Izabella Yurieva

Izabella Yurieva (Изабелла Юрьева) is the stage name of Izabella Danilovna Livikova (7 September 1899[1] – 20 January 2000), a Russian singer nicknamed the "Queen of the Russian Romance"[2] who celebrated her centennial at a tribute concert given in her honor at the Central Concert Hall in Moscow in 1999.[3]

She was one of the top performers of the romantic Russian Gypsy songs in the late 1920s and 1930s before the genre became almost taboo in Soviet Russia.[4]

Yurieva was largely forgotten until the 1990s when she resurfaced on television and was named a People's Artist of the Russian Federation.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Some sources indicate her birth year as possibly 1902, but her obituary and tombstone both list 1899
  2. 1 2 "З-Цюгерю - Феярнйхи Пнлюмя". Kommersant.ru. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  3. ↑ Billboard, 6 November 1999; p. 57.
  4. ↑ Юрьев Л. Г. Юрьян А. А. "Юрьева И. Д. - это... Что такое Юрьева И. Д.?". Dic.academic.ru. Retrieved 31 July 2017.


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