Edita Piekha

Edita Piekha is a Russian singer and actress of Polish descent. She was the third popular female singer, after Klavdiya Shulzhenko and Sofia Rotaru, to be named a Peoples Artist of the USSR .

Edita Piekha was born in NoyellessousLens, France, in 1937, into an ethnic Polish family. Her father was Stanisaw Piecha, a mining worker, and her mother was Felicja Korolewska. From 1945 to 1955 Edita Piekha lived in Boguszw, Poland with her mother and stepfather. There she studied music, sang with a choir, and excelled in Russian at her school, graduating at the top of her class.

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