Klavdiya Shulzhenko

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Birth Date:
24.03.1906
Death date:
17.06.1984
Length of life:
78
Days since birth:
43366
Years since birth:
118
Days since death:
14790
Years since death:
40
Extra names:
Klawdija Schulschenko, Клавдия Шульженко, Klaudija Šuļženko, Клавдия Ивановна Шульженко, Klawdija Iwanowna Schulschenko
Categories:
Singer
Cemetery:
Novodevichy Cemetery

Klavdiya Ivanovna Shulzhenko (Russian: Кла́вдия Ива́новна Шульже́нко; March 24 [O.S. March 12] 1906, Kharkiv – June 17, 1984, Moscow) was a popular female singer from the Soviet Union.

Shulzhenko started singing with jazz and pop bands in the late 1920s. She rose to fame in the late 1930s with her version of Sebastian Yradier's La Paloma. In 1939, she was awarded at the first all-Soviet competition of pop singers.

During World War II, Shulzhenko performed about a thousand concerts for Soviet soldiers in besieged Leningrad and elsewhere. The lyrics of one of her prewar songs, The Blue Headscarf, were adapted so as to suit wartime realities. Another iconic song of the Eastern Front (World War II), Let's Smoke, was later used by Vladimir Menshov in his Oscar-winning movie Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears.

On April 10, 1976, Shulzhenko performed to enraptured audience on YouTube in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in what would become her most famous concert.

In 1945, Shulzhenko was awarded the Order of the Red Star. She, as traditional pop singer, was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1971.

 

Source: wikipedia.org

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        1Владимир КораллиВладимир КораллиHusband18.05.190600.00.1996
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