Lyudmila Zykina - popularly beloved Soviet and Russian singer, head of the music ensemble "Russia". Her famous songs are sung by far not the first generation of Russians.
Biography
Lyudmila Zykina was born in 1929 in a Moscow working class family. Parents and grandmother of the future artist loved to sing, so music has been in the heart of Lyudmila since childhood. She began performing with songs already in preschool age, but the brave girl dreamed of becoming a pilot. Soon the Great Patriotic War broke out, and had to abandon all the plans. Yesterday's schoolgirl began to work as a turner at the factory, helping the country in turbulent times.
After the war, Lyudmila Zykina studied at the School of Working Youth and decided to try her luck at the All-Russian amateur competition. The winners of the competition were invited to perform in the Pyatnitsky choir. In 1947, it was Lyudmila who was lucky enough to become one of the four best performers. Thus began performances in the famous choir. Zykina showed herself on stage so beautifully that even Joseph Stalin himself decided to communicate with her.
In 1969, Lyudmila Zykina, as required by a new profession, graduated from the capital's school. Ippolitova-Ivanova, and in 1977 received the diploma of the famous "Gnesinka". It is worth noting that the death of her mother forced the singer to leave the Pyatnitsky choir: the artist could not recover from grief for a long time and lost some of her skills. Later, she began to sing in the choir of Russian songs on All-Union Radio, performing the cult "Steppe and Steppe Around", "Down the Volga River", "Thin Mountain Ash" and others.
During her long career, Zykina performed more than 2000 compositions, subsequently becoming the favorite singer of the Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. In 1977, the singer founded the musical ensemble "Russia", with which she performed all subsequent years. During this period, the hits "The River Volga Flows", "Zimushka", "Orenburg Shawl" and others were born. Lyudmila Zykina performed at all-Russian concerts until the end of her life, which ended in 2009: the singer died after suffering an extensive heart attack.
