Vladimir Leonardovich Matetsky (russian: link=no, Владимир Леонардович Матецкий; born May 14, 1952, in Moscow) is a Russian and Soviet composer, producer, and radio presenter. Matetsky is a member of the Russian Authors' Society. He is married and has one daughter, Maria (born 1987) and son, Leonid (born 2001). Matetsky started to take music classes under the direction of Sofija Moisseevna Karpilovskaya, a student of Elena Fabianovna Gnesina. Vladimir learned to play guitar just as piano. He was particularly influenced by

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. At the end of the 1960s, Matetsky started to play in various rock bands, piano, guitar, bass-guitar. Around the same time he first started writing songs–unusually, in English rather than Russian. His major success is considered to be the song '' Lavanda'' in written for

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and awarded a golden disc by

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. Currently he lives and works in Moscow.

Popular Songs

* "Lavanda" ("Лаванда") by

and

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* "Hutoryanka" ("Хуторянка") by Sofia Rotaru * "Luna, luna" ("Луна, луна") by Sofia Rotaru * "Bilo, No proshlo'" ("Было, но прошло") by Sofia Rotaru * "Tolko etogo malo'" ("Только этого мало") by Sofia Rotaru * "Lunnaya raduga'" ("Лунная радуга") by Sofia Rotaru * "Dikie Lebedi'" ("Дикие лебеди") by Sofia Rotaru * "Byla ne byla'" ("Была не была") by Sofia Rotaru * "Tvoi pecialinie glaza'" ("Твои печальные глаза") by Sofia Rotaru * "Nochnoi motilek'" ("Ночной мотылёк") by Sofia Rotaru * "Zasentebrilo'" ("Засентябрило") by Sofia Rotaru * "Net mne mesta v tvyom serdce'" ("Нет мне места в твоём сердце") by Sofia Rotaru * "Bolsche ne vstrechu" ("Больше не встречу") by

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* "Avtomobili" (" Автомобили") by

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* "Pozovi menya v nochi" ("Позови меня в ночи") by Vlad Stashevsky * "Malish" ("Малыш") by Danko * "Zheltaya noch" ("Жёлтая ночь") by

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* http://www.silver.ru/air/authors/matetskiy/ 1952 births Living people Musicians from Moscow Soviet composers Soviet male composers Russian composers Russian male composers Russian songwriters Soviet songwriters Russian record producers 20th-century Russian male musicians {{Russia-composer-stub