Lolita Markovna Milyavskaya - Soviet and Russian pop singer, actress, TV presenter, director. Laureate of the TEFI 2007 national television award.
Biography
Lolita Milyavskaya (Gorelik) was born on November 14, 1963 in the city of Mukachevo, Transcarpathian region (Ukraine). Mother, Nikiforova Alla Dmitrievna (born in 1943) was a jazz singer. She worked at the Ivano-Frankivsk Philharmonic in the Carpathian Jazz Orchestra and at the Jazz Band Marie. Lolita's father, Mark Lvovich Gorelik (1932-1978) worked with his mother as an entertainer, conducted the orchestra.
The girl's parents often went on tour, and little Lolita remained in the care of her grandparents.
In 1969, my grandparents moved to Lviv. Their apartment overlooked the Opera House. Little Lolita visited him with her grandmother and had a dream of becoming a ballerina. At 3 years old, my grandmother gave Lolita to dance, but for her willful character, a year later she was expelled from the dance circle.
In 1972, his parents divorced, and in 1974 his father emigrated abroad, to Israel. After his departure, the mother's career ended, and she got a job at the Kiev Music Hall, later worked for Boris Sharvarko, and then created her own team.
When Lolita was 10 years old, her grandmother died, and her mother and Lolita moved to Kiev. Then her mother, on tour in Saransk, met Yuliy Malakyants, who later became a theater producer and director of the theater of Konstantin Raikin "Satyricon", and married him.
Lolita continued her studies at the Kiev school. In her free time from school, after the 8th grade, Lolita's mother began to take the girl with her on tour, and Lolita became interested in singing.
In 1974, her mother introduced Lolita to the singer Irina Ponarovskaya, who sang in those years in the VIA "Singing Guitars". Ponarovskaya took Lolita to her as a backing vocalist. Before leaving school, Lolita Milyavskaya performed with Irina Ponarovskaya during the summer holidays.
In 1981, Lolita entered the directing department at the Tambov Institute of Culture.
In 1985, Lolita Milyavskaya graduated from the institute and left for Odessa, where he worked at the theater Alexander Belyaev.
While working at the Odessa Philharmonic, Lolita meets Alexander Tsekalo. In 1987, Lolita's frequent conflicts and maximalism lead to her leaving, and she and Alexander Tsekalo leave for Moscow.
Career and creativity
In Moscow, Milyavskaya decides to try herself as a professional singer.
In collaboration with Alexander Tsekalo in 1987, Lolita created the "Academy" cabaret duet. The first joint album "Little Coup", released in 1992 on "vinyl" and dubbed in 1995 on CD, went unnoticed by the mass audience. But already the next album “Nebal dances”, released in 1994 by “ZeKo records” studio, took them to the top of the charts. Around this time, Lolita and Alexander create and try themselves as presenters in the TV pizza program and start working in the Morning Mail program on the ORT channel.
In 1995, the album "If you want, but you are silent" was released.
In 1997 at the studio "Bekar records" the album "Wedding" was recorded.
At this time, the program “Good morning, country!” Appears on the RTR channel and the Ukrainian “1 + 1” channel. She broke all possible ratings. And the most popular were the works of Lolita in the television project "Old songs about the main thing." Between filming TV shows and recordings in studios, Lolita Milyavskaya successfully toured with concerts in the cities of Russia, the CIS, as well as in Israel, Canada, USA, Germany, Cyprus.
In April 1999, the album "Tu-Tu-Tu Na-Na-Na" was released. In the opinion of viewers and record companies, this album became the best one recorded by the Academy.
Also in 1999 the album "Fingerprints" was released.
At the end of 1999, Milyavskaya received the Ovation Award in the VIP category as the most versatile singer, actress, director, presenter and TV presenter.
Since 2000, Lolita has finished working with Alexander Tsekalo, and since January 1, 2000, she begins a solo career. Appears on the air of the central channels of Russia on New Year's Eve, and a little later becomes a participant in "Christmas meetings with Alya Pugacheva." There, together with Alena Apina, she sang the song "About Women's Friendship".
She conducted joint programs with Valdis Pelsh, Alena Apina and Alexey Kortnev.
In parallel with work in the programs, the singer began to engage in her musical creativity.
On November 25, 2000 her first solo album "Flowers" was released. Later, the first video of the same name was shot, on which director Alexander Kalvarsky and cameraman Maxim Osadchiy were working. Soon the second video "The Lost" will be released.
The singer continued her concert activities. Has successfully performed in clubs and concert halls in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev.
In 2001, Lolita starred in the musical Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka. And in 2002, Milyavskaya starred in the musical fairy tale "Cinderella".
On October 4, 2002, Lolita played a role in the musical "Chicago" on the stage of the Variety Theater. In December 2002 she starred in a photo shoot for the Playboy magazine
In March 2003, the singer's second album, The Divorced Woman Show, was released. In December of the same year, the singer gives a big solo concert of the same name.
On October 24, 2003 the premiere of the play "Rubber Prince" with the participation of Lolita took place.
In December 2003, the singer starred in the musical film based on the Beaumarchais comedy The Marriage of Figaro.
On November 13-14, 2004 in the State Central Concert Hall "RUSSIA" the premiere of Lolita's new show "I'm 41 … Who Will Give?" And on February 1, 2005, Lolita's grandiose concert tour began in the cities of Russia, near and far abroad with the show "I'm 41 … And who will?", Which was held with great success in more than 120 cities.
On August 29, 2005, Lolita's talk show "Without complexes" started on Channel One.
In 2005, two films by Lolita were presented - the films "Pops" and "These are all flowers."
On October 22, 2005, the presentation of Lolita's new album “Format” took place in the “Soul and Body” mix club.
On October 6, 2007, the presentation of the single “It turned out that you are my weakness” took place in the Ikra nightclub. And in the same year, Lolita released two albums at once "Neformat", "Orientation North".
In September 2008, Lolita Milyavskaya became the host of the Superstar-2008 television project on the NTV channel.
In 2008, Lolita's album "Fetish" was released.
In 2009, the singer released a collection of hits "Sunken", including the single "Stop the Earth".
In 2011, Lolita became a member of the jury "Factor A" - the Russian version of the British project The X Factor.
In 2012, the singer became the host of the Saturday Evening TV program on the Russia-1 TV channel.
In March 2014, the premiere of the video for the song "Anatomy" (G. Titov - N. Kasimtseva) took place. In August of the same year, the premiere of the video for the song "On Scotch" (E. Bardachenko - A. Belyaev) took place. November 17, 2014 Lolita Milyavskaya released the album "Anatomy".
In March 2016, Lolita released new songs "On Titanic" and "Wonderful Miracle", which instantly gained popularity.
Personal life
Lolita Milyavskaya was married five times and has her only daughter Eva (born 1998). The singer's daughter lives with her grandmother in Kiev (Ukraine).
Lolita's first spouse in 1985 was classmate Alexander Belyaev, but their marriage did not last long. And in 1987 they melted.
In 1987, in Moscow, Lolita married Vitaly Milyavsky. True, the marriage was fictitious, in order to obtain a Moscow residence permit. From this marriage, the singer left only her last name.
The third husband of the singer was showman Alexander Tsekalo. The couple lived together for 12 years. And the marriage was officially registered at the dawn of the collapse of the cabaret duet "Academy" in 1998 with the aim of registering a daughter, Eva, on Alexander Tsekalo. In 2000, Lolita and Alexander officially divorced.
The fourth husband of the singer in 2004 is businessman Alexander Zarubin. In 2009, the couple divorces.
On March 20, 2010, the singer married tennis player Dmitry Ivanov.
