Klavdiya Shulzhenko
1911-03-24THE BIOGRAPHY
Klavdiya Ivanovna Shulzhenko (Russian: Кла́вдия Ива́новна Шульже́нко , Ukrainian: Клавдія Іванівна Шульженко; March 24 [O.S. March 11] 1906, Kharkiv – June 17, 1984, Moscow) was a Soviet popular female singer and actress. Shulzhenko started singing with jazz and pop bands in the late 1920s. She rose to fame in the late 1930s with her version of Sebastian Yradier's La Paloma. In 1939, she was awarded at the first all-Soviet competition of
