Zhanna Bichevskaya에 대하여
잔나 비쳅스까야 (1944. 6. 17 ~)
본명: Жанна Владимировна Бичевская
영어: Zhanna Bichevskaya/ Jeanne Bichevskaya
모스크바 근교의 자고르스크(Zagorsk=Sergiyev)에서
1944년 6월17일 태어난 잔나 비쳅스까야는
[Moscow Circus and Performing Arts School]에 진학하여
기타연주를 공부한 후 1971년에 졸업했다.
70년대 초부터 러시아 로망스와 포크송을 노래하기 시작한 그녀는
블라디미르 비소츠키(Vladimir Vysotsky)와 더불어
음유시가(Bard)를 개척하고 발전시킨 불라트 오쿠자바
(Bulat Okudzhava)에게 큰 영향을 받아서
기타반주와 함께 단순하지만 진지하게 노래 불렀다.
그녀의 음반은 여러나라에서 발매되어 점차 러시아의
존 바에즈(Joan Baez)라고 알려지게 되었다.
잔나는 자신의 독특한 노래방식을
'러시아 컨트리-포크 음악'이라고 부른다.
80년대 말부터 러시아 정교회에 대한 영적인 주제와
백색운동으로 희생된 군인들(White Guard Officer)에
대해서 연속적으로 노래했다.
1974년부터 1989년까지 7장의 LP를 발표했으며
1990년부터 2007년 현재까지 21장의 CD가 제작되었다.
현재도 해외공연을 갖는 등 노래하기를 멈추지 않고 있다.
Zhanna Bichevskaya, a famous singer renowned for her peculiar 'country folk' style,
has always stood apart on the music stage. Though popular, she can't be claimed a
fashionable singer. Unlike anyone else, she always gives her own message from the
stage, singing what is in accord with her spiritual quest, never playing up to the public.
Nevertheless, she is loved by many people whose spiritual yearning she meets, this
demand growing, both in Russia and abroad. According to Mick Jagger, 'Bichevskaya
is an island of true, eternal art in the ocean of modern music'. Her influence on the
popularity of folk songs can be compared to that of Joan Baez and Tracy Chapman.
Her voice imparts the genuine Russian spirit, sincerity and warm-heartedness.
Zhanna Bichevskaya was born on June 17, 1944 in Moscow. At the age of 17 she
was presented with a guitar and started singing student, tourist and bard songs.
Later, as a student of State college for art and variety art (1966-1971), she took
up gathering and recording folk songs. While studying she also worked as a guitar teacher. Upon graduating from the
college she became the soloist of the vocal and instrumental ensemble 'Dobry
Molodtsy' and from 1973 worked in the Mosconcert.
In the 1970s she succeeded in refreshing the interest in the authentic Russian
song. Her repertoire of old folk songs is quite diverse, including peasants' labour
and ritual songs; comic songs and mournful songs; town songs and ballads with
their disastrous passions, fervor of feelings, love and death.
'U tserkvi stoyala kareta', 'Milenky ty moi', 'Brodyaga', 'Donskaya Ballada',
'Kazachya Pritcha', 'Chyorniy Voron', 'Matushka', 'Razluka', and so on - the
long-forgotten songs revived by Bichevskaya touched the deepest chords of
people's souls. At that time she was the only singer on the domestic variety
stage to sing folk songs as ballads, in a bard-like way. The All-Russian contest
of variety artists of 1973 brought Bichevskaya a laureate title.
After that she went on tour all around Russia, gave concerts in Finland, Hungary,
Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Yugoslavia and many other countries. She has
gained steady popularity among music lovers both in Russia and abroad.
Her recordings of folk songs, romances, ballades and parables were sold in
million editions in more than forty countries of the world. This popularity
was based on the singer's reverent attitude to the Russian folk song, superb
vocal gifts, and an original performing manner, blending the best achievements
of the folk and country styles.
Zhanna Bichevskaya is the only singer in this style (Russian country folk,
as she puts it herself), who gathered full the Europe most prestigious hall
Olympia in Paris eight times one after another.
In 1989 she was granted with the title Golden Guitar for her "outstanding
contribution in the world performing art" at the International Contest in San-Remo
(Italy). Before it Joan Baez, a famous American country singer, was
the only female guitar player honoured with such a title.
For over thirty years Zhanna Bichevskaya has been singing songs that gained
love of millions of people of all nationalities. Her repertoire is rich and diverse,
with several hundreds of songs, ranging from long-forgotten Russian folk songs
("Village and Town Songs and Ballads," Vols. I and II),
to wartime songs of the 1920s ("Lyubo, Bratsy, Lyubo"), and to
contemporary prayer-like pieces ("Pyesni Ieromonacha Romana").
In the 1980s, Bichevskaya's selections also included her own versions
of songs written by her mentor and friend Bulat Okoudjava, songs after
the verses by Silver Age poets, as well as songs by Sergei Nikitin,
Andrei Makarevich, Alexander Dolski and others.
