Izabella Yurieva

Izabella Yurieva (Изабелла Юрьева) is the stage name of Izabella Danilovna Livikova (7 September 1899[1] – 20 January 2000), a Russian singer nicknamed the "Queen of the Russian Romance"[2] who celebrated her centennial at a tribute concert given in her honor at the Central Concert Hall in Moscow in 1999.[3] She was one of the top performers of the romantic Russian Gypsy songs in the late 1920s and 1930s before the genre became almost taboo in Soviet Russia.[4] Yurieva was forgotten until the 1990s when she resurfaced on television and was named a People's Artist of the Russian Federation.[2]

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  1. ↑ Some sources indicate her birth year as possibly 1902, but her obituary and tombstone both list 1899
  2. 1 2 http://kommersant.ru/doc/137599/print
  3. ↑ Billboard. Nov 6, 1999. Page 57.
  4. ↑ Soviet Encyclopaedia of Music

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