Аида Ведищева

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Aida Semyonovna Vedishcheva (born Ida Solomonovna Weiss, Russian: Ида Соломоновна Вайс, born 10 June 1941 in Kazan) is a Soviet and Russian singer of Jewish descent. In the 1960s she contributed songs to several film soundtracks. Her most famous film songs are «Песенка о медведях» ("The song about bears"), «Помоги мне» ("Help me"), «Лесной олень» ("Forest deer"). The hit songs from cartoons include «Колыбельная медведицы» ("Bear-mama lullaby"), and «Чунга-Чанга» ("Chunga-changa").

Aida Vedishcheva began her singing performance career in the early 1960s, in Kharkiv philharmony. Vedishcheva sang in Oleg Lundstrem's and later in Леонид Утесов's orchestras. From 1966 on, she was performing along with the "Meloton" ensemble as well as the Vocal-instrumental ensemble (VIE) Голубые Гитары ("Blue Guitars") led by Игорь Гранов (Igor Granov).
As the author of texts, she performed under the pseudonym I. Tarasova = И. Тарасова.
The same year (1966) Vedishcheva became a laureate of the First "All-Union Competition of Soviet Song". She achieved national fame and recognition after singing «Колыбельная медведицы» in 1967 for the hit movie «Кавказская пленница» (seven million records were released). In 1968, for the song «Гуси, гуси» ("Geese, geese" -> "Gusi, gusi") she received a diploma at the Sopot International song festival (the Polish Baltic Sea coast). That was followed by such songs/movie soundtracks as «Вулкан страстей» («Помоги мне») ("Volcano of desires" ("Help me")) for the movie «Бриллиантовая рука» (The Diamond Arm) (1968), «Лесной олень» ("Forest deer") for the movie «Ох уж эта Настя!» (1972), and others.
In 1980 she has immigrated to the USA, where she performed as Aida or Amazing Aida, and recorded several albums.

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