Ketevana Konstantinovna Dzhaparidze ( ka, ქეთევან კონსტანტინეს ასული ჯაფარიძე, russian: Кэтевана Константиновна Джапаридзе; February 11, 1901,

Kvishkheti The village Kvishkheti is located in the Khashuri district of the Shida Kartli region in the Republic of Georgia. It is situated between the Likhi mountain range to the west and the Trialeti Range to the east, and the Mtkvari River flows nearby. ...

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– September 20, 1968,

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) was Georgian Soviet singer. People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1956).

Biography

She went to study at the

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noble gymnasium in 1909, where her powerful voice was noticed by the famous composer Zachary Paliashvili, who worked there as a music teacher and led the school choir. In 1919, she entered the Tiflis Conservatory. In 1927, after graduating from the conservatory, she went to

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, where she took singing lessons for 3 years. In 1930, she returned to the USSR (Georgia). In the spring or summer of 1937, Keto made her debut in

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, she gave a solo concert on the stage of the Hermitage (Moscow theater of the revolution). Around the same time (in the spring of 1937), she made her debut in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

at the theater of Recreation garden. In 1939, she was invited to participate in the First all-Union competition of pop artists and received one of the prizes. During the

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, Keto had to change her repertoire and started performing patriotic songs. The singer gave many concerts in hospitals and on the front line. In 1956, Dzhaparidze was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Georgian SSR. Keto died on September 20, 1968, and was buried in the

Didube Pantheon The Didube Pantheon ( ka, დიდუბის მწერალთა და საზოგადო მოღვაწეთა პანთეონი) is a cemetery in Tbilisi, Georgia, where some of the most prominent writers, artists, s ...

References

{{Authority control Burials at Didube Pantheon 1901 births 1968 deaths 20th-century women singers from Georgia (country) Soviet women singers 20th-century Russian women singers 20th-century Russian male singers