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Also known as Vocal and instrumental ensemble "Pesnyary", State pop ensemble "Pesnyary", Belarusian State Ensemble "Pesnyary"

Pesniary (also spelled Pesnyary, , ) was a popular Soviet Belarusian folk rock VIA. It was founded in 1969 by guitarist Vladimir Mulyavin. Before 1970, the band was known under the name Liavony (Лявоны).

Key facts

Musical artist.background
group_or_band
Musical artist.name
Pesniary
Musical artist.image
Песняры.jpg
Musical artist.image_size
250px
Musical artist.caption
Pesniary, (1974).
Musical artist.origin
Minsk, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (Now Minsk, Belarus)
Musical artist.genre
Folk, folk rock, folk-pop, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, psychedelic pop
Musical artist.years_active
–
Musical artist.label
Melodiya, Boheme Music, Media Star
Musical artist.past_members
Vladimir MulyavinVladimir MisevichAnatoly KasheparovAlexandr DemeshkoLeonid TyshkoLeonid BortkevichValery YashkinValery MulyavinValentin Bad'yarovValeriy GurdizyaneIvan KrylovСheslav-Viktor PoplavskyVladimir NikolaevAnatoly GilevichYuriy DenisovLudmila IsupovaLudmila MedvedkoOktai AivazovMarc ShmelkinVyacheslav MihnovichValery DaynekoYevgeniy PozdyshevVladimir TkachenkoIgor PalivodaIgor PenyaSergey LaptashovArkadiy EskinBoris BernshteynVladimir BelyaevVladimir KudrinYuri LukashevichAlexander RostopchinMikhail KulʹkovOleg MartakovDmitry YavtuhovichValeriy GolovkoEduard TyshkoAlexander VislavskiyLeonid KovalevOleg MolchanNicholay NeronskiyAlexander MoskalchukVyacheslav BuldaAleksandr KatikovVladimir MarusichOleg Averin "Kozlovich"Victor MolchanovArkadiy Ivanovskiy

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
musical group
Languages spoken
Belarusian
Country of origin
Belarus
Official website
pesnyary.by
Image
Pesniary-Stamp2009.jpg
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start of work period
1969-00-00
topic's main category
Category:Pesniary
inception
1969-01-01
Commons category
Pesniary
end of work period
2003-00-00
name
Песняры
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Style
  • Biography
  • Discography
  • Lineup
  • See also
  • References
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Pesniary (also spelled Pesnyary, , ) was a popular Soviet Belarusian folk rock VIA. It was founded in 1969 by guitarist Vladimir Mulyavin. Before 1970, the band was known under the name Liavony (Лявоны).

==Style== Pesniary combined various types of music, but mostly Belarusian folklore though often with various rock elements and later rock as well. Several of Pesniary's songs were composed by Aleksandra Pakhmutova. The surprising influence of early Frank Zappa was also notable.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pesnyary” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.