Tamara Lund
Tamara Lund (born January 6, 1941 in Turku , Finland ; † July 21, 2005 there ) was a Finnish opera singer ( soprano ) and actress .
Career
Tamara Lund first became known at the age of 18 when she won the Ponnahdus pinnalle singing competition. In the early 1960s she recorded several popular hits, including her best-known song Lapin Tango . Lund released her first singles in 1962, under the pen name Ira Petri. Later recordings, such as the double single Tulethan jälleen / Renatta , initially appeared under the same pseudonym, when the success of the singles was then under their real name. Lund studied in the 1960s at the Sibelius Academy , the only music school in Finland. She was employed at various houses in Europe , among others she was a soloist at the Finnish National Opera from 1967 to 1974 . From 1963 to 1967 Lund played in musicals at the Turku City Theater, including the role of Maria in West Side Story . Since 1967 Lund sang leading roles in operas and operettas such as The Merry Widow and Carmen at the Finnish National Theater .
From 1973 to 1980 she was part of the ensemble of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz , where she sang the role of Marianne in the musical "Casanova" (1981) by Helmut Bez and Jürgen Degenhard . In 1975 she also played in German-language film production Victoria and her hussar with.
The soprano recorded records in Germany and the Netherlands . She was particularly known for her interpretations of Spanish music .
Private life
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During one of her first film shoots in the early 1960s, Tamara Lund met and fell in love with the Finnish actor Rami Sarmasto . The couple recorded several singles together, including the love song "Sinun omasi", which is very well known in Finland, and the somewhat less well-known "Tyttö kaivolla". However, a few days before their wedding in 1965, Sarmasto died in a car accident. Lund was so traumatized by this stroke of fate that it took her almost ten years before she could sing "Sinun omasi" on stage again. Barely a year later she married the Finnish singer Aatos Tapala , and their son Tero was born in 1968. At the beginning of the 1970s, Tamara Lund emigrated to Germany, her husband stayed in Finland. In 1974 Tamara Lund met the Romanian opera singer Alexandru Ionitza (1948-2010) during her engagement in Munich , with whom she had a daughter, Maria Lund , in 1983 . The official divorce from Aatos Tapala only followed two years later. Lund moved to Düsseldorf in the mid-1980s, where Ionitza lived until his death in 2010 and their daughter Maria until 2004. After returning to Finland in 2000, Tamara Lund was elected to the Turku City Council. As a result of tax evasion and unexplained black money, Lund and her then-husband lost almost half of their wealth, which Lund clearly blames on the then city council chairman in her biography.
Three weeks after her daughter's wedding, Tamara Lund died on July 21, 2005 of complications from stomach cancer.
literature
- Tamara Lund: Lohikäärmeen pahvikulissit , 2000 ISBN 951-1-16402-3 ; 2. laitos 2004 ISBN 951-1-20107-7 ; äänikirja 2001 ISBN 951-551-702-8
- Anja Lappalainen: Vanhemmat kertovat tunnetuista lapsistaan , Helsinki 1969.
- Heikki Eteläpää: Jäätelöitä, mansikoita yes Tamara . Uusi Suomi July 14, 1974 p. 10.
Web links
- Works by and about Tamara Lund in the catalog of the German National Library
- Tamara Lund in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lund, Tamara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish opera singer and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turku |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 2005 |
| Place of death | Turku |