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Sofiia Mykhailivna Yevdokymenko-Rotaru, known simply as Sofia Rotaru, is a Ukrainian singer.
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Born 7 August 1947 · Q43137
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“It is difficult to say, when and how did the music appear in my life. It seems that it has always lived in me. I grew up among music, it was playing everywhere: at a wedding table, at klatches, at girls”
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EADaily: Earned a "safe place": Sofia Rotaru left the territory of Ukraine
Published video “Было, но прошло (Remake)”.
Published video “Луна, луна (Remake)”.
Published video “Аист на крыше (Remake)”.
Published video “Моя любовь (Original Edit)”.
Published video “Сердце ты моё (Remake)”.
Published video “Азербайджан”.
Published video “Любви новый год”.
Published video “Я не оглянусь (Remake)”.
Published video “Только этого мало (Вот и лето прошло...) (Remake)”.
Published video “Моя любовь (Alternative Edit)”.
Published video “Софiя Ротару - «Кажуть, все мине»”.
Condemned the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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Published video “София Ротару - "Жовтий лист"(1992)”.
Published video “София Ротару - "Кленовий вогонь" (1992)”.
Published video “София Ротару - "Балада про двi скрипки" (1992)”.
Published video “София Ротару - "Сизокрилий птах" (1992)”.
Published video “София Ротару - "Два перстенi" (1992)”.
Published video “София Ротару - "Иоанэ, Иоанэ" / "Ioane, Ioane" (1992)”.
Published video “София Ротару - "Черемшина" (1992)”.
Published video “София Ротару - " Червона рута" (1992)”.
Published video “Алла Пугачева о Софии Ротару. (21.11.1987)”.
Awarded Through Art – to Peace and Understanding (2007).
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Rotaru took active part in parliamentary elections in Ukraine, balloting for the deputy chair as a second number in the list of Volodymyr Lytvyn's political formation Lytvyn Bloc; however, the bloc could not gather enoug
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With performances in the Koncertny Zal "Rossiya" of Moscow, dedicated to the opening of her statue in front of the hall
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Awarded Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class (2002).
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Awarded Order of Honour (2002).
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Sofia Rotaru was awarded the title "Hero of Ukraine"
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And the loss of her parents, Rotaru stopped touring for a period and joined a nunnery
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Rotaru performed in a new solo concert program Zhyzn' moya – moya lyubov' (My Life Is My Love)
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Rotaru was named the Best Ukrainian Pop Singer of the Twentieth Century
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Awarded Order of Princess Olga, 1st class (1999).
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Awarded Order of the Republic (1997).
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During a concert in Lviv, some people from the audience put up a poster in Ukrainian, translating into: "Sofia, a heavy penalty is waiting for you"
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Awarded People's Artist of the USSR (1988).
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“13.04.95. Kharkiv [Ukraine] speaking to pyrotechnist - about fog on the stage...- Make sure no one can be seen. Myself as well...”
Reversed artistic direction with the relatively unknown Moscow songwriter
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Awarded Order of Friendship of Peoples (1985).
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With the song "Lavanda" (Lavender), written by Vladimir Matetskiy for a duet with Estonian Jaak Joala
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Rotaru performed a national concert tour of Canada, organised by the National Concert Agency Inc
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At the XIVth All-Union Cinema Festival in Vilnius, the film received the jury's prize for popularisation of the singing art of Soviet composers, in the section of drama films
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Including songs by Aleksandr Zatsepin and Andrey Makarevich
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Awarded Order of the Badge of Honour (1980).
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Rotaru starred in the leading role in a film released by Moldova-Film and called Gde ty, lyubov'
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At the international song festival held in Tokyo, Rotaru won first prize for her performance of Ljupka Dimitrovska's song "Obeshchaniye" / "Obećanje" (Promise) and received the Order of the Badge of Honor
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A number of songs by Moldavian composers appeared in her repertoire penned by the Teodorovici brothers
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Awarded Lenin Komsomol Prize (1978).
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Moved from Chernivtsi to Yalta, transferring from the Chernivtsi Philharmonic Society to the Crimean Philharmonic Society
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Rotaru graduated from the Chişinău Art Institute of Gavriil Musicescu in the choral conducting class with professor Lydia Axionova and participated in the Sopot International Song Festival in Poland, performing "Vospomin
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Received First Prize at the international contest of Golden Orpheus in Burgas, Bulgaria, performing the song "Moy gorod" ("My city") and Second Prize in the category of foreign performance of a song in the Bulgarian
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Also was awarded the Meritorious Artist of the Ukrainian SSR
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Rotaru and Chervona Ruta participated in a tour in Poland with the programme Pesni i tantsy Strany Sovetov (Songs and Dances of the Country of Soviets)
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Released the multilingual album Sofia Rotaru, re-released three times and covered by numerous singers, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in the countries of the former Soviet Union
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Producer Roman Alekseev shot a musical film Chervona Ruta for Ukrtelefilm
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In the International Youth Song Festival in Bulgaria and winning first prize at the Golden Orpheus in 1973 and second prize in the category of Polish songs at the Sopot International Song Festival in 1974
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Rotaru married Anatoliy Yevdokymenko, who at that time was a student at Chernivtsi University and a trumpet player in a student pop band
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After graduation from college, Rotaru performed as a delegate of the IX World Festival of Youth and Students in the capital of Bulgaria, as a member of an artistic group
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While being a student, she was the subject of the short Soviet musical documentary film Solovey iz sela Marshyntsi (Russian: Соловей из села Маршинцы, lit
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He first saw Rotaru on the cover of the magazine Ukraine No. 27 in 1965 and immediately fell in love with her.
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Won the all-republic festival of popular talents in Kyiv
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Rotaru performed at the State Kremlin Palace
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In Chernivtsi, she earned a first degree diploma at the regional amateur art review
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Born 1947-08-07.
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And was the first person to join the Communist Party in the village
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