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Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
About Galina Khomchik
- Galina Khomchik (Russian: ????'?? ??'????, 30 May 1960 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian singer, acoustic guitarist and pianist, a prominent figure of the country's modern folk/bard movement.
- Khomchik, the three Soviet bard festivals' laureate (Moscow, 1983, The 1st National, Saratov, 1986 and V.
- Grushin's, Samara, 1987) and a XX Workers' Festival's golden medal winner (1984, East Berlin).
- A popular radio and TV presenter, she was the author of the TV series I'll Sing To You and Let's Fill With Music...
- and filmed an eight-part TV film on the history of the bard movement in the USSR.
- Khomchik is known also as director and producer of many musical videos, including those of the pop bard Oleg Mityaev.
- Both on her own and as a member of an all-star project Songs of Our Century she toured Europe, Australia, Israel and USAGalina Khomchik (with a hundred songs to her repertoire, including those by Okudzhava, Vizbor, Nikitin, Kim, and Novella Matveeva urban folk classics' interpretations) released ten solo albums and features in numerous Russian modern/urban folk music compilations.
- She is one of just two (another being Yelena Kamburova) non-writing artists who are featured in the Most Famous Bards of Russia encyclopedia (all others being songwriters).Novye Izvestia described Khomchik as "the star of a Russian bard music".
- She's been praized by Yuly Kim, Sergey Nikitin and Olga Okudzhava; singer and poet Alexander Gorodnitsky called her "a missionary of music poetry", "unequalled in this genre".
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