The name of this singer was known to all the inhabitants of the huge country, which was called the Soviet Union. Emil Horovets had a velvet voice. Especially for him, famous composers composed songs based on the words of popular poets.
Difficult childhood
Today this is hard to believe, but there were times when any boy from the village had a real opportunity to become an academician or a famous singer. This thesis is confirmed by the biography of the popular Soviet singer Emil Horovets. His voice and songs are well known to the people of Israel and the United States. The future singer and composer was born on June 10, 1923 to the family of a blacksmith. Parents at that time lived in the small town of Gaisin in the Vinnitsa region. The boy turned out to be the fifth child. His two brothers and two sisters were already growing up in the house.
Parents loved the youngest, but raised him strictly. Like all peers, Emil grew up and developed in a healthy environment. They did not shout at him or punish him. The boy was accustomed to simple peasant labor and craft. The father hoped that the youngest son would follow in his footsteps and become a blacksmith. No, Mila, as the singer was called at an early age, did not contradict his father. However, the boy from an early age felt an irrepressible urge to sing. He easily memorized folk songs in Ukrainian, Russian and Hebrew.
In the creative field
There was a Jewish folk theater in the provincial Gaysin. Young Horovets loved to be within its walls. Over time, he was accepted into the troupe and approved for a role in the play. Perhaps Emil would have become a famous actor, but the war began, and all plans had to be left for later. The older brothers were drafted into the army, and the Horovtsov family was evacuated to the distant southern city of Tashkent. In an unusual climate, the young man was often and seriously ill. However, he had the strength to enter a drama school and perform on the stage of the State Jewish Theater, which was also evacuated.
After the end of the war, Gorovets came to Moscow and entered the Gnessin School of Music. In parallel with his studies, he performs in the evenings in restaurants, before screenings in the cinema. In 1954, Emil was invited to join the jazz orchestra conducted by Eddie Rosner. Five years later, the singer became a laureate of the All-Union Contest of Variety Artists. He performed the popular songs "Drozdy", "I walk around Moscow", "Blue cities", "I love pasta" on radio and television.
Emigration and personal life
In the early 70s, the Soviet censorship, as they say, went berserk. The singer began to be oppressed. It was forbidden to perform in big cities. In 1972, the singer and his family received permission to leave for Israel. Then he moved overseas. He worked a lot in the USA and toured the world successfully. Soviet pop songs translated into Yiddish were very popular.
The personal life of a talented singer and composer has developed well. The first marriage during the student period broke up six months later. With his second wife Margarita Polonskaya, who also graduated from Gnesinka, Gorovets lived for more than fifty years. The husband and wife raised and raised their son. Margarita died in the mid-90s. The singer went through this loss very hard. Five years before his death, Emil Yakovlevich met Irina, who became his wife and producer. Today she is engaged in carefully preserving the memory of the talented performer. Emil Horovets died in August 2001 after a long illness.
