Leonid Agutin was surprised by Varum’s creative betrayal with Krutoy

Biography of Angelika Varum

Singer Anzhelika Varum (real name Maria) was born in Lviv in the family of composer Yuri Varum and theater director Galina Shapovalova.
She has a half-brother, Mikhail (1989). The surname “Varum” (translated from German as “why”) was taken by Angelica’s great-grandfather while escaping from the Nazis; his real surname is Roebuck.

Since childhood, she was fond of music, played the piano and guitar, and in high school she toured neighboring cities with the school theater.

After school, without entering the theater institute, she began working as a backing vocalist in her father’s studio, and briefly played bass guitar in the group “Combination”.

Varum’s singing career began almost by accident: in 1990, her father invited her to record the song “Midnight Cowboy” in the studio, which immediately became a hit. A year later, the first album “Goodbye, my boy” was released, and Anzhelika Varum became famous thanks to the main song, as well as the single “Whistle Man”.

The stage name “Angelica” did not appear by chance: as a child, her grandmother called her an angel. And when it was time to perform on stage, Varum decided to change the name of the Virgin Mary to Angelica. To her family and friends she remained Masha.

In 1995, the second album “La-la-fa” appeared with the hits “Town” and “The Artist Who Paints the Rain.” Angelika Varum toured with concerts all over the country, and a year later she recorded two new albums at once - “Two Minutes from Love” and “Winter Cherry” (she no longer sings this song after the tragedy in Kemerovo).

In 1997, Varum played in the play “Emigrant Pose”, and in 1999 - in the film “The Sky in Diamonds”. At the same time, the album “Only She” was released, and a year later - the album “Office Romance”, joint with her husband Leonid Agutin. Since then, the couple often perform together.

In 2001, her father invited Anzhelika Varum to become a producer in a new record company.

In 2002 she recorded the album “Stop, Curiosity”, in 2007 - “Music”, in 2009 - “He Will Leave”, in 2013 - “Crazy”, in 2020 - “The Woman Walked” (Anzhelika Varum wrote lyrics for songs from it herself), in 2020 - “On a break.”

In 2011 she became an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

Angelika Varum is a multiple winner of the “Song of the Year”, “Golden Gramophone”, and the “Ovation” award.

In April 2020, she became ill at a concert in Ulyanovsk.

Biography

The beginning of a creative journey

She was born on May 26, 1969 in Lvov in the family of composer Yuri Varum (1949-2014) and theater director Galina Mikhailovna Shapovalova (born January 1, 1950)[4][5].

Varum started playing the piano at the age of 5, and picked up the guitar during her school years and already in her senior year she went on tour with the school theater, performing Ukrainian folk songs and accompanying herself on the guitar.

After school, she entered the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute[6] in Moscow, but failed the exams, after which she began working as a backing vocalist in her father’s studio. For several years she was a backing vocalist for a number of pop singers[4], and also played bass guitar as part of the group “Combination”.

1990s

In 1990, at the request of her father[4], she recorded the songs “Midnight Cowboy” and “Hello and Farewell,” which quickly became hits. With the song “Midnight Cowboy” the singer made her debut in the “Morning Star” program and in the “Olympic”.

In 1991, the singer’s first disc, “Good Bye, My Boy,” was released. The songs “Neighbor's Boy” and “Good Bye, My Boy” became hits, and the video for the song “Whistle Man” was remembered for its vivid video and the phrase “So sad that I want to smoke.” [ source not specified 58 days

]

She worked at the Alla Pugacheva Song Theater in 1992[7].

In 1993, the album “La-la-fa” was released. It included eleven tracks, including the song of the same name, as well as the composition “The Artist Who Draws the Rain”, the author of the text was Kirill Krastoshevsky[8], for which the first video was shot by director Oleg Gusev. The song “Town” in the album became one of the singer’s “calling cards” and the final screensaver of the television program of the same name. In 1993, Varum reached the finals of the Song of the Year festival for the first time with the song “La-la-fa.”

At the beginning of 1995, the “Favorites” disc was released. A little later in the same year, the album “Autumn Jazz” was released, which won the Ovation Award as “Best Album” of 1995, the video of the same name became “Best Video” of 1995, and Anzhelika Varum was recognized as “Best Singer” of 1995.

The fifth album, “Two Minutes from Love” (1996), included twelve compositions, including songs for which some of the most famous videos were shot [ source not specified 58 days

] Varum: the “silver” video “No answer, no greeting,” which became one of the nominees for the “Golden Apple” prize at the “Generation 1996” festival, and “Not Today” - one of the first precedents in Russia for combining live and animated characters.

At the same time, the perfume “Angelika Varum” appeared on the Russian market.

The album “Winter Cherry” (1996) turned out to be largely experimental. [ source not specified 58 days

] The songs “It's All for You”, “Another Woman” and “Winter Cherry” occupied the top lines of the charts of popular radio stations for several months. The premiere of the concert program “Angelica's Dreams” was successfully held in St. Petersburg in the Oktyabrsky concert hall.

In 1997, director Leonid Trushkin invited Anzhelika Varum to play a role in the enterprise play “Emigrant Pose” based on Ganna Slutsky’s play “The Banker”. The premiere took place in October at the E. Vakhtangov Theater in Moscow and in November at the Music Hall in St. Petersburg. Lyudmila Gurchenko, Evgenia Simonova, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Olga Volkova took part in the production. The performance received many positive reviews, and Varum won the “Seagull” award for her performance in this role[9][10]. In the same year, the premiere of Angelica’s solo concert program “Four Steps into the Clouds” took place in Moscow.

1997 was the year Varum began her creative collaboration with Leonid Agutin. Later, the creative union grew into a family union, and on February 9, 1999, their daughter Elizabeth was born.

In 1999, the seventh solo album “Only She” and the album “The Best” were released - the result of Varum’s 10-year concert activity. At the same time, the singer made her film debut - she starred in one of the main roles in the film “The Sky in Diamonds” directed by Vasily Pichul.

A year later, Varum and Agutin’s joint disc “Office Romance” was released, as well as a new joint program “Half of a Heart”, with which the artists toured Russia.

2000s

In the spring of 2001, joint concerts took place between Varum, Agutin and Al Di Meola. In August 2001, a record was created, which included Angelika Varum as an artist, musician and producer.

2002 - a new disc “Stop, Curiosity” and new show programs “Roman Holidays” (duet with Agutin) and “Stop, Curiosity”.

In 2003, Varum played one of the roles in the detective story “Kamenskaya 3: When the Gods Laugh,” and a little later released the song “Fire.”

The following year, Varum and Agutin toured. The spring concerts “I will always be with you” attracted two full houses at the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall.

On New Year's Eve 2005, the film “The Twelve Chairs” was released on Russian screens, a musical based on the work of Ilf and Petrov, in which Angelika Varum played Ellochka the cannibal. In the same year, Varum and Agutin’s solo program “You and Me” was released.

At the same time, Varum helped Agutin with the recording of his English-language project. The joint disc of Agutin and Al Di Meola “Cosmopolitan Life” went on sale in Europe in the spring of 2005 and immediately hit the top of the charts. The album contains ten tracks, including the duet song “If I'll Get a Chance”. In addition, Angelika Varum’s voice can be heard on the vocal parts of other songs in the album.

In 2007, Varum recorded a new duet with Agutin - “Two roads, two paths.” The song received several music awards, including the Golden Gramophone. At the end of the year, the singer released her ninth album, “Music,” consisting of two discs.

In 2008, the video “Where are you” was released.

The summer of 2008 was marked by a joint project of the Varum-Agutin family with the family of Vladimir Presnyakov and Natalia Podolskaya - the work “Being a Part of Yours” was released. In the fall of the same year, Varum and Agutin gave several concerts at the State Kremlin Palace.

November 24, 2009 Varum studio disc “If he leaves.” The album was released and included 10 tracks. In it, Varum first showed herself as the author of lyrics for some of the songs. Video clips were shot for the compositions “If He Leaves” and “Let’s Forget Everything,” with the singer herself acting as the director of the latest work. The project also featured the premiere of the work of composer Mikhail Varum, Angelica’s younger brother, with the composition “Etude.”

2010s

In 2010-2011, Varum and Agutin gave a number of concerts as part of concert tours in many major cities of Russia, as well as in a number of European countries and the USA. In Moscow, in the Kremlin Palace, large concerts were held with the jazzman, Cuban flautist Orlando Valle “Marac”. Also, together with Presnyakov Jr. and Podolskaya, quartet concerts were played in Minsk, Yekaterinburg, the largest cities in Germany (Frankfurt, Hamburg, etc.) and in Moscow.

In 2011, she began preparing new versions of her hits by her father, Yuri Varum. The songs “Autumn Jazz”, “Good bye, my love”, “Artist”, “And the girl is waiting for a boy” were performed at the concerts. Varum presented the songs “Winter Cherry” and “Fire” as the beginning of a new dance project, to which she devoted the entire 2012. At the beginning of the year the song “Draw Love” was presented, in the summer at the festival in Jurmala the premiere of a new version of “Lao” took place, at the end of the year a video for the song “Where are you” appeared. Also in 2012, Varum, in a duet with conductor Sergei Zhilin, took part in the fourth season of the musical television project “Two Stars” on Channel One, where their pair took third place.

In 2013, she recorded new songs and prepared a club program, the hallmark of which was the song “Crazy.” The song became the title track for the singer’s 13th numbered album [ source not specified 1645 days

].

In 2020, she released the album “The Woman Walked,” where she acted as the author of all the lyrics written to the music of Igor Krutoy.

In 2020, after a fire in the shopping center of the same name, Varum excluded the song “Winter Cherry” from her repertoire. According to Leonid Agutin, returning this song to her repertoire is not possible, but does not exclude the possibility that this song will soon cease to evoke associations with the tragedy in Kemerovo[11]. In the same year, she released the album “On Pause,” which became the 15th album in her musical career. The album consists of 10 compositions: 7 solo and 3 duet.

In March 2020, Varum began recording a new album together with the author Nadezhda Novosadovich, better known as Sado. In April they presented their first song called "Sad Bossa". The album release is scheduled for spring 2020.

Personal life of Angelika Varum

The singer’s first husband was photographer Maxim Nikitin, with whom she went to school together. After eight years of marriage they separated.

The second husband was singer Leonid Agutin: in 2007 they decided to sing a duet, and soon got together. On February 9, 1999, daughter Elizaveta was born, and on July 18, 2000, Agutin and Varum got married in Venice.

Angelica Varum admits that she is jealous of her husband, but will send him to the doctor if he stops “prancing,” that is, paying attention to other women.

Photo by Angelica Varum: PersonaStars

Angelika Varum, children

Children of Angelika Varum

and Leonid Agutin rarely see their parents. Their daughter Lisa, who recently turned fourteen years old, can rightfully consider herself an American, because she almost always lives in Miami with her grandfather Yuri Varum and his wife. In this regard, Lisa’s childhood is very reminiscent of the childhood of her mother, Angelica Varum, who spent her youth with her grandmother while her parents were on endless tours.

In the photo - Anzhelika Varum and Leonid Agutin with little Lisa

Being away from her parents, Lisa does not miss them, because she has hardly seen them since she was one and a half years old. Leonid and Angelika visit their daughter, but she is in Moscow very rarely, and it is very difficult to lure her to the Russian capital. Relatively recently, Angelica found out that her daughter Lisa has a half-sister, Polina, who is two years older than her. Leonid Agutin hid for a very long time that even before the wedding he had a period when he simultaneously dated Angelica and another girl who gave birth to his daughter Polina. But this fact did not become decisive when choosing a life partner - Leonid chose Angelica, and for a long time he preferred not to tell anyone that he had an illegitimate daughter.

In the photo - Anzhelika Varum and Leonid Agutin with children

For a very long time, the children of Angelica Varum and Leonid Agutin did not know anything about each other, but once they met, they quickly found a common language, which made their dad incredibly happy. Polina also lives away from her father. At first she lived with her mother in Italy, and then they moved to France. The girls communicate with each other in English, and when they come to Moscow, they speak Russian with Angelica and their father. Lisa and Polina became so close that when they had to part, they were very upset.

In the photo - Angelica and Lisa

Lisa inherited her talent and love for music from her parents. She plays the guitar excellently, and in Miami the girl has her own rock band that plays at school parties. She is not afraid to perform in front of a large audience and already has experience of participating in her parents’ concert when they came on tour to America. But, according to the girl, she fell in love with music not out of a desire to become like Angelica and Leonid, but after becoming acquainted with the work of one of the rock bands. And I learned to play the guitar from a self-instruction manual. Polina is very good at languages ​​- in addition to Russian, she speaks excellent Italian, French and English. The children of Angelika Varum and Leonid Agutin feel like foreigners in Russia, although both were born in Moscow. You might be interested to know: Svetlana Khodchenkova, children and Yana Rudkovskaya, children

Family of Angelika Varum

Angelika Varum's family lives separately. Varum herself lives with her husband, and their daughter Lisa lives overseas. Parents often fly to visit their daughter on weekends. Lisa herself visits Russia very rarely. Angelica remembers her parents with love and reverence. Her father, Yuri Varum, took a great part in raising his daughter.

He was an excellent arranger, composer, and for Angelica he also became a producer. Her mother, Galina Mikhailovna Shapovalova, was a theater director. Angelica remembers that she really loved being in the theater when her mother was working on the next play. Varum has a younger brother Misha, who, like his sister, has become a creative person and writes songs. For Angelika Varum, he wrote the song “Etude”, which was included in his album. The song became a hit.

Leonid Agutin and Angelica Varum returned to Venice, where they got married 19 years ago

Leonid Agutin and Angelika Varum

50-year-old Leonid Agutin and 49-year-old Anzhelika Varum went on a romantic trip to Italy. Today, the singer posted on her Instagram a photo with her husband, taken during a boat trip along the numerous canals of Venice. In the post, Varum recalled that almost two decades ago she and Agutin had a wedding in this city, and also showed an archival photograph taken on that famous day.

Venice. Almost 20 years later,

— Angelica signed a series of photos.

Leonid Agutin and Angelika Varum

In the post under this photo, Internet users noted that during this time Leonid and Angelica have practically not changed, and also admitted that even after so many years they look at each other with incredible love and tenderness.

A man who deserves respect! A woman worthy of admiration! Well done!

And after 20 years, your eyes are full of love and happiness, inner peace! When a woman is wise, the couples in the photo are so happy,

The most beautiful couple. Both now and 20 years ago! Stay always so happy! Joy for our hearts...

— subscribers spoke out.

By the way, not so long ago, in one of her posts, Angelica Varum shared simple secrets of family happiness.

A man’s beloved is not the one with whom there was an impulsive exchange of fluids, but the one to whom he devotes poetry throughout his life,

If you are still family-oriented and you are lucky enough to live with your loved one until your silver wedding, get ready, many surprises await you along the way. And don’t expect tricks only from men. Sometimes, completely unexpectedly, you can surprise yourself,

Emptiness in a man’s soul is not the worst thing. Much worse is the emptiness in your own soul...

— Angelica shared her thoughts.

Leonid Agutin and Angelika Varum

Let us remember that Anzhelika Varum and Leonid Agutin began dating in 1997. After 3 years, they got married in Moscow, and the wedding itself took place in Venice. From the footage taken during the honeymoon, a video was later made for Agutin’s song “Half of a Heart,” which he dedicated to his wife.

A year before the wedding, Angelica gave birth to Leonid's daughter Lisa. The girl spent almost her entire childhood in the USA with her father and other relatives of Varum, where she lives to this day. Lisa followed in the footsteps of her parents: in her spare time, she writes music and plays in a rock band.

Leonid Agutin and Angelika Varum with their daughter Lisa and her boyfriend

SONYA, 18 years old

Mom is singer Vera Brezhneva.
Dad is businessman Vitaly Voichenko Until recently, she swore eternal love to travel blogger Hawk, and now there is not a trace of the guy left on her social media profiles. Because Sonya has a new boyfriend and he is very jealous. Matt Cannon is a couple of years older, studies at the University of California, writes music and plays sports. The star mother approves of her daughter’s choice. After talking with the guy a couple of times, the singer came to the conclusion that he would not offend or betray her blood.

Sonya and Matt. Photo: Instagram.com

Sonya believes that she and Matt are the same person. Do you agree? Photo: Instagram.com

“Matt and I are very similar.” It seems that I have finally met my soul mate,” says Sonya.

Career

In the biography of singer Anzhelika Varum, her personal life has always been closely intertwined with her musical career. At the very start, her first husband helped her a lot, and her father wrote her first hits.

Angelica at the beginning of her musical career

The singer's main hits of the 90s:

• "Midnight Cowboy"
• "Hello and goodbye",
• "Goodbye, my boy"
• "La-la-fa"
• "The artist who paints the rain"
• "Babylon",
• "Town" and many others.

In 1997, for her role in the entreprise play “The Emigrant’s Pose,” Angelica received the “Seagull” theater award. She managed not to get lost on stage surrounded by such stars as Gurchenko and Dzhigarkhanyan. In the same year, she began working together with Leonid Agutin - in a duet they performed the hits “Queen”, “Everything is in your hands”, “If you ever forgive me”. Two years later, she made her film debut, playing a role in the film “The Sky in Diamonds.”

Varum on stage at Crocus City Hall, 2020

In the 2000s, Varum released six solo discs. She becomes one of the founders of the Varum Records Company label. The singer actively toured all over the world, including joint tours with Leonid Agutin, the world famous Al Di Meola and others.

Her latest album, 2016, “The Woman Walked,” is different from the others: the music for all the songs was written by Igor Krutoy, and the lyrics were written by Anzhelika herself.

Interesting: Anzhelika Varum opposes her daughter’s wedding

For her achievements in the field of music, she is awarded the title “Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.”

The actress’s filmography includes roles in the projects “Kamenskaya-3”, “Dossier of Detective Dubrovsky”, “Twelve Chairs” and others.

Angelika Varum: photos before and after retouching

“Yesterday the magazine “Caravan of Stories” came out with my interview. I was very pleased to meet and talk with journalist Alla Zanimonets. The conversation, in my opinion, turned out to be quite interesting. But when I saw the cover, I was upset. I don’t understand how, when printed, quite nice, lively photographs produce such a terrible wax monster without age and without any hint of emotion?! What kind of trend is this - turning living people into “dead”? I’m not against delicate retouching, but you can’t completely erase a personality by putting it under the steamroller of a ruthless Photoshop?! And all this in pursuit of some ephemeral standard. I apologize to the creative team of the magazine for my incontinence. I know everyone tried. Thank you! But not speaking out on this topic means supporting the trend of depersonalization,” comments the star.

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Angelika Varum: before and after photoshop

Let us remind you that earlier Anzhelika Varum and Leonid Agutin celebrated their anniversary.

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