Sofia Mikhailovna Rotaru is our pride, singer, in whose creative piggy bank there are more than 500 compositions in 11 languages. Not surprisingly, fans are interested in any facts from her personal life - who is Sofia Rotaru’s husband, how many children she has and what they do.
Sofia Mikhailovna Rotaru is our everything. Each of us has some events from her personal life connected with her soulful, romantic songs. But she herself does not like to talk about this side of her life. Much more willingly in an interview, she discusses creative plans. What was the fate of the universal favorite? Who was her husband? How many children does Sofia Rotaru have? Where do they live and what do they do?
Personal life of Sofia Rotaru - photo from the personal archive
Sophia Rotaru and her future husband Anatoly Evdokimenko were both closely connected with art, but they were introduced to them by the popular peasant magazine in those years. Anatoly saw on his pages a photo of a young vocalist and decided to find her by all means.
They met in 1965, and married in 1968. The newlyweds moved to Novosibirsk, where Anatoly worked out the “distribution” after the university. Sofia worked as a teacher. Creative "by blood", young people performed in the evenings in a small city recreation center. In 1970, their first and only son Ruslan was born.
The popularity and relevance of Sofia Mikhailovna did not become a stumbling block for loving spouses. For many years Anatoly was not only a husband, but also a concert director of Rotaru. His passing away in 2002, after 30 years of a happy marriage, was a real blow for Sofia Mikhailovna. She stopped performing, a year did not take off mourning.
To recover and re-enter the scene in order to delight his fans, her son Ruslan helped. She and her mother are very close, they even have experience of performing together on stage. Moreover, when Ruslan started her mother’s career, her composition box was replenished with songs of a new format - on the verge of rock and pop music.
The son of Sofia Rotaru Ruslan - photo
Ruslan Evdokimenko, the son of Sofia Rotaru, was born in late August 1970. Shortly before his birth, his mother first appeared on the Central Television of the USSR - she performed her song in the television program "Pervomaisky" Blue Light ".
Ruslan's parents were very busy in career terms, toured a lot around the country. The boy’s upbringing was mainly dealt with by relatives of Sophia Mikhailovna - parents, sisters and brothers. The singer admits that in childhood her son did not receive the attention of dad and mother, and now she is trying to fill this gap.
In addition to Ruslan, Sofia and Anatoly no longer had children. They preferred a career, an unsuccessful abortion crossed out their plans in the future to have children.
Once in the press there was information that Sofia Mikhailovna was married before marriage with Anatoly Evdokimenko, and she has a daughter. This is another newspaper "duck", to which the singer did not even pay attention.
Now Sofia Rotaru speaks less often, pays a lot of attention to her son and his family, with whom she is very close. The singer proudly shares a photo with loved ones - a son, his wife and children.
Family of the son of Sofia Rotaru Ruslan Evdokimenko - photo
Rusla Anatolyevich married quite early when he was only 20 years old (1990). He met his future wife Svetlana at the Yalta-90 song contest, where he arrived with his mother and father. Svetlana, the daughter of a well-known businessman at that time, was distributing flowers to artists backstage of the concert hall. Curly and unusually funny, talkative guy she really liked. The fact that he was the son of a famous singer, the girl did not know.
Svetlana and Ruslan have been together for over 25 years. Both work in the same field - they are music producers. The couple has two already adult children - son Anatoly (1994) and daughter Sofia (2001).
Granddaughter of Rotaru Sofia chose a creative career path, but in a slightly different role - she is a model, participates in shows of collectible clothes. The grandson of Sofia Mikhailovna is far from art. What exactly the young man does is unknown, but there is information that he is developing his own business.
Sophia Rotaru herself has been entering the stage quite rarely in recent years. Journalists put forward various hypotheses, one of the most discussed is the singer’s illness.
