Artist description Pianist

Music Style Classical

Musical Influences Prokofiev, Skryabin, Rachmaninoff, Milli Vannili, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Tarkovsky, Bergman, John Waters, The Bee Gees, Webern, Lawrence Welk, Messiaen, David Cassidy, Bulat Okhudzhava, Stockhausen and the Spice Girls

Similar Artists Bela Lugosi after the suicide attempt

Artist History Married for 52 years to the great Russian pianist Maria Udina who beat him with her boots, the even greater Vakhtangov loved every minute of it. He loves goat cheese marinated in codfish oil, vodka and sushi bits. Pianist, violiinist, cellist, conductor, heldentenor, baritone, basso and occassionally a soprano and prima ballerina, the great Vakhtangov made more than 5000 LPs for Melodiya before the outbreak of World War 2 and the Siege of Leningrad, during which he was mistaken for a corpse and buried alive. After that, he didn't make a single album. Now at 104 years old, Vakhtangov still scuba dives, hangs from rubber trees and chases young girls around his apartment building on Moscow's fashionable Arbat. He has terminal halitosis and wooden dentures, but they don't seem to mind so long as he pays. After all, says Vakhtangov, a ruble is still a ruble

Instruments Piano

Albums More than 5000 LPs for Melodyia before WW2; then nada

Press Reviews "I've never heard anything like it." Boris Zovenko, Pravda "Boy oh boy, these potatoe pirozhki are delicious!" Lev Malenkov, Novisbersk Gazette "Hey, durak, don't hog it -- let me have a bite!" Sofia Gubaidulina, Dezhurnaya Zhizn; St. Petersburg

Additional Info Vodka with goat cheese bits

Location Moscow - Russia

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