Few people know that Mirdza Zivere was the first performer of the famous song "Maestro" by Raymond Pauls. The Latvian pop singer is known for her sparkling duet with Imants Vanzovich and work in the Opus group.
Biography
A Latvian singer with a clear voice was born on the amber Baltic in the capital of the Latvian Soviet Republic, Riga. Mirdza was born in 1953, on September 20th.
From a young age, the girl loved to sing and her parents encouraged her daughter's musical hobbies. She studied in the school choir. When the baby grew up, she was enrolled in a music school, where she studied musical notation and mastered the complex playing of the accordion. After high school, Mirdza Zivere entered the technical school of light industry. The future singer received her professional education as a fashion designer. The girl combined the years of study at the technical school with participation in student amateur performances. She sang so well that her concert success brought her to the Riga Philharmonic, where she worked as a soloist since 1974.
Mirdza decided to continue her education and become a director. She entered the capital GITIS at the directing department. Her specialization was - mass events. Simultaneously with Mirdza, her future partner in the famous pop duet Imant Vanzovich studied at GITIS.
Work and creativity
In the eighties, pop performers from the Baltics were perceived by inexperienced Soviet TV viewers as the standard of European singing and music. They were very popular thanks to their participation in the Blue Lights and the Song of the Year program. The Latvian pop ensemble "Modo", in which Mirdza performed, was no exception to this rule. The humorous song “We must think”, sung by Mirdza Zivere and Imant Vanzovich, made the charming couple famous in an instant. The music performed by the Modo group was of high quality, as the repertoire was dealt with by Raimonds Pauls. The audience immediately attributed an affair with Imant to Mirdze. However, the singer was already legally married by this time. Her husband, Sigmar Liepinsh, was condescending to the floating rumors, which even attributed the paternity of their joint children to Imants. The personal life of Mirdza and Sigmar is very strong. They raised two children - a son Janis and a daughter Zane.
Sigmar in 1978 became the leader of the ensemble and began to conduct all kinds of performances with the participation of "Modo". And in 1983 the group was renamed into the famous "Opus". The musicians staged musicals and rock operas, with which they toured extensively in the cities of the Soviet Union.
Mirdza is a very smiling person, she loved to sing perky and cheerful songs. She was very good at jazz improvisations, since the singer has a natural sense of rhythm.
Her songs were so popular in Latvia that they brought their performer many prizes at national festivals and competitions.
Having matured, the singer abandoned pop art and is engaged in advertising on national radio broadcasting. Mirdza works with her beloved husband, who runs the radio studio. Mirdza Zivere is an excellent organizer, her husband is a composer and librettist, he completely trusts his wife in organizing the performances of his operas.
