Arkady Khoralov: life and career

Few people know that the popular hit "New Year's Toys" more than fifteen years ago was first performed together with all the beloved Sofia Rotaru talented performer and author of many songs Arkady Khoralov. After that, many artists sang it, and the song became a real anthem of every New Year. Arkady Khoralov, in addition to being a keyboardist and vocalist of the legendary group "Red Poppies", wrote many musical masterpieces for other pop stars. His songs were performed by Alsu, Lyubov Uspenskaya, Taisiya Povaliy, Anita Tsoi, Alexander Lominsky, Irina Arkhipova, Vitas and many other artists.

The beginning of the way

How did the career of a talented musician, poet and composer develop? Where was he born, what did he do, how he now lives? All these and many other questions are of interest to music lovers and admirers of Khoralov's work. Let's try to find answers to them.

Arkady Khoralov is a native of Ukraine. He was born on January 26, 1951 in the city of Melitopol, Zaporozhye region. In 1957, he became a pupil of the first grade of the general education school in his native city. In parallel with his studies at the school, Arkady Khoralov received a music education - he finished eight classes at a local music school in the piano class.

Do not forget the future artist and about the sport - was a member of the junior football team of the city, and also was involved in athletics.

Education of the future musician

In 1967, Khoralova received a certificate of secondary education with distinction and became a student of the State Taurian Academy. In 1972, he received a diploma that he mastered the profession of an engineer in technology and organization of machinery repair.

Contains the biography of Arkady Khoralov and the stage of military training. Four years of training in the military department were not in vain - he was awarded the rank of lieutenant of engineer troops.

Throughout the period of his education, Arkady Choralov found time to study music. He also regularly appeared on stage as a vocalist of the Academic Variety Orchestra.

Career and recognition

From 1972 to 1974, Arkady Khoralov was a vocalist-instrumentalist in VIA "Sing Guitars", whose artistic director was Valery Muratov - Honored Art Worker of the USSR. Then the musician moved to the band VIA "Chervona Ruta" and began singing on the same stage with Sofia Rotaru - People's Artist of the USSR. Under the guidance of the talented composer Konstantin Orbelian, Arkady Khoralov soloed at the State pop jazz orchestra of Armenia.

In the period from 1976 to 1979 he sang in Moscow's VIA "Gems" under the leadership of Yuri Malikov, Honored Artist.

In VIA "Red Poppies" to the Honored Art Worker Iosif Mikhailovsky, the artist came in 1980, where he sang until 1984.

Mentoring such amazing people, true professionals, did his job in the career of Khoralov - he grew up as an artist, discovered the writer's talent and talent as a composer.

Solo career

At various times of cooperation with VIA, numerous records of Arkady Khoralov were recorded. In 1984, his solo career started. In the period from 1985 to 1992, the albums were recorded and released by Arkady Khoralov. In them were presented the compositions of his authorship to the poems of Andrey Dementiev. The first actor's minion included such songs as "Without You", "Abandoned World", "Sunday" and others. The album had incredible success and sold around the country in a circulation of 3.5 million copies.

In parallel with the release of new songs, the musician actively participates in many concert concerts along with other Russian and foreign artists.

In 1988, his second album, "Strange World", was released, and it was sold to over a million listeners. In total, the singer's career had 13 albums, each of which found his listener.

In 2010, Arkady Khoralov, whose biography is already full of events, gave a jubilee concert in the Kremlin. His close friends, Yury Antonov, Vyacheslav Dobrynin, Alexander Serov, Vladimir Vinokur, Nikolay Noskov, Lev Leshchenko, Alexey Glyzin, Vladislav Medianik, Yuri Malikov, Lolita, Igor Sarukhanov, the teams Blue Bird, Gems and others.