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Arkadiy Ukupnik
Аркадий Укупник
Birth at
18 February 1953
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Arkady Ukupnik is a Russian composer and pop singer. Arkady studied in the violin class at the music school. In 1970, the future composer and performer began to study at the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School in the profession “Equipment and technology of welding production”, which he graduated in 1976. Later he graduated from the Moscow regional school in the class of bass guitar. In the period from 1972 to 1978, he participated in the ensemble under the leadership of Yuri Antonov, the Jazz
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Arkady Ukupnik is a Russian composer and pop singer.
Arkady studied in the violin class at the music school. In 1970, the future composer and performer began to study at the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School in the profession “Equipment and technology of welding production”, which he graduated in 1976. Later he graduated from the Moscow regional school in the class of bass guitar.
In the period from 1972 to 1978, he participated in the ensemble under the leadership of Yuri Antonov, the Jazz Attack group and the Leonid Utesov orchestra. In 1983, Ukupnik began the composer’s activity thanks to the song “Rabine beads” for singer Irina Ponarovskaya. Between 1978 and 1983, Arkady worked at the Chamber Jewish Musical Theatre, practiced as an actor and played bass guitar.
He sang in Yiddish in the production of “Black bridle for a white mare” by Yuri Sherling. In addition to him, there sang Larisa Valley duet with black singer Weyland Rod. Popularity Ukupnik brought cooperation with Larisa Dolina,
The singer has his own recording studio “Olympic”, created by him with several musicians. Arkady was also noted in the acting field. In 1997, he starred in the role of Durhamar in The latest adventures of Buratino . In 2001, he played Arkasha in the film “Mistress from Moscow”. In 2010, he played the role of himself in the film Happy Together.