Tamara Grigoryevna Miansarova (née Remnyova, russian: Тамара Григорьевна Миансарова, links=no; 5 March 1931 – 12 July 2017) was a Soviet Ukrainian
lyric soprano,
and professor of
Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, best known for her hit ''
May There Always Be Sunshine''.
Biography
She was born on March 5, 1931, in
Zinovievsk.
She received her education at a music school attached to the
Minsk Conservatory
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, which she graduated in 1951. In the same year she entered the piano department of the
Moscow Conservatory (class of
Lev Oborin).
She died on July 12, 2017, in Moscow.
Awards and recognition
*1963: 1st prize at the
Sopot International Song Festival, for the song "May There Always Be Sunshine"
*1972:
Meritorious Artist of the
Ukrainian SSR
*1996:
People's Artist of Russia
*
Order of Friendship of Peoples
* 2004: Miansarova get star on the
Star Square in Moscow.
Hits
Miansarova performed over 400 songs, many of them remembered as hits (their recording may be found at Miansarova's site).
*"Ginger", in the meaning of
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ed man), a rendering the song "Rudy Rydz" by
Helena Majdaniec
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, Queen of Polish
Twist, the first Twist song performed in Russian on stage
["Миансарова спасла домработницу Пугачевой" (Miansarova saved the servant Pugacheva)]
an interview, 5 February 2004
*"
Black Cat
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" It was the first Soviet Twist.
*"
May There Always Be Sunshine"
*"Летка-енка" (for the
fad dance Letkajenkka)
*"Let Us Never Quarrel"
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*"Step, Step, a Toddler Is Stepping"
References
External links
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1931 births
2017 deaths
Musicians from Kropyvnytskyi
Soviet women singers
People's Artists of Russia
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Moscow Conservatory alumni
Soviet music educators
Russian music educators
Soviet sopranos
Russian sopranos
20th-century Russian women singers
20th-century Russian singers
Women music educators
20th-century women educators
Russian people of Ukrainian descent