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St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. A participant in the groups “Fucking”, “Funny Guys”, the author of music for the films “Romance of lovers” for the song from the film, the American musical publication Billboard in the year called the city artist of the year, “His among strangers, a stranger among their own” and many others. Gradsky was remembered for the young generation of Gradsky, whose mentor was for several seasons.

The opponent of the Pops and the popularizer of high -quality music, Alexander Gradsky remained faithful to his principles until the last days. Childhood and family Alexander Gradsky was born in November in the city of Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk region. Behind the Urals, the family was after Boris Abramovich Frakin, an engineer, was distributed there after graduating from the Moscow Automechanical Institute.

But there she did not refuse creativity either - she led the amateur theater at the local Palace of Culture. Alexander Gradsky as a child with her mother moved to the capital to the family. For some time they had to live with their grandmother near Moscow, in the village of Rastorguevo. Later, the parents moved to the city, to a small room in the basement. Sasha lived with his grandmother for some time.

At nine years, he was taken to a music school, where he learned to play the violin, but without much desire. He liked the music, but the fact that at home it was necessary to play daily for several hours. Alexander Gradsky in his school years at school, he preferred the humanities, but the exact people were of little interest to him. Alexander read a lot, wrote poetry. Of the trips, uncle brought Alexander not only fashion jeans, but also records with modern Western music: the young man found out about The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Bill Haley.

He began to try his hand at the schoolboy, speaking at school evenings, where he sang under a guitar or piano, he visited the theater circle. She was only 35 years old, and her death became the most severe shock in the life of Gradsky. After all, his mother was, according to him, more than an example: she was his muse, a barometer and a role model. In memory of her, the young man, who had previously had his father’s name all his life, took her a girlish surname.

At the age of fourteen, Alexander concerts with Polish students from Moscow State University who gathered the Tarakans group as a vocalist. The group “Slavs” appeared in the group, which was organized by Alexander and Mikhail Turkov. The team, which is considered one of the first Soviet rock groups, performed songs exclusively in English that Gradsky did not like it-he understood that in order to find a devoted audience, he had to sing in Russian and left notes.

We played mainly on dancing. Alexander Gradsky, in his youth, “Slavs” broke up quite quickly, and already in Gradsky began to play in the ensemble “buffoons” along with Viktor Degtyarev and Vyacheslav Dontsov, who also played in the “Slavs”, wrote for the song group. His song “Blue Forest” was the hallmark of “buffoons”. In parallel, Alexander performed with the Scythian group, and then with Los Panchos.

It was the Los Panchos group with its reappeeling of Western hits that brought the main earnings, and the concerts of “buffoons” were often free. Subcomes - a flying Dutchman for the equipment was constantly not enough, and the musician and his comrades began working in the Philharmonic. Having accepted the proposal of David Tukhmanov, he went on tour around the country. He himself did not sing, but was obsessed with the dream of accumulating money for professional equipment and creating a truly Russian rock and roll group.

However, the “buffoons” have not disappeared anywhere - the group existed up to a year. Alexander Gradsky in “Funny guys” in Gradsky became a student at the Gnesinka Solo Faculty of Solo. His teacher was Lyubov Kotelnikov.

During his studies, he performed with solo concerts, sang under the guitar. The heyday of a musical career during the years of study in Gnesinka Gradsky burst into cinema, wrote music for Andrei Konchalovsky’s film “Romance of Lovers”. It was a nonsense: a summer student who was not even in the Union of Composers to this organization, he joined only in, received such a large -scale order.

But Konchalovsky, who was abandoning the composer Murat Koslaev, listened to Gradsky’s songs, and he liked it. Alexander not only wrote all the music for the film - in the songs “On Friendship”, “About Mother”, “About Birds”, “Love” and others his voice sounds. In the same year, Gradsky graduated from Gnesinka, his songs from the film were released by a separate plate on the “Melody”, and the authoritative American music magazine Billboard recognized him as an artist of the year - for his contribution to world music.

Gradsky was recognized as an artist of the year in the United States by graduating from the Gnesins Academy, Alexander began to tour, his career went up quickly. At his concerts, the halls have always been a bit. It happened that he gave four solo concerts per day, each of which lasted at least two hours. The public liked his “Western” voice, so not like the baritone of Kobzon and Leshchenko.

Despite the fact that Gradsky with his free thought was knocked out of among the “permitted” artists, the censors did not dare to cancel his concerts and intervene in the repertoire.In the same year, with the assistance of Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov, he recorded the song “How Young We were” for the film “My Love in the Third Course”. With this composition, Gradsky produced a splash on the “Song of the Year”, and she remained his hallmark for a long time, although other pop artists performed it.

Alexander Gradsky - how young we were in the musician began to work on the first part of the Russian Songs, in the second. The “Russian Songs” record came out into it was a conceptual album in which folk musical creativity received “rock treatment”. The record included eight songs, including the round dance “Tanya Belaya”, the military march “Soldiers'”, the revolutionary “You sacrificed”.

The young Gradsky over time Gradsky, all the big departed from rock music-his classic beckoned. The musician joked that the change of the genre affected his appearance: “He sang rock and roll-weighed 70 kilograms. The more he was engaged in classics, the more he was full. In the year, he wrote his first rock opera "Stadium", in which he performed the party of the singer, and Alla Pugacheva-the party of Lucia.

In the same year, from the scene of the Bolshoi Theater, he performed a batch of stargazer in the opera Golden Cockerel. This was the first experience of Gradsky in opera singing, but far from the last. Also, along with the Soviet rock stars of the first magnitude, he took part in the recording of the song of Chris Kelmi “Closing Circle”. Alexander Gradsky, in the image of a stargazer in the year, a musician, who had long dreamed of creating a modern music theater, was transferred by the former building of the Burevetnik cinema.

Due to wires with financing necessary for reconstruction, the Grad Hall opened the doors only in the year. The Musical Theater of Alexander Gradsky in the year Gradsky became Honored Artist of Russia, and two years later he received the title of People’s. Alexander Gradsky in the beginning of the year in the year was an audio recording of the rock opera "Master and Margarita", on which Gradsky, together with the poet Pavel Grushko, worked for about 30 years.

On the stage, the opera was never set. But never regretted the decision. In the first season, released in the year, his ward Dina Garipova took first place. The winner of the third season of Alexander Vorobyov was also in the Gradsky team. Gradsky showed how to sing in the year the winner again the singer from the Gradsky team - Selim Alakharov. The seventh, eighth and ninth seasons passed without the participation of a mentor, but in the tenth season he returned.

But he did not have time to finish the shooting: in November, Gradsky was gone. In memory of the great artist, the organizers of the “Voice” decided to bring the season to the end. The personal life of Alexander Gradsky, the first marriage of Gradsky lasted only three months. With Natalia Smirnova, he, still a very young musician, met for some time, but the relationship began to deteriorate, and the young people decided that the wedding would fix the situation.

But both were mistaken. The novel began in the Crimea, both were heated by the sun, sea and wine. In the year they got married. Anastasia refused to take the name of Alexander Ostnaya to the tongue: "I can become Anastasia Gradskaya, but you will never become Alexander Vertinsky." Alexander Gradsky and Anastasia Vertinskaya turned out that two such different creative personalities are very difficult to get along under the same roof.

Two years later, the couple parted. Subsequently, Vertinskaya admitted that she regrets marriage with the musician. In the year, Gradsky married Olga Fartysheva. They lived together for 23 years, raised the son of Daniel, born shortly after the wedding, in the year, and the daughter of Mary, who was born 5 years later. Alexander Gradsky, his wife Olga and their children at the time of their acquaintance Olga barely turned 20, Gradsky was 11 years older.

The musician finally found his happiness. He rarely visited at home, traveled around the tour, while the wife was engaged in home and children. Apparently, such a situation did not suit a woman, and in the year she announced that she was leaving for another man. Soon after the divorce, Gradsky met with a young native of Kyiv, model Marina Kotashenko. Despite the difference of 35 years, Gradsky fascinated this heart of this, as he said, girls of heavenly beauty.

Marina also instantly felt the unity of souls. Alexander Gradsky and Marina Kotashenko and, despite the statements of skeptics that the girl meets with the musician exclusively because of money, the couple was happy. Marina and Alexander were born sons Alexander and Ivan in the year, respectively. For more than seventeen years, Gradsky and his chosen one lived in a civil marriage, but in the fall of the year, a month before the composer’s death, they decided to legitimize relations.

The younger children of Alexander Gradsky - Sasha and Vanya interesting facts in Gradsky, having learned that for the movie "Elusive Avengers" are looking for a guy who owns a guitar well, went to test. He was not taken. There he met Misha Turkov, who also unsuccessfully participated in samples. They talked and after some time decided to create a group "Slavs". It is known that after graduating from school, Gradsky worked for some time at the Mosfilm as a loader, then worked in the same position at the cardboard factory and even worked as a laboratory assistant where his father arranged it.

In recent years, the artist had serious health problems: his heart, legs hurt, he failed to abandon smoking. In September, Gradsky fell ill with coronavirus. Fans worried about his life - age, excess weight, and pernicious addiction to cigarettes attributed him to the risk zone.