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| Legendary Russian singer Iosif Kobzon dies aged 80 | Legendary Russian singer Iosif Kobzon dies aged 80 |
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| Renowned Russian singer Iosif Kobzon, who was sometimes compared to Frank Sinatra and was famous for his crooner style, has passed way at the age of 80. Kobzon was the most decorated performer in the country’s history. | Renowned Russian singer Iosif Kobzon, who was sometimes compared to Frank Sinatra and was famous for his crooner style, has passed way at the age of 80. Kobzon was the most decorated performer in the country’s history. |
| His grieving widow, Nenel, is currently unable to comment because “we all are crying,” Kobzon’s assistant told TASS news agency, as he confirmed the death of the legend of the Soviet and Russian stage. | His grieving widow, Nenel, is currently unable to comment because “we all are crying,” Kobzon’s assistant told TASS news agency, as he confirmed the death of the legend of the Soviet and Russian stage. |
| Kobzon, who was also a deputy head of the State Duma’s Culture Committee, had been battling cancer for years. | Kobzon, who was also a deputy head of the State Duma’s Culture Committee, had been battling cancer for years. |
| Born in the then-Soviet Ukrainian city Chasov Yar in 1937, the performer demonstrated his talent from early childhood. After winning multiple singing contests he once performed in front of Joseph Stalin, as well other Soviet leaders, including Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. He gained enormous popularity after he sang several soundtracks for famous Soviet spy TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring. | |
| One of his early hits that won over the hearts of the Soviet people was the composition ‘In Our Courtyard,’ about a fairly ordinary city girl who nonetheless caught the eye of a young man, who cannot stop looking at her. | |
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