Classic

These are artists playing in older styles. The bards, for instance, are singer-songwriters originally heavily associated with Soviet-era counter-culture. Shanson is best known as a sort of soundtrack to prison culture and the darkest parts of life. Estrada, is genre of classic performative popular music developed under the USSR and still in use today. Jazz, imported from the US, has long held a special place in the hearts of many from the former USSR and has had wide creative influence there. Blues, also from the US, came much later to the former USSR but has had a sizeable influence on local rock. Of all these styles, however, folk influences retain the deepest roots and produce the most wide-ranging effects in contemporary music.

Languages: Search for classic or classic-influenced music performed in Uzbek, Kyrgyz, or Tatar, or in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, or Belarusian, or in Baltic, Caucasian, or Other languages.

Iveta Mukuchyan / Իվետա Մուկուչյան

Iveta Mukuchyan (Իվետա Մուկուչյան) was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1986. She grew up in Hamburg, Germany where her family moved in 1992. At the age of 23, she returned to Armenia to audition for the popular television show Hay Superstar (the Armenian version of American Idol). Although she was eliminated in the semi-finals and […]

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