Kvitka Cisyk

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Kvitka Cisyk, March 1989

Kvitka "Kasey" Cisyk ( Ukrainian Квітка Цісик / Kwitka Zisyk ; born April 4, 1953 in Queens , New York , † March 29, 1998 in Manhattan , New York) was an American coloratura soprano of Ukrainian descent.

Life

Kvitka's parents, Volodymyr's father was a violinist, immigrated to New York with their older sister from the Ukraine in the 1940s. The musical family fostered the Ukrainian language and culture at home, so they didn't learn the English language until school. However, she learned to play the violin from her father at the age of five, so that she later received a scholarship at Binghamton University in Binghamton , which she graduated in 1970. The following year she attended an opera program in Ghent, Belgium , where she received a scholarship to the Mannes College of Music in New York City. There she attended opera courses with Sebastian Engelberg and graduated in 1974. In the 1970s she recorded two music tracks for the films You Light Up My Life and The One and Only , of which the former won an Oscar in 1978 for best film song and a Golden Globe Award received.

She gave up her real goal of becoming an opera singer after the death of her father and the subsequent move from her parents' household. In order to earn money, she now pursued a career as a singer of popular music and began to sing in clubs. She became a successful background singer in popular music, working with Carly Simon , Michael Franks, and Quincy Jones- produced musicians , among others .

She stayed with the wider American public in the years that followed through her participation in jingles for commercials - including for Coca-Cola , American Airlines , Mr. Pibb , Ford , McDonald’s and Burger King . In Ukraine she became famous for two albums on Ukrainian folk music.

She died of breast cancer at her Manhattan home at the age of 44.

Discography

Solo albums:

  • 1989 Two Colors
  • 1980 Songs of Ukraine
year album Interpreter heading
2012 The Dream 1973-2011 Michael Franks Background vocals
2010 Original album series David Sanborn Background vocals
2007 Hollywood Hits: 70 Years of Memorable Movie Music singing
2006 The Very Best of Roberta Flack Roberta Flack Background vocals
2004 Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits Carly Simon Background vocals
2003 The Michael Franks Anthology: The Art of Love Michael Franks Background vocals
2002 Anthology Carly Simon Background vocals
2000 Sounds of a Better World Small Voices Calling Singing, featured artist
1998 Indispensable: The Best of Michael Franks Michael Franks Background vocals
1998 The Best of Michael Franks: A Backwards Glance Michael Franks Background vocals
1995 Back in the pool Flying Monkey Orchestra Singing, choir / chorus
1994 Earth Step Sadao Watanabe Background vocals
1994 The Best of David Sanborn David Sanborn Background vocals
1993 Sesame Road Sesame Street Singing, voice
1989 City Streets Carole King singing
1989 Working Girl [Original Soundtrack] Background vocals
1988 Greatest Hits Live Carly Simon Background vocals
1987 The Camera Never Lies Michael Franks Background vocals
1985 Skin dive Michael Franks Background vocals
1983 Stampede Marvin tribe singing
1982 I'm the one Roberta Flack Singing, background singing
1982 Objects of Desire Michael Franks Background vocals
1980 voyeur David Sanborn Singing, background singing
1977 You Light Up My Life Singing, background singing
A painting Neal Fox Vocals (Background)

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kasey Cisyk, singer, died at the age of 44 in The New York Times , April 13, 1998; accessed on March 21, 2017 (English)
  2. ↑ a b biography of Kvitka Cisyk on the official website of Kvitka Cisyk; accessed on March 21, 2017 (English)
  3. ↑ Description of the album on UMKA.com accessed on March 21, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Discography on allmusic.com
personal data
SURNAME Cisyk, Kvitka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kwitka, Zisyk (transcribed in Ukrainian); Квітка, Цісик (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American coloratura soprano
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Queens , New York
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1998
Place of death Manhattan , New York