7 popular Soviet pop stars who suddenly disappeared from the screens: What happened

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

The creative path of Soviet performers did not always develop as rosy as desired. Very often, songs performed by talented famous vocalists suddenly stopped broadcasting on the radio, records with their records disappeared from sale, they ceased to appear on television screens. Some of the performers stopped performing for quite objective reasons, and some were simply forced to leave not only the stage, but also the country.

Maria Pakhomenko

This performer is still fondly remembered to this day. She was incredibly popular in the 1960s, it was in her performance that the song "The girls are standing" sounded for the first time. After the Grand Prix at the Golden Orpheus song contest, she began to appear less and less on the screens. According to her husband, Alexander Kolker, the reason was the eternal confrontation between Moscow and Leningrad.

When Maria Pakhomenko was nominated for participation in the Golden Orpheus, the singer was repeatedly called with a proposal to refuse a trip to Bulgaria. The vocalist refused, but after a deafening victory, she was gradually pushed back from participating in important concerts and recordings of musical programs. Instead, new stars appeared on the stage with a similar style of performance: Valentina Tolkunova and Lyudmila Senchina.

In 1982, Maria Pakhomenko became the host of a series of musical programs on Leningrad television, and performed with small concerts. She has suffered from Alzheimer's disease in recent years. She died at the age of 74 from pneumonia.

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Galina Nenasheva

The peak of Galina Nenasheva's popularity came in the 1970s. She could well compete with Lyudmila Zykina, with whom she even had a conflict. Both performers took part in one of the concerts. Their repertoire included songs with the same title. Lyudmila Zykina asked the young singer to refuse to perform her "Grass-ant".

Nenasheva refused, and since then the vocalists have become unspoken enemies. Galina Nenasheva and her husband Vladimir subsequently accused Lyudmila Zykina of the fact that Nenasheva's concerts were canceled and she was left almost without work for 10 years.

However, at the same time, they shyly hush up the fact that the concerts began to be canceled after the spouses, having slightly sipped alcohol on their regular tours, made a loud scandal with a fight. The reputation of Galina Nenasheva suffered colossal damage. She even tried to talk to Leonid Brezhnev, but was never able to meet with him. Only ten years later she was able to return to the stage, but she no longer managed to achieve her former glory.

Alexandra Strelchenko

The folk singer became popular in the mid-1960s. She also competed with the great and influential Lyudmila Zykina. Fortunately, during the concerts, the two singers almost did not intersect, and Alexandra Strelchenko toured the country without hindrance.

Former husband of Strelchenko Vladimir Morozov, who personally promoted the singer, nevertheless, considers Lyudmila Zykina guilty that his wife was not awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR for 20 years. Morozov and Strelchenko divorced after a car accident. Vladimir Morozov was driving, and the performer received a serious injury to the spine and hip joint.

In recent years, Alexandra Strelchenko has been very sick, she suffered a stroke and has been suffering from Parkinson's disease for several years now. She does not give interviews, admitting that viewers and listeners should remember her beautiful.

Tatiana Antsiferova

The talented Tatyana Antsiferova was remembered by the listeners not only for the performance of songs in the film "June 31", which was claimed by the prima of the Soviet stage Alla Pugacheva. It was Tatyana Antsiferova, together with Lev Leshchenko, sang the farewell song of the "Olympics-80" "Goodbye, Moscow." And in the early 1980s, the singer suddenly stopped appearing on television, new records with her songs were not released. Evil tongues immediately accused Alla Borisovna Pugacheva of eliminating a competitor. However, no one tried to push Tatyana Antsiferova away from the musical Olympus. Everything turned out to be much more prosaic.

Back in 1981, doctors, after finding a diffuse toxic goiter in the performer, began preparing for the operation. And after her they were sure: Antsiferova will never be able to sing again. However, the singer returned to the stage and once again suspended her career for a while only after the birth of her son.

Maya Kristalinskaya

“Our mothers”, “And the snow is falling”, “You and I met by chance”, “My beloved”, “Tenderness” - these are just a tiny part of the songs loved by listeners performed by Maya Kristalinskaya. She was named the best performer in 1966, and already in the early 1970s she completely stopped appearing on screens, being content with performances in rural clubs and small palaces of culture. Only occasionally did the singer take part in creative evenings of famous composers and songwriters. The reason was the policy of anti-Semitism, which the newly appointed chairman of the State TV and Radio, Sergei Lapin, began to pursue.

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Nina Brodskaya

It seemed that the singer's career was developing quite successfully. Nina Brodskaya recorded records one after another, participated in concerts. Her songs were sung, without exaggeration, the whole country. But in 1979 she decided to emigrate to the United States. According to the singer, power began to exert too much pressure on her. At first, offers from television and radio stopped coming, and composers were asked to refuse cooperation with the singer in favor of other performers. The reason was that notorious Lapin's black list. Then Nina Brodskaya made the difficult decision to emigrate to America, where she began performing and recording songs quite successfully.

Aida Vedischeva

Harassment and the inability to work normally became the reason for the departure from the country of another talented singer Aida Vedishcheva. This was preceded by an unrealistic popularity at first. "Forest Deer" and "Song of Bears", "The Volcano of Passions" and "Let Them Talk" - these songs were known and loved by almost all the inhabitants of the vast country. However, the singer's manner of performance, behavior and appearance caused a wave of indignation from the Minister of Culture Yekaterina Furtseva, who even somehow sent an angry telegram to Vedishcheva.

And after in 1978, according to Aida Vedischeva, all her audio recordings were demagnetized, she decided to emigrate to the United States. She left with her son in 1980, and in America she began her career from scratch, studying at a theater college. The singer's talent allowed her to achieve recognition in a foreign country.

The USSR Minister of Culture, Yekaterina Furtseva, was treated differently. Some were friends with her, others skillfully found an approach to the wayward official. Still others were refused even a telephone conversation. It was in her power to prohibit concerts, refuse to release a record, and not allow them on a foreign business trip. There were also those for whom Ekaterina Furtseva actually broke their lives. What was the reason for the hostile attitude of the Minister of Culture towards the most popular performers of the Soviet stage?