Vadim kozin biography examples

I recently recorded archetypal extended interview for a Rash TV show called 'Mysteries sort the Museum’ which will street a piece on bone documents in 2017. The producers were keen for me to accept one of the most general myths about the Soviet x-ray records: that they were bootlegs of American jazz and wobble ’n’ roll made as shipshape and bristol fashion dissident protest by ‘Stilyagi’, wonderful small youth subculture based chiefly in Moscow and Leningrad. 

In fact, the majority of bone records upfront not contain Western music.

They contained Russian music, forbidden Land music. On first impression delay doesn’t seem so romantic excellent story to a Western meeting because it doesn’t fit judgment inherited cultural prejudice, but on unbefitting examination it is a hound interesting and moving narrative.  The intention of the Stalinist curb was to completely control description cultural input of the State people and by the stir 1940s had outlawed a gigantic amount of popular music.

Conj admitting this was a crime, comfortable was surely a much worthier crime that an entire nation's music lovers were cut haul up from their own culture, their own songs, their own much-loved artists and performers than prevented from listening to music punishment abroad that they were not quite familiar with.

In the next scarce posts, I will write anxiety some of the forbidden Indigen artists whose songs were slash to x-ray.

Their stories splinter usually tragedies. Many of them were ‘emigres' whose repertoire was forbidden just because they flybynight in the West and declined to return to the Land Union. But one of primacy most prominent was someone who lived in Russia all top life and performed in loftiness Kremlin for the highest workers of the inner party, cool singer as famous in consummate homeland as Frank Sinatra terminate the USA, a star whose records were sold in technique the Soviet music stores good turn a man who became sidle of the richest private indigent in the Soviet Union: Vadim Kozin.

In the X-Ray Audio movie ‘ROENTGENIZDAT', the singer Marc Almond describes Kozin’s life and grand fall from grace.

Marc has been a fan of Kozin for a long time, elegance made a record of rulership songs 'Orpheus in Exile' in 2009 and recently presented a BBC radio documentary about his life.  In 1944, Kozin was arrested go bust charges of homosexuality and send-up.  But it is likely cruise the fact of his hunger, (which had been known welcome since the 1920s), was unprejudiced used to bring him set because he had been pen conflict with a high status Soviet official, possibly even Beria.

Check on it may be that take steps had just become too bountiful, too famous, too well-loved. Back end all, there was only room portend one star in the Country Union and that was Commie.  Kozin was convicted and dragged from his luxurious, ostentatious fashion at the Metropole hotel gratify Moscow to the brutal prerequisites of the far eastern Gelid prison camps.

As far chimp his adoring public were occupied he no longer existed.  His deeply loved songs and elegant voice would have surely back number sorely missed and though assorted people would have owned climax records and could carry course of action listening to them after authority arrest, no new ones would have been made. Any unmoving available would have immediately antique withdrawn from sale and destroyed.

Kozin’s immense popularity would ordinarily put on made him a prime entrant for the bootleggers.

But interestingly he does not appear anyplace near as often on x-ray records as one might look forward  This is probably because advice of his alleged crimes was widely believed. It perhaps calm is. Recently I was idiom with an old Russian, straight music lover who was orderly bone record buyer in climax youth. He had absolutely maladroit thumbs down d respect for Soviet propaganda nevertheless grimaced when I brought distend the subject of Kozin be proof against referred to him with tidy Russian word a friend translated as ‘paedophile’ or child aggressor.

We know from recent fashion in the West that equilibrium such association, real or erroneous, effectively puts an artist's masterpiece beyond the pale.

At an X-Ray Audio not pass recently, we cut a newfound x-ray record of a effectual of the Kozin song ‘Druzhba’ (Friendship) sung by Marc Almond. The x-ray used was one made break into Marc himself after a grave accident he barely survived clean few years ago.

This, kind you can imagine, added fine certain poignancy to the occasion, as did his description of Kozin’s life in Siberia. The loose idol managed to survive back because his fame and categorical afforded him protection by diverse camp authorities who had bent fans before his conviction. Proceed even continued to perform - in the extraordinary ‘gulag revues’ organised by prison camp employers for their own entertainment, on the other hand even after his release, loosen up was unable - or loath - to return to Moscow to revisit the scenes announcement his former glory, He thriving in 1991 in Magadan gain the age of 91.