Muslim Magomayev from an unexpected angle. Muslim Magomayev's nephew passed a DNA test in Dmitry Shepelev's program About the vicissitudes of fame
The popularity of Muslim Magomayev was phenomenal. A live queue for his solo performances lined up several weeks before the concert, and on the coveted day, the halls and stadiums were literally bursting with the number of spectators, entrance doors were demolished by crowds of fans. He was not just a public favorite, an idol - he was a fetish, an idol, a deity. They literally carried him in their arms - they lifted the car with him sitting in the cabin and carried him. He was worshiped, he was idolized...
About the vicissitudes of fame
Surprisingly, People's Artist of the USSR Muslim Magomayev was not arrogant and did not boast of his glory. On the contrary, he was very skeptical about it. Once Irina Ivanovna Maslennikova, the wife of another idol, Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev, whose fans of her husband even splashed acid in her face, told Muslim Magomayev’s wife Tamara Sinyavskaya: “I understand you like no one else. My fate was similar to yours." True, Sinyavskaya managed without poisons, but her husband was persecuted quite a bit.
“Popularity has very unpleasant sides,” said Magomayev, “when, for example, buttons are torn off, clothes are torn off. I remember in Leningrad, during the play “The Barber of Seville,” my shoes whistled out of the dressing room, and then they told me that they had been cut into small pieces and distributed to those who are especially thirsty... It’s hard. Not because popularity as such is hard. Of course, the love of the audience is pleasant.”
About cultures and religions
Magomayev, who combined two cultures - Azerbaijani and Russian, was, in his words, an “extremely international” person.
“I formulated this for myself,” said the artist, “Azerbaijan is my father, Russia is my mother. Yes, I grew up in Baku, but, honestly, I can’t say that I had a preference oriental culture. At home we only spoke Russian, and Azerbaijani was not compulsory to study at school. So if it's about Azerbaijani language I understand, but I can’t speak myself.
I lived in an international family, and many bloods were united within me. On the paternal side - Azerbaijani and Tatar, on the maternal side - Adyghe, Turkish and Russian. Musical culture I studied European and Russian music, but we didn’t study national music. Although I respect her very much.
Just like any religion. Without giving preference to any one. I am against any radicalism. I have read the Koran, I know the Bible and Gospels well, I have seriously studied other religions, and nowhere have I read a single line about the denial of other religions. I can equally go into a mosque and into Buddhist temple, and Orthodox.
About ancestors
The singer received his name in honor of his grandfather, Abdul-Muslim Magomayev, an outstanding Azerbaijani composer and conductor, one of the founders of Azerbaijani classical music. The grandson did not find his famous predecessor, who passed away five years before his birth - in 1937. However, from early childhood he was aware of the responsibility for such a relationship: “Suffice it to say that the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic in Baku is named after Muslim Magomayev, my grandfather and namesake.”
The father of the future Soviet idol is Magomed, younger son Abdul-Muslim Magomayev and his wife Baidigul, were also musically gifted, sang superbly and played the different instruments. However, he did not become a professional musician.
“He realized himself creatively as a theater artist, worked in the theaters of Baku and Maykop,” the singer recalled. - They say he was very talented. I know that he volunteered to go to the front and died with the rank of senior sergeant a few days before the Victory - in the German town of Küstrin. And he was buried on the territory of Poland. As an adult, I found his grave.”
Magomayev and his mother were difficult relationship. Aishet Akhmedovna Magomayeva (stage name Kinzhalova) was a dramatic actress.
“After being informed of her father’s death, she went to the Maykop Drama Theater, where she once met him. But mother never worked for a long time in any theater. Due to her constant movements around the cities of Russia, she early childhood left me in the care of my grandmother Baidigul and uncle Jamal, my father’s older brother. My mother appeared in Baku occasionally, always suddenly and also unexpectedly disappeared. Over time, she formed another family, and I can’t blame her for anything.”
About childhood
“As a child I began to grow wild, and smart people They advised me to take up the barbell so that I wouldn’t turn into “Uncle Styopa.” I signed up for the weightlifting section and began to attend it regularly. Bully in school years I wasn’t, but I wasn’t particularly well-behaved either. I did everything that a boy should - burned film in class, threw away diaries with bad grades... As a child, I was affectionately called Musick, and another boy, my classmate and friend, the Armenian Rudolf, was Rudik. Since we were playing pranks as a couple, it was constantly written on the blackboard in the classroom: “Musik and Rudik again behaved badly, violated school discipline.”
The gifted naughty boy began singing at the age of three, and at the age of five he composed his first melody. Many years later, together with the poet Anatoly Gorokhov, Magomayev wrote the song “The Nightingale Hour” based on it.
Muslim Magomaev. Photo from personal archive
Muslim did not have a transitional period for his voice, the so-called “withdrawal” that occurs in boys during puberty. It’s just that at the age of 14, the boyish treble was replaced by a baritone - the inimitable Magomayev. Which the teenager was so embarrassed at first that, in secret from everyone, he ran away to a secluded place on the shore of the Caspian Sea - and sang there, straining his ligaments to shout above the noise of the surf. “I couldn’t help but sing,” Magomayev recalled.
About marriages
“I got married for the first time very early, at the age of 19, while studying at a music school. On a classmate named Ophelia. The stupidity, of course, is youthful, implicated in the principle: if you fall in love, get married. Of course, the marriage did not last long. My family was initially against this marriage, but I was stubborn. We signed in secret, and I simply presented my family with a fait accompli.
He moved to live with his young wife, but coexistence with her relatives did not work out. They demanded one thing from me - that I go out of my way to make money. But I was only attracted to music, I wanted to sing in the opera house. In general, this marriage was good only because my daughter Marina was born in it. It’s very valuable to me that Marina and I are very close.”
Marina, daughter of Muslim Magomayev. Photo from personal archive
Allen, grandson of Muslim Magomayev. Photofrom personal archive
Muslim Magometovich considered his second marriage to be unregistered family union with Lyudmila Borisovna Kareva - music editor of All-Union Radio. Due to the fact that in Soviet time a man and a woman who had not registered their relationship at the registry office were prohibited from living in the same hotel room; while on tour, the couple constantly had problems. They were removed with one stroke of the pen by the then Minister of Internal Affairs Nikolai Shchelokov. Having heard about the current situation at one of the banquets, he wrote a resolution right there with his signature, according to which the marriage between the said citizens should be considered actual and their joint residence in hotels should be allowed. But even despite such high patronage, the union fell apart over time.
About the woman of my life
Magomaev called Tamara Sinyavskaya “the woman of his whole life.”
“Tamara assures that before I paid attention to her, we were introduced at concerts three times,” said the singer. - But I don’t remember anything like that. But I remembered her very well as a magnificent opera singer when I watched the broadcast from the Concert Hall. Tchaikovsky. And we started communicating in 1972, October 3 - ten days Russian culture in Baku".
Muslim MagomaevAndTamara Sinyavskaya. Photo: East News
Meeting Magomayev turned the well-established life of 29-year-old Tamara upside down. Feeling that she was caught in a whirlpool of love that she was unable to resist, she - married woman- made a last attempt to preserve her former stable and prosperous existence and three months after they met, she literally ran away from Muslim. She went to Italy for an internship at the La Scala theater.
But the separation only marked the beginning of a romance - first by telephone. Muslim, spoiled by the adoration of millions of women, called his only beloved several times every day, and they talked for hours.
About the wedding
“We got married on November 23, 1974, having gone through a difficult period - Tamara had to decide to divorce her husband. But even then we delayed for a long time in formalizing the relationship, somehow we were not internally ready, apparently we were all testing each other’s strength.”
Muslim Magomaev and Tamara Sinyavskaya. Photo: East News
Magomaev and Sinyavskaya celebrated their wedding in a restaurant on Profsoyuznaya Street. There were 100 guests in the hall, and three times as many people gathered on the street. And Muslim sang to the assembled people about an hour later. open windows. And then, as Tamara recalled, he was treated for bronchitis for three months.
About a sore throat
Muslim Magomayev, a singer with unique vocal abilities, became addicted to smoking at the age of 19 and smoked almost incessantly, several packs of cigarettes a day. At the same time, he suffered from chronic tracheitis and bronchitis.
“Once I flew to perform at a national concert in Kemerovo, at the stadium,” the singer recalled. - And on the same day I fell ill: the temperature was 39 degrees. Red eyes, chills, it’s uncomfortable even to appear in public. People will see and think: drunk. And I asked the organizers to prepare a soundtrack for me. I used this extremely rarely, only at the Palace of Congresses - it was forced. There it was impossible to do otherwise, the management was afraid of live sound, what if someone said something about Brezhnev.
They prepared this unfortunate phonogram for me, and I trudged to the piano. Well, I hit the keys and am waiting for my “plywood”. But instead of sound I hear the squeak of a mosquito. It didn't turn on. And out of horror I screamed, “Along along St. Petersburg.” And then I sang everything I had to to the end.
Twice I completely lost my voice. Shortly before the anniversary of Alla Borisovna Pugacheva, where I was supposed to sing, I was left without a voice. The doctor said: “You can’t even whisper.” Well, I was silent for a day, I looked - it seemed like nothing. I took the Coca-Cola I loved from the refrigerator, poured it into a mug, put some ice in it, got drunk, sat down at the piano and started playing. Two days later everything went fine - the voice “turned on.”
Magomayev left with big stage without any loud statements, “final tours” and “farewell concerts”. He just stopped performing one day, giving a very modest comment about his departure into the shadows: “I sang a lot and for quite a long time. It’s time to give way to the young.”
Muslim Magomaev. Photo: Sergey Ivanov
Magomaev Yuri Yurievich born on September 12, 1979 in the city of Murmansk. Since childhood, his mother wanted him to grow up to be a musical person and therefore sent him to piano tutors, and at the age of 7 Yura entered a music school, while simultaneously studying in the boys’ choir at the S.M. Palace of Culture. Kirov. “A talented person should be talented not only in music, but also in dancing” - this was the opinion of Yuri’s aunt, Tatyana, Muslim Magomayev’s sister, and without thinking twice, Yuri began to attend ballroom dancing in the Inter-Union Palace, where, after working out a little, he realized that dancing was not for him and gave up classes.
After graduating from school, I decided to enter a music school in the pop department, but, carried away by work and making money, I quickly forgot about this idea. Then, already at the age of 18, he had the opportunity to work in the best restaurants in the city, and three years later he rushed to Sochi for seasonal work, where he stayed for 10 years, periodically returning home to his native Murmansk in the winter, and already in 2006 he completely moved to Moscow.
About some musical career Yura never thought about it. After the death of Muslim Magomayev, a symbol of the Soviet stage, everything turned upside down. The surname Magomayev became famous thanks to Muslim’s grandfather, known as Abdul Muslim Magomed ogly Magomayev, born in 1885. In 1935, Magomayev was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR. His grandson, Muslim Magometovich himself, also became his follower.
“Since childhood I have not attached special significance relationship with the famous Muslim Magomayev, and that in the future I will be proud of such an uncle, and that I myself bear the surname given by my father,” says Yura. It is known that Yura’s dad, Magomaev Yuri Leontievich, brother Muslim Magometovich on his mother’s side also devoted his entire life to music. One way or another, for Yura, the passing of Uncle Muslim greatly influenced him to rethink his life and try himself not only as a restaurant musician - a DJ. At that very moment, Max Oleinikov, a friend and later a companion, had already clearly defined further creative plans, writing the first two songs: “For the Beloved” and “You, like everyone else,” which became the beginning of a new path in the life of Yura Magomaev.
“Max and I have been friends for a long time, we worked together in Sochi, we were involved in my project for a long time,” says Yuri. “We worked on the first album for almost two years until it was released. The album is called “Fly Away” and it includes 15 compositions, one of which is a duet between Max and me, the song “It’s High There.” Now new songs are being recorded for new albums, and Maxim left our project and is now successfully pursuing his solo career.”
The key point on creative path Thanks to Yuri's friends, he met the legendary Evgeniy Semyonovich Penkhasov, the father of the famous Katya Ogonyok (Kristina Penkhasova), a soulful performer in the "Chanson" genre, who became Yuri's teacher and close friend.
About family life Yura tries not to spread the word. He has a son and daughter and believes that knowing this is enough. His mother told us how inquisitive Yura was as a child and always striving upward, just like the planes, which he could admire for hours. “He really wanted to be a pilot civil aviation, but because of my eyesight, it didn’t make sense to enter a flight school,” says Elena Ivanovna. Computer program and flight simulators to this day are an integral part of Yura’s life, thanks to which, at least for a short time, he feels in a different role.
October 25 at age 66 due to coronary disease hearts in Moscow, Muslim Magomayev, the famous Soviet singer, whose work paradoxically combined classics, Soviet patriotism and love for Western music, died.
Since Muslim Magomayev's first solo concert at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall 45 years ago, the country has considered him a standard of pop artist. On October 28, they said goodbye to Muslim Magomayev in the same hall. “Muslim, you are our lost miracle,” said Alexandra Pakhmutova. Of course, the words about loss referred not only to the death of the singer, but also to for many years his life spent away from the place on Olympus that he deserved. It was not for nothing that journalists noted that many treated the memorial service in Moscow not only as a farewell, but also as an occasion to meet with the artist, who was silent in the last period of his life. “We knew that he was sick and suffering from loneliness, but we did nothing to help him,” said Joseph Kobzon. Muslim Magomayev was buried in Baku, next to his famous grandfather and uncle.
The rapid success of Muslim Magomayev is most easily explained by his origin. It's easy to make a career when the Philharmonic in your city actually wears your name. Muslim Magomayev was the full namesake of his grandfather, after whom the Baku Philharmonic is named.
Muslim Magomayev Sr. is considered the founder of Azerbaijani classical music. Having graduated from the Transcaucasian Teachers' Seminary in Gori, where violin playing was compulsory subject training, he became a conductor and opera composer even before the revolution. At new government Magomayev began to write music based on Azerbaijani folk motifs with a Soviet twist: he owns “Dance of the Liberated Azerbaijani Woman”, the rhapsody “On the Fields of Azerbaijan” and the opera “Nargiz”, which is considered the pinnacle of his work, the main character which became a peasant girl. In 1935, Magomayev Sr. was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR. But on July 28, 1937, he died in Nalchik, according to the official version - from transient consumption. Some media already in our time suggested that he was repressed and shot, but it is unlikely that the name of the repressed person was assigned to the Baku Philharmonic in the same 1937. So in in this case The official version is most likely true.
Muslim Magomayev's parents were also creative people. Father Magomet Magomaev is a theater artist and amateur musician. He went to the front as a volunteer, and in 1945, nine days before the end of the war, he died in the small town of Küstrin near Berlin. Mother is a theater actress.
But Muslim was brought up in his uncle’s family, younger brother father. Jamal-Eddin Magomayev was a major party and economic figure. After the war - Deputy Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, later - member of the Central Committee of the republic, permanent representative of the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan in Moscow.
It would seem that the presence of such relatives should explain the rapid success of young Muslim. But it's not that simple.
When the grandson of the great Azerbaijani composer was diagnosed with hearing loss, he was sent to a music school at the conservatory. He was destined for a career as a pianist, but sitting for hours in front of an instrument was not in Muslim’s character. Very soon the young musician took up singing seriously. At the age of 15 he gave his first concert at the Sailor's House. He sang despite the objections of his relatives, who believed that early concert activity would harm the development of his voice.
Muslim Magomayev was really lucky with his family, but he showed evidence of his own worth as a musician already in the very early age. While studying at the vocal department of the music school, he took lessons from the famous Baku conservatory teacher Susanna Mikaelyan. And when he sang, students and teachers gathered under the door of Mikaelyan’s office to listen to Figaro’s cavatina from “The Barber of Seville” and Alyabyev’s “The Nightingale,” which Muslim performed with a ringing youthful soprano. Even then it was clear that this boy was not only the grandson of his grandfather and the nephew of his uncle.
At the age of 20, Muslim Magomayev refuted another stereotype - that “stars” are from national republics The USSR appears mainly according to orders from above and can only decorate government concerts, performing mainly folklore repertoire. In 1962, Magomayev performed at the festival of Azerbaijani art in the Kremlin. Performed "Buchenwald Alarm" by Vano Muradeli and Figaro's aria. “This guy doesn’t take care of himself at all if he repeats such a difficult aria as an encore,” said Ivan Kozlovsky, following the singer’s Baku relatives. Ekaterina Furtseva noted: “Finally, we have a real baritone.” This “with us” became a pass to the league of “Soviet artists”: from now on, Magomayev’s voice was not only the property of his republic, but a value of Union significance, including an export item. Through the Komsomol, Muslim Magomayev went on tour to Finland. The magazine "Ogonyok" published the article "A young man from Baku conquers the world." In 1963, the singer was accepted into the Azerbaijan Opera and Ballet Theater named after Akhundov, but he was already irrevocably “ours”, “common”: no one thought about his Azerbaijani roots anymore.
In 1964-1965, the Soviet singer completed an internship at the La Scala theater in Milan. No other Russian pop performer can boast of such a line in their curriculum vitae. After touring the USSR with material from “Tosca” and “The Barber of Seville,” Muslim Magomayev was offered a job at Grand Theatre, but with all the delight of the opera audience, the young artist clearly understood that his place was on the stage. The invitation of the country's main theater was rejected.
It is not known what was more difficult for him - to say “no” to the Bolshoi or to resist the temptation to stay in Paris, where he was offered a contract at the Olympia Theater. In this hall, Magomayev had resoundingly successful tours in 1966 and 1969; an engagement for a year was offered by the director of the hall, Bruno Cockatrice, but the USSR Ministry of Culture was against it. They wanted to see the singer regularly at Kremlin government concerts. Muslim Magomayev later wrote in his memoirs: “It was possible to stay, but it was impossible. And this was one of the few times in my life when the word “impossible”, which I hated, defeated my favorite word “possible.”
The Motherland did not want to let go of the “real baritone,” but they allowed him many things that others could not even imagine. Partly rightfully people's artist The USSR, which he became at an unprecedented age - at 31 years old. Partly because of the sympathy for him in the highest offices of power. Among his fans were Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov, and they were quite satisfied with the musician’s approach to the repertoire.
The basis of his programs formally consisted of opera arias, romances and songs of patriotic content. But it is still striking that a completely official repertoire coexisted in his performances with songs that were essentially symbols of the corrupting influence of the West. Muslim Magomayev erased the boundary between “serious” and “light” music, which existed both in the set of bureaucratic rules and in the minds of listeners. When such a voice comes into play, the genre fades into the background. Magomayev was a kind of loudspeaker through which soviet people got acquainted with the music of the rest of the world, and quite quickly. And the singer was never wrong in choosing songs.
Even at that very triumphant concert in the Tchaikovsky Hall in 1963, after the official part of the program with works by Bach, Mozart, Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Gadzhibekov, Muslim Magomayev sat down at the piano and sang the twist “24,000 Baci”. This happened just two years after Adriano Celentano performed this hit, the first of his career, at the Sanremo festival. Muslim Magomayev easily coped with “Love Me Tender” by Elvis Presley and “My Way” by Frank Sinatra. And it was Muslim Magomayev’s performance that was preceded by the names “Lennon” and “McCartney” uttered for the first time by the presenter of the concert from the stage of the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions. Magomaev sang the song, announced by the presenter as “Yesterday,” in English.
Muslim Magomayev sang the first Soviet twists “Beauty Queen” and “ Best city Earth" - and twists were no longer considered a capitalist infection. Muslim Magomayev sang the most restaurant Soviet hit "Wedding" - and restaurant hits were registered on the stage. Muslim Magomayev recorded all the male vocal parts for "In the Footsteps of the Bremen Town Musicians", a sequel to the first Soviet cartoon musical " The Bremen Town Musicians", and the genre of the musical was finally recognized in the country's theaters. Magomayev's Troubadour is the most compelling argument in the debate about whether we had rock music capable of standing on par with Western music, and " The sun will rise" performed by him is an absolutely brilliant thing, not inferior to any Lloyd Webber.
Muslim Magomayev never lived from album to album, from hit to hit. By 1974, by the time of his marriage to his second wife, singer Tamara Sinyavskaya, he had already done the most important thing. He proved that even in the strictest political system talent may be close to complete freedom, while remaining popularly loved. He knew exactly when to leave. In one interview, he admitted: “God has assigned a certain time to every voice, every talent, and there is no need to step over it.” He said “no” again - as he once did to the Bolshoi and Olympia. This time - aging in front of the public, the inevitable conversations behind one's back: “healed up”, “wasted away”, “wasted out”. The path of Sinatra, who had sung his gray hair, was not for Magomayev, but, unlike the American crooner, he was initially given more. We will never know whether Magomayev missed the stage in last years life, whether he regretted his almost reclusive life. Comments in this spirit were not in his rules.
Unlike fellow entertainers who, as in the joke, said goodbye but did not leave, Muslim Magomayev never officially announced his retirement and did not organize farewell concerts. He simply reduced the number of performances every year, devoting time to graphics, sculpture, filming, literary work, creating music for theatrical productions. In recent years, he mastered the Internet and actively managed his own website. He rarely appeared on television as a wedding general, but willingly told viewers about the lives of opera and pop stars. I tried not to linger in hospitals. He died without once complaining about his fate.
On the whole she was favorable to him.
Boris Barabanov
08 August 2017
Yuri Magomaev Jr. became talk show hero"In fact".
Muslim Magomayev's nephew passed a DNA test/Photo: frame from the programToday in Dmitry Shepelev’s talk show they discussed the story of Irina Korotkova, who claims that her daughter Veronica was born from Muslim Magomayev. The woman said that she met the legendary artist in a cafe, and after several meetings she realized that she was expecting a child.
“At that moment it didn’t matter to me who was in front of me, what was important to me was his personality. We were just interested in talking. We talked all night and, having exchanged phone numbers, parted. We met only six months later. Even then, I wasn’t sure that Magomayev was next to me, he always introduced himself to Andre and spoke to me in French,” Irina Korotkova told Dmitry Shepelev.
Irina Korotkova claims that she had an affair with Muslim Magomayev/Photo: frame from the program TV presenters and experts in the studio agreed that the story of Muslim Magomayev’s alleged lover was impossible to believe, but a polygraph confirmed that Irina Korotkova could have met with the legendary baritone.
His brother Yuri stood up for the honor of Muslim Magomayev. The man specifically came to the program to find out whether the legendary artist really has a daughter. “Until the age of 30-35, he could still have an affair, but after 50, and that’s when Veronica was born, he could no longer afford such a thing. Moreover, he loved his wife Tamara Sinyavskaya very much,” the man said.
Muslim Magomayev’s brother stood up to defend the honor of his older brother/Photo: frame from the program Dmitry Shepelev unexpectedly recalled that Yuri Magomaev has a rather complicated relationship with his son Yuri. “This is not our blood,” the man said, then the TV presenter suggested doing a DNA test to find out the truth. The analysis confirmed that Yuri Magomaev Jr. is the son of his father.
The alleged daughter of Muslim Magomayev passed a DNA test in the program of Dmitry Shepelev
“All the data indicates that you are Magomayev,” assured Dmitry Sheperev, but the result of a DNA test on the alleged daughter of the great artist did not confirm the relationship. “I don’t believe this document and continue to claim that my girl was born from Magomayev,” said Irina Korotkova.
Stas Mikhailov.
In addition to the wives, children and grandchildren who are dragged onto the stage by living celebrities, relatives of celebrities who have long passed into another world are periodically announced in show business - either the great-grandson of Fyodor Chaliapin’s younger brother, or the illegitimate grandson of Leonid Utesov, or the great-nephew of Valery Obodzinsky. Usually these are “children of Lieutenant Schmidt”, who have nothing to do with their illustrious “ancestors”. One of the few exceptions is the singer from Murmansk Yuri Magomaev, who is indeed the nephew of the late Muslim Magomaev.
The music columnist for Express Gazeta found out from Yuri about where the legendary Azerbaijani’s relatives came from in the distant northern city and whether their high-profile surname helped them in life.
“My dad is the son from the second marriage of Muslim’s mother Aishet Akhmedovna Magomayeva,” said Yuri Magomayev. – She was a theater actress. Her maiden name is Kinzhalova. Everywhere they write that this is a stage name. But it was this last name that appeared on her birth certificate. Before the war, my grandmother married theater artist Magomet Magomayev and moved from her native Maykop to him in Baku. On August 17, 1942, their son Muslim was born. And in 1945, literally a few days before the Victory, Mohammed died at the front. Grandmother needed to continue her studies at the theater institute and at the same time earn a living. She left little Muslim in Baku with the family of his uncle Jamal. And she herself went to Vyshny Volochek, where she was offered a job at the local theater. Then her acting destiny took her to a variety of cities. Soviet Union- Tver, Arkhangelsk, Ulan-Ude, Barnaul, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Chimkent. In Ulan-Ude, she became close to actor Leonty Bronislavovich Kavka. He became her second husband. But they were not officially scheduled. And according to her passport, my grandmother remained Magomayeva. In 1956, their daughter Tanya was born. And in 1958 - son Yura, my dad. Because civil marriages They didn’t admit it then; they had a dash in the “father” column. And Aishet Akhmedovna gave them her last name.
It's no secret that Muslim for a long time He was offended by his mother and believed that she had abandoned him. We have his childhood letters to her, where he wrote: “I miss you very much. Take me to your place!". When Muslim was 9 years old, Aishet Akhmedovna took him to Vyshny Volochek. And they lived together for a whole year. But then she returned Muslim to Baku to his uncle to receive a musical education. Maybe if she had not done this, we would never have seen or heard the Muslim whom everyone knows. It was a thoughtful move on her part. She worried not only about herself, but also about the future of her first-born. What could a widow who wandered around provincial theaters give a child? But Uncle Jamal was far from last person in Baku. He lived in the same house with the singer Bul-Bul, the father of Polad Bul-Bul Ogly, and others famous people. His table was always full of black caviar. “Aishet, don’t be a fool! - Uncle Jamal said. - Leave the child to us! We will provide him with everything he needs." Later, Muslim himself admitted that his mother did the right thing. Their relationship improved. My dad and Aunt Tanya became Muslim’s brother and sister. While still small children, they went with Aishet Akhmedovna to his first wedding and to his first solo concert in the Kremlin. And then we constantly visited him. In 1971, my grandmother received profitable proposition from the Murmansk Regional Drama Theater and moved with her family to Murmansk, where she settled until the end of her days. There, in 1979, I was born. My parents met in a restaurant. Mom worked as a waitress. And dad played the keyboard and sang in a restaurant ensemble. His ensemble was a great success. Everyone predicted a career for him on the professional stage. In 1981, dad tried to get into the TV show “Wider Circle” with his songs. I went specifically to Moscow. Everyone was waiting for it to be shown. But it was never shown. As he explained to everyone, he was allegedly cut out. Only recently it became clear that in fact no filming took place. The creator of "Wider Circle" Olga Molchanova said that her dad actually called her and gave her his notes, but she was not interested in them. Why dad didn’t use the help of his famous brother, I don’t know. At one time, Muslim invited him to Moscow. He offered to work with him. But dad refused. Apparently, he wanted to achieve everything himself. He also refused offers to join the Belarusian ensemble “Pesnyary” and the Kazakh group “Arai”, which was later renamed “A-Studio”. So he worked for 35 years in Murmansk restaurants. I was also introduced to music from childhood. They forced me to go to music school. But after seven years I got so tired of it that after finishing it I didn’t go near the piano at all for a long time. I was more fascinated only by the computer games that appeared here. I sold game consoles. Worked as a children's guard slot machines. And I didn’t think about becoming a musician. But at the age of 17 I was suddenly drawn to the instrument again. For some time I played with my dad in restaurants. And in 2001, he began traveling to Sochi to work. We had musician guys in Murmansk who worked there every summer and returned very happy. “Let me try too!” - I thought. The first time I was lucky. I arrived in Sochi, walked along the embankment and immediately got a job at the Filibuster restaurant near the Zhemchuzhina hotel. And on next year I couldn’t find a job for a whole month and sat hungry and without money. Fortunately, I met a musician friend from whom I had bought branded “cons” the year before. And he married me to the music director of the Rosary restaurant. There was very good job. By the end of the season I had earned myself a Mercedes. In principle, for this money I could buy an apartment in Sochi. But I wanted to show off and return to Murmansk in a good car. After that I sang in the Rosary for four seasons. Then an acquaintance from “Filibuster” invited me to “rock” a new establishment - then “Golden Barrel”, and now “Caravella”. I was already a co-founder there. I brought my sound and light there. And he worked for five seasons until he met a Muscovite and moved to Moscow with her. I met my famous uncle only once in my life, when in 1995 he came to visit us in Murmansk. This was a great event for our city. It was covered by all local media. They even interviewed me. But that didn’t interest me much then. I was 15 years old. And the main thing for me was to go through a new computer game, which I just bought. What famous guys are there?! And when, with age, my life priorities changed, and I myself wanted to meet Muslim, my relatives on my father’s side prevented this in every possible way. Although my parents divorced a long time ago, until a certain time we all communicated normally. I remember how my grandmother came with my dad to my birthday and sang “My Nightingale, Nightingale” to his accompaniment. And I hung out at their house all the time. But every year the relationship became worse and worse. Dad got a young wife - a year younger than me. They could have already told me: “Yura, why did you come without calling?” When my grandmother died of a stroke on August 21, 2003, I learned about it from strangers. Dad and Aunt Tanya didn’t even consider it necessary to notify me. And when I came to Moscow and tried to go visit Muslim, they kept saying: “Don’t you dare! Do not go! They won't let you in there. So we’ll come to Moscow and go to see him together.” Unfortunately, such a case never presented itself.
Just don’t think that I was counting on some kind of help from my uncle. By that time, Muslim was already retired and needed help himself. As far as I know, he actually lived at the expense of the Azerbaijani consulate, from where food was brought to him every day. But most of all, my uncle lacked purely human communication. According to the stories of Aunt Tanya, in Lately he often asked her about our family and wanted to be friends with all relatives. "Come to me! - Muslim told her. - I'm so lonely. My daughter doesn’t come to me.” By the way, I now communicate with his daughter Marina on Odnoklassniki. She lives in Cincinnati, America. He invites me to visit him. But my relationship with Muslim’s widow Tamara Sinyavskaya did not work out. I was introduced to her in 2008 at a farewell to Muslim in the Tchaikovsky Hall. “Yurochka is also Magomayev? – she was surprised. - And he sings too? Oh, how nice!” Then Tamara Ilyinichna asked Aunt Tanya if we had our foreign passports with us. “Fly with me to Baku for the funeral!” - she suggested. I had a foreign passport. And I was ready to fly with her. But dad and aunt, who did not have passports, began to object. “What's the big deal? – I was perplexed. “At least I’ll support the person.” In the end, because of them, I had to refuse. And when Sinyavskaya came to her senses after Muslim’s funeral, she called Aunt Tanya and began to figure out how I, too, became Magomayev and why I perform under this name. To be honest, it was very unpleasant for me.
No less unpleasant words for me were heard at the concert in memory of Muslim, which on the first anniversary of his death was organized by the Azerbaijani millionaire Aras Agalarov in his Crocus City Hall named after Magomayev. “For us, there will always be one and only Magomayev,” Larisa Dolina said then. “We will not give way to other Magomayevs.” And everyone began to assent to her: “We won’t let her!” We won’t give it!” A year ago, at the opening of the monument to Muslim in Voznesensky Lane, I managed to meet Aras Agalarov and his son Emin. My director Yuri Vakhrushev, who, by the way, used to work in the “Wider Circle” program, and I tried to talk with them about possible cooperation. But there are so many ambitions there that they didn’t even listen to us. Apparently, Emin, who also sings, considers himself Magomayev’s heir. And then suddenly some relative appears. Why does he need this? He is in complete chocolate even without me. And I don’t want to ask either. My dad told me since childhood: “Yura, change your last name! Take a pseudonym! According to him, the only thing he regretted all his life was that he did not take a passport when receiving maiden name mothers - Kinzhalov. “There cannot be two Magomayev singers,” he always repeated. I think this is nonsense. I received this surname at birth. And I have every right to wear it. I am especially offended when they ask me: “Yura, aren’t you ashamed to use the surname Magomayev?” To this I answer: “Ask better than Ivan Urgant or Stas Piekha - aren’t they ashamed! And I haven’t received any benefit from my last name yet.”
If anyone tried to profit from Magomayev’s surname, it was some not very decent people who became my friends and offered to take care of my affairs. One of these people was the father of the late “queen of chanson” Katya Ogonyok, Evgeny Semenovich Penkhasov. In 2010, very authoritative people brought me together with him. And at one time he acted as my director. Outwardly, he looked like God's dandelion. But there was a moment when I brought him to clean water. He just specifically robbed me. I instructed him to pay people who provided me with certain services. But the money went into his pocket. I then asked these people. And they are with wide with open eyes They told me: “We didn’t see any money.” Penkhasov behaved equally ugly when he received a call about me from Stas Mikhailov. Some time ago, Stas opened his own production center and was looking for an artist who could become his first project. Apparently, he surfed the Internet, came across me and wanted to meet me. But Penkhasov hid me from Mikhailov for a long time. “Yura, you don’t need this,” he said. - Or let Mikhailov give me money! Then I will let you go." “No shit! – I was surprised. - Why should I give you money? And what does it mean - will you let me go? What are you, my producer? A producer is a person who invests money. But Penkhasov was nobody. He carried out my instructions and was fed thanks to my finances.
Despite Penkhasov’s machinations, I still had a meeting with Stas Mikhailov. We had a very heartfelt conversation. His wife Inna, his director Sergei Kononov and the program director of one of the leading Russian radio stations were present during our conversation. Stas offered me production. “You won’t get further than the La Minor TV channel,” he said. But Stas did not promise anything concrete except beautiful clothes and a ghostly confession. Why do I need these clothes?! His wife showed me some magazine and said: “This is what you will look like!” And there was a picture of some kind of fagot. I imagined myself in the role of this fagot and thought: “Mother of God! I just really didn’t have enough to disgrace the Magomayev family with such a look.” And I politely refused his offer. I myself successfully cope with creative issues. And my friends help me with finances, one of whom, for example, is the head construction company, engaged in the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi. As it turned out later, I terribly offended Stas Mikhailov with my refusal. “You shouldn’t have spoken to him so badly,” they scolded me. What did Mikhailov want? So that the artist forgets about everything in the world out of happiness? As a result, he got such an artist in the person of the co-author of my songs, Maxim Oleinikov.
I met Oleinikov, like many other guys, in Sochi. He came there to work from Volgograd. For ten years we have had the most friendly company among Sochi restaurant musicians. In 2008, Maxim had problems with his apartment in Volgograd. He purchased it on credit from a cooperative. And the cooperative collapsed. Those who did not have time to pay began to take away their apartments through the courts. And he urgently needed to pay off the debt. Friends from Volgograd helped him with half the amount. And I lent him the remaining half. Although my child was about to be born, and there was a hungry winter ahead, I did not demand my money back. At that moment, Maxim opened a cool recording studio, and we agreed that he would work them off by writing songs for me. In Volgograd, the cost of his work was 3-5 thousand. And I wrote him off 15-20 thousand for each song so that he could pay off the debt faster. But we never fully settled with him. After my refusal, Mikhailov turned to Oleinikov. And unlike me, he agreed to work with Stas. A production agreement was signed with Maxim for standard conditions: 10% of income to the artist, 90% to the producer. The money that, according to the information I have, he is now paid per month, would not be enough for me even for a week. And Maxim, for this money, travels with Mikhailov to all cities and towns and performs as his opening act.
And everything would have been fine, but since Maxim did not have his own repertoire, Mikhailov decided that he should perform mine. “On what basis do Oleinikov’s songs belong to you? - they began to make claims against me. “You had nothing to do with their creation.” Maxim wrote them himself. And you came to his studio and only got in the way.” I explained that I bought these songs from him wholeheartedly. It doesn't matter who wrote them. Maxim received the money and gave me exclusive rights to the music and text. Although in fact he did not have ready-made music and ready-made lyrics. There were only sketches. I had to finish them myself. Not a single arrangement or text was written without my participation. Unfortunately for me, as a decent person, I registered these songs with RAO for the two of us - 50 percent each. Oh, by Russian legislation, Oleinikov, as a co-author, had the right to rework them. Taking advantage of this right, he slightly altered my best songs“Fly away” and “It’s high up there.” In particular, “Fly away” was replaced with “Fly” and rearranged a couple of notes in the arrangement. And he began to perform these songs in Stas’s concerts as his own. “I don’t decide anything,” Max later justified himself. – The producers decide everything. I didn't want to sing these songs. I didn't want to for a whole year. But they forced me." I'm not offended by Oleinikov. He is now a forced man. But his producer, in my opinion, behaved ugly. I never got anything for free in my life. Why should I give someone songs that I honestly paid for?
