Childhood and youth
Maria Konstantinovna Totibadze was born on March 12, 1996 in Moscow. The artist’s family is widely known in the capital’s elite. Father Konstantin Georgievich Totibadze and his brother Georgy are famous third-generation artists, owners of the art gallery Totibadzé Gallery.
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Musya Totibadze in childhood with her father Konstantin Totibadze
Mother, housewife Olga Shesterikova, gave her husband 6 children: three sons and three daughters. The eldest son Anton (1993) followed in his father’s footsteps and is engaged in painting and graphics. Maria, whom everyone in the house affectionately calls Musya, is the eldest of the daughters. Following her were born Nina (2002) and Tamara (2005), and then the youngest David (2007) and Georgy (2009). By the way, only Musya and Georgy inherited the red-haired gene from their mother.
In addition, Musya has 3 cousins: Nana, Manana and Varvara, with whom she is inseparable. This is because the girl’s childhood was spent in the atmosphere of a large Georgian family; for a long time the Totibadze brothers lived with their families in the same house, and 9 children were raised together. And they always had numerous creative friends of their parents, and then it became especially noisy, fun and creative.
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Musya Totibadze in childhood
In her earliest childhood, Musya lived with her parents in Paris for several years, where she was baptized in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The girl came to Moscow to study. Together with her cousins, she attended the Orthodox gymnasium at the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the village of Trinity-Lykovo. There she received a creative education - the students painted a lot and studied music.
“When I was 7-8 years old, I was given a guitar, and I decided to seriously do what I loved. The Pope approved this choice. So I started playing the guitar and singing with my sister,” Musya said about an important stage in her biography.
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Musya Totibadze
Young Totibadze went to a jazz club, participated in jam sessions, then took up vocals seriously. After graduating from high school, Musya entered the Moscow Art Theater School and took an acting course under Igor Zolotovitsky. However, some time later, the girl transferred to the directing department of GITIS, course of Oleg Kudryashov.
Musya has a bright appearance: fiery red hair harmonizes with emerald green eyes, aristocratic whiteness is emphasized by bright freckles. The girl's height is about 170 cm. Leading Moscow modeling agencies wanted to get the beauty when she was still a teenager, but her father did not allow her daughter to walk the catwalk, because, in his opinion, you need to earn money by your profession, not by your appearance.
early years
Maria Totibadze was born on March 12, 1996 in Moscow, into a creative family. She is the eldest of three daughters of the famous artist and owner of the art gallery Totibadzé Gallery Konstantin Totibadze, a Georgian, and his wife Olga Shestirikova.
Totibadze family
Almost all of the girl’s relatives on her father’s side are related to art: her great-grandfather, grandfather, two great-uncles and an uncle are painters. Maria also has three brothers and two sisters. Older brother Anton also became an artist.
From her mother, Musya, as everyone in the family called the girl, inherited fiery red hair and very light, freckled skin, and from her father, a love of art and creative abilities.
Maria got her fiery red hair from her mother.
Maria was not brought up in a strict, but in a very religious atmosphere. The future artist was baptized in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral on Daru Street in Paris, where her father then worked, and upon returning to Russia she entered the private Orthodox Trinity-Lykovsky gymnasium, opened with the blessing of Patriarch Alexy shortly before his death.
Musya Totibadze in childhood
Maria became interested in music at a very young age. According to the artist, on her eighth birthday she unexpectedly received a guitar as a gift and at all family celebrations she later entertained her parents and siblings by performing songs by popular Russian performers.
Musya Totibadze taught herself to play the guitar
After graduating from high school, Maria became a student of Igor Zolotovitsky’s course at the Moscow Art Theater School, but after studying at the renowned university for a year, she decided to transfer to the directing department of GITIS.
Theater and music
Maria began her singing career by performing covers, covering mostly songs from the 90s: “Look into the Eyes,” “Cocoa-Cocoa,” “Electric Train,” etc. In 2014, her father’s friend Alexander Shirnin, lead singer of the group “Ship,” wrote to her. . He invited her to sing his song “The Truth about Love.” Musya updated it with the help of composer and arranger Vanya Lubennikov, and the video for the composition was shot by Grigory Konstantinopolsky.
Musya Totibadze - “The Truth about Love”
The following year, the girl presented the single “Radio” and a video, which literally created a sensation. The video was shot by Musya’s boyfriend, actor and director Grigory Dobrygin. He also starred in the title role along with actor Alexander Pal, the guys in the frame give aerobics lessons, parodying characters from the 70s and 80s.
Not stopping there, the artist releases a new work - “The Ballad of the Children of the Big Dipper.” This song became the official soundtrack to the drama “Territory” by Alexander Melnik, the plot of which tells about the life of Soviet geologists working at a gold mine in the Arctic.
Musya Totibadze - “The Ballad of the Children of the Big Dipper”
In 2020, a new incendiary composition “Dance, Vitalik!” appears in Musi’s discography. The video for the song was also directed by Grigory Dobrygin. His work is presented in the style of the 70s, and the singer appeared in the image of the young Alla Pugacheva during the period when she performed her hit “Harlequin”. Soon, with this composition, Musya was invited to the air of the “Evening Urgant” program, after which the artist became even more popular.
At the end of the same year, the girl paid tribute to the genre of rock music. Totibazde participated in the recording of the composition “Bird on the Windowsill,” dedicated to the poet Ilya Kormiltsev, together with such masters of the genre as Diana Arbenina, Vladimir Shakhrin, Nike Borzov, Nastya Poleva.
Show “Evening Urgant” - Musya Totibadze “Dance, Vitalik!”
Totibadze celebrates her debut as a theater actress in November 2020. The girl plays the main role in the musical play “The Blue, Blue Bird” on the stage of the Theater of Nations. The heroine of Musi is the girl Matilda-Daria Makarova, who must find the Blue Bird to save her brother Til.
The artist does not hide her passion for covers and in 2020 she performs Natalia Vetlitskaya’s long-time hit “I’ll Stay with You.” The clip, again the work of Dobrygin, was filmed far from Moscow, in picturesque nature: Musya dances against the backdrop of green meadows, rides a boat and has fun.
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In 2014, Musya made her debut as a singer with the song “The Truth about Love,” which was written by the lead singer of the group “Ship” Alexander Shirnin and visualized by director Grigory Konstantinopolsky.[1]
In February 2020, Musya Totibadze presented a video for the song “Radio”. The author of its idea, producer and director was actor Grigory Dobrygin - together with Alexander Pal, they give aerobics lessons on camera.[2][3]
In the same year, the song “Ballad of the Children of the Great Bear” performed by Musi Totibadze became the soundtrack to the film “Territory” by Alexander Melnik.[4]
At the end of 2020, Musya Totibadze releases a video clip for the song “Dance, Vitalik!” The director of the video, made in the disco style of the 70s, was Grigory Dobrygin, and Oleg Glushkov was involved as a choreographer. Two dozen theater actors took part in the filming, as well as DJ Vitaly Kozak. Musya Totibadze herself appeared in the video in the image of young Alla Pugacheva from the time of “Harlequin”.[5][6]
In 2020 she made her debut as an actress. On November 30, the premiere of the family musical “Blue Blue Bird” took place at the Theater of Nations, with Musya Totibadze in the title role.[7]
In 2020, Musya covered Natalia Vetlitskaya’s song “I’ll Stay with You” and released a video clip for it.[8]
Musya Totibadze also plays in the Praktika theater. At the moment she is involved in the play “Hypnos”.[9]
As part of the New Year’s party “Evening of Aesthetic Pleasures 2020” on December 28, 2020, he performs the song “And it’s snowing” by Maya Kristalinskaya [10]
Personal life
The personal life of the heiress of a famous artist is closely connected with creativity.
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Musya Totibadze and Grigory Dobrygin
Musya has been dating and working with Grigory Dobrygin for several years, the couple is considered one of the most beautiful in the social circle. The chosen one is 11 years older than the singer, but the age difference does not in any way affect their harmonious relationship.
Personal life of Musi Totibadze
Since 2020, the singer has been in a relationship with the actor and director, the author of most of her video clips, Grigory Dobrygin. The singer has been in a relationship since 2020. The couple is in no hurry to register an official marriage.
Musya Totibadze and Grigory Dobrygin
Dobrygin is almost 13 years older than his beloved. Previously, the artist met with brunette star Ravshana Kurkova, who left him for Artyom Tkachenko. Grigory also admitted that he had a romantic, albeit very short-lived, relationship with Liza Boyarskaya, and fans say that Olga Kurylenko was also his friend, but there is no confirmation of this fact.
Musya Totibadze now
2019 was a memorable year for Totibadze. Her new album “Boy” has been released, which includes 7 tracks authored by the performer herself. Now the singer is preparing for her first big concert and presentation of the album, which will take place on July 5.
Musya Totibadze - “I’m Running Away”
The artist also released a new video for the song “Running Up,” which is included in the new album. Celebrities participate in the video: actors Alexander Gudkov, Vladimir Svirsky, Nikita Kukushkin, dancer Sergei Polunin and others.
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Musya Totibadze in 2020
Today Musya continues to play in the theater and writes her own songs, gradually moving away from covers.
“Now we are rehearsing a program that consists entirely of our music, and it’s a wild thrill! But the responsibility is completely different. I still have to work on myself to stop being shy about singing my music,” Musya admits in an interview.
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