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Galina Khomchik (Russian: Гали′на Хо′мчик, 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).[1] 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.[1] Khomchik is known also as director and producer of many musical videos, including those of the pop bard Oleg Mityaev.[2] Both on her own and as a member of an all-star project Songs of Our Century she toured Europe, Australia, Israel and USA[3]

Galina Khomchik
Background information
Birth name	Galina Viktorovna Khomchik
Born	(1960-05-30) May 30, 1960 (age 62)
Origin	Moscow, USSR Soviet Union/Russia
Genres	Bard
Occupation(s)	Musician, singer, tv presenter
Instruments	Guitar, piano
Labels	Moskovskiye Okna, Muzprom
Website	www.homchik.ru

Galina 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.[2] 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).[4][5]

Novye Izvestia described Khomchik as "the star of a Russian bard music".[6] She's been praised by Yuly Kim,[7] Sergey Nikitin[8] and Olga Okudzhava;[9] singer and poet Alexander Gorodnitsky called her "a missionary of music poetry", "unequalled in this genre".[10]

Discography

• Nesckuchny Sad (Нескучный сад, 1994, Мuzprom-MO Records)
• Eternity: a Woman's View (По-женски о вечном, 1997)[11]
• Don't leave me, Spring! (Не покидай меня, весна! 2000)[12]
• Familiar Romantics (Знакомая романтика, 2001, Mystery of Sound Records)
• Surprise Alliance (Неожиданный альянс, 2002)[13]
• Songs by Bulat Okujava, (Песни Булата Окуджавы, 2003)
• Moscow University: My Genius Teachers (МГУ: Мои Гениальные Учителя, 2005)[14]
• Two Voices' Harmony (Двухголосие, 2007)[15]
• Good and Old (Старое-доброе, 2008, First Musical Publishers)
• Songs of Yuri Visbor (Песни Юрия Визбора, 2009, IVC Records)[16]

References

External links

• Liza magazine interview.
• Galina Khomchik MK interview, 2008.
• Galina Khomchik profile at Radio Chanson
• Echo Moskvy interview, by Natella Boltyanskaya, 2 April 2010
• Links to her CDs

На других языках

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- [en] Galina Khomchik

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[ru] Хомчик, Галина Викторовна

Гали́на Ви́кторовна Хо́мчик (30 мая 1960, Москва) — советская и российская исполнительница в жанре авторской песни. Лауреат фестивалей авторской песни, постоянный член жюри Грушинского фестиваля.

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