The first wife of Konstantin Meladze after her husband left

Let's hide our tears from strangers: ex-wife, children and haters in the life of Valery Meladze

Valery Meladze // Photo: Legion-Media

Every second song by Valery Meladze became a hit. A strong voice, charisma and charm made the artist a star. Since the 90s, listeners have not ceased to admire the talent of the performer of the compositions “Sera”, “Tequila Love”, “Beautiful”.

But if everything went smoothly in Meladze’s work, then on the love front he was faced with ups and downs. The real test for the musician was the breakup with his first wife. For many years, the artist did not dare to divorce, but his feelings for Albina Dzhanabaeva turned out to be stronger, and the secret affair led to the creation of a new family.

Now fans admire the harmonious union of artists: the lovers are raising two sons and managing to build a career. In addition, Valery managed to maintain good relations with his ex-wife and daughters. On June 23, loved ones congratulate the singer on his 55th birthday, and we remember his difficult path to success and personal happiness.

NATURAL TALENT

Valery Meladze with his parents // Photo: Instagram

Valery Meladze was born in a small village near Batumi. Two generations of the future artist’s family worked as engineers and were not associated with art, but they loved to sing. Both Valery and his brother Konstantin showed an aptitude for music from childhood. The boys learned to play the piano together.

Valery Meladze showed his parents for the first time. PHOTO

Dad played a huge role in the brothers’ lives. My parent had a good tradition: getting together with friends and singing. He could perform his favorite composition even on the street, without being embarrassed by the people around him. However, the sons did not immediately appreciate their father's enthusiasm.

“My brother and I were so uncomfortable, we were still small and stupid. They told him: “Dad, why are you singing, they’ll think we’re crazy!” — Valery shared in the MaximMaxim program.

Valery and Konstantin Meladze began their musical careers together // Photo: Legion-Media

As a child, Valery was interested in football, wrestling and swimming. The future artist was the leader of the company, often getting into dangerous situations due to his passion for adventure: he climbed into closed areas of factories, construction sites, and ships. After graduating from school, the graduate worked as a telephone operator, but quickly realized that his fate awaited him far beyond Batumi. Meladze followed in his brother’s footsteps and went to Ukraine, where he entered the Nikolaev Shipbuilding Institute.

Valery's life changed when, together with his older brother, he took up amateur artistic activities at the university. Aspiring musicians were accepted into the April ensemble. A few months later the team became popular outside of Nikolaev. The future pop performer tried himself as a rocker, performing with the group “Dialogue”. Even then, the author of most of the performer’s songs was Konstantin Meladze.

In the early 90s, Valery made his solo debut as part of the Starry Evening concert. And the first hit, which Meladze’s fans still adore, was the composition “Don’t disturb my soul, violin.” Producer Evgeny Fridlyand noticed the talented artist and offered him a contract.

At the end of 1993, the singer performed in “Christmas Meetings” by Alla Pugacheva, and then everything went like clockwork: “Sir’s” first album, which became the best-selling album in the country, hits “Samba of the White Moth”, “Beautiful”, “Light a Fire” . Each new track by the artist became popular. In show business they started talking about the “phenomenon” of Valery Meladze, incomparable to any vocalist of that time. He filled the halls of the Olympic Stadium, but this was only the beginning of the performer’s journey.

FIRST LOVE AND FIRST LOSS

Valery Meladze married Irina after graduation // Photo: Legion-Media

Valery never suffered from a lack of attention from the opposite sex. But the artist began a serious relationship while studying at the university. He was in his third year when he met Irina Malukhina. After graduation, the couple played a modest wedding. The lovers were happy to learn that Irina was expecting a child.

The expectant mother felt great, but shortly before giving birth she woke up with a fever. Considering the pills harmful, Irina did not take antipyretics and went to the hospital on foot. She had to endure all further horrors alone, because her husband was recording an album in another city.

“I was alone in the hospital. Howled like a beluga. Then the baby was born and was immediately taken to intensive care,” Malukhina said in the “Human Fate” program.

Valery Meladze’s second daughter Sophia is considered a copy of her father // Photo: Instagram

Irina never once held the baby in her arms. Only later did she find out that the boy had been suffering from terrible convulsions for five days. The singer’s wife did not lose hope for the child’s recovery, but 10 days later he died. With a heavy heart, Valery returned home after the recording and buried his son.

The ex-wife of Valery Meladze spoke for the first time about the loss of her son

The couple did not despair and firmly decided to start a big family. Fortunately, Irina soon became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter, Inga. When Meladze was already at the peak of his popularity, Sophia was born in 1999, and Arina in 2002. The artist had everything: a house, a loving wife, three heiresses. But this was not enough.

A BIG SECRET

A new round of Valery Meladze’s career was associated with collaboration with the VIA Gra group. Together, the artists presented the listeners with the compositions “Ocean and Three Rivers” and “There is No More Gravity.” Viewers still remember the “golden cast” of the team: Vera Brezhneva, Anna Sedokova and Nadezhda Granovskaya. But Meladze’s fate was radically changed by another soloist.

Having his own team of assistants, Valery performed with backing vocalists. One of them was a graduate of the Gnessin School Albina Dzhanabaeva. The talented and promising singer received an invitation to work at VIA Gre, but did not accept it immediately: in 2004 she gave birth to her son Konstantin and went on maternity leave. Meladze’s wife also congratulated Albina on the joyful event, thinking that the boy was born from a certain musician. But even then Irina felt that her husband’s behavior had changed, he became detached, and often stayed late after concerts.

Ex-wife of Valery Meladze: “If he had returned at first, I would have forgiven”

Valery could not immediately admit to his wife that he sincerely fell in love with Dzhanabaeva. The singer conquered him, and there was no turning back. Kostya became the couple’s first common child. Irina learned about her husband’s infidelity much later.

“I felt that something bad was happening two years before the final breakup. Valera refused to talk, although I tried to find out the reason for the change in his behavior. And one day he simply lost his temper and told everything, but did not mention her name,” Malukhina admitted in the “Fate of a Man” program.

Irina did not think that Valery Meladze would create a new family with Albina Dzhanabaeva // Photo: Instagram

What I heard came as a shock to Irina. Later, she learned from a friend that Meladze’s new chosen one was Albina Dzhanabaeva. “Of course, I knew Albina, but I couldn’t even imagine that she already had a son from Valera,” Malukhina shared.

At first, there was no talk of divorce, because the couple wanted to save the family for the sake of their daughters. But such a life was unbearable for all sides of the love triangle. For several years, Valery was torn between two families. “It was incredibly difficult for Irina, and for Albina too. This is actually true! It would seem that one has lost, the other seems to have gained. But it was hard for both of them. These seven years were a test for both that family and this one,” Valery Meladze later recalled.

NO FUSS

At first, Valery Meladze and Albina Dzhanabaeva did not appear in public, but now they are happy to go out together // Photo: Legion-Media

Only in 2014, Valery Meladze officially divorced and was able to talk openly about his relationship with Albina. The singer was absolutely happy. Haters still blame the artist for abandoning his family, but in fact, the vocalist never refused to help the heiresses and maintained communication with them. Two years ago, he led his eldest daughter Inga to the altar, becoming one of the main guests at a luxurious celebration.

Valeria Meladze's daughter separated from her husband

Irina had difficulty establishing contact with her ex-husband, but she stepped over herself for the sake of the children. Now Malukhina is grateful to her ex-husband for the trials through which she came to religion and self-improvement. The daughters often spend time with their dad and are friends with their brothers.

“The girls recently met their brother, Valera’s son. I saw that this was a sore subject for him, that he needed it. That's why we sat down and talked. So, my daughters communicate with their brother,” the singer’s ex-wife said in the program “The Fate of a Man” in early June.

Valery Meladze often sees his daughters // Photo: Instagram

Albina Dzhanabaeva and Valery Meladze have been together for a long time, but are still madly in love with each other. They have experienced the condemnation of others and carefully keep their feelings from strangers, talking little about their family and children. Thus, artists still do not publish pictures on microblogs where the faces of their grown-up sons are clearly visible. Valery is always ready to stand up for loved ones and protect them from attacks from haters. “I fell in love with Albina many years ago and did everything to make her fall in love with me. My daughters are not deprived of my love. I adore them and take care of them as if they were my dearest people! Albina and I have two sons, of whom I am proud,” Meladze explained on the Internet.

Albina Dzhanabaeva about Valery Meladze’s divorce: “I’m tired of reading fantastic versions”

Valery Meladze found inspiration when he began to live with Albina. With enviable regularity, the artist releases heartfelt songs and beautiful videos. The musician shares his wealth of experience with aspiring performers. So, Valery was a mentor several times in the show “The Voice.Children”.

To date, Meladze has achieved success in all areas of life. The Honored Artist of Russia, however, does not intend to stop there. Development and progress are important for a singer. In the future, the performer plans to record many more compositions, and, perhaps, become a dad again - Albina Dzhanabaeva dreams of a daughter.

Based on materials from “7 Days”.

Why Meladze can’t leave his wife gracefully

According to Otar Kushanashvili, Valery is commanded by Albina Dzhanabaeva

A very strange situation has developed around the divorce proceedings of Valery MELADZE and the mother of his three daughters, Irina, with whom he lived for a quarter of a century. At the end of October, press secretary of the Kuntsevsky Court of Moscow, Tatyana DANSHOVA, told reporters that the singer had filed a claim for divorce the World Court This unexpectedly outraged his lawyer Shota GORGADZE. “I repeated to the judge and court staff a hundred times that leaks to the media are undesirable,” he wrote on Twitter. “They still “sold the news” for a couple of thousand.” And a few days later, Irina MELADZE told Komsomolskaya Pravda that she learned about Valery’s appeal to the court only from the press. She was surprised by the statements contained in his lawsuit that she agreed to the divorce and had no disagreements with him regarding the division of property and raising children.

Many involuntarily got the impression that the singer, for some reason, wanted not to notify his wife about the trial and to divorce unilaterally, without her presence. At one time, producer Joseph Prigozhin , planning to marry singer Valeria , similarly divorced his first wife Elena in absentia ( details ). Is it because Valery Meladze was so indignant that the publication of information about the divorce by the press prevented him from pulling off a similar combination?

— Do you think that issues of personal life should be discussed in the media? Shota Gorgadze answered the question with a question . - For example, I am against this, even if we are talking about public people. No one thought of hiding information about the process from the other side and resolving the issue unilaterally. There is a standard legal procedure. When a statement of claim is filed, the court summons the parties. How can one bypass one of the sides here? If there had been no leak from the Kuntsevo court, the other party would have learned about the trial not from the media, but would have received a summons, as provided by law. Yes, the law allows unilateral consideration of claims. The court takes all necessary measures to notify both parties. And if one of the parties does not appear, a default judgment is made. But this is not our story.

— Ira said that she learned about the divorce from the newspapers? — Valery Meladze’s former producer Evgeny Fridland . “I have a feeling of deja vu, as if I’ve heard it all before.” Valera has been living with Albina Dzhanabaeva .
Their child together will soon be ten years old! And Ira didn’t even know about his existence for the first four years. Although all show business was aware. Well, what can you do? As they say, love has passed, the tomatoes have wilted. Nevertheless, Ira is still trying to keep Valera. About a year and a half ago, I accidentally met her in a store. The conversation turned to her relationship with Meladze. “He’s not going anywhere from the family!” — Ira told me then. Even now she makes a fool of herself everywhere: they say, she didn’t know anything about the divorce, the press trumpeted it all. I think she knew everything perfectly well. Apparently, the problem is that they cannot divide the property. That Ira has her own business was said, most likely, for the sake of expression. It seems to me that she has no real business. Only Valera earns money. He invests them in business, in real estate. And, naturally, he needs to be free from any claims from his wife.

"Scum" and "creatures"

“The singer’s wife’s statements that she did not know about the divorce are from the evil one,” a longtime friend of the Meladze family, journalist Otar Kushanashvili, . “Everyone knew everything perfectly well for many, many years.” From the moment when the singer first met his current singer passion and struck a spark from two bodies. As far as I understand, she is such a person that she does not just sing eulogies to him, but commands him and supervises his entire life. It was immediately clear that his first family would fall apart. Apparently, this was discussed by the singer and his wife more than once. “Why wasn’t I warned about the divorce? I won’t get a divorce!” - these are all disgusting games of snickering people. The same thing happens with other characters from this world. Garik Kharlamov , when he got married for the first time, shouted: “With her, I found the meaning of life. I will never get divorced! And if I get divorced, let them cut off my reproductive organ!” And now he and his Yulia share property with a scandal and, because of money, a car and some portrait drawn by Nikas Safronov , they call each other “scum” and “creatures”.

I once had a good relationship with a singer who now wants to get a divorce. But they ended after my indignant note about him, Grigory Leps and Stas Mikhailov going to the State Duma with claims and threats against journalists. I wrote that the State Duma is full of its own fools and it is not good for artists to go there and get involved in a confrontation with those who raised them to the pinnacle of fame.

Otar Kushanashvili assures that then Leps and the “singer who is getting a divorce” called him to a cafe and made claims that, being of the same blood with them, he was betraying the brotherhood and acting on the side of journalists, and not at one with them.
“That day I was very cheerful and friendly to people - even idiots. But the vocabulary that attacked me and the expressions that were given to me left me no choice,” recalls Kushanashvili. — I left this meeting spat upon. And I said that I would not pronounce their names again. All their troubles stem from a greatly exaggerated opinion of the role of their own personality in history.

I could tell a lot about the family of the “singer who is getting divorced.” From the first day of his appearance in Moscow, when he arrived from the city of Nikolaev and had not yet entered into a contractual relationship with Fridland, I knew his unenviable position and saw how he and his wife overcame all adversities, troubles and sorrows. But then money appeared, many new temptations appeared, many new bodies, and people went crazy. That woman, who until recently was his wife and in fact still remains so, can serve as a walking illustration of the classic scheme: when it was hard, she was needed, and now - go to hell! True, there is no need to feel sorry for her. I think her financial situation is such that millions of women in my country will never experience such a luxurious lifestyle. And she obviously won’t go to the specified address empty-handed. Moreover, there is no need to feel sorry for her husband. Let him get divorced and remarry disgusting, arrogant and arrogant young ladies!

At the end of the conversation, Otar made a prediction:
“I think all the talk about divorce will only help the “singer who is getting a divorce.” Women will be even more eager to attend his concerts. “What an ungrateful wife he is! - they will say. - What a guy she was with, and now she’s going after him! How can he be dishonest? And the singer will go on stage and sing to the sound of their sobs: “Don’t worry, don’t worry, violin…” And in the eyes of the public, he will always win. Unfortunately, we have to admit that genius and villainy are still compatible.

The first wife of Konstantin Meladze after her husband left

Yana Summ and Konstantin Meladze began their relationship back in 1994; this year became significant for the couple, since it was then that they did not enter into an official marriage. The couple decided to get married after a rather short communication, and besides, they were still very young then... However, despite this, their relationship lasted more than ten years, but 2013 became fatal for them, since it was then that the couple decided to divorce.

Rumors appeared in the press about a romantic relationship connecting Valery and Vera Brezhneva, and two years later, Valery proposed to the singer. But we will still talk about how Meladze’s first wife Yana coped with the loss, how she was able to survive the divorce and what is currently happening in her personal life.

While the couple was married, they had three beautiful children: a boy, Valery, and two girls, Leah and Alice. At first glance, it seemed that with the advent of children, harmony had finally arrived in the family. However, this was only a beautiful façade, behind which was hidden the crumbling relationship between mom and dad, literally before our eyes. Constantine's regular infidelities were to blame.

After the breakdown of the relationship, Yana was left alone with three children. There was nowhere to wait for help, since their father left Russia, going to live in another country. And these were not the ordinary sufferings of an abandoned wife; Yana really needed support, because her son Valery has been diagnosed with autism since childhood. This is what prevents a woman from leaving her son for a long time, since due to his illness, the mother must always be with him.

Yana said that psychologically it was very difficult for her to part with Konstantin, but she is still grateful to her ex-husband for not hiding about his infidelities, but telling the whole truth as it is. Also in his 2019 interview, Konstantin admitted that the children still do not know the reason that prompted him to leave his family.

In order to recover at least a little from the blow inflicted by the person closest to her, Yana needed quite a long time. However, the girl found the strength to live on and soon found the consolation and support necessary at that time in the person of her ex-wife Valery Meladze.

And after a little more time, Yana met her future husband Oleg, with whom she found her female happiness. In her own way, she is grateful to Konstantin for leaving her, because otherwise she would never have met the best man of her life.

She tries not to advertise the details of family relationships; she likes a quiet, comfortable life, and time spent caring for loved ones. Although still married to Konstantin, Yana really liked the interest of journalists in her person, as well as public life.

For her 44 years, Yana looks pretty good. Her regular workouts in the gym and active lifestyle probably have an effect. The woman loves to travel with her family.

It is worth paying tribute to Konstantin Meladze, despite the fact that many years ago he left his family, he still tries to visit his children and provides them with various support. However, living in two countries, as well as a busy work schedule, does not allow us to do this as often as Konstantin would like.

Meladze brothers: Our children do not call us uncles

Konstantin and Valery Meladze talked about how much they have in common, how often they fight and how they raise their children.

I look at you and I can’t understand, they seem to be similar to each other, but they don’t seem to be. What do you think?

Konstantin Meladze : We were generally different in childhood. Valera is strong, I, on the contrary, am thin. And over the years we become more and more similar to each other, even outwardly, it seems to me that we have already become close.

Valery Meladze : I now find some traits in myself that I previously noticed only in Kostya. I’m thinking, did I take it off him or was it originally in me and just showed up later?

Konstantin Meladze : We simply complement each other, like two halves that, when they touch, turn into one whole, but of course we cannot say that we are absolutely the same. We at least have different temperaments: Valera is sociable, I am more reserved. But my brother’s job is like this, he is in constant contact with the audience, and I sit alone in the studio for years and talk to the clunkers. Because it's just the equipment and me. I rarely communicate with people. And he does it every day and with thousands.

Hence, perhaps, the difference in lifestyle? Which one of you, for example, is a morning person and which one is a night owl?

Konstantin Meladze : We are both early risers. True, Valera is sometimes forced to work at night. I always get up early and go to the studio, because after three o’clock in the afternoon I can’t think clearly.

Valery Meladze : Yes, I often have to go to bed late, but nevertheless I have never learned to get up late. That's why I often lack sleep.

Do you suffer from insomnia?

Konstantin Meladze : I don't sleep very well. Often you come home from work and it’s not always possible to immediately relax, music plays in your head, thoughts cannot stop, even when night falls. Then I need to watch a movie - it calms me down.

Valery Meladze : I also have trouble sleeping at night. Although Kostya and I have different thoughts, it seems to me. This is from our mother. She sometimes worries about things that did not exist and could not exist. It seems to her that she is trying to think ahead, but in reality she is just overthinking herself. Same with me.

Do you have the same tastes in music, cinema, films?

Konstantin Meladze : Very close. We grew up on the same music. And we started our careers together and then played covers of songs that we both liked. We are eighties. But now I listen to classics. I have speakers on the ceiling at home, and only symphonic music plays from them - but I don’t associate it with work. I don’t even listen to anything in the car, just news radio stations. Valera sometimes likes to turn it up to full blast at home. He has special equipment, and he listens to songs from the 80s on it.

As for films... Valera constantly recommends something to me, I watch it and understand that it is good.

It's more difficult with books. I read a lot from the age of 10 to 28. Strictly speaking, all the developments in the texts are based on the baggage that I absorbed in my youth. For example, Jack London had a crazy influence on me. I had the feeling that I was watching a 3D movie, I imagined everything that was happening in the faces and myself in their place, I was generally an impressionable child. Valera also read a lot, but mostly technical literature. Since childhood, he soldered things, repaired things, built radios, built airplanes, and went to an aircraft modeling club. My brother can now repair everything at home. In this way he took after his father. Valera is a jack of all trades, but I admit, I don’t like doing all this, I couldn’t stand it since childhood. Therefore, in my house other people do this work.

Valery Meladze : I was really interested in all this. But it’s worth noting that before I repaired a lot of things, I broke a lot of things. Now I am wary of modern technology, many things are not disassembled in principle, there are no bolts that can be unscrewed and tightened, and everything is held on by disposable rivets. So I don’t touch them again.

Valery, what are your responsibilities at home?

Valery Meladze : I can wash the dishes, household chores don’t bother me. If you want order and cleanliness, you must also take part in this. You know, I even learned to tidy up my hotel room before moving out. I hate leaving an unmade bed behind. I began to be careful with water and everything like that. Not because there is little of it left on earth, but because a person should not consume more than he should. When your towels are changed twice a day, this is of no use. We don’t do this so often at home. Therefore, at the hotel I once again ask the cleaning lady not to worry. And I often run into my children when, for example, they pour out all the shampoo in a hotel for the sake of bubbles. It seems like a small thing, but this is where it all begins. It’s not a question of saving; Kostya and I have always treated money lightly, but of respect for other people’s work. Children must understand that there are other people living around who could use this thing. Thank God they are slowly learning it.

How often do you manage to spend time together?

Valery Meladze : I wanted to believe that with age we would have more free time to spend with each other. But Kostya and I don’t know how not to work. Workaholism is probably a kind of disorder and shouldn’t be boasted about. However, the fact remains: we call each other every day, but we rarely manage to see each other, even if we meet, we are all on the run, always in a hurry to get somewhere.

Konstantin Meladze : Our schedules do not coincide: Valera is on tour, I am sitting in the studio. He always works on New Year’s Day, too, so you won’t see him much then either. The only opportunity to quietly spend quite a long time together is on the “New Wave”. Previously it was in Jurmala, now in Sochi.

Valery Meladze : And then the first half of the day is always free for us, so we go to the sea, walk, chat for hours.

Konstantin Meladze : When the two of us get together, we don’t sit still. During the five days spent in Sochi in September, we traveled all around. Let's make the most of our time. Because, we know, we’ll disperse, and that’s it, we’ll work hard until the summer.

Konstantin, do you prefer a more passive holiday? Is it Valery who energizes you like that?

Konstantin Meladze : No. When my family and I go to Italy for a month, I also try to walk 2-3 hours a day, swim either in the sea or in the pool - if you lie on the couch all the time, there is a risk of returning twice as fat as you came. Especially in the evening you are drawn to the table, to sit down so thoroughly, to chat, to eat well. And at our age this is fraught. If you don't take care of yourself, it's easy to turn into a hippopotamus. Especially on Italian food.

Konstantin, you didn’t like to travel far before. Brother's merit?

Konstantin Meladze : More like my wife, who instilled in me a love of travel. The first country that captivated me was Italy. Now I feel at home there. I’m even trying to learn Italian, because I spend a lot of time in this country.

Valery Meladze : Kotka...

Excuse me, what did you name your brother?

Valery Meladze : Kotka. I imagine that from the outside it sounds funny, an adult guy and some kind of almost cat. But I’ve been calling my brother that since childhood... So, I also think that I had a hand in this. I remember once I managed to persuade my brother to go on a joint trip to Europe. And we galloped, in a car, drove almost all of it. In the evening we arrived in one city, spent the night and morning there, and at about 11 o’clock we left for the next one to see as much as possible. It was great. If only they could throw away their phones to hell... Otherwise Kostya is constantly at work. It’s the singer who can go on stage, perform a concert and switch off, but Kostya is the creator, and this is a round-the-clock process.

Is there a new song playing in your head?

Konstantin Meladze : Every year it becomes more and more difficult, we have been making music for 30 years. And intensely. Naturally, during this time both my head and my soul got a little tired. And in order for inspiration to come, you need to have a young soul, not calloused, so that it reacts to certain things. Because if music sounds inside me, it sounds very quiet. It needs to be heard through all the noise. Inspiration is comparable to calm, when there is such peace inside and suddenly sounds are heard somewhere in the distance, and then I run to the keys or start humming excerpts into the phone... I try to mobilize myself and find some kind of state in which music is still written. I can’t and don’t want to imagine what else I should do if not music. It just varies, and I don’t write only songs all the time, but I also work in other genres. For example, he wrote music for the ballet “The Great Gatsby”, the film “Hipsters”, and the TV series “The Thaw”.

You are both fathers of many children. Do you consult with each other about raising children?

Valery Meladze : We tell each other about children, show photos, share some interesting moments, if the child said or did something, we rejoice at successes, but we never talk specifically about upbringing...

Konstantin Meladze : Because our main message is to love children and allow them everything. Usually mothers restrain them and teach them something. And, unfortunately, I don’t have the opportunity to see them every day, so when we meet, naturally, I don’t educate them, but just enjoy communication, we go to the cinema, go shopping, chat. My children have practically no restrictions, but they are so delicate that they never ask for anything. Amazing people. I myself try to predict their desires.

Konstantin, Valeria's daughter Inga graduated from Oxford University. Will your children also study abroad?

Konstantin Meladze : We haven’t looked that far yet. They study at an English school in Kyiv, they study normally, better than Valera and I, definitely. It’s like this with languages... I speak Russian well, I studied English at school, then switched to German, so I don’t really know either one or the other. My children think in English, and this is a completely different matter.

Valery Meladze : Unfortunately, I also cannot speak English fluently. Although I have good hearing and quickly pick up key phrases, I lack in-depth knowledge. The children know Russian well, are practically unfamiliar with Georgian, are fluent in English and are learning one more foreign language. I would like them to feel free anywhere in the world. Kostya and I don’t send them to English schools so that they can end up going somewhere else. I've just always admired people who speak multiple languages.

Which of you are uncles?

Valery Meladze : I’m very good. I try not to spoil Kostya’s children, but I might even make a remark. And he behaves the same way with mine. By the way, Kostya is the godfather of my eldest daughter Inga. And I am Kostya’s son Valerchik. Children call us by name, they no longer have these prefixes “aunt”, “uncle”, but Kostya and I still call our mother’s sister aunt, although we are already very grown guys.

Konstantin Meladze : Unfortunately, our children do not meet as often as we would like. Because mine live in Kyiv, Valerina’s live in Moscow. We try to gather at the big table in full force only for mom and dad’s birthday.

Valery Meladze : Have you noticed that Liechka is more like me in character and how well she sings? And my Kostya, as friends say, is more like his brother than like me.

Admit it, have you ever had a big fight?

Konstantin Meladze : If we have any disagreements, it is only in work. For example, I’m writing another song for Valera, but he doesn’t like something and asks me to redo it. But this is difficult for me, because the composition is built in a certain way in my head and changing anything in it is problematic. More often than not, I just throw it away and write a new one. But I always listen to Valera, he must try the song on himself, adapt it and sing in the first person. And when he doesn’t feel it, he says directly: “This is not my song.”

Valery Meladze : I'm afraid not quite so. You have now so delicately lowered the other side of the coin. Of course, sometimes Kostya changes some things, but when we record in the studio, he can insist on his own, put a little pressure, demand something that I can’t do at the moment, and I start trying. Because he feels what emotions should be conveyed in the song. I can’t always recognize them right away. And I understand that the moment is inevitable when my brother will demand my full inclusion and attention. You know, as I get older, I worry more and more before going into the studio. Previously, everything worked out just once or twice. Now we have to strain ourselves more... In general, you understand, we sort things out only because of work. Sooner or later we still come to a compromise - either I succeed the way Kostya wants, or he understands that my option will also work. So all disagreements remain in the studio, they come out and are forgotten. It was we who sometimes fought as children, my mother worried. And when they grew up, they began to appreciate each other.

How strong is the mental connection between you, do you feel each other at a distance?

Konstantin Meladze : It seems to me that it has already been brought to the absolute level. We have been doing the same thing for so many years that we have become a single mechanism. And given that we have good hearing, we can understand by intonation how each other is doing. From the first words I recognize what mood Valera is in.

Valery Meladze : Look: they even dressed the same today, without saying a word! They both chose a blue shirt and white shorts.

Konstantin Meladze : Valera has always been handsome, he has amazing taste, and has dressed stylishly since childhood. When I was at school, I altered my own pants and shirts. Sometimes it happened to me too. My brother sewed my trousers and immediately looked like an Italian. And I don’t know how to dress myself. I can see others - my artists, artists, but I don’t see myself from the outside and therefore I can’t understand what is needed, I put on whatever I can find. But now control has been taken over me. If it weren’t for my wife, I would still be wearing just a T-shirt. Previously, it happened that I wore the same thing for 5-7 years. I had a set of my favorite T-shirts and two or three pairs of baggy jeans, and I couldn’t get out of them.

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Valery Meladze : Reliability. When I come to Kostya’s house, I feel absolutely calm. On some subconscious level. It just feels like I'm with my older brother. Even when we are in different cities, I think about him, ask myself if he slept and ate normally. And he is exactly the same. You know, there’s never a flight without me turning on my phone and seeing an SMS from Kostya: “Have you landed? Everything is fine?" And this takes into account how often we fly.

Konstantin Meladze : That's true. Wherever we go, we make sure to call each other or write a message.

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A storm struck the family well-being of one of the most charismatic Russian performers three years ago. Even then, Irina, who had shared her husband’s work for 15 years, began to openly tell her friends that she no longer intended to be single, being officially married. The love of Valery and Irina crashed due to the endless absence of the chart star from touring.

Meladze lived in a happy marriage for 18 years.
For several years, Valery Meladze managed to cleverly hide his personal life from strangers - not everyone has such a skill in show business. But the time has come when the artist finally admitted that not everything is really as smooth as it is said in official interviews. For example, recently at a concert in Voronezh, Valery said that “he is a good father, but his husband is useless.” Meladze frankly explained: the main blow to the family idyll was the evening when he told his wife about his infidelities.

“There were difficulties and scandals,” says Meladze. — When we moved to Moscow, my wife had no friends or acquaintances here. And it seemed to Ira that I was abandoning her every time I went to work. I came home exhausted, and my wife greeted me with complaints. We were arguing.

However, even after the Meladze family settled in the new city, relations between the spouses did not improve at all.

“They had situations many times when they were about to file for divorce,” Meladze’s friends share. — Valera and Ira went through a lot of difficulties together. When he was just starting his creative activity and was not famous, everything was fine with them. But as soon as Valera earned a name, the marriage began to burst at the seams.

As LIFE.RU learned, the singer has been feeling comfortable in a separate apartment in Moscow for some time now. He often sees his beloved children: Valery, as a rule, comes to their home, and they go together to visit their grandparents. Sometimes the singer surprises his girls: he takes them to a restaurant or just for a walk.

But the time for family holidays, alas, has passed. The days marked in red on the calendar are inextricably linked with work for Meladze, and Irina, in the absence of her husband, prefers to stay at home with the children.

“Valera usually celebrates holidays separately from Irina,” friends of the star family admitted. “She can go with the children to her or Valerina’s parents. Meladze does the same. Only, if before they did everything together, now each of them has been living their own lives for a long time. It’s very sad to see such a strong family crumble before our eyes. After all, they were happy!.. Until the moment he left the family, Valera had situations when he needed time to be alone, away from Irina. But later it became a habit.