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Video: How did the fate of foreign idols who were adored in the Soviet Union: "Arabesques", "Genghis Khan" and others
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
They seemed to open the door to an inaccessible foreign world. Karel Gott, the Arabesque and Genghis Khan groups and even the Baltic Orange seemed almost aliens from another planet. Today, listeners have access to performances of completely different performers, but nevertheless, those whose performances were shown after three hours on New Year's Eve, many remember with slight nostalgia.
Karel Gott
He was one of the most popular foreign performers in the USSR. He was born and raised in Prague, where he began his musical career, while still working as an electrician at a tram factory. After receiving the first prize for his vocal skills, Karel Gott decided to devote himself entirely to music, successfully graduated from the Prague Conservatory, later worked in the theater, toured different countries and continents.
He gained fame as a "Czech nightingale" and became incredibly popular both at home and abroad. He came to the Soviet Union every year, or even more than once. His army of female fans in the Land of the Soviets was the largest. After all, he performed not only in the capital, but even visited small cities with concerts.
In the 1980s, he rarely visited the USSR, but he toured a lot in Germany. In 1990, Karel Gott tried to end his musical career, but during the final tour of Czechoslovakia and Germany, he realized that it was too early for him to write himself off.
Karel Gott's popularity has not faded over the years, he still remains the king of music in the Czech Republic, in 2015 he won the Golden Nightingale national music award for the fortieth time.
Despite the large number of novels, he first married only in 2008, when his chosen one, Ivan Makhachkova, was pregnant with the singer's second child. The Czech nightingale lives in the Czech Republic, in his own villa, from which the whole of Prague is clearly visible. He continues to give concerts, paints, does not refuse interviews. In 2015-20106, he fought against cancer, which he managed to defeat.
Arabesque
The female popular group, created in 1977 in Germany, changed its composition several times. Only Michaela Rose has always remained its unchanged participant. In 1979, the final line-up of the group was finally determined, which became the most famous: Michaela Rose, Sandra Lauer and Yasmin Vetter.
The popularity of "Arabesque" was especially high in Japan and the Soviet Union, and the female trio did not perform on tour in the USSR. But in Japan, the countries of Scandinavia and Europe, the group "Arabesque" performed with great success.
In 1985, the producers decided to disband the group due to the decline in their popularity. Michaela Rose and Yasmin Vetter created a duet that was not very successful and lasted until 1989, when Yasmin became pregnant and left the stage.
Sandra made a good solo career, at one time she took part in the "Enigma" project, the creator of which was her husband.
After the breakup of the duet "Rouge" Michaela became interested in spiritual practices and esotericism. But in 2006 she gladly responded to the invitation of the radio station "Retro FM", recruited young participants into the updated group "Arabesques" and successfully toured the CIS countries, and later in Europe.
Genghis Khan
This group was formed shortly before the Eurovision Song Contest in 1979. After finishing fourth place, Dschinghis Khan became popular in Europe. Especially famous were the composition with the same name and the song about the capital of the USSR - "Moscow". Producer Heinz Gross confesses: now everyone knows that the song "Moscow" is sung about good people, about the Russian soul. The only controversial phrase "beat glasses on the walls" apparently could not fit into the Soviet ideology, and the group was never allowed into the USSR.
The forbidden fruit is known to be sweet. Despite the fact that discos were closed, expelled from the Komsomol and expelled from the institute for playing the songs of "Genghis Khan", the exotic group was incredibly popular in the Soviet Union. Her recordings were passed on to each other, rewritten dozens of times, and even, as best they could, tried to translate the lyrics.
They dreamed of performing in the USSR, but their dream never came true. In the mid-1980s, the group broke up, everyone left for their countries, because the group was international in composition, but in 2005 the producer unexpectedly gathered the group and invited them to give a concert in Russia, in Moscow. True, not all members of the group survived to this concert. On December 17, 2005 the only solo concert of the Dschinghis Khan group took place in Russia. And in Germany, the team still works today, however, now in a completely different composition.
Orange
This Estonian group was called the Soviet "Deep Purple" and "Dire Straits". The group itself appeared on the Soviet musical Olympus quite spontaneously. Several musicians performed a comic country song on Estonian television in 1974. And unexpectedly, the viewer really liked it. They created a group with a sunny name "Orange" and began to tour the country, went to the GDR. The fact that most of the compositions were performed in Estonian only made the collective "more foreign".
After the collapse of the USSR, the group ceased to appear on the Russian stage, but at home they still give concerts. Although their fame cannot be compared with that of musicians under the Soviet Union, the group "Orange" does not have to complain about life at all.
The songs performed by them were known by heart, their concerts were invariably held with a full house, not a single disco could do without romantic compositions of famous Italians. Their style was imitated in their clothes and hairstyles, and the whole family watched the Italian Song Festival in San Remo late into the night. Their fates were followed, empathized and listened to constantly. How did the fates of the most famous Italian pop stars develop? where are they and what are they doing today?
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