Biography
The name Vadima Kozina stands in one row with Sergey Lemeshev and Isabella Yuryeva. Politician Winston Churchill called the Russian performer of Romance with Gold Orfeight. The biography of the singer is an illustration of a difficult period in the history of the country who survived the wave of revolutions and wars, destroying and repression. And each time the popularity returned to Vadim Alekseevich with a new force.Childhood and youth
Vadim was born in the spring of 1903 in St. Petersburg. Father - a leaving of the prosperous merchants, studied in Paris, worked in the city branch of the Lion Credit bank. In music is not a professional, but loved to sing and in particular listen. The mother belonged to the famous Gypsy family of Ilinsky, whose representatives performed in the choir, led the ensembles and conducted orchestras. In the family, except Vadim, were born, one sources, six, four daughters.
After the revolution of 1917, Kozin lost everything, even personal belongings removed the run-away servant. The father had to go to work in Artel, the mother got a cleaning lady in the mint. Kozin-senior, without preparing injustice, in 1924 he died, and the Son went to work in order to maintain a family.
Vadim got a tapper into a cinema in a folk house, not far from the Petropavlovsk fortress, I learned the kitchen of creative work, and at night the wagons unloaded. And he began to sing by chance: the artist did not come, and the guy was forced to fill the resulting pause. The success of a young singer was stunning.
At the same time, the question arose about his own repertoire, the delicate taste of Kozin and the advice of the mother helped the choice. In 1931, Vadim took the artist's bet to the Concert Bureau of the Poly Protection of the Central District of Leningrad. Two years later, he is credited with an artist to LangaRestrad.
Music
According to the memories of Igor Sdobnikov, a secret attorney singer, people went crowds to Kozin's concerts. Despite the flourishing of new genres of execution, the audience did not consider the romance outdated, not fashionable. Vadim took the pseudonym "Cold" in memory of the actress faith Cold. In the 30s, when the mention of this name became dangerous, went on stage as the grandson of the Varvara Panina, which was not in fact it was true.
The first song "Turquoise rods" Kozin wrote in 1929, and in 1936 he moved to Moscow. The famous David Ashkenazi was the permanent accompaniment of the singer.
In 1939, together with the composer and poetess Elizabeth, Belogorskaya Vadim wrote the Romance "Autumn", which later became hardly the most famous work of the Contractor. "Masha", "Farewell, my Tabor", "Friendship" used no less popular.
During the Great Patriotic War, Vadim Alekseevich participated in front-line agitbrigades. The Kozin was able to perform in front of the participants of the Tehran conference, on the same platform with Maurice Chevalé and Marlene Dietrich. But this fact is part of biographers and bodybuilders questioned.
Kozin participated in prefabricated concerts together with Leonid Rockovy and Claudia Shulzhenko, who stacked the modern repertoire, and Antonina Nezommen and Ivan Kozlovsky performed arias from the opera. However, Solnniki, on which the artist did not use the audio equipment with ease, were easily resolved.
The repertoire Vadim Alekseevich did not fit into the framework of the Gypsy genre. The Soviet power of Roma did not complain, but the voice of Kozin constantly sounded on the radio. He sang both lyrical songs, and Russian folk. As they would say now, the playlist of the artist consisted of thousands of works, the voice of rarely meeting the tone passed all the subtleties of emotions - longing, passion, tenderness or delete.
Kozin himself, on his own confession, liked the Romance "Beggar", and is connected with the memories of life in Petrograd. Performing a work, the singer every time was represented by a former nobility that sold matches from the Kazan Cathedral. When Vadim wanted to help her just like that, proud woman did not take money.
Composing songs, and more than 300 came from under the pen of the artist, Kozin paid attention to the trinity of music, text and execution. And the words could be anyone taken from the classic author or read in the newspaper.
"It happens that one way will attract attention. And here it is squeezed in the soul of a certain string ... it happens, immediately the song is born, and sometimes you scroll through seven options, and you will postpone. "Vadim Alekseevich said in an interview that he listened and selected substantive writings for himself, and the musical image was later. The singer's selected text was remembered, then he picked up the tune on the piano or immediately recorded a song on a tape recorder.
Kozin did not like the popular performers of the 80-90s, he believed that those due to the lack of voice "no damn would not get to the scene of the column hall yes without a microphone to perform under the piano." The musician argued that representatives of his generation, even if the voices were missing, took artistry. Vadim admired Alexander Vertinsky, "Some hands were worthwhile, singing."
Personal life
Vadim Kozin was convicted twice, after the victory in 1945 he got to Kolyma. After the period, the artist settled in Magadan forever. As the famous Soviet and Russian concert director Pavel Shakhnarovich told Pavel Shakhnarovich, a common belief that the singer was sitting for her husbandhood, mistakenly.
"We put it on a counter-revolutionary article. Vadim Alekseevich loved the anecdotes very much. Especially anti-Soviet. But he did not have enough mind to keep them in his head. He recorded them in a special notebook. "Once in the hotel "Moscow", the maid was found and reported to where follows.
Among the alleged causes of the google hitting the grille - the refusal to sing in the glory of Stalin and the conflict with Beria, who promised to take the Vadim family from the blockade Leningrad, but the word did not restrain. At interrogations in the NKVD, a singer recalled, he was charged with Goebbels. Under the threat of reprisals, Vadim signed all the papers that investigators slipped.
In Magadan, Kozin lived in a small one-room apartment, and even once, along with Isaac Dunaevsky, was considered the first richness of the Soviet Union. Neither wives, no children - the company artist on the deck of days was a cat bulldozer and a cat Chuna.
According to rumors, in 1983, Vadim Alekseevich, being under the age of 80, was still decided to make an offer to his beloved woman who called Dina Klimov. The former teacher and the fan helped Kozin on the housework, after the death of the singer became the first director of his house-museum.
Death
The popular partner of Romance died in 1994. Buried in Magadan at the Marchekansky cemetery.Work
- "Friendship"
- "Masha"
- "Noise Night Marseille"
- "Magadan evening"
- "White snow are going"
- "Do not be a memoirs"
- "Song about Olga and Natalia"
- "Laugh, laugh louder than all"
- "Why was it in love"
- "What did you hang heads, Sokoliki?"
- "Sunset Rays Travel"
- "Sad tango"