melody by ear and enjoyed playing the trophy accordion brought from the war
Awards
1988 Lenin Komsomol Prize
1991 Honored Artist of the Russian Federation
1996 People's Artist of Russia
2004 Order of Friendship
2009 Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree
2011 People's Artist of Ukraine
2012 Muz-TV Award
Movies
Composer
1989 Souvenir for the prosecutor
1991 Thirst for Passion
1992 The Devil's Hostages
Actor
2011 Mademoiselle Zhivago
Albums
1986 Recognition. Songs of Igor Krutoy
1987 Alexander Serov. Madonna
1991 Alexander Serov. I'm crying
1992 Rose Sisters. How is it in Russia?
1994 Collection of songs by Igor Krutoy. Starfall
1995 Collection of songs by Igor Krutoy. Love is like a dream
1995 Arkady Arkanov. Arcane - Cool
1996 Irina Allegrova. I will part the clouds with my hands
1996 Vadim Baikov. queen of my dreams
1997 Alexander Buynov. islands of love
1997 Songs of the composer Igor Krutoy. Part 1 and 2
1998 Irina Allegrova. Unfinished novel
1998 Songs of the composer Igor Krutoy. Part 3 and 4
1998 Mikhail Shufutinsky. Once upon time in America
1998 Rose Sisters. You are me
1998 Laima Vaikule. latin quarter
1998 Alexander Buynov. My finances sing romances
1999 Valery Leontiev. Ropewalker
1999 Songs of the composer Igor Krutoy. Part 5
2000 Igor Krutoy. Friends and songs
2000 Igor Krutoy. Without words. Part 1
2001 Creative evening of Igor Krutoy in the State Kremlin Palace
2001 Songs of the composer Igor Krutoy. Part 6
2003 Snow Queen
2004 Igor Krutoy. Without words. Part 2
2004 Once in a lifetime… 50
2004 Igor Krutoy. The best. Part 1
2006 Igor Krutoy. What does the pianist play about?
2007 Igor Krutoy. Without words. Part 3
2008 Igor Krutoy. The best. Part 2
2009 Dmitry Hvorostovsky and Igor Krutoy. deja vu
2010 Lara Fabian and Igor Krutoy. Mademoiselle Jivago
2012 Igor Krutoy. Without words. Part 4, 5
Composer Igor Krutoy married his eldest daughter. The wedding ceremony of Victoria Krutoy and her chosen one, hereditary restaurateur David Berkovich, took place on the coast of the Ligurian Sea, in Monte Carlo, in the Principality of Monaco. About where the young people met, how David made an offer to Victoria and what Igor Yakovlevich wished his son-in-law on the wedding day - in the HELLO! report.
David Berkovich and Victoria Krutaya
Monte Carlo, Saturday evening. In the still bright sky, the first star lit up. Fog slowly descends from the mountains, white-winged albatrosses circle over the sea. In the garden of the Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel, guests dressed in flowing dresses and elegant tuxedos look forward to the wedding ceremony. Dressed in a festive attire, the rabbi stands under the arches of a snow-white tent and smiles, looking over his glasses. "The star is on fire, Shabbat is over. It's time!.." - says the Rebbe. A string band plays and the ceremony begins.
Peace and love reign in the family of Victoria's chosen one. David Berkovich's mother Tatyana (top left in the photo) and the second wife of his father Boris - Elena
Children strewed the road with young white rose petals. In the background: the youngest daughter of Igor and Olga Krutykh - 11-year-old Alexandra
Victoria and Igor Cool
First, along the "white path" of the Le Jardin Mediterraneen garden, friends of the groom and bridesmaids follow, followed by children, scattering rose petals, the procession is closed by Victoria's younger sister, Alexandra Krutaya. Following the soundtrack of the film "Dangerous Liaisons" Bitter Sweet Symphony, the groom David Berkovich appears - in a suit with a bow tie, a kippah and with a traditional model tallit coverlet on his shoulders. To the altar, or rather, the chuppah (a canopy on four supports, under which the marriage ceremony takes place - kiddushin), the groom is led by his mother Tatyana and his father's second wife Elena.
The marriage ceremony according to all the canons of Judaism was conducted by Rebbe Lieberman, at the end of the ceremony he presented Victoria and David with a marriage certificate - ketubu
The music changes, the ensemble plays Lana Del Rey's song Young & Beautiful, and to the applause of the guests, a dazzling bride appears - young and beautiful Victoria. Igor Krutoy leads her by the arm, followed by Olga Krutaya. So lightly and solemnly began the wedding of Victoria Krutoy and David Berkovich.
Igor Krutoy with his wife Olga and the bride and groom
She is the daughter of a famous Russian composer, beautiful and smart. Grew up in America - lived in Miami, New York. She graduated from high school in New Jersey, received a diploma from New York University with a degree in Business Communications Manager. Vika trained for two years at the American Glamor magazine, took acting classes at an acting school, tried herself as a singer - she recorded several songs, and last year, together with her friend, she opened her own flower boutique Florist Gump in Moscow.
Victoria Cool
He is a hereditary restaurateur, the son of Tatyana and Boris Berkovich. Born in Berlin, graduated from high school in Switzerland, where he turned out to be the third Russian in its history. He received a diploma of higher education from the prestigious Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne, EHL (Hotel Management School of Lausanne). Easily explained in six languages. Now David is a co-owner of several restaurants in Moscow: Hudson Deli, Kung Fu Kitchen, Shawarma Republic, and in August he opens another one - the Japanese bar Buba-sushi.
Igor Krutoy with his youngest daughter Sasha
Grandmothers came to the wedding for the young (in the photo on the right): Lyolya - David's grandmother, Tatyana Berkovich's mother; Svetlana Semenovna - mother of Igor Krutoy and Nina Nikolaevna - mother of Olga Krutoy
Igor Krutoy's sister Alla flew to the wedding from America with her daughter Natalya
The son of Igor Krutoy Nikolay with his girlfriend Yulia
They met in Miami sixteen years ago.
He was 14, he was nice, funny, cute, but the most ordinary guy. I used to like older guys
Victoria remembers with a smile.
And even then, at the age of 12, she was already beautiful, about which I immediately told her: “Vicki, I will definitely marry you!”,
Adds David.
Victoria's parents Igor and Olga Kruty and David's parents laughed at the touching remark and soon forgot about it. Victoria and David went to school: she flew to the state of New York, he - to Switzerland.
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Further in this story, the phrase: "Years have passed ..." is appropriate. Young people have matured. They got themselves accounts on a social network, started chatting on Facebook, became good friends on the global network, and one day, through mutual friends, they got into one company. That meeting, which happened about five years ago, became the starting point of their newest history: unexpectedly for themselves, both Victoria and David realized that there was no one closer, dearer, and those tender feelings that they had for each other were not at all memories of teenage years. hobby, but a serious, adult feeling. 
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David made a marriage proposal to Victoria in 2012 - December 13, 2 days after his birthday.
I won’t say that it was unexpected, because David announced his intentions many years ago. But it was incredibly touching!
Vika is joking.
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Victoria and David got married a month and a half ago in America - the official registration of the marriage took place in the suburbs of New York, in the Hamptons, on June 1. A few weeks later in Monaco, they became husband and wife according to Jewish custom. At the end of the traditional ceremony, David crushed a glass wrapped in a towel with his right foot, and the guests shouted in unison: "Mazal Tov!"
Twilight fell over Monte Carlo, and the guests began to slowly move to the Sporting Club, located next to the hotel. A spacious hall with a stage and a long terrace with a panoramic view of Monaco and the bay of the Ligurian Sea has become an ideal place for a big celebration. The mood, already beautiful, was supported by the musicians A "Studio, SEREBRO, Ivan Dorn, the famous American hip-hop artist and producer Jean Wyclef, as well as the host of the evening Nikolai Baskov.
Successful women and handsome men! Say hello to the newlyweds! Baskov announced. Victoria and David appeared on the stage in the spotlight. Nicholas continued:
And right away I want to invite the outstanding composer and his wife, the beautiful Igor and Olga Krutykh, to the stage. Cool wedding! Cool family!
Igor Yakovlevich noted Baskov's sense of humor and addressed the audience with words of gratitude:
Thank you for coming thousands of miles away to share the joy of today with us. Our family is very much indebted to you. Of course, the entry of a new member into our family is not an easy process. But when David came and for the first ten minutes he was talking non-stop about how my wife Olga is the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am the best composer and he listens only to my music, then, you understand: he immediately came to court . And now, in any of his conflicts with Vika, we take his side. I want them to be healthy and happy, to give birth to our grandchildren, and laughter always sounded in their house, as it is now.
The mother of the bride Olga Krutaya wished children to Victoria and David: My dears! I love you very much, I just love you. Vika, you are everything to me - my life, my happiness! I was told today: "It's amazing how easily you give your daughter in marriage!" So, I do not give away my daughter - I accept my son. And I accept the title of mother-in-law. And I will be happy if I become a grandmother soon. I wish you that your life was as beautiful, extraordinary as today. At that moment, Igor Krutoy quietly said: "How is your life with me?". "Yes, like mine," Olga replied just as ingratiatingly.
The first toast was followed by a dance of the bride and groom, traditional, but in this case not quite ordinary. The youth was accompanied by Igor Krutoy. He sat down at the black piano, and everyone heard the words of a familiar song: Forever, I hug you./ Forever, I saw you and melted./ Your look, like an angel, gives light./ You leave a trace in the sky./ It is impossible to be careful.. .
"Women can cry!" Baskov allowed. And Vladimir Vinokur called the next five hours of the holiday "perhaps the best concert of Igor Krutoy." And the truth is: the guests did not get bored for a minute. The toasts were followed by the performances of the artists, and it seems that absolutely all the guests danced to their hits. During short intermissions, videos were shown on large plasma screens. In one, the voice-over told the love story of Victoria and David.
In another, made up - as if they were under a hundred years old - the newlyweds themselves recalled how they met and fell in love with each other. In the third, Tatyana Berkovich's close friend, Gosha Kutsenko, who recently became a father for the second time, congratulated Victoria and David, walking with a baby carriage.
According to Jewish tradition, the marriage ceremony is usually followed by a light kosher dinner and Jewish songs are performed. However, since a large international company of friends and relatives congratulated the young, both the Jewish “Mazal Tov” and the Russian “Bitter!” sounded that day, and on the tables there were dishes from different cuisines of the world - pancakes with red and black caviar, foie gras, medallions beef, risotto with white truffles, sea bass with champagne sauce, tomatoes with Italian mozzarella and much, much more.
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Exactly at midnight, four chefs rolled a five-tier cake weighing 50 kilograms into the hall. Victoria and David cut a confectionery masterpiece together and went out onto the terrace, where volleys of festive fireworks were heard.
