Alla Yoshpe

Alla Yakovlevna Ioshpe (Yoshpe) (А́лла Я́ковлевна Ио́шпе (Йо́шпе); 13 June 1937 – 30 January 2021) was a Soviet and Russian pop singer, and a People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2002).

Biography
Yoshpe was born in Moscow into a Jewish family. She studied philosophy at Moscow State University and while a student sang with the university's symphony orchestra.

In 1960, at a university event, she met Stakhan Rakhimov and the pair formed a pop duo. The pair performed both in the Soviet Union and overseas.

Selected songs

 * 'Tri plus pyat' (Три плюс пять, lit. 'Three plus five'), Russian-language cover of Marie Laforêt's 'Ivan, Boris et moi'