Zhanna Aguzarova: “The main thing is that people look at you on the street”

Zhanna Aguzarova in the Bravo group

Since childhood, the singer has taken part in creative competitions - not only vocal, but also acting. However, she failed to enroll in a theater university in her hometown. I had to go to the capital. And there, in order to get a room in a dorm, Zhanna decided to study at a vocational school to become a painter.

Zhanna Aguzarova in her youth

As a student, the girl made many attempts to express herself - she went to castings and met talented performers. One day, her search led her to collaborate with the producer of the Bravo group.

Young singer Zhanna Aguzarova

After the first auditions, Zhanna was accepted into the team and announced as a soloist. A busy touring life began with trips around the country and meetings with fans. At one of the concerts, the unexpected happened - Zhanna was detained by the police. It turned out that the artist had been living with fake documents for a long time.

Creative achievements, awards

Zhanna Aguzarova again joins the tour of the Bravo group in Russia. In 2001 he performed at the Maxidrom festival.

In 2003, her big solo concert took place.
In 2005, he sang solo at the Legends of Rock festival.
In 2009, he sang at the birthday party of Evgeniy Khavtan.
In 2010, another concert of the singer took place at Crocus City Hall.

During her creative activity, Zhanna Aguzarova released 10 albums. Chosen as the best singer of 1996 according to the magazine of that time.

Aguzarova is an honorary citizen of one of the cities of Italy.
In Korea she received a gold medal for her contribution to the cause of Peace.
In 2013 he received the Muz-TV Award “For his contribution to the development of the music industry.” A whole section was devoted to Zhanna Khasanovna in the music encyclopedia.

Solo career of the “goddess of outrageousness”

Zhanna did not become the “goddess of shocking” at the suggestion of the Bravo producers; the singer’s acquaintances claimed that in life she was not distinguished by “normal” behavior. Aguzarova deliberately created an aura of mystery around herself - she either claimed that her middle name was Khasanovna, although her father’s name was Georgy, or she introduced herself as the daughter of the Swedish diplomat Anders.

Zhanna Aguzarova

Before focusing on her solo career, Zhanna Aguzarova decided to get a musical education - she graduated from college, where she acquired vocal skills. The first solo album did not take long to arrive.

“Goddess of shocking” – Zhanna Aguzarova

Realizing that her eccentric image brings serious income, Aguzarova decides to move to the USA. In addition, with the collapse of the USSR, fewer and fewer job offers were received - there was a short experience of cooperation with Alla Pugacheva, but it did not end in anything remarkable.

Zhanna's bright stage images surprised the audience

In America, Zhanna was engaged in singing activities in cabarets and restaurants, was a DJ and even a limousine driver - she transported Hollywood celebrities to social events. However, overseas it was not possible to express herself in full force; upon returning home, the ex-soloist of the group “Bravo” was already known as a real “Martian”.

Aguzarova is often called the “Martian”

Personal life of Zhanna Aguzarova

The artistic and eccentric performer has always had many fans. When she was in the Bravo group, the artist dated Timur Murtazaev, but the couple did not advertise the relationship, and after that she managed to be married to oceanologist Ilya Kabatchenko.

Wedding of Zhanna Aguzarova and Ilya Kabatchenko

Friends of the couple claimed that the marriage was fictitious; Zhanna should have stayed in Moscow. She herself admitted later that she lived with her husband “fun, in happiness and love.” But Ilya Kabatchenko claimed in an interview that his wife returned from exile as a completely different person, and changes in character became the reason for their breakup.

The “emigration” husband of Zhanna Aguzarova was an American actor of Russian origin, Nick Poltoranin. He still lives in New York and speaks very ambiguously about his relationship with the “queen of outrageousness”.

Zhanna Aguzarova and Nick Poltaranin

Zhanna herself was also not delighted with that period of her life, calling the civil marriage “random and short-term at a price of 10 rubles.” Aguzarova has no children, she is not married, but admits that fans are always near her.

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Today I found a musical ring from 1986 with Zhanna Aguzarova,

where Alla Pugacheva represents her for the first time on TV.

The arguments in this program are very interesting.

about the new wave of music in our society at that time. Very interesting!!!

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Zhanna Khasanovna Aguzarova (born July 7, 1967) is a Russian and Soviet singer, former vocalist of the Bravo group, who also made a solo career. Known, in particular, for shockingness and extravagance. According to some sources, she was born somewhere in the Novosibirsk region, according to others - in Vladikavkaz, but she herself denies both of these versions; In addition to those indicated, there is also a version that Zhanna was born in Uzbekistan. According to some sources, she was born on July 6, 1965.

Zhanna Aguzarova, entrance exam to Music. Ippolitov-Ivanov School

She spent her childhood in the village of Kolyvan. She unsuccessfully tried to enroll in several theater schools (in Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Sverdlovsk). For some time she lived in Rostov-on-Don. In 1982 she came to Moscow and entered a technical school to study as a painter. However, Aguzarova soon entered Moscow bohemian circles. At first she hid under the pseudonym Ivana Anders (according to Zhanna herself, she had to live under a pseudonym due to the lack of her own passport, but the fake one indicated the name Ivan (Ivana)), posing as the daughter of diplomats. I tried to get a job as a soloist in the group “Crematorium”. In 1983 she joined the group “Bravo” (then still called “Postscript”). Already the first twenty-minute tape recording of the Bravo group with a new soloist was a great success.

Promotional video - Zhanna Aguzarova at the Musical Ring® in 1988

Since 1984, after being arrested right at a concert (March 18), she was persecuted by the Soviet authorities, like many rock musicians. In particular, due to the discovery of Aguzarova’s passport in someone else’s name, she was imprisoned in prison and a psychiatric hospital for a whole year. Upon leaving the hospital, she continued to participate in the Bravo group. In 1985, the group was presented by Alla Pugacheva on Leningrad television, in the “Musical Ring” program. From this year, the popularity of the Bravo group and, in particular, the strong vocalist Aguzarova began to grow (especially quickly after their performance at Rock Panorama-86 in May and the subsequent tours around the country); In 1987, the Aprelevsky Record Plant released the first record of the Bravo group. In 1986, Aguzarova also collaborated with the group “Night Prospect” and participated in a concert in support of the victims of Chernobyl (performing the song “I Believe”). Took part in the music festival “Lituanika-86”. Among the most famous songs dating back to Aguzarova’s participation in the Bravo group are “Yellow Shoes”, “I Believe”, “Wonderful Country”, “Old Hotel”, “Cats”. One song by Aguzarova is present on the soundtrack to the film “Assa. By the end of 1987, Bravo's popularity began to wane, and in 1988 Aguzarova left the group to pursue a solo career. In 1989 she performed new songs in the “Musical Ring” program.

Zhanna Aguzarova Queen

In 1990, she graduated from the Ippolitov-Ivanov Music College, recorded a solo “Russian Album” and worked for a short time at the Alla Pugacheva Theater. In 1991, she moved to Los Angeles (USA), where she worked at the Black Sea restaurant, where she left two years later due to disagreements with the management - during her performances, Aguzarova often improvised, which did not suit the restaurant owners. In America, in 1993, together with Vasily Shumov, she recorded an album of remakes of songs by the group “Center” called “Nineteen Ninety’s” (and before that, in 1992, she participated in the recording of Shumov’s album “Tectonics”). In 1993, she took part in the tour of the Bravo group in the countries of the former Soviet Union, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the group. The details of the singer's life in the United States are little known; it is known, however, that for some time she worked there as a DJ, then as a driver at the International Celebrity Center.

“Touching Yesenin” Zhanna Aguzarova

Returned to Russia on May 25, 1996. She took part in the election campaign of B. N. Yeltsin “Vote or lose.” In 1998, she went on another anniversary tour of the Bravo group, but after performing in only five concerts, she left for Moscow. Currently (2006) he gives concerts, mostly club ones. The basis of her concert repertoire is the material of the “Russian Album” and songs of the Bravo group of the 1980s; Zhanna also performs several new songs - “Maya”, “You, only you”, etc. - reminiscent in the style of performance of the songs of the group “Bravo” and differing from them mainly in arrangements.

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Zhanna Aguzarova (NTV, story author: Alexander Nazarov)

Zhanna behaves very shockingly, unpredictably on stage (which is why journalists call her the “goddess of shocking”), and dresses extremely eccentrically—on the verge of kitsch. In his few interviews, he often talks about his extraterrestrial origin and “internal connections” with the Martians

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