Valentina Ponomaryova (singer)

Valentina Ponomaryova (singer)

Valentina Dmitriyevna Ponomaryova ( _ru. Валенти́на Дми́триевна Пономарёва) (born 10 July 1939, Moscow), often also spelled Ponomareva, is a Russian singer, performer of romances and a jazz vocalist.

Biography

Valentina's father is a Gypsy violinist Dmitriy Ponomaryov, her mother is a Russian pianist Irina Lukashova. Valentina was born when her parents were students of the Moscow Conservatory and lived in a student dormitory. Valentina was growing among classical European and Gypsy music.

Her parents travelled a lot so Valentina studied at many schools. After she finished her school she entered the Khabarovsk Arts Institute. She studied both vocal and piano. As a student she learnt about jazz and took a great interest in it.

Valentina took external degrees and was invited to a theater to act the part of a Gypsy singer in a dramatic play "The Living Corpse" (by Lev Tolstoy). Her role included several songs and was a great success with the audience.

In 1967 Valentina took part in the International Jazz Festival in Tallinn. There she was noticed and invited to join Anatoliy Krol's jazz-band, which was quite famous in the USSR.

In 1971 the singer left the band and became an actress in the Gypsy "Romen" theatre in Moscow. In 1973, trio "Romen" performed on stage, with Valentina as a singer. In 1973 the trio was the laureate of the USSR Variety Performers Contest.

In 1988 she voiced the Woman in the cult animated feature film "The Cat Who Walked by Herself". [http://www.jazz.ru/mag/43/novok.htm] .

Her complete recordings with the legendary Trio Romen is being re-released (2008) by Jon Larsen's Hot Club Records .

External links

* [http://www.valentinaponomareva.ru/pressa/press.htm Press about Valentina Ponomaryova (collection on her own site)] ru icon
* [http://kkre-39.narod.ru/ponomar.htm Biography and examples of songs] ru icon
* [http://www.newsvm.com/articles/1999/10/26/valen.html Interview] ru icon
* [http://romanykultury.info/face/face.php?row=25 Ponomaryova's bio in the Gypsy magazine "Romany Kultura i Dzhiiben"] ru icon
* [http://www.specialradio.net/art/003.shtml An article where the singer is mentioned as "the greatest female singer of Russian improvisatory music"] ru icon
*imdb name|id=2606618|name=Valentina Ponomaryova


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