Education
Moscow State Institute of Culture. Gnessin Russian Academy of Music.
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Valentina Tolkunova
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Her performances exhibited a kindhearted mood and sincerity, and her voice was noted for its clarity. At age 18, Valentina Tolkunova entered Moscow State Art and Cultural University. In 1971, she graduated from the Gnessin State Musical College and recorded songs for the television series Den" za Dnem (Day After Day).
The year 1972 was Tolkunova"s breakthrough year, due to a noted performance of songs by Vladimir Shainsky, and marked the beginning of a successful career in radio and television In 1973, she began a busy collaboration with the Moscow Philharmonic Concert Association (Moskonzert), and in 1989 she founded and became the director of her own theatre.
Over a thirty-year recording career, Valentina Tolkunova released at least thirteen albums. On 16 February 2010, Tolkunova became ill during a concert in Mogilev, Belarus, and went to a local hospital where she was diagnosed with brain tumor before being transferred to the Botkin Clinic in Moscow.
On 22 March, she went into a coma and died two hours later of a brain tumor.
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Membership
In 1966, she became a member of Yury Saulsky"s jazz band VIO-66 as a soloist and jazz singer.
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Russia