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It is impossible to see Verka Serduchka in our country today. After a cat ran between Russia and Ukraine, Andrey Danilko, who embodied on stage the image of a conductor with a star in his forehead, prefers not to tease the geese. Therefore, if he enters the stage, then in neutral countries. In July, for example, he will perform at the Laima Rendezvous festival in Jurmala.

"Andrey could participate in my festival "Rendezvous" at least every year, - Laima Vaikule, the hostess of the musical festival on the Riga seashore, admitted to the site. We have been friends for a long time and we can talk on the phone for hours. He is a very subtle, wise, intelligent man."

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Verka Serduchka will take the stage of the Dzintari Concert Hall on July 20, at the so-called "Evening of Love". Among its other participants are Andrey Makarevich and Nino Katamadze, who almost never perform in Russia today for political reasons.

In general, judging by the tour poster of Andrei Danilko, he appears either in Kyiv or in the cities of Germany, where many immigrants from the former Soviet Union live. And this seems to be a huge injustice towards those who love his ironic, sparkling, charming Verka Serduchka. Therefore, tickets for his performance at the Vaikule festival fly like hot cakes, although their price reaches 300 euros (21 thousand rubles). And they are almost out of stock. So it makes sense to hurry up with the purchase in order to take the best places in the legendary hall.

It is worth recalling that clouds were gathering over the "conductor with a difficult fate" more than once. For example, in 2007, the Poltava regional organization of the People’s Movement of Ukraine stated: “The so-called work of Verka Serdyuchka humiliates the national dignity of Ukrainians. the image of Verka Serduchka is the embodiment of a post-imperial inferiority complex and Little Russianism." And this is after Verka took second place at Eurovision.

The love of the future artist for performing on stage began to manifest itself even in his school years: Danilko played in KVN, and also participated in various creative evenings when he came to the summer camp.

After graduating from high school in 1991, Andrey entered one of the Poltava vocational schools, where in just two years of study he managed to declare himself as a talented and creative young man, speaking with funny miniatures that the audience liked. As a result, already in 1993, Danilko was sent on tour in the Stavropol Territory.

In the same year, the legendary image of Verka Serduchka appeared - it was first presented to the public as part of the Humorina festival in the artist's hometown.

Alter-ego Danilko quickly achieved deafening popularity: just a few months after Serduchka's debut on stage, Andrey was awarded the first prize in the Kursk Anomaly contest, a year later the Ukrainian won the same Yumorin, and in 1995 he was awarded Grand Prix of the Sea of ​​Laughter festival. At the same time, Verka became a full-fledged singer only in 1997, when the first song of Danilko's alter ego called "Simply Vera" was released.

In the late 90s, Andrey was the host of the SV-Show program, and was also involved in the development of Serduchka's musical career: shortly before the millennium, some of the artist's early video clips were released, including videos for the songs "A Little Bit" and "Controller".

Around the same time, Serduchka began touring actively - the artist, whose fame only increased every year, began to regularly give concerts in the CIS.

At the beginning of the 2000s, Andrey also made his film debut, starring in the comedy-musical Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka directed by the director. At the moment, Danilko has about 20 roles in films and TV shows (some of them, however, are small cameos).

In 2003, Heart was first awarded the Golden Gramophone Award, which she would later take three more times: the winning song for the artist was the song “I didn’t understand”, one of the main hits in the repertoire of Danilko’s alter ego.

On the wave of success, Verka Serduchka even performed at Eurovision 2007, and the result exceeded all expectations: Danilko's song "Dancing Lasha Tumbai" ("Dance of Whipped Cream") brought Ukraine an honorable second place. The third line at that competition, by the way, was taken by participants from Russia - the Serebro group.

A year after the triumph at the main musical competition in Europe, Danilko was awarded the title of People's Artist of Ukraine.

In the first half of the current decade, Serduchka's popularity began to slowly, but still fade. Andrei periodically “blew up” with memorable novelties (for example, Dolce Gabbana), and some of his old hits were still remembered, however, be that as it may, in 2018 Danilko announced the imminent death of the legendary image, announcing a farewell tour .

“This will be a grand performance by an artist who misses her audience. A bright show worthy of Verka Serduchka. It's already a holiday in itself! he said in an interview with Ukraina.Ru. “The big tour is a kind of thanks to those people who gave me, a boy from Poltava, who lived in an extension where the wallpaper was wrapped, the opportunity to provide for myself financially, live on Khreshchatyk and, in principle, not work.”

A little later, he explained this decision by metamorphoses with the audience - they allegedly ceased to correctly perceive the stage image of Verka Serduchka.

“We will no longer perform big solo concerts, but plan to appear only locally. It just gets really hard to work. For example, the audience in the same Jurmala is quite heavy - it looks at me appraisingly and does not join the game, ”the artist quotes "Moscow24" .

However, already this September, shortly before his anniversary, Danilko instilled faith in Serduchka's fans in a brighter future.

“Verka Serduchka is a star. She can announce a farewell tour, and then come back again. It's in the style of the stars. Now we are saying goodbye, but we will meet again, ”he told the publication.

Andrey Danilko made an important statement. The famous Ukrainian artist announced that he would no longer perform in the image of the incomparable Verka Serduchka.

Tomorrow, July 13, the last concert of Verka Serduchka will take place in Odessa. “This will be a grand performance by an artist who misses her audience. A bright show worthy of Verka Serduchka. It's already a holiday in itself!" Andrey Danilko noted.

A year later, a farewell tour of the cities of Nezalezhnaya will take place. “A big tour is meant - some thanks to those people who gave me, a boy from Poltava, who lived in an extension where the wallpaper was wrapped, the opportunity to provide for myself financially, live on Khreshchatyk and, in principle, not work,” the artist said.

It is not yet known whether Andrei Danilko will stop performing in the image of Verka Serduchka in Russia, where, they say, he often appears at corporate parties. The artist does not hide this. Earlier, Danilko said in an interview: “These are not poster concerts at all. And I work, if you understand what a closed action is… They walk, for example, the husband is Ukrainian, she is Russian or Jewish. We begin to sing “Chervona Ruta” or “Gop-hop-hop”, and everyone rejoices, worries. That is why I perform there. It's everyone's business."

The childhood of Andrei Danilko

Andrey Danilko in Poltava. Father was a driver, mother was a worker. They lived rather poorly. My father died in 1980 from lung cancer. In order to somehow feed two children (older sister Galina, born in 1963), the mother worked as a house painter in three shifts. Andrei studied at Poltava school number 27. Here he met Anya Serdyuk, a shy, pretty girl, an excellent student from an intelligent family. They sat at the same desk at school. Anya treated Andrei well, but nothing more. How could she be interested in the son of ordinary workers living in a barracks? His classmates even bought him a shirt for graduation party, so poor was the Danilko family then.

At school, the future showman studied poorly, and Anya dreamed of becoming a teacher of the Ukrainian language. Andrei always repeated to her that he would find a way to glorify her last name, to which Anya only smiled in response. He was the captain of the KVN school team, which constantly won prizes in city competitions. Since 1983, he became a member of the school theater-studio "Grotesque" under the direction of Anatoly Tregub.

School is over. Anya received a medal for excellent studies. Her childhood dream came true, she entered the Pedagogical Institute, got married, gave birth to a daughter, and works as a teacher. After school, Andrei tried to enter the pedagogical institute, the music school. But it did not work out, and I had to go to a vocational school to study as a cashier-seller.

The beginning of creative success - the birth of Verka Serduchka

In 1990, he created a bright character - the conductor Verka Serduchka, with whom he has not parted to this day. On April 1, 1991, in his native Poltava, as part of the humor, he made his debut in the image of Serduchka, which made a splash, after which the Stavropol Territory awaited him with his first tour. He was invited to various humorous and concerts. The artist is completely devoted to creativity and creates many new memorable characters. This is how images of a policeman, a soldier, a ballerina, a teacher appear. The Danilko Theater is being created, which successfully "surfs" the vast expanses of Russia and Ukraine.

Andrei understood that he needed to study, there was a lack of education. And in 1995 he entered the department of colloquial genre at the Kiev Variety and Circus School. I studied there for a year and a half. He did not listen to teachers, he was impudent, he took with hostility what he was told and advised. The result of all this is a deduction for lack of prospects, although his Serduchka was already quite popular and involved in various advertising projects on TV. True, a little later, he nevertheless successfully graduated from the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.

Musical career of Andrey Danilko

In the early 2000s, Danilko began performing pop music with elements of the ska musical style in the image of Verka. First, purely on the "New Year's Lights" of Channel One. Then he releases a number of albums with enviable frequency and shoots memorable video clips, which were constantly broadcast at that time on MTV. In the lyrics of the songs in a defiant kitsch style, the image of Serduchka was presented, which won wide popular fame and achieved notable commercial success.

Verka Serduchka "Hop-Hop-Hop"

Many of his compositions have become real folk hits. This is clearly confirmed by the Golden Gramophone national award for the songs “I didn’t understand” (2003), “Chita-drita” and the duet with Glukoza “I wanted a groom” (2004), “Tuk tuk tuk” (2005), “ Dolce Gabbana" (2011). You can also recall the "Muz-TV Award" in 2004 for the album "Ha-ra-sho". In 2007, he was recognized by the ZD Awards (Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper) in the Person of the Year nomination.

Film experience of Andrey Danilko

The first musical where Andrei was seen was Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, which premiered on New Year's Eve 2002. The role of the village moonshiner, vividly played by him, fell in love with the audience. At the same time, another musical "Cinderella" was held. Then, for each New Year, musicals appeared with enviable constancy, where it was already unthinkable that Andrei did not participate in them.

"Crazy Day, Or the Marriage of Figaro" and "The Snow Queen" - 2003.

"For two hares" - 2004.

"Sorochinsky Fair" and "Three Musketeers" - 2005.

"Morozko" - 2010.

"The New Adventures of Aladdin" - 2011.

"Little Red Riding Hood" - 2012.

The history of Eurovision

For him, Eurovision - 2007 is a significant event. For three years, Verka tried in vain to get into this television song contest, incurring the hysterical wrath of the Ukrainians. In 2006, under their pressure, Andrey even withdrew his candidacy. What did Andrey not hear then in his wake: a cheap clown, a disgrace to Ukraine, etc. He was perplexed, looking at this "persecution". For him, the image of Verka is, first of all, a grotesque, buffoonery.

In 2007, he nevertheless made it to Eurovision with an eccentric song "Danzing", which is a cute, uncomplicated "cocktail" of English, German, Ukrainian and Russian words. As one foreign journalist very aptly noted, the melody of this song can easily be tapped on the table with a spoon. Going to Helsinki for the competition, he repeatedly emphasized that he was not going to win - there was too much competition among strong vocalists. He wanted to show how Ukraine knows how to have fun and fool around. After all, before that, Europe highly appreciated the ethnic Ruslana, the classic pop singer Tina Karol.

But in his heart, he naturally wanted to prove that he was not just a clown dressed up as a busty aunt, but an artist who was something of himself. And he proved by taking second place, losing only to the representative of Serbia. Newspapers in England, France, and Germany instantly began to write about Serduchka. A BBC film crew came to him to shoot material, and this is already European recognition. What did he achieve? Glory? Yes! When the world-famous David Copperfield was asked what he associates the state of Ukraine with, he answered without hesitation: “Kuchma, Gorilka, Verka Serduchka.”

Andrey Danilko's personal life

Andrew is still unmarried. But Anya kept his promise to the girl: his Verka Serduchka (remember, what was the name of the girl Anya - Serdyuk) with a star on her head was remembered by all of Europe!

Verka Serduchka - Dancing Lasha Tumbai

But for many of his countrymen and relatives, he remained that school ragamuffin, grimacing on the school stage. Relatives living in a village near Poltava do not understand him and perceive with hostility all his work. They have there, according to them, a normal human life, children, farming, cows. And Andrey has a shame - a chest made of foam rubber protruding all over Ukraine. True, recently, when the image of Serduchka began to bring tangible income, mother and sister began to relate to all this tolerably. But Andrey basically does not go on tour to his native Poltava. He says that a palpable sense of guilt is being overwhelmed by him for being a wealthy person, and people around him live miserably, in constant need.

There is no one close to him. And the older he gets, the less he needs someone in his life. According to him, a few years ago he wanted to have a loved one nearby, to have a family, children. And now - he wanted too much, he is comfortable being alone. It is no coincidence that black became his favorite color. He is indifferent to all parties, he does not need prestigious clothes, a cool mobile phone. He has a firm position on this matter: it is better to spend your earned money on charity, on good deeds, while not advertising what has been done. He is a very vulnerable and lonely person, always regretting that money cannot buy the joy of life.

Andrei is simply tired of being in two guises. On the one hand, the devastated and constantly sad Danilko, and on the other hand, the cheerful broken Verka Serduchka. Subtle semantic music, full of lyrics, and stupid songs-jokes. Theater of two masks - crying and laughing. An eternal race with constant fatigue, the result of which is a heart torn in two.

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This creative pseudonym of the actor, artist and composer, screenwriter and producer, singer and showman, People's Artist of Ukraine Andriy Danilko has long become a household name.

Today, Verka Serduchka is still in demand, her image easily comes to mind, and her songs are known even to people who are far from love for pop music.

Childhood and youth

Andrey was born on October 2, 1973 in Poltava (Ukrainian SSR). His date of birth fell on the zodiac sign of Libra. The boy's family was low-income. Father Mikhail Semenovich Danilko, a Ukrainian by nationality, worked as a driver and died early due to lung cancer, his son was 7 years old. Then the entire burden of responsibility for the upbringing and maintenance of the family fell on the fragile shoulders of the mother. She had to work 2-3 shifts to make ends meet. The elder sister Galya was 10 years older than Andrei, apparently, therefore their relationship was not close.

The boy studied at the local comprehensive school No. 27. There he met a girl, Anya Serdyuk, a meeting with whom became, in a sense, fateful. Anya is a pretty girl with a modest character from an intelligent family, she studied exclusively for "five" and was an example to follow. In addition, they were put at the same desk, because Andrei could not help but pay attention to the girl.

The girl treated her new friend with warmth, but nothing more. For many years Andrei was tormented by thoughts about social inequality. Indeed, what could be of interest to a beautiful simple poor boy, who was thrown off for graduation attire by the whole class.

He studied poorly, but participated in amateur performances, attended art school along with general education. From childhood he was drawn to art and the stage: "artist", theater group, music. Not a single school party could do without Andrey Danilko, and later the performance of the local KVN team.

Soon he led the team, and then Andrey came up with the idea of ​​​​conquering the heart of Anya Serdyuk - he promised that one day he would glorify her name. Then she did not take his words seriously. At the end of school, their paths diverged, and Anna's biography developed prosaically. The girl got married, gave birth to a daughter and works as a school teacher.

Maybe this is just a beautiful story, once told from the lips of Andrei himself.

Creation

After graduating from school in 1991, Andrey entered the Poltava Vocational School, where he continued his endeavors as a comedian artist. He constantly performed on stage, inventing original numbers in search of himself.

In 1993, on April Fool's Day, at Humorin, a vocational school student first introduced a new character - Verka Serduchka, rude, never discouraged and with a bright star on her head. With a height of 175 cm, the “woman” has impressive shapes, while the weight of the artist himself remained within reasonable limits - 69 kg. The heroine is endowed with a sarcastic and sometimes even mocking attitude, lack of restraint and modesty, but at the same time she has an excellent sense of humor and ridicules the feminine flaws familiar to everyone.

This image immediately fell in love with the members of the jury, who gave the honorary 2nd place to an extraordinary student. The following year, he returned to the competition, taking the Grand Prix of the festival. Soon he began to be invited to television shows, advertising campaigns and variety concerts.

The eccentric and sharp-tongued Verka Serduchka found a response in the hearts of the public, and already in 1997, the “SV-show” was released on Ukrainian television, where the main role belongs to the conductor Verka. Other characters in the show are Serdyuchka's mother (Inna Belokon) and the silent Gelya (Olga Litskevich and Radmila Shchegoleva). In the hope of improving his professional level, Andrei entered the capital's circus variety school in Ukraine, from where he was soon expelled for poor progress and a difficult character. And there was no time left to study: soon the program was also bought on Russian television.

SW-SHOW. Verka Serduchka - Philip Kirkorov

Celebrities from all over the post-Soviet space came to visit the carriage driver:, and others. The artist's career is showing rapid growth, and Serdyuchka is becoming one of the most sought-after artists in the country. She plays comic roles, starred in musicals, sings perky songs that instantly became hits, and shoots clips for them that break all conceivable popularity records.

In 2005, Andrey released an experimental lyric album "After You". This instrumental work did not open a new page in the musician's career. Fans, it seems, have not been able to break the association between the actor and his heroine. Yes, and the commercial success of Verka made him return to his usual image.

Andrey Danilko - "After you"

In 2007, Serduchka went to Finland to conquer the main European stage - Eurovision, where she performed the song "Dancing Lasha Tumbai" in Russian, English and Ukrainian. The European public gave the second place to the bright travesty artist, and Ukrainian skeptics and fans applauded the success. One of the British authoritative publications called this song "the best of those that did not win Eurovision."

Verka Serduchka at Eurovision

After success at Eurovision and unsuccessful attempts to try himself in a fresh field, Andrei decides to take a bold and ambitious step: he goes into politics. Andriy Danilko creates the "Against All" party in the Verkhovna Rada. Since then, a new stage in the artist's life begins, full of risks and nerves.

Attempts to create an alternative party and the candidate's pre-election statements were not to everyone's liking. The showman had to face the cruel world of politicians, who responded to his attempts with threats and attempts at blackmail.

In 2014, after the political events in Ukraine, the country's authorities declared the artist persona non grata.

At the same time, Andrei's friend, Igor Klinkov, having lost at cards, decided to make a deal with unknown persons, promising to physically eliminate Danilko in payment of the debt. The impending assassination attempt became known to those close to the artist, and an attempt to pay off the bandits at the expense of the actor was unsuccessful.

News that Andrei Danilko had been shot dead in a Kiev cafe raged the press for several days until he made official statements. Andrei did not begin to sort things out with the "friend", but excluded him from his life.

The instinct of self-preservation is the strongest feeling for a person, therefore, after the events mentioned above, Danilko left for permanent residence in Europe, coming to Ukraine only on tour and recording television programs.

As is often the case, a vulnerable soul hides under the mask of a shining clowness. He does not like his birthday for excessive attention, he tries to avoid issues related to his personal life. He does not come to his native farm, because here earlier they made fun of his work and perceived his image as vulgarity and extravagance. In addition, Danilko notes a certain feeling of embarrassment in front of his fellow countrymen for his bright success and prosperity, and the sight of rural decay plunges him into despondency.

You will not meet him at celebrity parties (unless in the image, of course). The brilliance of fake gems is enough for him on stage. While doing charitable deeds, Andrei does not advertise it, preferring to remain in the shadows.

After winning the "silver" at Eurovision 2007, Andrei Danilko's tour schedule only became tighter, and the fees - higher. If in his youth the actor was afraid of experiments in the image, relying on a loud-voiced woman, then on the wave of huge popularity he is no longer afraid to try on other roles.

Fans today are revisiting sparkling monologues in the role of a policeman, soldier or Cossack. All his roles are unique, they are not like anything and so remind us of acquaintances and neighbors in the stairwell, therefore they resonate in the hearts of millions of people. The popularity of the character also affected the income of the artist. On the unofficial website of Verka Serduchka, it was reported that in 2009 Danilko earned $ 150 thousand and was in the top ten of the richest representatives of Ukrainian show business.

Verka Serduchka - "Dolce Gabbana"

By this time, the artist’s discography already included 11 albums, and the songs “And I’m walking like this all in Dolce Gabbana”, “I need your love so much”, “Christmas trees”, “I didn’t understand”, “Everything will be fine” were especially popular.

During his creative career, Danilko starred in 24 films. “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka”, “Chasing two hares”, “Sorochinsky Fair”, “Morozko”, “Cinderella” - most of his film works repeat the character of Verka Serduchka. He is assigned the roles of bright, strong heroines with character, funny and ridiculous, rude and passionate. One thing remains unchanged: the love of viewers for the funny and ridiculous conductor Vera. Therefore, even today a rare wedding or corporate party does without Serduchka's hits, and the lyrics are familiar even to ardent opponents of his work.

"Chasing Two Hares" - New Year's musical

In 2016, the artist was invited to the role of mentor of the Ukrainian show "X Factor": he chose and helped novice artists to break into the big stage. On "X Factor" Andrey stayed for three seasons. Together with him, Dmitry Shurov was among the judges. In the seventh season, Danilko's wards - the Mountain Breeze Band - took third place, and a year later, the members of his team, the musical group Yurcash, climbed to the second step.

In addition, the artist was attracted to prepare for Eurovision 2017, which the singer "brought" to Kyiv.

Personal life

Unlike the character in life, Danilko is laconic and lonely. The actor admits that a few years ago he dreamed of family happiness, a wife and children, like everyone else. However, in his fate there is everything except calm personal happiness. He repeatedly regretted aloud that money cannot buy the most important thing - love and joy in life. However, in recent interviews, the showman says that loneliness is his harmonious state.

He was repeatedly credited with novels either with Olga Litskevich, or with Radmila Shchegoleva, or with "Verka Serduchka's mother" - Inna Belokon. Some media spread rumors about the artist's unconventional orientation, others - information that Danilko had two sons - Mikhail and Ivan. During the period of the wild popularity of the SV-show, Danilko was in no hurry to dispel speculation. Perhaps he did this, considering excuses an unworthy deed, or deliberately forcing an atmosphere of mystery around his personality.

In 2015-2016, the yellow press was full of headlines on the topic "Inna Belokon left her husband for Danilko." There were even photos in which Inna and Andrey spend their holidays hugging and kissing. From photographs it is difficult to accurately determine whether these relations are of a friendly nature. The actor never hid that they are close friends.

It is known for certain that Inna is married, runs a family business and has a daughter. Despite the fact that Andrey Danilko does not have his own social media accounts, pages in the name of Verka Serduchka are registered in