Raya Udovikova - Я встретил девушку
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3) ... Millionaire Rothschild once a year arranged a big trick in his palace for all artists. Paradise was invited, she represented her French recording company. She all thought what to wear, and decided to go in a gypsy suit. For ten kilometers, a cordon was set, at the palace there were gorgeous "Rolls-Roads". For journalists, the evening was closed, because it was not supposed to rent such guests. Here they gathered, so to speak, the great world. When Raya entered the palace, she saw a staircase in front of him, covered with chic carpets, on both sides of which the orchestra played ... Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Bridget Bardo ... During one of the dancing, Andrea Dotti - her husband Audrey Hepburn And he said: -I buy you a ticket for Havai, I invite you. “Good, but then invite my husband too,” answered Raya. Dotti could not bear such an insult. When the guests were about to disperse, Paradise dressed in her coat with a hood, someone grabbed her behind the shoulders, turned it around and kissed her on the lips. It was a rejected Italian who wanted to assert himself thus. The gypsy paradise in response deliciously spat in his face. Audrey stood literally two meters from them. The those present were widened with their eyes and the jaws dropped. And Paradise calmly gathered with her accompanying, sat down in Rolls-Roys and left ... After the release of the first record of the gypsy of Rai, Barkley planned to release the second-gypsy classics. Several gypsy songs were translated into French, a large symphony orchestra was involved, paradise already rehearsed. But suddenly her husband demands an immediate return to Norway - and Paradise leaves Paris. And on French radio there are gypsy melodies performed by a symphony orchestra ... Fate plays people as a deck of cards: whom - in trump cards, and whom - in the hush. The gypsy of Paradise, whose name of the Soviet newspapers and posters of the 50-60s, seemed to have ceased to exist for us with his departure from the country-at least officially. It was as if there was no loud glory in Paris, as if there was no international festival of Yagori, for eight years held by Paradise in Norway. As if there is no paradise itself, still winning the highest awards at worldwide gypsy festivals. Before the talent, the gypsies of Rai bow to this world. But paradise popularizes Russian gypsy culture. And never renounced her homeland, from her roots - on the contrary, she proudly calls herself an actress of the Soviet theater “Romen”, a Russian gypsy. I only want Russia to know about the high flight of Rai, her inimitable voice, so that she would be proud of her - because she is worthy of pride ...

(c) Tatyana Pavlova