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Sofia Rotaru

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Also known as Sofia Mykhailivna Rotaru, Sofiia Rotaru, Sofiia Mykhailivna Rotaru

Ukrainian singer, songwriter and actress

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Sofia Rotaru is a Ukrainian singer, film actor, conductor, and choir director who began her professional career in 1968. Born on August 7, 1947, in Marshyntsi, she holds citizenship in Ukraine and has also been a citizen of the Soviet Union. Her musical work spans genres including pop, folk-pop, disco, and rock, with a primary focus on the estrada field. She performs as a soprano and contralto and plays the domra, percussion instruments, and bayan.

Rotaru has received several honors, including the Order of Honour, the title of Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, the title of People's Artist of the USSR, and the Order of Friendship of Peoples. She is of Romanian ethnic origin and speaks Romanian, Russian, German, and Italian. Her recordings have been released by Warner Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Inc., and Melodiya. She is married to Anatoliy Yevdokymenko.

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Film & TV

Acting · Marshyntsi, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

Known for

  • Новый год в деревне Глухарёво2010
  • Goldfish — Spaniard2008
  • Little Red Riding Hood and Everyone — witch2008
  • Star Holidays — Diva2007
  • Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors — queen / participant from Ukraine2007
  • First Express — "Zina Timofeeva"2006
  • One at Home — singer on TV2006
  • Sorochyntsi Fair — gypsy2005
  • The Snow Queen — Flower Fairy2004
  • The Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro — Marceline2003

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Ukraine
Active from
1947
estradapoprock

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
11,001
Total plays
93,146

Tags

poprussianUkraineUkrainianfemale vocalist

Sofia Rotaru (София Ротару) is a Soviet/Ukrainian singer from an ethnic Romanian family. She was born in Marshinci, region of Chernivtsi, Ukraine on August 7, 1947. She has sung songs in Russian, Ukrainian and the Romanian language, which were equally popular throughout the Soviet Union. Her songs have become the classics of the Soviet and post-Soviet stages. Sofia was cast in seven musical films, her debut being in 1971 in "Червона рута" (Red rue). <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sofia+Rot

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,984x

  2. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,999x

  3. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 8,016x

  4. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    · 2012 · cited 6,796x

  5. Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 6,194x

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Quotes

  • “Interview "Cosmopolitan Sofia":If there were a fire in your house, what would be the first thing you would take away with you?- I would take away my legs.”
  • “20.02.94, Kyiv, 18:15 a boy from the crowd:- Sofia Mihailovna, how many languages do you speak?- I speak Moldavian, Ukrainian and Russian, but what is important is that we understand each other.”
  • “Replying to Anatolii Kirillovich and Ilya Savelievich to their jokes about Aurica Rotaru during one of the rehearsals in Krasnodar [Russia] ('93):- One more time, one can't here Aurica!- Well, she is echoing in Moldavian...- She is not echoing in Moldavian. I'll show you, khokhols!! Just sing, Aurica.- Well, I am not singing in the beginning...- I'm telling you: sing.”
  • “13.04.95. Kharkiv [Ukraine] speaking to pyrotechnist - about fog on the stage...- Make sure no one can be seen. Myself as well...”
  • “Interview to the newspaper "Week" [Russian: "Неделя"/Nedelya], 1978:-They say you started singing from the cradle?-Couldn't do it in the cradle: the dummy was in the way.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Sofiia Mykhailivna Yevdokymenko-Rotaru (Ukrainian: Софія Михайлівна Євдокименко-Ротару [soˈfijɐ roˈtɑrʊ]; Russian: София Михайловна Евдокименко-Ротару; née Rotaru; born 7 August 1947), known simply as Sofia Rotaru, is a Ukrainian singer.

In 1972, she released the multilingual album Sofia Rotaru, re-released three times and covered by numerous singers, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in the countries of the former Soviet Union. She first gained international recognition after participating in 1968 in the International Youth Song Festival in Bulgaria and winning first prize at the Golden Orpheus in 1973 and second prize in the category of Polish songs at the Sopot International Song Festival in 1974. In the former USSR her career was marked by her stage success and numerous controversies.

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

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