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Rahmil "Emil" Yacovlevich Gorovets was a famous Soviet Ukrainian singer of Jewish origin, Gorovets standing for Horovitz in Russian. Gorovets' voice in between a tenor and baritone, was bright and had lush tonal coloration and emotional interpretations. Besides his hits in Russian, Ukrainian and Yiddish, he was also known to sing European and American famous hits in Russian. Better known as Emil Gorovets, he graduated from the Moscow State Jewish Theater as a soloist. He began to sing in Yiddish. In 1955, he started singing in a jazz band Mosestrady with Eddie Rosner. In 1959 went on tour in Paris with a group of other artists for the 100th anniversary celebration of Sholem Aleichem, a leading author and playwright in Yiddish. 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. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Go...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
