Vera Elisabeth Telenius (24 September 1912, in
Sahalahti
Sahalahti is a former municipality of Finland. It was located in the province of Western Finland and was part of the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality had a population of 2,229 (2003) and covered an area of 171.96 km² of which 35.09 ...
– 5 August 1991, in
Tampere
Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...
) was a Finnish singer. Her most successful recording was "
Miljoona ruusua "Dāvāja Māriņa meitenei mūžiņu" ( en, Dear Māra gave the girl life) is a Latvian song composed by Raimonds Pauls with lyrics by Leons Briedis. It was performed at the 1981 '' Mikrofona aptauja'' by Aija Kukule and Līga Kreicberga.
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for which she wrote Finnish lyrics for the song "
Million alyh roz "Dāvāja Māriņa meitenei mūžiņu" ( en, Dear Māra gave the girl life) is a Latvian song composed by Raimonds Pauls with lyrics by Leons Briedis. It was performed at the 1981 '' Mikrofona aptauja'' by Aija Kukule and Līga Kreicberga.
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" originally made famous by Russian singer
Alla Pugacheva.
References
20th-century Finnish women singers
1991 deaths
1912 births
People from Pirkanmaa
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