Willi Tokarev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Willi Tokarev

Russian and former expatriate Russian-American singer

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1934

Place of Birth: Chernyshev, Russia

Date of Death: 04-Aug-2019

Profession: composer, singer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, lyricist, double-bassist

Nationality: United States, Russia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Vilen Tokarev (11 November 1934 – 4 August 2019), known professionally as Willi Tokarev (Russian: ????? ???????), was a Russian-American singer-songwriter.
In the 1980s, he became famous throughout the Soviet Union for his songs about life as a Russian émigré in New York in Brighton Beach.