Pavel Leonidov was an impresario of many Soviet singers. He headed the Variety Theater, wrote several dozen verses for famous songs. And Vladimir Vysotsky is a cousin of Pavel Leonidov.
Pavel Leonidov is a famous Soviet poet. Songs on his poems were performed by Joseph Kobzon, Vladimir Vysotsky, VIA "Flowers", Lyudmila Gurchenko and other famous singers, actors and groups.
Biography
Leonidov Pavel Leonidovich was born in Moscow in September 1927 in a creative family. His father was a theater actor, and his mother was the daughter of Lev Levin, who was shot and charged with the murder of writer Maxim Gorky.
The childhood and youth of Pavel Leonidov took place in Leningrad.
Music career
Having received his education, Pavel Leonidovich goes to work as an organizer of concerts and entertainers. He was able to discover many future pop stars.
Leonidov was an impressionario with Claudia Shulzhenko, Vladimir Vysotsky, Valery Obodzinsky, Joseph Kobzon, Mark Bernes, Larisa Mondrus and other famous actors and singers.
A creatively talented person wrote poems for popular songs. Among them: "Rowan branch", "Romance", "School ball", "The whole world", "Memory", "Snowflake", "Leaf fall" and others. Another famous impresario worked at the Moscow Variety Theater, was the director of this temple of art.
In the mid-seventies, he emigrated to America.
Even Pavel Leonidovich Leonidov was the uncle of the singer Vladimir Vysotsky. The famous impresario organized a tour of this famous singer in 1979, when V.S. Vysotsky gave concerts in North American cities.
P.L. Leonidov wrote books. He created these works already in New York, and published them there.
Personal life
Pavel Leonidov had a wife - Olga Petrovna. Oldest daughter Olya also became a songwriter. She also worked as a radio host. Then the daughter married Anatoly Semenovich Gross, gave the famous father two grandchildren and a granddaughter. The heirs received an excellent education in America. Over time, young people became businessmen, and the girl became a lawyer.
Pavel Leonidovich Leonidov had a cousin - Alexey Vysotsky - the father of the famous Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky.
Pavel Leonidov had not only such a famous cousin’s nephew, but also his cousin’s writer Irena Alekseevna Vysotskaya. She has created many books for children, is a cousin of Vladimir Vysotsky.
