The famous performer of Romanov Alla Bayanova died

In the 98th year of life, the People's Artist of Russia Alla Bayanova died, Interfax reports with reference to the relatives of the singer. According to them, Bayanova passed away in the first Moscow hospice.

Alla Bayanova (real name Levitskaya) is a famous Romanian and Russian pop singer, performer of Russian songs and romances, author of music to many romances from his vast repertoire.

She was born on May 18, 1914 in Chisinau (then the center of the Bessarabian province) in an artistic family. Father - Nikolai Levitsky - was an opera singer (stage pseudonym Nikolai Bayanov). Mother - Evgenia Skorodinskaya, artist of the cordobelet.

At the end of 1918, when his father returned from the front, Bessarabia became part of Romania. The family moves from the country to the country until in 1921 it settled in France, in Paris. Alla is given to study in a private school at the Catholic Monastery, and on Thursdays she also visits a gymnasium for children of Russian emigrants. She made her debut on stage as an assistant to her father in the Kazbek restaurant, at the age of nine, and from 13 years (1927) performs on his own. In 1934, the family moved to Romania and settled in Bucharest. Bayanova performed mainly Russian and gypsy romances, performed jointly with Peter Leshchenko, Konstantin Sokolsky and Alexander Vertinsky, regularly recorded records.

Having traveled the whole world with tour, in the USSR with concerts, the singer first arrived only in 1976 (as part of the Romanian pop ensemble, which gave several concerts in the Ukrainian SSR). In 1989, having received Soviet citizenship, she settled in Moscow in a small apartment on the Old Arbat and, despite the venerable age, still sometimes gave concerts.

In March 2007, Bayanova celebrated the phenomenal date with a solo concert at the State Party Theater - the 85th anniversary of her creative activity.

The last time the singer entered the stage on May 18, 2009, on the day of her 95th anniversary with a solo program.

Alla Bayanova was three times married, she had no children, her favorite animals lived with her: dogs and cats that she once sheltered.