Name: Alla Pugadova (Russian name: Алла Пугачева)
Paternal surname: Borisovna
Birthday: April 15, 1949 (age 72)
Place of birth: Moscow
Height: 162 cm
Weight: 68 kg
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Genus: Cattle
Occupation: singer, music producer
content:
3. The beginning of the establishment of the profession
4. Solo career
The beginning of the establishment of the profession
After returning to Moscow in March 1968, she failed to pass her academic examinations because of the long absence that affected the academic performance of Ala Pugacheva. The singer began her internship at the Moscow No. 621 Secondary School, where she worked as a music teacher for five months, when her loud voice students nicknamed her "Allah Screamer", and the choir she conducted sang the songs "Lullaby" and "The Birch Tree". In June 1969, she passed the final examination and obtained a diploma in secondary special education.
Ala Pugachova on vacation
However, Ala Pugacheva did not want to be the head of the choir. After graduating from the Hippolytov Conservatory, she was invited to the Circus School of Variety as a piano accompanist for the brigade. The procession of singers, musicians and magicians had to march from village to village to perform for the workers of the village. One of the show's characters was Mikaras Albaques, whom Allah married in 1969.
Ala Pugachova in her youth
After getting married, Allah left the troupe and became the lead singer of the group "New Electronics", with Ara Pugacheva and Yuri Yakovlev recording duets for the film Deer King. A year later she became the lead singer of the Soviet concert and touring company Росконцерт", joined the Oleg Luztrem Symphony Orchestra, and in 1947 became the lead singer of the group "Happy Boys" under the direction of music producer Pavel Slobogin. During this time (from 1972 onwards) she began working with songwriter Ilya Leznik until the mid-1990s.
Ala Pugadova and Pavel Slobogin
As a member of the group, Allah won the first place in the festival's "Golden Orps" competition with the song "Joker". The work is an adaptation of the song of the same name by Bulgarian singer Emile Dimitrov, with Russian lyrics, a new arrangement and soundtrack effects, and a background of clown laughter. A year after the song was recorded, Allah toured to Bulgaria to sing the song and received warm applause from the audience.
The song "Joker" took Allah's career to a new level. In 1976 she performed at the Cannes Festival with another Soviet vocal and instrumental ensemble, "Песняры", where composer Mikael Tarivirtiev invited her to record the theme song for Elidar Ryazanov's film The Trick of Fate.
Ala Pugajova's clown makeup
In the summer of the same year, Allah recorded a short record for the group Happy Boys and left the group and began singing in an orchestra conducted by Konstantin Olbelian.
Ala Pugajova with the group "Happy Boys"
A month later, a month later, Ala Pugachova's future second husband (when she was already trying to divorce her current husband), director Alexander Sjefanovich persuaded her to leave the orchestra. In the winter, Allah won the 1976 Song of the Year Award for the song "Very Good" and served as the host of the "Blu-ray Concert" for the first time, singing the song "I Like" with Barbara Breliska (the heroine of the movie "The Trick of Fate") at the New Year's Live Concert.
Ala Pugachova was the host of the Blu-ray Concert from 1976 to 1977
Solo career
In early 1977, Allah began to develop as an independent singer, starring in the film "The Singing Woman" directed by Alexander Orlov. After the film's premiere, the singer was given the stage name "The Singing Woman" and won the title of "Best Actress of the Year", and the hoodie that Allah wore in the film became her business card.
Stills from Ala Pugadova in the movie The Singing Woman
In the spring of 1978, Allah presented her first album Mirror of the Soul to the Soviets, with the participation of composers Suchander Zazepin, Mark Minkov, Boris Richkov (who wrote the hit song "The King Almighty"), and Boris Galbanos.
Ala Pugachova and Alexander Zaceping discuss the album
A year later, Ala Pugachova recorded her second album, Joker and Others, performed with Joe Dassin at the opening of the Cosmos Hotel, and toured countries near and far. She was later identified as the heroine of a new film directed by her husband, Alexander Sjefanovich, a film about the dramatic fate of a pop singer tentatively titled Recital. But in the early days of filming, the management of the Moscow Film Studio fired Ala Pugacheva due to a scandal on the set, which also led to the breakdown of her relationship with her husband. In December 1980, the couple formally divorced. As for the fate of the movie "Recital", this movie later chose Sophia Rotalu to play the heroine, and was released under the title "Soul".
Ala Pugajova sings with Joe Dasin
At the turn of the '70s and '80s, Ala Pugacheva unwittingly became the cause of a wave of murders that swept through the Soviet Union. In 1975, Anatoly Nagiyev, 17, of the Irkutsk region, was sent to a labor camp for rape. There was only one cassette of tapes in the pitiful prison record library—it was Ala Pugachova's, and her song soon drove him crazy: he began to hear the singer's voice in his head, and soon had the idea of sending Allah to the next world. As soon as he was released, he prepared with manic stubbornness to assassinate Pugacheva and killed six women who resembled Ala Pugacheva. In September 1980, when the superstar didn't know her life was about to be violated, the fanatic was eventually captured by criminal investigators.
From 1980 to 1981, Ala Pugacheva achieved further successes, including a new live concert program "Voices of a Singer", two new albums "Rise in the Hustle" and "Will There Be Any More", and a perfect collaboration with composer Rammond Pauls: they co-wrote the songs "Business Time", "Return", "No Me", "Master" and the immortal song "Million Roses".
Ala Pugajova composer Rammond Paul
The song "Million Roses" was later released as a separate mini-album that sold 6 million copies, and the song was also widely circulated outside the Soviet Union. Five years later, Japanese singer Noriko Kato sang the song, and many people in Japan thought it was a local Japanese song! For a while the song even sounded at the Fukuyama City Railway Station, famous for its rose garden.
In 1981, the singer recorded her fifth studio album, The Road Is Bumpy, and toured many countries in Eastern and Western Europe: East Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, France, Italy, etc. Abroad, Ala Pugadova has been called a "Soviet superstar."
The red-haired Ala Pugacheva was a goddess of the whole Soviet Union
Allah's next golden age was in 1985. In the fall she performed the new live concert show "Ala Pugadova Presents You...", and gave several joint concerts with Scandinavian bands (Sweden's "Harris" and Norway's "Bobby Socks"), American singer Dean Reed and German rock musician Udo Lindenberg. At the time of the establishment of diplomatic relations between East and West Berlin, Allah also collaborated with Udo Lindenberg on the album "Replacing a Thousand Words with Singing".
Allah also released a joint album with Udo Lindenberg
In August 1987, a joint performance by Lindenberg and Ala Pugacheva will take place in Leningrad as part of the rock concert "In Support of the Denuclearization of the World". Due to a misunderstanding about the booking of the suite, the singer got into an argument with the hotel's administrator, who threatened to "restrain this tricky singer" and submitted a statement to the police against Ala Pugajova.
Ala Pugajova is venting her emotions
The next morning, almost every Soviet newspaper, radio station and television channel reported on the incident. Ala Pugacheva was accused of "hooliganism", and in letters sent to the editorial board, words such as "tear off her tongue" and "stuff her mouth with resin" appeared. The singer's songs were banned for several months. Even after the Chernobyl explosion in September 1986, Ala Pugachova bravely gave a free three-hour concert for the reactor fire clean-up crew in a village in Chernobyl, which did not save the situation.
Photo of Ala Pugadova's concert in Chernobyl
In December 1987, Allah returned to the big screen, and in October 1988, the more "rock" singer had already shined on the stage at Carnegie Hall in New York. Upon her return, she founded her own "Opera House" and made her third husband, producer Yevgeny Bolting, the theater director.
By the end of the '80s, Ala Pugacheva had completely changed her style
During this time, the singer came up with the idea of creating an annual concert in which students in her theater could showcase their musical achievements. Thus was born the concert "Christmas Party with Ala Pugacheva". Since then, it has been held almost every year in december before Catholic Christmas.
2013 Concert "Christmas Party with Ala Pugacheva"
In December 1991, the day before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ala Pugacheva was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR, and she became one of the last artists to receive this title.
To be continued...
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