Yaroslav and his second wife Elena Martynova. The couple assures that even after the divorce they will remain on good terms. Photo: Elena Martynova’s personal page on social networks.
The news of the divorce of the 32-year-old singer SHAMAN (Yaroslav Dronov) and his 46-year-old wife Elena Martynova shocked the artist’s fans. The couple themselves announced their divorce as soon as rumors about their separation appeared on social media.
“Dear ones, Elena and I are very busy people. Unfortunately, that work schedule and level of employment left us no time for a normal personal life. Divorce is our joint decision. “We remain on good terms, without conflicts or grievances,” the singer stated on his blog.
The singer’s wife also commented on the upcoming divorce.
“I will respond to everyone at once. Yaroslav and I are really breaking up. We made this decision together and consider it correct,” Elena Martynova wrote on social media.
“Unexpected” kisses
One can only guess at the reasons for the divorce, but, frankly, there were harbingers of discord. Gossip started talking about this couple when, on the red carpet of the MUZ-TV awards, SHAMAN passionately kissed singer Mia Boyka on the neck in the summer.
It’s true, the artist later claimed: there was nothing special about this gesture.
– This is the magic of cameras. I just walked up to the person I saw and kissed them… like a normal greeting kiss. As it was unexpected, the man jerked, so the kiss descended. It was a greeting, that was the atmosphere. I failed, I wanted to hit him on the cheek…
History repeated itself at the last “New Wave” in Sochi. There the singer had to give two explanations. At first, the artist walked the red carpet without a wedding ring. The reporters asked: “Is everything okay with your wife?” SHAMAN answered that after his first marriage to Marina Roshchupkina, he gave up wearing a wedding ring.
– I had experience, I was still singing in a cover band in a restaurant and I kept losing rings. And my wife and I (we are talking about the artist’s current wife, Elena. – Ed.) did not buy any wedding rings. Why do we need them? Is this what marriage is about?
The next day, the artist surprised journalists again. He appeared on the path of the stars with a girl dressed in red, whom he tenderly hugged and kissed again on the neck… It turned out that accompanying SHAMAN was the singer Soya, who played the role of Rogneda in Igor Matvienko’s ethno-opera . “Prince Vladimir”, in which Yaroslav got the main role. But Soya assured reporters that she had a fiancé and that she and Yaroslav simply became friends, like colleagues.
First love – music teacher
SHAMAN fans believed until the end in his family affair with his wife. After all, just a couple of months ago, at a Grigory Leps concert, Yaroslav and Elena danced a slow dance in the VIP area and kissed tenderly.
However, the singer also broke up with his first wife without scandal. Dronov met Marina Roshchupkina in his youth, when he was 16 years old and she was 22. Marina taught folk singing at a music school.
The artist’s first wife, Marina Roshchupkina, taught folk singing. Photo: Marina Roshchupkina/VK
“I immediately felt that Marina was my dear person,” SHAMAN said.
Despite the age difference, the lovers got married in 2012. And in 2014, the couple had a daughter, Varya.
The family ship began to take on water when SHAMAN went to Moscow to enlist in Gnesinka, leaving his wife and daughter in Novomoskovsk (Tula region). The separation did no good to the marriage.
The artist tried to make peace with his wife and even moved them and their daughter to the capital, but the breakup still occurred. Marina returned to her hometown, and Yaroslav confidently walked towards a great career. After the divorce, Yaroslav and Marina maintained friendly relations.
“I didn’t immediately understand the magic of his voice”
The artist began dating Elena Martynova when he was already divorced. Elena is 14 years older than Yaroslav, successful, beautiful and with an established career (today she is the senior manager of a large mobile communications company). Martynova saw her future husband at one of the corporate events in 2017 and was captivated by his talent. At that time Elena was also divorced; She had just broken up with her first husband, the writer Alexander Tsypkin. As Martynova’s friends say, she helped a lot in Yaroslav’s career, making Dronov a real star thanks to his talent as a public relations specialist.
– I spoke at one of the events. Then Lena found my phone number, called me and offered to negotiate a concert date,” the singer recalled about his meeting with his wife. “I didn’t immediately understand the magic of his voice and handed the phone to the concert director. After a while, I saw his letter in which he said that he had to tell me directly that he really wanted to meet me. We met and we liked each other. Well, here we go…
The couple preferred a closed lifestyle. Only occasionally did Elena write something personal on her social networks. Thus, a couple of years ago she publicly congratulated her husband on his anniversary:
“Today marks exactly five years since the wedding of Yaroslav and I. Our first anniversary. Meeting Yaroslav changed my life and my conscience. From the first minutes, I was struck by his inner light, his uncompromising sincerity, his depth and breadth of personality, as well as his infallible ability to separate the wheat from the chaff. For the first time I met a person who had such an exceptional gift from God and such a difficult path and who carried his cross with such dignity and unbreakable will. “I immediately realized I had to be there.”
“Quickly, without hesitation, we decided to sign, probably at the second meeting,” the musician said in an interview with Boris Korchevnikov. – I am always used to listening to my heart. He doesn’t lie. And at that moment I realized that we should be together. Here we are together to this day.
Registered an alias
It is unknown what caused the breakup. But it seems that SHAMAN started preparing for divorce last year. Judging by official documentation, at this time the musician began to transfer all matters to himself. The first step is to register your own individual entrepreneur. And at the beginning of December 2023, Yaroslav registered his stage name CHAMAN. Although before that he acted calmly for more than five years. He probably wanted to protect himself from the trials for his pseudonym that some of his star colleagues, for example, Dima Bilan, suffered.
In the same December 2023, Elena Martynova liquidated her individual entrepreneur. A strange coincidence, however… It can be assumed that already then there was some kind of disagreement between the spouses, after which they divided the business.
After this step, Dronov’s affairs began to be managed more actively by his concert director, Alexander Kachan. Thus, it was individual entrepreneur Alexander Kachan who received a payment for the singer of 8 million rubles last year. for singing at the city’s Cultural Center and a recent fee of 15 million 300 thousand rubles. for performing at a festival in the city of Stavropol.
QUESTION – RIB
What will they share?
If we talk about real estate, apparently there will be no scandal. It was previously reported that the artist’s wife has a house in Rublyovka, which costs at least 100 million rubles. But Dronov denied it.
– This is absolutely false. “My wife and I live in a normal rented apartment,” the singer explained to reporters.
If there is one thing Dronov and Martynova can share, it is their bank accounts and income from the artist’s concerts. After all, the singer’s career took off sharply during the years of marriage. Taking into account that in the last year Yaroslav’s fees have increased from 8 million to 16 million rubles. For the concert (and SHAMAN performs quite often), he earned a lot.
Also, as KP wrote, there was a case when wealthy fans paid the singer around 40 million for a private performance! Therefore, one can only guess what amounts the spouses will have to divide during the divorce process.
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