Yaroslav Evdokimov: biography
Yaroslav was born in 1946. He was born in prison because his parents were victims of repression by Beria and Stalin. The artist spent his childhood in western Ukraine in the Rivne region. His grandparents raised him in the village. It is worth noting that the grandfather of the future singer was a significant figure in the village and worked as a highly qualified blacksmith.
The biography of Yaroslav Evdokimov states that from childhood he tasted all the hardships of peasant labor. He tended cattle on a collective farm and learned blacksmithing. The grandfather decided to instill in his grandson from an early age the concept of how difficult it is to get a piece of bread. Along with this, already in childhood the boy is closely connected with the local color, songs, rituals and culture of the Ukrainian people.
Upon reaching adulthood, the guy went to serve in the Soviet Army. There he and several fellow countrymen ended up in the Northern Fleet (the village of Vidyaevo). According to unspoken laws, the guy was forbidden to serve on warships or submarines (as a child of repressed parents). Therefore, the future artist served in the construction brigade for three years. It is worth noting that in his company he was the lead singer. After demobilization, Yaroslav returns to his native village. There he does not find his calling, he leaves to work in Dnepropetrovsk at a tire plant.
Military service and first marriage
Studying at a music school was interrupted by military service. The young man was sent to the navy. Because at that time there was an order: not to allow children of repressed parents to visit military facilities, Yaroslav Evdokimov served in a construction brigade for three years. And, of course, his singing abilities did not go unnoticed there. He was the lead singer and founder of various song festivals among soldiers.
Yaroslav Evdokimov at the concert
After returning from the army, the young man did not continue his studies at the music school for unknown reasons. Maybe he just missed his homeland. His biography continued in his native village. There, big changes took place in his personal life. A young, prominent guy began dating a girl, the daughter of the collective farm chairman. After some time, they formalized the marriage.
After some time, the newly-made husband suddenly realized that his wife was not at all who he had imagined her to be. He could not survive this mental trauma. And so the young family broke up a month later. Yaroslav simply fled to Dnepropetrovsk. His soul demanded the realization of creative talents. He was unprepared for the difficulties of family life.
But Yaroslav did not know that his ex-wife was expecting a son from him. She herself didn’t know then. Perhaps if this nuance had become known, the divorce would not have happened. Later Yaroslav learned about the birth of his son. He began to visit him and pay alimony.
Love for singing
The biography of Yaroslav Evdokimov is quite rich, considering the times of his youth, when everything was tightly controlled. The future Soviet pop star's love for singing did not go away. He starts performing in restaurants. After moving to Belarus (1975), the artist managed to get a job at the Minsk Philharmonic. After this, the singer begins to actively give concerts solo and together with other groups.
At the same time, Evdokimov takes vocal lessons from the famous Vladimir Buchel. The finest hour in the biography of Yaroslav Evdokimov came in 1980 after the performance of the composition “Field of Memory,” dedicated to the celebration of Victory Day. After this concert, he began to be invited to television, radio and various concerts.
Music
The desire to sing pushed Evdokimov onto the stage. Visitors to a restaurant in Dnepropetrovsk were the first to hear the future People's and Honored Artist.
Yaroslav Evdokimov
After getting married and moving to his wife’s homeland, Belarus, Yaroslav Evdokimov auditioned for the Minsk Philharmonic in the mid-1970s and became a vocalist, and soon a soloist. Touring life was in full swing, but Evdokimov understood that without specialized education he would not advance far.
Became a student at the Music College named after. M. Glinka, combining theory with practice: he studied and performed as a soloist in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Belarusian Military District. While working at the Minsk Philharmonic, the artist took lessons for 3 years from Vladimir Buchel, a singing professor and famous baritone.
Song by Yaroslav Evdokimov “Under the wide window”
For the first time on screen, viewers saw the stately vocalist in the III All-Union television competition “With a Song through Life,” which took place in the Ostankino concert hall and was broadcast on television. Yaroslav Evdokimov appeared in military uniform, as he represented the Belarusian Military District at the competition.
Victory eluded the performer - the song turned out to be unsuitable for a baritone. But they remembered Evdokimov’s name.
Yaroslav Evdokimov on stage
In 1980, the artist participated in a government concert, where he impressed the leader of the Central Committee of the Belarusian Communist Party, Pyotr Masherov. A former partisan, Pyotr Mironovich was so moved when he heard the heartfelt song “Field of Memory” that Evdokimov soon became an Honored Artist of the BSSR.
The cycle of songs “Memory” to the music of the Belarusian composer Leonid Zakhlevny became an important milestone in the artist’s creative biography. The cycle was broadcast on central television on Victory Day 1980.
Song by Yaroslav Evdokimov “May Waltz”
The editor of the “Hello, we are looking for talents” program Tatyana Korshilova invited the “Belarusian nightingale” to her program. Colleagues followed Korshilova’s example, and viewers saw the singer on the air of the popular programs “With a Song Through Life,” “Wider Circle” and “Sing, Friends!” In the 1980s, viewers saw Evdokimov at the festival concerts “Songs of the Year”, where he performed his favorite hits “My Enchanted”, “May Waltz”, “Beyond the Danube”.
The vocalist recorded his first album at the Melodiya studio, calling it “Everything Will Come True.” Went on tour abroad. At folk festivals in Reykjavik and Paris, enthusiastic critics called his voice “superbaritone.” Evdokimov also performed at the Slavic Bazaar.
Singer Yaroslav Evdokimov
The album “Don’t Tear Your Shirt” was released in 1994. Compositions written in collaboration with Eduard Zaritsky, Dmitry Smolsky, Igor Luchenok became hits.
A new stage in the artist’s life began in the mid-1990s. Yaroslav Evdokimov moved to the Russian capital and became the soloist of Mosestrada. Joint creativity with Anatoly Poperechny and Alexander Morozov yielded wonderful results: the singer’s fans received the hits “Fantaser” and “Kalina Kush”.
Song by Yaroslav Evdokimov “Dreamer”
The vocalist collaborated with Vyacheslav Dobrynin, Igor Mateta, Vyacheslav Malezhik. The lyrics for it were written by Simon Osiashvili and Larisa Rubalskaya.
In 2002, the album “I Kiss Your Palm” was released, which included the hits “Well” and “May Waltz”, and in 2008, Evdokimov and the duet “Sweet Yagoda” recorded a joint album, which included the Cossack song “Under the Wide Window” .
In 2012, the studio album “Return to Autumn” was released.
Yaroslav Evdokimov: biography, personal life
In Dnepropetrovsk, the artist begins his first performances in an ordinary restaurant. There he meets his first wife, an intern from Belarus. The newlyweds did not have their own living space, so they had to live in rented apartments. The wife insisted on moving to her native land. The singer was not in the mood for a change of place, but he had to give in to his wife’s persuasion.
At first, Belarus did not touch Yaroslav’s soul, but soon he fell in love with its forests and endless fields. To support his family (at that time a daughter was already born in the family), the singer made every effort to find a creative job. As often happens, chance played a decisive role. Evdokimov was at the right time when forming the “Memory” concert program.
At first everything was a novelty, including adequate spectators who came to the concerts in the thousands. He still remembers his first fear of a real stage. Thanks to the soulful performance of songs and inner talent, the artist immediately received public recognition.
How old is Yaroslav Evdokimov?
Yaroslav Alexandrovich celebrates his birthday on November 22. In 2018 he turned 72 years old!
Photo: Instagram @vrn.kassir
You won’t believe it, but this charming man doesn’t look his age at all! Unfortunately, Evdokimov no longer gives concerts and does not often speak in public, but fans of his work try to attend rare events with the participation of the Soviet idol. Naturally, photographs of these meetings end up on the Internet.
Photo: Instagram @andreydolgov66
Look at this lean man! Age has not spoiled him at all - he is still as fit, smiling and well recognizable!
Photo: Instagram @gtevent.msk
Remembering Evdokimov’s songs, people of different ages cannot contain their emotions and trembling nostalgia!
“My wife and I went to the concert of Yaroslav Evdokimov in St. Petersburg on 04/04/2019. I’m 33, she’s 29) We had a lot of fun. Cool!!!, We should send him to Eurovision, Handsome man, and sings beautifully!, Sings well, soulfully... Modern singers are not even close!, Powerful voice. Nowadays this is rare, unfortunately” (The author’s spelling and punctuation have been preserved, Editor’s note) - Internet users leave comments under Evdokimov’s old songs.
Peak of popularity
The biography of Yaroslav Evdokimov, whose photo is presented below, is filled with positive coincidences. In resolving the housing issue, chance also played a decisive role. While working in the Philharmonic Society (on the eve of Victory Day celebrations), the artist participated in a government concert. The first secretary of the Communist Party, Masherov, was present at the event. He was delighted with the performance of the song “Field of Memory” by soloist Evdokimov. As a result, the singer's popularity increased throughout the entire Soviet Union. Soon the artist was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the BSSR.
Then the singer’s creative life began to grow. He became a participant in the most popular programs on Central Television (“Wider Circle”, “Morning Mail”, “Let’s Sing Friends”). It is worth noting that Yaroslav continues to improve, graduates from a music school in vocal class, and becomes a soloist on television and radio. Later he received another title, People's Artist of the Belarusian SSR.
Further fate
Evdokimov Yaroslav, whose biography and personal life was of interest to many fans and envious people, did not have time to notice the intrigues that suddenly arose. The artist’s successes began to irritate his colleagues. He tried to ignore it, but the squabbles took their toll.
Another interesting fact concerns politics. The singer welcomed the victory of Alexander Lukashenko in the elections. Soon the euphoria gave way to harsh criticism of the President of Belarus, after which the artist was no longer invited to popular music programs and events.
Living in two cities (Minsk and Moscow) also became a burden. In addition, living in Belarus under disgrace, the singer realized that he was losing his qualifications. Now the Soviet pop star lives in the capital of Russia. The biography of Yaroslav Evdokimov, whose family now lives in different places, has developed like that of many Soviet pop artists who have their own opinion on the political life of the country. His daughter Galina is already an adult and works in a beauty salon in Minsk. The relationship with my wife did not work out.
As the singer himself noted regarding his absence from television, he does not like to bend under anyone. The main judge for him is the listener and spectator, whether in the provinces or in the capital. The artist is planning to obtain Russian citizenship and dreams of creating and performing new compositions. In 2005, the singer was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
Personal life
After the army, Yaroslav decided to return to his native village.
I never finished music school, but I found my love. The beloved was the daughter of the chairman of the local collective farm. The marriage was registered, but soon the guy was disappointed. He stopped liking his wife a month after the wedding. The young man ran away from his family, he was eager for creativity and music. Dnepropetrovsk met him. In the biography of the singer’s family life, nothing had been completed yet, there was only a formal divorce. His wife was expecting a child and gave birth to a son, but Yaroslav never thought of giving up his baby, he paid money and came to see his son.
In Dnepropetrovsk, Evdokimov sang in a restaurant, but this was not enough. The young man began working at a tire factory. Love again, wedding, rented apartments. At the insistence of his wife, the young couple moved to Belarus, where Yaroslav’s second chosen one was from. This move was significant in the biography of singer Evdokimov. He gained fame and honor here.
The restaurant was full of people who wanted to give their songwriting to visitors. For the Philharmonic you needed a diploma of education. Yaroslav ended up in the “Memory” concert program. It was then that the future “Belarusian nightingale” began to think about training. The choice fell on a music school in the capital of Belarus. The schedule was tight: studies, concerts with a song and dance ensemble, concerts at the Belarusian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.
The singer is not dating his first wife; he met his first-born son on a television program; his son is already 43 years old. From his second marriage to his wife Irina, the singer had a daughter, Galina, now she is an adult and works in the capital of Belarus. The father sometimes sees his daughter when he is in Minsk. Today Yaroslav Evdokimov lives with his beloved woman in a civil marriage, which suits both.
