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New Wave (competition) New Wave (Russian: Новая волна , "Novaya volna", Latvian: "Jaunais Vilnis" ) is an international contest for young performers of popular music founded in 2002 by the Russian composer Igor Krutoy and Latvian pianist and composer Raimonds Pauls and later enhanced by the Russian superstar Alla Pugacheva. The contest usually lasts for six days: 3 contest days, 2 special event days and, at the end, the day where the contest's results are announced followed by an ending concert.
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Alla Pugacheva Alla Borisovna Pugacheva (Russian: Алла Борисовна Пугачёва ; sometimes transcribed in English as Pugachova, ] ; born 15 April 1949), is а Soviet and Russian musical performer. Her career started in 1965 and continues to this day. For her "clear mezzo-soprano and a full display of sincere emotions", she enjoys an iconic status across the former Soviet Union as the most successful Soviet performer in terms of record sales and popularity.
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Yuri Aizenshpis Yuri Shmilevich Ayzenshpis (Russian: Ю́рий Шми́льевич Айзеншпи́с ; July 15, 1945 in Chelyabinsk,Soviet Union – September 20, 2005 in Moscow, Russia) was a Russian music manager and producer.
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Vlada Divljan Vladimir "Vlada" Divljan (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Дивљан; 10 May 1958 – 4 March 2015), was a Serbian singer and songwriter. He was known as the frontman for the Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Idoli, one of the bands which initiated the Yugoslav new wave on the music and cultural scene of the former Yugoslavia in the 1980s, as well as for his solo works.
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Masha Rasputina Masha Rasputina (Маша Распутина, born "Alla Ageeva", May 13, 1965, Urop, Belovsky District, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia) is a Russian pop singer, known for her over-the-top, husky vocal style, fiery stage persona and flamboyant, somewhat controversial image with the emphasis on grotesque sexuality and crude, ‘common girl’ manners.
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Angelika Yutt Angelika Aleksandrovna Yutt (Russian: Анжелика Александровна Ютт ; born 5 November 1969 in Simferopol, Crimea, USSR), better known by stage name ANGELIKA (Russian: АНЖЕЛИКА ), is a Russian opera, pop, house and trance singer (coloratura soprano); vocal trainer, producer and music composer.
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Katerina Ksenyeva Katerina Ksenyeva (born December 5, 1975, Russian: Катерина Ксеньева) is a New York-based singer, composer, actress, author and journalist from Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2013, Ksenyeva started working on permanent basis in New York City singing in English and Hebrew.
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Viktor Selyavin Viktor Alekseyevich Selyavin Russian: Виктор Алексеевич Селявин (1875–1945) was a leading tenor of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater. He is often referred to as Odessa's Sobinov, a reference to Leonid Sobinov, one of the best known Russian tenors of the first half of the twentieth century. His repertoire included the tenor roles of most major operas, but he is best known for his interpretation of Lensky in "Eugene Onegin". He also performed in chamber music, being especially fond of Mikhail Glinka's and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's romances.
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Zhenya Belousov Evgeny Viktorovich Belousov (Russian: Евге́ний Ви́кторович Белоу́сов ; September 10, 1964, Zhikhar - June 2, 1997, Moscow), better known as Zhenya Belousov (Russian: Женя Белоусов ) was a Soviet and Russian pop singer, one of the most popular in the Soviet Union and Russia in the late 1980s - early 1990s.
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Russian literature Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus', the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union. The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old Russian were composed. By the Age of Enlightenment, literature had grown in importance, and from the early 1830s, Russian literature underwent an astounding golden age in poetry, prose and drama. Romanticism permitted a flowering of poetic talent: Vasily Zhukovsky and later his protégé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore. Prose was flourishing as well. The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol. Then came Ivan Turgenev, who mastered both short stories and novels. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky soon became internationally renowned. In the second half of the century Anton Chekhov excelled in short stories and became a leading dramatist. The beginning of the 20th century ranks as the Silver Age of Russian poetry. The poets most often associated with the "Silver Age" are Konstantin Balmont, Valery Bryusov, Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam, Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak. This era produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, Fyodor Sologub, Aleksey Remizov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely.
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New Peasant Poets New Peasant Poets (Russian: Новокрестьянские поэты ) was the conditional collective name of a group of Russian poets of the Silver Age of peasant origin. Nikolai Klyuev, Sergei Yesenin, Sergei Klychkov, Alexander Shiryaevets, Pyotr Oreshin, Pavel Radimov, Alexei Ganin and Pimen Karpov are traditionally referred to as "new peasant" poets. The beginning of their creative path was in the 1900s-1910s.
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Willi Tokarev Vilen "Willi" Tokarev (born 11 November 1934) is a Russian-American singer-songwriter. In the 1980s, he became famous all over the Soviet Union for his songs about life as a Russian émigré in New York in Brighton Beach.
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Lesya Yaroslavskaya Lesya Yaroslavskaya (Russian: Ле́ся Яросла́вская ), real name Olesya Vladimirovna Yaroslavskaya (Russian: Оле́ся Влади́мировна Яросла́вская ); born 20 March 1981, Severomorsk, Murmansk Oblast, RSFSR, USSR) is a Russian pop singer, lead singer of Тootsie (2004–2012), author and performer of her own songs.
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Shura (Russian singer) Alexander Vladimirovich Medvedev (Russian: Александр Владимирович Медведев , born 20 May 1975), known professionally as Shura, is a Russian singer and songwriter.
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Elena Neklyudova Elena Vsevolodovna Neklyudova Russian: Елена Всеволодовна Неклюдова — born Elena Soleynikova (Russian: Елена Солейникова ) in Pskov in the west of Russia is a singer-songwriter. Her repertoire ranges from alternative rock to smooth jazz. Some of her charting hits are 'Убегаю" Russian: "Running away" , "Жизнь" Russian: "The Life" and "Любить'" Russian: "To Love" .
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Lyubov Orlova Lyubov Petrovna Orlova, (Russian: Любо́вь Петро́вна Орло́ва ; 29 January [O.S. 16 January] 1902 , Zvenigorod – 26 January 1975, Moscow) was the first recognized star of Soviet cinema, famous theatre actress and a gifted singer.
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Valeriya Valeriya (Russian: Валерия ) is a stage name of Alla Yurievna Perfilova (Russian: Алла Юрьевна Перфилова , born April 17, 1968 in Atkarsk), a Russian singer and fashion model, People's Artist of Russia (2013), People's Artist of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (2016), Member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Culture and Art from 2012.
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Erik Kurmangaliev Erik Kurmangaliev (December 31, 1959 – November 13, 2007) was a Russian-Kazakh opera singer, actor and a leading public figure in Russia's perestroika music scene.
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Elena Lev Elena Lev, born in Moscow, Russia in 1981, began her training to become a rhythmic gymnast at an early age, assisted and coached by her mother, Elena Lev Sr. She developed a signature hula hoop act incorporating gymnastics and contortion. Her big breakthrough came when she was invited to join the "Alegría" touring troupe of Cirque du Soleil, of which she was a member from 1994 through 2000. She also performed briefly with the "Quidam" troupe in 2002. Lev performed with Cirque du Soleil's "Wintuk" at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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Pesenka Pesenka (in Russian: Песенка 'A song'), sometimes known as "Pesenka (La La La)", is a song by the Russian pop–dance–techno group Ruki Vverh! (in Russian: Руки Вверх! ).
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Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest Russia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 20 times since their debut in 1994 and has participated from 2000 to 2016. Russia won the 2008 contest with Dima Bilan performing the song "Believe". Russia co-holds (with Sweden ) the record for the most top five finishes in the 21st century; finishing second with Alsou in 2000 , Dima Bilan in 2006 , Buranovskiye Babushki in 2012 and Polina Gagarina in 2015 ; third with t.A.T.u. in 2003 , Serebro in 2007 and Sergey Lazarev in 2016 , and fifth with Dina Garipova in 2013 , for a total of nine top five results.
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Para Para Para Para (パラパラ , "Para-Para" or "ParaPara") is a synchronized dance that originated in Japan. Unlike most club dancing and rave dancing, there are specific synchronized movements for each song much like line dancing. Para Para is said to have existed since the early 1980s when European countries started selling Italo disco and Euro disco, and in the mid-to late 1970s, new wave and synthpop music in Japan. However, it did not achieve much popularity outside Japan until the late '90s.