Vakhtang Kikabidze

Vakhtang Kikabidze (; 19 July 1938 – 15 January 2023), also known as Buba (), was a Georgian (formerly Soviet) singer, actor, screenwriter, producer, composer and politician.  He became a member of Parliament in 2020. He has had notable roles. He is married and has a son. He became famous as a lead singer of "Orera", a Georgian estrada group which registered as the first Vocal-Instrumental Ensemble in the Soviet Union in 1958.Scott, Erik R. (2016), Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of the Soviet Empire, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 144-152.
Kikabidze died from brain cancer on 15 January 2023, at the age of 84.
 Filmography 

Actor
 "Ku! Kin-dza-dza" (Ku! Kin-dza-dza) – Russia, 2013
 "Fortune" (Fortuna) – Russia, 2000
 "Real Men and the Others" (Mamakatsebi) – Georgian SSR, 1985
 "Olga and Konstantin" (Olga i Konstantin) – Russian SFSR, 1984
 "TASS Is Authorized to Declare..." (TASS upolnomochen zayavit...) – Russian SFSR, 1984
 "Morning Without Marks" (Utro bez otmetok) – Russian SFSR, 1983
 "Cheers, My Dear!" (Itsotskhle genatsvale) – Georgian SSR, 1981
 "Till Next Time, Friend..." (Shekhvedramde, megobaro...) – Georgian SSR, 1980
 "Mimino" – Russian SFSR, 1977
 "The Lost Expedition" (Propavshaya ekspeditsiya) – Russian SFSR, 1974
 "Melodies of the Vere Quarter" (Veris ubnis melodiebi) – Georgian SSR, 1974
 "Hopelessly Lost" (Sovsem propashchiy) – Russian SFSR, 1972
 "I'm a Detective" (Me, gamomdziebeli) – Georgian SSR, 1971
 "Don't Grieve" (Ar daidardo, Ne goryuy) – Georgian SSR/Russian SFSR, 1969
 "Orera" (Orera, sruli svlit) – Georgian SSR, 1967
 "Meeting in Mountains" (Shekhvedra mtashi) – Georgian SSR, 1966

Director and screenwriter 
 "Cheers, My Dear!" (Itsotskhle genatsvale) – Georgian SSR, 1981
 "Real Men and the Others" (Mamakatsebi) – Georgian SSR, 1985

 Discography 
Pismo drugi. BUBA Records, 1999
Sekret Schastya. BUBA Records, 1999
Tango Lyubvi. OST-Records, 1999
Luchshie pesni. Noks Myuzik 2001
Grand Collection. Kvadro-Disk, 2002
Moi goda. Russkoie snabshenie 2003
Stariki-pasboiniki. Super Music 2004
Lyubownoye nastroyenie. Nikitin, 2005

Ancestry

 References 

Other websites
 Official website


Category:1938 births
Category:Singers from Georgia (country)
Category:2023 deaths
Category:Movie actors
Category:Actors from Tbilisi
Category:Politicians from Tbilisi
Category:Members of the Parliament of Georgia