The fictional past and mysterious present of Zhanna Aguzarova: why the singer returned from the USA and how she lives now
'13.09.2020'
Source: Culturology.ru
Although the singer has not appeared on the stage for a long time, attention to her person has not waned to this day - Zhanna Aguzarova today remains one of the most mysterious, interesting and shocking figures in domestic show business, writes Culturology.ru.
Almost no one knows how Zhanna looks without bright makeup and what she is doing now - the singer appears in public every time in a new image, does not give interviews and does not let anyone into her life. For a long time, nothing was known about her at all, but in recent years, relatives shed light on some details of her biography, which were not previously discussed in the media.
There are very few reliable facts about her, if only because Jeanne invented many events of her biography herself. It is difficult to find truthful information about where she was born - either in the Tyumen region, or in the Novosibirsk region. The singer herself called different cities, and her mother claimed that she was born in Kazakhstan, and grew up in the Novosibirsk region. Jeanne showed her artistic abilities as a child.
“Zhanna went to the first grade in the Novosibirsk region, she studied well, she participated in all amateur competitions. She was not at all afraid of the stage, she was not shy of the audience. She was received with a bang, the walls shook with applause, people shouted: "Encore, bravo!" I decided to send her to a music school in the accordion class. She first caught fire with this, and then did not want to go there. I didn't insist and did the right thing: children should be given freedom of choice, ”says the artist's mother.
At the beginning of her career, she introduced herself as Ivanna Anders, the daughter of a foreign diplomat. As it turned out later, the singer lived on a fake passport: it contained the name Ivan, which she corrected to "Ivanna". When, during a police raid at a rock concert, which often happened then, Zhanna was arrested and found on her with a fake passport, sent first to Butyrka prison, and then for examination by a psychiatrist. After she was recognized as sane, the singer was sent to forced labor for logging near Tyumen. According to other information, she just spent some time with her mother.
Zhanna Aguzarova became the first soloist of the "Bravo" group and from the very first performances she made a splash on the stage. Her extraordinary vocals and manner of performance impressed even the musicians.
“The biggest shock happened when she sang. I almost fell out of my chair for the drums. Never before had I heard such a strong voice alive, ”recalled the band's drummer Pavel Kuzin.
In the 1980s. her hits thundered all over the country: "Yellow Shoes", "Wonderful Country", "I Believe", "Old Hotel", "Black Cat". It was simply impossible to present these songs in any other performance. The extravagant singer amazed the audience not only with her sonorous voice, but also with her shocking appearance - each of her new images was a real work of art.
In those days, Zhanna Aguzarova was so successful that she was even called the third most popular Soviet singer after Alla Pugacheva and Sofia Rotaru.
At the same time, she married oceanographer Ilya Kabatchenko, but their marriage soon fell apart - a spectacular singer was not accepted in the intelligent family of the young scientist. According to other sources, this marriage was fictitious and helped the artist stay in Moscow. Soon after that, Zhanna Aguzarova began an affair with her administrator and director Nick Poltoranin. He convinced her that it was time for her to pursue a solo career, and she left the Bravo group. After that, Aguzarova released a solo album and worked for some time at the Alla Pugacheva Theater.
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And in the early 1990s. Zhanna Aguzarova suddenly disappeared, which gave rise to a lot of rumors. Journalists in the press practiced wit, claiming that the singer decided to return to her Mars. Someone suggested that she had to leave the stage after the conflict with the Prima Donna, someone claimed that she left the country. As it became known later, only the latter turned out to be true.
In the early 1990s. Nick Poltoranin and Zhanna Aguzarova set off to conquer America. Very little is known about this period of her life. In the USA, she sang in restaurants, worked as a DJ, tried to record her music, but achieved popularity only in very narrow circles. Poltoranin acted in episodic roles and intended to stay in the United States forever, and Zhanna wanted to return to her homeland.
“She was attracted to concert halls, and I was attracted by American citizenship. It all ended so prosaically, but I could no longer give up my life for Jeanne! But we thought: someday we will get married, even fantasized about common children ... Parting was difficult for both, we loved each other very much. Failures broke her, and she left, hurried. Now, 20 years later, I could turn her into a star in America! I have already acquired the necessary connections, I know those people who would help Zhanna record a song and promote it, "said Nick.
When the singer decided to return to her homeland, they parted.
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In the early 2000s. interest in her person did not weaken, and she herself willingly fueled him with statements that she communicates with the Martians via internal communication, and that Lady Gaga is her friend. The soloist of "Bravo" Valery Syutkin called her "a girl with a cannon wound in the head" and talked about how she once disrupted the group's concert, referring to a press conference on Mars.
In recent years, she rarely appears in public and leads a very private lifestyle, although from time to time she performs at corporate parties and participates in various shows and concert programs. In 2015, she appeared in the program "Evening Urgant", in 2019 she took part in a concert dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Stas Namin's group "Flowers".
At the beginning of 2020, she appeared in the show of Maxim Galkin "Musicality". On the air, Aguzarova announced that she continues to write songs, however, her new albums have not appeared since 2003. According to journalists, the singer, who recently celebrated her 58th birthday, now lives in Moscow, but often visits Los Angeles, where she also has a place to live. She often goes on yoga tours in Bali, Tibet and Africa.
Recently it became known that the singer has released a new album. For the first time in almost 30 years.
Her album titled "Queen of the Sunset" with 12 songs appeared on the network. However, the tracks were not new, Aguzarova performed all compositions at concerts and events at different times. The singer worked on the album in St. Petersburg, Moscow, as well as in Stockholm, London and Los Angeles.
