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Irina Saltykova: biography, personal life, photo
The singer, participant of the show “Without insurance” invited “Antenna” to her country house, where she moved from a Moscow apartment.
February 24 2016
– Eight years ago I bought a finished house and demolished almost all of it, – says Irina. – The foundations and walls were damp, everything of poor quality was scrapped, including the roof. This is where the skills I once got in a construction college came in handy. You can say that she herself did 90 percent of the work. I planned out where to lay out a garden on the site, where to place a garage, a separate house for my mother, I divided my own into three floors: the first – guest, the second – mine, and the third – Alice (daughter from marriage with singer Viktor Saltykov. – Approx. “Antenna” ). I am a practical person, and, as my friends say, the house turned out to be the same.
– Alice studied in France and Switzerland, dreamed of becoming an actress. But fate decreed otherwise, the daughter realized that her vocation was to be a singer. She is a real musician with an excellent vocal education, she can write songs and perform them 24 hours a day. I would have been tired for a long time in her place.
Alice has been living in London for eight and a half years. We often visit each other, call her ten times a day. When I was building the house, I decided that my daughter needed a separate floor with a kitchen, bathroom and children’s room. What if he will live here with his family? They say correctly: you don’t have to do anything in advance … Alice turned 28 in December, she is in no hurry to give me grandchildren. Once she said: “Mom, the groom will be when I myself take place as a person.” So I’m waiting, and I put a massage table in the nursery.
My daughter and I have recently changed roles a little. At some moments, the child is me, and she brings me up. Recently there was a creative crisis – I did not want to write songs at all, I just sat and did nothing. And then Alice says: “You have been riding your old mare for 20 years now, maybe it’s time to harness a new one?” She calls the hit “Gray Eyes” a mare. I took and wrote a song completely not in my musical style and said to perform it not in the way I was used to.
The experiment was successful. In the show “Without insurance” to Alice’s song “Follow me” they gave me a number. I think that the premiere of the composition on Channel One is a success! One of these days we will start working on the clip. Alice will also be filming. She also wrote the second song, but one that I was stunned. I ask her: “Will people understand the text for sure?” Answers: “They understand Zemfira.” I was always proud of Alice, she is a smart, well-read girl. I like that she is assertive, confident and casually became my music producer.
There was no true mutual love
– A person should feel happy alone. I think that I have succeeded in becoming self-sufficient. As a person has already taken place 180 times. My main task is not to find a man, but to live in harmony with myself. Yes, sometimes it happens that I miss the same Alice, the handsome prince. There are a lot of boyfriends around, but I’m not going to trade. I want to experience true love. Not the one where there is only one step to hatred, but the one that we love children, when there is never a place for hatred and regardless of anything. I didn’t have such mutual feelings … I used to do wrong, chose hooligans. When we become adults, wise, we begin to understand men. Now my ideal is, first of all, an educated person, and secondly, a well-mannered person. I’ll marry this one. But in order for a prince to appear in life, you need to be able to wait, which I do and hope in God. I don’t need a prince for nothing.
The length of the skirts has not changed in 20 years
– When I was invited to the project “Without insurance”, I asked my friends whether to agree or not. All as one said: “Go!” I thought: I’ll run away, if that. And then I was sucked in. I do not regret that I took the risk. Yes, the show is dangerous, but what an interesting one! It seems that I did not have such pumped-up legs even as a child. When I sent my daughter a video from the training, she was very surprised at her mother’s abilities, she answered: “Well, you give!” Now I dream of going in for sports professionally. I’m happy with myself. I live as before, wear the same short skirts, the same size as before. Didn’t do any plastic surgery, not even injections. Maybe a couple of facial wrinkles appeared on my forehead. So what? This is wisdom. Youth is not an achievement, but just a chance. I wouldn’t even want to go back to my 20s.