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.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.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.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