Tamara Tsereteli

Tamara Semyonovna Tsereteli
Born თამარ წერეთელი
Тамара Семёновна Церетели
(1900-08-14)14 August 1900
Kutais Governorate, Georgia, Russian Empire
Died 3 April 1968(1968-04-03) (aged 67)
Moscow, USSR
Occupation singer
Years active 1923-1960

Tamara Semyonovna Tsereteli (Georgian: თამარ წერეთელი, Russian: Тама́ра Семёновна Церете́ли, 14 August 1900, in Sveri, Kutais Governorate, Georgia, Russian Empire – 3 April 1968, in Moscow, USSR) was a Georgian Russian singer, contralto, who specialized in the Russian romance and was the first to record in 1925 Boris Fomin's "Dorogoi dlinnoyu".[1][2]

In the 1920s the singer's repertoire consisted largely of the songs written for, and dedicated to her by her mentor and partner Boris Prozorovsky, a prominent romance author, arrested in 1933 and executed in 1937 during the Great Purge. Tsereteli who gave more than 5500 concerts in her lifetime, retired in 1960.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Elena and Valery Ukolovs (2010). "The Happy Unfortunate. The Romances and the Life of B. Fomin". Sovremennaya Muzyka Publishers. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  2. ↑ Znatnov, Alexander (2013). "Pogodoi lunnoyu. The Life of the Famous Romance's Author" (PDF). Nash Sovremennik, No. 11. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Ebralidze, Malkhaz. Песни Тамар Церетели. Songs by Tamar Tsereteli
  4. ↑ Tamara Tsereteli biography at Красная Книга российской эстрады // The Red Book of the Russian Popular Music
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