2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-17 17:22
Name today singer Maria Pakhomenko few remember, and in the 1960s-1970s. she was one of the most popular Soviet artists. The songs "My Beloved", "The Girls Are Standing" ("Today is the Girls' Holiday …"), "There is no better color for that", "School Waltz" survived their performer, they are known and loved by the audience, and Maria Pakhomenko herself, unfortunately, after incredible success on stage was consigned to oblivion. She could not find her repertoire and did not want to change her image, as required by the new era. And in her declining years, she had to endure a serious illness and the cruel treatment of her loved ones.
Maria Pakhomenko was born in 1937 in Belarus. She studied music since childhood, participated in amateur performances, and then graduated from the music school named after. M. P. Mussorgsky, performed with the ensemble of the Palace of Culture im. Lensovet. Stage success came to her after she began to perform songs of her husband, composer Alexander Kolker. Their tandem turned out to be a strong family and creative union, and soon the whole Union recognized the name of Maria Pakhomenko.
In 1964, the singer became a soloist of the Leningrad Music Variety Ensemble, in the same year with the song “Ships are Sailing Somewhere Again” she won first place in a competition held by the radio station “Yunost”. In the late 1960s - early 1970s. she also conquered the international scene: in 1968 she won the Jade Record prize at the record competition in France, and in 1971 she became the first Russian pop singer to win the Grand Prix at the Golden Orpheus international song contest in Bulgaria (often instead of Alla Pugacheva is mistakenly called her the first winner).
In the 1980s. she worked as a TV presenter in the series of programs "Maria Pakhomenko Invites", toured in the USSR and abroad, but her popularity at this time began to decline. The singer did not want to react to the changed requirements of the new time - she spoke with condemnation about the charts and rock music, was conservative about the behavior of pop performers on stage, etc. She was replaced by singers whose songs seemed more modern to the listeners - Edita Piekha, Alla Pugacheva, Sofia Rotaru and others. They were ready to change their repertoire and their own image and reacted more sensitively to new trends of the times. Gradually, the listeners began to forget about Maria Pakhomenko.
Nevertheless, over the last three decades of the twentieth century. Maria Pakhomenko's songs were published in millions of copies on gramophone records, audiocassettes and CDs. She recorded 10 giant discs, her style of performance at the junction of pop and folk vocals was recognizable and unique, her songs were often sung by other pop stars.
She was loved by many composers, as her unique vocals and timbre of voice turned their songs into real hits. She was entrusted with the first performance of their songs by Kolmanovsky, Pakhmutova, Tukhmanov, Frenkel and other famous composers. Victor Pleshak called her the last bright representative of the Russian pop song.
Stage director Irina Taimanova recalled: “Masha Pakhomenko immediately took her place in the huge song world, which was already very rich then. Her character: he will stop the galloping horse and enter the burning hut. And this is with external tenderness. She had an amazing combination of temperament, self-confidence and piercing femininity. When a thin gray-eyed girl with a golden braid went out into the hall, she immediately found contact with the viewer. Unlike modern disorderly songs, there has always been a deep meaning in the poetry and music of her songs."
In 2013, Maria Pakhomenko died of pneumonia at the age of 76. Her final years have been difficult and dramatic. The singer suffered from Alzheimer's disease, which was gradually destroying her personality. In February 2012, she disappeared for two days, was wanted by the whole world and found in a shopping center. How she got there and where she was before, the woman could not remember.
In the fall of 2012, a scandal unexpectedly erupted: Maria Pakhomenko's daughter said that her father regularly beat her mother and raised his voice to her. The composer himself appealed for help, stating that his daughter had separated him from his beloved wife. It is difficult to understand which side the truth was on. It can only be argued that the last years of Maria Pakhomenko's life brought her a lot of suffering.
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