Allegrova Irina

Irina Aleksandrovna Allegrova was born on January 20, 1952 in Rostov-on-Don. Her father, Alexander Grigorievich Sarkisov, was a theater director and actor, Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR, her mother, Serafima Mikhailovna Sosnovskaya, was an opera singer. When the singer's 17-year-old father worked in the circus, he was called "Allegris", therefore, becoming an operetta artist, he took the pseudonym Alexander Allegrov, and his daughter Irina received this surname at birth.
As a child, Irina did not know how to sing, but she had a well-developed inner ear. This became clear when her parents finally sent her to a music school.
In 1959, the family moved to Baku, where Irina graduated from school and received her primary music education at the Central Music School at the Baku Conservatory (piano class, specialty - pianist-accompanist), but never studied vocals.
In the tenth grade, when she had to take exams, Irina went on tour with a radio and television orchestra.
After school, Irina planned to study at the Conservatory itself, but she became seriously ill during the entrance exams and was unable to enter the university.
She got married for the first time early, at 18 years old. She loved one person, but he preferred another to her. And in revenge on him, Irina married a young man who had long sought her favor. She later spoke about her marriage like this: “I consider it a serious mistake. First, young people need to live together, feel each other, and then have a child.' In practice, it turned out quite the opposite: soon the newlyweds had a daughter, Lala, but this did not make their marriage stronger. The young couple did not understand each other and were forced to divorce. They broke up and since then neither Irina nor her daughter have met with this person.
Two years after the birth of her daughter, Irina set off to conquer Moscow. She left her two-year-old daughter Lala in the care of her mother; the young grandmother was forced to leave the stage of the Baku Operetta Theater forever.
In the capital, Irina managed to get a job as a singer in the variety show of the Arbat and Starry Sky restaurants in the National Hotel. In the first she worked for a year, in the second - four months, because there were many hunters for her body, and she was guided by the principle: "Love is one thing, a horizontal position is another." One day, a famous composer called her and offered to give her a song in return for an intimate relationship. And when I realized that this would not happen, I threw up my hands: “You are not a singer of my type.” Irina said in an interview: “I don’t think that today paying with one’s own body is the main payment. But during times of stagnation, this happened all the time. I became widely known, when I was no longer a young girl, precisely because I refused. Understand, I do not condemn those people who went for this, just as I do not condemn women of the most ancient profession - the winners, no matter how cynical it sounds, are not judged. Everyone has their own ideas about dignity and morality. I’m not a bluestocking either, but I’ve always considered the relationship between a man and a woman to be a sacrament mixed with feelings. And I would never sleep with someone in order to achieve my goals, although there were a lot of similar hints and proposals.'
Irina worked for several years in Leonid Utesov's orchestra. In 1984, she met young producer Vladimir Dubovitsky and soon married him.
A year later, Dubovitsky decided to promote Irina on his own and brought her to the composer Oscar Feltsman, without telling him that this young girl was his wife. Feltsman drove her through his songs and said: “Order!” And literally a few weeks later she performed his songs at the composer’s creative evening; their creative collaboration turned out to be successful. In 1985, she joined the group “Moscow Lights” under the leadership of O. Feltsman.
In the same 1985, Vladimir Dubovitsky, together with David Tukhmanov, created the Electroclub group, whose first soloists were Irina Allegrova and Igor Talkov. But the group did not achieve popularity with its original lineup. The best song of that period is "Dark Horse".
In 1987, together with I. Talkov, Irina won her first award on the professional stage - she took second place in the All-Union competition of performers "Golden Tuning Fork".
In the summer of the same year, three musicians from the Forum group joined the Electroclub group, among whom was the super popular singer Viktor Saltykov in those years. The group's popularity increased. Suffice it to say that more than 500 fans came to the station to see off the musicians.
In 1987-1989, Irina worked at the Electroclub, where V. Saltykov replaced I. Talkov.
But despite the popularity of the group, being in it began to weigh on Irina. She wanted to sing lyrical songs, which she couldn’t do as part of a group. When she tried to get permission to include several songs by Igor Nikolaev in her repertoire, she was strictly refused. In the end, her patience ran out and in 1990 she left the vocal-instrumental ensemble "Electroclub" and divorced Dubovitsky (he later married singer Tatyana Ovsienko).
Irina Allegrova began her solo career in 1990 very successfully; her first hit was the song “My Wanderer,” written by Igor Nikolaev. A year later, readers of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper recognized her as “the best singer of the year.” Then Irina remained the best singer for another 3 years in a row: “God loves a trinity, I can’t imagine what will happen later.”
After leaving the group, Irina was her own producer for some time. Then she took two directors to help her - Khizri Baytaziev and Abram Sandler. In those years, Irina mainly performed songs by Igor Nikolaev. In 1990-1992 she performed with Igor in the first part of his show. In the fall of 1992, the singer’s first 5 solo concerts took place at the Olimpiyskiy (Moscow), which were a huge success with the public. Her unusual, hoarse voice (she started smoking at the age of 30 to lower her timbre and stand out among other singers with high voices), relaxed, even defiant behavior on stage, sincerity and sincerity of her songs, and frank femininity attracted the attention of the public and allowed her to take her place on the domestic stage. Her sensual songs about the difficult fate of women became a revelation for the audience and an object of special love. The most famous are “Junior Lieutenant”, “Photograph 9 by 12”, “Toy”.
After Moscow in 1992, Irina gave her first solo concerts in St. Petersburg, and a year later she already showed a program at the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall, then in America and Israel. In 1992, her first solo album, “My Wanderer,” was released.
Performing the songs of Nikolaev alone for a long time, Irina once decided to experiment and included Victor Chaika’s song “Transit Passenger” in her repertoire, which immediately became a hit. Later, Chaika wrote such hits for her as “The Hijacker” and “Drafts”.
In 1993, the public became aware of Irina’s affair with a dancer from her group, Igor Kapusta. Igor Kapusta (185 cm, then 33 years old) worked for six months in a male dance duet that accompanied the singer. Igor graduated from the Vaganova School in St. Petersburg, served for some time at the Mariinsky (Kirov) Theater, then went to the stage and worked for several years in the famous dance group 'Recital' (which began in the bowels of the Alla Pugacheva Song Theater). On May 8, 1994, Irina Allegrova married him in a church on Nezhdanova Street, without being signed, using someone else’s passports. Later they never formalized the relationship through the registry office. The circle of invitees was narrow and consisted of relatives and closest family friends. After the wedding, they moved outside the city to a luxurious three-story house with a swimming pool, purchased from composer Oscar Feltsman. They separated at the beginning of the year 2000, confirming the words of the singer, said in one interview in 99, that she could not live with any of her husbands for more than 6 years, this is a “critical age” for each of her marriages.
1994 brought not only happiness - Irina’s father, with whom she was very close, died. She was in a hurry with the wedding in order to have time to receive his blessing, and that’s what happened, two weeks later he was gone.
In 1994, Irina received the Ovation Award as “best pop singer.” The same year the album “My Betrothed” was released.
In April 1995, Irina Allegrova’s solo concerts were held at the State Kremlin Palace and the album “The Hijacker” was released.
From 1996 to 1998 she worked with Igor Krutoy. In 1996, their first joint album, “I Will Part the Clouds with My Hands,” was released. Then, on 03/09/98, the album “Unfinished Romance” was released, which also contained only Krutoy’s songs. These albums became the basis for two solo programs shown at the State Central Concert Hall "Russia" - "I will part the clouds with my hands" (1996 and repeated in 1997) and "An Unfinished Romance" (1998).
On July 27, 1997 the album “Empress” was released, and on November 25, 1999 the album “Theatre...” was released, which, on the contrary, did not contain a single song by Krutoy. Irina explains it this way: “There was a time when he wanted to give me his songs, and I wanted to sing them. But like all creative people, we need a break from each other. This does not mean forever.” “There was the Nikolaev period, then Chaika, Krutovsky - and now mine, Allegrovsky,” Irina said at the presentation of the album.
Nevertheless, in 2001, an album without Krutoy, “All Over Again,” was released again, which did not include Krutoy’s songs previously recorded, performed at creative evenings, and included in collections.
Irina Allegrova herself does not write songs. Most of her repertoire includes songs by Igor Nikolaev, Viktor Chaika, Igor Krutoy, although recently she has been actively collaborating with other authors, including little-known ones and even from among her fans.
The singer doesn’t have many clips, but each of them is unique in its own way. In 1995, the scandalous video “Enter Me” was shot (directed by Tigran Keosayan, cameraman Yuri Lyubshin). According to the plot, the heroine of Irina Allegrova comes to the museum and the paintings come to life play out scenes of passion. Not a single channel dared to show this erotic video on their air. Before that, Irina’s videos were also quite frank, and in 1993, Irina actually starred for the video application of the erotic magazine “Andrey”. In the video “Transit Passenger” (1993), her stunt double was shown in a bathtub, naked and covered in foam lace, and in the video “I Will Win You Back,” the biblical myth of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene was played out in a unique way, which caused a lot of talk from viewers and the press.
Irina Allegrova also tried herself as a writer, but she believes that this experiment was a failure and does not like to talk about it. A total of three of her romance novels were published - "More Than Love", "Paradise Island" and "The Theorem of Love".
Now Irina’s family consists of her mother, adult daughter Lala and grandson Alexander, named after his great-grandfather. It was to her grandson that Allegrova dedicated the album “Theatre...”.

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