All about Igor Sklyar: early years, career, major hits
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In the 80's in the Soviet Union were very popular lungs compositions that help listeners to distract themselves from life's difficulties with their immediacy. The most popular song about resort holidays was written by Igor Nikolayev "Komarovo"which gave a path to the musical arena to the actor of theatre and cinema Igor Sklyar. For many years, a young man in a grey suit, singing about leaving for "the edge of the earth", associated with the inherent airiness and frivolity of the song, which slightly prevented Sklyar to play serious roles.
Despite this to this day, the actor lives theatre. About the early stages of creativity, the beginning of musical career and the popular The success of the performer of the hit "Komarovo" will be discussed in the article.
Early years
It was not uncommon for the Soviet stage to burst onto the scene talented musicians and actors whose parents were ordinary working people. Igor was no exception: despite his parents' advice to continue the family dynasty of engineers, the young man, who had been fond of music and acting since his childhood, became an engineer. creativityand applied to institutes in the capital. arts.
Sklyar began his acting career back in 1973, when he accidentally got on the set of the film "Yuna of the Northern Fleet.". After that, he could not think of his life without cinema and theatre, and so got on Lev Dodin's course at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography. After graduating, he worked for some time in Tomsk on assignment with the local theatre company. TUZ, and then, after serving in the army, was invited to Leningrad by his teacher in the Maly Drama Regional Theatre by the mid-80s.
The actor was particularly good at performing emotionally sophisticated roles that do not bring special fame to the talented Sklyar. Igor debuted on the big screens in the lead role in the film "We're from jazz.", released in 1983, and immediately became a star and the dream of many girls.
The beginning of a musical career
After his first big role in the most musical Soviet film, Igor established himself as a "singing actor". Education played a big role in his new round of creativity: even as a child, the future sex symbol of the 80s graduated from music school and could perfectly . sing and play the piano.
His voice soon appeared in the renowned Soviet films such as Begin Again and Monday's Children, but this was after the first Igor's performances as a vocalist during the programme "What? Where? When?" in 1985.
All-Union success with "Komarovo" and film career
The fame of the song "Komarovo" began in 1983, when the songwriter-songwriter Mikhail Tanich gave the budding composer Igor Nikolaev his collection of poems, which turned out to be prototype the lyrics to a future song.
The poet originally created the poem with a light touch sadnessesand the ending fully conveyed the mood of the written lines. When Nikolaev began to rework the lyrics to put them to music, he realised that the future composition would be can't to end sadly, so "Komarovo" ends with a life-affirming: "I'm in favour of ships not sinking in the blue sea!".
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Despite the fact that this song is known to many people solely from Sklar's performance, he was third by a vocalist who sang the lines known to everyone. The composition was first presented in November 1984 in Dmitry Poletaev's version. Then, the legendary musician of the Soviet pop music scene Valery Leontyev performed Igor Nikolayev's hit in his own way, and almost a year after the song's television debut, the song was broadcast Igor SklyarWhose exhilarating performance evoked applause and the desire of connoisseurs to hear the song again.
In the winter of 1985, the actor again appeared on the screens with "Komarovo", but already as part of the final concert of the Soviet Song Festival. The composition was performed at the contest at the same time "Song-85.".
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After his success, Igor was offered to take up music seriously and become a solo as a performer, but he refused and devoted himself to theatre and cinema. At the same time, he acted in many popular plays: "House", "Twenty Minutes with an Angel", "Mumu" and others.
Igor Sklar's film career is astounding. colourfulness. Back in the late 80's he manages to participate in the filming of the military drama Vladimir Chebotaryov, but by the 90's the role of the actor a little bit changes. In 1991, he gets a role in the comedy "Imitator", and a couple of years later starred in the melodrama "Year of the Dog".
Igor Sklyar today
Since the beginning of 1983 the actor was a regular member of the Maly Theatre company, but in 2000 he left due to the misunderstandings among his colleagues. More than five years later, Sklyar joined the Baltic House theatre.
At the same time, the artist does not stop taking part in films, and by 2010 Sklyar starred in the sequel to the legendary "We of Jazz", but the film was never released. The actor had a special attitude to multi-part films and for a long time didn't want see himself in them, however after a while he appeared in 2014's Sherlock Holmes and the melodrama Leaving Nature.
In 2021, Igor Sklyar starred in a detective film "Undercover.". The artiste is now devoting more time to his spouse Natalia Akimova, with whom he lives in the city of Pavlovsk.
