Willi Tokarev

1934–2019 (age 85)

Biography

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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