Video: The unsung song of Tamara Gverdtsiteli: Why the singer didn't stay in Paris
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On January 18, a wonderful singer, People's Artist of Georgia and Russia celebrates her 56th birthday Tamara Gverdtsiteli … She is called a style icon and a role model, she has conquered the stages of the world's most prestigious concert halls. The singer could entrust the care of her daily bread to one of those who were next to her, but after three marriages she chose freedom and independence, she could have stayed in America or in France, where she lived for some time, but she returned to her homeland … Queen Tamara destroys stereotypes about Caucasian women, whose destiny is home, family and caring for her husband. She always chose her own path, the only reference point on which was music.
Perhaps such a rare combination of beauty, intelligence and talent was born due to the fact that the blood of two peoples - Jewish and Georgian - was mixed in her. Tamriko (this is the name she received at birth) always said that for the Georgian relatives she was Gverdtsiteli, after her father, who came from an ancient princely family, and for the Jews, she was Kofman, after her mother, who was born in Odessa into a Jewish family.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli is a real cosmopolitan and, perhaps, could live in any country in the world, since from childhood she was brought up in respect and tolerance towards other nationalities and cultures. She calls herself “a man of the world” because she herself grew up in an international family. She had to live in Tbilisi, Moscow, Paris, New York, Boston, but from everywhere she always returned home. The singer says that the further she leaves her homeland, the more she feels her roots and her Georgian-Jewish blood.
She cannot be called a typical Georgian woman, since a real Georgian woman usually stays behind her husband's back all her life and does not create her own destiny. The same cannot be said about Queen Tamara. Once her compatriot Nani Bregvadze said about her: "". Probably, her strongest love and passion really was music all her life. The singer was married three times, but in none of the marriages it was possible to find the optimal balance between family life and artistic activity.
Her first husband, the famous director Giorgi Kakhabrishvili, dreamed of seeing her as a simple wife, who takes care of the family, home, raising their son Sandro, and was very jealous of her for the stage. But Tamara could not leave the music. She left her husband and moved with her son to Moscow.
Once in 1991 Tamara Gverdtsiteli sent a cassette with recordings of her songs to the famous French composer Michel Legrand. And, surprisingly, three days later he invited the singer with a unique voice to Paris. Tamara could not believe in the reality of what was happening - it seemed to her just a miracle. The result of their collaboration with Legrand was a concert in the main concert hall of France - Olympia. The audience greeted her enthusiastically - Tamara sang in seven languages, she obeyed any genres - from opera arias to French chanson. She could have consolidated her success by staying in Paris on a two-year contract, but chose a family and returned to her homeland.
And although the singer did not stay to live in France, she always remembered Paris with trepidation: "".
For some time, Tamara Gverdtsiteli toured Canada and the United States, where she met her second husband, an immigrant from Baku, a lawyer from Boston. He surrounded her with care and luxury, the singer lived in abundance and prosperity. She even brought her mother and son to America. But after a year and a half, Dmitry died of a long-standing heart disease, and Tamara returned to Moscow. The third marriage with the doctor Sergei Ambatelo also turned out to be short-lived - her husband was jealous of her artistic activities and abused alcohol.
Tamara never regretted that she had to leave America: "".
Today the singer does not feel lonely - she still performs on stage and serves her muse: "".
Gverdtsiteli became the most popular Georgian woman on stage, and her compatriot became such in the cinema: Zigzags of Fate Sofiko Chiaureli.
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