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Vadim KozinVadim Kozin (Вадим Козин) (March 21, 1903 – December 19, 1994) was the great Russian singer. He had tenor voice. He was born in Saint Petersburg, his father Alexei Gavrilovich Kozin was a merchant, his mother Vera Ilinskaya was gypsy. She sang in the gypsy quire. There house was always full of gypsy guests, singing is in their national traditions so Vadim was exposed to it from an early age. He began to sing professionally in twentieth, success came to him almost immediately. In the thirties he moved to Moscow and was accompanied by Dmitri Ashkenazi. During the WWII he was in the entertainment brigade, singing for the troops. In 1944 shortly before the birthday of Stalin Beria called him up and asked why he didn't sing anything about Stalin. Vadim replied that it's not his style, Stalin song isn't for tenor voice. In the late 1944 Vadim Kozin was sentenced to 5 years in jail as part of the repression campaign against prominent Soviet performers and was sent to Magadan. This sentence deeply traumatized Vadim Kozin, he stopped singing and was destroying his own records so his friends were even hiding records from him. Even after his release he stayed to live in Magadan. In 1959 he again was successfully touring the country with performances. Federal Soviet government never rehabilitated him and his 90th birthday was celebrated in private only with his friends in Magadan. Kozin, Vadim Kozin, Vadim Kozin, Vadim
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