Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (May 9, 1924 - June 12, 1997)
was one of the founders of the Russian genre called "author's song".
He was born in Moscow and died in Paris. He was the creator of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folksong tradition and the French chansonnier style represented by such contemporaries of Okudzhava as Georges Brassens. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.