Biography
Victor Korolev - Singer in the style of Chanson - is known not only in the "narrow" circles of lovers of this genre of the song, but among the huge number of people who love to listen to lyrical, perky, cheerful music. The performer gives his songs only positive emotions, without burdened by a listener hits on social topics.Childhood and youth
Korolev was born on July 26, 1961 in Siberia, in the city of Tayshet of the Irkutsk region. Mama Alexander Vasilyevna worked as the school principal, and Pope - the railway builder on the ABakan Taishet highway. In 3.5 years, the child fell ill, suffered a complex operation. After when Victor went to school, he was freed from physical education. Excess energy that could not be released through sports, the boy sent to the musical direction.
In school years, the artist showed himself as a perfectionist. In an interview, he admitted that he tried to study at the "fives". Getting the "four" turned into a tragedy. In addition, from an early age, Korolev turned out to be very demanding for himself, sought to discipline. These "measures" subsequently allowed the singer to complete the educational institution of a round excellent student.
In 1977 he entered the music school in Kaluga in the Piano class, graduating from him with honors in 1981. Korolev very warmly recalled years of study and believed that the knowledge gained by him at this time became the main baggage for the development of his further career. After the music school, I decided to enter the theater institute, but failed exams.
In 1981, Viktor called on the army. In his youth served in the ranks of rocket troops in Belarus, playing in the parent orchestra. This gave a soldier of a number of advantages, in particular, a greater number of dismissal. After returning from the army again, happiness was trying and in 1984 he entered the theater institute. Shchepkin at the Small Theater, after the end of which, in 1988, he was taken to work at the Musicla Theater Yuri Sherling.
At the same time, Korolev began filming a movie. The first of his filmmaker is the film "Battle of the Three Kings" director of Subey Ben Barca (military history of liberation movements in Morocco) with Claudia Cardinal as Queen, who came to the screen in 1990. Then there were "silhouette in the window opposite" (1991-1992), "We play" Zombies "(1992-1993).
Pop Career
After working in the theater seven months, Victor Korolev decides still to devote himself to music. In 1991, he starts his solo career. And in 1992, he is already becoming a diploma of the International Festival "Golden Deer" in the city of Brasov (Romania), after which a film was released on Romanian television about the Russian artist. After that there was a three-year search of his "I" as an artist. Korolev described these years as the most difficult, but at the same time the happiest in his life.In 1997, the first clip was published on the song "Bazaar - Station" (the animation work of Maxim Sviridov), who gave the start to quickly move forward the creative career of the artist. Also, the Soyuz Studio has released a disk with the same name. This creative start Victor called not a life that began not by year, months or days, but one solid wave. Later in the discography of the queen, the songs "Love Okayana", "Drunk Cherry", "And I Bug". The performer often performed in a duet with other artists.
Very incendial, he sang with the Irina Circle, the inching deceased chanson Mikhail Krug, serving in a lyrical genre. Some duet songs entered the Queen's albums, and the song "Bouquet of White Roses" conquered the hearts of all fans. This hit was among the "branded" in the discography of the artist. The singer admitted that he had long been waiting for a duette composition when the popular author Sergei Paradi presented a romantic hat to the attention of Victor. The track immediately came to the soul - Korolev called Irina and suggested singing with him. Work on the record was carried out for 4 months.
Korolev recorded songs from the "Bold-pop" group "Vorovayki" ("Girl Redhead", "You got me"). This is a group that Yuri Diamond created, although it acts in the genre of Chanson, but rather "pop" dance rhythms. In 2008, Victor Along with other popular artists (Mikhail Shufutinsky, Mikhail Gulko, Ruslana Kazantsev, took part in the record of the solo album of the Solochki Solochki Yana Pavlova.
Also in the creative baggage Queen duet with unsurpassed Olga Stelmakh. Their joint song "Wedding Ring" is a sample of love music. Stelmakh is a magnificent singer working with such famous authors and composers of Russia, like Vyacheslav Dobrynin, Mikhail Tanich, Mikhail Circle, Sergey Chelobanov, Sergey Trofimov, Larisa Rubalovskaya, Andrei Derzhavin, Lydia Kozlov, Igor Azarov, Regina Lisiza.
He loved the public and duet of the artist with the popular singer Chanson Katte Spark. Along the artists performed one of the bright hits in the queen's musical career - the song "Smoke with Rings". With vocalist Victor met in the Soyuz Soyuz Soyuz in 1998. At that moment, the singer returned from America and signed a contract with the studio to release a new album "Drunk Cherry". The composition, which became legendary, was already present in the "piggy bank" of the Queen - he suggested the artist to fulfill the track with him. Later, after the early care of Kati from life, the performer was seriously worried, recalling joint creativity.
Victor Korolev sang the composition of both his own music and the melodies of other authors. Sometimes texts wrote in collaboration with such matrahs as Rimma Kazakov, Hermann Yenin, occasionally turned to lyrical poems not famous authors. But with other vocalists, the own songs did not share.
During the years of creativity, the artist found a unique, recognizable style - on speeches fans constantly saw the idol in the cap, the visor back, and ripped jeans. On the choice of these "accessories" Victor told reporters. It turned out that the cap appeared in the life of the singer from the cinema - at that time he was invited to act in the program "Star rain" in Riga. But since earlier Korolev wasted, he decided to hide a painful look with the help of a cap. This detail of the concert image was quickly remembered and began to be associated with the public with the Queen.
At concerts, the singer did not cease to demonstrate a magnificent physical form. On tour, Victor was so plunged into the creative process, which sometimes delayed the speech and hardly managed to train. Every year, the repertoire was replenished with new bright hits. So, in 2019, at the Festival of Russian Chanson "Eh, Razhuli!" The singer gave the song to the fans on the white carriage.
Personal life
One of the main features of the singer, at all inherent in the representatives of show business, is a complete reluctance to communicate with the press. With all its apparent openness of information about personal life in the biography of the Queen practically no. Journalists managed to find out that Victor was divorced with his wife, and he had three grandchildren. To the question of children, Victor missed his children - these are songs of their own essay.
The artist repeatedly stated the press that the lifestyle does not allow harmoniously to combine creativity and family, tour and the role of approximate husband and father. Victor is in an eternal search, looking for inspiration, fueled by the energy that grateful fans give. From the scene, Korolev confesses to love all the ladies, giving them songs and kisses.
Victor Korolev now
In 2020, the artist continued to engage in creativity. Among the new incendiary tracks, the queen appeared "Hymn of Love", the composition "Nobody will give you." Hit immediately fell into the rotation of Radio Chanson, with whom the vocalist has long been cooperating. Now the news on tour, concerts and plans, the performer is divided into "Instagram" and on its own official website.Discography
- 2005 - "Hello, guests"
- 2006 - "Lemones"
- 2006 - "Black Raven"
- 2007 - "Noil Ramysh"
- 2008 - "Hot Kiss"
- 2009 - "Bouquet of white roses"
- 2010 - "For your beautiful smile"
- 2010 - "blossomed cherry"
- 2011 - "Roman"
- 2012 - "I'll throw my life to your feet ..."
- 2013 - "I will miss"
- 2013 - SMS.
- 2016 - "55!"
- 2018 - "On the heart with white threads"