Jaan Arder (born 26 February 1952, in

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

– 24 July 2014) was an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

n singer. He was a member of the

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Apelsin Apelsin (Estonian for ''Orange'') was an Estonian band created in 1974. Their lyrics are in Estonian and Russian. During the Soviet era, their LP albums were issued by the Soviet music monopoly ''Melodiya''. The Russian name of the band was ''Ап ...

and the

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ensemble

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. His older brother Ott Arder was a poet, children's writer and translator. He is interred at the Alexander Nevsky Cemetery, Tallinn.

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