Igor Talkov

The talented poet and musician Igor Talkov came from a noble family. Igor's parents were repressed even before his birth and lived in the Kemerovo region, where their eldest son Vladimir was born. After rehabilitation, Vladimir Talkov Sr. and his wife Olga Shvagerus could not live in Moscow, so they settled near the town of Shchekino, in the village of Gretsovka, where Igor was born.

In parallel with his secondary education, Talkov studied at a music school in the accordion class, but his main passion in childhood was hockey. The boy trained seriously, as a teenager he even went to Moscow and tried to qualify for the CSKA and Dynamo clubs, but to no avail. In high school, Igor independently mastered the guitar, drums and piano, organized the school ensemble "Guitarists". It is interesting that Talkov did not know how to play his favorite musical instrument, the saxophone, but he loved to listen to its sounds.

It is also worth noting that that magical hoarse voice, which the whole country will later fall in love with, was due to the fact that the boy broke his voice and developed chronic laryngitis. Thanks to special breathing exercises, Igor weakened the influence of the disease, developed ligaments again, but hoarseness remained.

Another hobby of Talkov was theater. He was not a member of the drama club, but he loved to watch performances. Having received a certificate of maturity, Igor goes for the second time to conquer the capital and submits documents to the theater institute. But this time Moscow did not open its arms to the guy: he could not pass the exam in literature, although he coped with the creative competition successfully. The young man returns home and enters the physical and technical faculty of the Tula Pedagogical Institute.

A year later, the guy takes the documents, since he has no interest in the exact sciences, and becomes a student at the Leningrad Institute of Culture. However, even here one year was enough for Igor Talkov to understand that the Soviet education system did not suit him. In the same period, Igor was the first to criticize the communist regime. The case did not reach the court only by a miracle, but people from the military registration and enlistment office arrived in time: Talkov is sent to serve the Fatherland in Nakhabino near Moscow.

In the army, a private of the engineering troops Talkov organized the "Zvezdochka" ensemble, and after being demobilized, he decided to make a living by music. He leaves for Sochi and gets a job in the group of Alexander Barykin. But in 1982, Igor stops restaurant concerts, as he believes that it is humiliating, although commercially very profitable, and enters the big stage.

Igor Talkov began to write his first songs in his youth. His first composition was "I'm a little sorry", and he himself considered his own creative debut the ballad "Share" about the fate of a person living in such a difficult world. The singer called this piece his first professional creation.

In the mid-80s, Talkov toured with the group of Lyudmila Senchina and worked as an arranger at Stas Namin's studio. During that period, Igor wrote songs such as "A vicious circle", "Aeroflot", "Looking for beauty in nature", "Holiday", "The right is given to all", "An hour before dawn", "Faithful friend" and many others.

In 1986 Igor Talkov, together with Irina Allegrova, became the vocalist of the pop-rock group "Electroclub", which was created by David Tukhmanov. Quite quickly, the collective took a leading position in Soviet pop music. In 1987, the song "Chistye Prudy" performed by Igor Talkov was included in the mega-popular program "Song of the Year", hosted by Angelina Vovk. At that moment, Igor turns into a very famous person.

But this lyrical hit was very different from those hits that Talkov usually wrote and wanted to convey to the audience. He is strongly attracted to social and civic themes, so the musician leaves the "Electroclub" and founds his own group "Lifebuoy". In 1989, in the TV show "Before and After Midnight," a video clip for the song "Russia" was shown for the first time, and the singer from the category of famous turns into a legendary performer, listened to by tens of millions of citizens.

The peak of popularity of Talkov as a musician came in 1990-91. His songs "War", "I'll be back", "KPSS", "Lord Democrats", "Stop! I think to myself! ”,“ Globus ”sounds in every entrance. During the August putsch, Igor performs with the Lifebuoy group on Palace Square in Leningrad and immediately after that writes the song "Mr. President", in which he expresses his disappointment with the policies of the first president of Russia.

Igor Talkov got his first experience in cinema back in 1983, when he starred in the short film "Lyric Song". Also in the group "Lifebuoy", he appeared in the crime drama "Pimp Hunt".

After the release of the video "Russia", the director invited him to play the main character in the historical film "Prince Silver". But in the course of filming, the director changed the director, the genre was transformed from the historical into a comedy-farce, and the new title of the tape was "Tsar Ivan the Terrible." Talkov refused to continue acting and did not voice his role as the Prince of Silver, and later even asked for forgiveness from the audience for seeing him in this film.

At the same time, Igor managed to play a racketeer in the action-packed thriller Beyond the Last Line. It is interesting that the singer was offered the main positive role, but for this he needed to cut his hair and shave off his beard. Talkov refused and appeared in the form of a negative character.

There was only one great love in the life of a musician. In July 1979, in the Metelitsa cafe, Igor Talkov met a girl named Tatiana. At that time, the man played the guitar in the ensemble of the program "Come on, girls" and invited a new girlfriend to take part in the crowd.

Then the young people began to meet, and in 1980 they got married officially. A year later, a son, Igor Talkov Jr., appeared in the family, who became literally the meaning of life for his father. It is interesting that Talkov's son in childhood categorically did not want to make music, but gradually genetics said its weighty word. At the age of 14, the boy found an old synthesizer and mastered it himself. And in 2005 he released a solo album "We must live".

After his death, Igor Talkov's wife studied to be a psychologist, but left the institute. Now the woman works as an assistant director at the Mosfilm film company and collaborates with well-known Russian film authors, including Stanislav Govorukhin. She helped directors to shoot such films as "Vise", "Hipsters", "Inhabited Island: Fight."

There is a legend that Igor Talkov predicted his death. He was once on a plane that had an emergency. The passengers began to worry violently, and then the musician said: “There is no need to be afraid, since I am here, the plane will not crash. They will kill me with a large crowd of people, and the murderer will never be found. " By the way, after this incident Talkov wrote the famous hit "I'll be back".

On October 5, 1991, Igor was playing an acoustic guitar at a recital, and suddenly his string broke. Talkov's last public performance was so significant. According to his wife, the day before the singer received a phone call and was seriously threatened, but he did not tell his wife exactly who.

And already on October 6, 1991 in the St. Petersburg Sports Palace "Yubileiny" Igor Talkov was supposed to take part in a combined concert with many other performers. But out of the blue, a conflict arose between him and Igor Malakhov, the director of the singer Aziza. The men quarreled, the administrator of his group "Lifebuoy" Valery Shlyafman intervened in the matter, and a scuffle ensued, which grew into a shootout.

Several shots were fired, and one of the bullets hit Talkov in the heart. The doctors who arrived in the ambulance stated the death of the artist. The singer was buried on October 9, 1991 in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery. The police tried to investigate the murder, but the investigation established that Igor Malakhov could not have fired that fatal shot. And Valery Shlyafman, by the time questions arose for him, had already left Russia, settled in Israel, and then disappeared from there. As a result, the investigation of the murder turned out to be frozen, and there are many versions of the events that took place.

1982 - When the city falls asleep 1983 - Let's worship kindness 1984 - Love and separation 1985 - All in good time 1986 - Igor Talkov 1987 - Chistye prudy 1991 - Russia 1992 - My love ... 1992 - Nostalgia 1993 - This world

1983 - Lyric song 1990 - Hunt for a pimp 1991 - Beyond the last line 1991 - Tsar Ivan the Terrible

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Igor Talkov Net Worth 2021

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