Nadezhda Babkina - one of the most striking performers of folk songs, People's Artist of the Russian Federation. She gives solo concerts or performs with the Russian Song collective. Nadezhda Babkina is also a professor of art history and leads the Fashionable Sentence program.
Childhood, youth
Nadezhda Georgievna was born March 19, 1950 in the village. Black Yar (Astrakhan region) in the family of a hereditary Cossack. Her father worked as the chairman of the collective farm, her mother was a teacher. In the family of Nadezhda everyone loved music, knew how to sing and play musical instruments.
Since childhood, Nadezhda wanted to become an artist, she sang, performed in an amateur ensemble. But the parents wanted her daughter to receive the profession of a doctor. That is why she entered the medical school, but studied for 1 semester. Then Nadezhda still entered the Astrakhan School of Music.
But Nadezhda failed to finish her studies. She laid eyes on the man who was married and tried to get him out of the family. Having learned about this, the head of the school decided to expel the student for immoral behavior. Nadia returned to her native village, where everyone already knew about this story. Unable to withstand gossip, Babkina left for the capital and entered the Gnessin School. Nadezhda was very responsible about her studies, and simultaneously performed in the Bayan ensemble.
Creative career
In 1975, the ensemble "Russian Song" was created at the Gnesinsky College, where Nadezhda was also invited. A year later, the team successfully performed at the festival in Sochi. Babkina was a vocalist in the ensemble, later she became the artistic director.
In 1994, the ensemble acquired the status of a folklore center, and after 6 years the ensemble became known as the theater. At that time, Nadezhda received the specialty of director at GITIS, while setting the numbers she paid a lot of attention to the appearance of the artists, the scenery, the lighting. Costumes for them were developed by famous designers (Vyacheslav Zaitsev, Valentin Yudashkin and others). All performances were a real holiday of folk song. The team has become popular.
Since 1994, Nadezhda Babkina has released albums with folk songs in her performance. The actress also performed in a duet with other famous singers - Anna Veski, Alexander Marshall. She collaborated with Gennady Gladkov, Oleg Mityaev. In 2010, Babkina became the host of the Fashion Sentence program. She also broadcast on Russian Radio. The singer is actively involved in social activities, since 2001 she is a member of the United Russia party.
