Legends of the 1990s: Because of what the singer Tanya Bulanova shed tears

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

For many listeners, her hits have become a symbol of an entire era - the 1990s. it's really hard to imagine without Tanya Bulanova's soulful songs, to which the whole country sobbed with her. Alla Pugacheva called her manner of performance "Yaroslavna's cry", the singer often became the object of jokes and parodies because of this, and she herself wondered why sincerity on stage caused such an ambiguous reaction from the audience. Whether the events of her life became the reason for such a repertoire and why she often shed tears on stage - further in the review.

Tatiana Bulanova was born and raised in Leningrad, in the family of a military man, a mine-torpedo operator, a submariner, a missile unit commander, and a housewife, formerly a photographer. Tanya's older brother was fond of music and infected her with this hobby, teaching her to play the guitar. Paying attention to the daughter's abilities, the parents sent her to a music school. At the same time, they did not perceive this hobby as a serious occupation that could affect the choice of a profession, and after Tanya graduated from school, they insisted on her admission to the library faculty of the Leningrad Institute of Culture. In parallel, she got a job as a librarian at the Naval Academy. But after 3 years, Bulanova realized that she had chosen the wrong path at all and entered the vocal department of the studio school at the Leningrad Music Hall.

For the first time, the singer entered the stage at the age of 20 as part of the "Summer Garden" group. Its leader, Nikolai Tagrin, was just looking for a new vocalist, and his friend, a teacher of the music hall school-studio, recommended that he pay attention to Bulanova. Since 1990, she began touring and recording songs with this group. Acquaintance with Tagrin turned out to be fateful not only in her professional activity, but also in her personal life - after 2 years he became her husband and father of her son Alexander.

Pygmalion and Galatea

Together with Tagrin, they lived for 13 years, and it was her husband that Tanya Bulanova owed much of her success on stage - during this period she became one of the most popular singers in the post-Soviet space and in the mid-1990s. gave 4 concerts every day. A year after she joined the Summer Garden group, Bulanova released the super hit Don't Cry, which won first prize at the St Petersburg Shlyager competition and the Grand Prix at the Yalta-91 festival. Later she took up solo work.

After her heartfelt performance of the song "Lullaby", many were convinced that she was a single mother, the song "Older Sister" made everyone think that she was autobiographical, and that the older sister had actually become Tatiana's rival, although no sister she didn't have. On stage, she sang sad songs about unhappy love, she was nicknamed "the queen of tears", but she herself had only one reason for sadness during this period. Due to the constant touring, the singer rarely saw her son and admitted that her tears on stage were genuine, and there was no slyness and trick in the stage image: "".

They spent with her husband 24 hours a day, not parting either at work or at home. He became a real Pygmalion for her, completely focusing on her career, sometimes even too much. In the last months of pregnancy, the singer took the stage, as her husband refused to interrupt her touring schedule. Bulanova recalled: "".

The singer called her first marriage happy and blamed only herself for its disintegration. The first crisis in their relationship happened 7 years later - then Bulanova fell in love with another man and informed her husband about it. He realized that he was too focused on her career and paid insufficient attention to her as a woman. Then Nikolai made every effort to save the marriage, and he succeeded. But after another 6 years, the situation repeated itself, but this time Bulanova's feelings for another man turned out to be more serious than a simple hobby, and she left the family.

My beloved, my pain …

Later, the singer admitted: "". She left her husband for the footballer Vladislav Radimov, who became her second husband and the father of her son Nikita.

Her second marriage lasted 11 years, and the breakup was loud and ugly. The whole country found out about the singer's husband's betrayal earlier than she herself - in one of the talk shows, a woman became the heroine, who announced her connection with Radimov. He himself denied this, but after their divorce, Bulanova admitted that her husband really did not remain faithful to her.

On stage, she looked fragile and vulnerable, but in real life she called herself a strong woman with an iron willpower: "". Despite the stage image, in life she is an incorrigible optimist, cheerful and cheerful.

At 52, Tatyana Bulanova does not regret anything that happened in her life, and says that she would not change anything, even if she suddenly had such an opportunity. The singer maintains friendly relations with her ex-husbands, does not hold any grudge and resentment against those who hurt her, and looks with hope to the future in anticipation of a new love. Bulanova is still pursuing a solo career, and devotes all her free time to her sons.

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