Oleg Frish

Career in the USA In 1992, as the Cold War barriers were eased, Oleg Frish decided to move to the New York area, because at that time New York City was by far the biggest metropolitan entry point for Russian-speaking émigrés, especially Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens and Manhattan.

In 1992, Oleg started to host radio shows on the first Russian - American radio and television station WMNB (1992 - 2000).

In 1996, he became writer and host of the TV series "Walking The Streets of Moscow" for WMNB in Fort Lee, NJ, interviewing a wide variety of Russian-born entertainers including such Russian notables as Tatiana Samoilova, Elena Kamburova, Alla Pugacheva, Iosif Kobzon, Irina Ponarovskaya, Tamara Miansarova, Natalya Varley, Natalia Kustinskaya and many others who are celebrities for the Russian-American community. He also interviewed American singers, musicians and actors on The People’s Wave Radio 930AM in New York (1998 - 2005).

In 2002, NTV America, the leading Russian-language television channel, which combines the programming content of its sister network NTV Russia and original local programs from America, began broadcasting in Fort Lee, NJ.

In 2005, Oleg Frish became the Executive Producer of "Time Out", a Russian-language weekly television news and entertainment program that broadcast their first episode on May 15, 2005, on NTV America. In 2006, Oleg Frish also became the show’s host.

TIME OUT - Oleg Frish is the Executive Producer and the Host of 1500 episodes broadcast from 2005 to present on NTV America in Hollywood, CA. Songwriter, Charles Strouse quoted: "The Great American Songbook, to which I am proud to be a contributor, is one of our greatest cultural exports, Oleg is a living example of what an impact this export has had. Far, far away, in the old Soviet Union where he grew up, he heard these songs and fell in love. It took him a while to record them but I know it's been one of his lifelong dreams."

In 2014, Oleg finished the recording of his new CD "Oleg Frish and His American Idols", a set of duets with iconic American singers who were guests on his TV and Radio shows and now have recorded American classics with him - Bobby Rydell, Melissa Manchester, Ben E. King, Peggy March, Lainie Kazan, Tony Orlando, B.J. Thomas, Chris Montez, Lou Christie and Gary U.S. Bonds. The album was recorded at the Deep Diner Music Co. in New York in November 2014. The album is introduced by Connie Francis and was released in 2015. Sony Red distributed the album.

In 2018, Oleg released a set of Soviet retro songs "No Hits". He recorded 15 tunes which were popular in the 50 - 70s of the 20th century. This was the first ever international project of Soviet retro music recorded with the American Big Band and a swinging vocal group arranged and conducted by David Berger (New York, USA). This project was released on a specially designed flash drive.

LIVE PERFORMANCES - Oleg Frish still performs on stage, touring with the Swing Around the World cabaret act. Oleg sings either with a jazz quartet or a septet in 19 languages. Throughout his career, he performed in New York: at the Metropolitan Room Iridium Jazz Club, 54 Below, Jazz on Main in Mt Kisco; in New Jersey at the Trumpets in Montclair; in California at the Catalina Jazz Club; in Florida at the Black Box Theater in Boca Raton. He toured in Australia at Foundry 616 in Sydney, in Moscow Russia, at the Kozlov Jazz Club and the International House of Music, as well as in Canada, Germany and Italy, among other countries.