Vitas singer biography nationality

For many years, some fans of the artist really believed that he was a descendant of Ichthyandra and could pull the banks in their voice. In one of his interviews, the singer said that the audience really brought banks to one of his concerts, hoping, with the help of his voice to charge water. At one time, people loaded the water so, listening to the psychic Anatoly Kashpirovsky.

But if in Russia now Vitas is a popular singer, then in China he is really idolized. There he erected a monument. In our country, the artist is known from different angles, including the dark ones. Read more about the angels and demons of one of the most eccentric singers of our stage - in the material of Teleprogramma. The real name is the real name of the artist - Vitaly Vladasovich Grachev.

Childhood and parents he was born in the Latvian Daugavpils on February 19. The artist’s mother Lilia Mikhailovna did not dull the soul in her only son. In those days, there was a shortage of goods in the USSR, so the woman herself sewed clothes for him. By the way, even after gaining popularity, Vitas went on stage in things sewn by his mother. But the singer did not communicate with his father at one time.

Vitaly ran into losses that influenced his fate. First, his grandfather Arkady, and then, in the year, and mother, left life. But at a certain moment, the artist became close to his father, the soloist of the vocal and instrumental ensemble, who partly instilled his interest in music. The singer studied at a music school, mastered the game on the accordion. In one of his interviews, Vitaly said that he had an unusual teacher Gennady Sergeyevich.

And he immediately determined that the boy was endowed with talent. Vitas in childhood. Photo: social networks “He taught me peculiarly. Since I did not see the notes, I just played a musical excerpt, ”Vitas said in an interview with Seven Days. As the pseudonym appeared in his youth, the artist got a job at the Odessa Plastic Theater and the voice parody: masterfully copied Michael Jackson, parododed the voices of other stars.

He was also engaged in jazz vocal with teacher Anna Rudneva. It was there that the artist came up with his pseudonym. As Vitaly recalled in an interview with the Seven Days, the head of the theater troupe Anatoly Paduk controlled the entire team and often shouted on his protege. And the young artist, who protested against such an appeal, just went away, after which the teacher came to his house and handed the singer to the singer’s note: “Please tell Vitalik to return.” In these lines, it seemed to have a hope for the future!

Subscribe to our Telegram channel "Star dust"! Vitas in youth. Photo: Global Look Press, as the vocalist said, it was in this lyceum that his first solo concert called “Vitaly Grachev: with a hope for the future” took place. But it seemed to the performer that his name sounds too bulky, and he reduced him to Vitas. Thanks to this pseudonym, Vitaly was often asked if he had Lithuanian roots.

And he answered positively. The singer’s mother told him that his grandmother really lived in Lithuanian Kaunas all her life. In that same college of the artist, his future producer Sergei Pudovkin also noticed. Then on the stage Vitaly portrayed different people: either a carefree boy, then a flirting girl, then a happy grandfather. After the number performed by Vitas, Pudovkin approached him with the words: “That's it, you are going to Moscow with me”, to which the artist asked in surprise: “Already tomorrow?

The family of Pudovkin, especially his mother, who literally took care of the young artist, also reacted to Vitaly with warmth. Vitas and Sergey Pudovkin. After the video released on the screens, the artist literally woke up famous. The audience was struck by how virtually Vitaly sings with falsetom and gills on his neck, shown in the video, and banks that exploded from his voice. The image of Vitas was literally mythologized, legends were created around his name.

And some viewers really believed that the artist is a descendant of Ichthyander, and his gills are real. Meanwhile, the story was very prosaic. The clip was shot by the famous theater director Yuri Grymov. And as Grymov assured the journalists, he also composed a story with gills. I was interested in creating this story from scratch, ”the director shared. As explained by Grymov, Sergei Pudovkin really liked the captured clip, however, a point was set in cooperation.

And then the clips for Vitas were already filmed by other directors. Many experts thought for a long time on the question of why he did not sing in the thoracic register.

Some compared Vitas with the opera singer Eric Kurmangaliev, who practiced such singing. Sergei Pudovkin himself explained that the secret of Vitas lies in the special device of his throat and ligaments. Even in the years of the artist, the Associate Professor of the Department of Vocal University, Elena Kirashvili, said that the statement of the voice consists in the connection of the head and thoracic registers.

Vitas on low and medium notes is not so much singing as recitative. According to Elena, this is more characteristic of people who are not professionally engaged in vocals.As a rule, they use only one of the registers when singing or share them. Vitaly really likes the East with his Buddhist philosophy of calm and contemplation. There he is considered almost a sacred figure. In the year, the album “Mom” was released, which the artist dedicated to his mother, who had already passed away, and the collection of “My mother’s songs”, which included the compositions “In the region of magnolia” and “Kings can.” In Russia, Vitas was especially popular at the beginning of X, and then its popularity went on decline.

Nevertheless, the artist acted and recorded new compositions. During these years, the singer came out of new albums: in the year - “Kiss in length to eternity”, in M ​​- “Return home -1”, in m - “Returning home with a scream of Zhuralin”, in - “Hits of the twentieth century”, in - “Say that you love”, in - “masterpieces of three centuries”, in - “mother and son”. Often Vitas performs in unusual costumes.

Photo: Global Look Press in the year Vitas recorded the first part of the album “The Story of My Love”, a year later the second part of the record was released. At the end of August, the artist presented a new song-Roll with the Beat, which he recorded in a duet with the American hip-hop artist Nappy Roots. Also, a clip was shot on this track, according to the plot of which Vitas first is in the space laboratory, and then flies to the ground where it arranges a party.

However, the appearance of the artist in such an image caused an ambiguous reaction in social networks. Not all fans took such metamorphoses. In September of the same year, the vocalist presented a clip for the song Give Me Love, where Vitas appeared in the image of a brutal macho. After the release of this track, the Contractor did not escape comparisons with the Affectionate May and Modern Talking groups.

In the year, the new album of the artist Bit Bombit is released. In recent years, scandals of Vitas often fell into scandalous stories. So, in May of the year, the artist’s SUV shot down a cyclist, after which, according to her, he tried to escape from the scene. Fortunately, the girl managed to jump off the bicycle, which the singer’s car moved first with the front, and then the rear wheels.

Representatives of the vocalist claimed that the artist was driving, while eyewitnesses said the opposite. In addition, a video was on the Internet, which shows that the musician was tipsy. In May, Vitas refused to undergo a medical examination, and by the decision of the justice of the peace of the Ostankino district of the capital he was deprived of his driver’s license for a year and a half.

And two months later, the artist was charged with which he agreed during the investigative actions. In August, the Ostankino court found Vitaly Grachev guilty of committing a crime and sentenced to a fine of thousands of rubles. The fact is that he sprinkled into the face of the official Sultan Dzhandigov with a gas spray, after which the man was diagnosed with a chemical cornea of ​​the cornea and conjunctivitis of both eyes of the 1st degree.

A criminal case was brought against the singer under the article “Intentional infliction of easy harm to health”. Vitas announced his version of what happened in the media. Vitaly Grachev said that on the night of October 22, he was resting in Karaoke Club with his wife and two girls. At that time, Jandigs was also there, who paid for the institution after six in the morning.

Therefore, both he and the company of Vitas continued to be in place and at dawn. At a certain moment, according to Vitas, Sultan Jandigov asked the girl from Vitaly to sing a song that he ordered, but he was refused. The man began to be indignant: they say, I paid for everything. He recognized me and remembered that about ten years ago we sang with him in this karaoke. We took a picture and parted at our tables, ”Vitas noted during the investigation.

Then, according to the singer, the Sultan Jandigs, having pretty much drinking, began to dismiss a hairstyle of the artist dismissively, continued to quarrel, offered to go out into the street and figure it out like a man. Having evaluated the enemy dimensions, Vitas abandoned this proposal. See also: Vitas showed his son “The conflict moved to the stage, where I felt that he could hit me, and applied the pepper can.

I had no intention to harm him, I was afraid that he would hit me. After that, my wife and friends left, ”the artist explained his behavior then. In March, it became known that the police terminated the criminal case against Vitas behind the reconciliation of the parties, which the musician Sergei Zororin told RIA Novosti about RIA Novosti. According to the human rights activist, the parties shook hands and no longer have mutual claims.

In the beginning of the year, Vitaly Grachev was involved in a scandal with the participation of a popular singer of Kazakh origin, Dimash Kudaibergenov.