Who and why came up with a new biography of the idol of the 1980s Zhenya Belousov, who did not live his life

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

It's hard to imagine, but in the 1980s, when Zhenya Belousov took off to the musical Olympus of a huge country, there were only three songs in his repertoire! And behind him were an invented biography, an alien image and passionate dreams of enduring glory. He had millions of fans, he played the role of a sweet young boy and only in moments of rest, hiding from prying eyes, allowed himself to become himself again, not Zhenya, but Yevgeny Belousov.

New life - new biography

When Bari Alibasov was looking for musicians for his group "Integral", he asked the director of the group, Alexander Zhabin, to look for talented guys during the tour. He called Bari Alibasov from Kursk, saying that a wonderful bass player was playing in one of the city's restaurants.

Zhenya Belousov worked at Integral for five years and quickly became a leader. Bari Alibasov has even already ordered posters that read “Evgeny Belousov and the Integral group”. But it was at this time that the musician met the poet Lyubov Voropaeva and her husband, composer Viktor Dorokhin. They were then actively involved in producing activities, thanks to their work on the stage, Katya Semyonova's star was lit up.

Evgeny Belousov met Voropaeva and Dorokhin thanks to the editor of the Morning Mail program Marta Mogilevskaya. In Alushta, where the program was filmed, the young performer and music editor had a whirlwind romance. And after that, the musician, knowing about the friendship of his friend with the family of producers, he himself asked Martha to recommend him. Lyubov Voropaeva did not like Zhenya too much, but Viktor Dorokhin promised to make a star out of him.

The song "My blue-eyed girl" instantly made the performer popular, and the producers came up with a completely new Zhenya Belousov. Dozens of interviews with the young performer appeared in the press then. All of them were thought out and written personally by Lyubov Voropaeva. And Evgeny Belousov clearly knew what exactly he needed to say in his interviews while touring the regions where he traveled without producers.

In his biography, almost everything was changed to warm up the interest of the public. The singer was made several years younger. Now he was not 24 years old, but only 18. And he was completely free, without family and children. Although Evgeny Belousov already had a common-law wife Elena Khudik and daughter Christina.

At that moment, Evgeny Belousov even liked all this. For the sake of popularity, he deliberately went on to deceive the public. He agreed to play the role of a free young heartthrob, without any obligations and even musical experience. Zhenya said in all his interviews that Voropaeva and Dorokhin brought him from the provinces and brought up a real musician.

Young fans adored their idol, and he invariably used it. The girls changed around him constantly. Even a rather serious relationship was not the only one at one time or another in his life. For example, an affair with Marta Mogilevskaya developed in parallel with relations with Elena Khudik. To his common-law wife, he frankly said that for the sake of a career, he would have to sleep with other women. Elena believed him. And she waited. Indeed, even after the birth of his daughter, he did not take her to the registry office.

The baby was only a few months old when Eugene got married. But not on Elena, but on Natasha Vetlitskaya. True, this marriage did not last even two weeks. Natalia Vetlitskaya now often talks about how her marriage with Zhenya Belousov was "friendly", but the singer's friends knew that he was seriously in love. The reason for the divorce was Natasha's betrayal. Later, Eugene nevertheless married Elena Khudik, whom he moved to Moscow from Kursk. And he even got married to his daughter's mother.

Someone else's role

On stage, he played the role of a sweet boy, he did not perform his favorite rock, but sang songs for girls. In fact, Evgeny Belousov was a man who loved purely male games, for example, a weapon that he could even make himself while studying at a vocational school. He chose friends like himself. Among his comrades was even the leader of the Night Wolves biker club, Alexander Zaldostanov, and Zhenya liked to ride a motorcycle around the city at night.

Zhenya grew up, but on the stage he remained the same "sunny gouging", as he called himself. The dissonance between the stage image and the real Evgeny Belousov oppressed the musician. He began to increasingly seek solace in a bottle. He tried to convince the producers that he needed to change something in his stage image, but they believed that it would be possible to move on only when he quit drinking. They could not agree, and Evgeny Belousov left from the care of Voropaeva and Dorokhin. Then his marriage to Elena Khudik broke up. The wife is simply tired of the constant spree of her husband, night friends and girlfriends. And the son, who appeared with her husband in a relationship with his accountant Oksana Shidlovskaya, did not at all contribute to the strengthening of the marriage.

At that time, Evgeny Belousov tried to change everything and on stage to become no longer a boy, but an adult man. He tried to cooperate with Igor Matvienko, thanks to which another hit of Zhenya Belousov "Girl-Girl" was released, later the composer wrote several more songs for the performer.

Evgeny Belousov tried to work on his own, without a producer, but he did not have enough experience and money. He decided to go into the vodka business to create the necessary financial cushion, but he went bankrupt. During the time the performer was building the business, the audience forgot about him, and he had no money for promotion. But a new producer, Yuri Aizenshpis, appeared. And the performer sang again those songs for which the listeners loved him at one time.

But outwardly, the singer has changed. Matured, recovered, changed his shiny suit to dark turtlenecks and tightly buttoned jackets. But the public did not accept him in this manner. Together with oblivion, the performer discovered a health problem. The aneurysm that had formed in the performer's brain in childhood after the accident, more and more often made itself felt with headaches and epileptic seizures, which Zhenya tried to remove with alcohol.

It would seem that he is still so young, with him was at that time a wonderful girl Elena Savina, and she loved Yevgeny Belousov, and not that sweet boy whose hits occupied the first lines of the charts in the late 1980s. But alcohol has already done its dirty work. First, the performer was hospitalized with acute pancreatitis. He recovered, but then he had a stroke, and on the night of June 2, 1997, Zhenya Belousov passed away.

If two people are brought to the doorstep of the registry office by feelings, then they, quite naturally, dream of a long and happy life together. All too often, however, marriages are so hasty that spouses can hardly endure several months of coexistence. And among celebrities there have been cases at all when the marriage broke up just a few days after the official registration, like Evgeny Belousov and Natalia Vetlitskaya.