Tamara Gverdtsiteli

About Tamara Gverdtsiteli

Tamara Gverdtsiteli (born 18 January 1962) is a Georgian, Israeli, Soviet and Russian singer, actress and composer. People's Artist of Georgia (1991) and Russia (2004) At the age of 19, Gverdtsiteli finished in second place at the All-Union Festival in Dnipropetrovsk and won the international competition "Red Carnation" in Sochi. The songs "Music" (V. Azarashvili, M. Potskhishvili) and "Blossom, my land" brought her to fame. In 1982, she took part in a popular music competition in Dresden, in 1988 she won the Golden Orpheus song contest, then performed as a guest artist at the festivals in Sopot and Sanremo. Since 1987, Gverdtsiteli has acted as a jury member of music festivals. In 1991, Gverdtsiteli was invited by her French agent to Paris, where she met Michel Legrand and Jean Dréjac. At the same time, a contract was signed with Legrand and her first concert took place at the Olympia. Legrand, introducing the three-thousandth hall, said: "Paris! Remember this name." In Gverdtsiteli's repertoire, songs of civil sound coexisted with elegiac, lyrical songs. Gradually, more and more songs of her own composition appeared. Of the major events of her creative life, her solo concerts include at Olympia (Paris, 1994), with the A. Kozlov Ensemble at Carnegie Hall (New York, 1995), Michel Legrand Presents Tamara Gverdtsiteli (New York, 1996).