Kirkorov’s absence at the national award gala dinner caused rumors

On Friday, at the traditional gala dinner of the Victoria Music Awards, voting for the year was launched. We started together in an informal atmosphere and in an effort to find reasons for optimism. Some people even succeeded.

The company at the dinner, also according to tradition, was quite representative. An abundance of major musical functionaries and people’s favorites in a wide range from Yuri Antonov to Alexey Vorobyov. As has already been repeatedly noted, the atmosphere at such parties has recently lost a lot of carefreeness, but the opportunity to look into each other’s eyes and pose for photographers still functions as a magnet for many famous and not so famous industry figures.

Conversations about the current state of affairs were predictably dominated by contrasts. After cheerful program statements about the activity and creativity of local show business, as well as small talk filled with routine compliments turning into shameless flattery, saddened faces, sighs and remarks in the spirit of “well, you understand what’s going on” inevitably followed.

However, the ability to play optimist is the most difficult thing to take away from participants in the music process. Therefore, complaints about the shrunken concert market were replaced by smiles and cheerful reports about summer festivals, big tours, and the intention to write, perform and record new music. And the serious busyness of those gathered clearly hinted that there was still a demand for music, and the needs of the local public were very diverse.

The appearance of Russian romance diva Nina Shatskaya at the evening was not a very frequent appearance for the singer, and all because there are very few free days in her tour schedule. “Ever since I took control of all the tours, I am constantly invited somewhere,” said Nina, and judging by her good mood, this state of affairs does not bother the singer at all. By the way, in the bustle of the tour, Nina does not forget about creative experiments, one of which some time ago turned into a musical performance, where Nina Shatskaya and actress Olga Kabo combined the music and poetry of Anna Akhmatova. At the end of October the production will be presented again at the House of Music.

Close communication between the music establishment over drinks, snacks and pleasant jazz accompaniment unexpectedly resulted in the presentation of the new line-up of the Factory group. The girl band, which was rapidly approaching veteran status, had a reboot, and now only Irina Toneva remained in the trio from the previous lineup. She was accompanied by Valeria Devyatova, who replaced “Turetsky Soprano” with a more frivolous format, and Katya Moskaleva. There is a new song “Fool Love” and plans to remind everyone about the popular trio.

Yuri Antonov hardly needs to be reminded of himself. Recently, Yuri Mikhailovich’s health has been causing concern, but at the gala dinner he looked very cheerful and generously smiled at his colleagues and photographers. At the same table with the music legend was Taisiya Povaliy, who looked a little unusual in a black dress, however, even in an ascetic outfit she remains a bright person who is impossible not to recognize.

Anita Tsoi also chose a black outfit, but unlike Taisiya, she still diluted it with gold. Lately, the singer has not been a frequent guest in Moscow; society columnists probably missed her flashy appearances and greeted the pop diva like family. Anita, in turn, showed hearts to everyone. A little love now really won’t hurt anyone.

Yana Rudkovskaya, who never lost heart, showered hearts left and right. Having minimized her makeup (in order, apparently, to hint with the restraint of her face at not quite simple times), Yana for the party chose an outfit from a famous design house (however, Ms. Producer’s wardrobe most likely didn’t have any others lying around even on kitchen rags) in pastel colors in order to contrast with modest makeup to still emphasize an invariably optimistic mood and positive attitude.

The hint is more than salient against the backdrop of alarming news about the health of her former ward, and now sovereign partner, Dima Bilan. Yana only lamented: “I told him a long time ago that health is not something to joke about, it is not necessary to heal sores, but to cure them. Moreover, bronchitis is not something to joke about. This all lasted for more than six months. But he was torn and torn to pieces, and in this sense he is very responsive and responsible. It’s rare that he can refuse. The point is not that you can earn all the money in the world, but how can you refuse if respected people invite you to one important event, then to another? So he refused until now! Even now – he is undergoing treatment, which is so important, but on television they don’t want to know anything, there, you know, there are shootings that cannot be cancelled. They demand either the living or the dead…”

However, Ms. Producer assured that the artist himself finally understood how important it is to take care of health, and he intends to seriously reconsider his former frivolity in this matter. Bilan, of course, was not at the party, although many society reporters for some reason hoped for this exciting rendezvous.

It seems that for the first time, Philip Kirkorov also missed an event that was previously obligatory in his media schedule. People whispered in bewilderment: “What, Fili isn’t here?” and were very upset. Many people suffer from looking at the king of pop renewed by plastic surgery and even touching it, if they’re lucky. However, suspicions arose that the King of Pop did not show up for such an important institutional gathering for himself and the entire show business for a reason. They say that, no longer able to contain his passion for the endless biosurgical modulation of perfection, he again lay under the surgeon’s knife and is about to reveal himself as no one expects to see him. The artist himself recently hinted: “We’ll do something here that no one can even imagine!”

In general, the party ended not only with total narcissism and universal love, despite total sadness, but also with the expectation of some kind of tectonic outcome…