Valentina Legkostupova

"Sweet hit" called "Berry-raspberry" by Valentina Legkostupova at one time sounded from all windows, radio stations and televisions. This singer is still remembered today for this "business card" - a wonderful hit about an alluring forest berry. Although the performer's repertoire includes many other compositions, with which she successfully performed at many concerts and festivals.

Valentina Legkostupova was born in Khabarovsk. The girl's father is a professional composer, writes songs for her daughter, and her mother is a singer, performs Russian folk songs. Therefore, the future star took the creative start from her parents.

When little Valya was three years old, the family moved from a cold land to sunny Feodosia, to the Crimea. Here the girl grew up and understood more and more that she would certainly connect her future life with music. Valentina showed early vocal abilities, which were welcomed by her family. On Valins "concerts" were often "sold out" from relatives and children in the yard.

Having matured, the future star found application for her musical talents on the stage of the school music studio. Soon Legkostupova became a school celebrity. She sang at all events and school evenings. The singer received her musical education at the Feodosia School of Music, where she attended a violin class.

No one was surprised when, after graduating from high school, Valya went to Simferopol and entered the P.I.Tchaikovsky Music School. After receiving her diploma, she decided to continue her education and went to conquer Moscow. Without difficulty, the violinist entered the famous Gnessin Institute of Music and Pedagogy. I chose the pop vocal department of Professor Joseph Kobzon.

In 1990 Valentina Legkostupova left Gnesinka with a diploma in higher musical education.

The creative biography of Valentina Legkostupova began even before moving to the capital. The first conquered city was southern Kherson. Here in 1985 the young vocalist gave her first solo concert in her life. She was accompanied by a musical group of the then famous Jewish musician Semyon Sona, a virtuoso pianist, and today a professor at the Barcelona Academy of Music.

While studying at "Gnesinka", Legkostupova has time to study and perform. She is a frequent guest at music festivals, including in Jurmala. Here in 1986 she sang two songs - "Coast of happiness" and "Let the blizzard". The guests of the festival and members of the jury liked both compositions. The young performer took an honorable second place.

The main gift for Legkostupova after the Jurmala competition is cooperation with the famous composer Raimonds Pauls. Moreover, the master took Valentina under his wing. He wrote several songs for her, which instantly became hits and turned the singer into a Soviet pop star. The songs "In the White Keys of Birches" and "Two" were performed at all concerts and stage venues in the capital.

Since 1986, Valentina Legkostupova has risen to another career step: she becomes the leading soloist of the Tula Philharmonic. She worked here for 6 years.

In 1987, the vocalist went to the popular youth music festival in Czechoslovakia. After him she took part in the equally popular Polish competition "Zielona Gora". This period in the biography of Legkostupova was marked by collaboration with another popular composer Vyacheslav Dobrynin. It was he who wrote the main hit for Valentina - "Berry-Raspberry". After the release of the song on the air, the singer turns into a Soviet pop star.

Legkostupova was called the performer of one hit, but this did not bother the girl. According to the artist, not every singer can boast of at least one hit.

Dobrynin's pen also produced other hits for Valentina: "Music plays on the ship", "My dear", "And no one else."

Valentina Legkostupova becomes a frequent guest of television programs and shows, where the singer is regularly invited. There is nothing to say about New Year and other festive concerts, festivals "Song of the Year" and "Blue Lights": here she is not even a guest, but a permanent "resident".

In 1988, the singer was awarded a special jury prize at the famous festival in Sopot. After her success in Poland, she toured the country a lot, collecting huge concert halls and stadiums in big cities.

In the late 1980s, the songs "Crimean Beach" and "A Drop in the Sea" appeared in Valentina Legkostupova's repertoire. They are becoming popular too. In 1989, the star went on a foreign tour for the first time: she visited Germany with a delegation from the Ministry of Culture.

A year later, he toured abroad again. This time, together with the group of the former mentor in "Gnesinka" Iosif Kobzon, she performed in some regions of Africa.

The 1980s was the peak of Legkostupova's career. In the 1990s, interest in the performer's work was slowly fading away. From 1993 to 1995, the star of the 80s performed at the Pop Song Theater. Later she appeared at the Bulgarian Festival of Russian-Language Songs.

The artist was not afraid to go on maternity leave at the peak of popularity and give birth to a child. But it didn't work out to return to the stage. Later, Valentina shared that a certain star removed her from show business, but did not give her name. It was rumored that Alla Pugacheva had broken Legkostupova's career, and the singer later indirectly confirmed this, arguing about the "Pugacheva mafia". From the words of the artist, it became clear that Alla Borisovna played a rather big role in the fate of the performer. But, in spite of everything, Valentina treats the Prima Donna with respect and considers Pugacheva a great artist:

In 1994, an album of Legkostupova was released under the name "Berry-Raspberry". In 2001, admirers of the artist's talent heard the second collection of songs "I smile".

Today Valentina Legkostupova reminded of herself again. In 2007, the performer appeared on the rating television project "You are a superstar". Together with other stars of the past, she competed on the same stage. Unfortunately, she did not manage to get to the final of the show. But the performer gave the audience of the middle generation an unforgettable experience associated with nostalgic memories of the 80s.

Later in an interview, the celebrity shared that she took participation in the show too close to her heart. It was necessary to treat the project as a game, but Valentina could not do that. As a result, the woman developed minor health problems.

In 2014, information appeared that the star of the 80s changed her place of residence and moved to the Canary Islands, where she lives on the island of Tenerife, which belongs to Spain. There she is engaged in real estate. But at the same time, Legkostupova did not part with concert and teaching activities.

In the same year, the artist performed on the program "Saturday evening" with the song "And I like him."

In the summer of 2016, it became known that Valentina Legkostupova's production center, which is called "VL Music", had started operating in Moscow.

At the end of the same 2016, the artist became a guest of Yulia Menshova's program "Alone with everyone."

Valentina Legkostupova was married twice. From her first husband, the singer had a daughter, Anette, in 1991. The artist does not like to talk about her ex-wife. Once a woman mentioned that he betrayed the performer. Anetta has already created her own family and gave her mother two grandchildren.

The second husband of the artist was Alexey Grigoriev. Alexey is the son of the famous director Yuri Grigoriev, who created the program "Ah, anecdote, anecdote!"

In 2001, the couple had a son, Matvey. It is her children that the woman calls the main achievement in life.

About her husband, the artist says that she and Alexei were very lucky. In the photo, the couple look happy.

In one interview, Legkostupova admitted that she adores skulls. A woman is delighted with accessories with similar symbols.

The artist combines femininity and severity, fragility (Valentina's height is 166 cm) and tough straightforwardness in her statements.

At the beginning of 2018, Valentina Legkostupova moved to Feodosia. There, a woman headed the Feodosia city department of culture.

In January, the singer visited Andrei Malakhov in the program "Hello, Andrei!" The issue was dedicated to Vyacheslav Dobrynin's 50-year stay on the stage, and Valentina came to congratulate the artist. Celebrities shared pleasant memories, good news and optimism with Malakhov.

1994 - "Berry-raspberry" 2001 - "I smile"

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