Lev Leshchenko Biography Age

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. During the long and fruitful years of his work, Leshchenko gave about 10 thousand concerts and recorded more songs, the most famous of which are “Victory Day” and “Farewell”. Lev Leshchenko, the star of the Soviet and Russian pop childhood and family Lev Valerianovich Leshchenko was born in Moscow, in the Sokolnikov region, in wartime - February 1.

His father, Valerian Andreevich, worked as an accountant before the war, and after the victory he was awarded orders and medals for participating in the Great Patriotic War, in the post -war period served in the border troops of the KGB. He died in a deep old age, not having lived to the centenary for only a year. Parents of Lev Leshchenko, the mother of Leo, Claudia Petrovna, an economist, died at 28 years old, a year and eight months after the birth of her son.

Of course, Lev remembers little about her, but from the words of relatives he knows that he inherited an impulsive temperament from his mother, because his father was extremely calm. Lev Leshchenko in childhood from a year Lev lived in the Ukrainian village of the bottom near Rodney from his father, but when it was time to go to first grade, his father took him to Moscow.

At this time, the boy Marina Leshchenko appeared, whom the artist later always recalled with warmth and gratitude. In m, she gave birth to her husband daughter Valentina. Lev Leshchenko with his father, stepmother, aunt and sister family lived in the starvation, huddled in a 16 meter-room, although Leo's father had already risen to the major by that time. Hot water and bathroom appeared in the Leshchenko family only when Valerian Andreevich received the rank of lieutenant colonel and with him an apartment near the Voikovskaya metro station.

Lev Leshchenko and his sister Valentina Leva often went to the military unit where his father served, which is why he was nicknamed the son of the regiment there. He had lunch only in a soldier's dining room, went to the cinema system and studied at the shooting range. From the age of four, the lion wore military uniform, rode soldiers in winter, which were three times longer than the boy himself.

The little Leo often visited his grandfather Andrei Leshchenko, who loved music very much and often played his grandson on an old violin, taught Leo singing. Since childhood, the boy was fond of Leonid Utesov’s songs, therefore, when the opportunity appeared, he signed up in the choir in the house of the pioneers, and at the school began to perform with the compositions of his beloved artist.

Therefore, up to a year, he worked as a simple worker of the scene in the Bolshoi Theater. Moreover, in the theater, everyone was aware of the desire of the young man and had nothing against it when he sat in the back rows and watched rehearsals. Then the lion, obeying his father, who was surprised why such a smart guy dragged the scenery, worked at the factory of accurate measuring instruments with a locksmith, received the fourth category.

Young Lev Leshchenko in the Mont of the future artist was drafted into the army. Lev Valeryanovich wanted to be a sailor, but his father sent him to serve in tank troops in the GDR. This is where his locksmith skills and vocal data came in handy. In the year, the command of the unit sent the singer to the military ensemble of songs and dancing, where Leshchenko soon became a soloist.

He was entrusted with singing in the quartet, conduct concerts, as well as read poetry and sing solo. In the army, Lev Leshchenko continued his preparation for admission to the theater university. By that time, the entrance exams had already ended, but Lev was given a chance, because they managed to remember his bright talent. Over the years of the army service, the guy forgot about constraint, became more relaxed, so he went through tests.

Despite the fact that the members of the selection committee did not highly appreciate the material he chose for listening, they enrolled in Pyotr Selivanov Leshchenko. A year later, no one doubted that a real artist was studying on the course. Being a sortone, Leshchenko got a job at the Operetta Theater, although the Genre of Opeetta itself did not seduce him. His first role is the sinner in the production of "Orpheus in hell" with only a remark: "Let me warm up." But that was only the beginning.

The larger role was Vittorio from the production “The circus lights the lights”, but, as Lev was complained, it was completely not singing. The character Leshchenko was already the elderly, and made him out of hand badly. And then the artist realized that with such a bass bariton in operetta he was shining with only the roles of the fathers of the main characters and villains, and left the theater.

At the same time, work began in the Muscontus. Lev Leshchenko was in an internship group, and during the summer holidays a young artist went on a tour of the USSR with concert brigades. Joseph Kobzon thought him there. They participated in a joint concert, and Leshchenko sang a batch of an old gypsy from the opera Aleo. Kobzon advised his colleague to try his luck on the radio, and, as it turned out, Lev Valeryanovich, despite the set academic vocals, was simply created for pop work.

He could sing anything. Lev Leshchenko at the beginning of the pop career in the spring of the year, the artist won the fourth all -Union contest of pop artists. Lev Leshchenko - “for that guy” as a sign for his musical career and his achievement, the singer always considered David Tukhmanov’s favorite “Victory Day” that was beloved by the whole union, which Leshchenko first performed on May 9.It was in his performance that this song gained its sound and found a response in the hearts of the listeners.

Lev Leshchenko in his youth and now in parallel with Leshchenko, the song was entrusted to perform Leonid Smetannikov. But his fulfillment of the front -line soldiers "did not hook." Afraid of the scandal, the song was sent to the shelf. But Leshchenko took a chance to fulfill it at a concert on the occasion of the Victory Day Police Closed the program and received a huge number of letters the next day.

During these years, Lev Valeryanovich continued to record songs that became hits, which included “thank you for the silence”, “Don’t cry, girl”. Lev Leshchenko - "Victory Day." Leshchenko performed the songs of the authorship of the famous duo "We do not live without each other", "Love, Komsomol and Spring." Lev Leshchenko and participants in the French group “Space” in the year the singer was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR, and a year later awarded the Honorary Prize named after the Lenin Komsomol.

In the year, the Order of Honor appeared in the artist’s piggy bank. Two years later, the institution was assigned the status of the state. The most successful project of the theater was the musical film “Military Field Romance”, in which military-patriotic songs were performed by Lev Leshchenko, Vladimir Vinokur and Larisa Dolina. During his creative life, Lev Leshchenko released more than 10 records, magneto-albums and CDs.

In it, the artist spoke about contemporaries and his life. In the winter of the year, Lev Leshchenko received the Order for Merit to the Fatherland of the fourth degree. The singer’s workplace at Leo Leshchenko is voluminous, soft, low baritone and at the same time courageous and velvety timbre. Due to this voice and due to the pleasant appearance and charm in youth and middle age, the artist was very popular.

Its image contrasts with the assertive and sharp manner of behavior on the stage of Vladimir Vinokur, with which the singer often performs in tandem from the 10ths. Moreover, Lev and Vladimir are very friendly, the singer even jokingly says that they have one mother for two. Lev Leshchenko and Vladimir Vinokur often act as a duet in the year, the artist participated in the television project “The Ghost of the Opera” of the First Channel, where the singer at a professional level performed romances and arias from classical works.

In February, GO Leshchenko arranged a concert in the Kremlin Palace in honor of his flight. His main hits, together with the anniversary, was performed by Philip Kirkorov, Stas Mikhailov, Lolita and other Russian pop stars. Lev Leshchenko continues to perform in October the famous singer awarded “For Merit to the Fatherland” of the 1st degree. In the same year, the artist released a new disc “I waited for a meeting”, although in the artist’s repertoire hundreds of compositions, from which you can make a huge number of full -fledged concert programs, Lev Valeryanovich continues to work on new material.

So, in the year, Leshchenko released two new albums: “My last love” and “created for you”, which included proven hits and not yet published compositions. In the year, Lev Leshchenko received a new experience for himself. In the year, he joined the second season of the project along with Mikhail Boyarsky, Valeria and Pelageya. In the second season, the situation repeated - Yuri Shivrin from the Leshchenko team became the second.

Lev Leshchenko and Evgeny Strugalsky, silver medalist of season 1, despite his age, Lev Leshchenko’s voice does not seem to notice the lived years. The singer watches him more serious than his appearance. The main three rules of the artists: do not eat ice cream, do not drink vodka and not spend sleepless nights.

Leshchenko despises the phonogram: "The music was different, and even the current generations are looking for these notes on the Internet in order to at least somehow touch it." In October, Lev Leshchenko performed at the White Trost charity concert, in which visually impaired children sang with folk artists. In the same year, Lev Leshchenko became the president and artistic director of the Russian Bas music festival.

Lev Leshchenko at the Belaya Avo concert in March of the year Russia has joined the countries with the coronavirus epidemic. A few weeks later, Leo Leshchenko was discharged from the hospital - the singer managed to cope with the infection. Already in May, he gave online concerts, and in June, Leshchenko once again thanked the doctors of the hospitals in Kommunarka, who helped him recover.

Together they sang the famous duet "Old Maple." Lev Leshchenko and Alla Abdalova - “Old Maple” in the year in their relationship was a crisis, and the couple decided to live separately. A year later, Leo and Alla gave her marriage a second chance. But in the year, on tour in Sochi, Lev Valerinovich met, as he later celebrated in an interview, the love of his whole life.

The lucky student of Budapest University, Irina Bagudin G., was the lucky man, she studied at an exchange economist in Hungary, and in Sochi came for a vacation. The girl did not recognize the artist as a celebrity, as she left for Budapest in the year, when Leshchenko was just starting to glory, and even took him for the mafiosi, while Lev fell in love with first glance. She was 22, he was 34, but the age difference did not prevent the feelings that overwhelmed them with his head.The wedding of Lev Leshchenko and Irina Bagudina had a vacation at the student, and Lev did not show up at home for three days, and when Irina flew back to Budapest, he returned to the apartment, where he discovered the assembled suitcases - his wife guessed that he had an affair on the side.

Leo thanked her for not having to arrange a scandal, and left her life. They failed to maintain friendly relations. Six months after parting, as Lev Valerinovich claimed, Alla begged him to return, referring to the loneliness and hardships of life. And he, leaving the apartment to his wife, moved to his parents, called in Budapest in the evenings and even learned several phrases in the Hungarian language to ask Irina, who lived in a hostel.

In a month of such calls, he spoke 13 thousand rubles, the amount at that time is fabulous - the new Volga was cheaper. In the year, Lev Leshchenko and Irina got married. For the sake of her husband, Irina left her career and became an assistant director at the Leshchenko Theater. Subsequently, Leo and Irina could not have children for health reasons, but this did not affect the fortress of their marriage.

In one of the interviews, Irina admitted that this fact was caused by Lev Valerianovich for many years, but now everything is in the past.