Education
Mondrus graduated from school and in 1962 started singing in the Riga Variety Orchestra.
Mondrus graduated from school and in 1962 started singing in the Riga Variety Orchestra.
In 1973 she emigrated to West Germany. Soon she was noticed and moved to Moscow, where joined the Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra. Her first success was the song "Ticket to Childhood" ("Билет в детство").
From 1968 to 1972 she was a soloist with the Mosconcert concert organization (a Moscow association that organized regular concerts for its artists).
One of her most popular songs was "Siniy Lyon" ("Синий лён"), composed by Raimonds Pauls. She was one of the first s in the Soviet Union to do a dance while singing, something that was not approved of back then, in the 1960s.
In 1971, at the whim of South. Lapin, Chairman of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio), Larisa Mondrus, along with several other s of Jewish descent, was de facto barred from appearing on television Even though she continued to tour with Egil Schwartz"s Orchestra a lot, they finally decided to emigrate and in 1973 emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany, where she continued her career as a, recording several albums for Polydor.