“You must be able to dream correctly!”: How Igor Krutoy survived creative and personal failures and became successful and happy

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

Once a boy, born in a small Ukrainian town, dreamed of visiting different countries and leaving his mark everywhere. Later, the first wife considered him a failure and simply went to another. Many years have passed, Igor Krutoy really traveled all over the world and presented his amazing music to the audience. He does not stop dreaming today, only his desires have become completely different.

Dreams of great

Igor Krutoy was born and raised in the city of Gaivoron, Kirovograd region. It was there that in childhood, when he and his father had a chance to spend the night on the street, the boy looked into the starry sky and dreamed of seeing a big city. Then his thoughts seemed to be something unreal, but he suddenly made a loud promise to himself to visit many countries. And in general, leave your mark on history.

All his further life is the conquest of that very childhood dream. He entered a music school, taught children in the village of Bandurovo to play the accordion. Already a student of the conductor-choral department of the Nikolaev Pedagogical Institute, he worked as a musician in a restaurant. Now they dreamed already together with Alexander Serov about life in Moscow. Very little time has passed, not only the capital, but the whole vast country will be subdued to them. The songs written by Igor Krutoy will instantly become hits.

Romantic tour

While still living in Nikolaev, Igor Krutoy with the ensemble of the Nikolaev Philharmonic went on tour to Leningrad. It was there that he met his first wife, Elena. An acquaintance of one of the musicians invited the guys from Nikolaev to visit a friend of St. Petersburg Elena.

25-year-old Igor fell in love at first sight. From the moment they met until his marriage proposal, only three dates passed.

The composer moved to the northern capital, but there he had difficulties with work. When he was offered to cooperate with the Moscow orchestra, he gladly agreed. The wife then supported her husband, exchanging her two-room St. Petersburg apartment for a one-room apartment in Moscow.

Already in 1981, they became happy parents, their son Nikolai was born. But the relationship between Igor and Elena left much to be desired. The problem was that the young woman did not believe in the composer's success, repeatedly declaring that all his efforts were futile. She considered him a failure and believed that he would never achieve anything. He was offended and even wounded by his wife's words. He really wanted her to believe in him. Moreover, he demonstrated his success in every possible way. But the woman still went to another.

Communication with my son was episodic. Either his wife categorically forbade Krutoy to see the child, then she gave it away for a long time, and he lived with his father and Alexander Serov in a rented apartment. No matter how painfully Igor Yakovlevich experienced parting with his wife, gradually everything fell into place. The son grew up, received a quality education, became a good manager, working in the oil industry.

Then, after the divorce, he had a certain passion. She wanted to prove, first of all, to herself, that he was worth something. He took off to a height that he could only dream of before. The main thing is to dream correctly and actively.

Rapid marriage

The second time he decided to tie the knot only after 14 years. Novels happened in his life, but he did not see any of the women next to him in the future. His acquaintance with Olga happened in one of the most difficult periods of his life, when not only his financial well-being, but also his good name was at stake.

Having met the girl of his dreams at one of the parties in America, three days later he proposed to her. Honestly talking about financial difficulties and all their problems. He did not promise her mountains of gold, but warned her: if he can get out of the problems, they can live in two countries. If the difficulties drag on, she will have to move to him in Russia.

Surprisingly, she agreed without hesitation. Her first marriage at that time had already ceased to exist, it only remained to officially divorce.

Then, inspired by new love, he was able to quickly solve all his problems. At first, it was difficult to build relationships with the wife's daughter from her first marriage, but over time, Victoria began to consider him her father. When she was about to get married, Igor Yakovlevich led her down the aisle.

At 49, he became a father again: his youngest daughter, Alexandra, was born. He dreamed of a son and was even confused after the news that he would have a daughter. He so wanted to name the heir by the name of his father, who died early. But Sasha, very similar to her grandfather in appearance, became a real miracle in his life.

Olga believes that he spoils his daughter too much, but the composer himself simply melts with tenderness when the daughter, talking to him, says: "I kiss the phone after talking with you."

His life now has everything he needs to be happy: family, friends and work. His wife, of course, is a little jealous of him. To the women around him and the music he writes constantly. It seemed that he was nearby, but now he was tapping out some melody with his fingers, and then he began to write down note by note.

And now he only dreams of being close to loved ones as long as possible. So that my mother Svetlana Semyonovna lived as long as possible, and he always had the strength to help family and friends.

Igor Krutoy's music is surprisingly bright and speaking. This is exactly the case when words are not needed in order to understand the composer's thought. Listening to the melody, you can physically feel both the aching melancholy and the bright sadness of memories.