Igor Krutoy is one of the most popular contemporary composers. In addition, he became famous as a hitmaker, producer and organizer of the New Wave.
Krutoy managed to replenish the repertoire of Russian and Ukrainian stars with an impressive number of XNUMX% hits. He feels the audience, therefore he is capable of creating compositions that in any case will arouse interest among music lovers. Igor keeps up with the times, but throughout his creative biography he manages to maintain his own individuality in terms of creating songs.
Childhood and youth
The maestro is from Ukraine. He was born in the small provincial town of Gaivoron in July 1954. It's no secret that he came from a Jewish family. Neither the father nor the mother of the future composer became famous as creative personalities.
Mom devoted herself entirely to raising children, and the head of the family worked at a local enterprise as an ordinary dispatcher. Despite this, mom and dad managed to raise their children in the right way.
An attentive mother noticed that Igor had a good ear, so she took him to a music school. At matinees and school events, he played the button accordion. Later, the boy mastered playing the piano, and when he moved to the 6th grade, he assembled his own ensemble. Not a single school event could do without VIA.
Starting from school, Igor decided that he wanted to connect his life with the stage. After receiving a matriculation certificate, he entered the music school, which was located in Kirovograd. After receiving his diploma, he taught accordion lessons at his native music school.
In the mid-70s, he managed to enter the Musical and Pedagogical Institute, the city of Nikolaev. He chose the conducting department for himself. Finally, his dreams began to come true. He has always been goal oriented. Igor was not afraid of difficulties and set himself the most difficult tasks.
At the end of the 70s, he became part of the Panorama orchestra in the capital. In the early 80s, he joined the Blue Guitars vocal and instrumental ensemble. After that, he moved to the team of Valentina Tolkunova, already popular at that time. It took him a year to become the head of the VIA.
He was just over 20 when another dream came true. Krutoy became a student at the conservatory, which was located on the territory of the provincial Saratov. For himself, he chose the faculty of composition. He wanted to compose music from the moment he received his diploma from the school. Slowly but surely he approached his goal.
Igor Krutoy and his creative path
The composer's biography of the maestro dates back to 1987. It was then that Krutoy presented the work "Madonna". Despite the fact that he was a novice in the composer's field, the work was highly appreciated by music lovers. He wrote a piece of music for his friend Alexander Serov. He met the singer when he lived in Ukraine.
On the wave of popularity, he creates the compositions "Wedding Music", "How to Be" and "You Love Me". The presented tracks are also included in Serov's repertoire. Today they are included in the list of immortal hits. Cool was in the spotlight. Since this period of time, he has collaborated with such stars as Laima Vaikule, Pugacheva, Buynov.
Then he also realizes himself as a producer. At the end of the 80s, he became at the helm of ARS, and then took up the post of artistic director. It will take 10 years, and he will lead the post of president of the company. Today, ARS cooperates with the top Russian pop artists.
To understand the level of Krutoy's company, it is enough to find out that it was the ARS managers in the Russian capital who organized concerts for such stars as Jose Carreras and Michael Jackson. And ARS is also the organizer of the most rated musical projects that are broadcast on central Russian television.
Since the mid-90s, ARS has been organizing evenings in honor of its ideological inspirer. Both well-known and emerging performers perform at this event.
Debut album presentation
It is important to note that he also writes instrumental music. At the beginning of the so-called "zero" he presented to the public his debut LP. The collection was called "Music without words." The record was headed by the best works of the maestro. The work "When I Close My Eyes" was especially warmly appreciated by fans and music critics. Note that he writes music for films and television series.
The composition "Unfinished Romance", which the maestro performed in a duet with the popular singer Allegrova, increased his popularity. This collaboration gave rise to a lot of rumors that Irina took Krutoy away from his legal wife. True, the composer never confirmed the rumors to the media. In one of the interviews, he said that they have good friendly and working relations with Allegrova.
The list of popular works of Krutoy included the song "My friend". Fans highly appreciated the work also because another popular composer Igor Nikolaev worked on its creation.
The maestro also managed to work with Lara Fabian. This is a separate chapter in the creative biography of the maestro. Longplay Mademoiselle Jivago has become popular not only in the Russian Federation, but also in many European countries.
Note that this is not the first work of the maestro with international artists. He managed to record an album with the "golden" baritone of the planet - Dmitry Hvorostovsky. The record was called "Deja Vu".
In 2014, Krutoy celebrated his anniversary. In honor of this event, a concert "There are 60 times in life" was organized. At a magnificent event, Igor performed not only as a solo artist. The concert was attended by his old friends, who pleased him with the performance of his favorite works. “It happens 60 times in a lifetime” was broadcast by the Russia-1 TV channel.
In 2016, the presentation of the video clip "Belated Love" (with the participation of Angelica Varum) took place. The clip was played on Russian music TV channels. In 2019, the maestro and popular youth performer Yegor Creed presented to the "fans" the track "Cool". In addition, a cool video clip was also filmed for the composition.
Igor Krutoy: Details of his personal life
For a long time he was in search of his happiness. His first serious passion was a girl named Tatyana Rybnitskaya. The guys met at the music school. They even wanted to legitimize the relationship, but fate decreed otherwise. Today Tatyana lives in Canada.
Soon he married a girl named Elena. She bore him a child. In one of his interviews, Krutoy admitted that already on the third date he made a marriage proposal to his first wife.
Elena agreed to marry him because she loved him very much. However, this marriage was not durable. The fact is that the maestro was in search of "his place" for a long time. He earned little and against the background of lack of money - they divorced.
After some time, Krutoy managed to establish communication with his son Nikolai. His heir lives in America. He is a big businessman. He has a wife and children.
The current wife of the maestro is Olga. It is known that Igor's wife lives in another country. She does business there. The composer does not intend to leave Moscow. The couple is quite satisfied with life in two countries.
It is known that Olga is also not the first trip to the registry office. Journalists managed to find out that until the moment of marriage, she raised her daughter Victoria. The girl decided to take her stepfather's surname. Today she devotes a lot of time to her family, but promises to return to the recording studio in the near future.
It is also known that the couple has a common daughter, who spent most of her life in the United States of America. She practically does not get into the camera lens, and does not like to communicate with journalists. Such closeness gave rise to rumors that Krutoy's daughter has mental disorders. The composer never commented on this rumor.
Health problems
Fans who closely watched Krutoy's life became seriously worried when he began to lose weight a lot. Soon the producer disappeared from the scene. It turned out that he went to the United States of America for treatment, where he underwent a series of operations. Igor did not make the diagnosis public, but there were rumors that he had had cancer. Only in 2019 did he reveal that he had undergone pancreatic surgery.
Interesting facts about maestro Igor Krutoy
- As a child, he suffered a terrible disease that made him completely deaf in his left ear.
- He never takes a percentage for the performance of his tracks by artists.
- The artist owns real estate in America and Russia.
- It does not recognize contracts.
- Since recently, he has been following the diet and daily routine.
Igor Krutoy at the present time
In 2020, he had to cancel the New Wave contest. It's all because of the coronavirus pandemic. He decided to play it safe, because after Igor suffered a serious illness, he realized that nothing could be more valuable than health. He hopes that in 2021 the competition will still be held.
In 2020, he took part in the filming of the Hello, Andrey! program. It was a special issue in honor of the 66th anniversary of the Russian maestro. At the program, the guests sang a number of songs that Krutoy composed for them and wished him good health.
Igor Krutoy in 2021
In early April 2021, the premiere of a new LP by Igor Krutoy took place. The composer commented that he does not claim to be a vocalist. The album "All about love ..." is filled with lyrical works in sensual performance. The record was topped by 32 songs.
