Valdis Pelsh - TV presenter, singer, musician, producer. He is known to millions of viewers for the programs "Draw", "Guess the melody" and many others.
Biography
Valdis was born in June 1967. in Riga. Pelsh's father is Latvian, worked as a journalist, radio presenter, economist, mother - Russian, was an engineer. Valdis has lived most of his life in Moscow, but considers himself a Latvian. Pelsh has a sister, she is 13 years younger, she currently lives in the United States.
Little Valdis was distinguished by his ability to learn languages, he studied at a school with in-depth study of French, which he graduated with honors. After graduation, he entered the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, began to participate in the activities of the youth theater of the university. There he met A. Kortnev, with whom he created the "Accident" collective. As part of the group, Pelsh was responsible for the musical part.
In the theater of the university, Kortnev and Pelsh played all the years of their studies. Pelsh took part in productions until 1995. In 1987. Valdis took part in the KVN games, got into the Moscow State University team. In 1997. Pelsh leaves the group "Accident", however he performs with the group at important concerts. The last time he appeared with the group on stage in 2010 at the presentation of the album "Tunnel at the End of the World".
Career
After graduating from Moscow State University, V. Pelsh worked as a junior researcher at the Research Institute of Problems of the History of Natural Science and Technology, established at the Academy of Sciences. A year later, he decided to go on television, his first project - "Oba-na!". Then he developed several television projects that he himself led ("Pilot", "Debiliade", etc.). Most of the ventures turned out to be a failure. In 1995. V. Listyev invited Valdis to become the host of the project "Guess the melody", which brought him fame.
In 1990-2000. Pelsh hosts the programs "Guess", "These Funny Animals", "Raffle", "Millions of Eldorado", "Alone at Home" and others, as well as popular TV shows. He was invited to the jury of the TV show "Surprise Me", KVN games. In 2013, Pelsh's project "Guess the melody-3" was released.
Valdis starred in musical and entertainment films (Old Songs about the Main-3, Brother 2, Love-Carrot, Turkish Gambit). 1996 to 1999 Pelsh, together with Kortnev, hosted the Golden Gramophone award ceremony.
Personal life
As a final year student at Moscow State University, Pelsh married a girl named Olga. She is a lawyer, her father became the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. In 1992. the spouses Pelsh had a daughter, Eigen. The marriage broke up in 2005. In 2006. Valdis marries Svetlana Akimova. They met when the TV presenter was still married.
In 2001. they had a daughter, Ilva, in 2009. the first son Einer appeared, in 2014. - the second son of Ivar. Svetlana is engaged in business, she has an agency for the selection of domestic workers, she also runs the MajorDom agency for the development of clothing design for service personnel.
