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She was called "our Marlene Dietrich" and one of the most beautiful actresses in Soviet cinema. Actress Zhanna Glebova is known for her role as Silva in Jan Fried's musical film of the same name, an adaptation of Imre Kalman's operetta.

Zhanna Glebova was the prima of the Riga Operetta Theater and played only a few roles in the cinema, and soon after her triumph in

"Silva" disappeared from the screens forever. Only years later, the real reason for the mysterious disappearance of the actress became known.

Zhanna Glebova was born in 1950 in Donetsk, and after finishing school she moved to Kyiv. There she entered the Theater Studio at the Kiev Operetta Theater, and then performed on the stage of the Kyiv Drama Theater. Ivan Franko. Soon she married the actor Efim Khromov and moved with him to Riga. In the Riga Operetta Theater, Zhanna Glebova became a prima - she played the main roles in the performances "Sister Kerry", "Then in Seville", "The Man from La Mancha", "My Fair Lady".

The film debut of the actress took place in 1978 in the film of the Latvian director Alexander Leimanis "Open Country". A year later, another film with her participation was released - “Behind the Glass Door”. But the real popularity of Zhanna Glebova brought the main role in the musical film Silva by Jan Fried. Before that, the actress was known only in Latvia, and after the premiere of the film, she became famous throughout the USSR.

The Hungarian composer Imre Kalman wrote the operetta "Silva" back in 1915 (in Europe it was called "Queen of Csardas" or "Gypsy Princess"), in the same year it was translated into Russian. But since the First World War was going on at that time, the name of the operetta and the names of some characters were changed. On the stage, the operetta enjoyed such success that it was staged on both sides of the front - both in Austria-Hungary and in the Russian Empire. Later, based on the operetta, several films were shot in Austria, Hungary, Germany, Norway. The first was filmed by an Austrian director in 1919, and the film by Jan Fried was the last, it was released in 1981 and won incredible popularity in the USSR.

Jan Fried for a long time could not find an actress for the lead role. Zhanna Glebova said: “I got to Frida quite by accident. He has been looking for a leading lady for a long time. He wanted her to be an actress... synthetic - to not only play, but also sing and dance, and know how to wear costumes. So that, as he said, there was a breed in it. I was looking, apparently, for someone like Gurchenko, but younger. Yes, Gurchenko could play the variety show actress Silva, but in general, such a combination, such an alloy, is rare among dramatic actresses. At that time we staged the play “Love All Ages” by the Leningrad composer Zhora Portnov, and Zhora really liked me. When he returned to Leningrad and met Fried, who was already in a panic due to the lack of the actress he needed, Zhora suggested that he go to Riga and see one "girl". The girl at that time already had two children and the title of Honored Artist. In other words, they called me." About who will be her partner in the film, the actress did not know. Nikolai Karachentsov and Anatoly Vasiliev auditioned for the role of Edwin. She met Ivar Kalninsh by chance on the plane and only there it turned out that they were flying to shoot the same film.

The famous actress Tatyana Piletskaya, who played the role of Edwin's mother in Silva, spoke about Zhanna Glebova: “It was that rare case when an actress combined beauty with dramatic talent and a beautiful voice. Zhanna graduated from the conservatory.” It was really so - Zhanna Glebova at that time was the prima of the Riga Operetta Theater and had excellent vocal abilities. But in the film, the audience never heard her voice - by the decision of the director, all the vocal parts were performed by opera artists. And instead of Zhanna Glebova, Evgenia Tselovalnik sang.

After her triumph in the cinema, the actress suddenly disappeared from the screens. Only years later it became known that in 1990 Zhanna Glebova left for Israel with her husband. The actress later spoke about the reasons for this decision: “

I visited Israel a year before moving. And I fell in love with this country so much that I even saw it in a dream. And then it didn’t matter to me - there is an operetta here, there is no operetta here, it doesn’t matter ... The fact is that the situation in Latvia at that time was creatively unstable, and I think that we made a very right decision. In Israel, we learned that our theater was closed; it had existed without us for only about a year. Great actors are out of work. Who went to sell vegetables, who else went into what business, and who ... works in Israel in their specialty ... ".

In Israel, they settled in the city of Rehovot. There, together with Khromov, they staged the play The Merry Widow, held joint concerts, and took part in the Israeli Operetta program. Zhanna Glebova and her husband Yefim Khromov were called the flagships of operetta in Israel. In recent years, the 67-year-old actress lives with her daughter in the United States and is raising her grandchildren.

In the summer of 2016, all secular Moscow came to terms with the fact that Nikita Efremov (29) was no longer a bachelor - he (19), the daughter of businesswoman Svetlana Zakharova and a student - then - of the British Higher School of Design. But the romance lasted only a couple of months - Sasha moved to Paris, entered Parsons, and Efremov only occasionally reminded himself of himself with photographs on social networks.

A year has passed. Sasha came to Moscow for the summer holidays and plunged headlong into working with Marina Dolidze's Wisdom brand - now she produces and stylizes shooting and is engaged in SMM. Efremov also did not waste time - he not only managed to star in several films, but also started a new romance. Ironically, this passion of Nikita is also called Sasha.

Jazz singer Sasha Frid (26) does not appear in gossip columns, and she has only 2.6 thousand subscribers on Instagram, but what a voice she has! On Monday, a new couple came to (15), but after a couple of shots, chacha moved to Calicano, and the next day Nikita came with Sasha to, organized by Nadezhda Obolentseva's Club 418. And it seems that Sasha is well acquainted with all the friends of her famous boyfriend, which means they have been dating for quite a long time.

And Yefremov literally returned from Georgia this weekend and, judging by the photo on Fried's Instagram, she went with him. We rested with soul: we went to the Tbilisi Open Air festival, studied local flea markets and dined in the most fashionable Tbilisi establishments. In general, be that as it may, there is no official confirmation of their romance yet (but will it be?), But they are a beautiful couple - it's stupid to deny it.

Sasha Frid is a young jazz-funk singer who represents a new take on classic funk and soul in Russia. The artist's repertoire includes hits by Aretha Franklin, Mary Jane Hooper, Cheryl Lynn, Lynn Collins, as well as rhythm and blues compositions by Janis Joplin and Cream in funk versions. Sasha is supported by her numerous band, which includes a guitar, double bass, saxophone, trombone, keys, drums and a trio of backing vocalists.

The debut concert of Sasha Frid was sold out at the Shakti Terrace club last winter with the participation of the famous jazz musician, trumpeter Vadim Eilenkrig. From the picture, it looked like either a performance by Grammy-winning band Chicago, or a jam by black New York bluesmen, where the young beast Fried burns, flames and soars around the stage, like Iggy Pop and Scissor Sisters combined.

During the current spring-summer season, Sasha performed with a solo program at many venues in the capital - from the "Workshop" to the Alexei Kozlov Club, sang at the "Night at the Museum" in the Museum of Moscow, the "Chiffonier" festival in Gorky Park, took part in the action "Morning World of Yoko Ono 2015" at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, gave a joint concert with "Sense of Sound" and Groove Etiquette, and also went on her first tour to St. Petersburg. At the presentation of the project in the Durov club, which took place in mid-May, the singer presented a duet with the fashionable disco-funk band Guru Groove Foundation. In early July, Fried sang as the opening act for the famous American musician David Brown (Brazzaville) and at the closing of the Voices European Film Festival in Vologda.

From childhood, Sasha was extremely active, inquisitive, although restless - she dreamed of saving African children and working as a journalist in hot spots; she played tennis and the piano, sang in the choir of the vocal ensemble, but due to the same restlessness, Fried the egoza was kicked out of the circles. Her serious passion for music began at the age of eleven, when a curious girl found Jamiroquai and Marvin Gaye albums among her father's records. To sing a duet with Jay Kay is still one of the singer's cherished desires. Also among Sasha's musical preferences: Barbra Streisand, Tom Waits, Dinah Washington, David Bowie, Serge Gainsbourg, Gil Scott-Heron, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Etta James, Jill Scott, Moby, Stevie Wonder, The Doors and Zhanna Aguzarova.

However, having matured, Frid opted for a less extreme profession and entered the Moscow State University at the Faculty of Art. The girl received a well-deserved red diploma for the qualifying work "John Cage and the visual art of the second half of the 20th century." In parallel with her studies at the capital's university, Sasha studied vocals at the Signon pop studio, where the artistic director of the school, Alexei Moskalev, who later became the singer's producer, drew attention to the extravagant soloist.

Sasha Fried: "Fanny Brice is the person I aspire to be!"

It is impossible to remain indifferent to the talented singer and pretty girl Sasha Fried. Her strong sexy vocals and wild energy raise even the most modest listener to dance, and her beauty, inner charm and girlish spontaneity captivate both men and women on the spot. This girl not only performs the golden hits of jazz and funk, but also, possessing an encyclopedic knowledge of all the compositions and performers she takes on, acquaints the sophisticated Moscow public with a huge layer of the “black” musical culture of the last century. Russian funk princess Sasha Frid talks about her favorite teachers, "funny and sad" pop music, idols and self-improvement in an interview with the Jazz Map portal.

Sasha, where and how did you receive your musical education? What can you tell us about your music teachers?

For the last six years, I have been educated at the Signon School of Vocal and Performing Arts. I went there five years ago on the recommendation of a friend. The first teacher kicked me out for being late, and he was also an ardent fighter against smoking. so our relationship didn't work out (laughs). Then I had five more teachers: it was very difficult to find my own until I got to Galina Leonidovna Filatova, a jazz singer, one of the first in the Soviet Union, and very, very famous in musical circles. The first lesson she gave was about the blues. She asked questions: what is blues, what is jazz, how do you understand this, what is rhythm? And she began to read all this to us, showed the film "Blues School" - about how harmony is built. Introduced a new subject “Harmony. jazz harmony. Blues scales” - I have been actively going there for the third year already, but I will probably stay for the second year (laughs). She taught me the right sound, the right breathing, with her I began to find my own sound. My director and music producer Alexei Moskalev also pays a lot of attention to the search for my sound. Lesha and Galina Leonidovna are the most important teachers for me: how much these people give me - I can’t get at any university!

What accomplishments are you really proud of?

When I was studying vocals, Alexey and I decided to make it a professional project. We came to this in five years in small steps, and over the past two and a half years - to conscious serious work on the preparation of a concert program. And now - to active artistic activity. I am very proud of this process and its results!

Personal musical tastes and passions - what kind of music did you like 10 years ago, what has changed now? What is closer stylistically? What great names influenced the formation in the profession?

Until the fourth grade, like all children, I listened to what I heard snatches from my classmates, because until the age of 14 I was forbidden to watch MTV: my grandmother stood and checked what was on my TV. And they didn’t let me on the Internet under any pretext - my family is so conservative! Of course, I was adored, spoiled, but I had restrictions on some things. Until the age of 16, I didn’t even leave the house alone, I went to the subway with my grandmother - such a hothouse child ... But one way or another, information from the outside still leaked to me. Until the fourth grade, it was "Inveterate scammers", "Hands Up" - it was fashionable among my peers. At the age of fourteen, I began to study vocals in a children's ensemble, where my teacher, in order to develop a taste in me, let me listen to The Beatles and read the "yellow book": biographies of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Deep Purple and AC / DC. With him, we sang children's songs of Michael Jackson from the time of the Jackson 5. So my taste began to form ... And my preferences in music do not change now, they only expand: I study what happened in the 20th century - this period is most musically interesting to me. And all this, of course, is not isolated from culture: I am not so much interested in the biographies of musicians as in the atmosphere - what happened in a particular cultural environment ... When the question arose of what I should sing in Signon, I discovered Etta James and Aretha Franklin. And this music was not like anything: not pop, not soul in its purest form ... It's funk! A huge layer of culture that I discovered for myself at the age of eighteen ...

Who is the ideal, idol, role model?

Ideal? Idol? Yes, there is such a word - "idol". For me, this is not a person, not a living person, but a character. For example, the heroine of the film-musical "Funny Girl" Fanny Brice performed by Barbra Streisand. Here is my idol! When I don’t understand what I’m doing and why, when I have questions about who I am in this world, I always review “Funny Girl”, and each time I find many, many answers for myself. Fanny Brice is the person I aspire to be!

In general, about culture - what do you read, do you watch TV, what recent movie made a strong impression? What was the last musical event (concert, performance) you attended, what did you like, remember and impress?

The last time I was at the play "Cavalry" in the Meyerhold Theater Center. A modern production according to Babel: very extravagant, defiant, striking, sometimes wildly unpleasant, somewhere touching ... This is such a modern performance. My acting teacher taught me the difference between theater and performance theatre. A mixture of electronic music, video installations, theatrical action... By the way, the beginning of the performance was laid by John Cage, about whom I wrote my thesis. At the Black Mountain School in Seattle, with Schoenberg and Cowell, they began to make performance art: one played the dissected piano, the other recited poetry, someone danced ... And now there is a classical theater where they put on productions without such experiments - and this is , like a performance in Meyerhold: the action is associated with electronic music, there is absolute nudity on the stage, the actors tell about the event as it really was, without embellishment. The young guys-actors also struck me: they are all no more than 22, but how they play it all! The boy dies and screams: "I'm running out!" - an incredibly strong word ... A young boy ends - it was said so from the inside! Now there are a lot of such venues where performance productions are preferred, although many people do not like this trend, but it is extremely nice for me.

I didn't go to the cinema for a very long time, but I plan to go to the latest film by Roy Andersson, "A Pigeon Sat on a Branch, Reflecting on Existence."

About self-improvement - what strengths can you highlight in yourself, and what do you have to work on?

Everyone has to work! I don't think I have one strong point. I try to develop myself all the time, every day! You can't be 100% sure, you have to work on yourself. I try, I want to do something good, improve and be better, more interesting... Probably, this desire to develop is my strong point. You have to work on laziness: it’s hard to lose weight, go in for sports, achieve musical harmony ... Every year it’s more and more difficult to persuade yourself - there are a lot of other interesting things around, but you need to force yourself!

Where do you see yourself in five years, what goals do you set for yourself?

I see myself as a successful woman, happy, loved, perhaps a good mother and an improving successful artist!

Share your creative plans: are there albums, singles coming up, with whom would you like to collaborate, maybe perform together, record, well, and on what venues to perform? And if there are plans to take part in Russian or international competitions?

Now I'm working on a new concert program: before there was a lot of jazz-funk, and now there will be more blues. We are working on author's material with the composer, in the fall we plan to release the first EP with a couple of our own songs. We are also negotiating with one DJ: we want to make a more electronic disco-funk project. And, of course, I will continue to develop and work on myself!

Interview prepared by Maxim Vertuzaev / Kushnir production