Shvili singer. The most famous and beautiful Georgians in history
Special films have always been made in Georgia - deep, touching and very sensual. the site remembered the amazing Georgian actresses who are especially loved in Russia
Special films have always been made in Georgia - deep, touching and very sensual. the site remembered the amazing Georgian actresses who are especially loved in Russia.
Sofiko Chiaureli
Actress Chiaureli - during her life she played more than a hundred roles in theater and cinema. Sofiko was born into the family of director Mikhail Chiaureli, whose films Stalin was very fond of. Her mother was the great Georgian theater actress Veriko Andzhaparidze. While studying at VGIK, Sofiko married film director Georgy Shengelaya. The actress's acting talent was so multifaceted that friends and colleagues called her Rainbow. Together with her second husband Kote Makharadze, a famous Georgian actor and sports commentator, Chiaureli organized a theater in Tbilisi, which was named after her mother “Veriko”. In the early 2000s, she became the artistic director of this theater. In 2007, the actress received a terrible fatal diagnosis. She struggled with serious illness during a year. Chiaureli passed away in 2008. Sofiko has said more than once that Russia and Georgia are united by something more than friendship and neighborhood, namely a great feeling called love.
Source: globallookpress.com The star of Leonid Kvinikhidze's musical comedy “Sky Swallows” was born in Tbilisi in 1960. Young actress She made her debut in Georgy Danelia’s film “Don’t Cry” in 1968. Ninidze got married for the first time at the age of 17. Her chosen one was the son of the famous Georgian actress Sofiko Chiaureli and director Shengelaya - Niko. Then there were two more marriages. One day, Iya fell in love with a married man named Lado. He was a fan of her talent. Lado struggled with a serious illness and passed away surrounded by his family. Iya, for obvious reasons, could not be there. The news about the death of her lover crippled the actress. She even thought about throwing herself out of the window. Her children kept her from doing this. For their sake, Ninidze moved to Moscow, where she lives to this day.
Leila Abashidze
Still from the film Abashidze is a versatile actress. She shone on the screen in both comedic and dramatic roles. The actress played her first film role when she was still a schoolgirl. Her parents became victims of Stalin's repressions. After graduating from the Rustaveli Tbilisi Theater Institute, Leila got a job at the Georgia Film studio. Abashidze’s work in Siko Dolidze’s film “Dragonfly” brought him all-Union fame. The film was released in 1954. The role of the carefree girl Marine, who meets great love, became business card actresses. Now Leila Mikhailovna is 86 years old. Abashidze is also known as a screenwriter and director.
Still from the film The actress Kavjaradze was born in the capital of Georgia in 1959. TO at this moment Lika starred in almost 30 films. The most famous film with her participation is the work of director Tengiz Abuladze “The Tree of Desire”. The film was filmed in 1977. The director himself calls his film a work about people who are illuminated by a dream. The director managed to bring very specific details of the life of a pre-revolutionary Georgian village into the metaphorical style of this parable film. Kavjaradze surprisingly accurately and talentedly performed the role of the main character Marita. Many fans of Lika Kavjaradze’s work call her the most beautiful Georgian film actress. The audience fell in love with Lika for her incredible charm and amazing smile. It is known that the actress is now working on Georgian television.
Many famous Georgian singers have been and remain popular in our country. They perform successfully on the Russian stage. Among them are opera singers and pop singers, musical artists and representatives of pop culture.
Opera
Georgian opera performers have voices that are unique in their strength and beauty of timbre. Some of them managed, thanks to their talent, to become famous throughout the world. They sang and sing on the best stages in Europe. They conquered La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden and other world venues.
Georgian opera singers (list):
- Zurab Sotkilava.
- Paata Burchuladze.
- Makvala Kasrashvili.
- Tamar Iano.
- Gvazava Eteri.
- Natela Nikoli.
- Lado Ataneli.
- Petre Amiranishvili.
- Nino Surguladze.
- Eteri Chkonia.
- Iver Tamar.
- Tsisana Tatishvili.
- Nino Machaidze.
- Medea Amiranishvili.
And others.
Contemporary performers
Artists from Georgia successfully perform not only opera arias, but also jazz, rock, and pop. Many of them became famous thanks to the television projects “The Voice”, “Star Factory”, “Minute of Fame”.
Georgian contemporary singers (list):
- Gela Guralia.
- Sofia Nijaradze.
- Diana Gurtskaya.
- Katie Topuria.
- Dato.
- Valeriy Meladze.
- Katie Melua.
- Anri Jokhadze.
- Irakli Pirtskhalava.
- Tamta.
- David Khujadze.
- Datuna Mgeladze.
- Soso Pavliashvili.
- Oto Nemsadze.
- Nina Sublatti.
- Nodiko Tatishvili.
- Sopho Khalvashi.
- Mariko Ebralidze.
- Sophie Willey.
And others.
Zurab Sotkilava
The world famous opera singer was born in Sukhumi in 1937. Since childhood, the artist played football and at the age of 16 he joined the Georgian “Dynamo”. At the age of 22, due to severe injuries, he was forced to end his sports career. In 1960, Zurab Lavrentievich graduated from the Polytechnic Institute. Five years later - the Tbilisi Conservatory, and in 1972 - graduate school. He completed an internship at the La Scala Theater for two years.
He began his career as a singer at the Z. Paliashvili Opera and Ballet Theater in Georgia. In 1974 he moved to Moscow and was accepted into the Bolshoi Theater troupe.
Z. Sotkilava was awarded the title in 1979
Zurab Lavrentievich sang the roles of the main characters in the following operas:
- "Aida".
- "Nabucco".
- "Troubadour".
- "Rural honor".
- "Masquerade Ball"
- "Yearning".
- "Boris Godunov".
- "Iolanta."
And others.
Zurab Lavrentievich has been active since 1976 teaching activities. Since 1987 he has been a professor. Many young Georgian opera singers, as well as vocalists from other countries, study with him.
Eteri Beriashvili
Many Georgian singers shine brightly on Russian television. They take part in various competitive projects. One of the artists who was remembered by the Russian public thanks to her participation in the show “The Voice” is Eteri Beriashvili. The artist was born in a small Georgian mountain town. Started singing in early childhood. At first, at the insistence of her parents, Eteri graduated Medical Academy named after Sechenov. Immediately after this, she entered the Moscow School of Pop and Jazz Art in the vocal department. While still a student, she became a diploma winner of the “Stairway to Heaven” competition, where she was noticed and invited to join the group Cool & Jazzy. Then the artist created her own group - A" Cappella ExpreSSS.
Eteri is one of the leading jazz performers.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli
Some Georgian pop singers who became popular with our listeners back in Soviet era, remain beloved today. Such artists include Tamara Gverdtsiteli. The singer was born in Tbilisi in 1962. Tamara comes from an ancient noble family. T. Gverdtsiteli is not only a singer, but also an actress, composer and pianist. She began to study music thanks to her mother, an Odessa Jew. In the 70s Tamara became the soloist of the children's vocal ensemble "Mziuri". T. Gverdtsiteli graduated from the conservatory in two areas - composition and piano. Then she graduated from a music college with a degree in vocals. In 1991, she entered into a contract with M. Legrand and then her first concert took place in Paris.
Today Tamara performs on stage and sings in opera, acts in films, plays in musicals, tours with solo concerts and takes part in dramatic productions. The artist performs songs in different languages.
In 2004, she was awarded the title "People's Artist of Russia".
Sofia Nizharadze
Georgian singers often perform parts in our Russian musical productions. One of the most famous artists this genre - She was born in Tbilisi in 1986. Started singing with three years. At the age of 7 she voiced a film. She graduated from a music school with a degree in piano. Sofia is a graduate of GITIS, faculty of musical theater artists. She gained fame by singing the part of the main character in the Russian version of the French musical "Romeo and Juliet".
In 2005, the singer took part in the New Wave competition. In 2010 she presented her home country at Eurovision.
In addition to the musical "Romeo and Juliet", she performed roles in the following musical productions:
- "Keto and Kote".
- "Wedding of the Jays."
- "Melodies of the Verian Quarter".
- Hello, Dolly.
About famous Georgians in Russia and the most interesting facts their biographies, says Sputnik Georgia.
The famous 82-year-old Russian sculptor, painter and teacher. His sculptures adorn many countries and cities around the world. He is the president Russian Academy arts, as well as a laureate of various awards and titles. Famous works are the monument to Peter the Great, John Paul II, the monuments “Friendship Forever” and “Good Conquers Evil.”
Master class by the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Z. K. Tsereteli. The author of more than five thousand works of painting, graphics, sculpture and monumental and decorative art grew up in Tbilisi, in a family where the spirit of artistic art was in the air. He studied in France, where he communicated with Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall. Since the late 1960s and still active in the field of monumental art.
Monument to St. George by Zurab Tsereteli on Freedom Square in the center of the capital of Georgia. Tsereteli is the author of the largest statue of Jesus Christ in the world (80 meters), which may be placed in St. Petersburg. The master plans to build a museum named after him in China and create a monument to singer Zhanna Friske. Despite Tsereteli’s outstanding achievements, the sculptor is criticized for his gigantomania and accused of “monopolizing” monumental projects in Moscow.
Interesting fact - Tsereteli appears as a tireless, cheerful artist-sculptor Zviad Tsurindeli in the novel by writer Sergei Sokolkin “Russian Chock”.
Nikolai Tsiskaridze is undoubtedly one of the most famous and talented ballet dancers of our time. A native of Tbilisi, he was a prodigy from childhood, and his long legs and crazy love for ballet led him to the Moscow Bolshoi Theater, where he dreamed of serving from an early age.
Nikolai Tsiskaridze in the capital of Georgia Today Tsiskaridze is a twice laureate of the State Prize of Russia, three times a laureate of the Golden Mask theater award, a member of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for Culture and Art, as well as the rector of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg.
Ballet dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze in a scene from the ballet "The Queen of Spades" staged by Roland PetitNikolai is a fan of the works of Leonid Parfenov, Vitaly Wulf and Edward Radzinsky. His favorite fairy tale is Andersen's The Little Mermaid. The forty-two-year-old artist is famous complex character and boundless willpower, and also avoids talking about his personal life and says that he is in no hurry to get married.
Cult film director, actor, screenwriter, publicist, author of such popularly beloved films that entire generations have grown up with: “I’m Walking Through Moscow”, “Don’t Cry!”, “Afonya”, “Mimino”, “Autumn Marathon”, “Passport” , "Kin-Dza-Dza!" and many more etc.
Georgiy Danelia Georgiy spent his childhood in Moscow, where the family moved from Tbilisi in 1931. Here he graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute in 1954, and two years later he entered the Higher Directing Courses at the Mosfilm film studio. Danelia is the cousin of the Georgian actress Sofiko Chiaureli, whom he filmed only once - in the film “Don’t Cry.” Almost half of Danelia’s films were written by Georgian composer Gia Kancheli, who also composed a composition for string orchestra “Little Daneliada” as a gift to the director.
Otar Kushanashvili
The controversial Russian music journalist and TV presenter comes from Kutaisi (Imereti region). His parents had nine children. Kushanashvili decided to become a journalist back in hometown, starting to publish in the Kutaisskaya Pravda newspaper. Later he entered the Faculty of Journalism of Tbilisi State University state university, from where, according to him, he was expelled.
Journalist Otar Kushanashvili
And soon Otar left for Moscow, where he first worked as a night watchman at a school and washed floors at a train station. Then he sent out his resume to 35 editors, but received only one offer and at the beginning of 1993 he became a correspondent for the newspaper “New Look”, created by Evgeny Dodolev, and then, on the latter’s recommendation, he switched to television under the tutelage of Ivan Demidov.
Soon Otar Kushanashvili interviews with figures from Russian show business and becomes a prominent figure in the Moscow elite. He was noticed in numerous scandals: for example, after the 2002 story on Channel One, when during the broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest Kushanashvili swore obscenely at live in Andrei Malakhov's program, was deprived of the opportunity to appear on television for a long time.
In the past, she was a soloist of the legendary VIA "Mziuri", in the present she is one of the most talented Georgian singers on the Russian stage. Tamara Mikhailovna's father is from the ancient Georgian noble family of Gverdtsiteli, her mother is Jewish, the granddaughter of an Odessa rabbi. Gverdtsiteli performed with Michel Legrand, who, introducing the singer to the audience of three thousand, said: “Paris! Remember this name." And Tamara conquered Paris.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli at a charity concert Performs songs in more than ten languages: Georgian, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Armenian, German, etc. Tamara Mikhailovna’s talent is limitless - the artist sings in operas and musicals, acts in films, and also participates in various music and entertainment projects on television.
12. Rezo Gigineishvili is a popular Russian film director, producer and screenwriter of Georgian origin. Born in 1982 in Tbilisi in the family of musician Irina Tsikoridze and doctor David Gigineishvili, in Soviet time who ran one of the health resorts in Borjomi. In 1991 he moved to Moscow, where he soon began working on television.
He graduated from the directing department of VGIK (course of Marlen Khutsiev), was the second director in Fyodor Bondarchuk’s film “9th Company”. Gigineishvili’s most sensational films are “Heat”, 2Love with an Accent”, “Without Men” and the television series “The Last of the Magikyans”. Known for his high-profile marriages with the singer
Soso is famous for his greater love of love: the singer’s first wife was Nino Uchaneishvili, who bore him a son, Levan. After his first marriage, Soso lived for a long time with the famous singer Irina Ponarovskaya, but the couple never legalized the relationship. Since 1997, the Georgian singer has been married to former backing vocalist of the Mironi group Irina Patlakh, with whom Pavliashvili has two daughters, Lisa and Sandra.
Famous Russian dancer and choreographer, native Muscovite. Several years ago, Papunaishvili opened his own “Evgeni Papunaishvili School of Dance.” Now he is one of the most expensive choreographers and dance teachers in Russia.
Evgeniy Papunaishvili
The Georgian heartthrob was credited with many affairs, with almost every one of his star partners. But the choreographer himself confirms only one romance - with Ksenia Sobchak. But the romance ended and today the dancer’s personal life is again under the radar of cameras. The man is still single, rich and famous.
The US Treasury Department accused Leps of involvement in the “post-Soviet mafia” and blacklisted him. According to US official services, in the criminal environment Leps had the nickname “Grisha”, officially lived in Thailand and transported mafia money. The musician treated this with irony and even called the new record “Gangster No. 1.” He was married twice and has four children.
Keti Topuria
One of the most charming, fashionable and talented singers of Georgian origin in Russia. Rapidly rushing into Russian stage from Tbilisi as the new soloist of "A" Studio, Keti Topuria immediately attracted attention not only incredibly in a beautiful voice, but also with an exotic appearance. Today, thirty-year-old Katie is not only a successful singer, but also a promising designer of clothes for adults and children, and also a happy mother of her daughter Olivia, who was born to Katie in her marriage to businessman Lev Geykhman.
Concert of the A-Studio group in the Georgian capital, in the Tbilisi Concert Hall.
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