Biography
Alexander Strelchenko consider Leonid Brezhnev's beloved singer. In the biography of vocalists were military childhood and children's home, marriage with one of the most influential GBB generals and loneliness in old age.Childhood and youth
The singer was born in the winter of 1937. Small Motherland Strelchenko - station of Chaplino Dnepropetrovsk region. The war took away from Sasha, her older sister Vali and the younger brother Toli of both parents: In 1941, a father died on the front, a mother died in 4 years. Relatives sheltered only Valentina, and Shura and Tolik went in the orphanage.
At the end of the school, the future performer of the songs "I will go out to the street" and "I look in Lake Blue" settled to work a nurse in kindergarten and entered the correspondence department of the Leningrad Pedigrat Institute named after Alexander Herzen. Strelchenko loved folklore. One day, Sasha went to the concert of the Voronezh Folk Chora and after the speech asked to listen to her. The nugget girl accepted into the team.
Personal life
The curtain over his personal life, the People's Artist opened only in old age. Alexander Ilinichna twice married both husbands called Vladimir. From the first spouse, the singer could not have, but did not want from the second.In 1967, Strelchenko married a widowed Major General KGB Vladimir Yakovlevich Chekalov, on rumors who took the most active participation in the overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev. The spouse was older Alexandra for 13 years and had three children from the first marriage.
Family idyll last 2 years. In 1969, the singer was notified that Vladimir Yakovlevich died, performing an official task. Innight in the detail Strelchenko did not risk.
The second husband's vocalist was the drummer Vladimir Morozov, who can be seen on the records of the song Alexandra Ilinichna "on the Murom Walkway". This union of the singer called the partner - the drummer became the director of Strelchenko, organized touring tours.
Music
In Voronezh Choir, Alexander worked for a short time - put a ligament. I had to return to work in kindergarten. In 1959, restoring the voice, Strelchenko entered the Lipetsk Philharmonic, went with concerts on collective farms and state farms of the Chernozem.
In 1963, the singer was in danger in the Moscow Master of Pop Art from Irma Yaunzeze. In 1964, Strelchenko visited the idol of his childhood Lydia Ruslanova. The famous performer "Valenok" blessed Alexander to the singing career.
Not all queens of Russian songs reacted to a young soloist so benevolently like Ruslanov. Lyudmila Zykina and Olga Voronets perceived Strelchenko as a competitor and urged her not to perform the compositions from their repertoire, in particular, "give me a shawl" and "Kalinka". And the singer served as colleagues. At the end of the life of Zykina Alexander Ilyinichna, forgetting the old resentment, sang "Give me a handkerchief" along with Lyudmila Georgievna on the transfer of Andrei Malakhov.
Spagchenko's discography is not very extensive, but thanks to her clean voice, such songs like "Ayushka" and "blooming, blizzard", "Ah, you, Lena" and "Cheerful Kadril" have become popular. In the picture "War and Peace" of Sergei Bondarchuk under the rapid singing of Alexandra Ilinichna Natasha Rostov wiped his Sprine from his forehead Andrei Bolkonsky.
Death
In the last years of his life, Alexander Ilinichna suffered from the bouquet of diseases. The consequences of the spinal injury obtained in the accident in the mid-90s were joined to high pressure. The actress was tormented by pain, a woman with difficulty moved around the apartment and was surprised to peer into their photos, on which she is perky and young.The singer died on August 2, 2019. The funeral was held in 3 days. In a farewell to Alexander Ilinichnaya, the People's Artist of Russia Vladimir Ninetov took part in the funeral house "Troekurovo". The grave of Strelchenko is located on the Troekurovsky cemetery, the most expensive current Moscow graveyard.
Discography
- 1972 - "Sings Alexander Strelchenko"
- 1976 - "Russian folk songs"
- 1984 - "Native Tunes"
- 1998 - "On the window two flower"
- 2005 - "Autumn in the window knocks out"
- 2005 - "Laneby"
Songs
- "Merry Kadril"
- "I look in Lake Blue"
- "Rides, rides New Year"
- "What a song without accordion"
- "Curly Rowan"
- "On the grief of Kalina"
- "Give me a handkerchief"
- "On the Murom Track"
- "Echo of love"