Gelena Velikanova

Gelena Martselievna Velikanova (, 27 February 1923 – 10 November 1998) was a Soviet traditional pop performer, who popular in the 1950s and 1960s and best remembered for her 1959 hit "Landyshi" (Lily of the Valley). She was honoured with the People's Artist of Russia title in 1992. Velikanova then lost her voice due to incompetent medical treatment and had to stop performing. She died in 1998, two hours before her farewell concert in Moscow.

Biography Gelena Velikanova was born in Moscow; both her parents came from Poland, her father Marceli Welikanis, was a half-Lithuanian. She graduated from the secondary school in 1941 but had to abandon her plans of joining the musical college, due to the outbreak of World War II broke and her family were subsequently evacuated to Tomsk. In 1944 Gelena returned to Moscow, enrolled into the Glazunov Musical college. After the graduation, she continued her education in the Estrada department of the Moscow Art Theater School Studio.

Discography Studio albums 1958 — Vsyo ravno vesna priydyot 1961 — V novogodnyuyu noch' 1971 — Gelena Velikanova 1988 — Vospominanie

Singles "" (1956) "" (1956) "" (1956) "" / "" (1956) "" (1956) "" / "" (1958) "" / "" (1958) "" / "" (1959) "" (1959) "" / "" (1959) "" (1959) "" (1960) "" / "" (1961) "" / "" (1962) "" / "" (1961) "" / "" (1963) "" / "" (1964) "" (1968) "" (1968) "" (1970) "" (1970) "" / "" (1971) "" (1972) "" (1974) "" (1976)

Compilations 2003 — "Zolotaya kollektsiya retro" (BoMB 033-110) 2005 — "Velikie ispolniteli XX veka" (dMR 80905 CD, dMR 81005 CD)