Valentina Tolkunova, a famous Soviet singer, lived an interesting life full of sorrows and joys of an ordinary person. But at the same time, throughout the course of her life, she pleased the listeners with her gentle and soulful voice.
Childhood
Valentina Tolkunova was born in the Krasnodar Territory. The father and mother of the future singer served on the railway. Valya grew up in a wonderful family, surrounded by love and good music. Valentina then transferred this calm and family warmth all her life in her songs. The brother of the singer Sergey also became a famous musician.
Valentina knew by heart many of the songs of famous artists then and often sang at home. In 1948, the family moved to Moscow, and Valya was soon accepted into the choir of the Central House of Children of Railway Workers, where Semyon Osipovich Dunaevsky became her teacher. These were the first steps of Valentina Tolkunova on the musical path.
Education
After graduating from school, Valentina was admitted to the conductor-choral department of the Moscow Institute of Culture. After graduation, his singer entered the Gnesins Institute and graduated as a vocalist. At the beginning of her career, the singer performed jazz music in a vocal and instrumental orchestra under the direction of Yuri Saulsky. But soon Tolkunova changed the genre of songs and began a solo career.
Creative way
Valentina Tolkunova always sang about people and for people. Her compositions were about something personal, dear - love, family, children, simple human joys. The timbre of the voice of Valentina Tolkunova, gentle and affectionate, can not be confused with anything.
Valentina Tolkunova successfully performed on all the famous stages of the Soviet Union, performed music for films. Collaborated with such famous composers as Michael Tariverdiev, Oscar Feltsman, Eduard Kolmanovsky.
She is familiar to the Russian listener from the songs "Tired toys are sleeping", "I stand on a half-station", "I can not do otherwise", "Nose-snub-nosed".
Personal life
Valentina Tolkunova was twice married. Her first husband was Yuri Saulsky, musician, leader of the creative team. But the marriage was short-lived, only 6 years old. Probably, the reason for the gap was the big difference in the age of the spouses - Valentina was almost 20 years younger than her husband.
A few years later, the singer met the journalist Yuri Paporov, and soon the young people got married. In the marriage was born the only child of the singer, the son of Nikolai.
Probably, this marriage also did not bring happiness to the singer. Yuri Paporov constantly traveled on business trips abroad and could be absent from home for years.
According to rumors, Valentina Tolkunova had another romantic relationship with physicist Vladimir Baranov. But the singer’s lover was married, and she was married, and Valentina did not dare to break the marriage.
