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Taisiya Povaliy is the owner of not only a strong and deep voice, but also a bright, expressive appearance, which, unlike her vocal abilities, has seriously changed. According to fans, today the singer looks younger than her twenty-year-old self! At the same time, critics talk about the loss of individuality and stereotypedness of her image. Taisiya Povaliy changed the image of a sweet and charming girl “from the people” to a “femme fatale”, and this is how she succeeded.
Childhood and family
Taisiya Nikolaevna Povaliy (before her marriage bore the surname Giryavets) was born on December 10, 1964 in the village of Shamraevka near Kiev.
The father wanted to name the newborn Lesya, and the mother – Taisiya. To resolve the dispute, lots had to be cast. When Taya was 3 years old, her parents moved to the city of Belaya Tserkov, where the future singer graduated from secondary and music schools. The singer's parents, Nikolai Pavlovich Giryavets and Nina Danilovna Konoplyanaya, were simple rural workers. Nature, birdsong, village customs and folklore - all this surrounded Taya throughout her childhood.
Taisiya Povaliy in childhood and youth
In her youth, Nina Danilovna dreamed of becoming an artist, but her plans were interrupted by the war, which left her and her brother and sister without a father. It was not possible to realize the dream, but music went side by side with Nina all her life. For as long as Taisiya can remember, everyone in her family sang: at work, at dinner, in rare moments of leisure. Not only the Giryavets family sang, but, it seemed, the whole village, because it’s no secret that Ukraine is an incredibly musical country.
Taisiya Povaliy with her parents
Already at the age of 5, Taya knew that she would become a singer, and called herself a future people's artist. At the school where the girl went, there was a children's philharmonic. Local teachers saw potential in the student in terms of academic vocals and made her a soloist of the choir. Among little Taya’s musical idols, the main icon was Edita Piekha. The girl bought her record very first, when her father gave him a truly royal gift for those times - a vinyl record player, and she listened to it to death. She loved the work of Lyudmila Senchina and Sofia Rotaru.
Already at the age of 5 Taya knew that she would be a singer
Relations between Taisiya's parents were tense. The difference in age had an effect (Nikolai was 7 years older than his wife), and the man’s addiction to alcohol, under the influence of which some kind of primitive jealousy awoke in him. At such moments, Nikolai could raise his hand against his wife. Taya didn’t understand how her mother could tolerate such an attitude, but she repeated: “It’s not him, it’s vodka. He's actually good." Fellow villagers also saw nothing wrong with this. But at the age of 13, Taisiya still convinced her mother to get a divorce.
Ekaterina Strizhenova: blepharoplasty, mammoplasty
Has everyone noticed that the beauty we are used to seeing on TV only gets prettier over the years? And the sponsor of this wonderful phenomenon is the surgeon’s scalpel and the cosmetologist’s injections.
Ekaterina does not deny that she decided on closed blepharoplasty, in which hernias that form dark circles and bags under the eyes are removed through the conjunctiva. The minimally invasive procedure takes only 30 minutes, and it has been pleasing Ekaterina and us, the audience, for years. after the birth of her second child, the presenter had her breasts enhanced and began to look even more attractive, her waist seems more pronounced, and clothes with a low neckline emphasize her sexuality.
Surgery is not only about correcting appearance.
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For stars, this is a way to achieve career heights and win the love of the public. True, many lose in this matter by doing everything at once, trying on everything that is trendy.
I personally like the approach of Betty White and Christie Brinkley - they clearly understand that there is a certain limit to cosmetics and cosmetology. This means that if they always strive to look good, it is necessary to resort to a number of surgical techniques (blepharoplasty, facelift, and so on). But, again, everything is within reasonable limits! The position: “I’ll try something, and then we’ll figure it out” is not entirely correct. In this case, it is better to use cosmetic procedures, since for the success of plastic surgery you need to understand what exactly you want and, together with the surgeon, present the expected result.
First marriage
Taisiya’s mother was a strict person with a firm belief that the most important thing for a person is education. “First study, achieve something, and then look at the boys. And you definitely need to get married as a girl,” she taught her daughter. Meanwhile, boys stared at Taisiya from an early age, because she grew up as a very beautiful girl, a kind of curly-haired angel. She liked peers of the opposite sex, but for the sake of her mother, every time she made an effort on herself and extinguished the brewing feeling of falling in love.
Taisiya Povaliy in her student years
So when, at the age of 15, Taisiya announced that she was leaving for Kyiv and entering the conducting and choral department at the Music School named after. Gliera, Nina Danilovna was calm. She understood that she had instilled in her daughter a sense of responsibility and there was nothing to worry about. Moreover, Taya entered the school after the eighth grade, and by this time she had to finish not only the “eight-year” school, but also music school. The loads were colossal, but the girl managed.
In Kyiv, Taisiya settled in a dormitory and at first did not think about anything other than studying. But then she and other students were sent to the collective farm to pick tomatoes. As usual, after a hard day’s work, the guys gathered for gatherings, often with a guitar and songs. One evening, Kak Taisiya, the owner of the best voice, was asked to sing. A guy six years older, a music school teacher in Afghanistan, Vladimir Povaliy, played along with her.
Wedding of Taisiya and Vladimir Povaliy
It turned out that the school where Vladimir taught guitar was located in the dormitory building where Taisiya lived. Returning to Kyiv, the young people continued to communicate, and over the next year the girl thought more and more that this was her ideal man: a caring family man without bad habits. When Taisiya dialed her mother’s number to tell her the good news—she and Vladimir were getting married—she felt like a traitor to her family. Mom reacted as expected: “You promised that you would graduate from the conservatory first!” “Mom, I take my words back, I fell in love!” the daughter answered. Nevertheless, she graduated from music school, with a so-called “free diploma”, without placement. Taisiya Povaliy. Wife. Love story In 1983, Taisiya and Vladimir had a son, Denis. The fathers-in-law received their daughter-in-law warmly, and the mother-in-law helped Taya find a job. The woman saw an advertisement in the newspaper about the recruitment of singers for the orchestra of the Kyiv Music Hall. Povaliy’s career on this stage began with the song “Music is my love.” Vladimir was lucky to get a place at Ukrkoncert. True, I had to tour a lot and sometimes not see my wife and son for months. Even when he got a job as a keyboard player in the same music hall, they usually toured separately, with different groups.
Taisiya Povaliy with newborn Denis
It's 1990. The music hall was disbanded. Vladimir and Taisiya were left without work and money. All the crumbs went to feed little Denis. But, oddly enough, difficulties made the family stronger than ever. The couple worked their butts off, took on any part-time job, and performed at competitions, events, and television shows. In the early 90s, Taisiya was invited to the filming of “Blue Light”. This event put an end to the relationship with Vladimir, but opened the door for Taisiya to big show business.
Taisiya Povaliy in her youth and now
Demi Moore: mammoplasty, rhinoplasty, liposuction
At 52, Demi looks much cooler than she did 15 years ago. The secret of the transformation is in the jewelry work of a plastic surgeon. If she had her nose done in her youth, now the star has corrected her figure and tightened her breasts (by the way, she changed the shape of her breasts three times, simply because she didn’t like the previous shape). In addition, Moore does not deny that he regularly resorts to beauty injections and fillers to make his face look younger. “At my age this is absolutely normal!” - the star confesses.
Meeting Igor Likhuta
Igor Likhuta studied at the same school with Taisiya, but in a different specialty, so they did not intersect within the walls of their alma mater. He saw Povaliy on TV, in “Blue Light,” fell in love with her voice and wanted to meet her to exchange professional experience, and nothing more. “I didn’t know that in Ukraine they could sing like that. It was European, world level,” he later said in an interview.
Taisiya Povaliy met Igor Likhuta in 1992
Taisiya had no thought of leaving the family; Igor was married for a second time and was raising children. But three months after we met in person, not a trace remained of the former shy girl. Igor became simultaneously her director, producer, driver, songwriter, costume designer, lighting designer and sound engineer, without losing hope of winning her favor. Taisiya began to move away from her husband.
It was Likhuta who persuaded Taisiya to take part in the 1993 Vladimir Ivasyuk vocal competition, the main prize of which was 5 thousand dollars. All her life, Taisiya’s loved ones insisted that music competitions do not solve anything, that winning will not save her from the fate of teaching music at school, that there are already too many artists... But this time she listened to Igor and won. The “victorious” song “Panno kohannia” was written by Lihuta himself. The fee was almost entirely spent on creating a spectacular image for Taisiya.
Taisiya Povaliy – Panel Kohannya (1993) After the competition, Taisiya realized that Igor was her soul mate. Two months later, she won the Slavic Bazaar festival, again with his song. Six months later, the singer plucked up courage and admitted to her husband that she loved her producer. The breakup was difficult, especially for the couple's son. Denis closed himself off, and when Taisiya wanted to take him to a new family, he flatly refused, choosing his father. On December 31, 1993, Povaliy and Lihuta got married.
The son of Taisiya and Vladimir took the divorce the hardest of all
Irina Agibalova
Among the stars and graduates of “House-2” there are many adherents of plastic surgery - half of them remember the experience negatively. Irina Agibalova is particularly indignant. And even though now she looks 10 years younger than her 54 years, but at what cost? After a circular facelift, the woman’s right eyebrow sagged, which the doctor tried to correct through a new operation. Another failure, after which Irina ran away from the would-be specialist. At the new clinic, the participant in the TV show found out that she had paresis and contusion of two facial nerves - any more and part of her face would have been paralyzed.
“Now that I’ve gone through all the circles of hell, I wouldn’t do this!” - the woman exclaims.
Further career
After the Grand Prix of the Slavic Bazaar festival, the young singer’s career took off sharply: she received the title of “best singer of Ukraine” and twice became “Pop Star of the Year”.
Taisiya Povaliy at the beginning of her musical career
In 1995, Taisiya released her first album “Panel Kohannya” (“Panel of Love”), which was liked by listeners and critics. A year later, the singer received the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine, and in 1997 Povaliy became People’s Artist of Ukraine.
In 1997, Povaliy received the title of People's Artist of Ukraine
In subsequent years, Taisiya released 14 albums and a number of hits, thanks to which the talented singer became known far beyond the borders of Ukraine - these are “Simply Taya”, “Behind You”, “Knocking on Heaven”, “Between Us”, “Thistle”, “Sweet sin". The growth of popularity was facilitated by her collaboration with recognized stars such as Joseph Kobzon, Stas Mikhailov and Nikolai Baskov.
Taisiya Povaliy and Stas Mikhailov
For her duet with the latter, she twice won the Golden Gramophone Award - in 2005 and 2006, for the songs “Let Me Go” and “You Are Far Away.” Initially, Taisiya did not want to share the song “Let Me Go” with Baskov; it seemed to her that it would sound better in a solo performance. However, in the end, the duet became one of the singer’s brightest hits, her calling card. Taisiya Povaliy and Nikolai Baskov - Let me go In 2011, for strengthening cultural ties between Russia and Ukraine, the singer received the Order of Friendship, and the following year she became the People's Artist of Ingushetia. In 2015, Povaliy became a participant in the show “Exactly the Same” on Channel One, where contestants must transform into popular artists. Taisiya took third place in the competition, and singer Aziza became the winner of the season. Exactly: Taisiya Povaliy in the image of Verka Serduchka Of all the images, Taisiya most liked to embody Verka Serduchka, and there was no makeup on her face at that moment, they made do with a stage costume. Povaliy respects Andrei Danilko very much and considers him a great professional. And among the performances of other participants in “Exactly”, Taisiya noted the performance of Aglaya Shilovskaya, who reincarnated as Larisa Golubkina.
Alla Pugacheva, 71 years old
And here is Allochka, who will be 72 in April. When she goes out, she looks impeccable. Here she is in February visiting the Yudashkins (pictured with Valentin Yudashkin’s wife Marina).
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But in March, at the birthday party of TV presenter and Instagram star Nastya Ivleeva (pictured with her husband, rapper Eljay).
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A couple of years ago, Pugacheva wrote on Instagram: “Many people want to see me without makeup, so to speak, without embellishment. I satisfy your curiosity, but don’t forget how old I will be in April.”
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But fans were scared off by such frankness. “Confidence is good, but not to that extent,” they wrote in the comments.
However, the star is happy without anyone's approval and continues to demonstrate it.
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Politics and life after Maidan
In 2012, Taisiya ran for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Party of Regions. For about six months, the singer worked as an adviser to President Viktor Yanukovych. On her initiative, the controversial bill on the self-sufficiency of music schools, which would have made music education impossible for children from poor families, was repealed.
Taisiya Povaliy in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
During the events in Ukraine at the beginning of 2014, the singer had a hard time. She did not refuse concerts in Russia and Crimea. With her performances during Maidan in the Kremlin and congratulations to Crimeans on Russian Independence Day in Yalta, the singer aroused indignation among Ukrainian fans and politicians - she was accused of disrespect and betrayal of her homeland.
Against the backdrop of unfolding events, the artist had to cancel all concerts in Ukraine, which were dedicated to her 50th anniversary. In September 2015, Povaliy, as well as Joseph Kobzon, Ani Lorak and Nikolai Baskov, were stripped of the title “People’s Artist of Ukraine”.
Taisiya began receiving death threats. Colleagues, although most of them remained on good terms with Povaliy, embarrassedly asked journalists to remove all references to the disgraced singer from interviews. If one of the organizers took it upon themselves to include Taisiya in the program, then the attackers promised to disrupt the concert and destroy the equipment. Therefore, at some point, corporate events became Povaliy’s main source of income. And then, before concluding the contract, Lihuta asked the customer: “Are you sure that they won’t come to you?”
In 2022, Taisiya gave an interview to a Ukrainian publication for the first time in five years, in which she gave vent to her emotions. “I didn’t kill anyone, I didn’t steal, I didn’t insult anyone, I never got personal, I didn’t engage in black PR. Why are they dumping all this dirt on me?” Taisiya was perplexed.
For some reason, there is an opinion that after the events of 2015, Taisiya and her husband moved to Moscow. This is not true, because her roots are in Ukraine, her mother lives here. The couple still live in Kyiv, in a house located in the Borshchagovka district. Sometimes they vacation in Spain, where they have real estate. A house on the Mediterranean coast was purchased with a 25-year mortgage.
Scandals involving the singer
During her short parliamentary work, the performer found herself at the center of a noisy scandal with Sergei Vlasenko, who was charged with combining politics and entrepreneurship. Povaliy found herself on the opposition’s blacklist, although she announced the liquidation of the enterprise.
From the biography of Taisiya Povaliy about her personal life, we know that she has fallen into her groove. When everything got better, the woman realized that she needed something new.
In 2012, she ran for election to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, where she was a member of the Party of Regions. It is known that she was an adviser to ex-President Viktor Yanukovych and was engaged in active political work for more than six months. As a result, she managed to create a single deputy request. In it, she spoke about the need to repair roads in a small village. Later it turned out that this is where she lives.
The biography of Taisiya Povaliy continues with the fact that she finds herself at the center of a political scandal associated with Sergei Vlasenko and his combination of political and entrepreneurial activities. Then the woman was placed on the black list of those in opposition to the authorities, although she applied to liquidate her entrepreneurial work.
Today we learned a lot about the biography of Taisiya Povaliy. Children from Igor Likhuta were her very strong, but, unfortunately, unfulfilled desire. Nevertheless, she realized herself perfectly in all other areas of life and became a legend of the Ukrainian and Russian pop music.
Film appearances
In addition to musical and political activities, Povaliy managed to prove herself in cinema. From 2001 to 2008, Taisiya starred in the New Year's musical films “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”, “Cinderella”, “The Snow Queen”.
Taisiya Povaliy took part in many New Year's musicals
The films brought together the most popular Russian and Ukrainian artists, such as Oleg Skripka, Philip Kirkorov, Lolita Milyavskaya, Sofia Rotaru, Kristina Orbakaite, Andrey Danilko.
Personal life of Taisiya Povaliy
In 1982, Taisiya married keyboardist Vladimir Povaliy, who then also worked at the Music Hall. In their marriage they had a son, Denis.
Son of Taisiya Povaliy Denis
In 1992, Taisiya met musician Igor Likhuta. Before their first meeting, Igor worked in Europe for three years, including dancing striptease in Poland and performing musical numbers in Sweden and Norway. Lihuta spent several months wooing the singer, and at the end of 1993 Povaliy agreed to marry him. Later, Igor became his wife’s producer.
Taisiya Povaliy and Igor Likhuta
Even after so many years, they live in perfect harmony. Working together does not interfere with family life. Taisiya and Igor deliberately did not have children together, realizing that their careers would not allow them to pay enough attention to the baby.
“I had abortions and was not going to give birth again,” Taisiya said in Boris Korchevnikov’s program “The Fate of a Man.”
Subsequently, according to the singer, sometimes she felt regret, but in very rare moments, because both have children from previous marriages. Denis, although he greeted his mother’s departure with hostility, eventually forgave her and even became close to Lihuta.
Family of Taisiya Povaliy
Taisiya claims that after meeting Likhuta she never worries about anything and doesn’t feel lonely, because there is always a reliable support nearby. Taisiya’s son Denis also became a singer - in 2011 and 2016 he passed the Ukrainian Eurovision selection, and in 2018, as part of the trio “Nude voices”, he came to the casting of the show “The Voice of the Country-8”.
Since 2015, Denis has been married to Svetlana Vikhrova. In October 2019, Denis posted on Instagram a photo of his wife in the last month of pregnancy, so Taisiya can be congratulated on her new status as a grandmother.
Denis Povaliy and his wife
Although Taisiya turned 55 in 2022, the years seem to be doing her good. At least in her selfies, the singer looks younger and younger. According to experts in plastic surgery, Taisiya resorts to plastic surgery, but does not abuse it.
Taisiya Povaliy before and after plastic surgery
But Taisiya does not hide the fact that she had to get implants instead of her natural teeth. A victim of Soviet dentistry, the singer suffered from an unattractive smile until she decided to make radical changes.
In her youth, Taisiya Povaliy had bad teeth
Angelina Jolie: rhinoplasty, cheekbone correction, mentoplasty
Many still believe that the beauty icon was born with ideal proportions. In fact, Jolie only has natural lips left.
In teenage photos, young Angie poses with a wide and flat nose, undefined cheekbones and chin. Among the latest operations, one can highlight the correction of the cheekbones, which clearly makes Jolie look younger, emphasizing the aristocratic features of her face. Fans are inclined to believe that sharply appearing cheekbones are the result of weight loss, but this is not so, Angie had plastic surgery. Girls over 40 would do well to follow her example, because with age, the oval of the face floats and the cheekbones fall.
Taisiya Povaliy now
Taisiya Povaliy actively tours Russia and foreign countries, takes part in large-scale concerts and festivals and is working on recording new hits.
Taisiya Povaliy now
The concert in Kiev dedicated to the artist’s 55th anniversary has been cancelled. Despite the start of ticket sales, the director of the Ukraine concert hall called the news of the concert a “failed provocation.” Taisiya took the news very painfully, because she so wanted to perform in her homeland on her anniversary. But due to the political situation, the singer and her husband decided to abandon the concert in Ukraine completely, without losing hope that in a year and a half the hype would subside and the performance would become possible.
Yana Rudkovskaya, 46 years old
The producer and wife of figure skater Plushenko claims that she was born in January 1975, but her age is constantly doubted.
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According to long-standing rumors, which she vehemently denies, she may be already 53 years old. The rumors are fueled by the fact that Rudkovskaya diligently filters herself on Instagram, sometimes changing herself beyond recognition, and in third-party photos and videos she looks noticeably older.
Left: rudkovskayaofficial / instagram. Right: frame from the program “You Won’t Believe” NTV / YouTube
Once she dared to show herself without makeup in a comic video, which she captioned: “Yes, I agree, I look much better with makeup) I swear I will never go on live broadcasts without make-up.”
The comments, however, are entirely enthusiastic, if you believe that Rudkovskaya, who reacts very painfully to criticism, did not delete the negative ones. "You are beautiful! May God grant all women to look like this! You are an example to be followed,” they say.
With and without makeup. rudkovskayaofficial / instagram
