Alexander Rosenbaum - 69: How medicine helped an emergency doctor become an artist

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

On September 13, the famous musician, singer, poet, composer, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Alexander Rosenbaum will be 69 years old. He began to study music and write songs at school age, but before entering the professional scene, he graduated from medical school and worked for several years as an ambulance doctor. Later he admitted that it was thanks to medicine that he later became an artist.

Alexander Rosenbaum was born in Leningrad into a family of doctors. From childhood he was fond of music, mastered playing the piano, violin and guitar, and began writing songs. Another passion was sports - he was boxing in the junior group at the Labor Reserves. The question of choosing a further path was not then for him - even in his youth, Alexander decided to continue the medical dynasty, graduated from the First Leningrad Medical Institute and worked for several years in the emergency department, like his younger brother Vladimir.

He said about his choice: "".

Rosenbaum never regretted this period of his life and admitted that he worked for the ambulance with pleasure, despite the difficulties of this profession. Despite the fact that this work took away most of both physical and mental strength, he continued to study music and at the same time studied at the evening jazz school at the Palace of Culture. S. Kirov. He confessed: "".

At the age of 30, Rosenbaum realized that his vocation is still not medicine, although, according to him, it was she who helped him become a poet, composer and singer, teaching him to feel someone else's pain, empathize with other people and let their suffering through himself. … The artist admitted: "". In addition, he was accustomed to working 12 hours a day on the ambulance and believed that later he was able to achieve success thanks to this.

The singer often dedicated songs to doctors and always congratulated his colleagues on the Day of the Ambulance Worker. In one of these addresses, Rosenbaum wrote: "".

On stage, Alexander Rosenbaum began as a vocalist, performing other people's works, and later performed with songs of his own composition. Loud fame came to him in the late 1980s when he wrote the song "Waltz-Boston". It is surprising that in those days there was no author's song on the stage, and Rosenbaum soon became a participant in most major pop concerts, such as "Song of the Year". He did not like to be called a bard, compared with Vysotsky, Okudzhava, or any other performer, because he did not consider himself a continuer of any traditions. On this occasion, Rosenbaum stated: "".

Alexander Rosenbaum never participated in behind-the-scenes intrigues, did not sing to the soundtrack and did not consider himself part of show business. He was different from other artists and the fact that he did not start high-profile novels and did not make his personal life public. While studying at the medical institute, Alexander met his future wife, who also became a doctor. He did not hide the fact that he would like Elena to devote more time to home and family, but she was not satisfied with the role of a housewife, because she considered her profession a vocation, and her husband had to come to terms with it. Together they have gone through a lot and have lived for more than 40 years. They have a daughter and four grandchildren. Rosenbaum has said more than once that he owes everything he has achieved in life to his strong family.

Although Rosenbaum has long since said goodbye to the profession of a doctor, sometimes he has to remember the skills he acquired while working in an ambulance. Recently, when he was on a tour, one of the passengers on the plane became ill and fainted. There were no doctors on board, and the artist provided first aid to the woman. Rosenbaum has repeatedly said that there are no former doctors, and in any medical institution he still feels at home.

The singer became "his own" not only for doctors, but also for the military. He himself has been to hot spots more than once, and he had to not only perform there: Famous artists who fought in Afghanistan.