Soprano Aida Garifullina was born in 1987 into a Tatar family in
Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan in the Russian Federation, some 500
miles east of Moscow. Aida’s mother, a choral conductor, noticed her
daughter’s love of singing very early, and her first public performance
took place when she was 5 in a televised children’s competition in
Moscow.
At the age of 11 she was accepted for singing lessons at
the Kazan State Conservatoire, and at 13 she appeared at the
Tchaikovsky Great Hall in Moscow – the city’s most prestigious venue –
during the Festival of Gifted Children of Tatarstan.
The
childhood of dedicated young musicians can look very intense to
outsiders. “It is true that I didn’t have much time to play with dolls
or run around with my friends. I would have school in the morning, then solfeggio
class, then I went to a singing teacher – and then to ballet school and
finally to a drawing class. At some point they realised you can’t
overload a child and decided I should stick with singing – so my fate
was decided”.
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