Музыка и исполнительское искусство

Боб Дилан

Voice of a generation, roots in Odessa

Капитал Бра

Germany's most-charting rapper, born in Siberia

Хелене Фишер

Siberia-born queen of German Schlager

Джо Дассен

The American-born Parisian whose soul was Odessan.

Кэти Мелуа

Kutaisi-born voice behind Britain's quiet revolution

Ленни Кравиц

Rock icon whose roots trace to imperial Kyiv

Мишель Польнарефф

French pop star whose father was born in Odessa

Регина Спектор

Moscow-born singer who made anti-folk poetry in New York

Серж Генсбур

Provocateur poet, born of Crimean Jewish émigrés

Адам Левин

Singer of Maroon 5, born in Los Angeles

Адриано Челентано

Italy's rock-and-roll patriarch and a Soviet box-office record-holder

Эл Джолсон

Singer and star of The Jazz Singer, born in Srednik in the Kovno Governorate

Эми Уайнхаус

Singer and songwriter; great-great-granddaughter of an emigrant from Minsk

Анна Нетребко

Krasnodar-born soprano who conquered Vienna.

Арик Эйнштейн

The voice Israel called its own.

Аркадий Дучин

Soviet-born Israeli jazz pianist bridging Russian conservatory tradition and Middle Eastern music

Арт Гарфанкел

Singer, actor and poet, one half of Simon & Garfunkel, born in Forest Hills, Queens

Барбра Стрейзанд

Granddaughter of immigrants from the Russian Empire; winner of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards

Барри Манилоу

Singer-songwriter raised in Brooklyn by grandparents who emigrated from Russia

Бенни Гудмен

Clarinettist and bandleader, the 'King of Swing'; son of immigrants from Warsaw and Kovno; toured the USSR in 1962

Бетт Мидлер

Honolulu-born singer, actress and comedian; grandparents were Jewish immigrants

Билли Джоэл

Bronx-born singer-songwriter and pianist, author of Piano Man

Кэрол Кинг

Manhattan-born songwriter and singer; co-writer of 1960s pop hits with Gerry Goffin and creator of Tapestry

Хава Альберштейн

Voice of the Israeli Yiddish revival, born a child of the Russian Empire's Pale

Чилли Гонсалес

Montreal-born pianist and Grammy winner; Guinness record for the longest solo concert

Кортни Лав

Singer, guitarist and songwriter of Hole, born in San Francisco

Дрейк (Обри Грэм)

Canadian rapper and singer whose mother is a Canadian Ashkenazi Jew

Эрика Баду

Neo-soul queen with Russian-Jewish roots on her mother's side

Гедди Ли

Bassist, keyboardist and singer of Rush; grandson of a family from Wierzbnik in Congress Poland

Джин Симмонс

KISS co-founder born in Haifa to a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor

Гоголь Бордель

Eugene Hutz — born in Soviet Ukraine, created Gypsy punk and made immigration into a celebration

Харел Скаат

Israeli pop idol and Eurovision representative with Yemenite-Iraqi Jewish roots

Идан Райхель

Israeli world-music pioneer whose ancestors came from Russia and Poland

Идина Мензел

Tony-winning Elphaba in Wicked and the voice of Elsa in Frozen

Илья Прусикин

Little Big frontman from Siberia who nearly won Eurovision and invented Russian rave pop

Иван Ребров

German singer who built his career as a Russian bass under an adopted Russian name

Иври Лидер

Israeli pop star with Polish-Russian roots

Якоб Дилан

The Wallflowers frontman and son of Bob Dylan, whose grandparents emigrated from Odessa

Джои Рамон

Queens-born singer of the Ramones

Джон Бон Джови

Singer, songwriter and founder of Bon Jovi, born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Джош Гробан

Classical-crossover singer whose father descends from Jewish immigrants from Poland and Ukraine

Карен Пелес

One of Israel's most successful pop singers with Polish-Russian Jewish heritage

Леонард Коэн

Montreal poet and songwriter of Hallelujah; his paternal grandfather emigrated from Suwałki, Russian Empire

Литл Биг

St. Petersburg rave-pop collective who created gypsy punk anthems and nearly won Eurovision with UNO

Лу Рид

Songwriter of the Velvet Underground; grandson of Russian and Polish Jewish emigrants

Лидия Кавина

Moscow-born grandniece of Leon Theremin — the world's foremost theremin virtuoso

Максим Покровский

Moscow rock frontman — lead singer of Nogu Svelo, Russia's most beloved quirky rock band

Марк Болан

T. Rex glam rock pioneer whose father Simeon Feld came from Polish-Russian Jewish roots

Майкл Болтон

American singer of How Am I Supposed to Live Without You, born Michael Bolotin

Моргенштерн (Алишер Моргенштерн)

Ufa-born rapper who became Russia's most-streamed artist — then fled Russia and became a vocal war opponent

Нил Даймонд

Singer-songwriter; grandson of emigrants from Kyiv

Нил Седака

Singer, songwriter and pianist from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn (1939-2026)

Нетта Барзилай

Israeli Eurovision winner with Polish Jewish roots — Toy became an anthem for a generation

Николь Шерзингер

Singer and actress, born in Honolulu; Tony and Olivier Award winner

Нинет Тайеб

Israeli pop phenomenon who won Kokhav Nolad and sang with Roger Waters at the Wall

Нойз МС

Born in Yartsevo — Russia's most political rapper who has performed in exile since opposing the Ukraine war

Унаг (Сента-София Деллипонти)

German Celtic folk singer with Bulgarian-Russian roots who became a surprise chart phenomenon

Оксимирон (Мирон Фёдоров)

Leningrad-born rapper educated at Oxford who became Russia's greatest lyricist — now an anti-war exile

Пинк (Алиша Мур)

American pop singer who describes herself as an 'Irish-German-Lithuanian Jew'

Пол Саймон

Newark-born singer-songwriter, son of Hungarian-Jewish parents

Пол Стэнли

Co-founder, rhythm guitarist and singer of Kiss, born in Manhattan

Пола Абдул

Singer, dancer and choreographer born in San Fernando, California; original judge on American Idol

Пичес (Меррилл Нискер)

Toronto-born electronic punk provocateur with Polish-Russian Jewish roots — Berlin-based avant-garde icon

Питер Грин

Fleetwood Mac founder whose parents came from Russia and Poland — one of the greatest blues guitarists ever

Саша Алекс Слоан

Introspective American pop singer-songwriter whose first name honours Russian heritage

Шломо Арци

Israel's most beloved male singer — his family came from Romanian Bukovina, on the fringes of the Russian Empire

Шошана Дамари

Yemenite-born Queen of Hebrew Song — the voice of Israel's founding generation

Соня Таюрская

Irkutsk-born Little Big member who became an unlikely international pop star

Софи Такер

Born in Tulchyn, Ukraine — the Last of the Red-Hot Mamas and one of the original American pop stars

Стэн Гетц

Jazz tenor saxophonist known as 'The Sound'; grandson of emigrants from the Kiev area

Сюзанна Хоффс

The Bangles frontwoman with Russian-Jewish roots — Eternal Flame and Walk Like an Egyptian

Виктор Цой

Leningrad rock idol with Korean roots — the voice of Soviet youth who died at 28 and became a cult god

Виктория Толстая

Swedish jazz singer and great-great-granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy

Йехорам Гаон

Йип Харбург

Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side — wrote Somewhere Over the Rainbow and Brother Can You Spare a Dime

Земфира Рамазанова

Born in Ufa — Russia's greatest female rock star, who left Russia after opposing the Ukraine war

Стивен Тайлер

Aerosmith frontman, grandson of an emigrant from Klichaw

Екатерина Леонова

Russian ballroom champion who won Let's Dance and became one of Germany's most beloved TV personalities

Ширин Давид

Germany's biggest female rapper with Lithuanian-Russian Jewish roots — 4 million YouTube subscribers

Олексеш

Kyiv-born German rapper; No. 1 album in Germany with Rolexesh (2018)

Origa (Ольга Яковлева)

Singer born near Novosibirsk who made her career in Japan; voice of 'Inner Universe' for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Поль Робсон

American bass-baritone, actor and activist, celebrated in the Soviet Union from 1934; Stalin Peace Prize 1952

Скотт Сторч

Hip-hop and R&B producer who played the keyboard riff of Dr. Dre's 'Still D.R.E.'; great-great-grandson of the Vilna-born choirmaster Meyer Machtenberg

Берта Сингерман

Actress and reciter of poetry born in the Minsk Governorate in 1901; filled theatres and bullrings across the Spanish-speaking world with her 'poetic auditions'

Хевл Кац

Yiddish singer-songwriter born in Vilna in 1902 who became the most popular Jewish entertainer of 1930s Buenos Aires, mixing Yiddish with Spanish in his songs