Igor Kartashev - artist, singer, theater and film actor. In 2000 he received the Grand Prix of the Theater Festival for the music for the play "The Prodigal Son".
The creative destiny of Igor Kartashev was predetermined from birth. Back in the hospital, the nurse jokingly suggested that a surprisingly loud crying baby would become a singer. She was not wrong.
Childhood and youth
Igor Kartashev was born in the early morning of June 22, 1960, in the creative family of Almaty. Everyone was involved in music professionally.
Grandfather and grandmother sang on the opera stage, my mother was a teacher at the conservatory and music school. The father of the future celebrity worked as a policeman, but he had excellent hearing and played the piano perfectly.
Mom worked with her son in drawing, taught the perception of color, modeling skills. Neither father nor mother wanted the child to follow the thorny path of art.
Only after stating the fact of complete indifference to the exact sciences at the family council it was decided to send his son to a music school.
Igor started playing the piano. The future famous performer from the age of eight wrote his own works. Five years after starting his studies at the music school, Igor was expelled from there: he rode down a hill on a violin taken from a classmate.
The director refused to accept the student back. After completing his studies at a comprehensive school, the graduate entered the art school, choosing the faculty of painting.
The result of education was a diploma with honors.
Road to the stage
At seventeen, Igor got to the concert of Yuri Vizbor, who had arrived in Alma-Ata. Impressions remained for life.
Kartashev remembered the light energy and sincerity of the performer. According to him, since that time he has not heard anything better.
A twenty-year-old graduate received an offer to work in a publishing house. He joined the painting section of the youth association of the Union of Artists of Kazakhstan.
The young artist has already had about a dozen prestigious exhibitions, including international ones. Kartashev dreamed of moving to the capital. He wanted to become an artist.
In 1983, the wish came true. The novice actor who arrived visited all the theatrical establishments. As a result, I opted for the Shchukin school.
Igor entered the workshop of the People's Artist of the USSR Yevgeny Simonov. There was little time left for drawing. But the stage life has become much closer.
The student bought a guitar, began to compose and sing. Since he learned to play on his own, the manner of playing was unique. After graduation in 1988, Kartashev stayed to work in the capital.
He entered the Ruben Simonov Theater. The aspiring artist took part in many productions, often toured with colleagues. Igor had time to perform in recitals, sing his own songs "on the head of the day", as well as perform rock and romances.
Thanks to acting education, the incompatible directions are perfectly combined.
Vocation and recognition
In 1996, the aspiring artist became a laureate of the Andrei Mironov Acting Song Contest. There Igor met with Elena Kamburova.
The aspiring composer and singer wrote the music for the production of François Villon. In the play, Kartashev played the main role of the poet himself. For his work in 2000, he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Young Talents for the City and the World Festival for the best theater music of the year.
The officially recognized young talent acted in films, dubbed commercials, and managed to work on radio and television. Kartashev played one of the main roles in the film "White Horse" about the murder of the royal family.
He sang Hermann in The Queen of Spades, became Küchelbecker from the Women's Club. Among theatrical roles, Count von der Palen stands out in The Death of Paul the First, Mickey the Knife in The Threepenny Opera.
In 1989 the composer and performer recorded and released two discs with the famous group from St. Petersburg "The Pearl Brothers": "Old Moscow" and "Shukher, Friend". The songs were released on cassettes, CDs.
He wrote works on the verses of Villon and Yesenin. Films Kartashev gained fame as an actor after participating in the filming of the television series “Zone. Prison romance.
He performed Kostyukhin. The picture consists of fifty separate stories telling about the fate of the prisoners. Each episode begins with a quote from Stalker.
On it, the zone either breaks the person, or he goes through all the obstacles. The choice depends on the strength of the existing character.
Two main storylines are viewed. One tells the story of a complex investigation into the suicide of the chief of the operative department. On the way of Captain Bagrov, there are many obstacles and secrets of the real life of the defendants.
The second line examines the fate of Pavlov's imprisoned for the imperfect crime. In the course of the series, all fates are intertwined, the characters become dependent on each other.
The artist starred in the "Code of Honor-2", "Sklifosofsky", "Temptation". In 2016, a melodrama with his participation "Stairway to Heaven" was released. This is a story about modern Romeo and Juliet.
Family life
Currently, the actor and performer lives in Moscow. Concerts of Kartashev on Arbat are held with a full house. Igor Vladimirovich Kartashev has been married for over twenty years.
His wife Marina believes that any business must be done with dignity. She does not worship her husband's creativity.
Kartashev's wife has nothing to do with theater or cinema. The artist has two daughters and a son.
The eldest, Daria, is a physician by training. Son Svyatoslav decided to continue the theatrical dynasty. The youngest, Anastasia, goes to school.
Igor Vladimirovich Kartashev, Honored Artist of Kyrgyzstan, since 1999 is Honored Artist of Russia.
