Alla Yoshpe

Alla Yakovlevna Ioshpe (Yoshpe) (Russian: А́лла Я́ковлевна Ио́шпе (Йо́шпе); 13 June 1937 – 30 January 2021)^[1] was a Soviet and Russian pop singer, and a People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2002).^[2][3]

Alla Yoshpe PAR
Born	(1937-06-13)13 June 1937 Moscow, USSR
Died	30 January 2021(2021-01-30) (aged 83) Moscow, Russia

Biography

Yoshpe was born in Moscow into a Jewish family. She studied philosophy at Moscow State University and while a student sang with the university's symphony orchestra.^[4]

In 1960, at a university event, she met Stakhan Rakhimov and the pair formed a pop duo.^[5] The pair performed both in the Soviet Union and overseas.^[4]

Selected songs

• 'Tri plus pyat' (Russian: Три плюс пять, lit. 'Three plus five'), Russian-language cover of Marie Laforêt's 'Ivan, Boris et moi'