The voice of a Georgian singer. A Georgian singer won the “Voice” show in Germany

Talented man talented in everything. This ancient truth is confirmed by the Russian athlete of Georgian origin Tornike Kvitatiani, who is not only a member of the Olympic freestyle wrestling team, but also demonstrates extraordinary vocal abilities, thanks to which the young man got into the reality show “The Voice”.

Tornike was born on August 15, 1992 in Georgia and early years loved sports. In the yard, the boy tirelessly played football, and in the section he devoted all his strength to his favorite freestyle wrestling. The child was brought to the training by her mother, whose name is Lali Chemiya. Then he turned 7 years old. She waited for her son for two hours outside the hall, and then took him home.

Later the family moved out of town. Back then it took four hours to travel to the sports complex and back, plus two hours for classes.

When Tornike was 9 years old, his father passed away. The boy's mother was left alone with two children: Kvitatiani grew up with his sister. She raised the children herself.

Over time, Kvitatiani moved to Russian capital and began playing for the Moscow club CSKA. When Tornike was offered to live in a sports boarding school, he happily agreed.

At competitions, the young athlete takes to the mat in the categories up to 97 and up to 125 kilograms.

In 2011, Tornike Kvitatiani became a bronze medalist at the Russian junior championship, later won medals at the adult level and joined the Olympic freestyle wrestling team. True, on Olympic Games The guy did not go to Rio de Janeiro, as he received a serious injury in January 2016 and returned to training only in September. Now the main dream and goal of Tornike, who has already passed the standards for the title of Master of Sports, is to go to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

Music

Although freestyle wrestling occupies a dominant place in the life of Tornike Kvitatiani, he still has young man favorite hobby, a fighter’s outlet is music. No matter how tired a guy is during training or competitions, in the evening he always picks up a guitar and sings for himself. Like many people from the Caucasus, he has an innate sense of rhythm and ear for music. Tornike independently learned to play the guitar and mastered several other instruments, including national ones.

And in 2016, Kvitatiani demonstrated his singing talent to the public. For this, he chose the fifth season of the popular TV show “The Voice”. At the blind auditions, Tornike performed the legendary composition “Wicked Game” from the repertoire to his own accompaniment.

The judges listened to a lyrical ballad performed by a Georgian singer and only turned to him at the very end of the song. Two mentors wanted to see Tornike Kvitatiani on their team: and. But the participant himself preferred to work with Bilan and joined the group.

The singer himself did not expect that they would turn to him. He even went to the project just for fun. Tornike was then in the hospital after shoulder surgery, and then the wrestler came up with the idea to apply for “The Voice.” And my friends persuaded me to do it. Kvitatiani did not believe that he would get on the show. But three months later the guy received a call and announced that the application had been approved and the editor would contact him. This moment can be considered the beginning creative biography performer.

During the fight in the “Voice” project, Tornike sang the song “Let’s Pray for Our Parents” in a duet with. Due to the fact that the guy lost his father early, and the song began with the words “I miss you, dad,” the singer on stage was overcome with emotion, and he sang the entire composition in tears. Later, the musician admitted that this did not happen at the rehearsal, everything happened spontaneously.

In addition to the singers, the jury of the show was also imbued with the performance: not only Polina Gagarina cried, but also.

As a result, Tornike reached the quarterfinals of season 5, but the singer had to leave. Although TV viewers gave Kvitatiani more votes, Dima Bilan allowed the musician to prepare for the Russian wrestling championship.

Later, the singer said about his mentor that Bilan is a sincere and simple person. He is the same in life as he is on camera, without pretense. And Dima’s team is the most friendly. They call themselves "Bilanyata".

The artist admitted that he did not expect to reach the quarterfinals. After all, the project brought together knowledgeable people who can sing, and Tornike does it for the soul. But after the show, he decided to take vocals seriously, study notes and chords.

Therefore, today it is too early to talk about solo concerts artist, although he enjoys performing at events. I haven’t shot any videos for Tornike’s composition yet either. Although on the Internet you can find videos made from photographs of the artist with music superimposed on the pictures. This was done with the song “I Just Loved,” released in 2017. The number of songs performed by the singer already amounts to a small album.

Personal life

Tornike Kvitatiani is not married yet and does not even plan to change his marital status in the near future. Although the wrestler loves children and is happy to babysit the children of his friends, for now he is creating own family considers it premature. After all sports achivments require a colossal expenditure of effort, energy and time, and there will be no time left for the attention of loved ones.

Acquaintances of Tornike Kvitatiani claim that he is a pleasant and modest person. Tornike is also a great friend.

The performer says that he loves animals. In addition, he is a good cook.

In August 2016, the guy met Eteri Beriashvili, a participant in the second season of the Voice project, with whom he became very friendly. She came to support Tornike at the show.

The wrestler and musician in one person has already accumulated an army of fans who follow Kvitatiani on the social network “ Instagram" The artist pampers his subscribers with videos from training, rehearsals and performances, personal photos and behind-the-scenes footage.

Tornike Kvitatiani now

Tornike Kvitatiani has already tried himself as an actor. In May 2018, the film “To Paris” will be released. In the film, fans of the star will admire their favorite artist in the role of Kakha Bakradze.

This is the story of the Hero of the Union Alexander Milyukov. He was a tank commander and after the storming of Berlin in 1945, he drove to Paris in a confiscated convertible with his intrepid crew. The role of the Hero went to . And they went to accompany Dmitry to the capital of France

The film will tell viewers what will happen to friends on their journey. This film is not about war, it is about people who have gone through a terrible ordeal, and how a feeling of love arises in them again.

The cast is brilliant. Others are also involved in the film.

In March 2018, Tornike released a new composition “Mama”. As the title suggests, he dedicated the song to his beloved mother.

Discography

• 2016 – “Wicked Game”
• 2016 – “Abrazame”
• 2016 – “Shape of my Heart”
• 2016 – “Shards of Summer”
• 2016 – “Let’s pray for parents”
• 2017 – “I Just Loved”
• 2018 – “Mom”

" So, once again the country will wait every Friday to watch and hear new talented performers. And not very talented, but clearly persistent, if they were able to break through to the blind auditions, for which they are already honored and praised.

As previously reported, Dima Bilan, Leonid Agutin, Polina Gagarina and Grigory Leps became mentors in the fifth season.

The release began with a powerful performance by the winners of the four seasons of the project: Dina Garipova, Sergei Volochkov, Hieromonk Photius and Alexandra Vorobyova performed red "Melody", once again confirming that they deserve to be called best voices countries.

Winners previous seasons opens the anniversary “Voice-5”

The performance of the mentors was brilliant, especially striking fans of the project Leps as a drummer. However, there are also criticisms about the new jury. Many say that Alexander Gradsky is missing, they ask to remove Leps because of his vulgar jokes. And they note how Gagarina sometimes speaks “strangely,” for example: “Georgian blood flows through me.” Be that as it may, today the mentors made their first choice.

The mentors perform the song “Gimme All Your Lovin’.” The Voice, Season 5

So, the first participant in the fifth season was the miniature (the girl’s height is only 1.50 m) Yuliana Melkumyan. The first performance, and immediately all the mentors turned their chairs towards the singer. “Diamond” by Julian, who burst into tears after the last chords, went to Grigory Leps.

Yuliana Melkumyan “The Path” - Blind Auditions - Voice - Season 5

It must be admitted that the second participant in the blind auditions managed to surprise the audience and mentors. A very modest and well-mannered “almost Italian” (but actually Georgian) and a member of the Russian freestyle wrestling team, Tornike Kvitatiani, attended three concerts of Grigory Leps, but he had to choose from Polina Gagarina and Dima Bilan. The Georgian and wrestler broke all the templates by choosing not a beautiful blonde, but Dima.

Tornike Kvitatiani, Wicked Game. Blind auditions

Ksenia Korobkova, with the support of her husband with a cajon, turned all four red chairs towards her, made Leonid Agutin dance and even forget that he was a gentleman. Polina Gagarina promised Ksenia the coolest dress, but the participant chose Agutin's team.

Ksenia Korobkova. I"m Your Baby Tonight. Blind auditions

And the powerful finale of the first episode of the fifth season of the show “The Voice” was the performance of Jan Maers (aka Tsybulka, aka Lukovkin, aka Lukovka). To him Bilan, Gagarina and Leps turned. Ian said that he loves everyone and listens to everyone, but chooses Dima Bilan.

Ian Myers. Starlight. Blind auditions

However, according to the audience, one of the most striking episodes of the show was Bilan’s appearance on stage after the boring performance of Pyotr Novikov. Dima picked up the accordion and decided to remember his musical childhood. It was awkward, but cute. True, Leps, as usual, made another barb at Bilan.

Dima Bilan played the accordion

Unlike Leps, Leonid Agutin seemed good-natured to the audience. Well, Polina Gagarina, as she admitted, was unlucky that evening: the performers whom she wanted to get into her team preferred other mentors. As a result, her team currently only has one member. But what a one! Julia Litosh - owner of a stunning timbre.

Julia Litosh. I Can't Stand The Rain

21-year-old Natia Todua, who arrived in Germany from Georgia, became the winner music competition"Voice". At the final stage, 50.1% of viewers voted for her, which allowed her to get this important victory.

Natia Todua made it to the final four out of 26 thousand candidates who wanted to show their talent on “The Voice”. Together with the Georgian performer, the winner of “The Voice of Germany” was Samu Haber, an experienced and attentive mentor. The girl was officially congratulated by Giorgi Margvelashvili and Giorgi Kvirikashvili, the President and Prime Minister of Georgia, respectively. Todua will return to her homeland as a real star, because the whole country followed her successes.

Olga Malinovskaya - Correspondent of RIA VistaNews