Alexandra Strelchenko

Alexandra Ilinichna Strelchenko (Russian: Александра Ильинична Стрельченко; (2 February 1937 – 2 August 2019) was an ukrainian actress and singer. She is a performer of Russian folk songs, Russian romances and pop songs.

She was awarded the People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1984.

Biography

Strelchenko was born on the station Chaplino Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. Parents were father - Ilya (1911-1941), and mother Polina (1916-1945). Alexandra soon became an orphan. Her father died at the front, and her mother died at the end of the war, and brought up in an orphanage.

Then she studied at the correspondence department Herzen University. During a tour of the Voronezh Folk Choir in 1958 Alexandra, having been at his concert, she decided to leave school and devote herself to a career in music.

From 1959 to 1962 she worked in the Lipetsk Philharmonic. Since 1963, she worked in Moscow, having a one-year internship at the All-Russia creative workshop of variety art.

From 1976 to 1980 she studied at the Gnessin State Musical College. Since 2002 she has been a professor at Moscow State Art and Cultural University.