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Tell us about yourself. After all, you are a professional musician with a serious education.

I studied music from the age of 6, graduated from the Tashkent Conservatory as a pianist and music critic.

I remember how, after graduating from the conservatory, I dreamed of doing some kind of project that would have at least something to do with my education and classical music. Now that I have a project like the Bel Suono piano show, I'm enjoying it immensely. But between these events, many years have passed, during which I went through all the stages of work in Russian show business. Now I know all areas and stages of development of groups and artists. So to personal project I came already being an experienced and prepared person.

In your opinion, should a producer have a musical education or are organizational skills sufficient?

You know, I do not think that he is required to have a musical education, but it certainly would not hurt him! At least he should understand music and have good taste! And the producer and organizational qualities, of course, are no less important. In our country, the producer does everything. If there was a division into promoters and sound producers, it would be more correct.

Here, for example, I do everything myself: I select music, accept arrangements, monitor the mixing of tracks. And at the same time, I knock on all closed doors so that they know about my project. I agree on concerts, I am engaged in promotion in all directions. That is why this business in Russia is much more complicated, and real producers in our country can be counted on the fingers.

It is especially difficult for us, because we do not work in the most popular genre in our country - the classic crossover genre. Although the level of music

and the performance is as high as that of classical musicians, we are a more modern band. And most importantly, we do what our audience likes.

How important are connections?

Very important. No connections anywhere. On one professionalism and quality of music it is not possible to break through. Working as a producer from scratch is still hard. Despite the fact that I have both connections and experience, I also have a difficult time. Yes, sometimes there are happy cases when people just respond to music: they like our work so much that we start to cooperate and come up with something together, but these are exceptions.

In our country, producers are predominantly men. And for you, as a woman, what is it like to work in this man's business?

Probably a little more difficult somewhere. It’s hard for me to judge, because I perceive everything as a woman and I don’t know what it’s like for men. I'm sure it's hard for them too. Women somewhere are more flexible and can give in, otherwise they talk. Men have a different approach. The fact that there are very few female producers is also indicative, which means that everything is really not so smooth. Although I have a slightly different genre, so it's probably wrong to judge the entire industry. I know very successful female producers in both theater and show business.

Why did you choose to be a producer? How did you come to this?

I did not choose anything on purpose, everything just gradually led to this by itself. At first I worked in record companies, then I had my own PR agency. I have always wanted to do creative work so much that in any work I tried to create something. Whether it's a photo shoot, video shooting, record design or project presentation. I have always enjoyed working with an artist full-time. I can say that for the time being it brought me pleasure. And then I realized that I wanted to do something extraordinary, to apply the knowledge that I received 20 years in music educational institutions.

In our industry, in classical music, it is impossible without a serious education. All the guys with whom we cooperate work hard: they start playing music at the age of 5-6 and go a long way to the moment when they can perform on stage. Classical musicians learn to write pieces, perform them, and always practice for several hours a day. It's all very hard work. And I want it to find a response in our country. So that not only popular genres flourish, but that there is a viewer and listener who understands more complex music.

Probably, I could also do a violin show, my education allows me to understand the intricacies of any classical instrument, and knowledge and experience will help to promote such projects. Ordinary popular music is not very interesting to me, I strive to do what I understand. I know that it can bring joy to any person who is drawn to beauty.

How was the Bel Suono team formed?

In musical educational institutions - the Gnessin College, the Conservatory - we posted announcements about the casting. They wrote that we are recruiting a team of pianists for a music show. The main criteria: performing skills, virtuosity, appearance and artistry. We left contact details, and on the very first day, calls and letters began. We began to listen to the recordings that were sent to us, made personal meetings. And thus we found three guys with whom we began to work and create our project. Slowly, the guys began to write their own music, although the first works were created even before the moment we announced the casting - I understood and felt how I wanted to see my project.

And the musicians we found fit into it very harmoniously. We listened to demos, watched videos and photos of applicants and decided whether they would suit us or not. Our guys do not just perform works, they also write themselves. And we pay a lot of attention to developing and cultivating their ability to create music.

Did one of the members change?

Yes, but we have great relationship. We continue to cooperate, work together on musical material and are good friends.

Line-up change is an integral part creative process. I used to think: oh, it must be very difficult when someone leaves. But, believe me, every year all serious educational musical institutions graduate so many professionals that we will definitely never have problems with personnel. And here I can say that I have a small queue to participate in the project and to write music. Someone wants to play and write. Some people just want to write. So now we have a lot of fans and friends, and music too. Another thing is that this music must be in demand.

How do you assess the fate of modern classical music on the pop stage?

The fact is that customers and concert halls themselves are very wary of such projects as ours. They do not understand: we are from the classics or from show business. Here we need progressive people and promoters who will not be afraid and will help (in this case, a young serious team) to move forward, giving a hall for performances. But the audience goes with pleasure to such concerts.

There are no channels in Russia through which our material can be conveyed to the listener: no TV channels, no programs, no radio stations. They just don't know about us. It is always easier to call a pop artist who is familiar to everyone than to show something new and extraordinary. It's very hard for music editors to turn to something new.

There are many similar projects in the West, where the audience is brought up differently. Yes, there is no piano trio either, but there are many other projects: there are solo pianists, there are ensembles, string players, wind players - a lot of wonderful musicians who gather halls. TV channels, radio stations are created for them, there is a media pool. Many halls and places where they can perform. Every year dozens of festivals are held in the West, which introduce the public to such projects.

How do you, as a woman, manage to lead three men?

We work very well together, and most importantly, we hear each other. We discuss everything, we talk, we have no omissions and misunderstandings. We always discuss the repertoire. The guys in the team are young, and I am an authority for them. They respect me and, to some extent, love me, and this is mutual on my part.

I believe that it is extremely important when everyone in the project is on fire, full of desire to do something: both the producer and the participants themselves. When someone loses interest, you need to change the participant, give a chance to a new, passionate person! The quality of music and performance will not suffer from this. And new, young guys come with such a desire and a twinkle in their eyes that I want to give them this chance. Let them come true!

I remember very well myself at their age, when, having studied at all professional musical institutions, I left the conservatory, not knowing where to go. Where to work? How to be implemented? There were no such projects then. It is almost impossible to break through solo, only a few still manage to do it. We have very few producers and promoters of classical music. Therefore, let there be as many such guys as possible, and everyone should be given a chance to realize themselves.

Are there any other production projects you want to do?

I have a few ideas, but it's too early to talk about it. I hope that now I will put Bel Suono on a strong footing, and together with my guys we will create another project.

Your daughter is growing up. Would you like her to follow in your footsteps? How do you see her future?

I want her to have everything the way she wants it. I want her to choose her own path. Now I understand that the greatest happiness is to do your own thing. And, thank God, I did it. She is 15 years old, and she has not yet decided (I knew at the age of 6 that I would enter the conservatory). There are several areas that she is interested in, and I know that she can succeed in any. For now, it's hard for me to say. She studies at school, intensively studies languages. In a year or two everything will become clear.

Women have to make a decision: either a career or a family. How did you make the decision?

It has never been such a choice for me. I have never seen myself as a housewife. It was important for me that my loved one understood my lifestyle, shared my hobbies, and supported me. Thank God that this is exactly what is happening to me now. After all, meeting a person who will accept your creative impulses, who will like all this and who will be able to tell you is very, very difficult. And I wouldn't be able to talk to anyone else.

It is necessary that a woman be realized both in the profession and in the family. Skewed in one direction or the other - first of all, the collapse for the woman herself. Either she will take place as a businesswoman and be lonely, or she will sit within four walls and cease to be interesting even to herself.

What is your motto in life?

Everything that is done, everything is for the better. Even if something didn’t grow together with me, it didn’t happen, before I went ahead. And I thought: until I achieve this, I will not calm down. Now I have become more flexible and in some things, when it doesn’t work out, I stop and think: maybe I need to go the other way? Maybe take a different direction? After, if necessary, I return. When I say this phrase, I immediately feel a further perspective.

Optimism is also very important. In no case should you, even for a moment, give vent to despondency and give up. Because tomorrow you will look back and realize that you took everything so seriously in vain. Yes, there are times when perseverance is needed, but there are times when you have to walk past with a smile.

It is equally important to have real close friends. Work is work, and close friends and those who believe in you are not many, but they occupy an important place in my life.

Optimism and the ability to move forward is the most important thing!

How do you imagine your life in 10-20 years?

In ten years, I think I will still be actively working and doing my own projects. And in 20 I will be babysitting my grandchildren on the seashore, giving advice good musicians and artists. Receive guests and finally arrange sumptuous dinners and chat with friends.

You recently filmed a video for "Lonely Heart". Can you tell about it?

The author of the music is Evgeny Sokolovsky, a member of the trio, who wrote "Waltz", "Megapolis", "Latino", etc. The director is Alexei Rusakov, a young and very promising person. He is also the director of the television version of our last concert at the House of Music. The video has no plot as such, it, like the music itself, is moody.

I came up with the name of the song when I first heard it. This is music for everyone who loves and understands good music.

When you have moments of sadness, thoughtfulness, you want to look at yourself, look back a little, you should turn on "The Lonely Heart". This music is so beautiful and melodic that it doesn't need any plot.

We filmed the video in Malta, in a very beautiful place, and decided that there is nothing more beautiful than these amazing landscapes. The splash of waves, lonely rocks, nature - and nothing more. As a result, we got a beautiful video clip in which our guys appear in thought. What are they thinking? Each viewer will decide for himself. Probably life...

Prigozhin Iosif Igorevich (b. 1969) - Russian music producer, with his help, such famous performers as Valeria, Didula, Natalya Vetlitskaya, Abraham Russo, Alexander Marshal, Nikolai Noskov took their rightful place in show business. He is the organizer of many national music concerts and festivals.

Childhood

Joseph was born in Makhachkala on April 2, 1969. Mountain and Ashkenazi Jewish blood flows in his veins, Prigozhin's ancestors belonged to sub-ethnic groups of Jews in the North and East Caucasus and Central Europe.

Father, Igor Matveyevich Prigozhin, born in 1938. He was born in Moscow, but his mother died when he was only four years old. When dad passed away, Igor was sheltered by his brother's family, but relations with them did not work out. Then the guy fled from the capital to the Caucasus, so he ended up in Dagestan, where he met his future wife Dinara.

Joseph Prigogine's father worked as a projectionist and photographer. His salary was small - 100 rubles, and sometimes even less, because the man very often ended up in the hospital for health reasons. Igor Matveyevich had a serious illness - epilepsy, after he was struck by a current in the projectionist's booth. Joseph remembered from childhood that it was necessary to insert a stick into his father's mouth in time when foam began to flow so that he would not bite his tongue.

Mom, Prigozhina Dinara Yakubovna, born in 1940, worked as a cleaner at a medical institute, where she received 70 rubles a month. She came from an Orthodox Jewish family, where it was believed that girls did not have to be educated, they were supposed to do housework. Therefore, my mother graduated from only two classes, she really did not know how to write and read.

The parents' marriage was not happy, they often quarreled. Even the grief they experienced could not bring them together, Joseph had a brother and sister (twins), the kids both died at the age of two due to some kind of medical error. There are two children left in the family - Joseph and his younger brother Slava.

Little Joseph from the age of four dreamed of becoming an artist - a musician or a film actor. As a child, he often visited his grandmother, where he took a carpet beater as an imaginary guitar and arranged concerts for his grandmother. My father sometimes told me how beautiful Moscow was, sometimes he said sadly: “Run away from here, son, there is no future here.”

At school, from the first to the fourth grade, Joseph studied "excellently", and then everything went awry, and he barely graduated from the eight-year school.

The Prigogine family lived in poverty, even they considered borscht festive dish, which my mother rarely cooked. joseph s early years realized the responsibility that he bore to his parents, and was sympathetic to the fact that he had to wear clothes for older relatives. Already a boy, Joseph realized that if he himself does not start earning money, then the chances of changing the material marital status and my later life there will be little.

At the age of twelve, he began to earn extra money in the house of life as an apprentice hairdresser, cutting bangs. At the station, he unloaded wagons, carrying sacks of sugar. Learned to play percussion instruments, gathered a small team of the same self-taught musicians, and the guys began to earn extra money at weddings. The teenager set a goal for himself - to save money, get on the train and leave for Moscow.

Moving to Moscow

Prigozhin managed to earn and accumulate a decent amount of money in four teenage years, with which, at the age of sixteen, having received a passport, he went to the capital. But Moscow turned out to be too expensive city, the available money he lowered in a couple of months. He had to make the necessary acquaintances, for communication, Joseph invited people to restaurants, where he laid chic tables. But when the funds ran out and he literally words had to wander around the stations, these same people refused Joseph a roof over his head. Relatives on the father's side, living in Moscow, also did not want to shelter the guy at home. In this regard, in the life of Prigogine there was even a moment when he seriously thought about suicide.

But the guy changed his mind in time, pulled himself together, and gradually his life in the capital began to improve. In order to have a place to live, he entered a vocational school and was given a dorm room. He made a living selling car parts in car parks. In 1986, Prigozhin graduated from an evening school and a vocational school, having received the specialty "heat-and-water insulator". And the following year, he got a job as a tour manager of concert programs. Simultaneously with work, Joseph studied at the Gamma theater studio, made an attempt to enter GITIS, but it was unsuccessful.

Producer activity

In 1987, he met music producer Yuri Aizenshpis, began to help him promote the Kino group, and things went uphill. Prigozhin watched Yuri, learned a lot from him, how he works, how he communicates with people. Gradually, Joseph entered the profession and realized that administrative activity interested him more than the career of an artist.

Since 1988, he began to lead an active touring life, organized about 1,500 concerts of Russian pop stars throughout the territory. Soviet Union. In 1989, at the Variety Theater, Prigogine organized and became the administrator of the first fashion show for Valentin Yudashkin. Two years later, Joseph made his debut on television, the “Super Show-1991” and the “Club T” program went on the air.

Since 1992, he has completely switched to music production. His first ward was the Armenian singer Sona. But she did not stay on the stage, she began acting in Armenian TV series.

And Joseph from that time began to organize concerts of popular singers:

• Alexey Glyzin;
• Vakhtang Kikabidze;
• Zhenya Belousov;
• Nikolay Noskov;
• Tatyana Bulanova;
• group "Spleen";
• Christina Orbakaite;
• group "Shao? Bao!

In 1994, Joseph nevertheless entered GITIS, only now at the production department, in 2000 he received a diploma of higher education. By this time, he already drove a cool car, wore massive gold chains (as was fashionable then) and had personal protection. Prigozhin produced grandiose musical events:

• anniversary concerts of Lyudmila Zykina, A-Studio group;
• presentation of the "Golden Gramophone" award;
• solemn concerts for the International Women's Day on March 8, for the Independence Day of Georgia, for the birthday of the ORT television channel.

In 1997, Joseph created the largest audio company in Russia, ORT-Records, which the very next year was recognized as the Best Recording Company and received the Ovation National Music Award.

In 2000, he initiated the creation of the NOX Muzik production center, thereby convincing the producers not to compete, but to unite and cooperate. Now this company occupies a leading position in the Russian music market.

Since March 2003 he has been the producer of the singer Valeria.

In 2007, he became the producer of the program “You are a superstar!” on the NTV television channel.

Personal life

Joseph met his first wife in the park of culture on the day of the Airborne Forces in 1988. The girl's name was Lena, she was from a wealthy family, at the time of her acquaintance with Prigogine she worked at a research institute. Lena was four years older than Joseph, but this did not stop him from making a marriage proposal to the girl the day after they met. Lena agreed, they lived together for thirteen years, having given birth to two children in marriage - in 1989 the boy Dima, in 1997 the girl Danae.

However, in 1995, a discord occurred in relations between the spouses. At this very moment, Joseph ended up at the Soyuz studio at work, where he met Leila, the manager for the selection of artists. The dark-eyed beauty was originally from Uzbekistan, Joseph liked the girl very much, and an affair began between them. Prigozhin did not leave the family, relations with Leila were civil. Nevertheless, when she gave birth to a daughter, Lisa, from Prigozhin in 1999, he gave the girl his last name and always provided everything she needed.

For a long time Joseph was torn between two women, fidgeted, got out, was with one family on weekends, weekdays with another. But in 2003, tired of this situation, he divorced Lena and stopped all relations with Leila. He fully supported all three children financially, he maintained friendly relations with Leila, this did not work out with Elena.

Wife of Valery, who changed his life

March 12, 2003 Prigogine met the singer Valeria. He immediately, during their first conversation, realized that he had fallen in love without a memory. But he told himself a firm “no”, because he knew for sure: the producer should not have any romantic relationship with his artist. But the longer they knew each other, the more Joseph became convinced that it was Lera who was missing in his life. He could not understand now how he lived without her all this time.

Two months after they met, Prigozhin confessed his feelings to Valeria. Three months later, they began to gradually approach each other. She became everything for him - air, earth, sky, water. For her sake, he was even baptized in Orthodox Church. According to Prigogine: “When you truly love a person, you don’t ask what his religion is, but you accept him completely, along with faith.” That is why, together with Valeria, Joseph accepted Orthodox faith, he did not want to stay outside when he came to the temple with his family on Easter. But this does not mean at all that Prigogine has ceased to respect his national traditions. He is a Jew by nationality, living in an Orthodox country.

On June 5, 2004, the biggest holiday took place in the life of Prigogine and Valeria - they officially registered their marriage, based on sincere love.

Joseph considers three children of Valeria from her first marriage (Anna, Artyom and Arseny) to be relatives. Now Prigogine is absolutely happy and dreams of only one thing in life - to grow old next to his beloved Leroy.

Talent cannot be bought - one can only be born with talent. Of course, the gift can be different: acting, musical, literary or culinary. Or maybe a producer. The person who fully possesses this ability is Joseph Prigogine. The biography of this tells about the difficult and long path that he had to go in search of his happiness in his personal life and, of course, in the professional sphere.

Childhood and early years

Very often, viewers ask the same question: “How old is Prigozhin Joseph?” And this is no coincidence: after all, the producer does not find signs of old age. He has a beautiful wife famous singer Valeria), six children and a successful job.

The biography of Joseph Prigozhin has its roots in Dagestan - in the city of Makhachkala. It was there that on April 2, 1969, a boy was born who would become a famous producer in the future. In the meantime, he is the beloved son of Igor Matveevich and Dinara Yakubovna. Joseph's family was far from rich, so the boy quickly learned what work is. His first place of work was a barbershop. However, the lack of money did not prevent him from dreaming about the big stage and the profession of an actor.

Way to success

As soon as Joseph turned 16, he receives a passport and leaves to conquer Moscow. No one is waiting for him in the capital of Russia. There are no friends or relatives. In order to get a room in a dormitory, Joseph enters a technical vocational school and masters the profession of "thermal and waterproofing". At the same time, the young man also graduated from school. During his studies, the biography of Joseph Prigogine takes a sharp turn. He overcomes the first step on the way to his dream - he plays in the studio theater. It was at that time that the thought ripened in the mind of the boy that acting life he is not as close as managing it.

Since 1986, the biography of Joseph Prigogine has been replenished with new events: attending theater courses at the Gamma Theater Studio, the first attempt to enter GITIS, which ended in failure (he was accepted only after a long 8 years), the first timid steps in cinema. For two years, the artist achieves a significant result. He makes the necessary acquaintances, attends various events and at the same time masters a “living organism” called show business.

After some time, the biography of Joseph Prigozhin received a new line: the manager of the organization of concert programs. At the same time, he performs himself, even releasing a collection of his own compositions.

He was the administrator of fashion shows (including Yudashkin) and performances by various groups. Joseph was engaged in the promotion of singers and singers (Sona, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Nikolai Noskov and others). In addition, he was the promoter of "Inveterate scammers", Christina Orbakaite and Alexander Marshal. His company ORT-Records is recognized as one of the best in show business.

At one time, Prigogine was in charge of a charity fund, which was organized by the stage master Iosif Kobzon and Lyudmila Zykina. A significant role in its activities is given to the anniversary concerts of the stars of domestic show business. Most of these events were organized under his direct supervision.

Personal life

The most successful project produced by Prigozhin is the singer Valeria, with whom he has been collaborating since 2003. Field start them joint work the couple got married. This is Joseph's second official marriage. The first wife of the producer was the beautiful Muscovite Elena. In that marriage, the couple had two children. Son Dmitry is already 18 years old, daughters with nice name Danae - 10 years old. Then there was Leyla Fattakhova. They were not married, but they have joint child- Elizabeth is nine years old. Valeria also has three. Although the wives of the famous producer do not communicate and do not even know each other, their children are happy to spend their free time together.

The biography of Joseph Prigozhin is well known to all fans of Russian show business. This is a famous domestic music producer who oversees such pop stars as Valeria, Nikolai Noskov, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Abraham Russo, Alexander Marshall, Didula, Kristina Orbakaite, the list does not end there. Prigozhin is the founder of the NOX Music label, annually organizes and conducts a large number of concerts, festivals.

Producer biography

You need to start telling the biography of Joseph Prigozhin from April 1969, it was then that he was born in Makhachkala, on the territory of the Dagestan ASSR. His father's name was Igor Matveevich, and his mother was Dinara Yakubovna, she was two years younger than her husband. You can learn about the biography, nationality of Joseph Prigogine from this article: he is of mixed origin - mountain Jewish and Ashkenazi (this is a small group of Jews that formed in the region of Central Europe). For most, he remained an ordinary Jew, so he had to face certain difficulties, making his way up the career ladder. The parents of Joseph Prigozhin, a biography whose nationality is of interest to many, have always played a certain role in his fate.

The hero of our article began to work very early, at the age of 12 he began to work as a hairdresser, and at 16 he left to conquer Moscow. At the same time, he did not join the Komsomol, which is surprising for that time, if a person planned to make a career, then, as a rule, he passed this stage.

In 1986, Prigozhin graduated from an evening school on Izmailovsky Boulevard in the capital. At the same time, he masters the profession of an actor, studying at the theater-studio "Gamma". True, an attempt to enter GITIS ends in failure, the hero of our article fails his exams.

He only managed to become a student of GITIS in 1994. Six years later, he receives a diploma in the specialty "Theatre Manager".

First steps in the profession

The hero of our article begins to master the profession of a producer back in 1987. At that time, only at the beginning of its star biography Iosif Prigozhin, he works as a tour manager on concert programs. He is also trying to build his own creative career, singing on the stage and even releasing an audio cassette with his songs. Today we know that solo career Prigogine did not work out, so this cassette has become a kind of rarity.

At the same time, at first creative biography Joseph Prigogine, everything went well. Since 1988, he began touring throughout the country. According to him, he organized one and a half thousand concerts, but left the stage, unable to find a unique and interesting image that would be of interest to the viewer.

Concert organizer

Therefore, at some point, Prigozhin decided to retreat backstage, stopped performing himself, and began organizing concerts and everything related to show business. In 1989, he became the organizer and administrator of the debut show of works by Valentin Yudashkin, which took place in the capital's variety theater. It became a landmark cultural event for a country that was entering a new era.

His debut as a producer was in 1991. It was then that several of his projects appeared on the Ostankino channel at once - it was the television program Club T and Supershow 1991.

Soon a friend advised him to pay attention to a young aspiring singer, performing under the pseudonym Sona. Prigozhin became her producer, engaging in promotion, organizing concerts, performances, and tours.

Charity

The realization that in life it is necessary not only to earn, but also to donate money, came to Prigogine at the very beginning of his career. That is why in 1993 he became the founder of the Father's House Foundation.

It was a charitable organization that worked to help and support the socially disadvantaged. Russian society. The fund paid special attention to refugees from the former Soviet republics as well as internally displaced persons. Prigozhin himself directed this fund until 1995.

During this time, many influential and famous people. For example, Archbishop Sergius of Solnechnogorsk, Chief Rabbi of the country Adolf Shayevich and Chief Mufti Ravil Gainutdin, as well as folk artists Alexandra Pakhmutova, Tikhon Khrennikov, Lyudmila Zykina, Iosif Kobzon, Makhmud Esambaev.

Concert organization

The Armenian singer Sona Sargsyan, who performed under the pseudonym Sona, gradually gained popularity, but never became famous. Therefore, Prigozhin, in addition to working as her producer, was organizing a large number of large-scale concerts.

In 1996, he became the producer of a concert dedicated to the Independence Day of Georgia, as well as jubilee performances dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the A-Studio group and the 50th anniversary of creative work People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina.

1996 turned out to be eventful in the biography of Joseph Prigogine, whose photo you will find in this article. He organizes the first solo concerts in the career of Tatyana Bulanova, arranges the Golden Gramophone award, which he then directs over the next three years.

In 1998, as an executive producer, he held a concert dedicated to the third anniversary of ORT, and the following year he was entrusted with organizing the main gala concert on International Women's Day.

Own audio company

Prigozhin begins to cooperate more and more with artists, for the promotion of which it is necessary to record high-quality albums. Therefore, in 1997, he created his own audio recording company called ORT-Records.

Over time, it becomes one of the largest in the whole country, Prigogine at first acts as a general producer in it, and then becomes its immediate supervisor.

In 1998, "ORT-Records" received a prestigious award - the "Ovation" music award, winning in the "Best Recording Company" nomination. The breakthrough is really serious, in just a few months it is possible to record a large number of high-quality albums by famous performers. Alexander Marshall, Iosif Kobzon, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Lev Leshchenko, Chris Kelmi, Nikolai Noskov, the Na-Na, Shao? Bao! Ladybug"," Spleen "," Inveterate scammers ", as well as Alena Sviridova, Masha Rasputina, Evgeny Osin, Alexei Glyzin, Alexander Serov, Valery Syutkin.

In 1998, Prigozhin himself received the Ovation Award, he was noted in the nomination "Best Producer of the Year".

National United Cultural Community

Under such a somewhat pretentious name, in 2000 Iosif Prigozhin created his own record label, better known by the acronym NOX Music. In the company, he is directly involved in producing and releasing new albums by Russian artists.

Also, Prigozhin now organizes concerts at the largest Russian venues under his own label, arranges album presentations. At various stages of their creative career a large number of stars work with him Russian stage- Natalia Vlasova, Alena Sviridova, Alexander Marshal, Nikolai Noskov, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Philip Kirkorov, Kristina Orbakaite, Evgeny Osin, Abraham Russo, Valery Syutkin, Andrey Makarevich, Masha Rasputina, Alexander Serov, Victoria Morozova, Alexei Glyzin, groups "Korol i Jester", "Gorky Park", "Quarter", "Eighth of March", "Night Snipers", "Dune".

But the main artist who becomes the face of the record label is Valeria. In 2004, they become husband and wife. At the same time, they met for the first time only in March 2003, less than a month later they signed a contract on further cooperation.

Assassination attempt on Prigozhin

Biography of Prigozhin proves that doing Russian show business it was dangerous not only in the 90s, when Talkov and Shishinin (producer of the Combination group) were killed, but also in the 2000s.

In November 2002, an attempt was made on the hero of our article. His Mercedes-220 was blown up right in the center of Moscow, on Tverskaya Street. Fortunately, the explosion was arranged at night, no one was hurt.

In the future, this did not prevent the successful development of Prigogine's career. In 2004 he became CEO domestic record label REAL Records.

He continues to do charity work, now with his wife Valeria. Joseph Prigozhin's biography, personal life have always been connected with work. In 2011, in Perm, the star spouses visited the girl Ksenia Kiseleva, in whom doctors identified two types of blood cancer at once. On the same day, Valeria gave a charity concert, in which she managed to raise 12 million rubles for the girl's treatment.

Producer's personal life

Biography, personal life of Joseph Prigogine are of interest to everyone who follows his career. He was married three times. His first chosen one was Elena, who was four years older than him. She was a housewife from a wealthy family, from whom Iosif Prigogine had two children. In the biography of the producer, this marriage played a big role, since Elena was there at the very beginning, when he was just starting his career.

In 1989, his son Dmitry was born, and in 1997, his daughter Danae. Children in his personal life, the biographies of Joseph Prigogine have always occupied an important place. But he still broke up with his wife after years marriage.

Then he lived for seven years in an unregistered marriage with Leyla Fattakhova, who specialized in the selection of artists in the Soyuz company. In 1999, their daughter Elizabeth was born.

Marriage with Valeria

Now Prigogine is married to a singer, People's Artist Russian Valeria (This is a pseudonym, real name is Alla Yuryevna Perfilova). The couple does not have joint children, but the hero of our article has repeatedly stated that he considers all the children of his beloved to be his relatives.

For Valeria, this marriage also became the third. Prior to that, she was married to jazz pianist Leonid Yaroshevsky and producer Alexander Shulgin.

Valeria has three children from Shulgin, whom she is now raising with Joseph Prigogine. it eldest daughter Anna, who is already 24 years old, as well as sons - 23-year-old Artemy and 19-year-old Arseniy.