Alla Bayanova

Alla Nikolaevna Bajanowa (Russian Алла Николаевна Баянова, actually: Алла Николаевна Левицкая ( Alla Nikolaevna Lewizkaja ); born May 18, 1914 in Chisinau, † August 30, 2011 in Moscow) was a Russian singer.

Life

Bajanowa was born as the daughter of opera singer Nikolai Levitsky (1892-1951), who appeared under the pseudonym Nikolai Bajanow, and a ballet dancer. As Bessarabia became a province of Romania, her family moved to Paris in 1918. At the age of nine years, when she assisted her father in 1923, she stood there for the first time on stage. In 1927, she stepped forward to own. A big step forward was for her collaboration with Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky in his show at the Hermitage restaurant in Montmartre. Two years later her family moved to Belgrade, while Bajanowa toured Germany, Greece, Palestine, and Egypt. In 1931 she met the Russian singer Pyotr Leshchenko know who helped her to become known in Bucharest. Here she married George Ypsilanti and made ​​several recordings. After her divorce from Ypsilanti it was taken by the Polish record company " Syrena - Electro" under contract.

In March 1941 she was arrested in Romania, because they sang in Russian. She came in a concentration camp, from which she was released again in May 1942. Nevertheless, it was up to the war continues to be monitored. In the 1960s and 1970s, she lived continue in Romania and released eight LPs. In 1988, she was forced to emigrate to the Soviet Union. She moved to Moscow and entered occasionally on Russian television.

Bajanowa was given the title People's Artist of Russia awarded in 2003 and celebrated their 80th anniversary on stage. The following year she was the occasion of her 90th birthday, a concert. Her latest work was a collaboration with Marc Almond, with whom she sang several duets. She died in August 2011 in a Moscow Hospice of leukemia.