Aida Vedishcheva

Aida Semyonovna Vedishcheva (, born Ida Solomonovna Weiss, , 10 June 1941) is a Soviet and American singer. In the 1960s, she contributed songs to several film soundtracks, including the timeless hits: "Song About Bears", "Help Me", "Forest Deer", "She-bear's Lullaby", "I'll Wait for You", "Chunga-Changa", "Blue Water", "The First Spring" and many others.

Biography

Early life

Aida Vedishcheva was born in Kazan (administrative center of Tatar ASSR) in the doctor's family of scientist, professor of dentistry Solomon Weiss and surgeon Elena Emelyanova, who arrived from Kyiv just before World War II. In 1951, the Ministry of Health offered professor Weiss to open faculty of therapeutic dentistry in Irkutsk, Siberia. There, Vedishcheva finished her School and Music School.

Afterwards (by her parents' request), she enrolled into the Pedagogical Institute of the foreign languages, where she studied both the German and English languages and at the same time she was performing in the student theater of the musical comedy. Upon graduating from the institute, Vedishcheva left for Moscow, to fulfill her dream of becoming an actress-singer. She tried to enroll into the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School but failed. After that, she began her singing career due to her strong and beautiful voice.

Music career Aida Vedishcheva began her singing performance career in the early 1960s, in Orel State Philharmonic Society. Vedishcheva sang in the famous jazz orchestras of Oleg Lundstrem and later of Leonid Utyosov orchestras. From 1966 on, she was performing along with the "Meloton" ensemble (a variety theatrical performance "Singing Short Stories" was created) the chairman of All-Union Radio as well as her unauthorized performance in Sopot Festival shortly after the events of the Prague Spring (after which she was blacklisted by the USSR Ministry of Culture). Among such obstacles there were cases when her name not making into movies' credits, prohibition of concert tours abroad, even cancellation of concerts, cold receptions on television, erased tapes with her recordings on the radio. For example, her song "Forest Deer" was recognized as the Song of the Year, but on the television instead of Aida it was performed by Loktev ensemble. From the mid-1970s on, Vedishcheva's name disappeared from the credits of some movies and cartoons. In March 1980,

Since 1989, she has repeatedly visited the Soviet Union, then Russia. In 2000, she took part in the Golden Smash Hit Festival in Mogilev.

In 1998, Vedishcheva put on the show Miss Liberty for the new millennium. After the September 11 attacks she wrote the musical "Masterpiece and the singing Liberty" and dedicated it to the Statue of Liberty. The musical was performed on Broadway in 2007. Geese, Geese (music S. Pozhalkov, words N. Malyshev) Comrade (music О. Ivanov, words А. Prokofyev) In Any Way You'll Be Mine (music Аleksandr Zatsepin, words Leonid Derbenyov) You Argued Without Purpose (music B. Savelyev, words V. Kharitonov) Simply the Aage is Such (music B. Savelyev, words М. Pliatskovsky) Be as it May (music Yan Frenkel, words М. Tanich) Steps in Grass (music Мichel Legrand, words I. Reznik)

In movies Three Plus Two - Let them talk (music A. Volkonsky, words S. Mikhalkov) Kidnapping, Caucasian Style — Song About Bears (music A. Zatsepin, words L. Derbenyov) White piano — Road Song (music А. Zatsepin, words О. Gadjikasimov) White piano — First Spring (music А. Zatsepin, words О. Gadjikasimov) White piano — Song about Dushanbe (music А. Zatsepin, words О. Gadjikasimov) The Diamond Arm — Help Me (music А. Zatsepin, words L. Derbenyov) Angel in a Skullcap - You'll still be mine (music А. Zatsepin, words L. Derbenyov) And Mom Will Forgive Me — Tovarisch (music Oleg Ivanov, words Alexander Prokofyev)

Partial discography Studio albums 1969 — Poyot Aida Vedishcheva (LP, «Melodiya» 33Д—26625) 1974 — Aida Vedishcheva (LP, «Melodiya» С60—05165) Compilations 2003 — Zolotaya Collectsiya Retro (CD, «Bomba Music» BoMB 033-109) 2005 — Ya Pesney, Kak Vetrom, Napolyu Stranu (CD, «Bomba Music» BoMB 033-169) 2011 — Zvezdy Sovetskoy Estrady (CD, «Bomba Music» BoMB 033-669) 2020 — Aida Vedishcheva (LP, «BCHX» BCHX 202010)

Awards ru:КиноВатсон — "For the greatest input in the art of cinema"