Lonely vagabond of love: the personal life of Valery Leontiev

Russian Miku Jagger - Valery Leontiev is almost 67 years old, and he is also irresistible, energetic and insanely popular. But unlike the shocking rocker, the personal life of Valery Leontiev has always been kept secret. But the more mysterious a person is, the more interesting it is. What just did not come up with a legendary singer for more than 40 years, storytelling journalists. Fortunately the biography of Leontyev is so confusing that it is possible to compose and compose. And every new piquant fiction added to his popularity. Whatever they say about him, he was only mysterious, and sometimes mockingly smiling, and only the only gossip took him out of himself, so much so that the singer had to reassure the entire leadership of the "First Channel". And it's no wonder whoever wants to be a relative of Hitler. In the life of a cult personality, there are so many mysteries that we do not know how to begin. Let's start, perhaps, from the stove - from the birth of Valery Leontiev.

From the handyman to the pop star: Biography of Valery Leontiev

According to the official version, Valery Leontiev was born in March 1949 in the village of Ust-Usa in the Komi Republic in the family of Yakov and Katerina Leontyev. And according to an unofficial version he was the son of his 16-year-old "sister" Maya. To hide the disgrace of her daughter, the 43-year-old grandmother became his mother. Who was the real father of the future singer - the secret behind the seven wax seals. According to one version - a gypsy, God knows how to be in the edges of permafrost, and on the other - a minor fellow villager. So it or not so - yes who knows. They say that Valery Leontiev learned the secret of his birth in 2005, before the death of Maya.

Maya Rudaya (Leontief)

The family moved thrice from place to place, until it settled in the town of Yuryevets. In the new school, the strange boy was not loved. However, this is not surprising - white crows everywhere are shunned. In the 50s of the last century in the USSR, a boy smearing his face with cream "Snowflake" and sewing outfits - an obdurate savagery. Recognition that you are an alien, fallen from the Alpha Centauri, would cause less surprise among classmates.

Leontiev from early childhood was very artistic, but his parents did not very much welcome his talents. Later, Valery admits that they often "knocked out of him dope," and both at once. The future singer studied in a drama circle, soloed in the choir, drew, danced and studied at a music school. All this he did intuitively and absolutely did not dream of a creative career. At the end of the school, Leontiev wanted to enter the Far Eastern University and become an oceanologist, but the family did not collect the ticket for the ticket. But the ticket to Moscow was enough, and Valery submitted documents to GITIS, to the acting department. And 2 weeks later he took it. Robustness, indecision, poverty, provincial complexes and eternal parental reproaches about his oddities have done their job. After returning to his native Yuryevets Valery began to work. The electrician, the postman, the carpenter, the handyman, the loader and even tailor-cutter. Then there were 3 courses of the mining institute and a turn in consciousness - Valery realized that he wanted to sing, and that thousands of eyes were looking at him.

A thorny path to the glory of Valery Leotyev

From the contest of young talents in Syktyvkar the singer's career began. It was in 1972, and 40 years later he will say: "If I had a chance to start over, I would never have repeated my path." The revolutionary in the world of stage performances with his performances on the stage was breaking down the stubborn Soviet stereotypes and shocked his colleagues - frozen mummies. It was all wrong: bright appearance, adjusted by plastic operations, relaxed movements, hypnotizing voice, unusual costumes invented and sewn by himself, non-standard choreography.

He was removed from the airwaves, forbidden to go on stage, cut out of Ogonyok, closed the doors in the studio, did not print his photo, and he, contrary to all and all, released albums, collected huge stadiums and caught thousands of bouquets from enthusiastic fans. Perestroika opened for the singer all the doors, and it was already impossible to stop ...

Personal life Valeria Leotieva: family, wife, children

They say that a person with that name could have a brighter and more saturated personal life. But who knows how it really was. It is rumored that the very first romance happened right after school. Leontiev fell in love with Katya Kosterin and left the parental home. 2 years they lived in a civil marriage, and then dispersed when Katya became pregnant. Classmates are sure that the father of Irina, Katina's daughter, is Valery Leontiev.

House Katya Kosterina, right Irina Lazareva (classmates consider her daughter Leontief)

He was credited with many novels - with the Valley, Vaikule, Pugacheva, Laura Quint. Laura was the only woman who admitted that their relationship was real and lasted 9 years, but they parted because of jealousy and resentment.

Valery Leontiev and Laura Quint

In the last two decades, Leontiev was credited with other novels - with men. How much he did not dissuade journalists, that he was not gay, they did not believe him. They poured oil into the fire with a strange relationship with Alexander Bogdanovich, whom the press firstly dubbed Leontiev's son. The singer himself did not recognize kinship, but hinted at a strong male friendship.

And then everyone found out about the woman who played a fateful role in his fate ...

Valery Leontiev and Lyudmila Isaakovich: a comfortable wife or the love of the century?

It was Lyudmila Isaakovich, the head of the ensemble "Echo", heard Valery in one of the Syktyvkar restaurants and offered him a job. So began the ascent of the star to Olympus. They lived together for 20 years in a civil marriage, and then flew overseas and there officially became a husband and wife. And after the wedding, they were on both sides of the ocean (Lyudmila stayed in Miami, and Valery returned to Russia), but continued to be a family, although occasionally they saw - 2-3 months a year. But the wife did not want a child, and Leontiev even thought about a surrogate mother.

Valery Leontiev and Lyudmila Isaakovich

The singer himself will somehow call his relationship with Lyudmila Isaakovich a marriage-friendship, true, "not the first freshness and not the first passion." And later he will answer the burning question, asked a million times, the question of the next journalist about his personal life: "My second half is my fans. Everything I did on stage, I did for them. Soul aunt, maternally squeezes me after the concerts, and carefully handing household dishes, and young girls who are so touchingly express their emotions. I can not imagine life without them, probably, that's why I'm not leaving. "

More than 40 years "all run, run, run, run, but he shines with them." And why? Yes, because he is in love with life, like his traffic light from the famous song. This is such a mysterious Valery Leontiev, whose personal life is so interesting to all fans. What is the difference that there was or was not in that personal life, the main thing after all is different: He switched on himself, To the fate of both yours and my Green light lasted.