Willi Ivanovich Tokarew
Willi Ivanovich Tokarev ( Russian Вилли Иванович Токарев ; actually Vilen Ivanovich Tokarev ( Russian Вилен Иванович Токарев ) * 11. November 1934 , Chernisheff , Autonomous Oblast Adygea ; † 4. August 2019 ) was a Russian musician.
Live and act
Tokarews ancestors were Kuban - Cossacks that her son Vilen after the founder of the Soviet Union Vladimir Ilyich Lenin named. He later changed his first name to Willi. In Leningrad he studied at the Leningrad Conservatory . During his studies he worked in the orchestra of Anatoli Kroll and then also in the ensemble Druzhba of Alexander Bronewizki with the singer Edita Pjecha , for whom he also composed. He worked in the orchestra of Leningrad radio and television. Because of the persecution of jazz and its representatives, he emigrated to the United States. He founded his label “One Man Band” and released over twenty albums there. In 2005, Tokarev moved to Moscow and opened a recording studio. Since 2006 he was an honorary citizen of the Tagansky district of Moscow .
Web links
- Homepage of Willi Iwanowitsch Tokarew with biography (Russian)
- Villi Tokarev in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Willi Iwanowitsch Tokarew at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Popular Russian-American Singer Willi Tokarev Dies At 84. Radio Free Europe, August 5, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2019 .
- ↑ See discography at discogs.
- ↑ Официальный сайт Муниципалитета Таганского района - Почетные жители ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tokarew, Willi Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Токарев, Вилли Иванович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chernisheff , Autonomous Oblast Adygea |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 2019 |