Our biography of Kobzon

Joseph Kobzon - the legendary Soviet and Russian pop singer, People's Artist of the USSR, is the first deputy chairman of the Culture Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. The childhood and youth of Joseph Kobzon was an important role in the life of Joseph Kobzon was played by the mother of Ida Isaevna, who was born in the Podolsk province and from childhood earned a living with exhausting labor.

In the year, Ida Isaakovna became a people's judge. And with this faith I will not part until the end of my days. Mom was an extraordinary man. In an amazing way, it combined wisdom and energy, the highest culture and amazing tact. Very fundamental and always fair. I still don’t understand how she had enough strength for a huge family. ” The moral lessons given by the mother of Ida Issakovna to her son, the little Joseph remembered forever.

Perhaps it is, following the example of the mother, Joseph Kobzon puts a huge amount of effort into creativity throughout life. When the war began, the father of Joseph Kobzon went to the front by the political instructor, the large family was evacuated to Uzbekistan, near Tashkent. Grandmother, mother, mother of mom, his wife and child, three of us, and twelve people are an Uzbek family who sheltered us.

With the onset of twilight, we laid cotton-tag beds and stacked all together in this room with “stacks”. When the dawn came, everyone was awakened from stuffiness and scattered about their business. Adults went to work, and we - wander around the yards, play a cloth ball, shoot from a slingshot. ” In the year of his father, he was very shell -shocked, after the hospital he returned to his family, took the savings and went to Moscow to live with another woman.

In the year, Joseph Kobzon returned to Ukraine and went to first grade. Mother married the front -line soldier Moses Moiseevich Rappoport. The family moved to Dnepropetrovsk and became even more: four children from the Kobzon family and two children from the Rappoport family. In the year, Joseph Kobzon graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Mountain College.

At the creative evening of the technical school, the debut of Joseph Kobzon took place - he performed songs with a duet with the future Badminton star Boris Barshak. Joseph Kobzon was also fond of boxing, won the championship, took a prize at the Ukrainian championship, but left sports after a knockout. From the year, Joseph Kobzon served in the army, was part of the song and dancing ensemble of the Transcaucasian Military District.

After the army, singing teacher Leonid Tereshchenko, head of the choir of the Dnipropetrovsk Palace of Students, began to prepare Joseph Kobzon for admission to the Odessa Conservatory. I’m entering, and my student stands on the stage and performs a song, while so annoying the throat - horror! He tries to sound properly against the backdrop of the pop "copper"!

I told him: "Gorlan to health, but you will plant a voice." He could not be torn before he finally puts the vocals, which sounded better day by day. And he stopped singing the stage then, ”recalls Leonid Tereshchenko. Leonid Tereshchenko helped the young man get a job in the bomb shelter of the Dnipropetrovsk Chemical and Technology Institute, there Joseph Kobzon wiped the gas mask alcohol for a salary of 50 rubles.

But teachers who accepted at the institute. The Gnesins liked the applicant more than others, because he remained here to study. In the year, Joseph Kobzon became a graduate of the State Musical and Pedagogical Institute. Ostrovsky, and I went up to him after the performance and asked me to give me any songs or, perhaps, perform together ... He, after listening to me, said so slightly casually: “Call me after a week” and gave my phone.

I began to call. His wife took the phone all the time, but Ostrovsky himself did not approach the phone in any way, said: “Later” and “I am busy”, etc. But in the end he invited me to listen. I performed several of his songs. He listened and said: "And you accidentally do not have a tenor on the course, otherwise I have the soloists a dime a dozen, but a duet is needed." I replied that there is.

He invited Victor Kokhno, and Ostrovsky gave us two duets. ” The pop career of Joseph Kobzon Joseph Kobzon most often performed lyrical and patriotic songs. In the X years, the manner of performances and the image of Joseph Kobzon were formed - a combination of Belcanto technique with ease, attention to the word, poetic intonation, external severity and solemn appearance, with minimal facial expressions and restrained execution.

He refers to the material with such respect, even if it is a simple song. And with great respect for the public, which listens to these songs, ”comments the composer Alexander Pakhmutov. In the years, Joseph Kobzon was the soloist of the All -Union Radio, in the years - the soloist of the Roskontsert, in the years - the soloist of the Moskontzers.

In the year, after the appearance of the songs of Arkady Ostrovsky “And in our yard, Joseph Kobzon woke up popularly known. At the same time, Joseph Kobzon becomes a laureate of the All -Russian contest of pop artists and the winner of the international competition in Sopot Poland. The voice of Joseph Kobzon is the lyrical baritone of the noble Temra, recognizable from the first sounds, which has clear diction.On the records of the X you can hear a different voice of Kobzon, since before X the singing voice of the legendary artist was still formed.

In the first issue of “Songs of the Year” in the year, Joseph Kobzon performs the composition of Robert Rozhdestvensky “Ballad of Paints” by the usual, modern timbral sound. From the year, Joseph Kobzon was an unchanged finalist of the television festival "Song of the Year". Since the year, Joseph Kobzon taught pop vocals at the State Music and Pedagogical Institute named after the Gnesins, since the year as a professor.

I am grateful to the fate that I took my first steps in the professional field next to this great man. Amazing skill, talent, human indifference forced us, then students, to admire them. A sincerely friendly attitude towards their students gave an atmosphere of trust that, perhaps, like nothing else, helped our professional formation, ”the singer Valery admits.

In the years, Joseph Kobzon, one of the few Soviet artists, performed for Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The most famous songs performed by Joseph Kobzon are patriotic, civilian Soviet and Komsomol songs telling about the labor and military exploits of the Soviet people. Also in the repertoire of the singer there is a huge number of lyrical songs and romances. In the X years, Joseph Kobzon released gramplasts with lyrical and comic songs of the 10ths from the repertoire V.

Kozina, I. Yuryeva, K. Shulzhenko, K. Sokolsky, A. Pogodin, G. Joseph Kobzon is one of the most popular and iconic artists performing songs about the Great Patriotic War. Joseph Kobzon also acts with opera and opera arias and arioso, Russian, Ukrainian and Jewish folk songs. Joseph Kobzon performed the songs written by I. Dunaevsky, M. Blangter, brothers Krasras, A. Novikov, V.

Solovyov-Sedy, M. Fekin, O. Feltzman, S. Tulikov, A. Pakhmutova, D. in his repertoire of more than one and a half thousand songs. Everything is subject to him: the heroic ballad, and a subtle lyrical statement, and march -shaped appeal, and the sincereness of the quiet waltz, ”said Oscar Feltzman. The festive evening lasted more than 10 hours. Then the artist for the first time stated that he was completing concert and gastroly activities.

He can rightfully be considered one of the creators of the wonderful phenomenon that the Soviet song culture remained and remains.

Everything that Kobzon sang and sings is from solemn festival marches and combat youth hits to the most lyrical folk songs and romances - all this is an integral part of the musical biography of our multinational fatherland. This is probably the main secret of the sustainable popularity of the singer. Each of us, listening to him, learns something close, touching the soul, ”notes Mikhail Gorbachev.

However, on September 11, Joseph Kobzon celebrated the flight at the State Kremlin Palace, this was preceded by a series of anniversary concerts in all capitals of the republics of the former USSR. In the year, Joseph Kobzon again made a statement that he was completing his concert activity on the day of his flying on September 11, a solo concert at the State Kremlin Palace.

Joseph Kobzon: “In my anniversary round, which I spent at the summer, I decided to finish concert activities, but lingered. This time I really want to put an end to, because I have passed a lot of roads, I’m used to working at full strength, but I feel that these forces are less, and I was reduced to interest in my person. I would like to leave the scene with dignity.

” Joseph Kobzon is listed in the "Book of Records of Russia" - the singer was recognized as the most titled artist of the country. The artist has an incredible number of orders, titles, bonuses, medals. Here are just a few of them: the Order of Merit to the Fatherland I degree of June 25 - for great contribution to the legislative activity and the development of domestic culture.

Order of Friendship of Peoples. Medal "Veteran of Labor". Academician of the Russian Academy of Humanities. Prize named after Mikhail Lomonosov. Joseph Kobzon often came to Israel with performances, organized concerts of popular artists. With the direct participation of an artist in October, the USSR restored diplomatic relations with Israel.