Video: Enjoy Life with Anna Veski: Estonian Singer 30 Years After Her Triumph on the Soviet Stage
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On February 27, the famous Estonian singer Anne Veski, who conquered in the 1980s. the Soviet public with the songs "Behind a sharp turn", "Enjoy life", "Yellow leaves are circling over the city." At her age, she looks as flawless as she did 30 years ago. The singer claims that she has her own secrets of youth and beauty.
For the Soviet public, she was always "a little foreign". Her elegance, exotic accent, restraint and mysteriousness set her apart from a number of other singers. After in the 1980s. All-Union popularity came to her, women in hairdressing salons began to ask for a hairstyle "like Veska's." The singer always tried to follow the fashion and, if she could not get beautiful outfits, sewed and knitted herself. True, her love of fashion once played a cruel joke on her. On her first visit to Moscow, she went to the cinema in jeans and a light white T-shirt. She was not allowed into the hall due to her too frank appearance.
In 1983, while on tour in Leningrad, the Estonian singer met the young composer Igor Sarukhanov, who invited her to perform his songs. This collaboration turned out to be very successful - the song "Behind a Sharp Turn" became Veska's calling card and glorified her throughout the Union. A year later, she was sent to the International Song Festival in Sopot as the third most popular singer in the USSR (after Pugacheva and Rotaru, who had already performed at this competition). It was a triumph - she was awarded two prizes.
Her maiden name is Waarmann, and Veski got her last name from her first spouse, whom she married during her student years. This marriage did not last long due to her husband's addiction to alcohol. In a state of intoxication, he repeatedly raised his hand to his wife, whom he was jealous of professional success. But the second husband, Benno Belchikov, turned out to be the complete opposite - he not only supported his wife in everything, but even became her administrator and went on tour with her. They have been happily married for over 30 years. The singer took her husband's surname right after the wedding, but then realized that Anne Veski was a brand that could no longer be changed.
In the 1980s. Anne Veski has traveled almost the entire globe. Once during a tour on the island of Mauritius, an unpleasant story happened to her. After the concert, one of the musicians disappeared. And later it turned out that he went to the American embassy to seek political asylum. The singer met with him and tried to convince him, but this idea failed. A scandal erupted, Veski was immediately returned to the USSR and demanded an explanation - why she did not look after her musician. Her tour ended there.
But her career came under threat for other reasons: after the collapse of the USSR, Anna Veski found herself "abroad", and her tour with a team of 15 people became difficult to organize. For about a year they did not leave Estonia at all. But the singer did not leave the stage and continued to release albums. She is proud to have always sung live and that her voice “never sleeps”. “I can be woken up at night and my voice will sound,” says Veski.
Anne Veski has her own secrets of youth and beauty. She is against plastic surgery and believes that natural beauty can be preserved in adulthood. And for this you need, as in her famous song, “to enjoy life” and not to harm anyone.“Good and regular food, quality products, health saunas, optimistic attitude and a favorite business - these are the components of beauty. Then the mood will be good, and therefore, both the face and the figure will be in order. I have my own health formula - to enjoy life, maintain an optimistic tone, regret nothing and be less sad,”the singer said. And Anna Veski's recipe for a lasting marriage is very simple - “keep your mouth shut,” that is, be able to keep quiet in time.
Now Anne Veski continues to perform in Russia, the USA, Canada, Israel and Germany, releases new albums and even starred in the series. She says that age does not bother her, since she still feels like a 28-year-old singer and tries to carry this young energy to her listeners.
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