'Music saves me': the success story and personal drama of Tamara Gverdtsiteli
'13.06.2021'
Source: Yandex Zen
Her professional life has developed very successfully - for over 40 years the singer has been performing on stage, music has become her vocation, service, the meaning of life and salvation from all troubles. But she also deprived her of what brought happiness, says the author of the blog "Cultural Studies" on Yandex Zen.
Fame and recognition came to her very early. At 9 years old Tamriko (as she was called in childhood) became a member of the children's pop ensemble "Mziuri”, With whom she toured a lot throughout the Union.
While studying at the Tbilisi Conservatory, at the age of 19, she became the winner of the international song contest in Sochi "Red Carnation", later won the first prize at the international competition "Golden Orpheus" in Sofia, acted as a special guest at pop song festivals in Sopot and San Remo. After that, they started talking about her in Europe as one of the most talented Soviet singers.
Once the French composer and singer Michel Legrand heard Tamara Gverdtsiteli perform his song from the Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and was so amazed that he invited her to Paris. It would seem that there is nothing to doubt - such chances fall once in a lifetime. But then the singer really had reasons for doubts.
At that time, she was already married to the director of the Tbilisi theater Georgy Kakhabrishvili, in 1986 the couple had a son, Sandro. The husband was himself a representative of the creative profession and at first did not interfere with his wife's musical career.
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Tamara always dreamed of a strong family. After all, the first shock of her childhood was the divorce of her parents, which she was going through very hard. Since then, she has always looked for protection, support and support in men.
This is probably why he became her chosen one Kakhabrishviliwho was 15 years older than her. The wedding was very magnificent, 300 people were invited to it, including ... Margaret Thatcher!
True, it was not the newlyweds who initiated this, but Eduard Shevardnadze, who invited Thatcher, who was visiting Georgia, to the opening of the Tbilisi Registry office... The delegation arrived there at the time of registration of the marriage of Gverdtsiteli and Kakhabrishvili.
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At first, their marriage was happy - like all Georgian women, Tamara tried to devote a lot of time to home and family.
“At first it was like that, I was a good housewife. I survived the divorce of my parents and forever remembered this terrible feeling, especially since their separation became very painful, ”said the singer.
But in the late 1980s, there was a cooling in the couple's relationship. When armed conflicts began in Georgia, it turned out that the spouses had different political views, and they literally found themselves "on opposite sides of the barricades."
About that time, the artist said: “Millions of people just felt outside of time, outside of the profession, outside of the home. Man does not want to be in darkness, nobody wants any war. As soon as the usual pace is disturbed, a person begins to feel very useless. " In such conditions, it was absolutely impossible to continue to study music in Tbilisi.
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And the singer accepted Michel Legrand's offer. This meeting convinced her that she made the right choice and should stay in music. After the concert at Olympia, the singer was offered a two-year contract to work in France. She successfully performed in front of French listeners with Michel Legrand, and after that she returned - not to Tbilisi, but to Moscow, taking her mother and son from Tbilisi.
Tamara Gverdtsiteli still hoped that her husband would come to them, she lived in anticipation for several years, but he did not dare to move: at first he explained that he could not quit his job, then that he could not leave the country. But the artist then understood the main thing: he is no longer afraid of losing her herself. So in 1995, their marriage broke up.
In the same year, the artist left for America. There, in her life, love happened, which she today calls the strongest and deepest. Dmitry was originally from Baku, then emigrated to the United States, made a career there as a lawyer. Gverdtsiteli met him during a tour in America. Their feelings were mutual and all-consuming. He did not require her to quit her musical career, he was ready to fly after her all over the world.
“He was ready for anything for me, even to leave Boston for Moscow. I refused to give birth to his child - and he agreed to this. This man was ready to go after love, ”the singer recalls.
But even then, the artist did not think about giving up her career and staying in America.
They stayed together for two years, but this story ended abruptly and tragically. When Tamara was in Moscow, in the middle of the night she received a call and was told that Dmitry had died of cardiac arrest.
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“I didn't want to accept his death, I didn't understand how this could happen. I am absolutely sure: he hears me singing for him on stage, ”says Tamara.
As it always was, music became a consolation and salvation for her, only on stage could she give free rein to her feelings.
“Music saves me from all people who hurt me,” the singer admits.
Later, trying to drown out the pain, Gverdtsiteli tried again to build a family and married a heart surgeon Sergei Ambatelo... But this marriage did not last long and broke up in 2005.
The artist never commented on the reasons, admitting only that she considered it a mistake: “I, trying to escape from loneliness, from tormenting memories of lost love, made an unforgivable mistake. She let into her life a person who should not have been in it under any circumstances. I don’t mention his name and I don’t want to talk about our relationship, or about the reasons why we broke up. Any explanation will be private. The main thing is that he could not understand either me or my feelings ... "
Since then, the artist calls her son the only man in her life. She devoted herself to the stage, but gave too dear price for it - personal happiness.
The original column is posted on the blog “Culturology "on Yandex Zen
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