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Irina Vitalyevna Ponarovskaya (Russian: Ирина Витальевна Понаровская; born 12 March 1953 in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian singer, film actress and sex symbol between the 1980s and the 1990s.
Irina Ponarovskaya was born on March 12, 1953 in Leningrad in a family of musicians. Father – Vitaliy Borisovich Ponarovsky, mother – German Russian Nina Nikolayevna Arnoldi. At the age of six, she started playing on the piano. She graduated from music school at the conservatory, where she studied how to play on a harp and on a piano. Since she was 15 years old she had been studied singing from a well known teacher Lina Borisovna Arkhangelskaya. In September 1971 she entered the Leningrad conservatory. Between 1971 to 1976 she sang as a soloist in the bang "Singing guitars". In 1974 she performed the role of Eurydice in the first Soviet rock opera film "Orpheus and Eurydice". In 1976 she moved to Moscow, where she two years was a soloist of a jazz orchestra of Oleg Lundstrem. Since 1976, she has been filmed in some movies. In 1978, she delivered the final examinations at the conservatory and received a pianist's diploma.
