Irina Krug

Irina Krug is a popular pop singer who performs songs in the chanson style, the widow of the famous bard and chanson singer Mikhail Krug.

Irina Viktorovna Glazko was born on March 29, 1976 in Chelyabinsk into an ordinary military family. Her mother worked as a draftsman, her father as an officer.

Childhood and youth

From a very early age, Irina had great artistry and, like many girls her age, dreamed of becoming an actress. But the girl did not want to act in films; she was drawn to theatrical performances. It was for this purpose that little Ira was taken to the theater group of the Chelyabinsk House of Creativity.

In childhood

Ira also wanted to learn figure skating - after school she went to the skating rink and learned all kinds of figures on her own. But they didn’t take her to the figure skating section, since the girl’s age was inappropriate - only very young children were taken there. But Irina’s life turned out completely differently, and she had to give up her dream of becoming an artist.

Immediately after graduating from school, Irina married her first husband and gave birth to a daughter, Marina, from him. However, the first marriage was unsuccessful - the husband's passion for drugs and alcohol destroyed their marriage. As a result, the marriage broke up, and young Ira was forced to raise her little daughter on her own.

It was necessary to get money from somewhere to support the family. Therefore, again putting aside her desire to become a theater actress, at the age of 21 Irina got a job as a waitress at the Malachite restaurant. It was there that her first meeting with Mikhail Krug took place, which changed the girl’s life forever.

Meeting with Mikhail Krug

In 1999, already famous at that time, came on tour to Chelyabinsk and decided to have dinner at the restaurant where Irina worked at that time. The girl was told to serve the star's table. Mikhail immediately noticed Ira and invited her to work on his team.

But to Krug’s great surprise, the girl immediately responded with a firm refusal, deciding that it was just a joke by the artist. But Mikhail Krug was serious. He asked the restaurant director for help, repeated his offer several times, but was always refused. The girl’s colleagues were amazed at her steadfastness. But in the end, Mikhail’s persistence won, and Ira agreed to the proposal.

The girl moved to Tver and worked there for more than a year as a costume designer for a chanson star. According to Irina’s stories, at first the famous singer was in no hurry to show his sympathy for her and looked closely for a long time, watched Ira’s behavior and tried more to get to know her.

He had been divorced for eight years and therefore was wary of starting a new relationship. Therefore, all this time, Mikhail kept his distance from the girl and behaved very reservedly. But a year later, the singer finally decided to reveal his feelings to the girl and revealed his desire to live with Irina.

One day he came to her and proudly declared: “That’s it, we’ll live together!” She happily agreed, and the couple began dating, not even paying attention to the big age difference - when they met, Ira was 23 years old, Mikhail was already 37 at that time.

The couple lived in a civil marriage for more than a year, only then the young people decided to legalize their relationship. As Irina says, the idea of ​​marriage arose spontaneously. The young people simply went to the store to buy groceries; they were dressed in ordinary tracksuits.

On the way to the store, Mikhail saw the registry office and was inspired by the idea of ​​signing Ira here and now. The registry office immediately recognized the famous bard and quickly signed the couple. Mikhail and Irina Krug got married in 2001. Mikhail happily accepted Ira’s daughter from his first marriage into the family, and later the couple had a child together. His parents decided to name him Alexander.

But Mikhail was not destined to babysit his son for long: when the baby was just a month old, Mikhail Krug was shot dead in his own home. As Irina says, she sensed something was wrong a week before the tragic events and asked Mikhail to hire security.

But her husband only laughed at his wife’s request. The poor widow was left alone with two children. It was after these tragic events that Irina decides to start a musical career.

Creation

After the death of her husband, Irina decides to move to Moscow to find a way to somehow feed her two children. There, Mikhail’s friend Vladimir Bocharov invited Ira to sing a couple of his husband’s songs. Irina agreed, although during Mikhail’s life she did not show herself as a singer and only sometimes sang along with her husband.

Irina Krug's debut turned out to be incredibly successful. After this, the newly minted star sang several more songs from her husband’s repertoire, which were intended for the singer’s next album. In 2004, Irina released her debut album, “The First Autumn of Separation,” recorded in a duet with a friend of the murdered bard, Leonid Teleshov.

A year later, Ira was presented in the “Discovery of the Year” category at the “Chanson of the Year” award. In 2006, Irina released her second album entitled “To You, My Last Love,” produced by Vladimir Tsyganov. In the same year, the singer graduated with honors from Tver State University with a degree in management.

Since 2007, the singer has been singing in a duet with Sergei Bryantsev. The star duo already has two albums. At the moment, Irina’s discography already includes eight albums, while the star continues to tour throughout the country, performing both her own songs and famous songs from her husband’s repertoire.

Her concerts are often attended by fans of Mikhail’s work. In 2012, the star received the “Chanson of the Year” award for the song “To You, My Last Love.”

After the death of her second husband, the singer stopped her vigorous pop activity for some time, but having survived the loss of a loved one, Irina returned to the stage in 2014 and immediately received the “Chanson of the Year” award for the song “It’s not scary to love.”

Before this, in the summer of 2013, the singer shared her painful situation with her fans on the program “Let Them Talk.” Apparently this became a turning point in the singer’s life, when she finally decided to let go of the situation and start not only her personal, but also her creative life over a new leaf.

Already at the end of 2014, the singer’s creative website appeared on the Internet, where the best tracks of the performer for all the years of her work were posted. In addition to songs and videos, the site also contains information about the singer’s biographical information and a schedule of upcoming performances and tours.

In 2016, the singer began her active creative work. In 2016, she again received the “Chanson of the Year” award, but for the song “Chanel”, and in 2017, Irina Krug performed one of her songs live on Channel One. And already in September 2017, the singer went on tour to several cities of Russia, and in the capital she gave her concert in the Meridian hall.

Personal life and husband of Irina Krug

Irina grieved for a long time for her murdered husband. But 5 years after Mikhail’s death, Irina’s personal life improved again, and the singer got married for the third time. The chosen one was the famous businessman Sergei Belousov. Many began to condemn Irina and accuse her of allegedly betraying her husband’s memory. Ira answered these reproaches honestly: “Mikhail is the best thing that happened in my life. I often dream about him."