Irina Ponarovskaya

Irina Vitalyevna Ponarovskaya (Russian: Ирина Витальевна Понаровская; born 12 March 1953 in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian singer, film actress and sex symbol between the 1980s and the 1990s.^[1]

Biography

Irina Ponarovskaya was born on March 12, 1953 in Leningrad in a family of musicians. Father – Vitaliy Borisovich Ponarovsky, mother – German Russian Nina Nikolayevna Arnoldi. At the age of six, she started playing on the piano. She graduated from music school at the conservatory, where she studied how to play on a harp and on a piano. Since she was 15 years old she had been studied singing from a well known teacher Lina Borisovna Arkhangelskaya. In September 1971 she entered the Leningrad conservatory. Between 1971 to 1976 she sang as a soloist in the bang "Singing guitars". In 1974 she performed the role of Eurydice in the first Soviet rock opera film "Orpheus and Eurydice". In 1976 she moved to Moscow, where she two years was a soloist of a jazz orchestra of Oleg Lundstrem. Since 1976, she has been filmed in some movies. In 1978, she delivered the final examinations at the conservatory and received a pianist's diploma.

In 80-x she had been filmed and appeared in various musical TV programs, in particular "Song of the Year", "Morning mail", "Little Blue Light", "Around the laughter", and every year on the Russian police day (November 10). Co-hosted child TV show "Alarm clock". In 1988, in the central hall of the Kremlin "Russia", she held her first solo concert in Moscow under the name "All at first".

In 1990, she released her first major album "That's the way my life goes", and in February 1993, she had her first videoclip shot which was for the song "That's the way my life goes". In the early 1990s, she performed in a duet with Bogdan Titomir. In the mid 1990s, she was a co-host of a TV program about fitness "Fitness class of Irina Ponarovskaya", for which she developed her own method of gymnastics and nutrition. In 1997, she held another solo concert named "The woman is always right" in the central hall of the Kremlin "Russia". In the same year, she released her second major album with the same name.

In the 2000s (decade), Ponarovskaya unsuccessfully attempted to try herself in the business.^[2]

Personal life

• First husband – Gregory Kleymits
• Second husband – Wayland Rudd, Jr.
• Third husband – Dmitriy Pushkar

On October 17, 1984, Irina gave birth for her son Anthony whose father is her second husband.^[3]

Several previously adopted an African American girl Antonika.

Recognition and awards

• The laureate of international competitions pop songs "Dresden-75" (first prize), and "Sopot-76" (Grand Prix).
• Miss Chanel of the Soviet Union (1996).
• On April 16, 1997, the ceremony of the nominal star of stars at the Square in Moscow the Moscow Kremlin was opened.
• Without government ranks, the singer went on stage with the title, assigned to her colleagues, the press, contains: lady Surprise, lady Perfection.

Filmography

• 1974 Wedding Krechinsky (TV Movie) as Lidochka Muromskaya (singing voice)
• 1977 I do not care as Regina Mikhailovna Korabelnikova
• 1977 Walnut Krakatuk (TV Movie) as Fairy of Time
• 1983 The Trust That Has Burst (Mini-Series) as Pseudo Sarah Bernard
• 1992 He will receive his as Gloria

References

External links

• Irina Ponarovskaya at the Internet Movie Database
• Irina Ponarovskaya at the site Peoples.ru