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Full name Vladimir Vladimirovich Rudenko. Born on June 15 in Voronezh. Mother, Lidia Stepanovna Bogatyreva, is a dancer and a choreographer, an honored artist of Russia. Parents worked in the Voronezh folk choir. Uncle, Ivan Mikhailovich Rudenko, - Bayanist, head of the orchestra of the Voronezh choir.

Childhood, Vladimir, was going to follow in the footsteps of his parents and in the year entered a music school for gifted children at the Institute of Arts in the Piano class with a composer bias. In the year, he continued his studies at the music school at the pop department. However, Rudenko did not graduate from the school and entered the Higher Military Aviation School in Voronezh, thus connected life not with music, but with the army and heaven.

However, the music has always remained his favorite hobby. At the school, future pilots created the amateur ensemble "Icarus", which was the soloist of which Volodya Rudenko was. The ensemble took a lot of prizes at the competitions of a military-patriotic song. After graduating from the school, Lieutenant Rudenko served in aviation in Crimea, but also organized a pop-jazz orchestra there.

Creativity in the years Rudenko resigned with the rank of major, left the army and still became a musician. He composed his own songs, worked in Crimean restaurants, Variet and nightclubs. Even then, he chose Russian chanson with his style and gradually gained fame among fans of the genre. As a result, Vladimir had concerts both in Moscow and abroad, where he worked for three years in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Greece.

Foreigners, according to him, called the musician Russian Joe Cocker. In the year, Vladimir published his first album, “White Birch”, which included songs. Two years later, the Diamond Ace disc, published by J. The most successful was the record “Citizen Judge”, released in the year of the Monolite studio. After that, the musician moved to Moscow. He began a solo career under the surname of Utesov.

He owes her appearance to a family legend, according to which his grandmother Vladimir in the years had a passionate romance with Leonid Utesov. Grandmother Tanya worked at the Ministry of Railways, often went on business trips and in Petrograd met a novice celebrity. Both had families that the lovers were not going to destroy, but in February, Tatyana had a son Vladimir.

Only after many years she admitted who was his father. However, the official descendants of Leonid Utesov do not support this version and consider Vladimir Utesov an impostor. In the year, during the tour of the Voronezh choir in Moscow, Vladimir met with the "grandfather" Leonid in his apartment on the risk row, and he gave the boy a plush bear. According to Vladimir, he still stores this toy.

In the year, he published the album “Thank you, friends” “Alpha Records”, in M ​​released the record “Fleet” “Mystery of Sound”, and two years later combined his best songs in The Best album. Personal life is married. The wife’s name is Asel, she is ten years younger than Vladimir. Do you know that ... - The first to compose Volodya was a “funeral march”. This happened when the boy was eight years old; - Vladimir Utesov considers Alexander Dyumin the best performer of chanson; - During the service in aviation, the artist saw UFOs, but the "aliens" did not go to contact with him.

Hits “My daughter”, “This woman”, “lamb”.