Tamara Gverdtsiteli

**Tamara "Tamriko" Mikhailovna Gverdtsiteli** (, ) is a Georgie-Roushie sangster, actress, componer, Honored Airtist o the Georgie SSR (1989), Fowkairtist o Georgie (1991), Fowkairtist o Ingushetie, an Fowkairtist o Roushie (2004).

## Biografie
The representative o the auncient Georgie noble faimily Gverdtsiteli. Thanks tae her mither, a teacher o Roushie leid an leeteratur, a native o Odessa Inna Vladimirovna Kofman (born 01.04.1938), she suin began tae study muisic, an wis admittit tae a special music schuil at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. In the early 1970s, she became a soloist in the pop baund Mziuri, which includit a tour toured the umwhile Soviet Union.

After heich schuil, Gverdtsiteli entered the Tbilisi State Conservatoire an graduatit frae it in piano an composition, an she graduatit frae college wi a special vocal.

At age 19, Gverdtsiteli teuk seicont place at the Aw-Union festival in Dnepropetrovsk an wan the internaitional competition "Red Carnation" in Sochi. In 1982 she teuk pairt in the contest o popular muisic in Dresden, in 1988 she wan the "Gowden Orpheus", performit as a guest airtist at festivals in Sopot an Sanremo. Syne 1987, the she herel actit as a member o the jury o muisic festivals .

In 1989 Gverdtsiteli wis awairdit Airtist the Georgie SSR in 1991, an in 2004 - Fowkairtist o Roushie.

In 1991 Gverdtsiteli went tae Paris, whaur she met wi Michel Legrand an Jean Drezhakom. At the same time a contract wis signed wi Legrand an held her first concert in Paris 'Olympia'. Legrand, representin Gverdtsiteli haw, said: "Paris! Remember that name.".

Currently Gverdtsiteli performs the role o Carmen on the stage o the Dnepropetrovsk Opera baritone Giovanni wi Milan Ribikezu preparin the opera in Moscow wi conductor Vladimir Ziva, actit in films, plays at the Theatre o the Roushie Airmy in the musical " Man of La Mancha " wi Vladimir Zeldin, acts recitals an a joint program wi Dmitri Dyuzhev, an in 2010 made her debut in brilliant new genre-man show.

She performs sangs in mair nor ten leids: Georgie, Roushie, French, Italian, Spainyie, Inglis, Ebreu, Ukrainian, Armenie, German, etc.

## Faimily
Gverdtsiteli is ane o the auldest Georgie surnames. It consists o twa wirds: Tsiteli - red, gverd - side. Surname ancestors gave the keeng on the battlefield in the 14t century: the ancestor heroically fechtin for Georgie's unthirldom against the Turks, wis woondit, he wis elk-namit Red Bock (bloody side).

* Faither, Mikhail Pavlovich Gverdtsiteli - programmer.
* Mither, Inna Vladimirovna Kofman (1938) - Roushie leid an leeteratur teacher at Tbilisi Pioneer Hoose, graduatit frae the filological depairtment o the Tbilisi Pedagogical Institute. Pushkin.
* Uncle, the brither o Ina Kofman - lives in the U.S.
* Grandmither bi Mikhaila Gverdtsiteli, Tamara Ivanovna, wis a muisic teacher.
* Great-grandmither - Khidirbegishvili wis a princess Amilakhvari, studiet in Paris and St. Petersburg, wis alive when Tamara wis little.
* Brither Pavel, ingineer, lives in Tbilisi, an haes twa childer.
* Grandmither bi Inna Kofman - Shulamith Solomonovna Rozenshtleh.
* Great grandfaither - ravvin synagogues on Odesse, Solomon Rozenshteh.

### Personal life
* Her first husband (1984 tae 1995) Giorgi Kakhabrishvili (1947) - director, vice-chairman of the Public Broadcaster of Georgie.
* Son - Alexander (Sandro) Kakhabrishvili (Сандро) (1986) studying  in the U.S., is now studying in England, *Varsity o the Airts Lunnon*, факультет *Mass Media and Culture*.
* Second husband, Dimitri, a lawyer, emigrated from the USSR (Baku), lived in Boston an died of cardiac arrest.
* Third husband, Sergey Georgiyevich Ambatelo - a heart surgeon, PhD, of the Center for Cardiovascular Surgery them. Bakuleva, divorced December 2005.

## Discografie
### Albums
* 1982 - Debut. Tamara Gverdtsiteli (EP)
* 1985 - Muisic: Tamara sings Gverdtsiteli
* 1992 - Tamara Gverdtsiteli sings her sangs
* 1994 - Lang Live the Keeng!
* 1996 - Thanks, Muisic, you!
* 2000 - Best sangs o different years
* 2001 - ordination o weemen
* 2002 - Viva Love Viva!
* 2002 - A haed a dream last nicht sky
* 2003 - Favorites
* 2004 - Muisic - Soul Temple
* 2008 - Air kiss
* 2008 - MP3-album "Favorites"
* 2009 - The Best (2 CD)

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