Valeriy Kuras

Beloved by thousands of music lovers of the post-Soviet space, the Russian chansonnier Valery Kuras, who presented the world with the hit "Drop", could have chosen a different path and not go on stage.

The successful ophthalmologist helped patients to look at the world with wide eyes, and in his free time he collected rare cars and went diving. He took place in a business that brought stable profits.

However, history does not tolerate the subjunctive mood: today Kuras has a huge army of admirers thanks to his vocal talent and soulful songs.

Valery Kuras in the light of spotlights every day, but at the same time he is laconic and does not like publicity: he gives a minimum of necessary information about himself.

On the official website, pages on Instagram and Facebook, Valery Demizovich repeats the facts of the biography that are known to his fans. Journalists rarely manage to get an interview from a star, so they ask what Kuras was previously silent about. For example, about nationality. The surname Kuras is not Russian. Yes, and the patronymic Demizovich is confusing.

Some secrets of the chansonnier were revealed to the journalist Tatyana Feoktistova, who asked if there were Ukrainians, Jews or gypsies in the Kurass family. The chanson performer was born in Moscow in the spring of 1958. The first to hear the voice of the future star were the obstetricians of the capital's maternity hospital №6.

Valery was brought up in a friendly intelligent family, where his father, a geologist by profession, headed the design bureau at the Ministry of Geology, and his mother earned her living by translating from German and English.

The parents' employment did not allow them to control every step of their son, so the boy was taken care of and raised by his grandparents, as well as the yard and the school. Everything is like most children of that time.

To the journalist's question about the origin of the surname, Valery Demizovich answered evasively, and did not shed light on the roots. He said that his father was from Ukraine. As for the amazing name of the pope, which became the patronymic of the chansonnier, the secret lies in the convictions of the communist grandfather. It is his idea to encrypt in the name of his son the first of the decrees of the Soviet government - on peace and land.

Valery Kuras, already in childhood, showed versatile talents and the ability to achieve success in everything, no matter what he undertakes. Attending classes in the ship modeling section at the school of young technicians, I learned how to design ship models. So much so that at the first exhibition of ship modeling in the Soviet Union, the nuclear-powered ship, which the Muscovite gave the name of the leader of the proletariat, won first place.

In middle school, the guy was carried away by wood inlay, and soon he presented his mother with pieces of kitchen furniture that had remained pride for decades.

To please his mother, who adored music and singing, the son learned to play the piano and joined the choir. When he grew up and matured, he gave up choral singing, which, according to Valery, did not correspond to the image of “real guys”. But the guy considered the guitar a "man's" instrument, so he completed the course of playing the classical string guitar and pleased the guys with the performance of the hits of the Beatles at the school disco.

Having received a diploma from the capital's special school, where students studied English in depth, Valery Kuras went to enroll in a medical school. The first attempt was a failure, but the guy did not give up and became a medical school student. After graduating with honors, he entered the Moscow Medical Institute. N. Pirogov. Valery managed to study and earn extra money at night on an ambulance.

After graduating from medical school and residency, in the mid-1980s, the young ophthalmologist ended up in the famous throughout the country Svyatoslav Fedorov Institute of Eye Microsurgery. After 5 years, Kuras became a leading surgeon. According to Valery Kuras, he performed 1,700 operations a year. And when he reached the "ceiling" in the profession, he switched to the pharmaceutical business and left the institute.

In the difficult 1990s, Valery Kuras managed to achieve success in entrepreneurship as well: he headed the foreign representative office in Moscow. But when Kuras reached the “ceiling” in this field, the soul asked for something new.

The first recorded song of Valery Kuras was the composition Cosa nostra. The singer gave it to close people, who became the first grateful listeners and fans. According to the chansonnier, the first impression of his voice heard on a magnetic tape is surprise.

The first large audience, before which Valery Kuras spoke, was the audience of the theater "At Nikitskiye Vorota". The warm welcome of 250 listeners inspired the artist and pushed him to move in the chosen direction.

A wide audience learned about Kuras after the release of the first video, shot for the song "Droplets". It featured actors whose names are known throughout the country: Alexander Semchev and Andrei Ilyin, the charming Olga Budina and the master of the Russian stage Vladimir Presnyakov Sr. appeared. It was he - the most authoritative in the world of music and show business "Petrovich" - who brought Valery Kuras to the stage.

Presnyakov Sr. introduced the novice musician to the producer and songwriter Andrei Pryazhnikov, who, evaluating the artist's vocal abilities, wrote him two-thirds of the compositions of the first album, released in 2005.

The songs and manner of performance of Valery Kuras are called "smart" chanson. In them there is no vulgarity and the notorious "blatnyak", this is a sincere conversation and everyday humor.

Chansonnier fans compare their favorite with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, whose songs immerse listeners in the atmosphere of "kitchen blues". Listening to Kuras, one recalls gatherings around the fire or in the kitchen, where old friends gathered for a sincere conversation in puffs of tobacco smoke. Good humor, sincerity run through every composition of Kuras, there is no pathos in them.

In 2009, the performer presented the world with the 2nd disc, giving it the name "Most Favorite". During this period, he fruitfully collaborated with the composer-songwriter and People's Artist of Russia and Ukraine Alexander Morozov.

In the 2000s, the best songs of the vocalist were played on the air of Radio Chanson. Kuras is repeatedly awarded the main prize "Chanson of the Year", he is a frequent guest of the festival "Eehh, Razgulyay!" The genre in which Valery Kuras performs, he calls the European chanson, paying tribute to the work of Yves Montand and Charles Aznavour.

In the spring of 2013, the singer went on tour in a duet with his colleague Katerina Golitsyna. In memory of the deceased Mikhail Krug, Kuras included the composition "Bath on Sovetskaya" into his repertoire.

The singer has been participating in chanson festivals since the early 2000s and is well known to fans of the musical direction, along with the stars of Russian chanson Irina Krug, Fedya Karmanov, Anatoly Polotno and Willi Tokarev.

In 2016, the collection of Kuras's songs The Very Best was released, which included 34 compositions - both new and remixes of old, beloved by fans of mischievous hits "Airplane", "Pampushechka", "At a man's" and "Girl with eyes the color of the sky."

Valery Kuras is reluctant to open the pages of his personal life. When asked about the ideal of a woman, he says that he values ​​femininity and spiritual beauty. Love for a chansonnier is the best source of inspiration.

The beloved wife, who gave birth to his son, became such a source in the singer's work. Guarding the family, Valery does not disclose the details of his private life and gives a minimum of information about his relatives. It is known that his son received an economic education at a British university.

The chansonnier calls the government "Seagull", which drove the Soviet minister Andrei Gromyko, the pearl of the collection of rare cars in his fleet. Places of honor are occupied by Volga-21 and Pobeda.

In his free time, Valery Kuras likes to read. He calls the novel "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov a reference book, and the cult comedy melodrama "Pokrovskie Vorota" as the best feature film.

The master of chanson continues to delight fans with new compositions. In 2017, the artist presented music lovers with the song "Kabluchok", and in 2018 he pleased them with a new hit called "Sombrero".

2005 - "Droplets" 2009 - "Favorite" 2011 - "Grand collection" 2015 - "There is still gunpowder!" 2016 - "The Very Best"

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