The country is mourning! Died Joseph Kobzon

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The Voice of Moscow radio station reported: Joseph Kobzon died. The cause of death of the genius music performer, who was considered the best baritone of the Russian Federation, has not been announced. However, it is known that the people's artist for a long time was treated for cancer of the pancreas.

Today, the wife of the great singer, Nelly Kobzon, with whom he linked a biography and personal life continues to remain silent. The place of the farewell to the artist, the time and date of the funeral have not yet been announced.

Childhood and adolescence of the great performer

There are people who are born to be great. And their biography and personal life cannot be easy. The attention of the public of society is riveted exclusively to how this person lived and who became.

In the history of the culture of the Russian Federation there are many truly great people: in literature, these are Dostoevsky and Sholokhov, in the cinema - Mikhail Ulyanov, and in music - Joseph Kobzon, for whose fans it is still difficult to admit that he died.

After all, it was he who was associated in the subconscious of people with concerts held in significant places, with the best voice of the USSR and Russia.

Joseph Davidovich was born on September 11, 1937, in Chasov Yar, Donetsk region, Ukrainian SSR in a Jewish family. Before the start of the war, the boy's parents moved to Lvov, and then David Kunovich's father was taken to the front.

Mother Ida Isaevna Shoikhen-Kobzon was forced to move to Uzbekistan, not occupied by the Germans, together with her three sons, a grandmother and a disabled brother. The family stayed in the city of Yangul, located near Tashkent.

From the memoirs of Joseph Kobzon, it is known that his father was shell-shocked in 1943, but decided not to return home, starting to build a personal life with another woman in Moscow. This event left a significant imprint on the singer's fate.

Then his father died for him and he was no longer interested in his future fate. And stepping onto the big stage, Joseph Davidovich chose his mother's surname.

In 1944, the Kobzon family returned to their homeland and settled in Kramatorsk. And after 2 years, the boy's mother married a Jew Moisey Moiseivich Rapport. After some time, Joseph had 2 more brothers and a sister, and a mother with many children with a new spouse decided to move to Dnepropetrovsk, where there were better living conditions.

It was there that the future performer of brilliant musical works graduated from school and received a passport and entered the technical school, receiving a diploma in 1956.

Receiving a special higher education, Joseph Kobzon first began performing in front of the public with recitals and a duet with the future badminton champion B. Barshakov. He also became interested in boxing and even became the champion of Ukraine, but having received an injury in the head, he decided not to continue playing dangerous sports. At the technical school, Kobzon was on a special scholarship and studied only at 4 and 5, and graduated with honors.

Becoming a musician and singer

Serving in the army from 1956 to 1959, Joseph Davidovich continued his passion for music. It was there that he first tried himself as a performer in the ensemble of the Transcaucasian Military District. After retiring, Kobzon agreed on individual vocal lessons with teacher L. Tereshchenko.

It was thanks to him that the gifted young man was able to enter the Odessa National Music Conservatory. N. A. Nezhdanova.

Then he went to Moscow, where he began to develop rapidly as a creative person:

• from 1958 he worked at the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, performing one single song “Cuba - my love”;
• from 1959 to 1962 he began to appear as a soloist of the All-Union Radio, gaining wide popularity;
• from 1962 to 1965 he became a soloist-vocalist at State concerts, taking part in international festivals, competitions and shows;
• from 1965 to 1989 he performs within the walls of the Mosconcert.

In 1963, Joseph Davidovich received higher education, becoming a certified specialist of the State Music and Pedagogical Institute named after I. Gnesins, and since 1984 a teacher.

The best musicians of the country came out of the educational institution where he worked as a teacher, which becomes a source of pride for Kobzon.

Music was not the only vocation of the master. He also participated in the political life of different countries for a long time. So since 1973, Joseph Davidovich became a member of the CPSU, and in 1990, a People's Deputy of the USSR.

After the formation of new states on the fragments of a great country, Kobzon often ran for the State Duma of the Russian Federation, but got the opportunity to actively influence state policy only as part of the "Deputies of Russia" group in 1997.

Later he moved to United Russia, where he worked until 2018.

But career and power are not all you need to be happy. Joseph Davidovich Kobzon was married three times. But only the last wife, Ninel Mikhailovna Kobzon, gave him the children of Andrei in 1974 and Natalia in 1976, which became an integral part of his biography and personal life.

When it became known about the illness of the master of music, and then about an emergency hospitalization, not only his wife and children were worried about his health, but also people from the countries where he performed. Now it is hard for them to believe that the lyricist who sang soulful songs died, even if the cause of death was cancer, which the man could not cure.