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Klavdiya Shulzhenko
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Ukrainian singer (1906-1984)
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Klavdiya Shulzhenko (Клавдия Шульженко) March 24, 1906, Kharkov — June 17, 1984, Moscow) was a popular female singer of the Soviet Union. Shulzhenko started singing with jazz and pop bands in the late 1920s. She rose to fame in the late 1930s with her version of Sebastian Yradier's La Paloma. In 1939, she was awarded at the first all-Soviet competition of pop singers. During World War II, Shulzhenko performed about a thousand concerts for Soviet soldiers in besieged Leningrad and elsewhere. <a
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Kharkiv
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- Ukrainian
- Genre
- estrada
- Instrument
- voice
- Conflict
- Eastern Front
- Image
- Klavdiya Shulzhenko in 1934.jpg
- Voice type
- soprano
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- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- name in native language
- Клавдия Шульженко
- Commons category
- Klavdiya Shulzhenko
- date of birth
- 1906-03-11
- date of death
- 1984-06-17
- number of viewers/listeners
- 502819
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