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Alla Pugacheva
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Whereas: Alla Pugacheva is known as a singing sensation. She performs a vast repertoire of superb and breathtaking numbers at each performance. Her records sales, over 150 million copies worldwide, rank with the likes of top American artists; and,
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During the 80s, Alla was ... a frequent visitor to Sweden. She started out with loads of guest appearances on popular Swedish radio show "Galaxen" (Galaxy) with famous Swedish star Jacob Dahlin, and later continued in his TV-show Jacobs Stege (Jacob's Ladder) where she also was a frequent guest. Jacob and Alla used to do various of songs together, for example "Superman", where Dahlin did the vocals of the Superman. It was in connection with this Alla recorded her first and only entire English-speaking record, "Alla Pugacheva in Stockholm", with various hit songs like "Watch Out", "Song-Bird" and "Superman". When Alla participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 with her song "Primadonna", she once stated "This song is for you, Jacob", honoring the by then dead Jacob Dahlin who was a close friend to her.
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According to the First Channel’s press service, singers Iosif Kobzon, Lev Leshchenko, Alla Pugacheva, Dmitry Khvorostovsy and Mireille Mathieu will participate in the event. The concert will end with a salute at 10 p.m.
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Pugacheva was born to mother Zinaida Arkhipovna Odegova and father Boris Mikhailovich Pugachev in Moscow. At the age of 5, she participated in a concert held in the Kolonnyi Zal Doma Soyuzov (Pillar Hall of House of the Unions), the most prestigious hall in Soviet Union.
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Alla Pugacheva has been famous ever since 1975, when she won a contest singing a song called "Harlequin." Since then, the nation has seen her through four marriages, the birth of a grandson, 150 million records, a few face lifts, serious weight gains, diets, surgery, weight loss and constant, lively gossip.
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In 1985, after years of living together, Alla married producer Yevgeniy Boldin, with whom she had numerous professional collaborations. They filed for divorce in 1993, stating that their professional lives interfered too much with their personal life.
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