New Wave 2009: Alla Pugachyova & Maksim Galkin - This Love - video

Alla Pugachyova and Maksim Galkin singing "This Love" (Это Любовь)at Jurmala New Wave Festival 2009.

New Wave 2009: Alla Pugachyova - Звезда (Star) - video

Alla Pugachyova singing at Jurmala New Wave Festival 2009 the song Звезда (Star).

New Wave 2008 - Jurmala - Photos

Dima Bilan at New Wave 2008, Jurmala












































Alla Pugachyova and Maxim Galkin at New Wave 2008, Jurmala















Filipp Kirikorov at New Wave 2008, Jurmala

















Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballe, guest star at New Wave 2008- Jurmala together with Russian tenor Nikolai Baskov






















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Alla Pugachyova&Maxim Galkin@New Wave 2008 -Jurmala

Alla Pugachyova and Maxim Galkin at New Wave 2008 -Jurmala singing "Громоотводы" (Lightning).

Bilan, Kirkorov and Pugacheva on Forbes Rich List

This month, Forbes magazine published its list of the 50 richest Russians in showbusiness and sport.

Alla Pugachyova, the queen of Russian pop, made $3.5 million, putting her at 14th place, but she made it the hard way, performing in provincial cities all over the country. She even sang in Vorkuta, a coal-mining town beyond the Arctic Circle best known for its Gulag camp -- in February.

Pugachyova recently said she will only retire when she can't wear a mini-skirt anymore (she's 58).

This year has certainly been good to Bilan, who is at 12th place among the top earners with an income of $4.1 million. That might put Pugachyova's nose out of joint, not to mention Filipp Kirkorov's. Like Dima, he was a Eurovision contestant and has kept himself in the public eye pretty solidly since marrying and then divorcing Pugachyova, but his earnings only put him at 17th place.

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source:The Moscow Times

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Alla Pugacheva - Arlekino -VIDEO

Alla Pugacheva - Primadonna - VIDEO

In 1997, Alla Pugacheva represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin and finished 15th with the song Primadonna.

Alla Pugachyova launches her own radio station - Radio Alla

Russia's top pop diva Alla Pugachyova launches her own radio station, Radio Alla, where she will host a show and play her music every hour.

She has already launched a shoe brand, a perfume, a magazine and a line of potato chips, but pop star Alla Pugachyova reckons her fans want more.

From this month, Russia's answer to Madonna will be played every hour, every day, on her new radio station, Radio Alla.

"People are waiting for such a station," said Alexander Varin, head of Prof-Media Broadcasting Corporation, Pugachyova's partner in Radio Alla. "We all remember that popular joke from the Soviet era -- 'Who's that Leonid Brezhnev? A minor political figure in the epoch of Alla Pugachyova."

The singer burst onto the moribund Soviet pop scene in the mid-1970s with her hit "Arlekino." With her luminous voice and playful style, she swiftly became a star and has never relinquished that status. Now, though, her tangled personal life tends to attract more attention than her music.

The station will play a mix of hits from the 1970s onwards, as well as one or two Pugachyova songs per hour. It's being positioned as a girly alternative to stations such as AvtoRadio and Militseiskaya Volna (Police Band), though critics are dubious of the venture's chances.

Her ex-husband, the peacockish pop performer Filipp Kirkorov, said in an interview he was certain of her success.

"Everything that she puts her hand and her creativity to immediately acquires a definite status, a certain quality."

He also proclaimed, a little unexpectedly, his feelings for Pugachyova.

"Irrespective of the presence or absence of a [marriage] stamp in a passport, nothing decides the relationship between people who are connected by God."

Pugachyova is to host her own show and invite famous guests. Listeners will be able to put questions to her on love and life in general, Varin said.

She'll also help decide what tracks are played. There'll be some contemporary pop, although Varin ruled out acts such as pseudo-lesbian group t.A.T.u. "You need songs that correspond in their soul to Pugachyova's songs," he sniffed.

Varin wouldn't confirm how much is being invested in the station, but said a new studio is being built. The radio station does not yet have a definite date for its launch this month on 98.8 FM.

Pugacheva is perhaps the best known musical performer in Russia and she is considered to be the most successful Soviet and Russian performer in terms of record sales and popularity. In 1997, she represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin and finished 15th with the song Primadonna.

Her ex-husband, Filipp Kirkorov- who also represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1995 with the song Kolybelnaya dlya vulkana and this year co-wrote the Belarusian entry Work Your Magic, performed by Koldun said also:"Radio is a very good direction for her," Kirkorov purred. "Everything that happens with Alla Pugachyova is successful."

source and photo:The Moscow Times