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Mikrofona Aptauja
''Mikrofons'' was the annual song contest took place in Latvia, in 1968–1994. Latvian composer Raimonds Pauls composed several songs that participated in, and won, the contest. One of Pauls's winning songs, with lyrics by Leons Briedis, was the 1981 " Dāvāja Māriņa" performed by Aija Kukule Aija Kukule (born 1 October 1956) is a Latvian singer. She performed at the 1981 '' Mikrofona aptauja'' with Līga Kreicberga. Their song was "Dāvāja Māriņa meitenei mūžiņu" (English: Dear Māra gave the girl life). The song was later a ... and Līga Kreicberga. The song was later covered by many artists. References External links www.mikrofonaaptauja.lv Song contests Music of Latvia {{music-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimonds Pauls
Ojārs Raimonds Pauls (born 12 January 1936 in Iļģuciems, Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian composer and piano player who is well known in Latvia, Russia, post-Soviet countries and worldwide. He was the Minister of Culture of Latvia from 1988 to 1993. Biography Raimonds Pauls is the second child of Iļguciems' glass blowing factory worker Voldemārs Pauls and seamstress Alma Matilde Brodele. His father Voldemārs began his career at the age of 15 years, when he joined his father (Raimonds Pauls' grandfather Ādolfs Pauls) at the factory. Meanwhile, Voldemārs' mother Aleksandra, respectively, Raimonds' grandmother, hired an assistant at her shop – Alma. In 1932, Voldemārs and Alma celebrate their wedding. Unfortunately, their firstborn son Gustavs dies from meningitis at the age of four months. As Raimonds' father has played drums and his grandfather – violin, Voldemārs decides that his son should also play a musical instrument. Equipped with an old violin, Raimonds gets into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leons Briedis
Leons Briedis (16 December 1949 – 1 February 2020) was a Latvian poet, a novelist, an essayist, a literary critic and publisher, translator of prose and poetry from Latin, Russian, English, Romance languages (Romanian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Rhaeto-Romanic), Swahili (of Bantu peoples), Albanian and other languages. He was also an author of several musicals produced on the radio and staged at the biggest theatres in Latvia, script writer (author of several scripts, one short-length film is produced) wrote much for children (poems, prose, plays), author of song texts (in collaboration with the composer Raimonds Pauls, texts for ~150 songs), translated 10 plays staged at Latvian theatres and rendered in verse opera librettos (e.g., the opera by Benjamin Britten "The Small Chimney-Sweep"). Early life After graduating the Sigulda Secondary School in 1968 he entered the Latvian State University, Day Department of the Latvian Language and Literature Faculty f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Million Roses
"Dāvāja Māriņa meitenei mūžiņu" ( en, Dear Māra gave the girl life) is a Latvian song composed by Raimonds Pauls with lyrics by Leons Briedis. It was performed at the 1981 '' Mikrofona aptauja'' by Aija Kukule and Līga Kreicberga. The song is one of Pauls's most popular ones. It has been covered by several artists, most notably by Russian Alla Pugacheva in 1982 with lyrics by Andrei Voznesensky as "Million Scarlet Roses" (russian: Миллион алых роз, Million alykh roz). Alla Pugacheva cover Pugacheva's cover was written by Andrei Voznesensky as "Million Scarlet Roses" (Миллион алых роз, Million alykh roz), and Voznesensky drew inspiration for the Russian lyrics from the life of Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani who allegedly once filled with flowers a square of a hotel where Marguerite de Sèvres, a French actress whom he had affection over was staying. The song is also the opening and title track of Pugacheva's album of the same name released i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aija Kukule
Aija Kukule (born 1 October 1956) is a Latvian singer. She performed at the 1981 '' Mikrofona aptauja'' with Līga Kreicberga. Their song was "Dāvāja Māriņa meitenei mūžiņu" (English: Dear Māra gave the girl life). The song was later a big hit in Soviet Union and covered by many artist, most famously by Alla Pugacheva. Aija Kukule received the Grand Music Award Great Music Award ( lv, Lielā mūzikas balva), is the highest prize awarded by the Latvian state in the field of music. Award winners receive a monetary prize, and a silver statuette, created by Armands Jēkabsons. References External links * ... in 1993. Discography * ''Naktsputni'' ith "Modo" Melodija, 1978. * ''Dzied Aija Kukule'' P Melodija, 1980. * ''Dzied Aija Kukule un "Dzeguzīte"''. 1985. * ''Raimonda Paula dziesmas''. Melodija, 1985. * ''Meža gulbji''. Mikrofona ieraksti, 1995. * ''Labākās dziesmas''. Baltic Records Group, 2005. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kukule, Aija 20th-century Latv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Contests
A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetition and variation of sections. Written words created specifically for music, or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in classical music it is an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a simple style that are learned informally "by ear" are often referred to as folk songs. Songs that are composed for professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows to the mass market are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appeal, are often composed by professional songwriters, composers, and lyricists. Art songs are composed by trained classical composers fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |