Starting acting work and popularity [edit]
Jewish Theatre School graduate , soloist of the State Jewish Theater . Began to speak in Hebrew. In 1955, the first time he sang in concerts bandleader Mosestrady running Eddie Rosner . In 1959 he went on tour in Paris with a group of other artists on the Jewish celebration of the 100th anniversary of Sholem Aleichem . In 1960 became the winner of the All-Union Competition entertainers . In 1960 he began to speak in Russian , after the third Jewish and Ukrainian .
Horowitz was the first performer of some very well-known songs , including " Beauty Queen " Arno Babajanyan , the famous " Space Invaders " Vladimir Shainsky and Andrei Petrov song " Blue City " and "I Walk Around Moscow " ( even before the movie came out in which it was performed ) . For Gorovtsa wrote Yan Frenkel , Muradeli , Arno Babajanyan , Modest Tabachnikov Eddie Rosner . Once in February 1963 on radio station "Youth" featured his 45-minute concert came to him real fame . Sang popular songs of European and American composers in Russian .
Voice Gorovtsa - average between tenor and baritone , bright and juicy timbre . Emotional style of singing , ecstatic . With age, the manner of execution has become more soft and delicate .
Emigration [edit]
In the early 1970s, Jewish repertoire on radio and television came under an unofficial ban . In 1972, Horowitz and his wife , actress Margaret Polonskaya , his partner and assistant , applied to emigrate to Israel , where they arrived in 1973.
But his career in Israel has not developed. Hebrew on the Israeli stage proved more popular than Yiddish.
Horowitz went to the U.S. at the invitation of " Arbeiter - Ring ." New York City Mayor Edward Koch participated in the design of his work visa. Agreement with " Arbeiter - Ring" was signed for seven years . When the contract ended , Horowitz returned to Israel, gave 22 concerts across the country for one month.
Then he returned to the U.S. and began to teach singing in cantorial school , but he did not want to become a cantor . He grew up in an unorthodox family, loved the stage , a folk song , and was far from the synagogue singing . Horowitz many concerts , opened in Manhattan first Russian restaurant "Balalaika" with his own show, where he was a soloist . However, the restaurant does not produce income , and the singer was not mainly doing business , and the ability to speak freely .
Worked in a Jewish radio, where aired thrice a week. Myself wrote several songs a week for their broadcasts . Many of the songs he translated from Hebrew into Russian . Later led the transfer of " mameloshn " ( "mother tongue" , literally " mother's language ") on the radio WMNB, then - on the radio , " Hope ."
Throughout emigration translated into Yiddish Soviet pop songs , sung first in Israel and then successfully performed at constant foreign tours in America and Europe , thereby introducing students to the Soviet stage .
Lived in a luxury high-rise complex in Manhattan on the banks of the East River . In one of the three rooms he arranged the studio, where he recorded a significant number of new and old songs in different languages and opera arias .
In 1989 he went to Moscow , where he was received on the same television " Ogonek ", which began with his glory -Union . "Spark" was devoted to " Day of the builder ." Gorovtsa asked, " that he built in his life ? " And he replied: " I will leave behind their songs ."
Recent years [edit]
After the death of his wife , with whom he lived for more than half his life, he has dedicated her song lyric . Some time lived alone until he met a woman who has come from Moscow Irina , who became his third wife. Today she is doing a lot to preserve creativity Gorovtsa - distributes its records , arranges free audiokontserty binds with Jewish artists, preparing them for his songs . [1]
Horowitz is buried in a cemetery in New Jersey, with his wife Margaret Polonskaya .