Willi Tokarev

Willi Tokarev
Tokarev in 2012
Background information
Birth nameVilen Ivanovich Tokarev
Born(1934-11-11)11 November 1934
Chernyshev, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died4 August 2019(2019-08-04) (aged 84)
Moscow, Russia
GenresRussian chanson
OccupationSinger-songwriter
Websitewillitokarev.ru

Willi Ivanovich Tokarev (Russian: Вилли Ива́нович То́карев; 11 November 1934 – 4 August 2019) was a Russian-American singer-songwriter. In the 1980s, he became famous throughout the Soviet Union for his songs about life as a Russian émigré in Brighton Beach, New York.

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