Valery Meladze is a Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian singer, composer, songwriter and TV presenter of Georgian origin.
Valery is one of the most popular Russian pop singers.
Meladze for a long creative career managed to collect a fairly large number of prestigious music awards and awards.
Meladze is the owner of a rare timbre and range. A distinctive feature of the singer is that he performs musical compositions incredibly piercingly and sensually.
Valery sincerely talks about love, feelings and relationships.
Childhood and youth of Valery Meladze
Valery Meladze is the real name of the artist. He was born in the small village of Batumi, in 1965. The Black Sea, salty wind and warm sun - Meladze could only dream of such a nature.
Little Valera was a very naughty and energetic child.
He never sat still, he was always in the center of incredible events and adventures.
One day, little Valera entered the territory of the Batumi oil refinery. On the territory of the plant, the boy found a tractor.
Little Meladze at that time was just fond of electronics.
He dreamed that he would assemble an ohmmeter, so he removed several parts from the equipment. As a result, Valery was registered with the police.
Interestingly, Valery's parents had nothing to do with creativity.
Mom and dad were famous engineers.
However, high-quality Georgian music always sounded in Meladze's house.
Valery Meladze did not really like going to school. This cannot be said about attending a music school in which the boy mastered playing the piano.
By the way, together with Valery, Konstantin Meladze also attended a music school, who mastered several musical instruments at once - guitar, violin and piano.
In addition to the fact that Valery began to enthusiastically study playing the piano, he also went in for sports.
In particular, it is known that Meladze loved swimming.
After graduating from school, Valery tries to get a job at a factory. However, he gets rejected.
He further follows in the footsteps of his older brother Konstantin. Meladze leaves for Ukraine, where he enters the Nikolaev Shipbuilding University.
Nikolaev warmly welcomed Valery Meladze. It is in this city that the young man will take the first steps towards a career as a singer. In addition, he will find his love in the city, which will soon become his wife.
Creative career of Valery Meladze
Valery, however, like Konstantin Meladze, began to build a creative career in the amateur art of a higher educational institution.
The brothers got into the composition of the musical group "April".
After a couple of months, it was already impossible to imagine "April" without the participation of the Meladze brothers.
In the late 80s, Konstantin and Valery became members of the Dialog group. The soloist of the musical group Kim Breitburg noted that Valery's voice is similar to the voice of John Anderson from the Yes group.
Under the leadership of the Dialog group, Valery recorded several albums.
At the music festival "Roksolona" Valery Meladze gave his first solo concert.
Meladze's first top composition was the song "Do not disturb my soul, violin."
After the premiere of this musical composition in the cult program "Morning Mail", the singer literally woke up popular.
In Meladze, he presents his debut album "Sera". The debut album became the artist's best-selling album. In the future, the compositions "Samba of the White Moth" and "Beautiful" only consolidated the success of the performer.
By the end of the 90s, Valery Meladze secured the status of the most popular pop artist.
An interesting fact is the information that for several days in a row he gathered full halls of grateful listeners.
In the early 2000s, Valery Meladze was at the origins of the creation of the musical group Via Gra.
As soon as the musical group, headed by attractive girls, appeared on TV screens, it gained unheard of popularity.
Valery, together with Via Gra, presents the musical compositions "Ocean and Three Rivers", "There is no more attraction."
In 2002, Meladze presented the album "Real". In support of the new album, Valery organizes a concert, which he held in the hall of the Kremlin Palace.
In addition, Valery was a guest of the New Year's television projects directed by Janik Fayziev "Old songs about the main thing."
Since 2005, the Russian singer has been a member of the New Wave music competition, and in 2007, together with his brother, he became the music producer of the Star Factory project.
In 2008, the presentation of the next album, which was called "Contrary", took place.
The discography of the Russian singer has 8 full-length albums. Valery Meladze never departed from his usual manner of performance, so the listener is unlikely to hear the difference between the tracks that were included in the first and last disc.
Meladze does not ignore visiting programs and talk shows. In addition, he is a frequent guest of various New Year's concerts and films.
The singer had quite interesting roles in the New Year's musicals "New Year's Fair" and "Cinderella".
2003 was a very fruitful year for the Russian singer. He re-released as many as 4 records: "Sera", "The Last Romantic", "Samba of the White Moth", "Everything Was So". In the winter of 2003, Meladze presents a new work.
We are talking about the album "Nega".
In 2008, Konstantin Meladze held a creative evening for his Ukrainian fans.
Musical compositions were performed by Alla Pugacheva, Sofia Rotaru, Ani Lorak, Kristina Orbakaite, as well as members of the Star Factory.
In 2010, the fans especially remembered the clip of Valery Meladze for the song “Turn around”.
In the fall of 2011, the performer performed at the Moscow concert hall Crocus City Hall. At the presented site, Meladze presented a new solo program "Heaven".
Since 2012, Meladze has become the host of the Battle of the Choirs program.
Valery Meladze has been nominated many times for various music awards.
We are talking about such awards as the Golden Gramophone, Song of the Year, Ovation and Muz-TV.
2006 was no less fruitful for the singer, he is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, and in 2008 he became a People's Artist of the Chechen Republic.
Personal life of Valery Meladze
As noted above, Valery Meladze met his love in Nikolaev. The girl, and later his wife, was called Irina.
The woman gave birth to the singer of three daughters.
Valery Meladze says that a 20-year marriage gave its first cracks in 2000.
Finally, the couple broke up only in 2009. The reason for the divorce is banal.
Valery Meladze fell in love with another woman.
This time, Albina Dzhanabaeva, the former soloist of Via Gra, became the chosen one of Valery Meladze. Young people managed to secretly sign and play a chic wedding.
Those who follow the family life of Valery Meladze and Albina say that their couple cannot be called ideal.
Albina has a very explosive nature, and quite often she is very strict with her man. But, one way or another, two boys were born in this family, who were named Konstantin and Luke.
Despite the fact that Albina and Valery are public people, they do not like to attend events together, and even more so they do not like stubborn photographers and journalists. The couple is very private and does not consider it necessary to share personal information with their fans.
An unpleasant incident occurred when Albina and Valery were returning from a party, and the Komsomolskaya Pravda photographer tried to photograph them.
Valery reacted extremely harshly to the photographer's attempts, he chased the girl, she fell, he grabbed the camera and tried to break it.
Then there was the court. The singer even opened a criminal case. However, everything was resolved peacefully. The conflict was resolved by the justice of the peace.
Valery Meladze now
In the winter of 2017, Valery Meladze became a mentor of the most important children's music competition "Voice. Children".
The following year, the Russian singer again took part in the TV show “Voice. Children, ”this time Basta and Pelageya were in the chairs of mentors with him.
In 2017, Meladze married his eldest daughter. The wedding of the daughter of Valery Meladze has been on everyone's lips for a long time.
Interestingly, the wedding ceremony was held immediately in 4 languages - Russian, English, Arabic and French.
In 2018, the program "Voices" - "60+" was launched on one of the Russian TV channels. This time, the participants of the project were singers whose age exceeded the mark of 60 years.
The judges of the project were: Valery Meladze, Leonid Agutin, Pelageya and Lev Leshchenko.
In the summer of 2018, information began to "roam" on the Internet that Meladze wanted to obtain Georgian citizenship.
However, Valery noted that this does not mean at all that he does not want to be a citizen of the Russian Federation.
The singer recalled that he was born and raised in Georgia, but during his childhood there were no borders between Georgia and Russia.
In 2019, Valery Meladze is actively touring. His concerts are scheduled six months in advance.
The Russian singer is a private and welcome guest of the CIS countries.
In addition, in 2019, the singer presented the clips “What do you want from me” and “How old”, which he recorded with rapper Mot.
