Izabella Yurieva | |
Birth Name: | Izabella Danilovna Livikova |
Birth Date: | 1899 9, df=y |
Birth Place: | Rostov-on-Don |
Death Place: | Moscow |
Resting Place: | Donskoye Cemetery Moscow |
Nationality: | Russian |
Yearsactive: | 1922–2000 |
Awards: | People's Artist of Russia (1992) Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class (1999) |
Izabella Yurieva (Russian: link=no|Изабелла Юрьева) is the stage name of Izabella Danilovna Livikova (Russian: link=no|Изабелла Даниловна Ливикова;[1] 7 September 1899[2] – 20 January 2000), a Russian singer nicknamed the "Queen of the Russian Romance"[3] [4] who celebrated her centennial at a tribute concert given in her honor at the Central Concert Hall in Moscow in 1999.[5]
She was one of the top performers of the romantic Russian Gypsy songs in the late 1920s and 1930s before the genre became almost taboo in Soviet Russia.[6]
Yurieva was largely forgotten until the 1990s when she resurfaced on television and was named a People's Artist of Russia.[3]