Lavanda (song) explained

Lavanda
Artist:	Sofia Rotaru
Language:	Russian
English Title:	"Lavender"
Recorded:	1985
Genre:	Pop music
Composer:	Vladimir Matetsky
Lyricist:	Mikhail Shabrov

"Lavanda" (Russian: Лава́нда, English: Lavender) is one of the major hits of Sofia Rotaru, a popular song for duet performance of 1985. It was first performed on the New Year TV.^[1]

The lyrics were written by Mikhail Shabrov and the music was composed by Vladimir Matetsky. This song became the debut of collaboration of Rotaru and with the new author and composer. Rotaru was awarded platinum disc for selling more than one million of copies of the song and the album of the same name.

Leonard Cohen had released a similar tune in December 1984, "Dance Me to the End of Love".

Performers and covers

• Sofia Rotaru and Jaak Joala (USSR 1985, 1986 USSR)
• Rainer Friman and Hirvijärvi Minna (Finland 1986)
• Milk and Coffee – Mi Manchi (Italy 1986)
• Sofia Rotaru and Philipp Kirkorov (Russia 2001)
• Sofia Rotaru and Nikolay Baskov (Russia 2007)

External links

• Lyrics
• Music

Notes and References

1. Business in the USSR. -1991 Issues 14-19 - Page 78 One of Vladimir's major successes in the Soviet Union was his collaboration with the singer Sofia Rotaru. ...For many years Rotaru always came "second" to Alia Pugacheva, who predictably opened every season with another hit. But in 1986 the monopoly of "the Tsarina of Soviet Pop Music" was broken by Matetsky's Lavender performed in the New Year TV ...