Anzhelika Varum


Anzhelika Varum, real name Maria Yuriyevna Varum, born on 26 May 1969, is a Russian singer and actress, and an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. She released 12 albums, starting with "Good bye, moi mal'chik" in 1991. More than 60 of her songs became hits, receiving heavy radio play. She is married to the Russian singer Leonid Agutin. They have a daughter, Elisaveta. Meritorious Artist of Russia.

Biography

Varum was born in Lviv to composer Yury Ignatievich Varum and theater producer Galina Mikhailovna Shapovalova. At the age of 5, she began to study the piano and, after starting school, she started to learn the guitar. She was part of the school's musical theater group and performed with them throughout Ukraine. After high school, Varum applied to the Boris Schukin Theater Institute in Moscow, but could not pass the entrance exams. She then began to work as a back-up singer at her father's music studio.
In 1990, Varum recorded a version of "Polunochniy kovboy" that soon became a hit, particularly after she performed it in the television show "Utrenneya zvezda" and at a concert at the Sports Complex "Olympic". On the back of that initial success, Varum released her first album, "Good bye, moi mal'chik". The title song and the songs "Sosedniy parenek" and "Chelovek-svistok" became hits.
Two years later, Varum recorded the album "La-la-fa" that became hugely popular in Russia. It included the song "Hudozhnik kotoriy risuyet dozhd" and the song "Gorodok", which became one of the singer's calling cards. In 1994, Varum made it to the finals of the Russian annual festival "Pesnya goda".
In 1995, Varum released a compilation of hits and a new album called "Osenniy dzhaz" that won the "Ovation" award as the best album of 1995, with Varum taking the "Ovation" for best singer of the year. The next year, Varum released "V dvukh minutakh ot liubvi". Around the same time, the perfume "Anzhelika Varum" made its debut on the Russian market. Varum remained prolific, releasing "Zimniya vishnia" in 1996. The songs "Eto vse dlia tebia", "Drugaya zhenchina", and the title song all crowded the hit parades of leading Russian radio stations.
In 1997, Varum played in the musical "Poza emigranta" and won the "Chaika" award for her performance. She also began a creative collaboration with Leonid Agutin that soon turned into a romantic relationship. In 1999, Varum and Agutin had a baby girl whom they named Elisaveta. The same year, Varum released her seventh album, "Tol'ko ona" and a collection of hits titled "The Best". She also appeared in a feature film, playing a leading role in Vasiliy Pichul's "Nebo v almazakh".
In 2000, Varum released "Sluzhebniy roman", a collaborative album that she created together with Leonid Agutin. The couple also toured throughout Russia with a concert program titled "Polovina serdtsa".
In 2001, Varum created the "Varum Records Company", which she used as a vehicle for producing her own music and representing other artists. She released a new album in 2002 titled "Stop, lyubopytstvo". She also created two new concert programs, a solo program titled after the new album, and a duet program with Agutin called "Rimskiye kanikuly".
In 2003, she played in the film "Kamenskaya 3: Kogda bogi smeyutsia", a detective thriller. Later that year, she released the single "Pozhar". The following year, Varum toured extensively with Agutin, giving live concerts in the United States, Germany, Israel, Belarus, Ukraine, and throughout Russia.
In 2005, Varum appeared in a film that was a musical remake of the well-known Soviet era story "Dvennadsat' Stul'yev" by Ilf and Petrov. She played the role of "Ellochka-lyudoyedka", a flamboyant character with an over-the-top personality. That year, she also created a new concert program with Agutin called "Ty i Ya", with which they toured throughout Europe and the United States. She also helped Agutin to record his first English language record. Created together with Al Di Meola and titled "Cosomopolitan Life", the album dropped in Europe in the spring of 2005 and quickly topped the charts. The album included the Varum and Agutin duet "If I'll get a chance".
After spending much of 2006 touring, Varum released a new album in 2007 called "Muzika" that included both new and old songs. This was followed up by another album in 2009 titled "Yesli on uidet". For the first time in her career, Varum not only sang, but also wrote the lyrics for some of the songs.
In 2010 and 2011, Varum and Agutin gave a series of concerts in most of Russia's major cities, including a performance at the Kremlin in collaboration with the renowned Cuban musician Orlando "Maraca" Valle.

Videos

  1. 1991 — Babylon
  2. 1991 — Barabashka
  3. 1992 — Whistle Man
  4. 1993 — Artist that Draws Rain
  5. 1995 — Autumn Jazz
  6. 1996 — Not Тoday
  7. 1996 — Neither Answer nor Greetings
  8. 1996 — Winter Сherry
  9. 1997 — Another Woman
  10. 1997 — Queen
  11. 1999 — All in your hands
  12. 2000 — Do not wait for me
  13. 2000 — I Wanna Be Loved by You
  14. 2001 — Will You Near You
  15. 2001 — Stop Curiosity!
  16. 2002 — If You Ever Someone Will Forgive Me
  17. 2002 — Fire
  18. 2004 — The Вest
  19. 2007 — You and me
  20. 2007 — Two Roads, Two Ways
  21. 2008 — Where are you
  22. 2009 — If He Will Go
  23. 2009 — Let's forget
  24. 2011 — How not to Think of You
  25. 2012 — Where are you
  26. 2013 — Crazy
  27. 2013 — I am always with you

    Discography