Urmas Alender

Urmas Alender (22 November 1953 – 28 September 1994) was an Estonian singer and musician, the vocalist of popular Estonian bands Ruja and Propeller.

Born in Tallinn, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (see Occupation of the Baltic states), Alender began his musical career in the rock band Shades in 1969 but left the following year to become the vocalist for Andromeeda. The band was nationally commercially successful.

After years of being harassed by the Soviet KGB and other local authorities, Alender temporarily emigrated to Sweden in 1989.

On 28 September 1994, while en route from Tallinn to Stockholm, Sweden, Urmas Alender died when the cruiseferry Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea. He was survived by a daughter, Yoko Alender, and a son, Ion Alender.

In 2003, Liia Sakkos made a documentary about Alender, titled Teisel pool vett (English: On the Other Side of the Water, also a title of a song by Ruja).

Discography (solo) Vana kloun (1992) Hingelind (1994) Kogutud teosed. 1968-1980. Esimene osa. (2000) Kogutud teosed. 1981-1993. Teine osa. (2000) Kui mind enam ei ole (2001) Kohtumine Albertiga (2-CD, 2003) Kohtumine Albertiga (2003) Armastuse ämblik (2003)