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Alexander Gradsky (Russian: ????????? ????????, born November 3, 1949, Kopeysk
Kopeysk

Kopeysk is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, southeast of Chelyabinsk. Population: 138,500 ; 73,342 . The population growth of the city was caused by the annexation of surrounding settlements....
) is a Russian Rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 singer, bard
Bard (Soviet Union)

The term bard came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, and continues to be used in Russia today, to refer to singer-songwriters who wrote songs outside the Soviet establishment....
 and composer, and has sometimes been called the Soviet Union's most popular recording artist. He is known to have a three-and-a-half octave
Octave

In music, an octave The octave is occasionally referred to as a diapason.The octave above an indicated note is sometimes abbreviated 8va, and the octave below 8vb....
 range voice, and has performed with John Denver
John Denver

John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an United States Country Music/folk music singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about half were composed by him....
 on the song "Let Us Begin..."

He's also the composer of the song entitled "Hymn," which uses the melody from "Bozhe, Tsarya Khrani!" ("God Save the Tsar!"), but has different lyrics.






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Alexander Gradsky (Russian: ????????? ????????, born November 3, 1949, Kopeysk
Kopeysk

Kopeysk is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, southeast of Chelyabinsk. Population: 138,500 ; 73,342 . The population growth of the city was caused by the annexation of surrounding settlements....
) is a Russian Rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 singer, bard
Bard (Soviet Union)

The term bard came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, and continues to be used in Russia today, to refer to singer-songwriters who wrote songs outside the Soviet establishment....
 and composer, and has sometimes been called the Soviet Union's most popular recording artist. He is known to have a three-and-a-half octave
Octave

In music, an octave The octave is occasionally referred to as a diapason.The octave above an indicated note is sometimes abbreviated 8va, and the octave below 8vb....
 range voice, and has performed with John Denver
John Denver

John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an United States Country Music/folk music singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about half were composed by him....
 on the song "Let Us Begin..."

He's also the composer of the song entitled "Hymn," which uses the melody from "Bozhe, Tsarya Khrani!" ("God Save the Tsar!"), but has different lyrics. He has proposed that this song be made the Russian national anthem. It was probably first performed by Gradsky on August 20, 1998 on Vasilievsky Spusk next to the Red Square
Red Square

Red Square is the most famous city square in Moscow, and arguably one of the most famous in the world. The square separates the Moscow Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitay-gorod....
 in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
.

Gradsky has also performed as a tenor at New York City
New York City

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's Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue , occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street , two blocks south of Central Park....
. He was married to Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Anastasiya Vertinskaya

Anastasiya Alexandrovna Vertinskaya , a Russian actress.Anastasiya Vertinskaya was born in Moscow in the family of famous artist Alexander Vertinsky....
 after her divorce with Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Mikhalkov

Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is an Academy Award winning Russian filmmaker and actor....
.

Gradsky started his activity in the early 1960s, when he created a sound based on bard
Bard (Soviet Union)

The term bard came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, and continues to be used in Russia today, to refer to singer-songwriters who wrote songs outside the Soviet establishment....
 music using rock elements.

Since then he released dozens of records.

External links


  • New York Daily News
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     article.
  • with mention of Gradsky.