Actor · Lyricist · Vocals
Born Nov 11, 1934 · khutor Chernyshov, Krasnodarsky kray, USSR
Active 1971–2019 · Awards: Chanson of the Year
Willi Ivanovich Tokarev was a Russian-American singer-songwriter. In the 1980s, he became famous throughout the Soviet Union for his songs about life as a Russian émigré in Brighton Beach, New York.