Throughout her many years of career, the blind singer Diana Gurtskaya never took off her dark glasses. And then the day came when the singer decided to take off her glasses in her new video.

Gurtskaya dared to part with her usual glasses for the sake of a new video for a song by Viktor Drobysh called “Losing You.” In the video, Diana appears in different images: sometimes her eyes are covered with a blindfold in the form of floral patterns, sometimes a beautiful lace ribbon flaunts on her face. However, in the third image, the singer decided to do without glasses and blindfolds, and simply close her eyes, the eyelids of which were painted with dark shadows.

It is known that in early childhood Diana was no different from the others, so the parents did not even realize that their daughter could not see anything. Everything became clear after one day the girl fell off the sofa with a roar and bloodied her face.

Her parents didn’t know what to do: they took her to different doctors, but even the best ophthalmologists only confirmed the incurability of the disease. For a long time, Diana herself did not even realize that she was different from other children. She later graduated from a boarding school for blind and visually impaired children in Tbilisi and convinced the music school teachers that she could learn to play the piano.

She never appears in public without dark glasses. But they are for a 35 year old Diana Gurtskaya- not just an accessory. The singer carefully hides her eyes behind dark glasses. Why? Diana herself does not like to talk about this.

“Dark glasses are part of my life,” she simply states.

“It was a shock when I found out the truth about myself”

But now the secret that these glasses hid for 19 years has been revealed! The secret was revealed by a random camera flash. Journalists met Diana Gurtskaya at a fashion show. At some point the light turned out to be so bright that through the dark glasses the eyes of the star became visible: large, with long eyelashes and... so sad! True, the gaze turned out to be very unfocused. So it’s immediately clear that these are the eyes of a blind person.

“I haven’t been able to see since birth,” says Diana Gurtskaya. “Although, if I could get back the color sense that I had before my mother’s death, I wouldn’t have asked for more... My parents didn’t immediately understand the problem. For the first month we didn’t notice anything. But then my mother was embarrassed that I did not react to her movements. She told dad.

And the parents decided to show their daughter to the doctors. It turned out that the girl was blind.

“Of course, mom and dad were very worried,” Diana sighs. “They took me to the best ophthalmologists. But they, all as one, repeated: “She won’t be able to see!”

At the same time, the child himself did not even suspect about his illness.

“My parents didn’t dare talk to me about this for a long time,” the artist recalls. “That’s why I thought that everyone lived in the same darkness that surrounded me.” I grew up like everyone else ordinary children: ran, played, played pranks, fell, of course, broke her elbows and knees. But my mother’s kisses relieved any pain.

However, with age, questions began to arise.

“Friends were talking about some colors, and it seemed to me that they had the same perception as me,” Diana continues. — When I turned six years old, all my peers began to prepare for school. I really wanted to go there too. But on September 1st I stayed at home. I didn't understand why. And she pestered my mother with questions.

In the end, the woman had to tell her that her daughter was not like everyone else.

“Of course, it was a shock when I found out the whole truth about myself,” Gurtskaya sighs. “But my life, in essence, has not changed. Everything was as before. At the age of seven, Diana went to Tbilisi to study at a boarding school for blind children. The girl managed to finish music school, learning notes by ear. And in 1995, 17-year-old Diana Gurtskaya became a laureate of the “Yalta - Moscow - Transit” competition, where she was noticed famous composer and singer Igor Nikolaev. It was he who helped the girl get on the big stage.

Young singer in dark glasses with an unusually beautiful voice that penetrates the heart, she immediately fell in love with the audience. People wanted to help the “poor blind girl” so much! One man even offered to give her his... eyes. Of course, Diana refused. Medicine is not yet capable of such a transplant. But Gurtskaya nevertheless made an attempt to see the world in colors.

In 2003, during a tour in Ufa, ophthalmologist Ernst Muldashev persuaded her to come to his center. He gave Gurtskaya great hope. He said that the nerve is alive, which means Diana will be able to see!

The singer was operated on at the clinic. Left and right, Muldashev gave interviews about how the star’s vision was about to return. But the miracle did not happen, although the doctor did a great job of PR. Gurtskaya more than a year I was recovering from anesthesia, was endlessly sick and lost 15 kilograms!

What if the baby also lives in darkness?

Alas, Diana remained blind. But this did not stop her from finding her female happiness. In 2005, the star married lawyer Pyotr Kucherenko. And a year later she became pregnant.

- It was such bliss! - Diana recalls.

In fact, she was very worried about the eyes of her unborn child. What if the baby also lives in darkness? Therefore, the first thing, as soon as the boy was born, Gurtskaya asked the doctors if everything was okay with his vision?

Fortunately, everything is fine. Kostya is already six years old. He is my mother's main assistant. And one of the few who sees her without glasses.

- My mommy is very good! - he says.

We know. And Diana is in vain embarrassed to show her eyes. After all, she has them - amazingly beautiful!

Based on materials from: taini-zvezd.ru

Diana Gurtskaya knows firsthand how to live in a world without colors. But with her creativity she enriched music world millions of shades. And thanks to the activities of the singer’s charitable foundation, many blind children were able to feel truly happy.

Diana Gurtskaya's childhood

Diana was born on July 2, 1978 in sunny Sukhumi. She was the youngest daughter in the Mingrelian family of Guda and Zaira Gurtskaya. The parents were already at a respectable age at that time; my father used to work in a mine, and my mother taught at school. The baby was surrounded with love and care not only by her parents, but also by her older children - brothers Dzhambul and Robert and sister Eliso.

For the first months, Zaira did not notice her daughter’s illness, but when the girl fell from the sofa, her face bleeding, her mother rushed to the hospital. The doctors' verdict was disappointing - congenital blindness. Ophthalmologists did not give a single chance that the child would be able to see. This was a big blow for the whole family, but the parents decided not to focus on their daughter’s illness and raised Diana the same way as their older children. "I grew up an ordinary child– she also ran, fell, and played pranks. They never felt sorry for me, although everyone took care of me,” the singer recalled.

At the age of 7, Diana was sent to study at the Tbilisi boarding school for blind and visually impaired children, located five hundred kilometers from home. The girl took a long time to get used to the new unfamiliar environment and was very homesick for her family. After classes, she would come into the room and open her suitcase with her things, just to smell her mother for a moment. Diana missed her the most. But when a schoolgirl came home and asked to extend the holidays an extra day, her parents were adamant: “You must get an education. Walk through life with your head held high!”

Diana Gurtskaya in the studio “Let them talk”

When the girl was overcome by melancholy, she began to sing. It was hers favorite activity from early childhood - even before she learned to speak well, Diana was already memorizing melodies and sounds of the surrounding world, and then trying to reproduce them. Mom noticed creativity daughter, so she supported her in her desire to get more and music education. At the age of 8, Diana began studying with a vocal teacher, and after a couple of months she wanted to learn to play the piano. But if in the boarding school the whole situation was adjusted to the characteristics of blind children, then in the music school it was much more difficult - the girl had to study on an equal basis with everyone else, relying only on own memory and a keen ear: “I forgot almost everything when I came home, and I had to start everything from scratch several times. But I couldn't live without music. And the more difficult, the more interesting!”

The efforts of the persistent schoolgirl bore fruit: already at the age of 10 she stood on the stage of the Tbilisi Philharmonic and sang a duet with Irma Sokhadze herself. This was the first resounding success young talent.

Career of Diana Gurtskaya

In 1995, 17-year-old Diana Gurtskaya applied to participate in international festival pop song"Yalta - Moscow - Transit". For the competition, the singer chose the composition “Tbiliso”. The soulful performance of the young Georgian did not leave indifferent even the masters of the Russian stage, among whom were Laima Vaikule, Mikhail Tanich, Igor Nikolaev, Alexander Malinin, Lolita and Igor Krutoy.

Diana Gurtskaya – “If the night is gone”, 1995

And although Gurtskaya did not take first place, the jury awarded the singer with an extraordinary voice a special prize. It was presented by singer and composer Igor Nikolaev. This moment became Diana's takeoff point musical Olympus: Nikolaev offered cooperation to the talented performer, and she simply could not refuse.

Immediately after this competition, the entire Gurtskaya family moved to Moscow. Here youngest daughter Guda and Zaira decided to continue her musical education - she entered the pop department at the Gnessin School. 18-year-old Diana, inspired by success, decided that she could conquer another peak, and at the same time began to master stage skills at GITIS. But this was not enough for Diana - in 2003 she received a master's degree from the Faculty of Arts of Moscow State University. Lomonosov.

In 1999, Gurtskaya performed Igor Nikolaev’s song “You Are Here” for the first time. The composition became an absolute hit, but the audience did not even suspect that for the singer herself it was a requiem song: “When this song was created, my mother was still alive. But even then she was diagnosed with cancer. She managed to see a little bit that my dream had come true. I am a singer." The composition instantly soared to the top of the charts, and Diana was invited to perform it at the “Song of the Year”. When Gurtskaya sang on main stage country, Zaira was buried in Tbilisi: “It was a feeling that in at the moment I addressed my mother with this song. I had the impression that the whole hall knew then my story, my tragedy.”

Released in 2000 debut album singer “You Are Here”, it included songs written for her by Igor Nikolaev and Sergei Chelobanov. Gurtskaya continued to collaborate with these composers, and two years later a second album with their songs, “You Know, Mom,” was released. Tours began, duets with the world famous singers, including Joseph Kobzon, Toto Cutugno, Al Bano, Demis Roussos.

First performance of Diana Gurtskaya and Toto Cutugno

A year later, Diana faced another blow of fate - the singer’s brother Dzhambul was brutally beaten on the streets of Moscow. The guy was hospitalized, but the capital’s doctors were unable to save his life. Family drama was reflected in the singer’s work, but Diana had many more achievements and victories ahead. In December 2006, Gurtskaya was awarded the title “Honored Artist of Russia.” In 2008 she represented Georgia international competition Eurovision, and a year later she became the ambassador of Sochi 2014, as a person popularizing the ideas of the Olympic and Paralympic movement in Russia and the world.

Diana Gurtskaya at Eurovision 2008

In 2011 famous singer became a participant in the show “Dancing with the Stars”, her partner on the floor was Sergei Balashov.

In 2010, the singer realized another dream of hers - she held the “White Cane: Tolerance, Equality, Integration” festival. At the same time I started my work charitable foundation, providing assistance to children with absent or weak vision “At the call of the heart.” And in 2013, Gurtskaya became a member of the Presidential Commission Russian Federation for disabled people.

Diana Gurtskaya always appears on the big stage in an image familiar to the viewer. And even in glossy magazines it is difficult to find a photo of her without glasses with her eyes open. Not long ago, the artist decided to make an exception and please fans and journalists by appearing in a new image without dark glasses. This prank caused a lot of feedback from different segments of the population.​

Shocking image of a romantic singer

I decided to appear in a new role for the sake of filming a new video. Working on a video format song written by a brilliant composer Viktor Drobysh’s “I’m Losing You” became the reason for the appearance on the Internet of a photo of the singer without glasses with her eyes open. For the sake of filming, the woman abandoned her usual pop image.

In the photo, Diana's eyes are covered with a floral print ribbon, after which it is replaced by an elegant lace stripe. Critics considered this move quite bold and interesting.

A curious moment in the video was the footage where Diana Gurtskaya appears without glasses with her eyes open, which immediately appeared in the photo in the media. The actress decided to abandon the glamorous bandages, painting her eyelids with black shadows in the smoky eye style.

The parents did not immediately realize that the girl was losing her sight.

In early childhood, Diana showed no signs of vision problems. She behaved in the same way as her peers and her gaze was not clouded. But when her parents made a small rearrangement in the house, she fell while trying to sit on the sofa and severely mutilated her face. Frightened parents took her to the doctor for an examination, as a result of which it became clear that Diana’s gaze wandered and did not focus on surrounding objects.

For the first ten years, the parents took the girl to ophthalmologists, wanting to find a specialist who could cure the eye disease. But they all made the same diagnosis - this disease is incurable.

Having failed to find a way for their daughter, her parents sent her to a specialized boarding school for children with congenital blindness and vision problems.

But for Diana this was not enough. She dreamed of sitting down at the piano and learning to play. Therefore, while studying in Tbilisi, she convinced the teachers Music school that he can play by ear. Regular classes helped her develop not only the ability to play, but also to sing. At the age of 10, she was already performing on the stage of the Philharmonic and was not shy about the audience.

In subsequent years, the amazing girl achieved incredible results in music. She managed to break into the Russian stage thanks to her talent, and not her connections. And over the years of work, she developed a taboo: “never insist on your own exclusivity and do not evoke pity from others.” Therefore, Diana's image is always ideal. She takes care of her own appearance and always leaves the house with perfect makeup and watches her figure. Many world stars cannot boast of such scrupulousness.

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Vision problems did not prevent Diana Gurtskaya from going on stage music festival by taking part in an international competition. This is how the first photos of the performer without glasses with her eyes open appeared in the media. She did not want to show the judges her exclusivity and arouse pity.

The woman is still proud that she was noticed by Igor Krutoy and other masters of show business thanks to her talent, and not blindness. They learned that the girl could not see anything much later during the signing of the contract.

Popularity and career rise

The song “You are here”, performed by Diana Gurtskaya on big stage, created an incredible sensation. The singer sang it so emotionally and truthfully that most of the spectators had tears streaming down their cheeks.

Never before have songs been performed with such emotional anguish in the voice. So Diana was not only remembered, but also loved. She managed to penetrate the soul of every listener, leaving an indelible mark on it.

The singer's first album, released a year later, was sold out as soon as it hit the windows of specialized stores. It was a success that Diana's mother would be proud of. But she could only watch her career take off from heaven. That is why Gurtskaya’s performance was so reverent and lively.

Having started her career on the big stage, she continued to develop further. Without placing emphasis on her exclusivity, the girl first entered the Gnessin School, and then the first time to GITIS. Having mastered the basics of creativity at the institute, Diana continued to rapidly rise through the ranks career ladder and delight fans with new albums and performances.

But even though she never seeks to promote herself, photos without glasses still appear on the Internet. They show that Diana has a slightly squinted gaze. This is the only thing that distinguishes a woman from other people.

Everything about the life of stars is interesting - from health to the number of husbands. Particularly interested in what they are trying to hide. Here we go famous singer Diana Gurtskaya is being examined almost under a microscope - they are trying to look under her black glasses at the bottom of her face and see what is hiding there? What does Diana Gurtskaya look like without her glasses and what led to her blindness? In our article you will learn about life and the most significant facts from the singer's biography, we will show photos and videos and try to answer the question that interests you - is she really blind or is this PR?

When Diana Gurtskaya first appeared on the big stage, she stunned listeners with her voice, and her song “You Are Here,” written by Igor Nikolaev, immediately became a hit. Diana is a famous singer, for her singing career our heroine collaborated with such masters as Jose Carreras, Goran Bregovich, Joseph Kobzon, Grigory Leps. She is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. And many people know her, but no one has ever seen her without glasses.

IN lately Quite often on the Internet one could see messages from “kind” fans that Gurtskaya was not blind. These statements could occur quite often. Sometimes they could significantly influence the consciousness of other people, and therefore the attitude towards the singer always remained tense.

The singer, appearing on stage in dark glasses, immediately attracted attention, and although it was already known that the girl was blind from birth, many for some reason doubted this, and the question of whether Diana Gurtskaya really cannot see was one of the frequently asked questions. given.

Although such interest can still be explained, because we are accustomed to the fact that people with disabilities rarely achieve anything in life, but here a fragile girl appeared before the audience, who managed to win their hearts, having gone through a long and rather difficult path to recognition .

Let us remember that Diana was born in 1978 in the city of Sukhumi (Georgia) in a simple large family.

She was indeed born blind, which her parents did not even suspect at first, and when they realized that something was wrong with their daughter and turned to specialists, they made a disappointing diagnosis - congenital blindness, and the girl does not and will not have chances of regaining sight.

“My father and mother hesitated for a long time to explain my condition to me, and I could not understand why the world was black for me. After all, my parents and friends talked among themselves about some colors and colors... But gradually some seventh or eighth sense was formed in me, which painted my world, understandable only to me. I have lived in it ever since. This is the world, just the way I imagine it. But according to at least I feel comfortable in it.”

The strength of spirit that young Diana possessed helped her, being in eternal darkness, to move through life towards her goal. After all, God, having taken the girl’s sight, rewarded her special gift- in an extraordinary voice, which already at the age of 8 was such that it delighted the teachers of the boarding school for blind children where Diana studied.

Over time, the girl not only honed her vocals, but also learned to play the piano, and at the age of 18 she already became the winner of a music competition.

Having moved from her native Sukhumi to Moscow, Diana graduated from Gnesinka and began to take her first steps on Russian stage. In 2000, her first debut album was released, after which four more appeared, and the singer herself began to actively perform concerts and go on tours.