Lilia Sandulesu (

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: Лілія Сандулесу; born in 1958) is a Ukrainian pop singer.

People's Artist of Ukraine People's Artist of Ukraine is an honorary and the highest title awarding to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.). Establ ...

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Biography

Lilia Sandulesu was born in village

Marshyntsi Marshyntsi ( uk, Маршинці; ro, Marșenița) is one of the Romanian-speaking villages of the Chernivtsi Raion (district) of Chernivtsi Oblast (province) in western Ukraine (the historical region of Bessarabia). It belongs to Novoselytsia ...

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in 1958. In 1977 she won a gold medal at the first all-Union festival of Amateur performance, from the same moment she was a member of the ensemble "Zhiva Voda" in the Chernivtsi Philharmonic. Since 1980 she began to sing in the Volyn Philharmonic in the ensembles "Svityaz" and "Serpanki" together with

Alexander Serov Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Серо́в, Saint Petersburg, – Saint Petersburg, ) was a Russian composer and music critic. He is notable as one of the most important music critics in ...

, at the same time she became famous. She was invited to government concerts in

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and

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. In 1984 she was invited to the Kiev music hall. Over time, she changed her last name to the Ukrainian manner (Sandulesa). In 1985 she reached the final of the all-Union festival "

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" with the song of the composer Volodymyr Bystryakov "Goncharny grug". Already in 1987 the singer was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1992 Sandulesu formed a creative Duo with

Ivo Bobul Ivo Bobul ( uk, Іво Бобул; born 1953, Chernivtsi Oblast) is a Ukrainian singer. Bobul won the People's Artist of Ukraine award in 1998. Biography Bobul started as a restaurant singer, before becoming part of the VIA Chernivtsi Philharmo ...

which was popular abroad. In 1996, she was awarded the title of

. Currently, she has retired from active creative activity. Lives in

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. Since 2018 she is a member of the

Radical Party of Oleh Liashko The Radical Party of Oleh Liashko ( uk, Радикальна Партія Олега Ляшка, translit=Radykal'na partiia Oleha Liashka, RPOL) and formerly known as the Ukrainian Radical-Democratic Party ( uk, Українська демокр� ...

Personal life

According to the singer, she was married six times, officially four times. In the first marriage entered in 16 years and a year later gave birth to a son. For a long time she was in a relationship with singer Alexander Serov. She was also married to Ivo Bobul, with whom she was married for ten years.

Discography

* ''Spochatku ty'' (1987) * ''Bereh lyubovi'' (with Ivo Bobul; 1993) * ''Solo Tu'' (2002) * ''Lilia Sandulesa'' (2004)

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1958 births Living people Soviet pop singers Ukrainian pop singers Recipients of the title of People's Artists of Ukraine 20th-century Ukrainian women singers People from Chernivtsi Oblast Soviet women singers Laureates of the Honorary Diploma of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ukrainian people of Romanian descent {{Ukraine-singer-stub