Alla Pugacheva. Famous Russian-Women: Alla Pugacheva, Russian national legend. Alla Borisovna Pugacheva, a famous Russian pop singer. Alla Pugacheva - A Woman Who Sings.
Great Russian Women
Russian singers and composers: |Alla Bayanova ||Nadezhda Obukhova || Anna Netrebko|| Pelageya|| Zemfira|| Lyudmila Zykina|| Galina Vishnevskaya|| Maiya Crystalinskaya|| Aida Vedishcheva|| Nadezhda Plevitskaya|| Aleksandra Pakhmutova||
Alla Pugacheva is the embodiment of success in the true Russian style. She was born April 15, 1949 in Moscow.
Her biography is basically - years of studying (the Ippolitov-Ivanov school of Music, the Lunacharsky School of Theatrical Arts), years of searching (her first recordings on the radio, made when she was only 16, her first trips with the promotions crew of the radio station "Youth" in Siberia and Far East, working with the bands "New Electron", "Moscovites", "Happy Fellows", and Oleg Lundstrem's ensemble. Her first spark of success came upon receiving of the third place prize at the All Union competition of pop artists in 1974 with songs like "Posidim Pookaem" and "Ermolova from Clear Ponds"
Her victory at Varnes in 1975 with the song "Arlekino" gave Russia the great singer and actress, which people so love. The victory at Sopot on the International Contest with the song "Kings Can Do Everything" in 1978 once again proved her status quo. In the twenty years that followed that event Alla Pugacheva has reached everything one could wish for in Russia and the former Soviet Union. She is the last Peoples Honor Singer of the Soviet Union, the laureate of many domestic and foreign awards, as well as Russia's number one newsmaker, and the participant of many prestigious musical festivals all over the world.
Her album sales amount to about 200 million copies, and the movies in which she played, though not considered the best in cinematography, have had enormous success in the box office. Her "Christmas Reunions" (1988-1992) have, for five years in a row, gathered 15 thousand viewers. In recent years, Pugacheva has co-produced the popular television reality talent show "Star Factory", the Russian version of the Star Academy, launched a radio station and a magazine. Her name has been given to an ocean liner in Finland, a brand of French perfume and a line of shoes (also designed by Alla) as well as many little girls all over Russia.
