Evgenia Valeryevna Smolyaninova ''(''; born 29 February 1964 in

Novokuznetsk Novokuznetsk (, , ; )Чиспияков Э. Ф. (1992) ''Учебник шорского языка''. Кемеровское книжное издательство. p. 27. is a city in Kemerovo Oblast (Kuzbass) in southwestern Siberia, Russia ...

) is a Russian singer, performer of

Russian romance Russian romance ( ''románs'') is a type of sentimental art song with hints of Romani people, Romani influence that was developed in Imperial Russia by such composers as Nikolai Titov (1800-1875), Alexander Alyabyev (1787–1851), Alexander Egoro ...

and

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s and composer. Evgenia Smolyaninova was born in a family of teachers in the city of

; then the family moved to

Kemerovo Kemerovo ( rus, Ке́мерово, p=ˈkʲemʲɪrəvə) is an industrial types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Iskitimka River, Iskitimka and Tom ...

. She studied at music school in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

at the piano department. She made her first appearance as a singer in 1982 in the theater of

Slava Polunin Vyacheslav Ivanovich “Slava” Polunin PARMussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (; ; ; – ) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five (composers), The Five." He was an innovator of Music of Russia, Russian music in the Romantic music, Romantic period and strove to achieve a ...

. Her songs and music appear in twelve Russian movies, including short animated film

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by Aleksandr Petrov. She produced sixteen music albums, mostly with

on music and poetry of 19th and 20th centuries and folk songs. She is a

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of the Russian Federation.

References

Links

smoljaninova.ru — official siteЕ.Смольянинова on RussianVoiceYouTube channelVK accountFacebook accountHer site on Laminor TVHer filmography on Kinopoisk website
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