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5 unusual facts about Emil Gorovets


Emil Gorovets

He moved to the United States upon the invitation of New York mayor Edward Koch and a 7-year offer from the "Arbeiter-Ring" (Арбайтер-Ринг).

In 1972, Gorovets and his wife, the actress Margarita Polonskaya (in Russian Маргарита Полонская), his partner and assistant, applied to emigrate to Israel, where they arrived in 1973.

In 1960 he won the All-Union Competition for Best Entertainer in the Soviet Union and started singing in Russian, which was his third language after Yiddish and Ukrainian.

Rahmil "Emil" Yacovlevich Gorovets (in Russian Рахмиль Яковлевич Горовец) (born in Haisyn, Ukraine 10 June 1923 - died in New York on 17 August 2001) was a famous Soviet Ukrainian singer of Jewish origin, Gorovets standing for Horovitz in Russian.

Horowitz was a performer renowned for several hits, including "Королева красоты" (meaning Beauty Queen) from Arno Babajanian, "Дрозды" by Vladimir Shainsky, "Голубые города" (meaning Blue city) and "Я шагаю по Москве" (meaning I walk around Moscow) both by Andrey Petrov, "I Walk around Moscow" became the soundtrack of a famous film that came out after release of the single.


Lev Pulver

A few recordings of his music are available featuring the performances of the GOSET orchestra with Solomon Mikhoels and Benjamin Zuskin,as well as by singers Solomon Khromchenko, Misha Alexandrovich, Nekhama Lifshitz, Marina Gordon, actors Emil Gorovets, Boris Landau.


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