Joseph Kobzon: Soviet and Russian singer
Iosif (Joseph) Davydovich Kobzon (Russian: Ио́сиф Давы́дович Кобзо́н; 11 September 1937 — 30 August 2018) was a Soviet-Russian singer.
He was born in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast. He performed concerts for Joseph Stalin when he was younger. His best-known song is Instants from the Soviet TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973).
He went to Donetsk People's Republic and said words in support of its separatists. He got Honorary Consul of ‘Donetsk People's Republic’ in the Russian Federation. He voted "yes" to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation on March 20, 2014. He was put in the EU blacklist for that on February 16, 2015.
Kobzon died on 30 August 2018 in Moscow from prostate cancer at the age of 80.
References
Other websites
- Official site of Iosif Kobzon
- Kobzon sings My Yiddishe Mama at YouTube (in Yiddish and Russian)
- Joseph Kobzon at iTunes
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