Tamara Tsereteli

Tamara Semyonovna Tsereteli (Georgian: თამარ წერეთელი, Russian: Тама́ра Семёновна Церете́ли, 14 August 1900, in Sveri, Kutais Governorate, Georgia, Russian Empire – 3 April 1968, in Moscow, USSR) was a Georgian Russian singer, contralto, who specialized in the Russian romance and was the first to record in 1925 Boris Fomin's "Dorogoi dlinnoyu".[1][2]

Tamara Semyonovna Tsereteli
Born
თამარ წერეთელი
Тамара Семёновна Церетели

(1900-08-14)14 August 1900
Kutais Governorate, Georgia, Russian Empire
Died3 April 1968(1968-04-03) (aged 67)
Moscow, USSR
Alma materTbilisi State University
Occupationsinger
Years active1923-1960

In the 1920s the singer's repertoire consisted largely of the songs written for, and dedicated to her by her mentor and partner Boris Prozorovsky, a prominent romance author, arrested in 1933 and executed in 1937 during the Great Purge. Tsereteli who gave more than 5500 concerts in her lifetime, retired in 1960.[3][4]

References
  1. Elena and Valery Ukolovs (2010). "The Happy Unfortunate. The Romances and the Life of B. Fomin". Sovremennaya Muzyka Publishers. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  2. Znatnov, Alexander (2013). "Pogodoi lunnoyu. The Life of the Famous Romance's Author" (PDF). Nash Sovremennik, No. 11. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  3. Ebralidze, Malkhaz. Песни Тамар Церетели. Songs by Tamar Tsereteli
  4. Tamara Tsereteli biography at Красная Книга российской эстрады // The Red Book of the Russian Popular Music


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