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从一位俄罗斯朋友信中了解到的Vitas
原文( Natalie述 )：
The story of Vitas in short looks like this. His true name is Vitaliy Grachyov (they say so). By the way, I've got a colleague with the same name and surname :-)) He was born in Latvia and some people say that Vitas is not a pure pseudonym but a diminutive Latvian name for Vitaliy. Maybe it's true. When the boy was 3 years old, his family moved to Odessa (a city in the Ukraine). It is believed that the producer Sergey Pudovkin found Vitas in Odessa quite by chance. Pudovkin was in Odessa on a business trip and one of his friends advised him to go and see a performance of the local Theatre of Mime and Gesture. Vitas was one of the actors of this amateur theatre and participated in this performance. When Pudovkin saw Vitas on stage, he was greatly impressed by his obvious talent. The actor easily transformed from a little girl to a young lady, then to a man and finally to an old woman. His face could be charmingly beautiful and the next moment it could turn into a disgusting ugly mask. Vitas could also speak in different voices. His art of transformation was stunning. So the producer decided to take this young man to Moscow and make a star out of him. He didn't know at that moment (at least Pudovkin himself says so) that Vitas possessed such an extraordinary high voice. He just didn't suppose that Vitas could sing!!! But the producer was absolutely sure that he had met a boy of unique talent and would make him a star anyway - in one genre or another. And later, when it turned out that Vitas had such a wonderful voice, Pudovkin began to promote him as a singer. I am not sure that this story is true to fact. Maybe it's just a beautiful legend invented by Pudovkin to make the whole story look so weird and full of striking coincidences in order to excite people's curiosity.But one fact is undoubtful - Vitas really used to work at that Odessa theatre. I only doubt the fact that Pudovkin didn't suspect that Vitas had such an unusual voice when he was going to promote him. I guess he knew very well about it.
So this is how the whole story began. Vitas doesn't give interviews to the mass media, this is an attitude of his producer. Pudovkin himself gives all interview instead of Vitas. I think Pudovkin is absolutely right in doing so because now journalists are usually interested only in some details of private life of the famous people and ask no questions about creative work. So why should an artist waste his precious time on such reporters? And now if any newspaper publishes an "interview" with Vitas, all the people know at once that it is a fake because Vitas himself doesn't communicate with journalists. But he does communicate with his public at the concerts! And this is quite enough. The people who took his autographs after the concerts say that VItas is open-hearted and easy to talk with. He behaves like a simple boy, not a haughty star. His fame hasn't spoiled him. At least for the time being.
中文大意：
有关Vitas的故事简单的说大概应该是这样的：
他的真名叫维塔利 格拉乔夫（Vitaliy Grachyov）（流传中）。他出生在拉脱维亚，有些人说维塔斯（Vitas）并不是完全的艺名，而是维塔利在拉脱维亚语里的昵称。这或许是真的。当他3岁的时候，他的全家搬到了敖德萨（乌克兰的一个城市）。一般人们都相信，制作人瑟金 布多夫金（Sergey Pudovkin）在敖德萨发现维塔斯是偶然的。布多夫金当时由于事务关系出差到敖德萨，他的一个朋友建议他去个当地的“笑剧和哑剧剧院”看场演出。维塔斯当时是那里的业余演员之一，而且参加了那次演出。当维塔斯出现在舞台上时，他的显而易见的天才给布多夫金留下了深刻的印象。这演员很容易的一下就从小姑娘变成了年轻女士，然后变成了一个男人，最后变成了一个老年妇女。他的面容能在瞬间从极其的美丽变成极其的丑恶。维塔斯还能用不同的声音说话。他的易容技巧实在让人叹服。于是这个制作人决定要把这个年轻人带往莫斯科，把他培养成明星。他当时并不知道（至少制作人自己是这么说的）维塔斯拥有那样一个特别的嗓子。他甚至不知道他会唱歌！但这位制作人完全相信他碰到了一个有独特天赋的男孩，他可以被培养成一个明星——不管是什么类型的。最后，当布多夫金发现原来维塔斯拥有那样出众的嗓子之后，他开始培养他成为一名歌手。我不是很确定这个故事是不是真的，或许那只是布多夫金创作的美丽传奇，能让这整个事情看起来更神秘，更加巧合，以此来激起公众的好奇心罢了。但有件事是真的，维塔斯确实在敖德萨的剧院工作过。我只是怀疑布多夫金所说的当他想培养维塔斯的时候他完全不知道维塔斯有那么个不寻常的嗓子。我猜他其实知道的很清楚。
这就是这个故事的开始。维塔斯从不接受媒体的采访，这是他制作人的意思。布多夫金自己代替维塔斯参加了所有的采访。我想布多夫金在这个上面做的还是对的，现在的记者都太注意于名人们那些细枝末节的私生活花边，却不愿意关心他们的创作。既然这样，艺术家自然也不用浪费时间在这些报道上了。现在，如果有报纸发表了有关维塔斯的“采访”，人们都知道那是假的，因为维塔斯自己从不和记者直接接触。但他确实在自己的音乐会上和自己的歌迷接触，这就够了。音乐会后和维塔斯合影的歌迷们都说，他是个开朗的人，很容易说话。他更像是个单纯的男孩，而不是傲慢的歌星。他的名声并没有娇纵他。至少目前还是如此。
