Vadim Iosifovich Mulerman (russian: Вади́м Ио́сифович Мулерма́н; 18 August 1938 – 2 May 2018) was a
Soviet
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,
Ukrainian
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and
American
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singer (
baritone
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).
He was awarded the titles of
Honored Artist of the RSFSR
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(1978) and
Merited Artist of Ukraine
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In 1971, at the whim of Sergey Lapin, the then Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio), Mulerman, along with several other singers of Jewish descent, was de facto barred from appearing on television.
Since 1989, Mulerman lived in the United States, where, in Florida, founded and managed a children's musical theater. As of 2008, he lived in
Kharkiv
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Selected songs
* "King the Winner" (russian: Король-победитель, 1968, based on the poem "Le retour du roi" by
Maurice Carême
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Hutsul
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Girl" ()
* "I Had a Dream" (, 1969)
* "August" (russian: Август)