Barbara (singer): personal life. "Very beautiful couple": the singer Varvara posted a joint photo with her husband on his birthday Surname of the singer Barbara

Ivushki (duet with A. Vorobyov)
Cossacks in Berlin
Beautiful life
He who seeks will find
She flew and sang
Fly into the light
Blizzard
You can not
Bridges to paradise
Music of Christmas
On the verge
On the edge
Nowhere to run
One
Autumn
Let me go river
The river will flow
Heart don't cry
Sun
Glass love
The snow was melting
Strangers
It's behind
I am alive
I know

Biography (history) of the singer Varvara

Russian singer Varvara(real name Elena Vladimirovna Tutanova, after marriage - Susova) was born on July 30, 1973 in the city of Balashikha in a family of engineers.

Varvara reluctantly recalls childhood, which was densely saturated with events that served the development of the future star. It’s hard to believe, but once this gorgeous blonde with the appearance of a fashion model was shy of her appearance and kept her “gray mouse” among her peers. A girl from Balashikha, from an ordinary family of engineers, simply did not like to study, and she, of course, was forced. And today, sometimes Varvara, sighing, says: "I had no childhood." However, there is something that makes her feel nostalgic - for example, music school in accordion class, although she graduated "from C to deuce, from deuce to count." Or the accordion donated by her grandfather to four-year-old Varvara: although it has been worn out for a long time, and many of the valves on it do not work, the singer tremulously keeps this gift.

With pleasure, Varvara was engaged only in dancing and sports, so at school she was responsible for organizing all evenings and matinees, being the head. the cultural sector. Surprisingly, she almost did not show interest in solo singing and even almost entered the Institute of Light Industry. Fortunately, she was stopped by one fateful event. Once in the House of Culture, where Varvara was dancing, she passed the door, from behind which one could hear crazy guitar cuts like AC / DC. But, having heard Paganini's virtuoso variation instead of hard rock, Varvara listened and truly stuck to the door. The further development of events was comical: the door opened and the girl literally burst into the room. But the shrewd guys did not laugh: they instinctively felt that something serious was behind this impulse, and gave Varvara an instant audition.

The next day, she did not go to the institute for courses, but went to a rehearsal with the ensemble. A few days later, the group unanimously decided that Varvara had an individual, strong voice - and something had to be done about it. A month before the start of entrance exams to universities, together with a choir teacher in the same recreation center, Varvara prepared a mini-program ... And entered the Gnessin School with a competition of 12 people for a place - according to the results of the first round. Varvara owed such success to her teacher - director Matvey Osherovsky, who at first glance saw in her an outstanding creative personality. This man, who was once famous for the scandalous staging of the "Threepenny Opera" in Odessa, owes her the nickname "Kolomna Verst" - as the professor called Varvara when he was especially dissatisfied with her. Despite the fact that the relationship with the teacher was difficult - he repeatedly kicked the artist out and even threw his shoes at her - Varvara invariably returned and stubbornly continued to learn from the eccentric genius. In the last year of Gnesinka, quarrels with teachers became constant: they tried to convince the girl that "the operetta was crying" for her, and Varvara explained that she only agreed to a free flight. And after graduating from school, throwing aside all prejudices, she went to sing "in a tavern." The very first performance turned into a disaster: "Some irregular sobs poured out of the microphone. I thought: I was finishing something at all ... But after a few months I learned to get rid of the acquired syndrome of" dome "singing inherent in all classical singers: voice became more flexible, and I went into a rage. "

Some time later, Varvara unexpectedly found herself in the troupe of the State Theater of Variety Performances, headed by the master of the national stage, Lev Leshchenko. At the same time, the singer graduated from GITIS with a degree in pop artist. For several years she has been tirelessly touring with the theater as a soloist - and performing classics of the Soviet stage. It got to the point that during a tour of US cities, Barbara often woke up in the middle of the night and walked around the room like a lunatic, repeating songs from the program. But it was then that she had the opportunity to perform her own songs within the framework of large theater concerts. Soon, Varvara felt cramped in the theater, and she set off on a free flight.

In 2001, the company "NOX Music" released the artist's debut album, which was called "Barbara". Work on this disc continued throughout the year 2000. Most of the songs were written by unknown young authors, and only the name of Kim Breitburg - the main songwriter of Boris Moiseev - said something to the audience. Young musicians - multi-instrumentalists, united in one group, named after Varvara, took part in the recording of the disc. It was then for the first time that the DJs of the leading radio stations thought: what style should this music be attributed to? There are echoes of all musical cultures - from Russian to Arabic; the sounds of live instruments are combined here with electronic samples, tragic compositions invariably coexist with one hundred percent dance pop hits, and at the same time, poetry comes to the fore - it's scary to think about it! The songs of the debut album, despite all their informal nature, enjoyed success with the listeners: the title songs "Barbara", "Butterfly", "On the Edge" and "Fly Into the Light" truly bathed in the air. But the fact that in Nicole Claro's book "Madonna" one of the chapters was called "On the Edge" remained unnoticed - such subtle moments always pass by the attention of listeners.

The first album of Varvara turned out to be as ambiguous as the on-screen image of the singer. Exquisitely beautiful and insanely sexy, charming shy and lonely wanderer - all this series of images was instantly presented by Varvara in three video clips shot for the first album. The first video for the song "Fly Into the Light", directed by Varvara's longtime friend Fyodor Bondarchuk and cameraman by Vlad Opelyants, turned out to be a harsh experiment in its genre. He was filmed at a factory, and at a temperature of minus 5 degrees, Varvara had to portray "mischief" in a light T-shirt. The next one - "Butterfly" (directed by D. Makhamutdinov) - was filmed in Egypt, in radically opposite conditions. "I wanted to make a clip in the form of a mini-movie. The plot is as follows: while on vacation in Egypt, I find a bracelet with a butterfly, which once belonged to Cleopatra. And the queen's soul moves into my body. I live her life: love with Caesar, war with the Romans, death from a snakebite. Especially for filming we went to Egypt in the ancient city of Luxor. The temperature went off scale for 70 degrees of heat, stones began to melt ... I literally almost laid hands on myself - it was so hot. But, plunging into the atmosphere of the famous "garden of columns", the avenue of the sphinxes, the temple erected thousands of years ago by the mysterious queen Hatshepsut, you involuntarily begin to understand the very essence of Ancient Egypt. " The third clip "On the Verge" did without extreme situations, but was entirely built on the conceptual idea of ​​director Sergei Kalvarsky. According to the idea of ​​the video, the visual metaphors of a snake and a dagger hide the relationship between a man and a woman who has already been burned in life, but has finally met the embodiment of her ideal. The shooting of "Butterflies" was preceded by another unexpected event in the life of Varvara - in 2000 she won the Grand Prix at the "Kinodiva" competition, writes. / .. / ... The competition held as part of the "Kinotavr" festival was not so much a beauty contest, how much an acting competition.

Young cinema and theater actresses, as well as pop singers acted out sketches, danced minuets and, according to a well-known scenario, played Tsaritsa Catherine in Tsaritsynsky Park. "I was not interested in participating in this show. At that moment I was a product of the producer's extravagance. The only funny moment was how Vyacheslav Dobrynin and I portrayed Little Red Riding Hood and the Gray Wolf. And Dobrynin completely refused to use the proposed text and improvised with might and main:" Don't rash on my wounds "and so on. In fact, I am much more pleased to remember another competition -" Show Queen ", where I took the deserved second place." Throughout 2000 and 2001, Varvara did not stop concert activity - except for a short break that fell during the birth and upbringing of the singer's daughter, also named Varvara. For some time, the singer lived in her beloved Arab Emirates - and also gave concerts there with a program of ten songs in Arabic. The singer's Scandinavian appearance, coupled with her deep, oriental flexible voice, made such an impression on the Arabs that Varvara was offered to record an "Arab album". Someday his time will come too ...

The first album became a kind of test of strength for Varvara. Music critics, confused about the fact that there were no analogues to Varvara's music on the Russian stage, tried to put her on a par with the exalted Linda and the magnificent Valeria. "I will always be against drawing any analogies between my work and what pop-performers do in Russia. They exist in their own field, artificially created twenty years ago, and are afraid of any influx from the outside. Pop-music in Russia may take another twenty years. will not change if we do not catch the wave that is sweeping across the world today Pop music of a single country is not interesting if it does not contain elements of all other music, if it does not become world-pop-music. I can do music myself: Mylène Farmer, which in France, too, can not be attributed to either traditional rock, or "pop", or, moreover, to chanson. This is about definitions.

But if after this phrase of mine they begin to compare me with Milen Farmer, it will be the biggest nonsense of the comparing one. ”Thinking about recording the second album, Varvara once again looked in the“ mirror ”of the first one. And appreciated all its shortcomings: it is too slippery in terms of style, uneven in emotion, too "flirting" with the audience. Shaking a lock of blond hair, Varvara decided that it was time to do what was always closer to her. Once again listened to her favorite records: Enya, Madonna, Garbage, Shanai Twain, Sheryl Crow ... And went into work for almost two years. Most of the compositions were written at the studio "Brothers Grimm" - it was this company that managed to find arrangements and sound adequate to the ideas of the singer. The first material, recorded by Arthur A "Kim and Dmitry Moss, was so fresh that the question of determining style sounded in a new way. It was at that moment that Varvara received an offer from the founder of the famous Swedish studio Cosmo, Norn Bjorn, to record several compositions with the Swedish symphony orchestra. It was impossible to miss this unique opportunity - to hear yourself in the "euro-processing" of the sound producers who worked on the latest records of A-ha and Britney Spears. Collaboration with the Swedes resulted in the song "It's Behind", sustained in the fashionable r "n" b style, but Varvara decided to continue recording other songs for the future album in Russia. “We had the opportunity to compare. I used it.

The ideas of the Brothers Grimm studio turned out to be closer to me, and the sound they achieved was fully consistent with the European level. "In the summer of 2002, Varvara's song" I'm Alive "unexpectedly sounded on" Our Radio "on the air of the program" Do you need it? " produced the effect of an exploding bomb - until that moment the so-called "pop-performers" did not appear on Nashe Radio. Legend has it that the choice of the song was made personally by Mikhail Kozyrev. provocation and refrained from scourging Varvara, presented by the presenter as a pop singer. 30% of the audience who took part in the Internet voting bombarded the Our Radio forum with indignant messages on the topic of the host's incorrect actions and demanded satisfaction. This experiment was another confirmation of this that the work of Varvara lies "on the verge" between pop and rock music. Compositions "I am alive", "Heart, Don't Cry" and "You Can't Do It" were released separately in the summer Mr. single, which instantly went viral on radio stations. Soon the industrial-aesthetic clip of Varvara "Heart, Don't Cry" appeared on the air of the leading music TV channels. It became the first video work in which Varvara tried to realize her idea of ​​timeless clips, where everything rests on acting. A little later, a video for the song "Od-na" appeared, filmed in an abandoned workshop of the ZIL plant among fuel oil puddles and construction debris. On November 30, Varvara entered the stage of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses: she performed in the finale of "Song of the Year" with the composition "One". Behind the scenes, aggressive journalists tried to press the singer with questions - however, Lev Leshchenko, who represented Varvara, did not let the process go out of its normal course. In December 2002, the singer recorded her last composition, which gave the final name to the album - "Closer". "This album is a rethinking of everything that happened to me before, a reflection on the past. After it, I will go ahead, and you must be ready for this."

In December 2004, the singer received an honorary diploma from the "Song of the Year" TV festival for the song "She flew and sang", for which she shot a video in Morocco a month later.

In 2005, Varvara passed the National Selection of the International Eurovision Song Contest 2005, in the same year she took first place in the Internet voting held by the International Club OGAE and received the right to represent Russia at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Eurovision in Denmark.

Since 2006, the singer has been actively touring the cities of Russia and European countries, introducing foreigners to the ethnic creativity of Russian musical culture.

In 2009, the singer participates in the Festival of Russian Culture in London with her new program "Dreams", which contains the best of her works, in musical arrangements of which there are the sounds of a Yakut tambourine, the beats of North Caucasian drums and the melodic sounds of old Russian horns. The singer's musical group tries to use as many folk instruments as possible, thereby emphasizing the scale of Russian culture.
In recent years, many touring festivals and a wide variety of events have not been without the active participation of Varvara. She has repeatedly participated in various music festivals, both in Russia and abroad.

In 2010, Varvara was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia.

In 2012, a new single and a video clip of the singer called "Dudochka" are released. The authors of the words and music are V. Malezhik and A. Akhmatova.

The singer is also the artistic director and general director of her own production center called Art Center Varvara.

Personal life

Having survived the failure of an early marriage, she met on the way the man of her dreams - businessman Mikhail Susov, who became her support in her work. A reliable rear enables her to create original works that differ from other performers. The couple are raising four children. After all, she is a Barbara, she is not like everyone else!

The appearance of Varvara on the Russian stage marks a new era in the development of the Russian popular music industry. The songs she sings exist outside the traditional formats of "rock" or "pop", because her music is a subtle fusion of almost all the world's musical traditions. Alternative and symphonic music, ethnics of northern Europe and the East, electronics and new age, seasoned with a contemporary sound - from these elements, according to Varvara, modern popular music should be formed. In this quest to find the perfect form of pop music that would sound organically in any language in any country in the world, Varvara really comes closest to the glove-changing Madonna. And in this sense, Barbara is a stranger among her colleagues in the pop scene. One of Madonna's critics recently defined the style of her latest album "Music" as "romantic techno-rock dance". It is common knowledge that Madonna is an acknowledged experimenter in the field of contemporary music. Varvara's musical experiments can lead to the fact that we will finally have high-quality popular music, with which it is not a shame to enter the world music markets. Varvara does not like to play with definitions, but for those who like to put "excise stamps" and "factory hallmarks" on the sound and voice, the definition was found: Varvara makes an intelligent alternative Euro-pop. With some caution, it can be added that in Russia it entered this promising road first.

The real name of Varvara is Elena Tutanova, her husband is Susova. She was born in Balashikha. I have been friends with music since childhood. When she was barely four years old, grandfather put little Alena (as the future singer was called by her relatives) at the accordion and began to play. Noticing his granddaughter's interest in music, discovering her hearing and voice, he took her to a music school. True, the girl did not like it there at first, but in order not to upset her parents, she continued to study. And then she did not even think that in the future she would connect her life with music, because she dreamed of a career as a fashion designer: she had the abilities and data for this. But the lessons at the music school were not in vain. Soon the girl forgot about sewing and became seriously interested in music. After graduating from school, she successfully entered the Gnessin School, after which, having received a red diploma, she continued her studies at GITIS with a degree in musical theater artist.

And then her creative career began. At first, Elena sang in restaurants, then, having signed a contract, she worked in the United Arab Emirates. Later, the singer thought about the creative pseudonym and. following the advice of Fyodor Bondarchuk, she chose the name of her grandmother - Varvara. Further in her biography was the theater of variety performances under the leadership of Lev Leshchenko, then she became his backing vocalist. But she dreamed of making her own career, dreaming of an intellectual euro-pop genre in which ethno music and pop melodies are organically intertwined.

In 2001 she recorded her first disc "Varvara", the compositions of which were successful. In 2002 she works with the famous Swedish studio Cosmo. It was then that the hit "It's Behind" was born. Glory and victories at various competitions and festivals came to the singer. In the early 2000s, she became a laureate of the Song of the Year competition three times. In 2010 she was awarded the title "Honored Artist of Russia", and a year later - the award "for the creative embodiment of the ideas of friendship between the peoples of Belarus and Russia"

During her solo career, Varvara recorded six albums and continues to work. She constantly tours across Russia and abroad, starring in music videos. And with all this, she skillfully combines her personal life, taking care of her beloved husband and children.

Favorite man of the singer Barbara

All that is known about the first marriage of the singer Varvara (nee Alena Tutanova) is that it was short-lived. Elena then managed to give birth to a son. And she worked hard to provide it.

The singer found her own family happiness, having married a second time.

Her chosen one was Mikhail Susov, an entrepreneur, first vice president of MTS. Varvara met him during a cruise on the Volga in 1999. They got married a year later. And a year later, they became the happy parents of a little daughter, who was given the name Varvara. In total, the Susov family has four children: the eldest son of Varvara, Yaroslav, two children from Mikhail's first marriage - Vasily and Sergei, and the common daughter Varya, who has already taken her first steps as a singer.

The spouse supports his beloved wife in everything, helps her in her creative career. In the field of marriage, the singer became more popular, and her videos appeared on the central channels (earlier she could be seen and heard only on MTV and MuzTV). Mikhail is a business man, he loves order in everything. And Varvara does everything to make the family nest they have built to be comfortable for all family members. It should be noted that she skillfully combines work and housekeeping. Currently, Mikhail and Elena Susovs spend most of their time at their dacha, located 500 km from Moscow. Here they breed chickens and cows, make cheese themselves (Mikhail brought sourdough for it from Switzerland), pick berries, make preparations for the winter, bake bread.

For the sake of family happiness, Varvara, in love with her profession, can change her plans, reschedule affairs, postpone concerts.

The success of the singer, the happy moments of her life can be followed by her photos posted on her personal Instagram page, where you can also see pictures of her children.

Children of the singer Barbara

Varvara notes that family and children are her main happiness. For two with her husband, the spouses have four.

All children get along well with each other. Now the sons of Mikhail and Varvara are already adults, one has chosen the profession of a political scientist, two have decided to become economists.

In January 2013, the 22-year-old son of Varvara Yaroslav created his own family. His chosen one was a girl named Sophia, with whom Yaroslav had known since his school years. At the same time, a romance arose among young people, which ended in a wedding. The newlyweds celebrated the festive celebration in a restaurant where their relatives and friends, grandmothers, brothers Sergei and Vasily, sister Varvara, family friend Yuri Grymov, who came with his wife and daughter, and numerous relatives gathered.

Varvara, the youngest daughter of Elena and Mikhail, is trying on the role of a singer.

Varvara Vizbor is a Russian singer, the granddaughter of the sixties bard Yuri Vizbor. Her favorite genres are jazz and lounge, but she also enjoys reworking songs by her grandfather, adding personality and new sound to them. Together with rapper L'One, she recorded the song "Echo of Love" from the soundtrack for the second season of the series "Chernobyl. Exclusion Zone".

Childhood and adolescence

A native Muscovite Varvara Sergeevna Vizbor was born on February 18, 1986 in a creative, intelligent family. Varvara's grandfather is the famous poet-bard Yuri Vizbor, the grandmother is a talented poet and writer Ariadna Yakusheva.

Unfortunately, the girl was born a year after the death of her grandfather, but she met his work in early childhood. Parents bought a compilation disc containing his song "Night Road", which from the first chords sunk into Varya's soul. How surprised she was when her mother told me that it was grandfather's song!

I was very surprised, because in our family there was no cult of grandfather - for us he was an ordinary person, a father and a grandfather, a member of the family.

Since childhood, the girl was surrounded by a creative atmosphere, which could not but influence her worldview and future destiny. Representatives of the capital's bohemia often gathered in the house, sang, played music, recited poetry and staged impromptu performances. Parents instilled in her a good attitude towards people and the ability to communicate freely with a variety of people, and from her grandmother Varya inherited a sense of humor and an optimistic attitude towards life.

The girl's parents, Tatyana Vizbor and Sergey Lobikov, also people of creative professions, immediately discerned the artistic and musical abilities of their daughter and took her to a theater studio. Becoming a first grader, Varvara enrolled in the school choir "Red Carnation", in which she sang until graduation.

She studied in the middle and preferred to spend her free time not reading textbooks, but at the rehearsals of the choir or in the children's theater. With his brother Yuri, they often arranged home concerts: Yura played, and Varya sang songs from the repertoire of her beloved Alla Pugacheva. Also, the girl was engaged in drawing and macrame.

Barbara and Yuri Vizbor - You are my breath

After leaving school, Varya tried to enter VGIK, but did not pass the competition. Failure did not cool the ardor of the ambitious girl, and on the advice of Alexei Batalov, a year later, she submitted documents to the Shchukin school. This time, her efforts were rewarded: Varvara became a student at a prestigious theater university, which she successfully graduated in 2007.

Career

At first, she wanted to take up teaching, entered the magistracy, but soon got bored of the stage and the audience and got a job at the theater "School of Modern Play".

The atmosphere in the School of Contemporary Play depressed me. I had to somehow declare myself, become punchy, quirky ... But they say that I am a grandfather by nature, and he was neither punchy nor quirky.

After serving in it for two years, Vizbor moved to the Moscow Theater of Miniatures (Teatrium on Serpukhovka), where she was finally able to fully realize herself as an actress. But all the same, there was an inner feeling of dissatisfaction, which disappeared when she took the microphone and began to sing. Varvara intuitively felt that being a singer was her true vocation, and since 2013 she decided to devote herself entirely to her singing career.

While still a student, she began performing in clubs, where she met talented jazz musicians Sergei Khutas and Evgeny Borets. Soon the guys organized their own group “Vizbor V.S. Khutas ”, which existed for five years. The ensemble's repertoire consisted of original arrangements, whimsically combining elements of jazz, blues, traditional Russian motives and sacred music.

Evening Urgant. Varvara Vizbor - And the winter will be big

In 2015, their debut album "Strawberry" was released. The subsequent collections "Magic Fruit", "Mitten" and "Polyphony" Barbara recorded under her own name. They include both original works created by contemporary authors and songs of her legendary grandfather and grandmother in a new arrangement.

Varvara Vizbor - Lucy

In the summer of 2016, Vizbor performed at the large jazz festival "Usadba Jazz".

Barbarian Vizbor and the Voice Show

One of Yuri Vizbor's songs - "Winter" - she chose to perform at the "blind auditions" in the fourth season of the show "The Voice" (2015). Oddly enough, despite the heartfelt performance and impeccable vocals, none of the four mentors turned to her. Polina Gagarina admitted that she wanted to turn around, but the song "somehow ended quickly." “It's very nice, but there is only one song, and what will happen next? It is not clear what else you can show us, ”said Alexander Gradskiy. Basta and Grigory Leps also remained indifferent to Varvara's speech.

The girl was, to put it mildly, upset. But suddenly she received support from the audience of "Voice" from different parts of the country. The situation that developed during the blind auditions caused bewilderment and discontent, because the audience was completely delighted with the number of Varvara. The singer was very upset by the failure, however, the love and support of the fans of her talent, whose number increased dramatically after participating in the "Voice", gave the artist the strength to believe in herself again.

Personal life of Varvara Vizbor

Varvara carefully protects her personal space and hides information about her private life. It is known that she is happily married to her beloved man, whom she sees as the father of her future children.

L'One feat. Varvara Vizbor - Yakutyanochka

The singer also took part in the All Colors of Jazz ceremony, which took place on October 31, 2017 in Moscow.

Today Varvara could easily sing the main female part in any of the many musicals that take place on the stages of Moscow theaters. She graduated from Gnesinka, where her teacher was Matvey Osherovsky - the director of the acclaimed production of "Threepenny Opera" in Odessa. The eccentric genius repeatedly kicked out the artist, called her “Kolomna mile” and even threw his boots at her.

However, Varvara did not go to the operetta through no fault of his - she just wanted a "free flight", without directors and producers. Later, while working in Lev Leshchenko's theater of variety performances, she graduated from GITIS in absentia with a degree in musical theater. After leaving the theater, Varvara began her solo career.

In 2001, the company "NOX Music" released the artist's debut album, which was called "Varvara". Work on this disc continued throughout the year 2000. Most of the songs were written by unknown young authors, and only the name of Kim Breitburg - the main songwriter of Boris Moiseev - said something to the audience. Young musicians - multi-instrumentalists, united in one group, named after Varvara, took part in the recording of the disc.
It was then for the first time that the DJs of the leading radio stations thought: what style should this music be attributed to? There are echoes of all musical cultures - from Russian to Arabic; sounds of live instruments are combined here with electronic samples, tragic compositions invariably coexist with one hundred percent dance pop hits, and at the same time verses come to the fore!

The songs of the debut album, despite all their informal nature, enjoyed success with the audience: the title “Barbara”, “Butterfly”, “On the Edge” and “Fly Into the Light” truly bathed in the air. But the fact that in Nicole Claro's book "Madonna" one of the chapters was called "On the Edge" remained unnoticed - such subtle moments always pass by the attention of the audience.

In the summer of 2002, Varvara received an unexpected offer. The founder of the famous Swedish studio Cosmo (it was this company that "made" the last records of the group A-ha and Britney Spears) Norn Bjorn invited her to record several compositions with the Swedish symphony orchestra. Collaboration with the Swedes resulted in the song "It's Behind", in the style of the fashionable r? N? B. But the recording of the rest of the songs for the future album Varvara decided to continue in Russia. She believes that today Russian sound producers are capable of working at the European level.

Varvara travels in music as well as travels in life. In the United Arab Emirates, where she often comes with her family, she has already been offered to record an album of songs in Arabic. But in addition to the east, Barbara is also attracted by northern Europe, with its harsh sagas and Celtic legends, with the cold music of Enya and the salty smell of the ocean. Perhaps that is why the song "Two Sides of the Moon" from her second album, which is due out in February 2003, feels the Norman notes so much. “I am in love with the Europe of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. When I come to France and wander through the castles of the 16th century, I feel the Norman spirit that has been preserved within these walls. I get the feeling that I lived there: I iron the walls, and I want to shoot videos there ”.
Experiments with clips for songs are, perhaps, Varvara's main passion. “I always wanted to sing songs and shoot videos in which I could finally prove myself as a character actress,” says Varvara.

March 2003 will again become Varvara's month - the Ars-Records company released her second album, called Closer. Most of the compositions for it were recorded at the Brothers Grimm studio - it was in this company that arrangements and sound adequate to the ideas of the singer were found.

I did not immediately find my happiness. The artist's first early marriage was short. To feed her little son, Varvara (Elena Tutanova) was forced to leave for the United Arab Emirates at the age of 20. A few years later, the singer met businessman Mikhail Susov.

The couple not only raised Yaroslav - the son of Varvara, as well as two sons of Mikhail, but also acquired a joint child.

Now the daughter of the spouses Varvara is already taking her first steps in the vocal field. The 46-year-old singer values ​​her family and claims that the profession for her is in second place - after her husband and children. On October 8, Mikhail Susov turned 52 years old. Varvara posted a joint photo with her husband and wrote: "Happy birthday, my beloved man!"

The subscribers admired the spouses and joined in the congratulations: “He is terribly handsome with you! Happiness and eternal youth "," Please accept my congratulations from the bottom of my heart and wish you good health and great happiness "," Happy birthday to you! You even look like your husband ”,“ A very beautiful couple ”. Mikhail Susov also responded to the congratulations and wrote: "Thank you, Alyonushka!" (The spelling and punctuation of the authors have been preserved. - Ed.).

The eldest son of Varvara, Yaroslav, got married in 2013. The sons of Mikhail Susov, Vasily and Sergei, also grew up and became independent. Only the joint daughter Varvara lives with the spouses. The artist adheres to the principles of proper nutrition. In the morning, Varvara allows herself fermented milk products or porridge, and tries to have supper no later than six o'clock in the evening. If the early dinner did not work out, the singer is limited to a salad or a glass of kefir.