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| ymapazagain Senior Member Australia myspace.com/amywiles Joined 6959 days ago 504 posts - 538 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2 | Message 1 of 8 03 July 2009 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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One of the things I love about language learning is being able to sing in a new language.
This was pretty easy with Spanish, but i'm a bit unsure about finding Russian music to sing. I sing a lot of jazz, so does anyone know any female jazz singers who sing in Russian? Thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| furyou_gaijin Senior Member Japan Joined 6386 days ago 540 posts - 631 votes Speaks: Latin* | Message 2 of 8 07 July 2009 at 3:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Define "jazz"...
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| ymapazagain Senior Member Australia myspace.com/amywiles Joined 6959 days ago 504 posts - 538 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2 | Message 3 of 8 07 July 2009 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Oh Jesus...haha. Well, obviously the scope is pretty broad but from a female singer's perspective I guess jazz in the Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Holiday sense of the word.
Though if it's in Russian there may be some local musical influence there which would be great. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arti Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 7012 days ago 130 posts - 165 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: French, Czech | Message 4 of 8 08 July 2009 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Jazz is kinda not popular here, I don't know anyone who would sing something like Nina Simone for example... Jazz is not Russian music... try to find something in another genre, like rock, pop, that's would be much easier...
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| ymapazagain Senior Member Australia myspace.com/amywiles Joined 6959 days ago 504 posts - 538 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2 | Message 5 of 8 09 July 2009 at 2:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I actually came across this website http://www.jazz.ru/eng/ which lists a couple of artists. However i'm having trouble tracking down recordings! Unfortunately my russian isn't good enough to search through the whole website so i'm probably missing a lot! I have known a number of Russian jazz musicians in the past. Jazz may not be particularly mainstream in Russia but there is definitely a strong jazz scene, particularly in the larger cities.
So far the only name I have is Svetlana Panova. Hopefully I can find some more! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6775 days ago 358 posts - 422 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Ukrainian Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 8 10 July 2009 at 4:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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Jazz isn't really popular in Russia, but there was an 80s Soviet musical comedy about jazz -and early Soviet jazz enthusiasts- that was popular at the time.
Here is an excerpt with some female (and male) vocals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JO-bT6h-qc&feature=related Actually, you can see the whole movie on youtube, starting with this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z4t1Oo2k3o&feature=related I think Larisa Dolina who is now a famous popular singer in Russia, did some if not all the female vocals in the movie I mentioned (she actually played the black Cuban jazz signer in the movie). Dolina started out as a Jazz singer, I think, but unfortunately these days it may be relatively hard to find her earlier jazz songs among all the popular songs that she keeps doing these days. Edited by Russianbear on 10 July 2009 at 4:46am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| furyou_gaijin Senior Member Japan Joined 6386 days ago 540 posts - 631 votes Speaks: Latin* | Message 7 of 8 18 July 2009 at 9:14am | IP Logged | |||||
That's American music sung in English, right? Not sure where Russia would come in here... You can try your luck here, though: http://jazzforum.ru/ 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ymapazagain Senior Member Australia myspace.com/amywiles Joined 6959 days ago 504 posts - 538 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2 | Message 8 of 8 28 July 2009 at 9:52am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes it is, but that style of jazz is also sung in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Flemish...I thought maybe there was a similar thing in Russian. Thanks for the link! When my Russian improves vastly it'll probably be a big help! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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