KING RHYTHM-N-BLUES – PRINS
The talented and mega-popular singer Prince has released hundreds of musical compositions and almost forty studio albums, 100 million copies of his records have been sold in the world. All this gave him a certain creative freedom, he could afford unpredictable actions, outrageous and eccentricity. And once he just wanted to change his stage name for a complex graphic symbol. He worked for hours in his home studio, and then, going out to thousands of fans on the stage, he enveloped them with his magic. At first he drove the audience into a frenzy, after which he forced him to listen carefully to the lyric song. This was the secret of its popularity and magic, fueled by an incredible performance. Continue reading
SOLOVAI ITALY – TOTO KUTUNHO
No matter how strange it looked, but this singer and composer, the world fame to which came thanks to the song “L’italiano”, is more popular and loved abroad than in its homeland. Of course, in Italy, everyone knows Toto Cutugno, they sing his songs, but it was in the Apennines that the performer’s critics were constantly smashed to pieces, not finding anything original in Kutunyo’s compositions. But the paradox is that the audience never agreed with their opinion – Toto was and remains the favorite of the public, who became the face of the Sanremo festival, almost every year presenting a new hit on it, and then disappearing from the native stage until next season . Continue reading
PRIDE OF GEORGIA – WAKHTANG KIKABIDZE
Solar Georgia has become the birthplace of many talented people. It was here that world-famous poets, musicians, sculptors, filmmakers and other creative personalities were born. Vakhtang Kikabidze is among these lucky ones. He is one of the most popular singers and actors of Georgia, he is loved and respected by millions of people on the planet. Concerts of the performer took place on all continents and everywhere full halls greeted him with warmth, gratitude and delight. Kikabidze’s voice with the “firm” hoarseness can not be confused or forgotten at least once to hear any of his many songs. Continue reading
MADONNA – QUEEN POP MUSIC
In a musical culture, individuals of this magnitude appear extremely rarely, the more valuable their contribution to world history. It may sound rather pathetic, but we are lucky to live at the same time with such people, because not everyone has the opportunity to touch the work of those whom they recognize as cult in life. Undoubtedly, one of these favorites is the magnificent Madonna. Her merits are appreciated. The Guinness Book of Records noted her as the most commercially successful performer of all time, and the authoritative magazine Time included Madonna in the list of the most influential women of the last century. Journalists have long called her the queen of pop music, but the path to this title was not easy for the singer. Continue reading
Conductor Igor Blazhkov – about Stravinsky, about modern music, about Shostakovich and about yourself
A student of the Mravinsky Kyiv resident Igor Blazhkov, who recently celebrated his eightieth birthday, is known to a whole generation of Soviet music lovers as one of the main propagandists of the “new music” in the USSR. He conducted the first performances of Schoenberg, Webern, Ives, Varese, Volkonsky, and corresponded with contemporary composers from all over the world, from Boulez to Stockhausen. As a student, he entered into correspondence with Igor Stravinsky and the first in the Soviet Union after a long break, performed his music, and later participated in the preparation of his arrival in 1962. Continue reading
