Lidia Klement


Lidia Richardovna Klement was a Soviet singer.
She was involved with music and singing since childhood, studying piano at a music school for children and singing in a choir. Later, when studying at the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering, Lidia Klement sang in a student jazz ensemble. After graduation, she for two years worked as a design engineer and sang with the Naum Tyomkin Variety Orchestra at the Ordzhonikidze Palace of Culture. Since 1958 for about a year she sang with the ensemble of the Leningrad Comedy Theater. She was noticed and composers started writing songs especially for her.
Lidia Klement gained fame all over the Soviet Union with songs such as Karelia, Rain on Fontanka, Is All This for Me Alone? She performed a lot on radio and television, including on the extremely popular musical variety show Goluboy Ogonyok. In 1964, just several months before her death, she released a record with 9 songs on it. At 26 years of age, at the peak of her career, she was diagnosed with melanoma and soon died.