Valery Meladze celebrates 50th anniversary

Today's celebration is celebrated by popular performer Valery Meladze. In a recent interview, the singer admitted that he dreams of celebrating this holiday in silence, without guests and a noisy feast. The artist would like to sum up some years spent alone with his thoughts and memories. The reason for this decision is that Valery Meladze, according to his confession, has not yet decided some issues in his personal life that would allow him to collect all his children at the same table.

As you know, the artist has three daughters from his first marriage, and two sons from Albina Dzhanabaeva. After Valery at the beginning of last year divorced his wife Irina, the older children of the musician in any way do not want to communicate with younger brothers. Judging by the latest news about the personal life of the artist, this situation in the family is very oppressive to the singer, he is looking for opportunities to bring his children closer.

Despite the fact that the artist did not plan to celebrate his holiday, he received today a very original and unexpected gift. Colleagues and friends of the singer recorded a whole album, consisting of cover versions for songs, which at various times was performed by Valery Meladze. Albina Dzhanabaeva, Vera Brezhneva, Elka, Vintazh group, VIA Gra, Anna Semenovich and others took part in recording the CD. Particularly pleasant for Valery, probably, will hear the composition "Contrary to", performed by his older brother Constantine, who also took part in the preparation of the musical surprise. As you know, Constantine is the author of the famous hits, but he never performs his works. For the sake of his brother, the composer made a rare exception.

Other performers have chosen no less popular songs by Valery Meladze. So, Vera Brezhneva sang the hit "Salute, Vera!", Changing the name to "Valera" in it. Albina Dzhanabaeva performed the song "She said you," Anna Semenovich chose "Dream" and "VIA Gra" sang the lyrics "Parallel". Right now on the portal Youtube you can see the video of the disk, which from the first seconds intrigues the viewer:

Valeriy Meladze. Start

Valery Meladze was born in Baku in the hereditary family of engineers Nelly Akakievna and Shota Konstantinovich Meladze. After graduation, there was not even a question about the future profession - of course, an engineer. Following his older brother, Constantine, Valery enters the shipbuilding institute of the city of Nikolaev. And here the first step was taken to the big stage: the brothers became participants of the institute ensemble with the unpretentious name "April": Valery sang, and Constantine played keyboards and did arrangements.

In 1989, the Meladze brothers were invited to the "Dialogue" group, and in 1993 at the Kiev festival of flowers "Roksolana" Valery performed the song "Do not disturb my soul, violin", which soon became a hit. A year later appeared "Sara", and then - the album "The Last Romantic".