Leonid bortkevich biography sample

Leonid Leonidovich Bortkevich - pop singer, Honored Artist of the BSSR. For many years he was a soloist of the legendary Pesnyary ensemble.

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Laureate of festivals held in the USSR, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany. The songs performed by him: "Birch sap", "Belorussia", "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" and many others were known throughout the country.

Bortkevich had no musical education, but his voice won over the head of the Pesnyary ensemble, Vladimir Mulyavin, who invited Leonid to his team.

Childhood

Leonid was born in Belarus, in the city of Minsk, on May 25, 1949.

He was a very late child in the family. The father died without waiting for the birth of his son, from the wounds received during the war, and the mother was forced to raise and support the child alone.

The boy became interested in music early, loved to sing, learned to play the trumpet, but was not going to devote his life to music.

Possessing a natural voice, Leonid successfully performed in Leonid Bortkevich: Sovjet zanger (1949-) | Biography, Facts ... ZUDE