associated_acts label article_title name background birth_date instrument genre image origin birth_name occupation
songs of our century moskovskiye okna , muzprom galina khomchik
 galina khomchik solo_singer may 30 , 1960 guitar , piano bard galina khomchek.jpg moscow , ussr soviet union/russia galina viktorovna khomchik musician , singer , tv presenter
galina khomchik

galina khomchik -lrb- Гали ′ на Хо ′ мчик , may 30 , 1960 , moscow , ussr -rrb- is a russian singer , acoustic guitarist and pianist , a prominent figure of the country 's modern folk/bard movement .
khomchik , the three soviet bard festivals ' laureate -lrb- moscow , 1983 , the 1st national , saratov , 1986 and v. grushin 's , samara , 1987 -rrb- and a xx workers ' festival 's golden medal winner -lrb- 1984 , east berlin -rrb- , is a popular radio and tv presenter , author of the `` i 'll sing to you '' and `` let 's fill with music ... '' popular series , who 's filmed 8-part tv film on the history of the bard movement in the ussr .
khomchik is known also as director and producer of many musical videos , including those of a colleague , pop bard oleg mityaev .
both on her own and as a member of an all-star project `` songs of our century '' she toured europe , australia , israel and usa galina khomchik -lrb- with a hundred songs to her repertoire , notably , okudzhava , vizbor , nikitin , kim , and novella matveeva urban folk classics ' interpretations -rrb- released ten solo albums and features in numerous russian modern/urban folk music compilations .
she is one of just two -lrb- another being yelena kamburova -rrb- non-writing artists who are featured in the `` most famous bards of russia '' encyclopedia -lrb- all others being songwriters -rrb- .
`` novye izvestia '' described khomchik as `` the star of a russian bard music '' .
she 's been praized by yuly kim , sergey nikitin and olga okudzhava ; singer and poet alexander gorodnitsky called her `` a missionary of music poetry '' , `` unequalled in this genre '' .
