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Uno Loop
Uno Loop (31 May 1930 – 8 September 2021) was an Estonian singer, musician, athlete, actor, and educator. Loop's career as a musician and singer began in the early 1950s. He performed with various ensembles and as a popular soloist beginning in the 1960s. In his youth, he trained as a boxer, and became the 1947–48 light-middleweight two-time Estonian Junior Champion. Later, he trained as a triathlete. Between the late 1950s and the early 1990s, he taught music, voice and guitar. Loop also worked as an actor, and appeared in several films beginning in the 1960s and in several roles in Estonian television series. Early life, education, and sport Uno Loop was born in Tallinn to Eduard and Amilde Hildegard Loop (''née'' Vesiloik) and grew up in Tallinn and the village of Nabala in Harju County. Interested in music from an early age, he attended the Tallinn Music High School, receiving a degree in music theory in 1958 and became an accomplished guitarist. In his youth, Loop w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only south of Helsinki, Finland, also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Tallinn received Lübeck city rights in 1248,, however the earliest evidence of human population in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The medieval indigenous population of what is now Tallinn and northern Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uno Naissoo
Uno Naissoo (25 March 1928 Viljandi – 5 January 1980 Tallinn) was an Estonian composer and jazz musician. In 1952, he graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory. Bteween 1952–1980, he taught music theory subjects at Georg Ots Tallinn Music School. He has directed several ensembles, including Swing Club (1947–1957), Rütmikud (1948–1950). Since 1954, he was a member of Estonian Composers' Union Estonian Composers' Union (abbeviation ECU; et, Eesti Heliloojate Liit) is an Estonian creative union which encompasses professional composers and musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logi .... His son is pianist and composer Tõnu Naissoo. Awards * 1965 Estonian SSR Merited Art Worker * 1976 Annual Music Award of Estonian SSR * 1978 Estonian SSR People's Artist Selected works * 7 jazz suites * song "My home" * song "When it’s Midsummer Day" * song "The May began in March" References {{DEFAULTSORT:Naissoo, Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voldemar Kuslap
Voldemar Kuslap (born 24 September 1937) is an Estonian opera and operetta singer (baritone) and occasional actor. Biography He was born in 1937 in the city of Oudova in the RSFSR. In 1968, he graduated from the Tallinn State Conservatory. From 1965 to 2010, he sang in the choir of the Estonia Theatre. In total, he has done over 90 roles of opera and operettas. He has also appeared in several feature films, including ''Mis juhtus Andres Lapeteusega?'' (1966), '' Mehed ei nuta'' (1968), ''Valge laev'' (1970), '' Ooperiball'' (1974) and several television films and series. Awards * 1973: Meritorious Artist of the Estonian SSR * 1976: Georg Ots Award * 2001: Order of the White Star The Order of the White Star ( et, Valgetähe teenetemärk; french: Ordre de l'Etoile Blanche) was instituted in 1936. The Order of the White Star is bestowed on Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic ..., V class. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuslap, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidy Tamme
Heidy Tamme (also known as Heidi Tamme, Heidy Laanemäe; born on 5 April 1943) is an Estonian estrada, chamber and pop singer whose career began in the early 1960s.Estonian Encyclopedia. 2000. Volume 14, page 513 Tamme was born in Ulyanovsk, Russia to Estonian parents. The family returned to Estonia when she was young. She attended primary and secondary schools in Tallinn. In 1964, she graduated from the Tallinn Music School with a degree in choir and orchestra conducting and from the Tallinn Conservatory in 1966, studying music under tutelage of Uno Naissoo. From 1967 to 1983, she was a soloist for the Estonian Philharmonic. From 1967 to 1969, she was a singer with the ensemble Laine Laine is Finnish and Estonian for "wave", and a surname in various languages. Laine as a surname originates in Finland, where it is the seventh most common"Most common surnames"
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Olev Subbi
Olev Subbi (7 March 1930, Tartu – 19 August 2013) was an Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...n artist. References External linksEntry in the E-Kunstimuuseum 1930 births 2013 deaths People from Tartu Estonian illustrators 20th-century Estonian male artists 21st-century Estonian male artists 20th-century Estonian painters 21st-century Estonian painters Hugo Treffner Gymnasium alumni Estonian Academy of Arts alumni People's Artists of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (visual arts) Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 2nd Class Burials at Metsakalmistu {{Estonia-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
