Biography. early years
The future composer was born into a Jewish family. Father Yakov Aleksandrovich worked at the Radiodetal enterprise, and mother Svetlana Semenovna was first a laboratory assistant at the SES, and then a housewife. She raised Igor and his sister Alla, who was 5 years younger than her brother.
As a child, Igor was found to have excellent hearing, and the boy was sent to study at a music school. There he learned to play the button accordion, and later mastered the piano. In the 6th grade he created an ensemble that played at dances.
After school, the graduate went to the Kirovograd music school, after which he worked as a teacher in the Gayvoronovsk “music school”. Soon he went to study again - at the Nikolaev Musical Pedagogical Institute.
Composer Igor Krutoy bought his mother, Svetlana Semyonovna, an apartment of 400 square meters in the city of Sunny Isles Beach. The cost of housing is five million dollars.
Igor Krutoy’s family lives in two countries. And recently it became known that the composer acquired new property in the USA.
“Another apartment in Florida with an area of under 400 square meters. meters was bought for Igor’s mother Svetlana Semyonovna,” said those surrounded by the artist. – Its cost is about $5 million. It is located in the city of Sunny Isles Beach on the Atlantic Ocean. This area is called little Moscow; there are a lot of Russians here. Svetlana Semyonovna will feel very comfortable, since the climate here is warm and mild.”
And you won’t be bored - your friends are nearby. The family of Angelica Varum and Leonid Agutin, Valery Leontiev, Natasha Koroleva’s mother have long settled not far from the Krutykhs... Svetlana Semyonovna will turn 85 on February 16th. Igor Yakovlevich prepared thoroughly for the anniversary of his most beloved woman.
Igor Krutoy with his mother Svetlana Semyonovna
“The cool ones will celebrate their birthday in a restaurant on the ground floor of the complex where the apartments are located. Most of the relatives are already here,” the celebrity’s friends shared with StarHit. – Many guests are expected. Igor's mom invited all her girlfriends. The maestro will present each guest from Russia with a separate hotel room. The feast promises to be grand. For example, the cost of food per person alone is several hundred dollars! There will also be an entertainment program – songs and dances.”
The composer has repeatedly admitted that he was always close to his mother. He tries to surround the parent with attention so that she does not need anything. Krutoy himself prefers not to comment on the purchase of real estate. The musician’s daughters Victoria and Alexandra have also lived in the USA for many years. The composer himself loves to be here. He often visits the heiresses, and the girls regularly come to Moscow for social events and family matters.
Let us remind you that on July 29, Krutoy himself will celebrate an important date - 65 years. According to the musician, in honor of such an event he will organize more than one concert! The artist is used to celebrating important events on stage, but after performances he invariably meets with close friends and relatives. Fans have no doubt that Igor Yakovlevich will organize a grand celebration, which will not be complete without creative performances and touching congratulations.
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Creative biography of Igor Krutoy
While still studying at NMPI, Krutoy met Alexander Serov, for whom he soon began composing songs. The first success was “Madonna,” written to the poems of the Soviet poetess Rimma Kazakova. At the Song of the Year festival, Madonna became a laureate.
Among other songs that Igor wrote for his friend are “Wedding Music”, “How to Be”, “Do You Love Me”. All of them were created based on poems by the same Kazakova.
Biography
Although Vika was not Igor Krutoy’s own daughter, he always treated her like his own. Nurture always takes precedence over nature. The girl was born in 1985, and when her mother married Krutoy, the girl was 10.
It cannot be said that her life remained measured, as it was. Mom did everything she wanted for her daughter. But dad changed everything overnight. The life of Victoria Krutoy is pure pleasure, exoticism and bright moments. Vika Krutaya often posts photos on Instagram from vacation; her love for the ocean and sea has been instilled since childhood. This is a consequence of the fact that most of her youth was spent in Miami, and she graduated from university in New York. In Russia, Vika completed courses to become a TV presenter, learned to work with a camera, and communicate with viewers through screens.
The first song that gave the girl popularity was written in 2011 with the title “I’ll Run Away.” This is a Russian-language cover of “Addicted to Love” by Serge Devan. The girl and Serge were united not only by their love of music. The guy has Russian roots, he comes from St. Petersburg.
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The composer's first album, entitled “Calling,” was released in 1987. It was released by , the then monopolist in terms of sound recording. There were only four songs on the record, performed by different singers. A year later, Krutoy received the Lenin Komsomol Prize.
Krutoy no longer limited himself to cooperation with Serov. Over the years, Igor Krutoy’s songs were performed both by stars from Soviet times (Anne Veski, Joseph Kobzon, Lev Leshchenko, Muslim Magomaev, Alla Pugacheva, Sofia Rotaru, Valentina Tolkunova) and artists who became famous in the 90s (Leonid Agutin, Angelika Varum , Natalya Vetlitskaya, Oleg Gazmanov, Alexey Glyzin, Larisa Dolina, Philip Kirkorov, Lolita, Kristina Orbakaite, Soso Pavliashvili, Vladimir Presnyakov Jr., Masha Rasputina, Marina Khlebnikova, Mikhail Shufutinsky and God knows how many more).
In the 2000s, Igor Krutoy was still in demand. Songs written by Igor Krutoy were performed at their concerts by Alsou, Nikolay Baskov, Sergey Lazarev, Grigory Leps, Alexander Panayotov, Yegor Creed, Verka Serduchka and numerous “manufacturers” in the person of Alexa, Anastasia Kochetkova, Timati, Prokhor Chaliapin and others.
Igor Krutoy also has songs for opera singers, including Korean Cho Sumi, Italian Andrea Bocelli, Kazakh Dimash Kudaibergenov, Russians Aida Garifullina, Dmitry Hvorostovsky and Maria Maksakova.
Back in the late 80s, a native of Gayvoron began his career as a film composer. The debut was the film “Souvenir for the Prosecutor”. Igor Krutoy’s music is also heard in such films as “Thirst for Passion”, “Black Devil”, “The Snow Queen”, “Mademoiselle Zhivago”, “Diary of a First-Grader’s Mother” and “Soul of a Spy”, as well as in the TV series “Fulcrum”.
Back in the 90s, Igor began performing his own songs. Among the most famous are “An Unfinished Affair”, “Palma de Mallorca”, “Table for Two” and “Crystal Glass”.
The composer also recorded a fairly large number of purely instrumental compositions. Among them are “When I close my eyes”, “Eurydice dance”, “Tenderness”, “City of dreams come true”, “I like the rain”, etc.
In 2014, the composer’s anniversary concert took place. It was called “There are 60 times in life.” The songs were performed not only by the maestro himself, but also by his colleagues who came to congratulate him - Irina Allegrova, Philip Kirkorov, Nikolai Baskov, Kristina Orbakaite, Grigory Leps, Larisa Dolina and others.
Over his long career, Igor Krutoy was awarded a number of state awards. He has the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III and IV degrees and the Order of Friendship, as well as the titles of People's Artist of Russia and People's Artist of Ukraine.
Production Center
During Perestroika, Igor headed the ARS company, which eventually became one of the largest production organizations in the country. It was ARS Records that organized performances in Moscow by the Spanish opera singer Jose Carreras and the King of Pop Michael Jackson.
Over the years, such performers as Akula, Irina Allegrova, Alexander Buynov, Andrey Gubin, Diana Gurtskaya, Valery Leontyev, Boris Moiseev, Nikolai Trubach, Yuri Shatunov, Mikhail Shufutinsky have collaborated with ARS Records.
Albums of groups such as “Brilliant”, “Demo”, “Disco Accident”, “Prime Minister”, “Hands Up”, “Strelki”, etc. were written at the studio. Already in the 2000s, members of the “Star Factory” recorded on the label ": Dominic Joker, Irina Dubtsova, Polina Gagarina and Timati.
In addition to domestic pop music, ARS released recordings of the famous opera baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky and the French-speaking singer Lara Fabian.
Krutoy also produced such projects as “New Wave”, “Children’s New Wave”, “Song of the Year”, “Morning Mail”, the fourth “Star Factory” and the MUZ-TV Award.
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Sunday morning in November... a little lazy, unhurried... the smell of freshly ground coffee... and in the evening I take part in a concert dedicated to the Day of Internal Affairs Officer! Life is Beautiful! See you on Channel One @1tv! Peace, happiness and love to all of you! How do you spend your Sunday morning? #sunday #happiness #peace #love
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Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy (born July 29, 1954, Gaivoron, Kirovograd region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian composer, pianist, singer, producer. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1991). People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1996). People's Artist of Ukraine (2011). Winner of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1989). Since 2020 - member of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art.
Owner of a production house (producing projects such as “New Wave”, “Children’s New Wave”, “Song of the Year”, “Morning Mail”), an independent copyright agency (NAAP), the Muz-TV channel (25%), and the radio stations “Love Radio” , Radio Dacha and Taxi FM, music producer of Star Factory - 4, founder of the music website Music1.ru since 2012 and 2013.
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (July 21, 2014) - for great services in the development of national culture and art, many years of fruitful activity
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (July 28, 2009) - for great contribution to the development of domestic musical art and many years of creative activity
- Order of Alexander Nevsky (November 11, 2020) - for services to the development of national culture and art, many years of fruitful activity
- Order of Friendship (July 14, 2004) - for many years of fruitful activity in the field of culture and art[13]
- Order "Dostyk" II degree (July 2, 2020, Kazakhstan) - for services in strengthening friendship and cooperation between the peoples of Kazakhstan and Russia
- People's Artist of the Russian Federation (January 29, 1996) - for great services in the field of art
- People's Artist of Ukraine (August 23, 2011) - for significant personal contribution to strengthening the international authority of Ukraine, popularization of its historical heritage and modern achievements and on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Ukraine's independence
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR (September 24, 1991) - for services in the field of Soviet art
- Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (August 16, 2011) - for active participation in the organization and conduct of the international competition of young popular music performers “New Wave”
- Lenin Komsomol Prize (1989) - for merits in the field of musical art
- Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (2000)
- Honorary citizen of the city of Jurmala (30 July 2010)
- Memorial sign on the “Square of Stars” (September 25, 1998)
- Special award of the MUZ-TV Award “For contribution to the development of the music industry” (2012)
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Eurovision 2020
During his life, Krutoy collaborated with many participants in the famous music competition. This includes Dima Bilan, who brought Russia the only victory in its history in 2008, and Polina Gagarina, who became second in 2015, and Sergei Lazarev, who twice took third place, and Philip Kirkorov, who was disgraced in the mid-90s, and even Lara Fabian, who represented Luxembourg in 1988 and finished fourth.
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At the beginning of 2020, Igor Krutoy told reporters that, in his opinion, Alexander Panayotov would go to the competition. He repeatedly qualified for the competition, but was never able to win it. In 2008, he lost quite a bit to the future winner of the event, Dima Bilan. Desperate to get to Eurovision from Russia, Panayotov even tried to qualify in Ukraine (he is from Zaporozhye), but even there he could only become second.
Panayotov’s competitors in the fight for a ticket were the recent flight attendant and now singer Yulia Zivert, former participant in “House - 2” Olga Buzova, in whose favor Kirkorov spoke, Kazakh opera star Dimash Kudaibergenov, who collaborates with Krutoy and recorded a song with him “Love of Tired Swans”, and the popular and controversial rave group Little Big. Which in the end was chosen to represent Russia at the prestigious competition.
Personal life
Igor Krutoy was married twice. His first wife's name was Elena, she was from St. Petersburg. The composer and his wife lived together for 16 years. She gave her husband a son, Nikolai. Nikolai already has children: Christina, born in 2010, and Margarita, born in 2016.
Igor Krutoy’s second wife, Olga, is engaged in business. They have been married since 1985. The current wife lives in New Jersey. Olga gave birth to her husband’s daughter Alexandra. Igor also has a stepdaughter, Victoria. Both daughters (native and stepdaughter) live in the States. Victoria got married in 2014, and a year later gave birth to a daughter, Demi-Rose.
Igor’s younger sister Alla left for the USA in the early 90s because she married an Italian-American. She took her husband’s surname – Baratta, according to Wikipedia. In 1997, he got a job in Philadelphia on local TV and has been firmly connected with television ever since. She managed to work for 13 years on the RTVi channel, where she hosted the “Vis-a-Vis” program, dedicated to meetings with stars. Among her guests were cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, figure skater Alexey Yagudin, ex-mayor of New York Rudolf Giuliani and others. Now she hosts the “Welcome” program of a similar format at the Ukraina shopping mall.
The composer does not shy away from social networks. He has an Instagram account where fans of Igor Krutoy’s work can admire his photos. More often than photographs, the Russian composer shares videos on his social networks. His page has 673 thousand subscribers.
Personal life of Igor Krutoy
People's Artist of the Russian Federation Igor Krutoy (born 1954) was married twice. The composer's first wife, Elena, is from St. Petersburg. Igor proposed to her in 1979. In the same year, their marriage took place. Then Igor did not work in production, as was customary in the USSR in the 80-90s, and this irritated Elena extremely, so after becoming pregnant, she left her husband. Their family existed until 1995. During this time, the future People's Artist of Ukraine (2011) had a son, Nikolai (1981, Moscow).
In the photo: Igr Krutoy with his first wife Elena
Today Nikolai Krutoy himself is the father of two children and holds a very important position in one of the capital’s construction companies. Nikolai Krutoy received a good education and became a very successful, financially independent person. Igor Krutoy is as proud of his son as he is of his other children. Thanks to his son, the famous composer has two granddaughters: Kristina Nikolaevna (born 2010) and Margarita Nikolaevna (born 2016).
In the photo: Igor Krutoy with his son Nikolai
Igor Krutoy’s second wife Olga lived in America at the time she met her future husband. Their first fleeting meeting took place in 1995, at the “Song of the Year” concert, where she came with her good friends. At a banquet in honor of the winners, which was held in Atlantic City, Olga was introduced to the famous composer. Their tables were next to each other. Igor was there with his mother, Svetlana Semyonovna Kruta (born 1934) and sister Alla.
Igor and Olga Krutoy
Igor Krutoy with his sister Alla Krutoy
At that time, Igor was going through his divorce from his first wife Elena. However, a month after they met, he returned to America, dedicating the lyrical song “I love you to tears” to Olga, performed by Alexander Serov. The musical composition was very touching and Olga liked it. Already during the 3rd date, Igor proposed to Olga, and two years after they met, the couple announced their wedding.
Olga Krutaya in a swimsuit
The family of Igor and Olga Krutykh lives in two countries (Russia and the USA). Igor works in Russia, and Olga works in the States. Today, the personal life of the star couple is interesting to many of their fans. The main concern is the question of how many wives the famous producer had. And although Igor Krutoy does not like to talk about his personal life, reveal details of his biography, or display photos of his family, it is known for certain that he has two wives: the ex-wife and the real wife of Igor Krutoy Olga.
Igor Krutoy with his wife Olga and daughters: Victoria and Alexandra
Together with Olga, they are raising two daughters: Igor’s stepdaughter, Victoria Krutaya (born 1985), who lives in New Jersey and works as a singer, and Alexandra Krutaya, born in marriage (born 2003). The grandparents' great joy comes from communicating with their granddaughter Demi-Rose (born 2015), who was given to her parents by their daughter Victoria and her husband David Berkovich.
Igor Krutoy with his wife Olga and daughters
Health
In the early 2000s, as the media write, the composer managed to overcome a serious illness. Krutoy’s appearance changed quite a lot, which was noticeable from his photographs. If earlier, with a height of 176 cm, he weighed about 80 kg, then during his illness Igor lost a fair amount of weight.
Krutoy’s treatment took place in the USA. According to the media, American doctors performed several operations on him.
The composer does not hide the fact that he was indeed faced with a serious illness, but did not specify the diagnosis. Many believed that Krutoy had cancer, and the disease was in remission. The musician does not comment on these conversations.
