Александр Борисович Градский / Alexander Gradsky
Soviet and Russian rock singer, bard, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, poet and composer. Honored Artist of Russia (1997). Laureate of the State Prize of Russia (1999). People's Artist of Russia (1999). People's Artist of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (2014).
Born November 3, 1949, Kopeysk
Died November 28, 2021, Moscow

Has been called the Soviet Union's most popular recording artist. He is known to have a three-and-a-half octave range voice, and has performed with John Denver on the song Let Us Begin... Gradsky is also known as Granddad of Soviet rock.