Led the morning star. Stars who started their journey with the Morning Star

Each of us at least once watched a music show " Star Factory". This show gave our stage a lot of young talents. Perhaps if they had not come to the casting, their fate would have been completely different, and modern hits would not have played from the speakers of our radios.

However, few people remember that the "Star Factory" was preceded by a television competition " morning star", which was broadcast on the ORT channel ("Channel One"). But it was here that Sergei Lazarev, Ani Lorak, Valeria and other contemporary performers performed for the first time. Let's remember how it was.

Sergey Lazarev

Young Seryozha came to the program with musical experience behind him. He was a member of the children's ensemble "Fidgets". In 1997, he won the Morning Star contest with his song "My Way".

Angelica Varum

No one knew about Angelica's talent until 1990, when she performed on the show with the song "Midnight Cowboy". The following year, the whole country sang her songs from the album Good Bye, My Boy.

Valeria

In 1992, the singer was far from a child when she appeared at this children's competition. At the age of 24, she took first place with the song "Only once in a life there is a meeting."

Ani Lorak

17-year-old Carolina Kuek wowed the judges with her vocals in 1995. Another girl under the name Karolina was entered for the competition, so the singer got out of the situation by inventing herself the pseudonym Ani Lorak.

"Lyceum"

Anastasia Makarevich, Elena Perova and Izolda Ishkhanishvili sang the ABBA song "One of Us" in 1991, and in 1995 they blew up the stage with the hit "Autumn".

Julia Nachalova

10-year-old Yulia with the song "Titmouse Bird" in 1992 became the winner of the competition, like Valeria. Only she performed in a different age category.

Vlad Topalov

In 2001, the already famous Lazarev performed on stage with Topalov with the song "Belle" from the musical "Notre Dame de Paris". Soon they formed the duo Smash!!

Pelagia

Pelageya took first place and became the owner of the honorary title "Best Folk Song Performer in Russia in 1996" and a prize of 1 thousand dollars.

Prokhor Chaliapin

Prokhor performed in 1999 with the song "Unreal Dream". Later, he became a finalist in the Star Factory - 6 project.

Yuri Nikolaev was the permanent host of the TV show for all the years of its existence. He has been on television since 1975. His last project was the show "Honest Word".

For young talents, "Morning Star" became a ticket to the big stage. It was thanks to this project that children got the opportunity to express themselves.

However, there were also critics of this program. So, pianist Nikolai Petrov spoke about the transfer as follows: “ “Morning Star”, in my opinion, is one of the nastiest programs on our television. Little children of seven years old are forced to look like Moiseev and Pugacheva. I feel sorry for these children and their parents.».

The author of popular children's programs, Sergei Suponev, also spoke unflatteringly about the competition: “ Morning Star is swarming with kids like frogs, but it's not a children's program. This is a program for old grandmas who, having neither taste nor a modern understanding of music, are simply touched by children in tuxedos and ties singing famous songs of pop stars.».

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Vyacheslav Yuriev

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Yuri Nikolaev is a well-known Soviet TV presenter who once became a real symbol of the entire television industry of the USSR. There are many different legends about his personality, which to some extent only confirm the popularity of our today's hero.

Dozens of interesting facts can be found in his biography. But is it safe to say that we know absolutely everything about the person we regularly see on our television screens? Of course not. After all, white spots are found in the fate of every public person.

Early years, childhood and the family of Yuri Nikolaev

Yuri Alexandrovich Nikolaev was born in Moldova - in the city of Chisinau. His parents were far from the world of art and both belonged to the law enforcement system of the Soviet Union.

In particular, the father of our today's hero served as a colonel in the ranks of the Moldavian Ministry of Internal Affairs and was even awarded a huge variety of different awards. No less interesting person was the mother of the future TV presenter - Valentina Ignatovna. Almost all her life, the woman worked in the KGB system.

This circumstance becomes especially interesting when taking into account the fact that Yuri Nikolaev’s grandfather once suffered greatly from the activities of the state security committee, was repressed and even moved to Canada. However, we will leave this issue out of the question today.

As for Yura himself, his creative path began quite early. Even in childhood, he got into the school theater circle, which in turn became his ticket to the world of television. Our today's hero played children's roles on Chisinau television, and therefore, at an early age, he became a real star in his school.

The first successes led Yuri Nikolaev to think about a professional career on television. At that time, the future famous TV presenter dreamed of becoming an actor, and therefore, after graduating from school, he decided to move to Moscow.

In 1965, our today's hero moved to Russia, where he soon submitted documents to GITIS. The young Moldovan guy passed the entrance exams successfully, and therefore he soon became a student of the acting department of the State Institute of Theater Arts.

Star Trek Yuri Nikolaev: filmography and television

Our today's hero began his creative career as an actor at the Pushkin Theater. In this place, Yuri Nikolaev performed from 1970 to 1975. The actor also began acting in films around the same period. In 1971, he played a small role in the film "Zoya Rukhadze", which was followed by a larger work in the film "Big hauls".

Film roles brought Yuri Nikolaev to the world of television. From 1973 to 1975, he worked as a freelancer, but he soon received the position of an announcer at the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.

Igor Nikolaev in the film "Yuri Nikolaev. I can't live without TV

For some time, in parallel with his work on television, Yuri Nikolaev was still acting in films, but already in the same 1975 he received an offer that forced him to fully focus on his television career. Such was the project "Morning Mail", the leader of which our today's hero became in the mid-seventies.

This transfer brought him great success and made Nikolaev popular in all regions of the USSR. Over the years, his partners on the set were the most diverse representatives of Soviet television. Only Yuri Alexandrovich himself remained a living embodiment of the spirit of the TV program.

In total, the presenter worked continuously on the Morning Mail program for sixteen years. In parallel with this, he also hosted some other television programs. For some time, Yuri Nikolaev worked as a news program host at the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, and also hosted the legendary children's program Good Night, Kids.

However, his personal field for activity has always been music programs. At various times, our today's hero worked on the programs "Song of the Year", "Blue Light", and also led a song festival in Jurmala.

Yuri Nikolaev about gays and show business

As noted in some sources, in the middle of 1978, Yuri Nikolaev became the first TV presenter in the USSR, who appeared in the frame while intoxicated. Nikolaev still remembers this episode with humor. H

As for other successes, in this respect it is worth noting the programs "Morning Star" and "Guess the Melody", on the creation of which our today's hero worked as a producer. Thanks to these projects, the popular Soviet TV presenter managed to remain a prominent figure in the world of Russian television even after the collapse of the USSR.

In 1997, Yuri Nikolaev again began working on the renewed program "Morning Mail", Subsequently, he also hosted the programs "Dancing on Ice" and "Dancing with the Stars" on the channel "Russia", as well as the program "Property of the Republic" (together with Dmitry Shepelev). In parallel with his work on television, Yuri Nikolaev sometimes acted in films. In particular, in the 2000s, he appeared in the TV series Annushka and Yesterday Live.

For his many successes in the world of Soviet and Russian television, Yuri Nikolaev was awarded two prizes from the Russian Union of Journalists, the Order of Friendship, and the title of People's Artist of Russia. Currently, Yuri Nikolaev is working on television on old and new projects. One of these is a fundamentally new program "In Our Time".

Personal life of Yuri Nikolaev

The first marriage of Yuri Nikolaev was rather fleeting, and therefore almost nothing is known about him today. Another thing is the marital union with the second wife - Eleanor Alexandrovna. The lovers met at a party at the girl's older brother, who was an old friend of Yuri. After that, young people began to meet. Today, Eleanor and Yuri have been together for many years. The couple has no children.

In ordinary life, Yuri Nikolaev loves sports and maintains friendly relations with Leonid Yakubovich. In the past, his close friend was

Today, to light up or tell the world about your talents, it is enough to start Instagram or collect views on Youtube. Well, 25 years ago, celebrities were discovered, or rather, lit by the Morning Star!

Let's remember those whose names today, perhaps we did not even know, if not for this popular TV show?

Yes, yes, in 1995, a young talent named Carolina Kuek was already preparing for her speech, as the presenter Yuri Nikolaev urgently demanded to change the name, due to the fact that one Carolina was already announced on the list of speakers. Then the future star simply wrote her name backwards and “teared” the hall. What does not cease to do today ...

How did you not know this? But back in 1992, Valeria literally managed to “jump into the last carriage” in order to win the competition. And all because 22 years old was the maximum age for participants ...

Despite the fact that the father-producer prepared the girl for the stage from the age of 2, it was the stage of the "Morning Star" that became the first launching pad that gave the long-awaited success and victory at the age of 10!

All fans of Seryozha Lazarev know that he became popular even when he was one of the Fidgets, but you can’t hide his leadership qualities ... In 1997, Sergey performed solo at the Morning Star, unconditionally winning, and at the same time stealing the hearts of millions of girls on that side of the screen. Looks like nothing has changed since then...

Well, one more "Fidget" became cramped in the team. Yes, Vlad Topalov decided to follow the success of his friend Sergey Lazarev, with whom he performed the song “Belle” from the musical “Notre Dame de Paris” on the stage of the Morning Star. Oh, to the hysteria of the all-Russian scale for the duet "Smash!" only a few days left...

Well, it was only in 1999 that the whole world began to sing along with the outrageous girls “I've lost my mind”, and before that, Yulia and Lena sang and won as part of the same restless “Fidget” in the most long-awaited Sunday musical program ...

Did you know that in 1996 Pelageya, who had just turned 10 years old, won the Morning Star competition and $1,000?

In 1997, with the song "Juliet's Heart", Zara only managed to become a finalist in the "Morning Star" contest, but you must admit that this scene is a worthy breakthrough for the first performance!

Well, here's another discovery for you - from the age of 11, Alexei Chumakov began to write his own songs, with the first of which he won the "Morning Star"!

Are you also singing now - “Do not offend, do not offend the groom, a young girl”? It seems that the "Morning Star" for this discovery alone could already calmly rest on its laurels!

Yes, yes, and for Evgenia Otradnaya, the scene of the "Morning Star" was the first real feeling of success and victory!

It turns out that not only today the name of Prokhor Chaliapin is mentioned in connection with another scandal or sensation in the world of domestic show business. 20 years ago, Andrey Zakharenkov also liked to fool around ... And then the third place with his own song “Unreal Dream” on the stage of the “Morning Star” seemed to him not enough - he decided that the rumor that he was a descendant of the famous opera singer Fyodor Chaliapin would fix him success is sure...

Admit it, you completely forgot this name? But Elena might not have had the second place at the Star Factory-2 if a few years earlier she had not been brought to the Morning Star competition by the chairman of the jury of the television project. By the way, then she won ...

In 1995, "Autumn" in the vastness of our country sounded in a new way - with poems and music of the song of the same name, which became the hallmark of the Lyceum group. But four years earlier, these girls were only “warming up” on the stage of “Morning Star”!

Come on, stretch your memory! You couldn't forget that in 1990 Anzhelika Varum made her debut on the stage of "Morning Star" with the song "Midnight Cowboy"! And yes, we are also shocked ...

I got into "Fidgets" literally from the street. He was then about 10 years old. The mother of our girl, Yulia Komleva, worked in a store not far from Serezha's house. And he was an independent guy, he went to the store from childhood. And then one day he came to the bakery, and at the same time got into a conversation with the woman behind the counter. Yulia's mother mentioned that her daughter is engaged in the Fidget ensemble.

By that time, Seryozha had heard a lot about us, because we often appeared in the Morning Star, and Lazarev adored this program and dreamed of getting there more than anything in the world. Yulia's mother introduced him to her daughter, and the two of them went to the house of children's creativity.

Entering the building, Seryozha stopped at the first step of the stairs and said: “No, I won’t go. I'm afraid". He stood for a moment, caught his breath, resolutely went upstairs, reached the second floor: “No, after all, I won’t go, it’s scary!” Julia with grief in half dragged him to the third floor.

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Then he skidded in front of the door to my office. Here Julia began to act decisively, came to me and said: “Lena, here the boy came, without a competition, without a casting, but he really wants to show himself to you.” In general, she pushed him into my room by force, closed the door and fell on it from the outside so that the guy would not run away. Seryozha hesitated, blushed, but nevertheless pulled himself together and began to sing.

I understood everything at once, without any castings. High treble of amazing clarity. Very confident dance moves. In general, I ordered him to come in the morning and immediately begin to study. From the very beginning it was obvious that it would be a mistake not to take such a guy.

But if I fell in love with him right away, then in the team he took root far from the first days. Lazarev had to go through a kind of initiation, which was arranged for almost all newcomers. Our star Yulia Malinovskaya, who already then hosted the Morning Star and was known throughout the country, could not pass by such a shy and sincere boy. Decided to play a joke on him. He comes up and says: “Seryozha, Lena asked me to tell you that by tomorrow you should learn such a dance. And if it doesn’t work out, she will immediately kick you out of Fidget!”

The poor guy was frightened, he diligently rehearsed all night, the next morning he comes up to me and says: “Elena Mikhailovna, take the job, I learned everything!” “What did you learn?!” I wonder. "Like what? Dance! As you requested. They won't kick me out now." I had to explain to him that our guys are joking like that. But after this incident, Seryozha quickly became the soul of the company, and Yulia did not suit him with such checks anymore.

Sergey Lazarev and Nastya Zadorozhnaya (center)

Once we went with him to a song contest in the city of Cremona, in Italy. Between rehearsals, we had some free time, and we decided to wander around the city. Walking, we came to the square, over which the town hall towered. We climbed up to the bell tower - from there a stunning view opened up.

"How good!" - says Seryozha and from the fullness of feelings begins to sing. Naturally, I chose "Santa Lucia" for performance - this song was ideally suited to the situation. The amazing acoustics of the bell tower greatly strengthened Serezhin's angelic treble. Literally for a second, he stopped to catch his breath, and at that moment we heard a noise below. We leaned over the fence and we see, far below us, on the square - a huge crowd. Everyone looks at us and applauds. I had to sing and bow.

About Vlad Topalov

little funny man

Five-year-old Vladka, then still very tiny, was brought to us for an audition by his grandmother. I just hung an ad on the doors of the Sokol Children's Art Center, and they just lived nearby.

Vladik was such a small, funny, plump baby doll. He went out to the middle of the room, blushed and, with each word, blushing more and more, sang: “A Christmas tree was born in the forest ...” The baby was very embarrassed. Julia Malinovskaya immediately drew attention to Vladik. She came up, took his hand and announced that “this will be my man!”, which plunged little Vlad into even more embarrassment.

However, he took his work seriously. Once, six-year-old Vladka was giving an interview to some TV channel, and the journalist asked him: “You are doing vocals and dancing here - this is understandable. And why do you need a classic machine, boy, explain it? And he, shrugging his shoulders, said with an arrangement: “I myself, to be honest, I don’t know, but my mother says that if you engage in a classic machine, you will be slender and beautiful.” From the lips of a six-year-old burly man, it sounded great.

Vladik grew up as a calm and extremely calm guy. Once we went on tour to America, and for some reason one of the performances took place in the concert hall of some fire department. This very firehouse had a very low ceiling. And now "Fidgets" on the stage, the girls are dancing, everything is very emotional and expressive. Suddenly, at some point, Zhenya Tremasova makes such a sweeping movement with her foot, and a shoe flies off her. It flies up to the ceiling and bounces off it like a ricochet down, right on Topalov's head. Not a single muscle on Vladka's face trembled; he continued to dance as if nothing had happened. Zhenya also does not give a look, continues the dance in one shoe.

The guys worked out the number to the end, and backstage, Zhenya runs up to Vlad and begins to apologize: “Forgive me, I accidentally. Were you in pain?" And he quite calmly and calmly answers her: “Oh, Zhenya, think of some kind of shoe. A vase fell on my head a month ago - it fell off the closet - and then I had nothing. Do you see how big and strong my head is? She is not even afraid of a vase, not like your shoe.

About Nastya Zadorozhnaya

The most beautiful ugly duckling

The first time I saw Nastya was backstage at the concert hall. We then performed at the Christmas tree in the city hall. It was a very responsible and important event, and I was covered in soap, running from dressing room to dressing room, settling various matters. The administrator comes up to me and says: "A girl wants to see you." “What other girl is there,” I wave as I run. Five minutes later, again: “The girl is calling you,” I again ignore. For the fifth time I can’t stand it, I say: “Give her here!”

I see an angel standing. With huge eyes. With long eyelashes. And in a timid voice he says: “Take me to Fidget!” Her dad brought her to the Christmas tree, she saw our children, plucked up courage and made her way backstage to ask for a team. The impudence of the city takes: they took Nastenka for a trial period, and then into the main team.

Lena Katina and Nastya Zadorozhnaya (left)

She had a hard time at first in our friendly and "friendly" team. There has always been a catastrophic shortage of boys in the Fidgets, and they were worth their weight in gold not only by teachers, but also by girls. When all the girls suddenly and without declaring war suddenly fell in love with someone, the shortage of boys was felt especially acutely.

And at that very moment Nastya comes - a beauty and a smart girl. Nastya has always been a beauty, and even at a transitional age, Zadorozhnaya remained a very pretty girl. And immediately, of course, she fell in love with our brightest boy - Seryozha Lazarev.

In general, seeing this, our girls went into all serious trouble. We decided to eliminate the competitor. From the very first day, they began to inspire Zadorozhnaya that she was an ugly girl. Jokes, jokes, sometimes even outright bullying - it got to the point that Nastya really believed that she was an ugly duckling. She roared, suffered, was sad, but did not give up. Then she repeatedly admitted in an interview that she went through such a powerful life school in Fidgets - all subsequent tests seemed like baby talk.

Thanks to Fidget, her acting career began. Directors and producers often approached us in search of performers of children's roles. Our children are bright, talented, uninhibited. In addition, at the Fidget school we teach stage speech and stage movement. Our fidgets were filmed in different issues of Yeralash.

While on vacation at Orlyonok, we were approached by producers from the Sinebridge television company, who were filming the first teenage series on our television, Simple Truths. The first composition of their young actors has already grown up and even finished school according to the script. They were looking for new actors. Their choice immediately fell on Nastya.

A series of "Simple Truths" came out every day on RTR. So I had to shoot a lot. During the day, Nastya went to school, then went to the music school, from there to Fidget, and in the evenings, weekends and vacations she also managed to act in films - she was a workaholic since childhood. This useful quality then helped her a lot in her future career.

About Yulia Volkova and Lena Katina

Skinny leader and head on his shoulders

Yulia Volkova… I pronounce her name, and a picture pops up in my memory. "Fidgets" are still brand new, we are engaged in Sokol, in the center of creativity for children and youth. We conduct a casting - we choose our replenishment. A small hall, the stage rises, the guys walk on it. We are watching them closely. And then a girl appears on the stage - a blonde in a velvet dark blue dress, pretty - you can’t take your eyes off. Everything is clean, fragile, transparent. She came out and sings “Oh, it’s not evening, it’s not evening,” and her voice is like a bell. And he sings the notes very well. As it turned out later, she studied at a music school, and she was doing great there. In general, it was some kind of angel. Of course, we took it without any hesitation.

At first, Volkova did not stand out in any way, but about a year later we all went to Artek together. It was a common practice, we went there every summer, in the camp we organized a special "non-Sedov" detachment, they had their own counselors, their own corps and their own schedule.

A week passed, and all of a sudden, walkers - our "fidgets" - suddenly reached out to me. One by one, two by two, they came and said thoughtfully: “Len, it turns out, Yulia Volkova, such a cool girl, we couldn’t even think!”, “Oh, Len, it’s so great with Volkova!” And since then I have only heard from them "Volkova, Volkova, Volkova", "Julia this, Yulia that." She became not just the soul of the company - the ruler of thoughts. Won the trust of our leaders - Lazarev and Malinovskaya. This couple usually worked as our main clowns, and now the three of them with Volkova amused the entire squad to the point of falling.

Vlad Topalov, Sergey Lazarev and Yulia Malinovskaya (bottom row) and Lena Katina (top right)

And Volkova had her own trick - she loved to treat everyone. Since she herself was a thin, frail and at first rather sickly girl, her parents collected a whole chest with a variety of pills, ointments and pills with them. And Yulia generously fed them to all the suffering. "Do you have a headache? On you, aspirin, drink! Do you have a tummy? Here's activated charcoal for you. It is clear that her mother did not give her any serious medicines with her to the camp, knowing full well that it was dangerous, but she still managed all the plasters and brilliant greens and earned the fame of Dr. Medunitsa.

Girls were especially drawn to Yulia: she also had the talent of a stylist and makeup artist and loved to do hairstyles, dress up, paint. That was a rare combination of kindness and sparkling contagious fun. As well as a unique ability to become one's own and a leader in any team. Not a girl, but a treasure.

Yulia Volkova and Lena Katina (left) and Sergey Lazarev (right)

Her future partner in the Tatu duet, Lena Katina, came to us at Fidget later than Volkova. And she has a completely different story. Lenin papa is a professional composer and sound engineer. We met at the studio when we were recording one of the songs with Fidget. After a while, he called me and said: “Len, listen to my girl? She is engaged in some kind of song group, she sings Spanish songs with a guitar, it turns out interesting.

A girl of about 12 years old came. Bright, red, these charming cannabis. Well, cute, not a girl! The voice is amazing, the timbre is very pleasant. And she herself is calm, mature, quiet. I naturally took it.

Yulia Malinovskaya and Nastya Zadorozhnaya (center) and Lena Katina (right)

It is not easy to enter a long-established team, but Lena managed not to come into conflict with anyone. The old-timers, of course, tried to reward the "brand new redhead" with a portion of ridicule and jokes. But Lena reacted to this in the highest degree philosophically and calmly. This calmness and "maturity" have always distinguished Katina. Even after the rapid rise of Tatu, Lena managed to keep her head on her shoulders. And remained completely unspoiled by success, money and fame.

About first love

Lovers Lazarev, Zadorozhnaya, Topalov and Volkova