1. Alla Pugacheva's career began in 1965 and continues to this day, although she retired from performing in 2010 after the international concert tour "Dreams of Love".
69 Facts About Alla Pugacheva
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Alla Pugacheva's repertoire includes over 500 songs in Russian, English, German, French, Kazakh, Hebrew, Finnish and Ukrainian, and her discography has more than 100 records, CDs and DVDs.
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Alla Pugacheva has performed in some of the most famous concert halls in the world, including Carnegie Hall in New York, Olympia in Paris, Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin, Royal Theater Carre in Amsterdam and Apollo in London.
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Alla Pugacheva became a People's Artist of the USSR in 1991, a Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1995.
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Alla Pugacheva has received awards in several countries around the world, including the United States, Germany, Finland, Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Ampex Golden Reel Award, among others.
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Alla Pugacheva was recognized as the best singer of the 20th century in Eastern Europe by the ZD Awards, named a living legend and the best performer of the 1990s decade by the Ovation Award.
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Alla Pugacheva was inducted into the Top Hit Music Awards Hall of Fame.
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For several decades, Alla Pugacheva had the largest fee among performers in Eastern Europe.
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Alla Pugacheva is considered a gay icon, and in 2012 she supported the punk group Pussy Riot.
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Alla Pugacheva was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador from 1998 to 2007.
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Alla Pugacheva was born to Boris Mikhailovich Pugachyov and Zinaida Arkhipovna Pugachyova in Moscow, on 15 April 1949.
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Alla Pugacheva went on to study at school No 496, finishing her studies there in 1964.
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Alla Pugacheva then studied in the choral-conducting department of the college.
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Alla Pugacheva recorded her first track "Robot" in 1965, for a morning programme on Radio Yunost.
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Alla Pugacheva finished college in 1966 and subsequently toured with the group Yunost' in western Siberia.
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Alla Pugacheva recorded songs throughout that period for numerous movies.
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In that same year, Alla Pugacheva recorded a number of songs for the musical drama-comedy The Irony of Fate as the singing voice of Nadja, the female protagonist.
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In 1976, Alla Pugacheva performed at the international music exhibition MIDEM in Cannes.
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Alla Pugacheva went on to work on the musical film The Woman who Sings in cooperation with the band Ritm in 1977.
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Alla Pugacheva played the leading lady, a famous pop singer who sacrifices her personal life for her career.
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The soundtrack, which was co-written by Pugacheva and composed of pop songs, culminated with the dramatic title ballad "Zhenshchina, kotoraya poyot".
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In 1978, performing the song "Vsyo mogut koroli", Alla Pugacheva received the Amber Nightingale prize at the Sopot International Song Festival which at the time meant automatically winning the Grand Prix of the Intervision Song Contest.
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Also, the release of Alla Pugacheva's album took place in West Germany.
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In July 1979 in Moscow, Alla Pugacheva performed in a duet with Joe Dassin.
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Alla Pugacheva started out with multiple guest appearances on the popular Swedish radio show Galaxen conducted by Jacob Dahlin, and later frequently appeared on his TV show Jacobs Stege.
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Dahlin and Alla Pugacheva used to perform duets, such as "Superman" where Dahlin sings as the title character.
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In 1985 to 1988, Alla Pugacheva performed with German rocker Udo Lindenberg.
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In May 1987, Alla Pugacheva performed the song "One Voice" at a concert in Vienna with American singer Barry Manilow.
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In September 1987, Alla Pugacheva's single "Find Me" entered ZDF-Hitparade in Germany.
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In 1987, Alla Pugacheva was the headliner of the Sanremo Music Festival along with Whitney Houston.
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In 1989, Alla Pugacheva performed at the Country Music Festival.
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In 1990, Alla Pugacheva participated as a guest in the World Music Awards ceremony in Monte Carlo.
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In 1995, Alla Pugacheva was the headliner of the Voice of Asia music festival in Almaty along with Toto Cutugno was a headliner.
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Alla Pugacheva represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 with the song "Primadonna", finishing in 15th place out of 25 places.
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The shoes became the most successful non-song business project of the singer, along with the perfume "Alla Pugacheva", produced for many years since 1990 by the French perfume company "Sogo".
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From 2005 to 2019, Alla Pugacheva awarded a cash prize from personal funds in the amount of $50,000 to young talented performers from Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Central Asia, including rock musician Koop Arponen from Finland, Tina Karol from Ukraine, Marina Lucenko from Poland, Stas Shurins from Latvia, Monika Linkyte from Lithuania, Maxim Erzhan from Kazakhstan and others.
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Alla Pugacheva left the station in November 2010 and the station's name was changed to "Radio Romantika".
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From 2011 to 2013, Alla Pugacheva was a member of the jury of the Russian version of the British talent show The X Factor.
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In May 2022, Alla Pugacheva participated in the Free Culture Forum in Tel Aviv.
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Alla Pugacheva embodied the image of a strong and free woman.
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Alla Pugacheva gave freedom in art, freedom of expression to people from all countries of the former USSR.
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In 1997, Alla Pugacheva appeared on the cover of Ogoniok, and in 1999 Vogue dedicated its cover to her.
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In 2021, according to the Romir Center for Public Opinion Research, Alla Pugacheva took 1st place in the ranking of the "Most influential Musicians in Russia".
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From 1988 to 2012, Alla Pugacheva organized the Christmas Meetings music festival.
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In 2022, Latvian singer Laima Vaikule noted that Alla Pugacheva was and remains the main Russian star.
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Famous artists, poets, musicians, performers from Eastern Europe and Central Asia dedicated paintings, poems, songs and performances to Alla Pugacheva, including Nikas Safronov, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Dmitry Bykov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Serebro and Svetlana Loboda.
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Alla Pugacheva divorced Orbakas after four years of marriage in 1973.
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Alla Pugacheva married film director Alexander Stefanovich in 1976 and starred in several of his movies.
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In 1985, Alla Pugacheva married producer Yevgeniy Boldin, with whom she had numerous professional collaborations.
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Alla Pugacheva had a working and romantic relationship with a young musician and singer, Vladimir Kuzmin during this period.
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On 23 December 2011, Alla Pugacheva married singer and comedian Maxim Galkin.
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From 1963 to 1977, starting when she was fourteen, Alla Pugacheva was a member of the Komsomol.
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On 14 June 1996, two days before the vote, an interview with Leonid Parfyonov was aired in the Hero of the Day program on the NTV channel, in which Alla Pugacheva called on all Russians to vote for Yeltsin.
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In 1998, Alla Pugacheva supported Valery Zubov as candidate for the governorship of the Krasnoyarsk Krai.
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From 1998 to 2007, Alla Pugacheva was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
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In December 2005, Alla Pugacheva became a member of the Civic Chamber under the President of the Russian Federation, where she worked on social development issues until 2008.
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Since September 2011, Alla Pugacheva has openly supported politician Mikhail Prokhorov.
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Alla Pugacheva declared her readiness to join his party, then joined his Public Council; together with Andrey Makarevich, she sang the song "Samy vysoky" about him, and took part in various press conferences of Prokhorov and congresses of the public council of the Civic Platform party.
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Alla Pugacheva is considered to be a gay icon in Russia by Russian LGBT community.
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Alla Pugacheva took second place in the ranking of "100 Most Influential Women of Russia" and 4th in the ranking of "The Smartest Women of Russia".
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In March 2014, Alla Pugacheva signed a petition against the persecution of Andrey Makarevich, who protested against the annexation of Crimea and war in Donbas.
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Alla Pugacheva asked Ministry of Justice to declare her a foreign agent, too.
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Russian authorities began investigating Alla Pugacheva for "discrediting" the Russian military under Russian 2022 war censorship laws.
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In October 2022, Alla Pugacheva revealed that she had left Russia again for Israel.
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In November 2023, Alla Pugacheva returned to Russia for a few days before leaving again for Latvia.
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Alla Pugacheva is listed in the Russian Encyclopedia as well as in encyclopedias in other countries of the world, including the United States.
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In 2017, Alla Pugacheva was included in the list of the "100 most influential Russians of the century" according to Forbes.
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Alla Pugacheva was honored as one of the BBC 100 Women in December 2022.
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Documentaries about Alla Pugacheva's biography were shown on television in different European countries, including:.