Alla Yoshpe

Alla Yakovlevna Ioshpe (Yoshpe) (Russian: А́лла Я́ковлевна Ио́шпе (Йо́шпе); 13 June 1937 – 30 January 2021)[1] was a Soviet and Russian pop singer, and a People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2002).[2][3]

Alla Yoshpe

Born(1937-06-13)13 June 1937
Moscow, SSR
Died30 January 2021(2021-01-30) (aged 83)

Biography

Yoshpe was born in Moscow into a Jewish family. She studied philosophy at Moscow State University and while a student sang with the university's symphony orchestra.[4]

In 1960, at a university event, she met Stakhan Rakhimov and the pair formed a pop duo.[5] The pair performed both in the Soviet Union and overseas.[4]

Selected songs

  • "Tri plus pyat'" (Russian: Три плюс пять, lit. "Three plus five"), Russian-language cover of Marie Laforêt's "Ivan, Boris et moi"

References

Singing Alla Yoshpe and Stahan Rakhimov
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