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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 Christia ... [...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. His son is pianist and composer Tõnu Naissoo Tõnu Naissoo (born 18 March 1951) is an Estonian composer and jazz pianist. Tõnu Naissoo was born in Tallinn. He is the son of composer Uno Naissoo. He began studying classical piano at the age of six at the Tallinn Music School, graduating in .... 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] |
Eesti Rahvusringhääling
Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR) – ''Estonian Public Broadcasting'' – is a publicly funded and owned radio and television organisation created in Estonia on 1 June 2007 to take over the functions of the formerly separate Eesti Raadio (ER) (''Estonian Radio'') and Eesti Televisioon (ETV) (''Estonian Television''), under the terms of the Estonian National Broadcasting Act. The first chair of ERR is Margus Allikmaa, the former chair of Eesti Raadio. Present CEO is Erik Roose. The organisation has proved popular since its creation, with ETV becoming the national television channel, creating and producing their own shows. Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR) can be streamed live from all around the world from online browsers as well as an app. Services Television ERR's three national television channels are: * ETV – a general interest television channel * ETV2 – programming for children, sports, cultural programming, i.e. quality films and drama series * ETV+ &n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eesti Televisioon
Eesti Televisioon (ETV) ( en, Estonian Television) is an Estonian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Estonian Public Broadcasting. It made its first broadcast on 19 July 1955. History Eesti Televisioon (''Estonian Television'') was launched on 19 July 1955. Before that, television broadcasts in Estonia could only be received from Moscow. The very first Estonian-language TV presenter was Ofelia Mikk, whose debut was in the 19 July 1955 test broadcast. Her tenure in television was cut short, because she misspoke out of nervousness. The first tenured presenter for the nascent ETV was Ruth Peramets-Püss (1927–2005). To find a presenter, a casting competition was held in 1955, but no suitable person was found. By chance, a film in which she starred, was aired on ETV on the day of the competition, and so she was hired. Kalmer Tennosaar (1928–2004) began as a presenter on 1 January 1956, and subsequently worked as an editor and fellow of music programmes ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estrada (music Genre)
Estrada (french: estrade) — originally, a kind of stage for performances. Now this term also means a kind of scenic art of small forms of mainly popular-entertaining direction, including such directions as singing, dance, circus on stage, illusionism, colloquial genre, parody, clownery. As a kind of cultural and economic activity, the Estrada is an integral part of show business. Artists performing in the Estrada genre are called Estrada Artist or Artist of Estrada. The Russian estrada nowadays is a diverse group of artists representing both pop-song genre and other genres of theatrical art. Alla Pugacheva, Anna German, Valery Leontiev, Sofia Rotaru, Philip Kirkorov, Oleg Gazmanov, Lev Leshchenko, Iosif Kobzon, vocal and instrumental ensembles, pop groups and rock bands represent the variety-song genre: "Samotsvety", "Pesnyary", "Mashina Vremeni" ,"Zemlyane"," Aria "," Alice","Mumiy Troll", "Zemfira" and many others. The spoken genre is represented by such artists as Gennady ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonian Language
Estonian ( ) is a Finnic language, written in the Latin script. It is the official language of Estonia and one of the official languages of the European Union, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people; 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia. Classification Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family. The Finnic languages also include Finnish and a few minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and in northwestern Russia. Estonian is subclassified as a Southern Finnic language and it is the second-most-spoken language among all the Finnic languages. Alongside Finnish, Hungarian and Maltese, Estonian is one of the four official languages of the European Union that are not of an Indo-European origin. From the typological point of view, Estonian is a predominantly agglutinative language. The loss of word-final sounds is extensive, and this has made its inflectional morphology markedly more fusional, especially with respec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Ots
Georg Ots (21 March 1920 – 5 September 1975) was an Estonian singer, actor and People's Artist of the USSR (1960). Biography Before studying singing with the Estonian baritone Aleksander Rahnel in Yaroslavl in the rear of the Eastern Front, where a cultural center for evacuated Estonians had been established, Ots was a young Navy Officer who had escaped a sinking ship and was taken prisoner in Russia. He was released a year later, and on his return home, he auditioned for a place at the conservatory in Tallinn. At the same time, he became a member of the chorus at the Estonia Theatre in Tallinn. His solo opera debut was a small part in ''Eugene Onegin'' (1944). He soon became one of the most revered singers in Estonia and Finland and was also admired and beloved across Russia. Ots often performed in many major opera houses of the former Soviet Union, being especially cherished at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. His repertoire included the roles of Eugene Onegin, Yeletzky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eesti Päevaleht
''Eesti Päevaleht'' ''("Estonia Daily")'' is a major daily Estonian newspaper, from the same publishers as the weekly ''Eesti Ekspress''. It has a daily circulation of around 36,000. History and profile ''Eesti Päevaleht'' was founded on 5 June 1995, when the newspapers '' Hommikuleht'', '' Päevaleht'' (previously '' Noorte Hääl'') and '' Rahva Hääl'' were merged into a single publication. On 29 September 1995, ''Eesti Päevaleht'' merged with ''Eesti Sõnumid''. In May 2011 the newspaper joined the Eesti Ajalehed Eesti Ajalehed ( en, Estonian Newspapers) was an Estonian publishing company, which published the newspapers Maaleht and Eesti Ekspress. The company belonged to the Tallinn Stock Exchange. The company operated in Tallinn Tallinn () is the m ... group. Another newspaper under the same name is published weekly in Stockholm, Sweden. References External links * 1995 establishments in Estonia Estonian-language newspapers Mass media in Tallinn Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
