“She didn’t feed the country”: Ilona Bronevitskaya denied Laima Vaikule’s scandalous statement 03/07/2023, 09:55

The Latvian singer made a great career in the USSR, and then performed successfully in Russia for many years. Laima recently complained that in the Soviet years, her concerts brought fabulous income, which allowed her to “feed the country”, while she herself received very modest ​​fees from them.

The 62-year-old daughter of the cult singer Edita Piekha appreciated the statements of the successful artist “I went to Piccadilly”. “Within a philharmonic society, there have always been artists with more money and artists with less. For example, some folk group did not bring much profit to the organization. So if Laima went to concerts, earned, then this profit, roughly speaking, as part of self-support, went to sew kokoshniki. That’s why she didn’t feed the country, she fed her philharmonic, “said Ilona.

The daughter of the composer Alexander Bronevitsky noted that in Soviet times all artists did this. At the same time, pop stars often lived like ordinary people and did not bathe in luxury. The huge team was supported, for example, by Edita Piekha, who was self-sufficient with small fees, but her natural modesty and upbringing never allowed her to complain about her income.

“My parents also received meager daily allowances. Edita was in Paris and received very little there. But she does not remember it, because she is a different person, ”said a representative of the star family on the broadcast of the Life and Fate program on the Russia 1 channel.

Ilona did not support the stars who went into exile and criticized Russia from there. She assured that her mother Edita Stanislavovna and her son Stas Piekha hold the same position. “We are on the side of our motherland!” said Bronevitskaya.

The words of Laima Vaikule caused dissatisfaction among the producer Iosif Prigozhin. The husband of the singer Valerie believes that the aggressive statements of the deceased stars only worsen the situation in society.

“Laima Vaikule has always been apolitical, she has never made any loud political statements. Almost all artists whose names are known, tried to be closer to power, did not refuse to perform at government concerts and so on, left. Against this background, all their current statements look like hypocrisy, ”News.ru quotes Prigozhina.