Igor Krutoy

Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy (genus. Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR, People's Artist of Russia and Ukraine.

He is a member of the Council for Culture and Arts under the President of the Russian Federation. Founder of the music Internet portal “Music1.ru”.

There are many interesting facts in the biography of Igor Krutoy, which we will talk about in this article.

So, before you is a short biography of Cool.

Biography of Igor Krutoy

Igor Krutoy was born on July 29, 1954 in the Ukrainian town of Gaivoron (Kirovograd region). He grew up and was raised in a Jewish family.

His father, Yakov Aleksandrovich, worked as a dispatcher at the Radiodetal enterprise, and his mother, Svetlana Semyonovna, worked in a sanitary and epidemiological station.

Childhood and youth

Igor developed his love for music in his childhood. Seeing this, the mother took her son to a music school. According to some sources, the boy learned to play the button accordion on his own.

As a 6th grade student, Krutoy founded an ensemble that performed at school events. In addition, the ensemble performed songs at dances for high school students.

After receiving the certificate, Igor entered the theoretical department of the local music school. Then he decided to become a student at the Kiev Conservatory, but failed the exams. After that, the young man taught music in one of the rural schools.

In 1975 Igor Krutoy entered the Nikolaev Musical-Pedagogical Institute at the conducting faculty. After 4 years of training, he was offered a place in the Moscow Panorama Orchestra. Soon the guy started working in VIA "Blue Guitars".

In 1981 Igor joined Valentina Tolkunova's ensemble, where he worked as a pianist. After some time, he was entrusted to lead this ensemble.

A few years later, Krutoy successfully passed the exams at the Saratov Conservatory for the composition department. He dreamed of becoming a famous composer, gradually approaching his goal.

Music and creativity

In 1987, a significant event took place in the creative biography of Igor Yakovlevich. He wrote for his friend Alexander Serov the song "Madonna", set to the verses of Rimma Kazakova. An interesting fact is that this composition became a laureate of the "Song of the Year" TV festival.

After that, Krutoy wrote songs for Serov "Wedding Music", "How to Be" and "You Love Me", also set to the verses of Kazakova. These works gained popularity in the USSR, as a result of which the composer gained great fame among his compatriots.

As a result, the most famous artists, including Valery Leontyev and Laima Vaikule, wanted to work with Igor Krutoy. In 1987 he published his first disc, "Recognition", and the next year he was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize.

Shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Krutoy began to actively engage in producing various projects. In 1989 he became the director of the ARS firm, and a few years later also its president.

Over the years of its existence, the company has become the largest concert and production center. "ARS" cooperates with dozens of the most popular pop stars, and also produces a number of international projects, including "New Wave" and "Song of the Year".

In addition, since 1994 "ARS" has been organizing Igor Krutoy's creative evenings. During this period of his biography, the composer became interested in writing instrumental compositions. In 2000, his first instrumental disc, Music Without Words, was released.

It is worth noting that Krutoy writes music for films, and also acts in video clips. He appeared on the same stage with many domestic and foreign artists as an accompanist and singer.

Igor's cooperation with the French singer Lara Fabian deserves special attention. The record "Mademoiselle Zhivago" (2010) had great recognition in many countries of the world.

An interesting fact is that over the years of his life Igor Krutoy has published about 40 albums recorded by Russian artists. One of his closest friends is the Ukrainian billionaire and president of FC Shakhtar (Donetsk) Rinat Akhmetov. It is known that the author of the anthem of the Donetsk club is Igor Yakovlevich.

Personal life

The first wife of Cool was a girl named Elena. In this marriage, the couple had a boy, Nikolai. After that, the composer married Olga Dmitrievna, who is currently a business woman and lives in New Jersey.

In this union, the couple had a girl named Alexandra. It is worth noting that Igor has a stepdaughter Victoria. There was a very difficult period in the composer's biography, which could end with death for him. He was diagnosed with a serious illness, as a result of which he began to rapidly lose weight.

The man was operated on several times in the United States. In his interviews, he admitted that the illness prompted him to reconsider his life values. The press said that he allegedly had cancer, but whether this is true is difficult to say. The maestro himself refuses to comment on this topic.

Igor Krutoy owns apartments in Monaco and the Plaza Hotel in New York, as well as two villas in Florida and all the same New York. In addition, he has a private jet, the Bombardier Global Express.

Igor Krutoy today

In 2018, the composer joined the judging panel of the TV show "You're super!" The following year, he was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky - for services in the development of national culture and art.

In the same 2019, Krutoy was awarded the Order of Dostyk, 2nd degree - for strengthening friendship between the peoples of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation. He has an official website and an Instagram page, to which over 800,000 people are subscribed.