Singer Bunchikov Vladimir Biography

In the years, perhaps there was no person in the country who would not know this name. And many with bated breath fell to the radio when it sounded his unique beauty of baritones. With the singer, who was known, loved, and even idolized the listeners, I was lucky not only to actively correspond, but to meet many times. We met in the beginning of the 10ths, and from the time when I came to Moscow, then, as a rule, I stayed with Vladimir Alexandrovich.

I remember when I first crossed the threshold of the artist’s hospitable Moscow apartment, literally immediately felt the goodwill of her famous owner, the unusual grain of the wife of singer Maria Petrovna and their daughter Galina Vladimirovna. The family lived in the house of pop artists on Usievich Street, Vladimir Alexandrovich practically did not perform in concerts then, so he willingly satisfied my curiosity and always with pleasure talked about artists, composers and poets, whose works performed at one time on the stage, about his life and creative path.

As it turned out, the vocal talent of the future singer, whose real name was Abramovich, manifested itself in early childhood in the city of Yekaterinoslav now the Dnieper, although the family lived very poorly and the boy could not dream of musical education. Well, when his father and two brothers and sister Vladimir were emigrated to America, he was forced to leave school at the age of 14 and go to work in a tobacco store in a utility worker in order to somehow help his mother.

The eldest brother worked at the local theater as a driver-lighter, so Volodya often visited the scenes. Once, before the start of the performance, he went to the ramp and at the top of his voice sang the “three”. In the dark hall was an assistant director, who, after the song ended, went to the young man with the words: “Yes, you, a guy, is gold in his throat.

You should learn singing ... ".

The cherished dream of Vladimir Bunchikov came true only seven years later, when he first entered the Simferopol Musical School, and after serving in the army he was admitted to the music technical school. By that time, mother and older brother had already emigrated from the country. From loneliness, as the artist admitted, the passion for singing saved. With particular warmth, Vladimir Alexandrovich recalled the years of study in Leningrad, in two studios at the wonderful singers of Vladimir Castorsky and Nikolai Puchkovsky.

After graduation, the young artist received an invitation to the Moscow Musical Theater named after V. Nemirovich-Danchenko to the head of the soloist-vocalist, where he worked for eleven years. She danced like a goddess, fluttered like a butterfly, and I ... in a word, she tormented me with me. ” Already much later, when the artist performed on the stage, and Lyubov Petrovna became a real star of Soviet cinema, they somehow met in one of the concerts, and during the conversation Vladimir Alexandrovich recalled how she taught him to dance a waltz.

To which Orlova answered: "But I can’t imagine today's song without Vladimir Buunkikov." Since the year, the singer's voice began to sound along the All -Union radio. Then, with the performance of the song by V. Solovyov-Sedogo and A. The duet’s execution included the wonderful works “We have not been at home for a long time”, “We are people of a big flight”, “Two friends”, “Black Sea” and many others.

Concerts, as a rule, were led by Yuri Levitan, and I often accompanied me and Nechaev by Vasily Solovyov-Sede in the accordion. We sang in front of the soldiers going to the front, and understood that for some of them this is the last meeting with a song. Therefore, all their applications were carried out without fail. ” For fifty years of singing activity, Vladimir Bunchikov traveled to the whole country, which is called, along and across, took part in foreign tour.

He received a huge number of letters from his fans, and some indicated the address: “Moscow, the Bolshoi Theater. Bunchikov V. That is, the listeners were sure that the artist with such a powerful, extraordinary beauty could sing in a voice only at the Bolshoi Theater. Although there were indeed opera works in the repertoire of Vladimir Alexandrovich, and he actively participated in the recording on the radio operas and operett along with the glorified soloists of the Bolshoi Theater.

I have a gramplast album with a record of the operetta I. Kalman "Marits", where the party of Tasillo brilliantly performed Vladimir Bunchikov. Of course, the singer’s talent was multifaceted. But still, a song was occupied by the main place in his work. It is not surprising that Matvey Blanter called the artist one of the creators of the classical style performed by the song.

And Isaac Dunaevsky wrote in the photo donated to the performer: “My beloved singer, the propagandist of the Soviet song, excellent Vladimir Bunchikov with gratitude.” He recognized instantly, and you immediately succumbed to his imperious, bewitching influence. This voice, in the words of the poet, "will break through the enormous years."Ivan Semenovich Kozlovsky, who had been friends with the singer for many years and highly appreciated his talent, often recalled how usually Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, who was usually stingy, listening to the Bunchikov Party of Germon in Verdi's “Traviatat”, stroking the beard, said: “Well done!

And the wonderful artist Vladimir Kandelaki in the book presented by Bunchikov wrote: “Volodya, you are a wonderful singer! I learned to sing from you and is grateful for the fact that fate brought us! Vladimir Alexandrovich always remembered his roots, about Ukraine. When we met with him, he asked about Ukrainian performers, whose work we followed interest.

The legend of the Soul Song Vladimir Bunchikov went a large life path and died in 92. I must say that the voice did not let the singer even at old age. He sang from a concert stage both on his summer and on the summer anniversary. And the audience, as before, enthusiastically accepted their beloved artist. When the artist was gone on March 17, a short message was held along one of the central channels of television: “Beloved singer Vladimir Alexandrovich Bunchikov passed away.”