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On This Day Alexander Rosenbaum Was Born
Alexander Rosenbaum was born into a medical family in Leningrad on Sept. 13, 1951. He qualified as a doctor, but became one of Russia's most famous bards, or singing poets, best known for his so-called blatnaya pesnya songs about criminal subculture.
His most popular songs are “Gop-Stop,” about two gangsters executing an unfaithful lover, and “Vals Boston,” or the Boston Waltz.
Rosenbaum's parents sent him to music lessons after school as a child just because it was seen as being part of a good education, but his grandmother spotted his talent immediately and told people he was exceptional.
One of them was her neighbor, well-known guitarist Mikhail Minin. He taught the young Rosenbaum his first guitar chords.
A few years later Rosenbaum went to see a jazz group for the first time. The pianist invited him to play along with him and the young man was hooked on music for life.
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