Songs Dnieper Biography

Anatoly Dnieper: Between the two shores Tuesday, May 28, Anatoly Dnieper: between the two shores on the dawn of perestroika, in the year, Anatoly Dnieper is the first of the third wave emigrants to the Soviet Union. This step was a sensation on both sides of the ocean of a homemade salca for the composer at the beginning of X, reaching all the conceivable peaks in his native Dnepropetrovsk, Anatoly Dnieper moved to Moscow, where he began to compose songs for popular pop performers.

But it was not possible to conquer the capital from the scab. And although they soon noticed a gifted melodist, and his songs were sounded in the performance of the stars of the Soviet scene, weekly parcels with a home -sap and cucumbers were at first completely unnecessary. Every week to meet the Dnepropetrovsk-Moscow train to the Kursk station, his fellow countryman, musician Alexander Petrenko, rode with Tolya.

Subsequently, he recalled: “Once, taking the bags with my mother’s mumbles, we got into my car and Tolya took out the cassette:“ Listen, in my opinion, it turned out well! Much later, in the year, the poet Mikhail Tanich wrote poetry to her, this composition was born so ... ”Family Alliance was one of the first with whom Anatoly Dnieper began to cooperate in Moscow was Pavel Leonidov, a popular poet poet and experienced pop bolt.

He began as an entertainer even under Stalin, but soon, thanks to his outstanding organizational abilities, he gained fame as impresario. At the turn of the “Pasha”, the whole artistic bohemia knew from Kobzon to Vysotsky. By the way, the latter Leonidov was a cousin. And he also grew a beauty-daughter of Olenka, who, like dad, wrote poetry. In the year, composer Anatoly Dnieper and poetess Olga Pavlov became not only co -authors, but also a family.

It seems to him that they will achieve world recognition behind the ocean. This did not happen.

The Dnieper regretted leaving, and his wife, and Leonidov himself, who died in New York from an illness in the heart of the year. Dnieper becomes a laureate of a song contest in Los Angeles, writes music for the Hollywood film. In parallel, he writes records in Russian, sings in the nightclubs Brighton Beach, but still he was not able to achieve real success with the American public.

As Mikhail Shufutinsky recalled, once Dnieper for a long time told him about plans to conquer America and millional contracts in Hollywood. The composer's friend, Chancier Willy Tokarev, even responded to this event with a song: “My friend returns back home to Moscow. He told me: “Willy, you see, sometimes without regrets, delicious halva on a pitch of black change ...”. At first, the people of a rampart in the concerts of the former emigrant.

Again, old comrade Joseph Kobzon helps him to adapt to his homeland. In the year, Dnieper becomes a laureate of “songs of the year”, actively tours, releases records ... However, he could not fully feel the former triumph, remaining like between two coasts: both there is a stranger here and not his own. One of the most striking compositions can rightly be called the song “My Armenia”, which was performed in two languages ​​with a duet with the Armenian chansonnier Tata Simonyan.

For many months, she held on the top of the Radio Chanson hit parade. But few people know that the first version of the song was recorded by Dnieper in Russian back in the middle of x. Years passed, and the head of the Armenian Airlines accidentally heard the song. At his request, the composition was a capture again in two votes. Interestingly, during work, the singers spoke only on the phone, but personally never met.

Everyone recorded his part in the studio separately: Anatoly - in Moscow, and Tata - in Yerevan. Nevertheless, a real hit was obtained, which has become an almost unofficial anthem of Armenia. Tata and Anatoly were going to meet in the late spring of the year. Both were then on a tour, and their routes should have crossed, but ... On May 5, newspapers reported: “On the way from Volgograd to Rostov-on-Don, where a concert was supposed to take place in the evening, the author of the song“ Donate ”, the singer and composer Anatoly Dnieper quickly died of a heart attack.” The entire organization of the funeral was taken by the old comrade of the musician Joseph Davydovich Kobzon.

Thus ended the biography of Anatoly Semenovich Dniprov.