Igor Nikolaev

Igor Nikolaev is loved by millions of listeners. The performers who choose his songs become stars. The author of hits is appreciated by colleagues, calling the pride of Russia, like Larisa Dolina, a unique phenomenon in art - like Alla Pugacheva, and just a genius, according to Philip Kirkorov.

The composer's life is devoted to music, it reflects his thoughts, experiences and contrasts.

Russian singer and composer Igor Yuryevich Nikolaev was born on Sakhalin, in the provincial town of Kholmsk, on January 17, 1960. Igor's father was a marine poet and was a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, at the same time he served as the captain of a ship carrying cargo over long distances.

Young Nikolaev spent most of his time with his mother, who worked as an accountant. The salary was barely enough for food, but Igor was not afraid of the poverty line, he read a lot, went in for sports and gravitated towards music.

In his youth, Igor showed creative abilities. Mom sent her son to the Sakhalin music school, where he first learned to play the violin. After graduation, Igor Nikolaev entered the Yuzhno-Sakhalin Music School, but a year later he left his hometown to conquer Moscow.

In the capital, Nikolaev entered the 2nd year of the music school of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In 1980, after graduating from the Moscow Institute of Culture, the musician defended his thesis, becoming a certified specialist in the variety department.

After graduating from the Moscow Institute of Culture, the talented musician was noticed by Alla Pugacheva, who invited him to work as a keyboard player in the vocal and instrumental ensemble "Recital", where he quickly retrained as an arranger. The first songs written by Igor Nikolaev for the Prima Donna of the Russian stage become hits, and, as they would say now, blew up the chart ratings.

The hits of the 1980s were the musical compositions "Iceberg" and "Tell, Birds", which brought Igor the All-Russian glory of a young, but already well-known and respected composer. The whole country sang them. Nikolaev's great composing career began with these songs.

The turning point in the creative biography of Igor Nikolaev was the participation in the music competition "Song of the Year - 1985", where new songs of the young composer were performed: "Ferryman" performed by Alla Pugacheva and "Komarovo" performed by Igor Sklyar. The debut turned out to be a resounding success for Igor, securely fixing him at the top of the Olympus of the Soviet stage.

Igor Nikolaev sings very well himself. The singer's solo career started in 1986 with his own song "The Mill", which was included in the album of the same name, which gained unprecedented popularity. This was followed by "Raspberry Wine", "Birthday", "Let's Drink to Love", "Congratulations".

Soon, the musician toured Japan with Alla Borisovna. In 1988, Igor Nikolaev first appeared at the annual music festival "Song of the Year" with his own composition "Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors", which also unconditionally becomes a popular hit and is a single from the disc of the same name.

After 2 years, Igor Nikolaev meets an aspiring singer Natasha Koroleva, with whom he begins to fruitfully cooperate. The creative union quickly develops into a duet. Popular compositions "Taxi", "Dolphin and Mermaid", "Winter months" are sung by the whole country. The joint project of Nikolaev and Koroleva was highly appreciated not only by Russian, but also by Western listeners. The members of the duet performed the Dolphin and the Mermaid program at the legendary Madison Square Garden concert hall in the American city of New York.

The creative biography of the musician is developing exponentially. Each new song by Igor Yuryevich Nikolaev and a new album is a hit "in the top ten". Since 1998, the composer has been organizing recitals at the Rossiya Concert Hall. They invariably pass with great success and are broadcast by the central channels of the country.

At the beginning of the millennium, Igor Nikolaev releases a new disc called "The Broken Cup of Love". A year later, in 2001, he received the title of Honored Worker of Culture and Arts of the Russian Federation. In the same year Igor Yuryevich was awarded the Golden Gramophone prize for his new musical album Five Reasons.

Almost every year Nikolayev presents a new wave of success in the form of another award in his impressive piggy bank of achievements. In 2006, the popular singer and composer received 2 orders: Peter the Great, first degree and the gold order "Service to Art". In the same year, Igor Nikolaev launched the creative project "Two Stars" on the First Channel, which arouses great interest and sympathy from viewers who are eagerly awaiting the release of the new issue.

In the summer of 2008, within the framework of the All-Russian competition "New Wave", taking place in Jurmala, Igor Nikolaev is organizing a creative evening-concert. At his own benefit performance, the singer performs a new hit "There is something in this" in a duet with the young singer Yulia Proskuryakova, who later became his third wife.

Songwriter, singer, composer and arranger Igor Yuryevich Nikolaev productively collaborates with prominent figures in the field of Russian and foreign pop music. His hits are performed by artists Alla Pugacheva, Valery Leontiev, Larisa Dolina, Irina Allegrova, Alexander Buinov, the "Accident" group and Alexey Kortnev.

On the Russian stage, especially among the artists of the USSR era, there are almost no musicians who would not collaborate with Nikolaev. Among the foreign pop music stars performing songs ordered or purchased from the Russian composer are the sisters Rose and Cindy Loper (USA), the Swedish singer Liz Nilsson, the Japanese musician Tokiko Kato and others.

Igor Yuryevich also has contracts with popular Russian songwriters. He wrote music to the poems of Nikolai Zinoviev, Leonid Derbenev, Mikhail Tanich, Vladimir Matetsky, Andrey Makarevich, Igor Kokhanovsky and even Evgeny Yevtushenko.

Along with this, Igor Nikolaev was more than once a member of the jury of music festivals and competitions, the natives of which - Lyudmila Sokolova and Diana Gurtskaya - subsequently also performed Nikolaev's compositions.

For the first time, the composer Igor Nikolaev got married while studying at the Sakhalin Music School. In 1978 Igor Nikolaev became a father for the first time. The first wife Elena Kudryasheva gave birth to his daughter Julia. At the time of the birth of their daughter, the young companions in life were 18 years old.

The rapid fading of the relationship that began in adolescence was a completely natural development of events. Igor's first family broke up. Later, the composer married a second time, choosing Natasha Koroleva as his life partner.

This happened in the early 1990s, when the media wrote about an open romance between the genius Russian composer and the young but promising Ukrainian singer Natalia Poryvai, who later received the creative pseudonym Korolev from her patron.

A bright and rich wedding at that time took place in 1994. The marriage was officially registered by employees of the Moscow registry office at Igor's house. However, this alliance was not destined to last forever. In 2001, the couple broke up.

The reason for the divorce, as the singer herself later said, was Nikolaev's interest in other women. After the first betrayal, the Queen gave her husband time to understand the situation and make a decision. A year has passed, but nothing has changed. Natasha initiated the divorce proceedings, which took place in front of the entire country. The musician tried to return his wife, made loud statements from the stage, but the Queen remained adamant.

5 years after the breakup, Igor admits in an interview that the women who met him at that time “were a kind of Natasha. The desire to repeat that strong feeling and that emotion leads to an unconscious search for something similar to that one. Of course, there are no cloned people, but some similarities can be found. "

After another 4 years, the artist had a third wife, Yulia Proskuryakova, whose similarity to Natasha Koroleva was noted by both fans and reporters.

Igor and Yulia met at the Yekaterinburg Youth Palace, where the girl studied in a vocal studio as a child, and that time the musician came on tour. Proskuryakova worked in a notary office, and a friend in the evening invited a metropolitan celebrity to a concert. Julia is still surprised how she made her way through the crowd of fans and guards in order to demonstrate vocal abilities to Nikolaev.

Igor appreciated and asked to send him a disc with recordings. Later, when Julia wanted to return the disk, the composer offered to stay in Moscow, rented an apartment for the girl. But even within a year, the feelings of a famous musician and a simple lawyer remained platonic. The grinding of characters took a long time. The couple moved into one apartment after a quarrel. Nikolaev said that he did not have the strength to conflict and he wants Julia to always be there.

In September 2010, the couple legalized their relationship. The merit in this is attributed to the mother of Ksenia Sobchak, Senator Lyudmila Narusova, who considered that Igor and Julia "squeezed the wedding." The press reported that the singer secretly married in America, and no excuses from Proskuryakova were taken into account. So Narusova, having met lovers at the "New Wave" competition, did not believe it. Upon his return to Moscow, Igor proposed to the girl.

After 5 years of marriage, a long-awaited girl was born, who was named Veronica. According to doctors' calculations, the date of birth of Igor's second child coincided with the birthday of the first. But the daughter was born prematurely, and the first months for the parents were spent in experiences and excitement.

Nikolaev is 22 years older than Proskuryakova and at first was jealous of the chosen one of her peers. When he was convinced that Julia was not cheating, he calmed down. Igor himself said that for the affair with Koroleva, who is 13 years younger, he received from those around him “in full”. But for some reason, everything is different with the current wife.

Daughter Julia from his first marriage, Igor, graduated with honors from a general musical institution in the piano class, as well as from the College of Arts and Variety in Miami. At a young age, the girl starred in the children's television project "Good night, kids", performing a specially written song "Winnie the Pooh", and later participated in the filming of Alla Pugacheva's video "Uninvited Guest" and several clips of her dad. Julia lives in the USA, after her divorce from her husband John, she began to study to be a doctor.

The composer's children Julia and Veronica get along well with each other. Igor does not make a secret from his personal life, he often publishes photos of former and current family members on Instagram. Nikolaev maintained friendly relations with Koroleva, the artists communicate, congratulate each other on the pages of social networks with significant events.

Both Julia also became friends. Nikolaev's wife and eldest daughter love to sit over a cup of tea, chat, walk around town, or raid shops. Women understand each other perfectly. The result of such friendship is the song "You are my happiness", which was written by Yulia Nikolaeva and performed by Yulia Proskuryakova.

The artist's wife, although she said that she does not set a goal to make a career as a singer, nevertheless performs on stage. For his wife, as well as for a duet performance, Igor composed the compositions "SMS", "One Hope for Love", "New Year without You", "My Man".

The composer and performer on the stage for many years, has been treated kindly by the attention of the press and the love of fans - sit and rest on your laurels. But Igor Nikolaev is not one of those. The musician is interested in current trends. In 2018, the main lyricist of the Russian stage surprised the audience with a collaboration with a young singer from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Emma Blinkova. The girl is known in the Internet community as Emma M. The new duo recorded a cover version of the hit “Let's Drink to Love”.

At the same time, the media space was stirred up by the message that Igor refuses to compose new compositions for Irina Allegrova. For the "empress" of the Russian stage, Nikolaev wrote two dozen songs, and each of them resonated in the hearts of the audience, including "The Wanderer", which began the artist's ascent to Olympus.

The musician emphasized that it is the old material that is of interest, and if people suddenly became new, then new hits would appear. And so he has already said everything he wanted, and at concerts they are asked to sing "from the old". In addition, Irina collaborates with young authors who have something to offer.

At Allegrova's creative evening in New Wave Hall, the very "old" Nikolaev "Wedding Flowers", "Junior Lieutenant", "Stupid Boy", "Photo 9x12" were performed.

In the fall, a new book of poems by Igor Nikolaev called "Songs and Artists" was published. This is not the first edition of the composer's poetry. The collection "I love you to tears", published in 2015, is dedicated to Igor's parents. The book includes 200 song texts, rare photographs of the artist and family photos.

In December, "Avtoradio" presented the festive song "New Year", which Igor Nikolaev had a chance to record in the company of Katya Lel, Denis Klyaver, Alexander Marshal and Viktor Rybin. In the show "With all the voice", organized for talented young performers from the CIS countries by the TV channel "MIR 24", was a creative evening of the Russian composer.

Nikolaev intrigued fans with the news that he was preparing a surprise for the New Year holidays together with his friend and colleague Yuri Antonov. Fans immediately suggested that it would probably be a duet.

Igor's official website has a tour schedule for the first half of 2019. Tour "BEST AND NEW SONGS # DRINKING" takes place in the cities of Russia and Belarus. However, Nikolaev found time to attend the anniversary concert of Alla Pugacheva. The media event has already been dubbed the return of the Prima Donna to the stage.

1987 - "The Mill" 1992 - "Dolphin and the Mermaid" 1995 - "Let's Drink to Love" 2000 - "Broken Cup of Love" 2001 - "Five Reasons" 2002 - "Forgive and Let Go" 2003 - "Poor Mozart" 2006 - "How are you beautiful "2006 -" Everything's just gone "2009 -" Irina Allegrova. Songs of Igor Nikolaev "2010 -" Igor Nikolaev and Yulia Proskuryakova. New songs "2014 -" Life Line "

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