Valery Miladovich Syutkin (born 1958) - Soviet and Russian pop singer, musician, composer, songwriter for the Bravo rock group.
Honored Artist of Russia, Professor of the Vocal Department, and Artistic Director of the Variety Department of Moscow State University for the Humanities. Member of the Authors 'Council of the Russian Authors' Society, honorary art worker of the city of Moscow.
There are many interesting facts in the biography of Syutkin, which we will tell about in this article.
So, here is a short biography of Valery Syutkin.
Biography of Syutkin
Valery Syutkin was born on March 22, 1958 in Moscow. He grew up and was brought up in a family that has nothing to do with show business.
His father, Milad Alexandrovich, taught at the Military Engineering Academy, and also took part in the construction of Baikonur. Mother, Bronislava Andreevna, worked as a junior research assistant in one of the capital's universities.
Childhood and youth
The first tragedy in the biography of Syutkin occurred at the age of 13, when his parents decided to leave. In high school, he developed a keen interest in rock and roll, as a result of which he began to listen to the music of Western rock bands.
In the early 70s, Valery was a member of several musical groups in which he played drums or bass guitar. After receiving the certificate, he briefly worked as an assistant cook in the restaurant "Ukraine".
At the age of 18, Syutkin went to the army. He served in the Air Force as an aircraft mechanic in the Far East. However, even here the soldier did not forget about creativity, playing in the military ensemble "Flight". An interesting fact is that it was in this group that he first tried himself as a vocalist.
Returning home, Valery Syutkin worked for some time as a railway loader, bartender and guide. In parallel with this, he went to auditions for various Moscow groups, trying to connect his life with the stage.
Music
In the early 80s, Syutkin participated in the "Telephone" group, which has published 4 albums over the years. In 1985 he moved to the Zodchie rock group, where he sang with Yuri Loza.
A couple of years later, Valery founded the Feng-o-Men trio, with which he recorded the disc, Granular Caviar. At the same time he won the Audience Award at the International Festival "Step to Parnassus".
After that, Syutkin worked for 2 years in the troupe of Mikhail Boyarsky, where he sang songs to the accompaniment of the orchestra. All-Union fame came to him in 1990, when he was offered a place as a soloist in the group "Bravo". He changed the repertoire, performing style and also wrote many lyrics for songs.
In the period 1990-1995. the musicians released 5 albums, each of which featured hits. The most popular songs performed by Syutkin were "Vasya", "I am what I need", "What a pity", "Road to the clouds", "Love the girls" and many other hits.
In 1995, another change took place in the biography of Valery Syutkin. He decides to leave Bravo, after which he creates the Syutkin and Co group. This collective has released 4 discs. An interesting fact is that the composition "7000 above the ground", from the album "What You Need" (1995), was recognized as the best hit of the year.
At the beginning of the new millennium, Syutkin expanded the composition of the musicians, changing the name of the group to "Syutkin Rock and Roll Band". Over the years this team has recorded 3 records: "Grand collection" (2006), "New and better" (2010) and "Kiss slowly" (2012).
In the spring of 2008, Valery Syutkin was awarded the title of “Honored Artist of Russia. In 2015, together with the musicians "Light Jazz", he released the disc "Moskvich-2015", and a year later the mini-album "Olympiyka" was recorded.
In 2017, Valery took part in the Voices in the Metro project, sounding stations on one of the Moscow metro lines. He became the author of the play "Delight", which he presented in the shopping center "Na Strastnom", playing a key and only role in it.
Personal life
The artist's first wife was a girl whom he met after coming from the army. Syutkin does not name her name, because she does not want to upset her beloved woman in the past. Their marriage, in which the girl Elena was born, lasted about 2 years.
After that, Valery went down the aisle with a girl whom he "recaptured" from his friend. However, this union did not last long. The couple had a boy Maxim, who today works in the tourism business.
In the early 90s, drastic changes took place in Valery's personal biography. He fell in love with a fashion model named Viola, who was 17 years his junior. Viola came to work as a costume designer in the Bravo group.
Initially, there was a purely business relationship between the young people, but after a few months everything changed. They started dating despite the fact that at that time Syutkin was still a married man.
The musician left his joint property to his second wife, after which he and his beloved began to live in a rented one-room apartment. Soon Valery and Viola got married. In 1996, the couple had a daughter, Viola. The second child of the couple, the son of Leo, was born in the fall of 2020.
Valery Syutkin today
Now Syutkin is still performing on stage, and also becomes a guest of various television programs. In 2018, he was awarded the title of "Honorary Artist of the City of Moscow".
In the same year, representatives of the Russian Guard awarded Valery the medal "For Assistance". In 2019, he presented a video for the song "You Can't Spend Time", recorded in a duet with Nikolai Devlet-Kildeev. He has an Instagram page with about 180,000 subscribers.
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