Lidia Klement
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Lidia Richardovna Klement (Russian: Ли́дия Ри́чардовна Кле́мент; 8 July 1937, in Leningrad – 16 June 1964, in Leningrad[1]) was a Soviet singer.[2]
She was involved with music and singing since childhood, studying piano at a music school for children and singing in a choir.[3] Later, when studying at the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering, Lidia Klement sang in a student jazz ensemble. After graduation, she for two years worked as a design engineer and sang with the Naum Tyomkin Variety Orchestra at the Ordzhonikidze Palace of Culture. Since 1958 for about a year she sang with the ensemble of the Leningrad Comedy Theater. She was noticed and composers started writing songs especially for her.[2]
Lidia Klement gained fame all over the Soviet Union with songs such as Karelia, Rain on the Neva, Is All This for Me Alone? She performed a lot on radio and television, including on the extremely popular musical variety show Goluboy Ogonyok. In 1964, just several months before her death, she released a record with 9 songs on it (on Melodiya record label). At 26 years of age, at the peak of her career,[2] she was diagnosed with melanoma and soon died. She leaves behind one daughter, one granddaughter and a great granddaughter who live in the United States. [4][5]
See also[]
- Karelia (song) in the Russian Wikipedia
References[]
- ^ "Our Pride: Lidia Richardovna Klement". Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering official website.
- ^ a b c Elizaveta Uvarova, ed. (2004). Эстрада в России. XX век : энциклопедия. OLMA Media Group. ISBN 9785224044627.
- ^ Сайт, посвящённый памяти Лидии Клемент
- ^ Maria Olshanskaya. "Лидия Клемент и Нонна Суханова ("Слушай, Ленинград, я тебе спою…")".
- ^ "Biography: Lidia Klement". Peoples.ru.
External links[]
- Website dedicated to Lidia Klement (in Russian)
- 1937 births
- 1964 deaths
- Singers from Saint Petersburg
- Soviet women singers
- Deaths from cancer in the Soviet Union
- 20th-century Russian women singers
- Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering alumni
- Deaths from melanoma
- Burials at Bogoslovskoe Cemetery