Pavel Smeyan was born in Moscow, Russia in 1957 and died of cancer in a hospital in Germany on 12 July 2009 . He was  of 52. While unknown in the west, Pavel was enormously popular in Russia.

Pavel graduated from the Gnesins’ State Institute of Music majoring in the saxophone. He played in various philharmonics, and worked in Rosconcert and the Lenkom Theatre. He dubbed and played roles and recorded songs for more than 20 movies and animations including Mary Poppins, Goodbye, There’s Good Weather in Deribasovskaya and It’s Raining Again in Brighton Beach. He sang in the famous rock operas The Star and Death of Joaquin Murrieta, Juno and Avos. His first songs first appeared on records of the Rock Atelier band in 1981. Later he released three music albums as a solo artist.

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