Danilko, Andrei Mikhailovich

Andrei Mikhailovich Danilko was born on October 2, 1973 in Poltava . Father - Mikhail Semenovich Danilko (died in 1980) - a driver, abused alcohol, died of lung cancer when Andrei was seven years old. ^[3] Mother - Svetlana Ivanovna Volkova (born 1937) - painter, factory worker. ^[3] Elder sister - Galina Grishko (b. 1963 ) from the mother’s first marriage; her husband is an asphalt paver , has a son, Andrei’s nephew. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]} .

In 1984 he entered the art school ^[3] , was the captain of the KVN school team and still played as a student for the KVN team of vocational school No. 30 ^{[5] [7]} , performed on the stage every year in the summer children's camp, studied at the Grotesque theater studio, where Verka Serduchka was born, Toto Cutugno collected albums. ^[8]

At school I became interested in the group “ Tender May ” and wanted to become its soloist, mastered musical notation and learned to play musical instruments, came to Moscow, was at Andrei Razin’s house, made friends with his wife and mother-in-law Fatima Zaurbekovna, Razin was on tour and more about that found out 12 years later, and when Raskin spoke affectionately in Poltava, he accidentally gave an interview to then-unknown Andrei Danilko, Andrei took a certificate from a journalist friend. ^{[8] [9]}

In 1991 he graduated from high school number 27 of the city of Poltava.

After graduating from school, he tried to enter the Poltava Music College named after N.V. Lysenko, but did not pass the competition, submitted documents to the Poltava Pedagogical Institute , but did not pass Ukrainian literature, so he ended up in vocational school No. 30 (reorganized), received the specialty of “cashier-seller of food products”. ^[5]

After vocational school I tried to enter the music school 2 times, but unsuccessfully, he graduated from the school of artist-designers. ^[5]

In 1995, Andrei Danilko entered the Kiev Circus Variety School in the department of colloquial genre, but he studied there for only a year and a half out of four, and left the circus school. ^[5]

In 1997, he entered the Kiev Institute of Culture and Arts , specializing in “stage director of mass entertainment”, he was expelled in the fourth year due to the failure of two sessions. ^[5]

Creativity

1990s

Galina Dmitrievna Kharchenko, former director of the former SPTU N 30, said that in April 1992, at the regional amateur art competition of vocational schools, Andrey went out in the guise of a saleswoman in a white coat with eighth-size breasts and a white kokoshnik , and copied the speech and manners of the store saleswoman located in the center Poltava, he wrote a soliloquy himself, at the end announced: “Andrey Danilko was speaking, SPTU No. 30!” Everyone was surprised, they thought that she was a girl, SPTU No. 30 took third place, and she came up with her saleswoman at school. In vocational school he was the captain of the KVN team. ^[7]

SPTU N 30 graduated with a red diploma and “mother” Verka Serdyuchka, Inna Eremenko (Belokon) arrived a year earlier, together they went to the city theater-studio “Grotesque” and performed in amateur performances. ^[7]

In the early repertoire of Andrei Danilko, there were also male images: Peter from Natalka Poltavka , a local policeman, parodyed Vadim Kozachenko , the soloist of the Poltava band Freestyle , was friends and performed with the late Sergey Mokhnachev, who parodied Alla Pugachev and I also they had joint numbers. ^{[7] [10]}

On April 1, 1993, at the Humorin in Poltava, Andrei first demonstrated to the general public the image of Verka Serduchka. In the same year he received the first prize of the Kursk Anomaly contest for best acting and with the number “Conductor” became the winner of the All-Mixed contest in Kiev ^[11] . Exactly one year later, on April 1, 1994 , he won the Humorina Grand Prix in Kharkov, and soon made his television debut (Cheese program at the Privat TV Kharkov studio). In March 1995, he received a grand prix at the competition of young performers of the international festival “Sea of ​​laughter”.

On April 1, 1995, a miniature of Danilko was shown at the “Day of Laughter” in Kiev. This year he entered the circus variety school to the department of colloquial genre. In the summer of 1995, he starred in an advertisement for Privat-Bank in the image of Verka Serduchka. At the end of the year, he took part in the Vybryki program.

In 1996, he began working with music producer Yuri Nikitin and the Ukrainian record company Mamamusic . In 1997, the first song was released - “Just Faith”.

Since November 1997, he has been the host of the SV-show program on the Ukrainian TV channel 1 + 1 (in the image of Verka Serdyuchka). December 13, 1997, the concert "Christmas meetings of Verka Serduchka" was held in the national palace "Ukraine". In the spring of 1998, the program switched to TV-6 , and later to STS .

In 1998 and 1999, two music videos were released by Verka Serduchka for the songs “By a little bit” and “Controller”.

In May-June 1999, ten premiere performances of the Titanic or the Floating Country were held in the halls of Kiev theaters - at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater and the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Russian Drama Theater -. From this moment, Andrei Danilko's active tour in Russia and the CIS countries begins, his performances are accompanied by increased interest from the public and the media.

2000s

In May 2000, for his role in the Dirol advertising campaign, Danilko was awarded the Black Pearl National Award in the Best Television Advertising nomination. In the fall of 2000, he received the Arkady Raikin Cup at the "Cup of Humor" festival. From April 18 to April 22, 2000, five concerts of the new show program "I am the Revolution" took place at the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama; in the same year he became the host of the program “Come on, get up!” on the “Gala Radio”.

Received four Golden Gramophone for the song “ I did not understand ” (2003); “Groom wanted” (duet with Glucose , 2004); “Knock-knock-knock” (2005); Dolce Gabbana (2011). The album “HA-RA-SHO!” Won the Muz-TV Prizes as the best album of 2004.

For several years he starred in seven films - “ Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka ” (2002), “ Cinderella ” (2002), “ Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro ” (2003), “The Snow Queen ” (2003), “ For Two Hares” ”(2004),“ Sorochinskaya Fair ”(2005),“ Three Musketeers ”(2005); in 2006 he starred in the films First Ambulance , Adventures of Verka Serduchka and releases the album Trali-vali.

In 2005 he released the instrumental album "After You ..." with compositions for the piano, acting as a composer.

In 2007, he performed at the Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki with the song " Dancing Lasha Tumbai ", taking second place. Then he released the album "Doremi doredo", which included eleven tracks. In 2008 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of Ukraine. In 2009, he wrote the music for the tragicomedy "The Fun ".

2010s

In 2010, she starred in the role of stepmother in the New Year's musical "Frost".

In 2011, he received another Golden Gramophone award for the dance hit Dolce Gabbana. In the same year, starred in the film-tale "New Adventures of Aladdin."

In 2012, he starred in the musical Little Red Riding Hood. In the same year, in the guise of Verka Serduchka, he led the program “Saturday Night” on the TV channel “ Russia-1 ”.

In 2014, in the image of Verka Serduchka starred in the film " Spy ". At the end of 2014 he gave a concert at the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin as part of the World & Peace Tour, since then there have been rumors about living in Berlin ^[12] , however, the artist’s official Facebook page says that Danilko lives in Kiev, leaving him just leaving on tour. On May 14, 2016 he announced the results of the Eurovision vote from Ukraine .

For the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 , organized in Ukraine, a series of short video clips entitled “Verkavision” ^{[13] was released} , which tells a fictional story about the character of Verka Serduchka and her journey as a Eurovision star. Verka also appears on stage during the finale and opens a televoting.

On June 28, 2017 in Kiev, as part of the Atlas Weekend Festival, a concert was held dedicated to the return of Serdyuchka to the big stage of the CIS.

On July 12, 2018, Andrei Danilko announced that he was ceasing to act as Verka Serduchka. The last performance before the farewell tour took place on July 13 in Odessa . Further, the artist plans to arrange a series of performances in Ukrainian cities ^[14] . The information was later refuted by the artist’s manager.

May 18, 2019 in the Eurovision finals took part as a guest star, re-singing the song of last year's winner of the Netta contest - "Toy".

Not married, no children. First love in first grade, the girl Lena herself accompanied him home, even carried a briefcase. ^[8] According to her mother, she met with Radmila Schegoleva (Gelya on the SV show), she let Andrei down, left the concert in Sochi, he fired her, she again asked for his team, but he didn’t take her. ^[fifteen]

Verka Serduchka's albums

• 1998 - I was born for love
• 2001 - Pie
• 2002 - Unreleased
• 2003 - Ha-ra-sho!
• 2003 - Chita Drita
• 2004 - Chita Drita (reissue)
• 2004 - The bridegroom wanted. Unpublished
• 2006 - Trali-vali (released in three editions on CD and a / c, the albums differed in the color of the cover and the country of the publisher)
• 2007 - Dancing Europe
• 2008 - Doremi doredo
• 2008 - The Best
• 2015 - HydroPark
• 2017 - Everything will be fine (The Best of Verka Serduchka)

Andrey Danilko Albums

• 2005 - “After You” (instrumental album; published by A. Danilko under his real name)

• 2000 - Arkady Raikin Cup at the MORE SMEHA Cup of Humor Festival ^[16]
• 2003 - the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine ^[17]
• 2003 - “ Golden Gramophone ” for the song “I did not understand” ^{[18] [19]} .
• 2004 - “The Golden Gramophone ” for the duet with Glukoza “The bridegroom wanted” ^{[19] [20]} .
• 2004 - “ Muz-TV Award” for the album “Ha-ra-sho” ^{[21] [22]} .
• 2005 - “ Golden Gramophone ” for the song “Knock knock knock” ^{[19] [23]} .
• 2007 - “ ZD Awards ” in the nomination “Person of the Year” ^[24] .
• 2008 - title of People's Artist of Ukraine . ^[16]
• 2011 - “ Golden Gramophone ” for the song “Dolce Gabbana”. ^{[19] [25]} .

• 1998 - “A little bit” (dir. Vyacheslav Feofilaktov)
• 1999 - The Controller
• 2001 - “Pie” (dir. Vladimir Yakimenko)
• 2001 - Gop-Gop (dir. Maxim Papernik )
• 2001 - “Vera plus Misha” (duet with Mikhail Poplavsky )
• 2003 - “Everything will be fine” (dir. Maxim Papernik )
• 2003 - Chita-Drita (dir. Semyon Gorov )
• 2003 - “ I did not understand ”
• 2003 - "Tee Drunk Like a Pig"
• 2004 - “Knock-knock-knock” (dir. Semyon Gorov )
• 2005 - “I fell in love” (dir. Semyon Gorov )
• 2005 - “Tralli-valli” (dir. Alexander Filatovich )
• 2005 - “Good for the Beauties” (dir. Alexander Filatovich )
• 2006 - “Take Everything (What I Have)” (dir. Alexander Igudin )
• 2006 - “And I laugh” (dir. Semyon Gorov )
• 2007 - “ Dancing Lasha Tumbai ” (2007; dir. Semyon Gorov )
• 2007 - “Kiss Please” (2007; dir. Alan Badoev )
• 2008 - “Doremi” (2008; dir. Alan Badoev )
• 2008 - “Evro Vision Queen” (directed by Sergey Dakhin and Evgeny Adamenko)
• 2008 - “Essen (Tim-Tim Taram)” (dir. Victor Skuratovsky)

• 2005 - The Doll (dir. Alan Badoev )
• 2006 - After You (dir. Alan Badoev )
• 2013 - “I give good” (with Olga Gorbacheva, 2013)

How Verka Serduchka

• 2001 - Evenings on a farm near Dikanka - village moonshiner
• 2002 - Cinderella - Brünnhilde
• 2003 - The Snow Queen - Xenia, the shaman
• 2003 - For two hares - Svetlana Markovna
• 2004 - Sorochinskaya Fair - Khivrya
• 2004 - The Three Musketeers - Madame Richelieu
• 2006 - First ambulance - cameo
• 2006 - Adventures of Verka Serduchka - cameo
• 2007 - A very New Year's movie, or Night at the Museum (dir. R. Butovsky, G. Skomorovsky) - ghost
• 2010 - Morozko - stepmother
• 2011 - New adventures of Aladdin
• 2012 - Little Red Riding Hood - Little Red Riding Hood
• 2013 - Three heroes - Baba Yaga
• 2015 - Spy - Cameo
• 2017 - Servant of the People 2 - Cameo

Filmography by Andrey Danilko

• 2003 - Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro - Cherubino, page
• 2003 - For two hares - maniac Anton
• 2018 - Sex and nothing personal - policeman

• 1997-2002 - "SV-show"
• 2002, 2004, 2007, 2017 - Visiting Dmitry Gordon
• 2016 - X-Factor

• Soldier ^[26]
• Ballerina ^[27]
• Policeman ^[28]
• Cook in the dining room. ^[29]
• Prostitute ^[30]

• Vadim Kazachenko ^[31]
• Elton John ^[32]

• Theater "Compote" ^[33]
• Parody Theater Andrei Danilko ^[34]

Vladimir Shakhrin, leader of Chayfa : “It seems to me that all our mass culture has left the tavern and the fair. This genre - “tavern and fair” - is still the most demanded one to this day. A peasant woman, a peasant woman, a man with gills, a woman with three breasts! It is marvelous! ” ^[35]

Deputy Taras Chernovol : “Serdyuchka is a hermaphrodite, representing the marginal peripheral part of the Zhlob public.” ^[36]

• Serdyuchka - funny, self-confident, jokes from the stage, for a word she does not climb into her pocket. ^[35]
• Andrei Danilko - quiet, modest, sandwiched, does not like when a lot of people. ^[35]

• serduchka.com - the official website of Verka Serduchka