Tamara Miansarova
Appearance
Tamara Grigoryevna Miansarova nee Remnyova (Template:Lang-ru) (born March 5, 1931 in Kirovohrad) is a Soviet and Russian lyric soprano pop singer and professor of Russian Academy of Theatre Arts,[1] best known for her hit May There Always Be Sunshine.[2]
Awards and recognition
- 1963: 1st prize at the Sopot International Song Festival, for the song May There Always Be Sunshine [3]
- 1972: Meritorious Artist of the Ukrainian SSR
- 1996: People's Artist of Russia[4]
- Order of Friendship of Peoples
- 2004: Miansarova get star on the Star Square in Moscow.
Hits
Miansarova performed over 400 songs, many of them remembered as hits (their recording may be found at Miansarova's site[5]).
- Рыжик (Ginger, in the meaning of red haired man"), a rendering the song Rudy Rydz by Helena Majdaniec, "the Queen of Polish Twist", the first Twist song performed in Russian on stage[6]
- ru[7] It was the first Soviet Twist.[8]
- May There Always Be Sunshine
- Летка-енка (for the fad dance Letkajenkka)
- Давай никогда не ссориться (Let Us Never Quarrel)[9][6]
- Топ-топ, топает малыш ("Step, Step, A Toddler is Stepping")[6]
- Глаза на песке ("Eyes on the Sand"")[6]
References
- ^ Tamara Miansarova official site
- ^ Tamara Miansarova bio
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20071017110215/http://pesnyagoda.by.ru/sopot.htm
- ^ УКАЗ Президента РФ от 30.08.1996 N 1284 "О НАГРАЖДЕНИИ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫМИ НАГРАДАМИ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ"
- ^ Recordings of Miansarova's hits
- ^ a b c d "Миансарова спасла домработницу Пугачевой", an interview
- ^ "Black Cat"
- ^ Композитор Юрий САУЛЬСКИЙ: «Мой «Черный кот» был первым советским твистом»
- ^ Let Us Never Quarrel