Biography
Konstantin Meladze is a famous producer and one of the most talented composers of modernity. It works with many Russian pop stars, and his hits sound literally from each window.Childhood and youth
Konstantin Schotayevich Meladze was born on May 11, 1963 (Zodiac sign - Taurus) in the resort town of Batumi, in the family of Schot Konstantinovich and Nelly Akakievna Meladze. Georgians by nationality. Parents, as well as grandfather and grandmother Constantine on the paternal line were engineers. In addition to the bone, the younger brother of Valery, now the famous singer, and the sister of Liana, the producer of recording label and the producer center Velvet Music.
For the first time, interest in music in Constantine arose after watching the film "Polonaise Oginsky". Then the boy firmly decided to tie his life with music, but everything turned out to be so simple. In a music school, where Meladze went to learn the game on a violin and piano, he did not have anything.
The teachers stated that the guy had no hearing and feelings of rhythm. Therefore, the classes had to leave. Especially since the high (over time, the growth of the musician reached 190 cm, and the weight is 88 kg), awkward and closed Meladze did not create the impressions of the future star. And yet Konstantin did not lower his hands: in his youth he independently mastered the guitar game, and later on other tools.
After school, Konstantin Meladze graduated from the Nikolaev shipbuilding institute. At one time, the future composer worked as a designer engineer in the Design Bureau.
Carier start
Konstantin Meladze's musical talent was once seen one of his buddies. So a young man found himself in the student group "April", which became for him the first step towards the world of musical art. In this little-known team, the creative biography of Konstantin Meladze began.The new stage in his work began in 1989, when the Meladze brothers were invited to the musical team "Dialogue", in which they worked until 1993. During this time, the discography of the group was replenished with the albums "in the middle of the world" and the "Autumn Yastreb Creek", several songs for which Konstantin Meladze wrote.
"VIA Gra"
The real popularity of Konstantin Shotaevich came in 2000, when the composer, together with the Ukrainian businessman, Dmitry Kostyuk founded the WIA GRA's female pop group, performing the author of all its musical albums. Immediately after the hits, many "VIA Gra" songs became, the most famous of whom - "there is no more attractions", "attempt number 5", "Do not leave me, Favorite!", "The world I didn't know about you" .
"VIA Gra" became one of the most promising and long-term projects of the producer: the group replaced the compositions and participants, but the team with this title still continues to exist, give concerts and record new songs.
At first, under the name "VIA Gra", they understood the company from periodically leaving and returning Alena Vinnitsa, the hopes of Granovskaya and Anna Sedokova with other performers who join them in different years. Then the face of "VIA GRU" was faith Brezhnev, who joined the 5th composition. Later, Tatyana Kotova, Eva Bushmina and Albin Janabaeva replaced it. Later to the team briefly joined Santa Dimopoulos.
In December 2012, the producer announced the dissolution of the VIA Gra Group. After just a few days, a new casting was announced in the team. In September 2013, Realistic Show Meladze started "I want V VIA GRU", in the final of which the participants of the new group of group identified: Eric Herceg, Misha Romanova and Anastasia Kozhevnikov. This team existed for 5 years.
In March 2018, after the departure of Misha Romanova, the team spoke in the capital of Georgia as part of Anastasia Kozhevnikova, Erica Herceg and Olga Megan. In September, the group left Kozhevnikov, I was replaced by Ulyana Snetskaya, the participant of the "voice" and "new stars" musical projects.
In 2020, the group "VIA Gra" was left by Eric Herceg, who went to Kazakhstan to build a solo career. Olga Meganskaya left behind it. Of the 3 soloists, only Ulyana Snetskaya remained.
In connection with these events, the producer center Meladze Music announced casting in "VIA GRU". The group of group was completely updated. However, the names and faces of the participation were not disclosed for some time. In November, the intrigue revealed in the Evening Urgant program, which Ivan Urgant leads. Konstantin Skhotaevich and singers were invited to shoot.
The new composition has already released his debut single "Ricoch", the words and music of which Konstantin Meladze wrote. Fans, listening to the composition, highly appreciated her and the voices of the singers.
Composer
The prestigious awards to the composer and the performer brought songs "Do not disturb me the soul, violin", "girls from the highest society", "I can't live without you", "Samba White Motilla", "Salute, Faith", "Sir", performed him brother.Alla Pugacheva, Sofia Rotaru, Grigory Leps, Mark Tishman, Ani Lorak and other artists became performers from Konstantin Meladze's music. Composer talent Konstantin Shotaevich received popular recognition.
The composer wrote music and words for musicals "Evenings on the farm near Dikanka", "Cinderella", "Sorochinskaya Fair", as well as to the films "Irony of Fate. Continued "(song" Again the blizzard ")," Keep me stronger "," styles ", where he also performed as the author of the arrangements, and the" Zolushka "(the song" Do not scare, baby ").
In 2013, Meladze specifically for the TV series "Thaw" wrote music and songs. The composition "Thaw" performs Powlina Andreeva, and "no to love obstacles" - Victoria Isakov.
In 2015, Konstantin and Valery Meladze shot a video for a song with the speaking name "My brother". The song became the first in 30 years of creativity by the duet of the famous brothers. In the clip, in addition to the musicians, Victoria Isakov, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Yulia Snigir starred.
In March, Konstantin and Valery Meladze gave the anniversary concert "Polt". Fair Brezhnev, Dima Bilan, Valery, Gregory Leps and many other artists also performed on the stage.
In January 2017, Konstantin Shotaevich arranged a creative evening as part of the festival "Christmas on a rose farm". During the entire concert, the songs written by the composer performed such stars like Valery, Vera Brezhnev, Grigory Leps, Irina Allegrova and Valery Meladze.
Production of musical projects
The Konstantin Meladze's successful projects were the Yin-Yang Quartet and the bis duet, whose activities began in 2007. Julia Parshuta, Tatyana Bogacheva, Artem Ivanov and Sergey Ashikhmin, were included in the first group, Artem Ivanov, the finalists of the 7th Star Factory Meldze. The singers received fame after the execution of hits "little-lounge", "Neumoomo", "Taya".
The second music team was also created from TV show participants, Dmitry Bikbaev and Vlad Sokolovsky group became soloists. In 2009, the duet received the Muz-TV award, but after a year both artists decided to continue their career in another direction.
Konstantin Meladze was engaged in solo producing. His wards were Polina Gagarin, which collaborated with the composer for 8 years, Anastasia Prikhodko, who concluded a contract with the producer for 2 years. Since 2008, Meladze oversees the work of faith by Brezhnev, which by that time left the group "VIA Gra".
In 2014, the producer launched a new project "Want to Meladze", the result of which was the birth of a new popular Band Band MBand. The group included young performers Anatoly Tsoi, Nikita Kiosse and Artem Pindyur. Initially, Vladislav Ramm was initially in the pop group, but in 2015 Konstantin Meladze removed the young man from working in the group.
The news about the departure of Vladislav Ramma from the popular team made a fan of his fans. The fans of the singer arranged flash drives in social networks, calling Meladze to return the musician to the project. Ramm himself argued that he left the team voluntarily to start the solo career. The conflict of producer and the artist converts into a loud scandal to which many details began to be added.
Ramm in "Instagram" wrote a post about hypocritical people, addressed to his former colleagues, and began to threaten the producer by the court. Konstantin Meladze himself said that he drove the singer from the group for the uniformity, and questions about the trial reminded the public that Vladislav had a contract with a production company Meladze to 2021, and therefore, it was before that time he could dispose of the career of the artist on perfectly legal grounds.
The group existed until 2020. On April 16, the producer center Meladze Music dissolved MBand.
Television projects
In 2007, Konstantin Meladze, together with his brother, became the producer of the "Star Factory - 7". In the same year, the production center "Meladze Bronce" was created, on the basis of which in 2009, PC "Constant Records" was formed.In 2011-2012, Konstantin Meladze was a musical producer of the Ukrainian project called the "Voice of the country". In the same year, a similar project "Voice. Children ", in which the youngest performers were able to reveal their talents.
In 2016, the composer acted as a member of the Jury of the National Selection of Eurovision in Ukraine. The winner of the competition was the distinctive singer Jamal, about which Meladze responded very warmly and predicted the girl victory at the festival. Konstantin Meladze was right: Jamal with his song "1944" won Eurovision.
In the same year, Konstantin Meladze joined the show "X-factor". He became a judge and part-time with a musical producer.
In 2018, the Meladze brothers decided to master the first channel of the first channel "Voice" for themselves. So, Valery Meladze became one of the judges of the season "Voice 60+", which ended on October 5. In addition to him, the armchairs of the mentors were taken by Lev Leshchenko, Pelagia and Leonid Agutin. In the final, Valery needed a replacement, because of the employment, the singer could not attend the filming, and brother was in his place. As a result of the audience, Sergey Manukyan was held from the Meladze team to the Superfinal.
Such a replacement was not accidental, because from October 12, Konstantin Meladze himself became a full-fledged mentor of the next season of the show "Voice. Reboot". This time Ani Lorak was included in the jury, Raper Basta (Vasily Vaculenko) and Sergey Chanus. The castings took place in Ostankino for 3 months.
Producers selected 150 contestants to participate in the contest video. A feature of new issues was the emergence of a new competitive category "Best Mentor of the Season". For the first time, television viewers will be able to express sympathy not only to new stars of the scene, but also the musical guru.
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In December 2012, producer fell into an accident. On the 32nd kilometer of the Kiev - Obukhov Meladze's route knocked down a woman, as it turned out later, a resident of the nearest settlement. He did not try to hide from the scene, he himself called the police, waited for the arrival of the necessary services and even tried to provide victims of first aid. Arriving experts also confirmed that the driver was absolutely sober. But all the efforts of Meladze did not have the effect - the woman died from injured, without reaching the hospital.
Later, Konstantin found out that the women had two little children who became orphans after the death of the mother. The producer promisedly promised to contain orphaned children before their adulthood: Meladze lists financial assistance to their account every month, the size of which the press is unknown.
This noble act nevertheless did not freak the composer from the criminal process, he threatened from 3 to 8 years in prison. But the court took into account that Konstantin Meladze did everything possible to avoid accidents, and after she had made every effort to assist and smooth the consequences of his act. The court did not see the actions of the producer of evil intent and the composition of the crime, the criminal case was closed.
Accusation of harassment
In April 2021, the star name fell on the first lines of news publications in a negative key. An inhibition for this was the statements of Ani Lorak in the program "The Fate of Man". In a conversation with Boris Korchevnikov, the artist told about the details of its cooperation with the famous composer.Franking, Carolina called the reason for the sudden termination of business relationships. According to her, Konstantin Shotaevich offered it the conditions that lay "in the personal plane." But she could not agree to them.
After the release of the show on the ester of the composer began to blame sexual harassment. Among those who also "remembered" the unpleasant moments of cooperation with the producer turned out to be the Ukrainian performer Olga Polyakova. And Anna Sedokova and Olga Romanovskaya was previously told about manipulation and psychological pressure.
Public censure did not prevent the timely comments from Ani Lorak. The artist in "Instagram" put out the post in which he tried to explain the situation in that her words simply turned over, pulled out from context. And after she expressed his appreciation to the great composer and encouraged everyone to leave this topic alone.
However, the situation only acquired an increasing scale. Valery Meladze in defense of his brother also gave a comment. The singer called him a modest, intelligent and self-sufficient person, which in principle is not capable of such liberty. She defended the composer and Irina Meladze, which in the transfer of "the fate of a person" remembered how the fans of Constantine behaved. Call the name of a woman who allowed her liberty towards the producer, she refused.
The hero himself of this ambiguous situation chose not to comment on the charges.
Personal life
The increasing fame of the composer and producer attracted increased attention to his person. Details of the personal life of Konstantin Meladze were on the first pages of the tabloid when a crack appeared in his family relationship with his wife. The pair registered the marriage in 1994, and a sustainable opinion was developed about this family as a prosperous.
Beauty-wife gave birth to three children. It seemed, family happiness was overshadowed only a congenital son's disease - the boy suffers autism. But in August 2013 it became known that Konstantin and Yana Meladze after 19 years of living decided to divorce.
It was rumored that the reason for the gap was the participant of the group "VIA Gra" Vera Brezhnev. As Meladze's ex-wife told meladze, this novel began in 2005. For many years, the composer and singer hidden relationships and did not give the paparazzi's occasion to create compromising photos.
Now Yana Summ with children lives in Kiev, she has a second marriage. And Konstantin Meladze moved to Moscow. He supports good relations with children and helps them materially.
Journalists returned to the discussion of the composer's personal life and waiting for his imminent wedding with faith of Brezhnev. For some time, Konstantin and Vera were civil marriage, but in October 2015 they weaken the relationship. Lovers played a wedding in Italy. The difference between the spouses is 19 years, which does not prevent their family happiness at all.
Sometimes the media appears in the media that the producer changes his spouse. So, in September 2019, rumors arose that Konstantin Meladze won a novel with a participant in the team "VIA Gra" Erica Herceg. However, they were false. The singer denied the novel in a recent interview and told that she had a civil husband at that time. Vera Brezhnev reacted to the situation with humor. She stated that her spouse was very busy to find time on other women.
Konstantin Meladze now
While the name of Konstantin Shotaevich was inclined on the network for a different way in connection with accusations of harassment, it did not have a reason for him to stop creating. In June 2021, a new song of Faith of Brezhnev "Pink Smoke" was published, words and music to which I wrote Meladze. And a little earlier in the network there was a novelty from "VIA GRA" - "Spring Water".Discography
- 1991 - "In the middle of the world"
- 1995 - "Sir"
- 1996 - "Last Romantic"
- 1998 - "SAMBA White Motilla"
- 2001 - "Attempt number 5"
- 2002 - "Present"
- 2003 - "Stop! Shot! "
- 2005 - "Ocean"
- 2008 - "Emancipation"
- 2010 - "Love will save the world"
- 2014 - "Thaw"
- 2015 - The Great Gatsby