Biography of Vitas Singer

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The energetic unearthly falsetto conquered the listeners, and the mysterious image of the artist gave rise to many rumors. It was even rumored that under the scarf Vitas hides gills and in fact he is amphibian. At some point, the singer disappeared from the radar. The mysterious singer Vitas was still thinking where Vitas had gone, he built his career abroad.

So, he became the first foreign singer to conquer the Chinese listeners - in the PRC they erected a monument to him and invite him to act in a large cinema. More about the life path of this mysterious artist, about what rumors are true about him and which - the fruit of a fan imagination, read below. Childhood and family Vitaliy Vladasovich Grachev, he was Vitas Latvian modification named after Vitaly on February 19 in Daugavpils, but shortly after his birth, the family moved to Odessa, where Vitaly spent almost all his childhood.

He has citizenship of Ukraine. Singer Vitas in childhood, the artist’s mother, costume designer Lidia Mikhailovna, died in the year. The father of the future singer, Vladas Grachev, soloed in the vocal and instrumental ensemble. Grandfather, Arkady Davydovich Maantsman died in, also possessed a good voice and sang in the military choir. From 6 to 9 years old, he mastered the accordion at the music school.

Later, Vitas was engaged in jazz vocal for the teacher Anna Rudneva, worked in the voice parody and the Plastic Theater. In parody numbers, Vitas depicted not only guys, but also girls and even old women. He even learned to copy the complex dance movements of Michael Jackson. With this composition, he performed in local restaurants. In one of them, the novice singer was noticed by producer Sergei Pudovkin, who invited the young man to Moscow.

The beginning of the path after the ninth grade Vitas went to conquer Moscow. Throughout the song, the theme of loneliness went through the red line, and the clip exacerbated it. The video told the story of a young man with gills on his neck, who lives in the bathroom of an abandoned house and only sometimes goes outside, covering his neck with a scarf. And in the piercing fold of Vitas, absolutely everything doubted.

Alla Pugacheva directly and decisively demanded to demonstrate her vocal data on the rehearsals of “Christmas meetings”. The artist took a dizzying note and dispelled all doubts. Vitas “surpassed” Sergei Penkin, the voice of 4 octaves of which is called silver. The singer takes five and a half octaves and can even sing with bass. In the yellow press, absurd versions were put forward, supposedly in childhood Vitas was castrated to achieve such a timbre.

The producer of the singer explained the unusual voice of his ward with a feature of the structure of the throat. Experts believe that Vitas does not so much sings as it pronounces the text by recitative. In the photo: Vitas and his producer Sergei Pudovkin at the beginning of the creative path, fans in search of an answer to the question, who is Vitas, climbed onto the Internet, where they stumbled upon the artist’s website.

The resource turned out to be incredibly stylish, “sophisticated” and technically complicated at that time - even experienced computer scientists appreciated it. It turns out that the artist himself wrote the site: computers and programming - his second passion after music. The young Vitas opened the site with the words “never gives an interview“ live ”. The producer Sergei Pudovkin refused to communicate with the press.

They argued such secrecy from the media by the fact that "Vitas is outside the gossip and outside the speculation." However, a little later the producer spoke. It turns out that they were hidden from the press for the sake of PR, because, according to Sergei Pudovkin, you can not start “promotion” with communication with journalists on musical and income -music topics.

As the artist himself admits, his songs are born completely unexpectedly. It happens that a new melody appears right during a rehearsal, and it happens during a phone call, then Vitas begins to hummed a freshly baked composition. If the creation is successful, then it is immediately arranged. The heyday of his career in the year Vitas released the debut album "Philosophy of the Miracle", which included 13 songs.

Vitas performed the song even with his grandfather Arkady Maantsman. The fruit of joint creativity was the composition "Friendship". The frame from the Blessed Guru clip in the year Vitas and producer Sergei Pudovkin entered the Board of Trustees of the World League of the Upo Outside Drugs. In the same year, one of the stage costumes in the same year in the Kremlin Palace, the artist presented his own collection of clothing, which was called "autumn dreams".

The image of Vitas in youth is also now a year-this is the release date of the 2nd album of Vitas called “Smile”. He released 2 albums to the artist: this is the “Mom” record and the cover of the “Songs of my mother”, which included many Soviet hits, including “Kings”, “In the region of Magnoli”, etc. Another disc was released in the year-11 songs were included in the album “Kiss Longness”.

By this time, Vitas decided to move away from the mysterious image of an amphibian boy to a more classic image, and therefore the interest in his person has significantly decreased. Where Vitas disappeared, you might think that by the middle of the zero star of Glory Vitas rolled completely.The singer disappeared from the radio and from television channels, was not heard about new concerts and preparing albums.

In fact, the singer conquered a world audience: if in Russia his work was largely ahead of his time and was ambiguously met by many artist’s tour not even commercially profitable, then Vitas was accepted abroad with open arms. In China, Vitas is ready to carry in their hands especially Vitas to the liking of the inhabitants of China-now more than a million people are in his official Chinese Fan Club.

He is the only Russian singer who won Asian listeners. Why do Vitas love Vitas so much in China? In the year, he was already desperate to return the former glory on the Russian stage, he accepted an invitation from the leadership of Chinese Central Television to act as part of the Year of Russia, which was carried out on the Middle Kingdom in the framework of improving relations between the two countries.

The singer’s performance was watched by millions. After him, Vitas concluded a contract for speeches at the largest concert venues by Beijing and Shanghai. The Chinese called it the “space nightingale” and the “lord of the dolphins”, as well as the reborn milapepe-this is a sacred figure in Buddhism, a yog-practitioner and a singer. In the year, the MTV Asia channel awarded it with the title “Contractor of the Year”.

The monument to Vitas in China in China has a villa, and every fall and winter it gives a large tour of the country. The singer admits that he does not walk along the local streets alone-fans do not allow him to calmly go, falling into a memory of the idol. Experts explain the success of the singer by incredibly spectacular performances and an unusual timbre of voice for China.

The singer himself believes that his inner world simply turned out to be close to the Chinese, and he never shouts his soul in his work, because the listener always recognizes falsehood. Moreover, in China, Vitas became a star of blockbusters. In the year, he starred in the high -budget blockbuster "Mulan", based on the Chinese epic. It could also be seen in the historical drama “The Foundation of the Party”, the musical “To become famous overnight” and the Russian-Chinese series “The Last Secret of the Master” with Viktor Loginov in the title role.

Vitas in the film "Mulan" in the Museum of Digital Technology, which is located in Beijing, is a separate stand dedicated to Vitas and its unique voice. Vitas in the Peking Museum of Digital Technology Vitas managed to become famous on the other side of the Atlantic. In the year, the singer of the year with the composition “7 Element” was unexpectedly fell in love with the English-language Internet users.

Now on YouTube, this video with the name “Weird Russia Singer” “The strange Russian singer” is more than eighty million! Vitas’s clip, which so loved all over the world, the second wave of glory in Russia, conquering the music market of Asia, Vitas does not forget about the Russian one. He is a frequent guest on television. Just: Vitas in the form of glucose on the first day of the spring of the year in the St.

Petersburg BKZ Oktyabrsky, a large solo concert of Vitas was held-all tickets were sold out. As for creativity, Vitas recently, by the way, repainted in a platinum blond, more often pleases fans with new songs. This is a lot, considering that for the preceding five years he released only two music videos. The clip for the song “Made” returned to the listeners of the old Vitas - a surrealistic, immersed in the world of fantasies.

Vitas - made a clip for the song “Making” came out just to the singer’s anniversary. In February, Vitas turned this birthday to the singer, according to the tradition that had developed in Russia, did not celebrate and even, being a superstitious person, warned loved ones so that he would not be congratulated in any case. In Vitas, he repainted in a blond and lost weight in the summer of the year, the singer held a large tour of the PRC, the USA, gave two concerts in Japan and 40 in Russia, and also performed at the Tomorrowland International Ravel Tommi Tammi Tammi Trumpet.

He performed his hit “The Seventh Element” and a new composition - in one voice, Vitas performed “in the cave of the mountain king” Edward Grieg. Vitas at the Tomorrownland festival October was marked by the release of Vitas's new song “You are so close”. The scandals in May in Moscow Vitas on the car of the Infiniti brand hit the cyclist Olga Kholodova and rammed two cars.

The woman survived, but received serious injuries. Witnesses surrounded the singer’s car before the police arrived. According to eyewitnesses, Vitas refused to communicate with someone and threatened Makarov’s assembled pistol later that it was a dummy. And when the employees of the bodies arrived, he refused to pass the test to the level of alcohol content in the body, hit one policeman, and called the rest with “roosters”.

As a result, criminal cases under Art. Vitas ran into a cyclist and threatened her with a gun while Vitas was in court, his producer opened the veins. Fortunately, suicide was prevented; The man was placed in a mental hospital. The singer is detained by the police from the criminal case of Vitas, escaped with a solid fine and deprivation of rights for a year and a half.

A year later, Muscovite Elena M. In March, the police came to Vitas because the neighbors complained about shooting. Nobody opened the door to the arrived. Law enforcement officers broke to his house and brought Vitas to the department. It turned out that the singer from the company of friends shot at ravens from a pistol charged with idle cartridges. As a result, it was brought up about petty hooliganism and arrested for 7 days.

Vitas’s personal life of many fans were surprised to learn that one of the most mysterious singers of our time has a very ordinary and even classic family: a beauty-priest and two children.