The world of pop music is cruel, and even the best vocal skills and talent are often not enough to become a star of the first magnitude. Among the singers who remained in the shadows, despite the fact that thanks to their voices, many songs of Soviet composers became hits, Tatyana Vladimirovna Antsiferova. Biography and personal life of an extraordinary performer is devoted to this article.
early years
Tatyana Antsiferova (biography, personal life is presented below) was born in the city of Sterlitamak of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, where her father worked after graduating from an engineering university. When the girl was 8 years old, the family moved to Kharkov.
Already at school, teachers noticed her unconditional singing talent. As Antsiferova herself later recalled, she was often asked to take a class, and the girl could spend hours singing songs by Soviet composers, receiving great pleasure from this.
Later Tatyana was invited to become a soloist of the school VIA, and after receiving a certificate of maturity, she became a student of the Kharkov Music and Pedagogical School.
The beginning of a professional career
The creative biography of Tatyana Antsiferova began on the stage of the Kharkov recreation center "Builder". However, it was clear to everyone that this was not her level, and soon the girl began performing in VIA Leleki, which was led by Valery Novak.
In 1971, Tatyana won the republican vocal competition and became the soloist of the Vesuvius ensemble, led by her future husband Vladimir Belousov.
A year later, this team was invited as an accompanying VIA for the program of Peter Topchia “With a song through life”, and since 1973 began to perform independent concerts, changing its name to “Swan”.
Co-creation with Belousov
In 1974, the couple tried to emigrate to the United States, but because of Vladimir’s illness, they had to abandon this idea.
A few months later, Antsiferova, together with the ensemble, went to work in the Transcarpathian Philharmonic, where their team was again renamed and began to be called “Music”.
During this period, Vladimir Belousov did everything so that his beloved wife Tatyana could try herself in various genres. He included in the repertoire of VIA and Transcarpathian folk songs, and compositions in the style of jazz and even rock.
During this period, Tatyana Antsiferova, whose biography is presented in this material, began to collaborate with Viktor Reznikov, who entrusted her with the debut performance of her future hits - “In the notebook” and “Fly away the cloud”.
Work on the film "June 31"
At the end of 1977, Alexander Zatsepin - at that time one of the most famous composers of the USSR who wrote music for films - invited Antsiferova to sing her then unknown songs “The World Without a Loved One”, “Looking for You”, “Star Bridge” and “He Came” ". In 1978, they entered the film "June 31."
This picture was the debut for Tatyana Antsiferova, whose biography in the Soviet period was known only to closest friends. By the way, the song “A World Without a Beloved” was soon excluded from the singer’s repertoire, since Yuri Lyubimov did not return to the USSR from Paris. According to the logic of the officials at that time, its performance could be interpreted as regret for the director who “betrayed” his homeland.
Films of Tatyana Antsiferova
In the biography of the singer, there are several references to her collaboration with composers who were involved in the writing of film music. In particular, in 1979 Tatyana recorded 2 songs for the painting “Know Me” by Vladimir Popkov. Looking ahead, we’ll say that after 9 years the singer performed several compositions to the music of Alexander Zatsepin, which were included in the films “The Adventures of Arslan” and “Artist from Gribov”, and in 1989 - the song “Yesterday's Rain”, which became the soundtrack of the film “Woman of the Day” ".
1980 year
The Moscow Olympics has become one of the important milestones in the biography of Tatyana Antsiferova. For the closing ceremony of this grand sporting event, Alexander Pakhmutova wrote the song “Goodbye, Moscow”.
The candidates of Lyudmila Senchina, Valentina Tolkunova and Tatyana Antsiferova were considered as her performers. The first two singers were already stars and universally recognized beauties. However, Pakhmutova made a choice in favor of Antsiferova, and representatives of the CPSU Central Committee, who oversaw the Olympics, agreed with her.
It was originally planned that the singer would sing solo, but then a decision was made about a duet with Lev Leshchenko. It is interesting that Tatyana Antsiferova did not receive a fee for this performance, as the management considered that she was already highly honored.
Further career
1980 was marked for the singer and other achievements. Tatyana Antsiferova (biography, photos in her youth are placed in this material) recorded together with composer V. Reznikov one of her best hits - “Summer Without You”.
In the same period, the record company “Melody” released 2 discs with songs for the picture “June 31” and the album “Recognize Me” with the works of A. Zatsepin to the words of L. Derbenev.
Throughout the 80s, the actress performed songs by V. Reznikov, D. Tukhmanov, V. Matetskiy, Yu. Malikov, V. Presnyakov, I. Nikolaev, I. Efremov, T. Efimov and others.
Disease
However, in the heyday of his singing career, Tatyana Antsiferova was waiting for an unexpected blow of fate. In the spring of 1981, she was diagnosed with diffuse toxic goiter. After 2 years, it became clear that drug treatment is not effective and requires surgical intervention. Antsiferova underwent surgery, and the doctors said that she could no longer sing. However, despite such a forecast, after a while the singer returned to the stage again.
Career in the 90s
In 1986, the biography of Tatiana Vladimirovna Antsiferova was replenished with a significant event - the birth of her son, in connection with which the artist decided to stop the concert activity. Returning to the stage was the participation in the Russian-language production of the rock opera "Jesus Christ is a superstar", for which she performed the part of Mary Magdalene. In parallel with this, Antsiferova recorded an album with the songs of A. Rybkin and K. Kavaleryan.
Another album of the singer in CD format called "Star Bridge" was released in 1996. It included songs of different years.
In addition, in the period 1996-1998, V. Belousov and K. Kavaleryan wrote a series of songs for Antsiferova, which were to make up the unreleased album “Lady Marmalade”.
Since the late 90s, the singer has long worked with her husband at the Stas Namin Theater. The wife of Antsiferova was engaged in arrangements there, and she recorded musical numbers for performances.
Creativity in recent decades
At the beginning of the new millennium, the singer disappeared from the field of view of fans. However, in 2007, she recorded the song Magic Eyes by A. Zatsepin to the verses of Marina Michelet in a duet with American virtuoso guitarist Al Di Meola.
In 2008, the “Record Me” CD was released at the E-Records studio. The album includes old songs by Antsiferova in the new version.
In 2013, the singer sang a duet with Dmitry Revyakin, performing the song “Year 1904” for the album Grandi Canzoni.Opus 1.
In addition, she gave and is still giving vocals. Thanks to them, many talented young performers were able to succeed.
