- Alexey Ekimyan
Infobox Musical artist
Name = Alexey Ekimyan
Img_size = 150px
Img_capt = Alexey Ekimyan's CD
Background = non_performing_personnel
Born = birth date|1927|4|10|mf=yBaku ,Soviet Union
Died = death date and age|1982|4|24|1927|4|10|mf=yMoscow ,Soviet Union
Occupation =Composer
Genre = Pop
Years_active = 1950s–1982Alexey Ekimyan ( _hy. Ալեքսեյ Հեքիմյան, _ru. Алексей Гургенович Экимян) also Alexey Gurgenovich Hekimyan (April 10, 1927 – April 24, 1982) was a famous
Armenia n-Russia n composer, and author of popular songs. Ekimyan was also aGeneral of Soviet militsia (police ) and was the head of Criminal Investigation Department ofMoscow region . He was considered the only popular composer in the world who ruled a law-enforcement department at the same time [ [http://www.peoples.ru/art/music/composer/alexey_ekimyan/index.html Ekimyan's biography at Peoples.Ru] ru icon] . Ekimyan awarded by the "Renowned Master of the Arts"Armenian SSR official title.Born in
Baku , Ekimyan's first song for the Moscow International Festival (1957) was approved byVano Muradeli ("I don't know if you would become a general, but you would become a composer!" [ [http://www.noev-kovcheg.ru/mag/2007-06/732.html The songs of first love, "Noev Kovcheg", #6, 2007] ] ). His songs were performed and recorded by prominent Soviet singers that includeLyudmila Zykina ("I don't need another love"),Iosif Kobzon ,Lusine Zakaryan , Muslim Magomayev ("Save the friends"),Sofia Rotaru ,Vakhtang Kikabidze , Ruben Matevosian ("Gharabaghtsin"). Among his most famous songs are- "Listopad", "Vsya jizn' vperedi", "Odinochestvo" (written by poetsRobert Rozhdestvensky ,Rasul Gamzatov and others).Aram Khachaturian wrote: "The melodies of Ekimyan are amazingly beautiful, expressive, plastic and always natural" [ [http://www.noev-kovcheg.ru/mag/2007-06/732.html The songs of first love, "Noev Kovcheg", #6, 2007] ] . Some hits by Ekimyan were chosen for the "Song of the Year" all-Soviet festivals during the 1970s-'80s [ [http://pesnyagoda.by.ru/ "Pesnya goda"/"Song of the Year" festival's archive (1976–1982)] ru icon] .The documentary film-concert "Paths of My Memory" (1979, 27 min.) [ [http://www.arm-cinema.am/Films/Documentary/docright1.htm Armenian films official list] ] by Yerevan Studio is dedicated to the Alexey Ekimyan. His "Do not be sad" hit was used as a songtrack for the "
Nu Pogodi " Soviet animated film series.Ekimyan suffered a
heart attack and died on April 24, 1982 inMoscow . He is buried inYerevan ,Armenia .Discography
*Artashes Avetyan sings: songs by Alexey Ekimyan, U.S.S.R.: Melodiya, 1978 (LP). C60-10619-20
*Alexey Ekimyan. Beregite druzey..., Russia: Melodia, 2006 (CD)
*Alexey Ekimyan. Vot i vstretilis, Russia: Melodia, 2007 (CD)References
External links
* [http://www.peoples.ru/art/music/composer/alexey_ekimyan/index.html Alexey Ekimyan's biography] ru icon
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