The singer's calling card is the song "Black Cat". Probably, everyone at least once heard this simple motive and an intriguing beginning: "Once upon a time there was a black cat around the corner …". Meanwhile, Tamara Miansarova sang a huge number of songs and lived a long and interesting life. And very few people know that in the 80s, according to the Polish magazine Panorama, the singer was named among the most popular performers of the last 25 years: Charles Aznavour, Edith Piaf, Karel Gott and Tamara Miansarova were on this list.
Tamara was born in 1931 in the city of Zinovievsk, Ukraine. Her parents were artists: dad played in the theater, mom sang in the opera. They often sang at home, making up a magnificent trio with their little daughter.
When the family moved to Minsk, the war broke out. The Remnev family survived all the hardships of this terrible time. After the war, Tamara studied at a music school, and in 1951 she entered the Moscow Conservatory. She studied at the piano department, but a year later she was transferred to vocal.
Singing career
After graduating from the conservatory, Remneva worked as an accompanist. And dreamed of a big stage.
In 1958, her dream came true: she received the third prize at the III All-Union Contest of Variety Artists. After that, her concert activity begins, performances in the Music Hall, and then in the quartet.
It was 1958, and Igor Granov was just looking for a soloist for his jazz quartet. When he heard Miansarova, he realized that he had found exactly the voice and the image he was looking for. Education, charm, great voice, plastic - everything in her was to the highest degree.
It was from 1958 that her career began to take off: triumphant performances in the Soviet Union, friendly countries, broadcasts on radio and television, the love of the public.
In 1962 - performance at the youth festival in Helsinki, prize and gold medal. A year later, Miansarova becomes the winner of the International Festival in Sopot.
Her songs "Eyes on the Sand", "Ay-lyuli", "Solar Circle", "Ginger", "Black Cat" won the hearts of millions. The artist recorded records, and they scattered around the world, delighting the hearts of listeners. As a recognition of talent - the title of People's Artist of Russia.
Especially for Miansarova, the group "Three plus two" was created, which is met by enthusiastic fans everywhere, photos of the artist are bought up instantly in the kiosks of "Soyuzpechat", she became a regular guest of "Blue Light" - the most popular New Year program in the USSR.
This was until 1970, and then the singer abruptly disappeared from everywhere, stopped performing in concerts. According to rumors, the official is to blame for this, to whom Tamara did not reciprocate. She left for Donetsk, sang in Ukrainian cities, where she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.
Tamara Grigorievna returned in the 80s, when everything changed, however, the time was already different, other stars shone in the pop horizon. Miansarova taught at GITIS, participated in the jury of competitions, sang in programs about retro music.
Personal life
The cheerful and very beautiful artist was married four times. She wrote the book "Both in life and on stage", in which she described her life in detail.
Her first husband was Eduard Miansarov, a childhood friend, they had a son, but soon the couple parted.
The marriage with the composer Leonid Garin lasted only six months - he died tragically.
The third husband of the singer was her administrator Igor Khlebnikov, in this marriage daughter Ekaterina was born.
The last 30 years of her life Tamara Grigorievna lived with Mark Feldman, she has three grandchildren.
Tamara Fedorovna died in 2017.
