Instruments Guitar, piano Genres Bard Role Singer | Name Galina Khomchik | |
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Birth name Galina Viktorovna Khomchik Origin Moscow, USSRSoviet Union/Russia Occupation(s) Musician, singer, TV presenter Labels Moskovskiye Okna, Muzprom Similar People | ||
Associated acts Songs of Our Century | ||
Галина Хомчик. Часть 1. Авторская песня. Передача 1
Galina Khomchik (Гали′на Хо′мчик, May 30, 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), is a popular radio and TV presenter, author of the I'll Sing To You and Let's Fill With Music... popular series, who's filmed 8-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 a colleague, 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 USA
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Galina Khomchik (with a hundred songs to her repertoire, notably, 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".