Mikhail Gorbachev tried his hand at music. The former Soviet leader, who died on Tuesday, August 30 at the age of 91, had recorded in 2009 an album of love songs dedicated to his wife, Raïssa, who died in 1999 of leukemia.
This disc, called Songs for Raissa, Gorbachev had envisioned it to raise funds for a cancer research charity set up in honor of his wife. Auctioned in London in June 2009, the album was later bought by an “anonymous British philanthropist” for $164,940 (164,693 euros), according to the newspaper The Guardian at the time
During the act, the former communist leader had also interpreted the title old letters live in front of 350 guests, including Gordon Brown’s wife Sarah and the author of Harry PotterJK Rowling.
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On this album, made up of seven romantic Russian ballads, Mikhail Gorbachev is accompanied on guitar by musician Andrey Makarevich, founder of Russia’s oldest rock band, Mashina Vremeni.
In 2003, the man who won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize won a Grammy Award for his voice, not as a singer but as a narrator, in an adaptation of peter and the wolfby Prokoviev on audiobook.
Source: BFM TV
