Alena Sviridova

Childhood and youth

Alena Valentinovna Sviridova was born in sunny Kerch. Father Valentin Vyacheslavovich served as a military pilot, and mother Vera Vasilievna worked at a local radio station for most of her life. At one time, rumors spread that Sviridova had a twin sister. This information has not been confirmed. The singer has a sister, but a cousin. Women communicate warmly throughout their lives. But despite the fact that both are blonde and share some family traits, the sisters are completely different.

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Alena Sviridova in childhood with her mother
As a child, Alena and her parents left for the Krasnodar region. However, due to family reasons, they did not stay there for long; the next stop was Minsk. Her grandmother remained in Crimea, whom the future star visited in the summer.

The girl mastered the school curriculum in Minsk, and here she entered a university, the music and pedagogical faculty. She combined her studies with supervision of a vocal studio.

Sviridova supplemented her rich biography with vocal performance in the ensemble at the plant named after. Sergei Vavilov. The vocal and instrumental cast traveled around the cities of Belarus, where the young vocalist received her first stage experience.

Music

Alena Sviridova’s busy career as a vocalist unfolded in solo performance. The artist recorded a number of song motifs and broadcast them on Minsk Radio. Later, these reproductions became the basis of the author's repertoire, which served as an impetus for holding concerts. Pop performances and composing music brought pleasure and inspired the future star.

The solo experience was followed by the position of accompanist. After receiving higher education, Sviridova got a job as an actress at the Drama Theater. Maxim Gorky. The first role on the stage of this theater was the heroine Alcmene in the stage production of Moliere’s “Amphitryon”. Fame in the narrow circles of dramatic art and a source of constant income did not satisfy the actress’s creative potential. Then she imitated Annie Lennox. In Alena’s dreams there was a glimmer of hope for a big stage.

A new segment in the artist’s musical career was formed in Moscow. When the young but already experienced performer lit up the audience before the performance of foreign stars, producer Yuri Ripyakh noticed her and invited her to record singles in the capital of Russia.

Life in the metropolis isolated the artist from her acquaintances and friends, but Arkady Arkanov, a metropolitan satirist, helped her acclimatize to the new environment and surroundings. The debut album was recorded in 1993.

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Alena Sviridova in her youth
At the filmed festival “Song-93” she became a finalist thanks to the composition “Winter Just Ended”. Participation in “Generation 93” brought the “Golden Apple” award for the musical hit “Height”.

A significant event was the video “Pink Flamingo”, which brought Alena first place on BIZ-TV. Later, this project topped the list of singles and became the title of a CD, which she presented in 1995.

Three years later, Sviridova participated in the filmed musical “The Bureau of Happiness,” where Alexander Mikhailov and Lyudmila Gurchenko became colleagues on the set.

After the release of the record, clips followed for songs already presented to the public. A duet with Valery Leontiev and a solo performance on stage increase the popularity and fame of Alena Sviridova. Subsequent compositions were included in collections and put on sale.

In 1997, the performer’s hit “Poor Sheep” was released, which became her calling card for many years. Fyodor Bondarchuk took charge of directing the video. The track topped the list of tracks on the second album, “Everything is Different at Night,” which also included the songs “If you want,” “It will always be like this,” and “I’ll come to your aid.” After 3 years, a new record “Life Line” appeared.

The rotation of musical works took place on thematic television channels and radio, and new stories unfolded on the theater stage, for example, the musicals “Moonlight” and “The Three Musketeers”. Next, the actress played a role in the film “Death by Will.” The singer became one of the desired performers in the “Old Songs about the Main Thing” project. She appeared in three New Year's specials, which in the late 90s were considered one of the brightest events on Russian television.

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Interest in the performer did not fade. Spectators and fans watched the actress work in the “School of Modern Play”. Alena Sviridova presented new photos to fans in 1999, when she starred in an erotic photo shoot for Playboy magazine. The second nude photography took place 9 years later.

In 2002, Sviridova, in a duet with Andrei Makarevich, released a collection of her own hits and remixes in the jazz-blues style of popular songs, including the world hit The Man I Love by George Gershwin. In this case, the cover version was based on both the format and presentation of the song, which was subject to a poetic translation by the actress. In the same year she became a member of the Writers' Union of the Russian Federation. Fruitful work followed in Kenya, where Alena became the TV presenter of the show “Harem”.

For services to the development of the cultural heritage of the Russian Federation, at the direction of President Vladimir Putin, the singer received Russian citizenship. In 2004, Alena Sviridova was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. The award was presented by Alexander Sokolov (Minister of Culture).

At the beginning of 2008, based on the album “Siren, or 12 Stories Told at Dawn,” she presented a musical show, which received positive feedback from critics. The track list includes songs with intriguing laconic titles: “Bye”, “Creature”, “Possible”. The singer soon shot videos for these compositions, which were also successful.

Alena Sviridova - song “Pink Flamingo”

After Sviridova’s “I Know Too Much” video appeared in 2003, fans of the artist started talking about her similarities with Svetlana Bondarchuk, the wife of Fyodor Bondarchuk, who played the main male role in the video. Also, some listeners admitted that they often confuse the singer with actress Yulia Rutberg.

Alena Sviridova is a regular guest on television programs. The singer became a participant in the release of the “Raffle” program, popular in the mid-2000s, hosted by Valdis Pelsh and Tatyana Arno. The artist took part in the second season of “One to One,” in which she surprised fans and the jury in the genre of transformations. She talentedly portrayed types of different characters - Edith Piaf, Nastya Kamenskikh, Diana Arbenina. The audience and the jury celebrated the performance of the song “Look into your eyes” in the image of Natalia Vetlitskaya.

In 2012, a significant event took place at Crocus City Hall, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Alena Sviridova’s professional activity. Filming of the celebration was entrusted to Channel One. The event brought together the Russian elite and the actress’s best friends. Flattering comments about the person’s achievements came from the lips of high-ranking guests, among whom were Valery Meladze, Vladimir Presnyakov, Lev Leshchenko and others. With the latter artist, Alena Sviridova released a video for the song “I ask you to forgive me.”

Alena Sviridova - song “Poor Sheep”

Boris Barabanov from Kommersant said:

“Not many people came, but they brought more flowers than could be expected.”

Post-concert report in the program “Come on!” was marked by claims from the hero of the occasion to journalists, who, in her opinion, unduly focused attention on the new marriage and age of the artist.

After the scandal, the channel apologized and rehabilitated itself with a new program, which the artist liked more than the previous one.

In 2021, a video was released for the new song “Airplane”, which was not included in any of the albums. In the same year, the artist gave a detailed interview to Tatyana Ustinova in the “My Hero” program. The seventh work in the artist’s discography was the album called “River City”. The album was released in 2021, the tracks included new songs and favorite hits, such as “Body and Soul”, “Shu-bee-doo”.

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Alena Sviridova in a swimsuit
The singer is a frequent guest on the “Road Radio” broadcasts. In 2021, together with Denis Klyaver, she attended an event marking the radio station’s birthday. According to the artist, at the evening she relaxed and talked with old friends. Earlier, Sviridova’s song “Travushka” premiered on the radio.

The singer also appeared in the studio of Alla Dovlatova, the radio host of Russian Radio.

Alena Sviridova’s summer program was full of events and concerts. The singer “lit up” on the stage of Channel One’s rating project “Three Chords”. I visited the Kinotavr film festival and went on vacation to the Crimean coast. The artist is also connected with her small homeland by her social work, because since 2021 the performer has been a member of the Public Council for the construction of the Crimean Bridge. And here, in Kerch, the singer spends most of the year.

In addition to singing, Alena Sviridova is interested in literature. She published a memoir, “Happiness Without Rules,” which she dedicated to her relationships with the opposite sex.

Personal life

In Alena’s personal life there were 4 bright romances. The actress's first husband was Sergei Sviridov. At the time of their acquaintance, the young man had returned from the GDR, where he was studying chemistry at the university. He was 9 years older than his chosen one.

In marriage, the performer gave birth to a son, Vasily, who now lives in Canada. In her youth, the singer worked a lot, toured and paid little attention to her family. The artist literally lived between cities; she didn’t even have personal housing.

A new romance pushed Alena to break up with Sergei. The singer became interested in a creative person named Arthur. At that time he worked on television, later became an artist. After the divorce, son Vasily Sviridov remained with his father. The artist regrets that she did not participate in raising the child and was not able to observe his growth.

In 1998, the actress celebrated her wedding in the Caribbean with American Ambassador Henry Peacock. As the performer later recalled in the studio of Boris Korchevnikov’s “The Fate of a Man” program, it was a romantic ceremony. The bride and groom got married at 6 am on the ocean shore. The beautiful union collapsed after 2 years. The artist suggests that this happened because of her emotional immaturity; moreover, she always put her creative life above relationships with men.

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Alena Sviridova and her son Grigory Miroshnichenko
In 2003, young fashion model Dmitry Miroshnichenko became Alena Sviridova’s common-law husband. A year later, the singer gave birth to his son Gregory. The age difference between the artist’s two children is 21 years. But the second husband is exactly the same age as the eldest son. The discrepancy in age with her husband did not bother Alena; she never tired of repeating to journalists that she felt most comfortable with young people. But the marriage still broke up in 2007.

In 2012, the actress introduced her future husband, Armenian businessman David Vardanyan, to the public. The new chosen one is 16 years younger than the singer. The couple looks harmonious, and Alena proves that at any age a woman can look fresh and attractive.

She doesn’t hesitate to post photos in a swimsuit on Instagram. At one time, fans were expecting a magnificent wedding, but over time it became clear that for some reason the couple was delaying the official registration of their relationship. In an interview, the artist explained this by saying that after two marriages, the stamp in her passport means nothing to her.

Sviridova does not strive to become a guru in the field of style and fashion, but, according to stylists, she looks impeccable. The star herself takes this kind of compliments calmly, as she believes that her sense of beauty is genetically endowed. In addition, to maintain an athletic figure, the singer trains with a personal instructor, visits Ilze Liepa’s studio, where she practices Pilates and enjoys dancing. Thanks to training, the artist’s weight has not changed since her youth and remains at 58 kg with a height of 175 cm. The performer does not neglect “beauty injections” and ultrasound procedures, but she categorically does not accept plastic surgery.

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Alena Sviridova and her husband David Vardanyan
Together with her chosen one David Vardanyan, Alena Sviridova appears at social events. The couple is periodically spotted in the foyers of the capital's theaters and cinemas; both try not to miss high-profile theater and film premieres.

One of the artist’s areas of activity was charity. Alena collaborates with a fund to help orphans. Having pedagogical experience in teaching music, Sviridova conducts music lessons with the children. The artist is sure that it is worth explaining to students that a person can be creative even without musical abilities. For children who are deaf, this could be playing percussion instruments or writing lyrics for songs.

Among the television broadcasts with the participation of the performer, the most ambitious program was the “Secret to a Million” program, which airs on NTV. In the studio, the singer was frank with TV presenter Lera Kudryavtseva. Alena Sviridova spoke about her childhood, in which her drinking father was present. The man raised his hand to his daughter. The artist also admitted that she had already become a pensioner. The singer did not hide the size of her pension; at that time it amounted to 41 thousand rubles, 30 of which were an allowance for the title of Honored Artist of Russia.

The main thing about Alena Sviridova: hits, novels, quotes

Alena Sviridova
Today Alena Sviridova accepts birthday congratulations, and we will take the opportunity to study the biography of the 57-year-old star, remember her most popular hits and track what is happening in her life now.

Alena Sviridova

Childhood

Alena Sviridova is from Kerch, her maiden name is Leonova. The future artist was born into a military family: the singer’s father was a pilot. The mother of Alena and her younger brother Alexei, a philologist by training, worked on the radio.

Alena Sviridova at the age of six months with her mother

Last year, Sviridova became the heroine of the “Secret to a Million” program, where she recalled her childhood. As it turned out, it was not at all cloudless: according to the singer, her father, who has been dead for 18 years, abused alcohol and raised his hand against his wife and daughter. Alena said that in the North, where the man served, “a lot of alcohol was given out,” and he had serious problems:

My childhood was traumatized. I still don’t sympathize with alcoholics and don’t like them very much... The worst trauma in childhood is when the person closest to you suddenly turns into an “other.” The one who should protect you becomes an enemy

- said the singer. According to her, several times she fell under the hot hand when she tried to protect her mother from her drunken father.

Alena Sviridova with mom and dad

Alena Sviridova with her mother

Alena Sviridova in childhood

Alena has been involved in music since her youth: she began performing on stage while studying at the Minsk Pedagogical Institute. Her brother Alexey is also a creative person: in Minsk, where the family moved, he entered the Institute of Culture, at one time sang in a rock band, writes songs, and began working with his sister as her administrator.

Popularity

Alena began conquering Russian show business in 1993. The director of the then insanely popular Bogdan Titomir, Yuri Ripyakh, helped her in this. Sviridova performed as the opening act for Titomir in Minsk and was so memorable to Ripyakh that after a couple of weeks he offered her cooperation. Alena moved to Moscow and began recording her own songs (Sviridova wrote all her hits herself).

In the same year she made her debut on “Song of the Year”. In 1994, she became truly famous thanks to the hit “Pink Flamingo”, and the video for this song, shot by Mikhail Khleborodov, was actively played on music channels and took first place in the charts.

I don’t take credit for one hundred percent of my success, because if the most talented arrangers, musicians, directors, cameramen, artists and just good people hadn’t been with me at that moment, it’s unlikely that anything would have worked out,

- says Alena.

A couple of years later, the whole country began to hum “Poor Sheep” - that was the name of another unforgettable hit by Sviridova.

Alena entered the new millennium not so vigorously creatively: her new songs did not cause much delight among listeners, and radio stations considered them unformatted.

I even had such a condition that I stopped writing music altogether. I even somehow stopped loving music. I had a feeling that I had been betrayed... I then wrote a book, that is, I went “to the left.” She wrote a book, acted in a movie, wrote music for a movie. The energy was directed in a different direction. But then, frankly speaking, I played enough there. After all, I'm a musician

- Sviridova admitted in an interview with the newspaper Vzglyad.

Alena Sviridova with Andrey Makarevich

Alena Sviridova in the image of Decl on the program “One to One”

The five-year crisis ended when she released the album "Siren, or Twelve Tales Told at Dawn", which was liked by music critics. There were no hits on the level of “Pink Flamingo” on the record, but, for example, the song “Bye” quite confidently gained popularity at that time.

Husbands

Sviridova recalls that at school she was not particularly popular with the opposite sex, but in the ninth grade everything changed:

I blossomed, played and sang in the school ensemble. The boys ran in herds. So the teenage complexes passed by. I decided that I was not beautiful, but I was damn cute. I am still convinced of this. Then there was a pedagogical institute, a music and pedagogical faculty, I got married and had a child. A normal adult life began.

Alena Sviridova with her first husband

The husband of 18-year-old Alena was chemist Sergei Sviridov. They had a son, Vasily, but after three years of family life, Alena and Sergei separated: according to the singer, she was not ready for marriage.

Alena Sviridova with her son Vasily

The son remained to live with his father, since Alena was already constantly on the road. Now 36-year-old Vasily lives with his father in Canada and works as a programmer. Sviridova says that her first marriage broke up on her initiative - she fell in love with someone else:

About three years later, I became terribly homesick for something that had not come true and sat down to write poems with depressive content and read books of the same nature. About love and death. She played the guitar and sang mournfully. I didn’t find any understanding in the house. She fell in love and left for a former theater artist and unrecognized genius. He drew, wrote poetry and prose, invented performances, in short, he understood me. I got inspired and started writing songs. He really liked it. I became even more inspired and recorded several songs on Belarusian radio. They began to spin them. I felt like an artist. Quite by chance, at the same time, I was invited to work at the Minsk Drama Theater named after Gorky, to play the main role in a musical play. But my friend did not forgive me for this.

The singer’s second husband was an employee of the US Embassy in Moscow, a black American, Henry Peacock. The wedding took place on the island of Antigua in the Caribbean:

There were no guests, the shore, dawn, we go, say an oath in English, a single tear rolls down his face - it was very romantic,

- said Alena.

Alena Sviridova with her second husband

But this marriage also ended in divorce: the couple rarely saw each other due to the soaring popularity of the singer, and when Henry decided to return to the USA, Alena refused to go with him. In an interview, Sviridova says that marriage to a foreigner is “not easy”:

Because we don’t always find a common language with our men and understand each other, and even more so with foreign men. They have a different mentality, a different cause-and-effect relationship, they think completely differently.

Younger men

On the set of one of the TV shows, Sviridova met Ukrainian model Dmitry Miroshnichenko, who was only a year older than her eldest son. Alena became the host of the television project “Harem”, which was filmed in Kenya. According to the script, 18 guys of model appearance were supposed to fulfill the whims of the four main heroines - “sultanas”. Dmitry, who had just turned 20 at the time, was one of the participants.

Dmitry Miroshnichenko and Alena Sviridova

In an interview for Caravan of Stories, Miroshnichenko said that “a spark ran” between them at the beginning of the project, at a party in honor of his birthday:

Razbash, the producer of “Harem,” brought me to Alena. “Congratulations,” she smiled. And somehow we immediately “got our tongues hooked.” They were chatting about something like good old acquaintances.

Dmitry saw Alena off after the party, and from then on they began meeting secretly (secretly, because the host’s contract prohibited any personal relationships on the set). According to the young man, the age difference did not bother them at all.

Alena Sviridova and Dmitry Miroshnichenko

I liked her immediately. It was extremely interesting to be with Alena: smart, well-read, talented, in a word - an extraordinary person. And she liked that I treated her not as a star, but simply as a girl I liked. I secretly climbed over the fence, ran to her on dates, gave her bouquets and blushed as soon as our eyes met,

— Dmitry said in the same interview.

After the end of the project, the couple had a long-distance relationship for some time (Miroshnichenko from Kyiv), they visited each other, but lived separately. Dmitry moved to Alena in Moscow when it became known about her pregnancy. At that time, the star was 40 years old, and she was thinking about terminating the pregnancy, but Dmitry convinced her.

Alena Sviridova with her son Grigory

The relationship could not be called ideal: Miroshnichenko admits to journalists that he was never accepted by Sviridova’s entourage, including her mother, who considered this union a misalliance. Dmitry himself, by the way, does not deny that the marriage was unequal:

Alena, being older and wealthier than me, often resolved some issues single-handedly. And quite demonstratively. Like, know your place! She put pressure on me with her superiority. But I'm not one to put pressure on. This is probably why we eventually broke up...

Miroshnichenko and Sviridova were together for five years; they did not formalize their relationship. According to Alena, she and Dmitry broke up because of his “wild lifestyle.”

Dmitry Miroshnichenko and Alena Sviridova with their son Grigory

Now their son Gregory is 15 years old and studies at a cadet school. In an interview several years ago, Sviridova said:

The son said that he wants to become an actor. I won't argue. My task is to explain to him that acting is a colossal work. Time will show.

Now Sviridova is in a relationship with businessman David Vardanyan, he is 14 years younger than the singer. There were even rumors that the couple got married, but Alena denied this information, saying that she did not want to “spoil the relationship with a stamp in her passport.”

David and I live very friendly and fun. And the advantage of my age is that you are already beginning to understand something in life and not worry about some things that for many people are quite serious,

— she said in an interview last year for Domashnyi Ochag.

Alena Sviridova with David Vardanyan

By the way, in the already mentioned program “Secret for a Million,” the singer admitted that she had affairs with colleagues in show business, in particular with Andrei Makarevich and Fyodor Bondarchuk. But, according to Sviridova, she no longer wants relationships with star men, because they “love themselves too much.”

What is he doing now?

Alena Sviridova is still touring, but she is trying to move away from the standard pop agenda, performing her old hits in a new acoustic sound.

In a recent interview with Posta Magazine, the singer said:

A couple of years ago I did a completely acoustic project in which we had two guitars (I play one), double bass and percussion. And we play all the songs that everyone knows, including “Pink Flamingo,” in this acoustics - at first it was such an intuitive story, we tested it, played in clubs, and in 2018 I already had a big concert with her in “ Crocus." And I realized that with this lineup we can play even in the Kremlin, even on the porch, even in the transition - if everything dies, we can still play... Now music is very simple, these are cubes - samples, beats, which, nothing without creating, you simply put it into a new puzzle. And in our time, you had to graduate from a music school, a university, study eight hours a day - but the music that was created with baggage still lives on. But today’s artists have a very short artistic life: one song blew up the Internet, and a year later that’s it.

At the same time, the singer, unlike many artists of the “old wave”, praises new performers - she says that Monetochka has excellent lyrics, that she liked Face’s album, and expresses to rappers, and in particular Oksimiron, “huge respect for the emergence of the Russian language in pop -music."

Sviridova doesn’t release new videos very often, but there are still premieres. Last fall, for example, she presented a video that Alan Badoev shot for her.

In a conversation with Posta Magazine, she honestly admitted that this work was not a great success, but now she is philosophical about such things:

So I shot a video for the song “Wounded” together with Badoev - they filmed it in the American desert for an insane 50 thousand dollars. And I didn’t get the return I wanted: it seemed like all the components were there, but something that I was counting on was missing. Did not work out. Just 10 years ago I would have gone to hang myself and hung myself for three months, but now I am able to say to myself: “So what...”.

Sviridova says that she is no longer trying to be “format”. In the same interview she said:

I once tried to please Russian Radio, which did not want to hire me, although this was during the period of Kozhevnikov, my friend. They said it was not formatted. And then I wrote a terrible song for them: I’m ashamed of it! I wrote it with the following message: choke, here you go! It's called "Swallow" - and it's a disaster, yes. Probably, musically, this was my biggest mistake. Fortunately, he remained unknown to the general public: if I spat into eternity, it was somehow... quietly.

In addition, the singer acts as the author of books. 13 years ago, just during that same musical crisis, her “adventure novel for adults” called “Suitcase Mood” was published. Well, now the star is promoting her book “Happiness Without Rules.” The description says:

Alena Sviridova shares her story, talking about childhood, family and music - the most important things that helped her become who she is. About how experience helps you rethink everything and discard unnecessary clichés and cliches imposed by society, destroy the shackles of complexes and boldly look forward through the prism of memories, synthesizing happiness in yourself every day.

At the same time, Sviridova explains that she does not consider herself a writer, since all her thoughts are occupied with music:

You cannot write a book “part-time.” To become a writer, I first need to stop being a musician. Probably, if you send all the children and husband to grandma, then you can manage to finish the book... But for now this is unrealistic,

— she said in an interview with OK!

Alena also maintains a quite pleasant Instagram: she is not into filters and Photoshop, does not get into arguments with subscribers, and is often nostalgic, posting shots from the past.

Alena Sviridova with her mother at the Bolshoi Theater

Alena Sviridova now

At the end of 2021, Alena Sviridova appeared in the studio of the “Tonight” show, where that day they remembered the first films of the “Old Songs about the Main Thing” series. In a conversation with Maxim Galkin, the singer spoke about her feelings from the New Year’s project, in which she twice starred in a duet with Lev Leshchenko. The artists remembered one of their compositions of that time and again portrayed a couple of lovers in the studio, performing a holiday hit.

In February 2021, Sviridova became a participant in the show “Exactly” on Channel One.

Alena Sviridova: biography

Alena Sviridova is a Russian singer. The woman has bright poetic and musical talents, so she often acts both as a performer and as a lyricist and composer of her songs.

Singer, composer and actress Alena Sviridova

The hits “Pink Flamingo” and “Poor Sheep” at one time did not leave the first lines of the charts of Russian radio stations and music channels.