Vadim Iosifovich Mulerman (; 18 August 1938 – 2 May 2018) was a
Soviet
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
,
Ukrainian and
American singer (
baritone
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).
He was awarded the titles of
Honored Artist of the RSFSR
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (, ''Zasluzhenny artist RSFSR'') was an honorary title granted to Soviet artists, including theatre and film directors, choreographers, music performers, and orchestra conductors, who had outstanding achievements in the ...
(1978)
and
Merited Artist of Ukraine
Honored Artist of Ukraine (; also translated as Honored (Performing) Artist of Ukraine or Merited (Performing) Artist of Ukraine) is a state honorary title of decoration of the Ukrainian government. Originally awarded by the Ukrainian SSR, the ...
.
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In 1971, by the decision of Sergey Lapin, the then Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio
The State Committee of Television and Radio Broadcasting of the Soviet Union ( Russian: Государственный комитет СССР по телевидению и радиовещанию) commonly known as Gosteleradio of the USSR (Г ...
), Mulerman, along with several other singers of Jewish descent, was de facto barred from appearing on television.
Since 1989, Mulerman lived in the United States, where, in Florida, founded and managed a children's musical theater. As of 2008, he lived in Kharkiv
Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine. and worked in a youth musical theater. Mulerman died on 2 May 2018 in New York City at the age of 79.
Selected songs
* "King the Winner" (, 1968, based on the poem "Le retour du roi" by Maurice Carême)
* "Lada" (, 1968)
*: �
"Lada" (live on Russian television in 2013)
on YouTube
* " No Coward Plays Hockey" (1968)
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Listen on Yandex Music
* "How Nice to Be a General" ()
* "Hutsul
The Hutsuls (Rusyn language, Hutsul/; ; ) are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group spanning parts of western Ukraine and northern Romania (i.e. parts of Bukovina and Maramureș).
In Ukraine, they have often been officially and administra ...
Girl" ()
* "I Had a Dream" (, 1969)
* "August" ()
References
External links
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1938 births
2018 deaths
Soviet male singers
Soviet emigrants to the United States
Honored Artists of the RSFSR
People's Artists of the RSFSR
Musicians from Kharkiv
Russian bass-baritones
Recipients of the title of Merited Artist of Ukraine
Deaths from cancer in New York (state)
Soviet Jews
Russian Jews
20th-century American male singers
20th-century American singers