Chat with composer Nikolai Agutin HABER.ru He admitted that he helped his son Leonid at the beginning of his career.
“I prepared big programs in stadiums and sports palaces and took him to a warm-up with a famous artist. Dima Malikov, Yuri Antonov, Vladimir Muromov were popular at that time,” Agutin recalls.
According to the composer, when Leonid Agutin returned from the army, he and his father selected the best songs with which the young artist could go on tour. The composer believes that his son’s initial popularity came thanks to the hit “Barefoot Boy”, which he sang for the first time at the festival in Yalta.
The other day producer Sergei Lavrov suggestedthat singer and composer Leonid Agutin and his wife, singer Anzhelika Varum, are not under threat of “cancellation” in Russia. Lavrov recalled that Agutin was a good musician, one of the most sought-after artists, the public loved him and “his art outweighs his politics”, but “he did not say anything like that.”
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