Psoy Korolenko
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Psoy Galaktionovich Korolenko (Template:Langx; born April 26, 1967) is a pseudonym of a Russian songwriter and performer by the name of Pavel Eduardovich Lion (Template:Langx). Pavel Lion is also a slavist with a Ph.D. in Russian literature.
Musical career
His pseudonym comes from Russian writer Vladimir Korolenko (1853–1921), whose works are a subject of Pavel's research. In university, Korolenko studied under Russian literature historian Template:Ill, among others.
Psoy performs his own and others' songs, accompanying himself to keyboard instruments, mainly a Casio synthesizer in accordion timbre. Experimenting with quite various song traditions he sings in about six or seven languages, most frequently in Russian, Yiddish, English and French.
For example, one of Psoy's songs, Buratino, is an a capella rhythmic recitation of the same phrase – "Buratino byl tupoy" ("Buratino was dumb") – which after several repetitions starts to morph into other phrases, eventually shifting into Italian through syllable rearrangement. More phrases are then introduced and "mixed" vocally with it. The song is something of a parody of rap and trance music.
Psoy tours extensively beyond Russian borders, particularly in the United States, Europe and Israel. His music is popular both with adults (especially linguists) and teenagers. He rewrites many songs, and also has translated some songs from Russian to Yiddish. He has collaborated with musicians such as Julian Kytasty, Michael Alpert, and Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird. He has been involved in events celebrating Bundist organisations, such as playing music for the 120th anniversary of the Jewish Labour Bund in Melbourne, Australia.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
Discography
| Original name | English name/translation | Year | Co-producers |
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| lang}} | A Song about God | 2000 | |
| Fioretti | Fioretti | 2001 | |
| lang}} | Psoy Korolenko's Song of Songs | 2003 | |
| lang}} | Schlagers of the Century | 2003 | |
| lang}} | Races | 2004 | Neoangin |
| lang}} (Un Vu Iz Der Onheyb Fun Foterland) | From What the Homeland Starts | 2006 | All Stars Klezmer Band |
| lang}} | Russian Riches. Volume I. | 2007 | Alyona Alenkova |
| The Unternationale | The First Unternational | 2008 | Daniel Kahn and Oy Division |
| lang}} | On the Steps of the Palace | 2008 | Olga Chikina, Alyona Arenkova and others |
| lang}} | Under Cover of Night | 2010 | Opa! |
| Shloyme | Shloyme | 2011 | Timofeev Ensemble |
| lang}} | Russian Riches. Volume II. | 2013 | Alyona Alenkova |
| Dicunt | Dicunt | 2013 | Oy Division |
| lang}} | Live Not by Lies | 2013 | Opa! |
| lang}} | Imarmenia: Songs About What Comes True | 2015 | |
| lang}} | NNNN #2 PPPP | 2015 | Igor Krutogolov |
| The Brothers Nazaroff: The Happy Prince | 2015 | Daniel Kahn, Michael Alpert, Jake Shulman-Ment, Bob Cohen, and Hampus Melin | |
| lang}} | Equine, Canine, Soldier, Whore | 2017 | Israelifts |
| Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II | 2018 | Anna Shternshis, Sergei Erdenko, Sophie Milman, and others; Grammy-nominated | |
| lang}} | {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} | Fishers of Music | 2020 | Дефеса - Defesa (Alisa Ten, Yuliya Teunikova, Yan Bederman, and others) |
| The Unternationale: The Third Unternational | 2020 | Daniel Kahn and others | |
| The Unternationale: The Fourth Unternational | 2020 | Daniel Kahn and others | |
| lang}}: {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} | Chronicles of Analogous Life: Songs of Guy Béart | 2020 | Fyodor Chistyakov, Olga Chikina, Gary Katz, Andrey Matlin, and others |
See also
References
- Psoy's bio
- Rokhl Kafrissen. Psoy Korolenko's 21st Century Humor. The Forward, February 28, 2012.
External links
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- Official website of the Dust film
- The Origins of "Psoy Korolenko": Vladimir Korolenko, Anti-Anti-Semitism, and Coptic Saints, interview by the Yiddish Book Center on YouTube
- Template:Cite news
- 1967 births
- Living people
- Russian male film actors
- Russian satirists
- Russian pop singers
- Russian keyboardists
- Russian comedy musicians
- Russian satirical musicians
- Russian parodists
- Parody musicians
- 21st-century Russian male singers
- Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy from Judaism
- Jewish Russian actors
- Pseudonymous artists
- Yiddish-language singers of Russia
- English-language singers from Russia
- French-language singers from Russia
- Schlager musicians