Galina Khomchik
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| Birth name | Galina Viktorovna Khomchik |
| Born | (1960-05-30) May 30, 1960 (age 64) |
| Origin | Moscow, USSR Soviet Union/Russia |
| Genres | Bard |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer, tv presenter |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar, piano |
| Labels | Moskovskiye Okna, Muzprom |
| Website | www |
Galina Khomchik (Russian: Гали′на Хо′мчик, 30 May 1960 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian singer, acoustic guitarist and pianist, a prominent figure of the country's modern folk/bard movement. Khomchik, the three Soviet bard festivals' laureate (Moscow, 1983, The 1st National, Saratov, 1986 and V. Grushin's, Samara, 1987) and a XX Workers' Festival's golden medal winner (1984, East Berlin).[1] A popular radio and TV presenter, she was the author of the TV series I'll Sing To You and Let's Fill With Music... and filmed an eight-part TV film on the history of the bard movement in the USSR.[1] Khomchik is known also as director and producer of many musical videos, including those of the pop bard Oleg Mityaev.[2] Both on her own and as a member of an all-star project Songs of Our Century she toured Europe, Australia, Israel and USA[3]
Galina Khomchik (with a hundred songs to her repertoire, including those by Okudzhava, Vizbor, Nikitin, Kim, and Novella Matveeva urban folk classics' interpretations) released ten solo albums and features in numerous Russian modern/urban folk music compilations.[2] She is one of just two (another being Yelena Kamburova) non-writing artists who are featured in the Most Famous Bards of Russia encyclopedia (all others being songwriters).[4][5]
Novye Izvestia described Khomchik as "the star of a Russian bard music".[6] She's been praised by Yuly Kim,[7] Sergey Nikitin[8] and Olga Okudzhava;[9] singer and poet Alexander Gorodnitsky called her "a missionary of music poetry", "unequalled in this genre".[10]
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