Word: leshchenko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also boost home-grown talent. To a Westerner, Soviet rock sounds like a not entirely successful hybrid of imported kitsch, slicked-up folk melodies and a touch of Russian soul. "Soviet pop music has absorbed contemporary rhythms, but it has remained something individual in its musical phrasing," insists Lev Leshchenko, whose baritone soared above massed strings and a choir on one of the country's biggest hits, Day of Victory, a pop-sized commemoration of the end of World War II. Much Soviet pop plunges into the past. Pesnyary (the Songsters) is a band regarded in official circles...
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