When the song "White Dance" sounded in the Soviet comedy "This Merry Planet", the singer Svetlana Rezanova became famous throughout the vast country. The song is still loved by older people.
Childhood and youth
Svetlana Ivanovna Rezanova, a well-known singer and actress in Soviet times, was born in Stalingrad (now Volgograd) on June 9, 1942 in an ordinary intelligent family: mom is a doctor, dad is a teacher. Since childhood, the girl developed a craving for performances, she was artistic, did not feel fear of performances, boldly went out to a large audience. School concerts were the first stage venues. From childhood, Sveta was sure that she would become an artist. Therefore, her decision to enter a theater studio at the Volgograd Drama Theater was not surprising to anyone.
Creation
After graduation, the young artist serves for a year in the troupe of the Dnepropetrovsk theater. As a singing actress, she played the appropriate roles. A year later, Svetlana receives two offers at once: she is invited to an operetta, and there is an opportunity to prove herself on the stage. After a long reflection, she decides to opt for pop performance. She idolized Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin.
She is met by the city of Kazan and work in the Veterok team. With the musical "Veterk" Rezanova traveled around the cities and villages of Tatarstan until she realized that there would be no creative growth in such conditions.
But luck loved this woman. She is invited by Anatoly Kroll to his jazz band in the city of Tula. In her interview, Svetlana Ivanovna recalls with gratitude the leader of the orchestra, because it was with Kroll that she understood what it means to be a singer, and happily absorbed knowledge. And the luck turned out to be double - in the team she met her first husband.
At one of the concerts, Svetlana Rezanova was noticed by two leaders at once. She again had to make a choice: Lev Rakhlin and Leningradsky Music - Hall or Pavel Slobodkin and the young pop group "Merry Boys". I chose Leningrad and worked there for about a year, and then came to Slobodkin's team. "Merry Guys" made the singer famous.
In 1972, Svetlana Rezanova, together with Lev Leshchenko, were nominated for participation in the Golden Orpheus competition. The Soviet leaders considered that the young singer would favorably "set off" Leshchenko, on whom they were betting. But she unexpectedly gets the first prize.
After winning the competition, the singer becomes the soloist of the Mosconcert, performs with her own team. her fame is growing. In 1981, the artist was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Soviet Union. In parallel with her creative life, she graduated from GITIS, specializing as a stage director and mass performances.
Personal life
Life offstage was just as turbulent as her career. Rezanova admits that in different years there was a connection with Boris Khmelnitsky, Valery Zolotukhin, Vyacheslav Dobrynin, Muslim Magomayev. She got officially married three times. The first husband was, as already mentioned, the musician of the Kroll collective, Yuri Genbachev. This family life "could not stand the distance", it is always very difficult to wander between Tula and Leningrad. The second marriage does not count, as the artist herself laughs. She was forced to enter into a fictitious marriage for the sake of work in Moscow and registration. And only the third marriage with Valery, also a musician who works with her, brought the long-awaited great love and joy. But soon he was gone.
In the discography of Svetlana Rezanova there are more than 150 songs, in some of them she is the author of poems.
