Nikolai Baskov is a popular Russian singer and TV presenter, awarded the title of People's Artist of the country. For his unique singing talent, he was also nicknamed “the golden voice of Russia”.
Biography
Nikolay Baskov was born in the town of Balashikha near Moscow in 1976. Soon, together with his family, he moved to the GDR, since the boy's father, a military man by profession, was sent there to serve. From the age of five, Nikolai began to study musical notation, and after the family moved to the Russian Kyzyl, he entered a music school.
The boy's talent was revealed already in high school, when he began performing on the big city stage. By this time, he lived with his family in Novosibirsk. The troupe in which Basque performed was so good that it toured European countries and even the USA. Nikolay firmly decided to connect his life with music and in 1996 he entered the famous "Gnesinka".
A year later, Basque won such prestigious competitions as Romansiada, Grande Voce and Ovation. The singer with a wonderful tenor was predicted a great future on the opera stage, and he gladly agreed to perform at the Bolshoi Theater. In parallel with this, the artist thought about a pop career and starred in the video for the song "In Memory of Caruso", which took first places in the Russian music charts.
Hits “rained down” one after another. Every year Nikolai Baskov releases at least one memorable composition. The most notable were "Sharmanka", "You are far away", "Let me go", "I will kiss your hands." A video clip was filmed for each of them. Almost not a single concert of a national level can do without the participation of Nikolai Baskov, and for his contribution to Russian music he has repeatedly received the awards "Golden Gramophone", "Singer of the Year", "Style of the Year" and others.
The friendship and joint work of Nikolai Baskov with the legendary opera singer Montserrat Caballe deserves special attention. Together they performed on European stages more than once, thanks to which Baskov was nicknamed "the Russian prince". Since 2009, the singer has been named People's Artist of the Russian Federation. He often appears in a variety of television projects, including "The Voice", "KVN", "The Ivan Urgant Show" and others.
Personal life
In 2001, Nikolai Baskov married Svetlana Shpigel, the daughter of his own producer Boris Shpigel. In 2006, the couple had a son, Bronislav. In the future, their relationship went wrong and ended in divorce. Within a few months, Baskov decided to connect soul and heart with the famous model and TV presenter Oksana Fedorova, but the relationship again did not pass the test of time.
From 2011 to 2013, the singer met with the ballerina Anastasia Volochkova, and then switched to courting singer and producer Sophie Kalcheva. Currently, the couple is still in a relationship, but the lovers are in no hurry to get married. According to Baskov, they are quite satisfied with the current life, and they do not rush things.
