Biography
Pavel Slobodkin is the legend of the Soviet and Russian pop. The musical gifreence of the pianist and the composer combined with the producer talent, which allowed him to create the first in the USSR vocal-instrumental ensemble.Childhood and youth
On May 9, 1945, he became a double holiday for a native of Rostov-on-Don, the cellist Yakov Slobodkina. On the Victory Day at the musician, the Jew for Nationality, leaving during the war of the war in front-line brigades to support the fighting spirit of soldiers and officers of the Red Army, the son of Pavel was born. The young Muscovite grew surrounded by Soviet stars: friends of the family of Slobodkin, who lived in the house 5/7 in the Savior-clanishchevsky lane, were violinists Leonid Kogan and David Ostrakh, and the neighbors around the house - Love Orlov and Vera Maretskaya.
In 3 years, Pasha began to learn to play the piano, and five already accompanied the famous Father. In 1956, Paul received the first premium at the competition of young performers dedicated to the 200-year anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Slobodkina had a strongest competitor - Nikolai Petrov, but before the passage Pashin, the main opponent fell ill with a pig.
However, the son of the cellist dreamed of becoming not a pianist, but a composer. In his youth, Slobodkin Jr. learned on the composer branch of the Musechili at the Moscow Conservatory, where his classmates were Maxim Dunaevsky and Mark Minkov. In the mature age, Pavel Yakovlevich graduated from Hitis, and from 1981 to 1995 he taught in it.
Creation
At the beginning of the 60s of the 20th century, Slobodkin was led by the popware of the Moscow State University MSU "Our House", since 2000 received the status of the theater and the name "Bridge", and in the middle of the same decade - the Orchestra of the Moskoncert, with whom Mark Bernes and Gelen Velikanova sang. In the spring of 1966, Pavel Yakovlevich created his main brainchild - Via "Merry Guys."With the ensemble, the name of which producer borrowed from the Music film of the Stalinist era with the participation of Leonid Rasov, composers were collaborated by Composers Yuri Antonov, Vyacheslav Dobrynin and David Tukhmanov. In different years, Vladimir Fazylov, Alexander Gradsky, Alexander Barykin, Vyacheslav Malezhik and Alla Pugacheva sang in the "fun guys", sang in the "merry guys", Alexander Gradsky, Alexander Barykin, Vyacheslav Malezhik and Alla Pugachev.
Pavel Yakovlevich performed the duties not only by the head, but also the arrangers of the team, played keyboard tools. In the 60-70s of the 20th century, "Cheerful guys" acquainted Soviet citizens with foreign hits, in particular with the Beatles songs, and in the 1980s, the first of the Soviet VIA began to include classic compositions in modern processing in concerts. Ensemble Slobodkina performed and singles written specifically for the team. Some of these songs - "People meet", "Aleshkin Love", "How beautiful this world is" - they became halves who survived the Soviet era.
The first Solo Plate Mignon "Merry Guys" came out in 1969, and the first-playing album "Love is a huge country" saw the light in 1974. In the third millennium, Slobodkin Group was an indispensable member of the festivals "Autoradio". After the death of the creator, the ensemble collapsed.
Personal life
The first wife Pavel Yakovlevich was Tatiana Starostina ballerina, who worked in the dance ensemble "Souvenir". In marriage, a daughter was born, with whom, after the divorce, Slobodkin practically did not communicate.
In the personal life of the head of VIA "Cheerful guys" was a biennial affair with Alla Pugacheva and love for Anastasia Vertinskaya. The future primaudonne Pavel Yakovlevich wrote chorus, consisting of laughter, to the song "Arquino", who made a vocalist famous. Joint photos of the singer and producer are preserved, about whose novel in the book "Alla Pugacheva. 50 Men Primateonna "wrote Fedor Razzakov. To win the heart of the daughter of Alexander Vertinsky, loved pierced men, prone to the completeness of Slobodkin, a whole quarter fed to buckwheat with milk.
Family happiness Pavel Yakovlevich found with the former wife of singer Valery Ozodzinsky - Lola (Lolta) Kravtsova. With the filing of Lolita Lviv Slobodkin began to attend the church and observe posts. The spouses helped the orphaned children, pleased with each other and with dogs who lived in their home. In 2006, Slobodkin wrote a testament in which he pointed his wife as the only heir.
Death
Pavel Yakovlevich died on August 8, 2017. The cause of the death of a people's artist of the Russian Federation became cancer with which the musician with the support of his wife struggled for several years. The condolences of widow, friends and relatives of the deceased expressed Igor Nikolaev, students and colleagues Pavel Yakovlevich and the National Foundation for the support of copyright holders.Since Slobodkin professed Orthodoxy at the end of the life, the composer was sent in the house temple of the Moscow Foreign Minister Sergiye Lavra. Pavel Yakovlevich was buried at one of the most prestigious cemeteries of the Russian capital - Kuntsevsky, where Vladimir Basova and Yuri Watching the graves, Dmitry Volkogonov and Leonid Gaidai, Lion Kuljanov and Lazar Lagin.
Discography
- "When you are silent together"
- "What is that"
- "And I why"
- "In the middle of winter"
- "Lonely bird"
- "We will silent"
- "Forgotten meetings"
- "Do not deceive love"
- "Vasilka"
- "The red is always lucky."
- "Cheerful cowboy"
- "Soon"
- "I lived in Africa Elephant"
- "Summer holidays"