Yevgeny Viktorovich Belousov (russian: Евге́ний Ви́кторович Белоу́сов; September 10, 1964, ZhikharПерепечатка статьи из «Комсомольской правды», 1990
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), better known as Zhenya Belousov (russian: Женя Белоусов) was a Soviet and Ukrainian pop singer, popular in the late 1980s — early 1990s. His best-known hits include ''My Blue-Eyed Girl'', ''Night Taxi'', ''Alyoshka'', ''Devchonka-Devchonochka'', ''Evening-Evening'', ''Hair Cloud'', ''Golden Domes'', ''Short Summer'', ''Dunya-Dunyasha'', ''In the Evening on a Bench''.

Biography

Yevgeny Viktorovich Belousov was born on September 10, 1964 in the village of Zhikhar,

Kharkiv Oblast Kharkiv Oblast ( uk, Харківська́ о́бласть, translit=Kharkivska oblast), also referred to as Kharkivshchyna ( uk, Ха́рківщина), is an oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine. The oblast borders Russia to the north, Luhans ...

.Евгений Викторович Белоусов: биография и песни
/ref> He graduated from vocational school No 1 as mechanic-repairman and later studied at the Kursk Music College, learning bass guitar. He was not conscripted to the army due to heavy concussion he suffered in a car crash as a schoolboy. In the mid-1980s

Bari Alibasov Bari Karimovich Alibasov (russian: Бари Каримович Алибасов; tt-Cyrl, Бари Кәрим улы Әлибасов; kk, Бауыржан Кәрімұлы Әлібасов; born 6 June 1947, in Charsk, Semipalatinsk Oblast, U ...

saw Belousov playing in a Kursk restaurant and invited him to join his band Integral as a singing bassist. In 1987 he started a solo career and enjoyed success with a series of hits, collected in three studio albums, ''My Blue-Eyed Girl'' (1988), ''Night Taxi'' (1990) and ''Devchonka-Devchonochka'' (1993). Starting with 1993, Belousov's health started to deteriorate and his popularity nose-dived. His stint as a distillery businessman in

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proved to be a failure and he was accused of tax evasion.Женя Белоусов
/ref> In March 1997, he was taken to the Sklifosovsky Institute with acute

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. A month later he suffered a stroke (earlier head injuries and alcohol abuse cited as possible causes) and underwent a brain surgery. On 2 June 1997 Belousov died at the Sklifosovsky hospital, and was interred in the

Kuntsevo Cemetery The Kuntsevo Cemetery (russian: Ку́нцевское кла́дбище, kúntsevkoye kládbishche) is a cemetery servicing Kuntsevo, Moscow. It is located on the bank of the Setun River, to the south of the Mozhaisk Highway (the continuation o ...

References

External links

Сайт «Памяти Евгения Белоусова»
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Женя Белоусов оставил дочери квартиру, а сыну — куртку
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