# Lidia Klement

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{{Infobox person
| name               = Lidia Richardovna Klement
| image              = Lidia Klement.jpg
| native_name        = Ли́дия Ри́хардовна Кле́мент
| native_name_lang   = ru
| birth_date         = 8 July 1937
| birth_place        = [Leningrad](/source/Leningrad)
| death_date         = 16 June 1964
| education          = [Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering](/source/Leningrad_Institute_of_Civil_Engineering)
| occupation         = Singer
| years_active       = 1958–1964
| notable_works      = Karelia <br/ > Rain on the Neva <br/ > Is All This for Me Alone?
}}
{{Short description|Soviet singer (1937–1964)}}

'''Lidia Richardovna Klement''' ({{langx|ru|Ли́дия Ри́хардовна Кле́мент}}; 8 July 1937 – 16 June 1964<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spbgasu.ru/Vypusknikam/Nasha_gordost/Klement_Lidiya_Richardovna/|title=Our Pride: Lidia Richardovna Klement|work=[Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering](/source/Saint-Petersburg_State_University_of_Architecture_and_Civil_Engineering) official website}}</ref>) was a Soviet singer.<ref name="Эстрада в России">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_cSwa5A9uecC&pg=PA283|title=Эстрада в России. XX век : энциклопедия|editor=Elizaveta Uvarova|publisher=OLMA Media Group|year=2004|isbn=9785224044627}}</ref>

== Early life ==
She was involved with music and singing since childhood, studying piano at a music school for children and singing in a choir.<ref>[http://lidia-klement.ru/ Сайт, посвящённый памяти Лидии Клемент]</ref> Later, when studying at the [Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering](/source/Saint-Petersburg_State_University_of_Architecture_and_Civil_Engineering), Klement sang in a student jazz ensemble. 

== Career ==
After graduation, she worked for two years as a [design engineer](/source/design_engineer) and sang with the Naum Tyomkin Variety Orchestra at the [Ordzhonikidze Palace of Culture](/source/Ordzhonikidze_Palace_of_Culture). In 1958, for about a year, she sang with the ensemble of the [Leningrad Comedy Theater](/source/Saint_Petersburg_Comedy_Theatre). She was noticed and composers started writing songs especially for her.<ref name="Эстрада в России" />

Lidia Klement gained fame all over the Soviet Union with songs such as ''Karelia'', ''Rain on the Neva'', and ''Is All This for Me Alone?.'' She performed frequently on radio and television, including on the extremely popular{{Tone inline|date=February 2023}} musical variety show ''[Goluboy Ogonyok](/source/Little_Blue_Light)''. In 1964, just months before her death, she released a record with 9 songs on it (through [Melodiya](/source/Melodiya) record label). At 26 years of age, at the peak of her career,<ref name="Эстрада в России" /> she was diagnosed with [melanoma](/source/melanoma) and soon died. She leaves behind a daughter, a granddaughter, and a great granddaughter, who{{Who|date=February 2023}} live in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://marie-olshansky.ru/muz/klement.shtml|title=Лидия Клемент и Нонна Суханова ("Слушай, Ленинград, я тебе спою…")|author=Maria Olshanskaya}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peoples.ru/art/music/stage/lidia_klement/|title=Biography: Lidia Klement|work=Peoples.ru}}</ref>

== See also ==
* ["Karelia" (song)](/source/%3Aru%3A%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F_(%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%8F)) in the Russian Wikipedia

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://lidia-klement.ru/ Website dedicated to Lidia Klement] {{in lang|ru}}
** [http://lidia-klement.ru/video.html Music videos]

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Category:1937 births
Category:1964 deaths
Category:Singers from Saint Petersburg
Category:Soviet women singers
Category:Deaths from cancer in the Soviet Union
Category:20th-century Russian women singers
Category:Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering alumni
Category:Deaths from melanoma
Category:Burials at Bogoslovskoe Cemetery

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