Valery Leontev - Margarita

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Valery Leontev sings the song Margarita together with the Choir of the Russian Army.

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Elsewhere on this site can read that, in 1986, the Russian composer of popular tunes Yuri Aleksandrovich Chernavsky (°1947) had written the song Margarita for the then hardly known singer Sergey Yuryevich Minaev (°1962). The lyrics had been written by the poet Aleksander Markevich and were inspired by Margarita's flight on the broom.

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Without waiting for the release of the record of Minaev, Chernavsky proposed to Valery Leontev to make a new version of this song with new arrangements. In 1990, the song was released on Leontev’s album Грешный путь [Greshny Put] or Path of Sin. Movie director Vadim Korotkov (°1960) and script writer Yuri Vyacheslavovich Grymov (°1965) were asked to make the first video clip ever in the Soviet Union.

With his version of Margarita, Valery Leontev won the television contest Песня 89 [Pesnya 89] or The Song of '89. He would reinterpret the song again several times, including a version with the famous Choir of the Russian Army from St. Petersburg. In 2009 he had the idea to sing it in a duet with the French singer Patricia Kaas, who is very popular in Russia. However, we do not know if that ever happened.



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