Lyudmila Zykina is a popularly beloved Soviet and Russian singer, head of the Rossiya musical ensemble. Her famous songs are not being sung by the first generation of Russians.
Biography
Lyudmila Zykina was born in 1929 into a Moscow working class family. The parents and grandmother of the future artist loved to sing, so music has been in Lyudmila's heart since childhood. She began performing with songs already at preschool age, but the brave girl dreamed of becoming a pilot. Soon the Great Patriotic War broke out, and all plans had to be abandoned. Yesterday's schoolgirl began working as a turner at a factory, helping the country in turbulent times.
After the war, Lyudmila Zykina studied at the School of Working Youth and decided to try her luck at the All-Russian amateur competition. The winners of the competition were invited to perform in the Pyatnitsky Choir. In 1947, it was Lyudmila who was fortunate enough to become one of the four best performers. So the performances in the famous choir began. Zykina proved herself on stage so magnificently that even Joseph Stalin himself decided to talk to her.
In 1969, Lyudmila Zykina, as demanded by a new profession, graduated from the Moscow school. Ippolitova-Ivanova, and in 1977 she received a diploma from the famous "Gnesinka". It is worth noting that the death of her mother made the singer leave the Pyatnitsky choir: the artist could not recover from her grief for a long time and lost some of her skills. Later she began to sing in the choir of Russian songs on the All-Union Radio, performing the cult "Steppe and the steppe all around", "Down the Volga River", "Thin Rowan" and others.
During her long career, Zykina performed more than 2000 compositions, later becoming the favorite singer of Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. In 1977, the singer founded the musical ensemble "Russia", with which she performed all subsequent years. During this period, the hits “The Volga River Flows”, “Zimushka”, “Orenburgskiy Shakok” and others were born. Lyudmila Zykina performed at all-Russian concerts until the end of her life, which ended in 2009: the singer died after suffering a massive heart attack.
Personal life
Lyudmila Zykina was married four times, but each marriage inevitably ended in divorce on her personal initiative. At 22, she was married to her first husband, engineer Vladlen Pozdnov. Very soon, the couple parted, and Zykina found new happiness in the person of photojournalist Yevgeny Svalov, but this relationship also turned out to be fleeting. A similar fate awaited the third marriage, which the singer entered into with journalist Vladimir Kotelkin.
The last marriage of Lyudmila Georgievna turned out to be the longest and lasted 17 years. She married the accordion player Viktor Gridin, who often performed on the same stage with her. Unfortunately, the great artist did not leave behind heirs: she often thought about children, but never got them, preferring to devote her whole life to music.
