The path to success for the most popular Russian singer of recent times, 30-year-old native of the Tula region, Yaroslav Dronov, who performs under the pseudonym Shaman, has been long and difficult. Back in 2013-2014, he won prizes in rating TV shows – “Factor A” with Alla Pugacheva on the channel “Russia” and “Voice” on Channel One, where he was a member of the Pelageya team. Nevertheless, after that he did not become a star and for many years was forced to earn a living by singing other people’s hits as part of the little-known Rush Hour cover band. Of course, the current rise in the popularity of the artist was facilitated by the actual patriotic orientation of his songs “Stand Up” and “I’m Russian.” But not only this helped him to conquer the top of the charts.
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In an interview, Dronov willingly spoke about the ex-wife and mother of his daughter Varvara Marina Roshchupkina, who did not want to move with him from the Tula region to Moscow and support him in the difficult years of his singing career.
“She is six years older than me,” Yaroslav admitted to the host of the You-Tube show “Alena, damn it!” Alena Zhigalova. – She taught solo folk singing to children at a music school. We met in our hometown of Novomoskovsk when I was 16 years old. A year, probably, met and began to live together. Three years later they signed. But when I moved to Moscow, our relationship began to change. Marina and her daughter spent two or three months in Novomoskovsk. And she came to me in Moscow for a week. “I feel out of place in this city,” she said. – In Novomoskovsk everyone knows and respects me. And here I have to start from scratch.” She wasn’t ready for this. I realized that something had to be done. I thought about it and decided that it would be better for us to get a divorce.
But for some reason, the singer categorically refused to talk about his current personal life. He referred to the desire to protect his loved ones from excessive public attention. And as it turned out, he actually had reasons for this.
“Without expecting anything good, we watched a part of the interview with Alena Blin by Yaroslav Dronov, who is Shaman, and were not deceived in our expectations,” the Antigloss telegram channel taunted about this. – Yaroslav talks long and tedious about his ex-wife, a school music teacher who is OLDER (yeah, he was 20, she was 26). Then naturally the question of the current personal life. Smiling slyly, Alena pretends not to know about Alexander Tsypkin’s ex-wife – Elena Martynova, media manager, smart girl, Megafon top and also OLDER. No, what are you, the topic of personal TABOO, answers Yaroslav, and then all of a sudden my fans will start writing to my beloved.
If anyone does not know, Alexander Tsypkin is a fashion writer, and Elena Martynova is the Deputy General Director of the USM international holding, a member of the board and director of strategic communications and brand promotion of MegaFon.
“Shortly after the divorce, Elena met Tsypkin’s first wife on the way,” the Male and Female Internet portal reported in 2018. – The guys worked together at the Megafon company and occupied good positions there. They began to say that the beloved made a lot of efforts to drag Alexander up the career ladder. On social networks, she posted joint photos on which the inscriptions “Me and my husband Alexander Tsypkin” flaunted. But their family did not last long. Soon, they started talking about the fact that the couple broke up with a loud scandal, and the publicist had a new lover – actress and businesswoman Oksana Lavrentyeva.
“A place where votes are sold”
Judging by the stories of people who had dealings with Elena Martynova, the former Alexandra Tsypkina was not too upset about parting with him and, with the same zeal with which she promoted the writer, she began to steer the career of her new beloved man.
“Yaroslav Dronov and I have not been working for five years,” Alexei Demin, director of the Chas Rush cover band, testified in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda. – He met a woman who was a top manager. She began to come to our concerts and put some incredible conditions. Completely unfeasible. First, the fee. At that time, our team received 130 – 140 thousand rubles for the performance for six people. And she demanded 80 thousand to pay one Yaroslav. But in cover bands, this is not how it works: here the whole team does not revolve around one soloist. The concerts that we had scheduled had to be urgently canceled and a new soloist needed to be found.
– As always in this country, there is money behind a new star, – one of the readers of Antigloss, Svetlana Kh., lamented in the comments. – This is the real explanation for the divorce from his first wife and the presence of his own studio. And then “I myself, I’m all on my own.”
– How did you quickly put everything on the shelves! – ran into her another reader Irina Aksenova. – Maybe you know a place where they sell beautiful and strong voices? Please share information!
– I do not belittle the talent of Yaroslav, – explained Svetlana Kh. – I like him very much. I meant the system of our show business, where even with such data he managed to break through only by the age of 30, unlike the “singers” Dani Milokhin and Olya Buzova.
Photo source: Social networks, Larisa Kudryavtseva, Daniil Oparin / KP