Yuri Okhochinsky. We did not part ...

Yuri Okhochinsky - a representative of the ancient noble family Valberg-Okhochinsk. Grandmother served as a lady-in-waiting with the wife of Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna. Great-grandfather was a famous painter and favorite artist of Pushkin himself. Grandmother's brother is the founder of Russian ballet. During the years of repression, almost all members of the family were shot, only Natalia Ivanovna von Valberg, the grandmother of our hero, survived by a miracle. She dedicated Yuri to the history of the family (which, by the way, more than three centuries), in detail and for a long time telling him about the famous descendants.

Yuri Okhochinsky: biography

He was born in April 1958 (who wants to congratulate his beloved artist on his birthday, it's worth doing this on the 20th). The future famous Russian singer had a good, sensitive ear since childhood and was very fond of singing. From the age of five he sang in a children's boyish choir, and eight years old already played on stage with the professional actors of the young royal page in the play "The Dog in the Nest" based on the play of Lope de Vega.

His education and education involved grandmother: she led Yuri to the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, taught to understand and feel classical music, instilled a taste for the beautiful and the present.

Yuri Okhochinsky in the school gathered his ensemble and performed with him at all festive concerts and school evenings. He listened at those times to performers of foreign music, whose music was completely different from the Soviet one. But he felt with his heart: this is what he would like to devote his life to. The voices and manner of the performance of Tom Jones, Elvis Presley, Engelbert Humperdinck led him to such enthusiasm that he asked the sky to give him the same gift!

Study and career start

After graduating from school, Yuri Okhochinsky in the same year enters LGITMIK - Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography, acting department. Having successfully graduated from the profession, he worked for two years in the theater of the ensemble "Singing Guitars". The young artist is engaged in the first roles in the musical and rock opera.

Since 1983, he decides to start a solo career and does it with success. His first song "We did not part" instantly "shoots" and becomes a hit, sounding from all the windows. Yuri Okhochinsky picks up a romantic in his repertoire in accordance with his stage image. The video "My Brig" made not one female heart freeze from the feeling that here it is - Captain Gray, who appeared behind his Assol under scarlet sails.

Russian singer Yuri Okhochinsky is becoming a welcome and constant guest of the television programs that millions of Soviet citizens watch. These are such as "Song of the Year", "Shorter Circle!", "Morning Mail" and others.

Life Peripeteia

Few people in life all develops easily and simply, as in a fairy tale. Hardship has also happened for our hero. When transformations began to take place on the stage, and far from the best, Yuri Okhochinsky did not want to put up with them. Very painfully, he experienced a dominance on the stage of "stars" and "stars", for whom the way to the scene was not opened by professionalism and talent, but by the money of sponsors and loud names of parents. And he left this, as he himself later defined, in the "world of illusions." Companies and alcohol help to forget for a while. Everything could end up too sad, but Yuri Okhochinsky is a man of strong will and perseverance. To return to real life and his favorite business, he was helped by faith and grandmother - his guardian angel. The singer decides that indignation and lament over the fall of tastes and the lack of voice of the representatives of pop music does not solve the problem, and we just have to do our job honestly and professionally.

In 1992, the singer released his first big album called "Come Back, My Love". After that, he gives solo and is removed in a TV program dedicated to him alone. At the 1994 Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, I was honored to sing at the opening and closing of this outstanding event. And again the concerts (jazz project of Frank Sinatra's memory "Jazz Romance"), recording of CDs ("My Love", "Night in Venice", "Hello, Artist!", "Everything for You", "The Best: My Velvet April" , "The Story of My Love"). Yuri realizes his ideas as a playwright: he creates the author's radio program "Stars are falling from the sky." ORT Channel invites the artist to voice the documentary TV project "Stars of the Air". Walt Disney's studio entrusts the singer to record the main theme in the animated film "The Rides of the Emperor."

Dreams Come True

Such persistence and efficiency, as distinguished by Yuri Okhochinsky, can not pass unnoticed and not marked Destiny. This lady gave the singer a personal acquaintance with the idols of his youth - T. Jones, H. Iglesias, E. Humperdinck. With the latter they even recorded a duet song Maybe This Time.

Yuri launched a new author program on the radio "King of the Song", which is also duplicated on television.

This talented person composes music, paints a picture, has released a book "Always with music in the heart". And he continues to search for the same pure sound that his teacher Sergey Yursky told him.

A family

Such an impressive man, as the hero of our article, can not be alone. Yuri Okhochinsky is reliable married. Having made happy one single woman, he remains the subject of sweet dreams for millions of female fans. More than 20 years, Yuri and Anna go hand in hand in life. They have two children - the daughter of Natalie, whom he named after his grandmother, and son Roman. The girl is engaged in music, and with her son Yuri on the couple often fall ill for their favorite football teams "Zenith" and "Real".

We did not part

It's just a great happiness that we have not parted with such a beautiful singer, his God's gift, which he willingly shares with us. His velvet baritone, his faceted diamond, continues to fascinate us and take us to the world of beauty and dreams that is characteristic of the singers-kruner (their romantic overflow simply "adores" the microphone). The timbre of his voice envelops us with warmth and tenderness in the middle register and calls to respond to his plea, when the singer switches to higher notes. But in low tones it sounds almost intimate.

That's how he is amazing and extraordinarily talented - Mr. "Velvet voice of the city of eternal rains and white nights" ...