Childhood and family of Arkady Ukupnik
Arkady Semenovich Ukupnik was born on February 18, 1953 in the small town of Kamenets-Podolsky (Khmelnitsky region of the Ukrainian SSR). Both of his parents were closely associated with pedagogy. My father taught mathematics, and my mother taught Russian. It is for this reason that our today's hero has always been a very smart and intelligent guy. Arkady began to comprehend the basics of musical art at the age of six. First he learned to play the violin, and then, having matured a little, he also began to master the bass guitar. Sim-sim, open up - Ukupnik Arkady At the age of eighteen, a young Ukrainian guy went to Moscow for the first time. In this city, he entered the Moscow Higher Technical School named after Bauman, where he received a specialist diploma in the field of “Welding equipment and technologies.”
The long-awaited miracle
How happy is Natalya Turchinskaya? The biography of Ukupnik’s wife clearly demonstrates that yes. For the first time after the wedding, the couple did not even think about children. They traveled a lot and devoted a lot of time to entertainment and social gatherings. For many years the couple enjoyed such a life, they were not bored together, but after passing the ten-year mark of marriage, the family was replenished with offspring.
Arkady became a father at 58 years old. The family changed their lifestyle, for a while, turning into homebodies. Natalya recalls fate’s “preliminary bell” about upcoming changes.
One day, at the exit of one of the Arbat restaurants, she was asked to take out a note-prediction, and the text turned out to be allusive. According to both, they didn’t think much about the child for a long time, there were many reasons for this. Arkady already has children, the spouses “had a good time together,” and besides, no “surprises” in this sense happened for many years, even when the couple had already begun to think about offspring, because Natalya did not have children.
The couple practically never separated; according to them, they spent a maximum of a week and a half apart. All their friends were used to seeing them only together. In 2011, the family moved to a three-level townhouse in the Moscow region, in which Natalya arranged much of it to her liking. When choosing, we took into account not only the features of the house, but also the status, location of the village, and infrastructure.
They both underwent a medical examination, but, despite their health, “God gave” the child only after 14 years of marriage. One day they flew to Israel to visit friends, and from there the three of them returned. Arkady was happy after the good news and surrounded his wife with even greater care. They expected the baby to arrive together, chose baby supplies and a birthing clinic, and prepared a room for him. As a result, Israel was chosen, where the future dad was present at the birth. The parents took a long time to choose their daughter’s name, “argued for a whole week,” and then went to a dacha on the seashore.
The spouses are categorical about nannies; they “didn’t give birth” to give birth to strangers. Occasionally they ask for something related to their daughter, an “au pair.” Raising a child is a pleasant process for them; the first step, the first word and everything else will not be repeated.
Dad participates in raising his daughter no less than mother, for example, he often lulls her to sleep or bathes her, refuses evening filming, work on weekends, in order to feel fatherhood to the fullest.
They consider Sonya’s character, which is what the Ukupniki named their daughter, to be remarkable. The girl is calm, positive, smiling, charming, but not without the masculine character and habits of Leo (her zodiac sign). After the birth of their daughter, the parents forgot about going out into the world for a long time, which they do not regret at all.
Despite his daughter’s musical abilities, Arkady is not eager for his daughter to go into show business, but he is ready to accept any of her choices. Despite the fact that the singer is already over sixty, he is ready to raise a second baby, the couple does nothing specifically for this, but if fate wills it, the spouses are ready for this “surprise”, but Sofia “very much insists” on the appearance of a brother or sisters.
The first songs of Arkady Ukupnik
Despite the fact that the guy’s profession was not very conducive to creativity, throughout the entire course of study Arkady Ukupnik did not give up music. In the period from 1972 to 1978, he performed with several musical groups. Among these, the most famous are the Leonid Utesov Orchestra and the Yuri Antonov Ensemble. Thus, by the time he graduated from university, our today’s hero was already quite famous in the world of Soviet pop music.
Singer Arkady Ukupnik in childhood
The native of Ukraine gained his first popularity in the early eighties. It was during this period that he created the Gala tone studio, within which he worked as a director and sound engineer. In this role he became quite successful. His professional qualities were highly appreciated by many Soviet stars, including Alla Pugacheva. Soon, the Russian artist invited Arkady Ukupnik to take part in the creation of her own art studio “Alla”. Subsequently, the Ukrainian guy worked in this music center for several years.
Family
The wedding with Arkady was celebrated quietly, among friends and relatives in a restaurant. For almost 15 years, Natalya and her husband lived for themselves. They were so comfortable together that they didn’t think much about the child. And on August 1, 2011, her daughter Sophia was born. For Natalya this is the first and desired child.
The birth took place in one of the Israeli clinics in the presence of a famous singer and composer.
The woman is very happy with her husband and daughter. She is proud of her family. She does not hide the fact that her husband listens to her. And she is proud of his achievements in creativity.
Singer Arkady Ukupnik on the crest of a wave
As Ukupnik once admitted in one of his interviews, he never planned to write songs. He was always much more interested in instrumental music. Thus, much during the career of a famous musician was decided by chance. Once, on a whim, a young guy wrote a composition for the famous Russian singer Irina Ponarovskaya. The artist really liked the song. From that moment on, Arkady began to often create new compositions. Arkady Ukupnik - “I will never marry you” The first hit of the composer Ukupnik was the song “Why,” written for Kristina Orbakaite. After that, our today's hero also collaborated with Vladimir Presnyakov, Larisa Dolina, Alena Apina, and subsequently parted ways altogether and began composing compositions of various genres for representatives of various styles. His songs are in the repertoire of Mikhail Krug, Alla Pugacheva, Vlad Stashevsky and even the strange postmodern duet “Farewell to Youth”.
New image of Arkady Ukupnik
In the early nineties, Arkady Ukupnik began to sing himself. On the advice of Alla Borisovna, he grew his hair long and replaced his classic glasses with round glasses. It was in this image of a curly-haired “nerd” that our today’s hero first appeared on the Russian stage. He performed fiery songs and always captivated the audience with his irrepressible energy and unusual lyrics. What is the value of his immortal hit “I will never marry you,” in which the artist promised to eat his passport in front of the registry office?
Singer Arkady and Oleg Gazmanov
Over the course of his career, Arkady recorded eight different albums, which differed radically from each other both in degree of fame and in their content. The singer Ukupnik's greatest fame was brought to him by his eccentric songs with a noticeable touch of comedy. However, later the artist decided to leave this style and engage in more serious creativity. His compositions become more subtle and refined. They have more of an instrumental component. But, as often happens, it was at this moment that the general public began to turn away from the musician.
After this, Arkady began to look for himself again. He acted in films as an artist, and also worked on writing soundtracks for various Russian and Ukrainian films. Ukupnik’s compositions can be heard in such films as “Bastards”, “Yulenka”, “Black Lightning”, “Love-Carrots”, “Kiss Through the Wall”, “All inclusive”, “Sakura Jam”, “My crazy family”, etc.
Evening Urgant - guest Arkady Ukupnik In addition, in the nineties and two thousand years, Arkady Ukupnik worked fruitfully as a producer with various groups and performers. His longest collaboration was with the KAR-MAN groups and singer Vlad Stashevsky.
Biography[edit]
Childhood[edit]
Arkady, being a close relative of Vasily Pupkin, was born with the surname Upupkin
June 66 of an unknown year at 6:66:66 am in Uryupinsk in a family of unemployed people. He ate nothing for up to 6 months, providing himself with the process of growth and vital activity only due to oxygen, until his first tooth erupted, after which Upupkin began to eat cardboard and paper, as a representative of the Paper-eating order, since no one in the city had there were passports.
At the age of 6, the future singer went to school, where on September 2 he ate his primer, after which he was kicked out, as a result of which he adopted his parents’ profession.
By the age of 14, Arkady had eaten all the paper and cardboard that was in Uryupinsk, after which he, out of hunger, ate his father’s stash, which he wanted to spend on a box of vodka. When his father found out about this, he swore at him, then began to beat him with his fists, then with a hammer, then with a tire iron, then with an ax, then he began to kick him, fired a test shot from a gun and kicked Arkady out of the house. Not immediately recovering from the fact that he was kicked out, young Upupkin lay not far from home for 2 months. Waking up from such stress, he soon came to the railway station and went to Moscow with his half-eaten 10 rubles.
Youth[edit]
Portrait of Arkady Ukupnik with an autograph.
Work by K. Malevich In Moscow, Arkady issued a passport for himself with the last name Ukupnik
, so as not to recognize his relationship with his former family. Having tasted this document, he recognized its highest, as it seemed to him, taste quality and quickly ate the entire passport. After that, he visited many Moscow passport offices to receive another passport and then eat it, until they began to recognize him by sight and kick him out of the places where he received the passport. Then Arkady, this time Ukupnik, left without a passport, began to rob people, taking their passports near banks, registry offices, military registration and enlistment offices and other similar institutions, but over time, people’s vigilance in this regard increased, and it became more and more difficult for Ukupnik to take them from them exactly what is needed.
At the age of twenty, Arkady met a girl and began dating her. Soon they decided to get married, and the groom, through much persuasion, finally received another passport, necessary for an official marriage. But at the wedding, literally before entering the registry office, Ukupnik decided that at the moment it was better to eat his passport again than to get married, and having eaten, in addition to his passport, also the bride’s passport, he disappeared from all the wedding guests in an unknown direction.
Years of creativity[edit]
According to the supernova theory of academician Fomenko, Pierre Richard and Arkady Ukupnik are the same person.
At the age of 18, Arkady discovered the ability to zombify other people with the help of his extremely tuneless singing and long-out-of-fashion glasses. For this purpose, he began organizing concerts in different areas of the capital, but no one came to them, and in Butovo he was even beaten. Fortunately, the residents of Butovo did not know who he really was, otherwise they would have beaten him to death.
After such a fiasco, Ukupnik himself began paying people 50 rubles so that at least someone would go to his concerts, stealing money from beggars in underground passages and collecting change in fountains. This idea turned out to be tempting only for homeless people, but this was enough for the singer to create an army of zombies. Such zombified homeless people walked the streets and approached Muscovites with an alleged business proposal that required a passport, and at the first opportunity they snatched the document and disappeared in an unknown direction. At the end of the day, they all brought their catch to the “owner”, who no longer needed to go somewhere in search of food.
Lately, fewer and fewer people are going to Ukupnik’s concerts, and even those from the provinces, while the influence of hypnosis weakens over time, as a result of which many have already managed to get out from under it. Arkady had to raise the price of his concerts and give concerts himself in provincial cities, and the previous methods of earning money became less and less effective. Today, June 2, 2020, those present at the Ukupnik concert receive 2,000 rubles. He repeatedly tried to get a job in Moscow, but was refused for obvious reasons. Then the singer arrived in Paris, where he, completely unaware of the French language, got a job as an actor under the pseudonym Pierre Richard
, opening his mouth while filming to the soundtrack. Now Arkady Ukupnik periodically flies from Moscow to Paris and back, combining the professions of a singer and actor.
Arkady Ukupnik currently
Currently, Arkady Ukupnik continues to work in the world of Russian show business.
He writes music for films (“Love-Carrot-3”), composes compositions for other artists, and also from time to time records certain songs on his own. Ukupnik-singer's last album was released in 2006. However, subsequently the artist often presented his new compositions to the public. Today Arkady Ukupnik lives in Moscow. He has his own recording studio in the Russian capital.
[edit] Family relationships
The following information is known about his personal life and family connections:
In the late 1970s, his first marriage was with Liliya Lelchuk. Son Grigory Lelchuk (born 1980) lives in Germany with his mother. Second wife Marina Nikitina, we met by chance, he gave her a ride home by car, it turned out that they were neighbors and lived in the same apartment building. Daughter Yunna Nikitina (born 1987) graduated from the Humanitarian Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting named after. M. A. Litovchina, Faculty of Directing. Works for Radio Liberty. Third wife Natalya Ukupnik (Turchinskaya, maiden name Butova) is the head of a travel company. Daughter Sofia Ukupnik.
