Willi Tokarev

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovich and the family name is Tokarev.

Willi Tokarev
Tokarev in 2012
Background information
Born
Vilen Ivanovich Tokarev

(1934-11-11)11 November 1934
Chernyshev, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died4 August 2019(2019-08-04) (aged 84)
Moscow, Russia
GenresRussian chanson
OccupationSinger-songwriter
Websitewillitokarev.ru

Willi Ivanovich Tokarev (Russian: Вилли Иванович Токарев; 11 November 1934 – 4 August 2019) was a Russian-American singer-songwriter. In the 1980s, he became famous throughout the Soviet Union for his songs about life as a Russian émigré in Brighton Beach, New York.

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