Prokhor Chaliapin

Chaliapin was born as Andrei Zakharenkov in Volgograd on 26 November 1983.{{cite web|url=http://rodgor-vlg.ru/na-kontrole/volgogradskii-pevec-prohor-shaljapin-rasskazal-o-skoroi-svadbe.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140211154037/http://rodgor-vlg.ru/na-kontrole/volgogradskii-pevec-prohor-shaljapin-rasskazal-o-skoroi-svadbe.html|archive-date=2014-02-11|title=Волгоградский певец Прохор Шаляпин рассказал о скорой свадьбе|date=2013-11-13|publisher=Rodnoi gorod|access-date=2013-12-08}} His mother was a cook, and his father, a steelworker.{{cite web|url=http://www.piter.fm/artist/прохор_шаляпин/about|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140211154014/http://www.piter.fm/artist/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE%D1%80_%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BD/about|archive-date=2014-02-11|title=Прохор Шаляпин|publisher=piter.fm|access-date=2013-12-22}} He was the only child of Andrei Ivanovich Zakharenkov and Elena Ivanovna Kletskina, who was eighteen at the birth of her son.{{cite web |title=НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ПРОИСХОЖДЕНИЕ ПРОХОРА ШАЛЯПИНА. // ПРОСТО ТАКАЯ ГЕНЕТИКА |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87QJDimuCvE |website=YouTube.com | date=3 May 2023 |publisher=Genotek |access-date=9 July 2023}} Chaliapin's paternal grandparents hailed from Gorky Oblast and Smolensk Oblast, while his maternal grandparents came from Arel'sk, Trubchevsky District, Bryansk Oblast and Kalynivka, Korosten Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. His maternal grandmother was an ethnic Pole. Three out of his four great-grandfathers were killed in World War II, of which two on the Eastern Front during the Great Patriotic War.

In many interviews, Chaliapin acknowledged that he endured a challenging childhood due to his father's problems with alcoholism and schizophrenia.{{cite web |title=Шаляпин намекнул, что дочь Ефремова драматизирует события из детства |url=https://www.ntv.ru/novosti/2527304/ |website=NTV.ru |publisher=NTV |access-date=13 April 2021}}{{cite web |title=Отец Прохора Шаляпина умер в психиатрической клинике |url=https://www.starhit.ru/novosti/otets-prohora-shalyapina-umer-v-psihiatricheskoy-klinike-171862/ |website=Starhit.ru |publisher=Starhit |access-date=13 April 2021}} His parents divorced when he was nine.[http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/624713 Прохор Шаляпин не забывает сидящего в тюрьме отца // НТВ.Ru] As a result of a then deteriorating relationship with his mother and new step-father, Chaliapin moved in with his paternal grandparents.{{cite web |title=Прохор Шаляпин и Лолита в программе Без комплексов. 2007 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9mqyxfp_bU |website=YouTube.com | date=11 October 2012 |access-date=29 August 2021}} In 1996, his maternal grandmother and aunt were murdered in their apartment in Volgograd; Chaliapin was the first one to discover the murder scene.{{cite web |title=Прохор Шаляпин стал свидетелем чудовищной трагедии в семье |url=https://www.starhit.ru/novosti/prohor-shalyapin-stal-svidetelem-chudovischnoy-tragedii-v-seme-124705/ |website=Starhit.ru |publisher=Starhit |access-date=13 April 2021}} Initially, charges were pressed against both his parents, leaving Chaliapin to be sent to an orphanage. However, after three days, charges were dropped and his mother returned home.{{cite web |title=Впервые в эфире: Прохор Шаляпин рассказывает об убийстве родных |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_yKXX7W1-w |website=YouTube |publisher=VGTRK}} A few months later, Chaliapin became involved in a serious car accident.

Chaliapin was involved in music from a young age. He started playing bayan and entered a local music school, but was expelled after a few years.{{cite web |title="Званый гость" ток-шоу. Прохор Шаляпин |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coBItHXCCOE |website=YouTube.com |publisher=ГТРК "Брянск" |access-date=28 August 2021}} In the fifth grade, he became a soloist of the Russian folk band "Vyunok" and moved from the regular school to the Central School of Art at the Volgograd branch of the Samara Academy of Arts and Culture. At the age of 15, Chaliapin auditioned to enter the State Music and Pedagogical Institute named after M. Ippolitov-Ivanov at the department of "Folk singing".{{cite web|url=http://www.km.ru/glavnoe/2009/06/26/zvezdy-onlaina/menya-priuchili-vsegda-ulybatsya-na-stsene|title="Меня приучили всегда улыбаться на сцене"|date=2009-06-26|publisher=km.ru|access-date=2013-12-22}} Chaliapin was enrolled in the programme with a full scholarship.{{cite web |title=Сегодня вечером. Утренняя звезда.Выпуск от 24.03.2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsspU23xqSY |website=YouTube.com |publisher=Segodnya Vecherom |access-date=28 August 2021}} With this, he also moved to Moscow.

After graduating from the institute, he applied to the same department at the Gnessin Musical College, where he managed to enroll. His tuition fees were sponsored.{{cite web |title=Настоящая история Прохора Шаляпина: что скрывается за улыбкой на миллион? От 08.09.16 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB1wTuEOtkU |website=YouTube |publisher=VGTRK |access-date=13 April 2021}}

From 1991 to 1996, Chaliapin was known as a child singer and as one of the soloists of the vocal show group "Jam", where he sang along with Irina Dubtsova, Tanya Zaikina (Monokini) and Sofia Taih.{{cite web|url=http://www.moscvichka.ru/moscvichka/2012/10/09/prohor-shalyapin-mne-nezavisimost-oboshlas-ochen-dorogo-4334.html|title=Прохор Шаляпин: "Мне независимость обошлась очень дорого…"|author=Evgeniy Danilov|date=2012-10-09|publisher=moscvichka.ru|access-date=2013-12-22}} With the show group, he performed at different events in Volgograd, where the group enjoyed local popularity. Chaliapin also took part in several television recordings with the group. In 1996, he wrote his first song "Nerealniy son".{{cite news|url=http://telegraf.com.ua/zhizn/zhurnal/860190-shalyapin-i-ego-57-letnyaya-podruga-podali-zayavlenie-v-zags-video.html|title=Шаляпин и его 57-летняя подруга подали заявление в ЗАГС|newspaper=Телеграф |date=2013-11-02|publisher=telegraf.com.ua|access-date=2013-12-22 |last1=Гулеватая |first1=Татьяна }}

After moving to Moscow, Chaliapin applied to the casting of Morning Star. He was eventually asked to appear as a replacement in one broadcast after a boy fell ill in 1999. At the broadcast, he sang "Nerealniy son" and "Ne otrekayutsa lyuba", taking the third place.

Chaliapin subsequently took part in various musical competitions. In 2005, at the contest "Star Chance", held in New York, he sang the song "Odna kalyna" by Sofia Rotaru in Ukrainian and took the third place.{{cite news|title=Прохор Шаляпин: Мне нравится любая культура, но особенно – русская|url=http://www.stm.ru/archive/958/|author=Olga Bystrykh|publisher=Studencheskiy meridian|year=2009|issue=7|page=86}}

In 2005, Chaliapin officially changed his name to Prokhor Andreevich Chaliapin.{{cite web|url=http://www.kp.ru/daily/23751.5/55975/|title=Прохор Шаляпин: Киркоров научил меня общаться с девушками|author=Alyona Zhigalova|date=2006-08-07|publisher=Komsomolskaya Pravda|access-date=2013-12-21}} In the same year he released his debut album Volshebnaya skripka, which was produced by Viktor Drobysh.{{cite web|url=http://vmdaily.ru/moscvichka/2012/10/09/prohor-shalyapin-mne-nezavisimost-oboshlas-ochen-dorogo-4334.html|title=Прохор Шаляпин: "Мне независимость обошлась очень дорого…"|date=2012-10-09|publisher=Vechernyaya Moskva|access-date=2013-12-08}}

Chaliapin had unsuccessfully auditioned for the first, third and fifth season of Fabrika Zvyozd. In the fifth season, Chaliapin made it to the last audition round, where he was personally rejected by Alla Pugacheva, who told him that letting Chaliapin on the show would be sycophantic.{{cite web |last1=Krylova |first1=Alina |title="Это творческая ревность": Шаляпин объяснил, почему Пугачева не взяла его на "Фабрику звезд" |url=https://radiokp.ru/znamenitosti/eto-tvorcheskaya-revnost-shalyapin-obyasnil-pochemu-pugacheva-ne-vzyala-ego-na-fabriku-zvezd_nid399119_au10677au |website=RadioKP.ru |date=9 April 2021 |publisher=Komsomolskaya Pravda |access-date=13 April 2021}} Chaliapin eventually became a contestant in the sixth series of the show, which was under moderation of Drobysh.

For his frivolous behaviour and one-liners, Chaliapin quickly became an audience favourite and a widely discussed participant. His most famous one-liner became "You are stars, but I am a legend!" (Вы – звёзды, а я – легенда!). He also attracted negative attention by posing as the descendant of the famous opera singer Feodor Chaliapin.{{cite news|author=Maxim Kononenko|title=Ху из мистер Шаляпин?|publisher=Gazeta|year=2006|issue=46|page=23}}{{cite web|url=http://echo.msk.ru/programs/alekseev/56650/|title=Ночной эфир Бориса Алексеева: Неизвестное об известном|date=2007-11-27|publisher=Echo of Moscow|access-date=2013-12-28}} Chaliapin was nominated four times, more than any other contestant, but was saved each time. Twice, Chaliapin was saved by public vote, once by contestants' vote and once by the veto of the producer. In the end of the competition, Chaliapin reached the final, finishing fourth.

After Fabrika Zvyozd, Prokhor Chaliapin's producer was Victor Drobysh.{{cite web|url=http://sobesednik.ru/publications/yellow/2009/9/44/prohor_shalyapin_44_2008|title=Дробыш простил Прохора Шаляпина|date=2009-09-16|publisher=Sobesednik|access-date=2013-12-22}} Parting with Drobysh in 2007 was held with mutual accusations and scandals.[https://archive.today/20140211154028/http://www.shoowbiz.ru/news/12924.html Новости шоу-бизнеса, скандалы, светская хроника " Шаляпин подаёт иск в суд против Дробыша][http://www.kleo.ru/items/planetarium/drobysh0312.shtml Дробыш требует от Шаляпина миллион | Планетарий на Клео]

After the end of the Fabrika Zvzyod tour, Prokhor Chaliapin began to conduct an active solo tour activity, including abroad. In 2008, his first video for the song "Serdtse.com" was released. In the same year, the singer graduated from the Gnessin State Musical College. His diploma was dedicated to the use of Russian folk songs in the work of Feodor Chaliapin.{{cite web|url=http://www.aif.ru/culture/206533|title=Прохор Шаляпин посвятил диплом Фёдору Шаляпину|date=2008-02-01|publisher=Argumenty i Fakty|access-date=2013-12-28}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mk.ru/old/article/2008/02/08/56072-shalyapin-zapoet-basom.html|title=Шаляпин запоёт басом|date=2008-02-08|publisher=Moskovskij Komsomolets|access-date=2013-12-28}}

In 2011, Chaliapin portrayed Boris Shtokolov in the television series Zhukov.{{cite web|url=http://www.1tv.ru/public/pi=20397|title=Ради фильма Прохор Шаляпин подстригся налысо|date=2011-06-19|publisher=1tv.ru|access-date=2014-01-05}} In 2013, Chaliapin released his second album Legenda. In 2014, he starred as recurring character Lyova in the television series Kurazh.{{cite web |title=АКТЕРЫ И РОЛИ |url=https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/ros/106408/titr/ |website=kino-teatr.ru |access-date=29 August 2021}}

In 2019, Chaliapin performed at the festive concert dedicated to second anniversary of the complete destruction of chemical weapons in Russia. During this concert in Volgograd, Chaliapin held a short speech in which he said he wished for a peaceful world without war. For his performance, he earned the medal "For Cooperation in the Field of Chemical Disarmament".{{cite web |title=Прохор Шаляпин похвастался медалью "За содружество в области химического разоружения" |url=https://bloknot-volgograd.ru/news/prokhor-shalyapin-pokhvastalsya-medalyu-za-sodruzh-1145710 |website=bloknot.volgograd.ru |publisher=Bloknot Volgograd |date=28 September 2019}}

In 2021, Chaliapin was a guest on a special broadcast of Hello, Andrey!, hosted by Andrey Malakhov on Russia-1, dedicated to Russian folk songs.{{cite web |last1=Todorovich |first1=Yuliya |title=61-летняя Кадышева в пышном платье ультрамаринового цвета появилась в передаче у Малахова |url=https://teleprogramma.pro/tele/tv-projects/1644285-61-letnyaya-kadysheva-v-pyshnom-plate-ultramarinovogo-cveta-poyavilas-v-u3262/ |website=Starhit.ru |date=27 February 2021 |publisher=Starhit |access-date=13 April 2021}}

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Between 2012 and 2020, Chaliapin was a regular guest of Russian sensationalist shows as Live on Air, Let Them Talk and Actually, becoming a popular and widely discussed personality in Russian yellow press. After Fabrika Zvyozd, Chaliapin first appeared in a broadcast of Live on Air in 2012, where he and his then girlfriend discussed their relationship in an unconventional manner.{{cite web |title=Прямой эфир 20.03.12 — Суррогатное материнство |url=https://pryamoj-efir.ru/pryamoj-efir-20-03-12-surrogatnoe-materinstvo/ |website=praymoj-efir.ru |publisher=VGTRK |access-date=13 April 2021}}

In 2013, Chaliapin appeared in a broadcast in which he announced that he would marry 57-year-old business woman and media personality Larisa Kopenkina.{{cite web |title=Прохор Шаляпин женится на пенсионерке. Пусть говорят. Выпуск от 19.08.2013 |url=https://www.1tv.ru/shows/pust-govoryat/programmy-o-zvezdah/prohor-shalyapin-zhenitsya-na-pensionerke-pust-govoryat-vypusk-ot-19-08-2013 |website=1tv.ru |publisher=Channel One Russia}} The broadcast became a part of a media circus around the couple.{{cite web |title=Прохор Шаляпин женится за пенсионерка |url=https://www.vokrug.tv/article/show/prohor_shalyapin_zhenitsya_na_pensionerke_39371/ |website=vokrug.tv |access-date=13 April 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Sharlovskaya |first1=Liliya |title=Шаляпин скопировал свою свадьбу с Пугачевой и Галкина |url=https://www.mk.ru/social/highlife/article/2013/12/03/954061-shalyapin-skopiroval-svoyu-svadbu-s-pugachevoy-i-galkina.html |website=mk.ru |publisher=Moskovskij Komsomolets |date=3 December 2013}} In early 2015, in a broadcast of Let Them Talk, the two announced that their relationship had been fake and a PR stunt.{{cite web |title=Прохор Шаляпин признал, что его брак с Копенкиной был фикции |url=https://7days.ru/lifestyle/family/prokhor-shalyapin-priznal-chto-ego-brak-s-kopenkinoy-byl-fiktsiey.htm |website=7days.ru |publisher=7 Dney |date=30 April 2015}}{{cite web |title=Прохор Шаляпин. Без купюр. Пусть говорят. Выпуск от 29.04.2015 |url=https://www.1tv.ru/shows/pust-govoryat/programmy-o-zvezdah/prohor-shalyapin-bez-kupyur-pust-govoryat-vypusk-ot-29-04-2015 |website=1tv.ru |publisher=Channel One Russia |date=29 April 2015}} Instead, Chaliapin announced that he had a child with another woman, model Anna Kalashnikova, which was born to the couple in March 2015. In a 2016 broadcast of Let Them Talk, where Chaliapin and Kalashnikova tried to prove that the child Kalashnikova bore was Chaliapin's, it was found that Chaliapin was 0% likely to be the child's father.{{cite web |title=Прохор Шаляпин и Анна Калашникова узнали страшную правду. Прохор Шаляпин сдал ДНК. Пусть говорят. Фрагмент выпуска от 20.04.2016 |url=https://www.1tv.ru/shows/pust-govoryat/vypuski-i-dramatichnye-momenty/prohor-shalyapin-i-anna-kalashnikova-uznali-strashnuyu-pravdu-prohor-shalyapin-sdal-dnk-pust-govoryat-fragment-vypuska-ot-20042016 |website=1tv.ru |publisher=Channel One Russia |access-date=13 April 2021 |date=20 April 2016}} The result of the DNA test led to a new media circus around Chaliapin's persona. The video in which Chaliapin receives his negative DNA test was watched more than 15 million times on YouTube.{{cite web |title=Самые неожиданные ДНК‑тесты сезона 2015-2016. Пусть говорят |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyFYIDEzRDs |website=YouTube |publisher=Let Them Talk |access-date=13 April 2021}}

In 2018, Chaliapin again became a popular topic in the yellow press after appearing alongside Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, the former wife of famous actor Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. This led to increased appearances of Chaliapin on sensationalist shows again. In a broadcast of New Russian Sensations in June 2019, a discussion between Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya and her lawyer escalated to fisticuffs, also involving Chaliapin, who tried to de-escalate the situation.{{cite web |title=Бывшую жену Джигарханяна избили в эфире НТВ |url=https://ria.ru/20190610/1555453322.html |website=ria.ru |date=10 June 2019 |publisher=RIA Novosti |access-date=13 April 2021}}

In early 2021, Chaliapin announced his temporary withdrawal from sensationalist shows, stating he needed a break and that he wanted to direct his attention on folk songs: "I'm having a small break. My head hurts from weddings, from shows. I sing folk songs now, go to do sports, I pray.".{{cite web |last1=Petrovichenko |first1=Olga |title=Почему Прохор Шаляпин поставил на паузу отношения с миллионершей из Канады? |url=https://www.5-tv.ru/news/336404/pocemu-prohor-salapin-postavil-napauzu-otnosenia-smillionersej-izkanady/ |website=5-tv.ru |publisher=5 TV |access-date=19 November 2021 |date=22 March 2021}} He returned on Let Them Talk in August 2021 to discuss his new marriage and featured in an unusual one-to-one interview with Andrey Malakhov on Live on Air in October 2021 after the passing of his wife.

Between 2018 and 2020, Chaliapin presented the weather forecast on NTV on weekend days. In 2018, he also debuted his own travel show, titled GoProshka on YouTube.{{cite web |title=GoProshka: Прохор Шаляпин путешествует по России. Город Владимир. |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBf7WD_CkXQ |website=YouTube.com | date=4 September 2018 |publisher=Prokhor Chaliapin |access-date=13 April 2021}}

Chaliapin first married at the age of 18 to a classmate six years his senior, Inna Shevchenko from Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. They separated after one year of marriage and divorced after three years. Between 2011 and 2012, he dated singer and model Adelina Sharipova.{{cite web|url=http://www.1tv.ru/public/pi=21024|title=Прохор Шаляпин выбрал большую грудь, а не мозги|date=2011-09-06|publisher=1tv.ru|access-date=2013-12-21}}{{cite web|url=http://vmdaily.ru/news/prohor-shalyapin-i-ego-vozlublennaya-adelina-sharipova-reshili-stat-roditelyami1334333515.html?page=298|title=Прохор Шаляпин и его возлюбленная Аделина Шарипова решили стать родителями|author=Надежда Дунаева|date=2012-04-13|publisher=Vechernyaya Moskva|access-date=2013-12-21}} On December 3, 2013, 30-year-old Prokhor Chaliapin married 58-year-old entrepreneur Larisa Kopenkina,{{Cite web|url=http://stuki-druki.com/authors/Kopenkina-Larisa.php|title=Лариса Копенкина - биография, новости, личная жизнь, фото, видео}}{{cite web|url=http://www.eg.ru/daily/stars/41099/|title=Прохор Шаляпин женился на своей 57-летней невесте|date=2013-12-03|publisher=eg.ru|access-date=2013-12-28}}{{cite web|url=http://7days.ru/article/topnews/prokhor-shalyapin-zhenilsya|title=Прохор Шаляпин женился|date=2013-12-03|publisher=7 Days|access-date=2013-12-28}} whom he met in early 2013 while on holiday in Jamaica.{{cite web|url=http://www.rosbalt.ru/moscow/2013/07/05/1149347.html|title=Прохор Шаляпин женится на пожилой миллионерше|date=2013-07-05|publisher=Rosbalt|access-date=2013-12-28}} The singer's mother was actively against the wedding.{{cite web|url=http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/753196|title=Во вторник в Кутузовском ЗАГСе узами брака связали себя 30-летний Прохор Шаляпин и 57-летняя бизнес-леди Лариса Копёнкина, с которой он познакомился во время отдыха|publisher=NTV|access-date=2013-12-08}}{{cite web|url=http://fedpress.ru/news/yellowpress/1388123845-prokhor-shalyapin-perepisal-na-mat-kvartiru-kopenkinoi-za-20-millionov|title=Прохор Шаляпин переписал на мать квартиру Копёнкиной за 20 миллионов|author=Olga Stenina|date=2013-12-27|publisher=RIA FederalPress|access-date=2013-12-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220151010/http://fedpress.ru/news/yellowpress/1388123845-prokhor-shalyapin-perepisal-na-mat-kvartiru-kopenkinoi-za-20-millionov|archive-date=2014-12-20}} The two had an open marriage.{{cite web|url=http://www.woman.ru/relations/marriage/article/148775/|title=Лариса Шаляпина призналась, что изменяла бывшему мужу|author=|date=2015-03-13|publisher=Woman.ru|access-date=2015-10-17}} The couple separated in late 2014 and their marriage was annulled officially in early 2015.{{cite news |last1=Remizova |first1=Mariya |title=Прохор Шаляпин: Я женился на 59-летней Копенкиной ради контракта в миллион евро |url=https://www.kp.ru/daily/26377.3/3255191/ |website=KP.ru |date=6 May 2015 |publisher=Komsomolskaya Pravda |access-date=29 August 2021}}

On December 15, 2014, Prokhor Chaliapin officially stated on the talk show Let Them Talk he was expecting a child together with then 30-year-old singer and model Anna Kalashnikova.{{Cite web|url = http://www.pust-govoryat.tv/index.php?newsid=10393|title = Пусть говорят, Любовный треугольник Прохора Шаляпина|author = |date = 2014-12-15|work=Let Them Talk}} In a release dated April 20, 2016, the results of a DNA test showed that their common child{{cite web|url=http://www.starhit.ru/novosti/prohor-shalyapin-nazval-syina-ne-tak-kak-planiroval-115679/|title=Прохор Шаляпин назвал сына не так, как планировал|date=2015-04-07|publisher=starhit.ru|access-date=2015-04-08}}{{cite news|url=http://www.kp.ru/daily/26356/3238668/|script-title=ru:Подруга родила Шаляпину внебрачного ребёнка|work=Komsomolskaya Pravda|date=20 March 2015 |author=Алина Чернова}} is not the biological son of Chaliapin.{{cite web|url=http://www.ural.kp.ru/daily/26519/3535663/|title=Анализ ДНК показал, что у Прохора Шаляпина нет сына|work=Komsomolskaya Pravda}} Their planned wedding in May 2016 was left cancelled as the couple separated. From 2018 to late 2019, Chaliapin had a companionship with pianist Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya.{{cite web |title=Виталина Цымбалюк-Романовская объяснила, почему они с Прохором Шаляпиным придумали себе пиар-роман |url=https://www.vokrug.tv/article/show/16112233981/ |website=Vokrug.tv |publisher=Voktrug |access-date=13 April 2021}}

On 31 July 2021, Chaliapin married his third wife Tanya Davies, a 46-year-old{{cite web |title=СМЕРТЕЛЬНЫЙ МЕДОВЫЙ МЕСЯЦ ПРОХОРА ШАЛЯПИНА! Прямой эфир от 06.10.21 @Россия 1 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsVY6EgIdQU |website=YouTube.com |publisher=Россия 1 |access-date=19 November 2021}} Canadian citizen,{{cite web |last1=Khitrov |first1=Aleksey |title=Жену-миллионершу Прохора Шаляпина из Канады подключили к аппарату ИВЛ |url=https://www.5-tv.ru/news/356308/zenumillionersu-prohora-salapina-izkanady-podklucili-kapparatu-ivl/ |website=5-tv.ru |date=29 August 2021 |publisher=5TV |access-date=29 August 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Polyakov |first1=Igor' |title=Прохор Шаляпин тайно женился на 42-летней миллионерше из Канады |url=https://www.kp.ru/daily/28322/4465662/ |website=KP.ru |date=26 August 2021 |publisher=Komsomolskaya Pravda |access-date=29 August 2021}} in a secret and private ceremony in Las Vegas.{{cite web |title=Певец Прохор Шаляпин тайно женился на миллионерше из Канады |url=https://iz.ru/1213599/2021-08-27/pevetc-prokhor-shaliapin-taino-zhenilsia-na-millionershe-iz-kanady |website=iz.ru |date=27 August 2021 |publisher=Izvestiya |access-date=29 August 2021}} The two had met in Monaco in 2019 and started dating in early 2020. The couple kept their relationship mostly outside of the public eye. She proposed to Chaliapin in late 2020. Shortly after the wedding ceremony, Chaliapin's wife fell ill with COVID-19 and was hospitalised not much later.{{cite web |title=«Уезжал с тяжелым сердцем»: Почему Прохор Шаляпин оставил больную жену? |url=https://www.5-tv.ru/news/356582/uezzal-stazelym-serdcem-pocemu-prohor-salapin-ostavil-bolnuu-zenu/ |website=5-tv.ru |publisher=5-tv |access-date=19 November 2021 |date=2 September 2021}} She died as a result of complications of the illness on 25 September, less than two months after the wedding.{{cite web |title=В США от коронавируса умерла жена Прохора Шаляпина |url=https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/61561e0e9a79472678541428 |website=RBC.ru |publisher=RBC |access-date=19 November 2021 |date=1 October 2021}}{{cite web |title=Умерла жена Прохора Шаляпина Клаудиа Дэвис |url=https://ria.ru/20210930/devis-1752578098.html |website=ria.ru |publisher=RIA Novosti |access-date=19 November 2021 |date=30 September 2021}}{{cite web |title=Умерла жена певца Прохора Шаляпина |url=https://iz.ru/1229295/2021-09-30/umerla-zhena-pevtca-prokhora-shaliapina |website=iz.ru |publisher=Izvestiya |access-date=19 November 2021 |date=30 September 2021}}

After rumours circled around his sexuality in 2014, Chaliapin acknowledged that he "loves all people" and that he thinks that the LGBT community should be protected. He said: "I like it that everyone likes me. Hate is one step away from love. Beautiful! Love me friends.

I support all people. Especially sexual minorities who need it today."{{cite web |last1=Svetstskiy |first1=Leff |title=Прохор Шаляпин о своем гомосексуализме: Просто говорит кто? Те, кто хотят со мной переспать |url=https://glamurchik.tochka.net/226269-prokhor-shalyapin-o-svoem-gomoseksualizme-prosto-govorit-kto-te-kto-khotyat-so-mnoy-perespat/ |website=Glamurchik.tochka.net |date=10 December 2014 |publisher=Tochka |access-date=13 April 2021}} He previously spoke out his support for Conchita Wurst's win at Eurovision 2014.{{cite web |last1=Tsymbalova |first1=Natalya |title=Обломки духовных скреп в бороде Кончиты Вурст |url=https://echo.msk.ru/blog/tsymbalova/1317684-echo/ |website=Echo.msk.ru |publisher=Ekho Moskvy |date=11 May 2014}}

Chaliapin considered himself apolitical in 2021 and referred to Russia as his "house".{{cite web |title=Прохор Шаляпин. Фабрика звезд. Женщины. Творчество |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bw9MO76Iaw |website=YouTube.com |publisher=ТАТА ТУТ |access-date=25 February 2022 |date=24 September 2021}} He said that he did not see the United States as "an enemy of Russia". In the same interview, he was critical about propaganda on state channels, which dictated in his opinion that "all are to blame for our problems".

Chaliapin had lifelong musical ties with Ukraine and has performed in Ukrainian.{{cite web |title=Прохор Шаляпин "Одна калина" |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iCW08wVxSE |website=YouTube.com |access-date=26 February 2022 |date=2 June 2011}} In early 2014, he was one of the first Russian singers to visit the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine and criticized Russian foreign policy and the increased prices for Ukrainians on gas.{{cite web |title=Прохор Шаляпин: Призываю Газпром дать Украине газ по льготной цене |url=https://www.depo.ua/ukr/life/prohor-shalyapin-prizyvayu-gazprom-dat-ukraine-gaz-po-lgotnoy-27062014234500 |website=depo.ua |access-date=26 February 2022 |date=27 June 2014}}{{cite web |title=Прохор Шаляпин снова устроил Майдан |url=https://tv.ua/news/898297-prokhor-shalyapin-snova-ustroil-majjdan |website=tv.ua |publisher=Telenedelya |access-date=26 February 2022 |date=1 July 2014}}{{cite web |title=Прохор Шаляпин с женой приехали на Майдан (фото) |url=https://lady.mail.ru/article/482540-prohor-shaljapin-s-zhenoj-priehali-na-majdan-foto/ |website=lady.mail.ru |publisher=Mail.ru |access-date=26 February 2022 |date=30 June 2014}} He was one of the very few artists to never visit or perform in Crimea or the Donbass region after 2014. On 22 February 2022, shortly before the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian war, he called for "peace, economic stability and calmness" between Russia and Ukraine, referring to Ukraine as a "brother-country" and posting a handshake with between hands painted in the colors of each flag.{{cite web |title=Прохор Шаляпин 🇷🇺 |url=https://www.instagram.com/shalyapin_official/ |website=Instagram.com |access-date=22 February 2022 |date=22 February 2022}}

Prior to the conflict characterized by show business colleagues as "naive" and "persuadable",{{cite web |last1=Krupenkova |first1=Viktoriya |title=Стилист Александр Киринюк рассуждает о звездных прическах |url=https://www.sb.by/articles/vo-vsey-krase-stilist.html |website=sb.by |publisher=SB |access-date=26 February 2022 |date=23 June 2016}}{{cite web |title=Наталья Штурм заявила об инсценировке смерти жены Прохора Шаляпина |url=https://www.mk.ru/social/2021/10/05/natalya-shturm-zayavila-ob-inscenirovke-smerti-zheny-prokhora-shalyapina.html |website=mk.ru |publisher=Moskovskij Komsomolets |access-date=26 February 2022 |date=5 October 2022}} on the day of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Chaliapin stated that he believed that Russia was under threat by NATO and that there was no war with Ukraine.{{cite web |title=На наших глазах совершается история. |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CaZliHEMwWF/ |website=Instagram.com |publisher=Прохор Шаляпин 🇷🇺 |access-date=26 February 2022 |date=25 February 2022 |quote=Какая война?! У нас нет войны с Украиной. Проходит специальная военная операция по принуждению к миру нацистского режима, установившегося на Украине.}}{{cite web |title=«Цирк для бедных умом»: Шаляпин обрушился с критикой на Лолиту из-за высказывания о военной операции |url=https://radiokp.ru/znamenitosti/cirk-dlya-bednykh-umom-shalyapin-obrushilsya-s-kritikoy-na-lolitu-iz-za-vyskazyvaniya-o-voennoy_nid570351_au47321au |website=radiokp.ru |publisher=Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda |access-date=26 February 2022 |date=25 February 2022}} He wrote that he previously thought that Russia had invaded Ukraine, but that his opinion changed after consuming state media.{{cite web |title=«Добрые люди» муз.О.Шаумаров сл.Л.Воропаева . |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CabofwQjbPJ/ |website=Instagram.com |publisher=Прохор Шаляпин 🇷🇺 |access-date=26 February 2022 |date=26 February 2022}}

• 2005 — Volshebnaya Skripka
• 2013 — Legenda

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