Fans treat the work of the talented artist with love and respect, for them Alexander Grigorievich will forever remain the most beloved performer of the still popular hits of the 70s-80s.
Alexander Grigorievich Tikhanovich was born on July 13, 1952 in the city of Minsk, Belarusian SSR. He studied at the Minsk Suvorov School, where from the second grade he began to study in a brass band in order to skip lessons, which he did not like so much. Soon, Alexander liked this occupation, and he never parted with the wind instrument.
After college he graduated from the Belarusian Conservatory, department - trumpet.
After serving in the army (1971-1973), the young musician created the group "Minsk", which played in the style of jazz-rock, where he worked for about a year. This direction in music at that time turned out to be irrelevant, and the group broke up.
In 1973, Alexander Tikhanovich fell in love with a young, talented and very beautiful artist Yadviga Poplavskaya, who was one of the founders of the Verasy vocal and instrumental ensemble.
Initially, it was an exclusively female group, led by composer Vasily Rainchik (former member of the "Minsk" group), who decided to make VIA mixed. Therefore, he invited Alexander Grigorievich to play the guitar and trumpet, as well as perform vocal parts.
In 1979, the musician was lucky enough to perform on the same stage with the famous American singer Dean Reed. VIA accompanied the foreign star during a large tour of the USSR.
Career and personal life
Alexander and Yadviga for a long time became the main performers of the popular group. The most famous songs of the ensemble for 15 years: "Robin", "I live with my grandmother", "White Snow" ("Zavirukha") and many others. Tours and rehearsals began to bring young people closer together, and Poplavskaya drew attention to the guy in love.
In 1975, the couple signed and created a new unit of Soviet society. In the Central Wedding Palace, Yadviga doubted the correctness of her decision to get married, but thinking that she would always have time to divorce, she gave her consent to the marriage. The life of the newlyweds began with difficulties. The young wife managed to cook the first courses in the sink, and fry the meat on the iron.
Blows of fate
In 1986, they decided to remove Tikhanovich from the ensemble, but in Soviet times it was impossible to simply fire the artist from work without a good reason. While touring Central Asia, Alexander Tikhanovich was put a bag of marijuana in the pocket of his concert trousers. The police were called, and a search began. By a lucky coincidence, Tikhanovich put on a different concert costume, which saved him from prison, but not from shame. All newspapers were full of headlines that Alexander Grigorievich was involved in drug trafficking and would be convicted to the fullest extent of the law.
On October 8, 1986, the artist was arrested right on the street and locked in a pre-trial detention cell for three days. Then there was a trial, Alexander was acquitted and reinstated at his former place of work.
The artist decided to leave VIA, followed by his devoted wife Poplavskaya. In 1987, they received an offer to work in the State Orchestra of Belarus under the baton of Mikhail Yakovlevich Finberg, where they were expected to be backing vocalists.
In 1988, a married couple decided to take part in the Song-88 competition with their composition "Happy Accident" on the verses of Larisa Rubalskaya. The young artists made a splash on the stage and became the winners.
All-Union fame
Soon a duet with the exact same name was created, later it turned into a group, where Tikhanovich became the main vocalist and part-time guitarist. The group became so popular and in demand that they began to invite her to perform throughout the territory of the former USSR, as well as abroad - to Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, France, Germany, Canada, Finland and Israel.
In the same year, the artists created the "Theater of Song of Yadviga Poplavskaya and Alexander Tikhanovich", which was later renamed the production center. During this time, the then unknown young artists of Belarus, such as Alexander Solodukha, Nikita Fominykh, rock musician Sergei Mikhalok and his band "Lyapis Trubetskoy", passed through it.
In 1980, a young family had a small miracle, which they named Anastasia. From an early age, the girl showed acting talent, she was independent and could not imagine herself without a stage. At a later age, Anastasia achieved popularity and recognition, like her famous parents.
The girl heads the "Production Center of Yadwiga Poplavskaya and Alexander Tikhonovich", she also simultaneously records her songs, shoots videos and participates in various musical projects. She brings up her son Ivan, in whom the young grandfather saw the continuation of the famous Tikhanovich family.
In 1991, the couple received the title of Honored Artists of the Republic of Belarus, and in 2005 they were awarded the title of People's Artists of Belarus.
From 2006 to 2009, Alexander Grigorievich Tikhanovich headed the EuroFest television musical project, which was the national qualifying round for Eurovision. In 2007, Tikhanovich, in a team with Philip Kirkorov, was the creative inspirer of Dmitry Koldun, as a representative from Belarus at a popular international competition.
The actor was interested not only in music, but also in cinema. Alexander Grigorievich starred in six films, and in 2009 he played the main role in the film "Apple of the Moon", which the famous director Alexei Turovich filmed according to the script of Georgy Marchuk.
In early childhood, Alexander Georgievich was raised by an elderly nanny who believed in God very much. Thanks to her, little Sasha learned the Bible and began to visit the temple. So the artist became one of the choristers in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral at the Military Cemetery in Minsk.
In 2014, Tikhanovich, together with the famous singer Ruslan Alekhno, with whom they had been friends for about two decades, made a pilgrimage trip to Mount Athos.
last years of life
Alexander Grigorievich suffered from a very rare autoimmune lung disease - idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis. The artist managed to deceive the disease for several years and live a little longer than people with the same diagnosis. Fans to the last did not know about Tikhanovich's serious illness.
A few years before his death, the singer began to drink heavily, and if it were not for Jadwiga's patience, all this could have ended badly. In public, Alexander always tried to look cheerful and not advertise his poor health. The artist held his last concert a few days before hospitalization.
Alexander Grigorievich Tikhanovich died on January 28, 2017 at 6 am, at the age of 65, after a two-week stay in the 10th city hospital. The death of the great artist, his daughter reported on social networks. The wife at that time was on tour in another country.
Immediately, comments began to arrive about condolences to family and friends, both from ordinary subscribers and from celebrities who worked with Tikhanovich. A very large number of people came to say goodbye to Alexander Grigorievich to see the artist on his last journey.
A civil funeral service was held at the Belarusian State Philharmonic. The funeral service took place in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The burial of the deceased took place on January 30, 2017 at the Eastern cemetery in Minsk.
According to his contemporaries, Alexander Tikhanovich made a huge contribution to the development of pop show business.
