The famous Russian composer and singer Igor Nikolaev recently admitted that his usual image of a long-haired handsome man with a mustache was once adjusted. About who forced him to shab mustache, the musician told in an interview with his colleague on stage - Singer Valeria in her program "Why am I?" On YouTube.
So, 61-year-old Nikolaev admitted that wears a mustache from youth. However, when the musician was in the army, he was still forced to change his habit and shave all the vegetation on his face. "I was 24 years old, and my mustache was then thick, walrus," recalls Nikolaev. It turned out that the senior lieutenant made him appear on the oath without a mustache. "He wanted something that I rip away - and I shaved," the composer told a smile with a smile.
According to Nikolaev, his external image has developed in the early 80s. Then many artists wore mustache - it was considered normal and even fashionable. "Then there were many people with a mustache: Misha Boyarsky, Rosenbaum - also always with a mustache," said the musician. In addition, it turned out that Nikolayev had a kummy of childhood, which played a decisive role in becoming an external image. "I had a kummy of childhood - Vladimir Muulavin from the" Pesnyary "ensemble. He had straight forward! And all the musicians in the group were wearing a mustache, "the author of the song" Dolphin and Mermaid "remembered the story.
The case in the army was the only one when Nikolaev refused the mustache. The musician feels comfortable in this image.