Biography
Mikhail Alexandrovich Gulko is called the "godfather" of the Russian chanson and the city romance. The singer lives in America, but once a year certainly comes with tour of the homeland, and then buy a ticket "To Gulco" - a real good luck for fans of chanson.
In the biography of "Orpheus of the prison romance" there is no rejection of the camps, but in front of the prisoners Mikhail Gulko really loved to perform and did not take money for concerts. He charged with a special energy that inspired him to creativity.
Childhood and youth
Chanson was born on July 23, 1931 in Ukraine, in Kharkov. Ros and brought up in a creative family: Mom - actress, singer and pianist, the father for the work of a direct relationship did not have - worked by an accountant of the book Traffic. The music was constantly sounded in the house: Mikhail grew up under the patefine plates Peter Leshchenko, Konstantin Sokolsky, Yuri Morphassi and early learned to play the accordion. In the 2nd class, the boy was given a diploma for the first place in the competition of amateur amateur. This first in the life of Gulko's award considered the most expensive.
War for Mikhail Gulko passed in evacuation in the Urals. Every day a boy, returning from school, ran into the city market, where a legless sailor was sitting in a snap and form near the entrance on a small trolley. Next to it - a girl with a long oblique. The sailor sang under the harmonica song, whose words Misha remember for life:
"I met him near Odessa native,When our company went to battle.
He walked ahead with an automatic machine
- Sailor of the Black Sea Fleet. "
Misha cried, listening to the song, along with the audience. He and today remembers these words and music, but it does not sing at concerts - tears are prevented.
In school, Mikhail Gulko played and sang in an amateur amateur, in the evenings and dance. But in early youth, the musician was not going to link further life with vocals. He did not succumb to parents and entered the Moscow Polytechnic Institute by choosing the Mining Faculty. But Music Gulko did not throw: after the institute couple, he performed on a pop scene, in restaurants, played dancing and gave private concerts.
To make money on life in the capital, a student for the company with a countrywoman, Kharkiv, Lyudmila Gurchenko, was dull with concerts on the Moscow region. They stopped when in newspapers about the star "Carnival Night" printed a crushing article, accusing Gurchenko in "non-hard income."
After graduating from the metropolitan university, Mikhail Gulko settled by an engineer at the Southiprosht project institute, visited Donbass mines, descended to a snack to chumazim from anthracite dust of miners. But after the change, Mikhail was washed off coal dirt and went to the club to sing. In the same project Nii, Gulko met with the future star of Soviet pop by Vadim Mouleman, glorified by the Lada hat.
Music
In the mid-1960, Mikhail Gulko went north. On Kamchatka "Engineer with Accordion" ended with the work of the tech, the record "took the position of head of the orchestra" in the musician's employment book. Orchestra Mikhail Alexandrovich led in the Magadan restaurant "Ocean". Soon, Via appeared in the institution, which was headed by Kharkov vocalist. In Kamchatka, Gulko received a musical education, graduating from the profile school.
In the north, Mikhail Gulko met Mikhail Shufutinsky, who played on keyboard tools in Krymsky restaurants. In the same place, I met with the author of the song "For the Tuman" Yuri Kukin and the Optic singer Vadim Kozin.
After returning to Moscow, a few years before the emigration, Mikhail Gulko settled in the restaurant "Mermaid" in a kareny row, where he led the orchestra. Under his beginning she worked the first soloist of the group "Forest" Sergey Korzhukov.
In 1979, Mikhail Gulko emigrated to America. At the time of departure, Mikhail Alexandrovich was 49 years old. In New York, the musician continued his career: she worked in restaurants, entertaining the resting audience, mainly emigrants from the USSR, songs.
Chanson's debut album came out in America in 1981 and named "Blue Sky of Russia". It includes popular hits "Lieutenant Golitsyn", "White Birch", "Echelon" and "Kolyma". The first album fans rejected instantly, and in 1984 he left the second - "burned bridges". The author included the songs of "Farewell to Motherland," "," Don't be sad, gentlemen officers, "" cigarette "and" birch in the zone ".
The following year, Mikhail Gulko recorded the "Songs of the War Years" disk, timed at the 40th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
In 1988, Chance chose among Russian colleagues to speak at the 90th anniversary of the billionaire Armond Hammer. On the anniversary Gulko, accompanying himself on the accordion, sang Patourri from the Russian songs "Katyusha", "Black" and "Moscow Region".
Since 1993, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gulko happens every year in Russia. In 1996, chanson gave fans the Album "Zagranny", a third of whose songs wrote in co-authorship with composer Mikhail Tanyan. The first song of the album performed by Mikhail Alexandrovich sounded in the comedy director Anatoly Eyramjana "Primadonna Mary".
Since 1999, Mikhail Gulko's songs include musical compilations of the Legends of the Russian chanson and Grand Collection.
In 2006, Chansonier presented to fans a musical audio application (film concert) "Fate of the emigrant" on the DVD. And in 2009, released an autobiographical book edited by Maxim Kravchinsky with the same title.
In 2013, the discography of the star chanson is available to fans of his creativity in an improved digital format. Clips were removed on the songs of Gulko.
In 2014, Mikhail Gulko recorded a digital album "unprecedented songs". It includes 13 compositions recorded in New York Studios. Next year, the musician presented the second part of the album - "unprecedented songs-2".
Personal life
The artist was married three times. Michael Gulko married for the first time in early youth. The wife Anna gave him a daughter Tatiana. Family life chanson did not work out and the couple broke up. Soon the singer met a new love and visited the registry office again. With the second wife, Gulko emigrated to America, where the first wife and daughter left.
In the West, the joint life of the pair did not work out. After the divorce, Mikhail Gulko did not marry several years, the only native man was the daughter of Tanya, who lived, like the Father, in New York.
The loneliness of the singer turned out to be so painful that in an interview he somehow admitted that he would like to get acquainted with a modest woman for which the family is not an empty sound.
Soon, friends introduced a chanson with an emigrant of Chukotka, a teacher of the Russian language. In 2000, Mikhail Gulko and Tatiana got married. According to the singer, the woman knew nothing about his work, but turned out to be an interesting interlocutor and a wonderful person. Today Tatyana Gulko is the wife and concert director of the artist.
Mikhail Gulko now
In 2016, the Patriarch of the Russian Chanson presented the new song "Russian Bear", which appeared on YouTube.
In October 2016, Mikhail Gulko in the "master theater" of New York presented the program "Fate of the emigrant". At the concert, Lyal Rubleva, Boris Lyudkovsky and Yevgeny Shapovalov spoke as invited singers.
Discography
- 1981 - "Blue Sky of Russia"
- 1984 - "Burned Bridges"
- 1985 - "Songs of the War Years"
- 1996 - "Zagranny"
- 2003 - "New York Moscow"
- 2008 - "For Mainland"
- 2009 - "Emigrant Fate"
- 2010 - "Old Picture"
- 2014 - "Good songs"
- 2015 - "Loard songs-2"