Psoy Korolenko

Psoy Galaktionovich Korolenko (Template:Langx; born April 26, 1967) is a pseudonym of a Russian songwriter and performer by the name of Pavel Eduardovich Lion (Template:Langx). Pavel Lion is also a slavist with a Ph.D. in Russian literature.

Musical career

His pseudonym comes from Russian writer Vladimir Korolenko (1853–1921), whose works are a subject of Pavel's research. In university, Korolenko studied under Russian literature historian Template:Ill, among others.

Psoy performs his own and others' songs, accompanying himself to keyboard instruments, mainly a Casio synthesizer in accordion timbre. Experimenting with quite various song traditions he sings in about six or seven languages, most frequently in Russian, Yiddish, English and French.

For example, one of Psoy's songs, Buratino, is an a capella rhythmic recitation of the same phrase – "Buratino byl tupoy" ("Buratino was dumb") – which after several repetitions starts to morph into other phrases, eventually shifting into Italian through syllable rearrangement. More phrases are then introduced and "mixed" vocally with it. The song is something of a parody of rap and trance music.

Psoy tours extensively beyond Russian borders, particularly in the United States, Europe and Israel. His music is popular both with adults (especially linguists) and teenagers. He rewrites many songs, and also has translated some songs from Russian to Yiddish. He has collaborated with musicians such as Julian Kytasty, Michael Alpert, and Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird. He has been involved in events celebrating Bundist organisations, such as playing music for the 120th anniversary of the Jewish Labour Bund in Melbourne, Australia.

Discography

Original name	English name/translation	Year	Co-producers
	A Song about God	2000
Fioretti	Fioretti	2001
	Psoy Korolenko's Song of Songs	2003
	Schlagers of the Century	2003
	Races	2004	Neoangin
(Un Vu Iz Der Onheyb Fun Foterland)	From What the Homeland Starts	2006	All Stars Klezmer Band
	Russian Riches. Volume I.	2007	Alyona Alenkova
The Unternationale	The First Unternational	2008	Daniel Kahn and Oy Division
	On the Steps of the Palace	2008	Olga Chikina, Alyona Arenkova and others
	Under Cover of Night	2010	Opa!
Shloyme	Shloyme	2011	Timofeev Ensemble
	Russian Riches. Volume II.	2013	Alyona Alenkova
Dicunt	Dicunt	2013	Oy Division
	Live Not by Lies	2013	Opa!
	Imarmenia: Songs About What Comes True	2015
	NNNN #2 PPPP	2015	Igor Krutogolov
The Brothers Nazaroff: The Happy Prince		2015	Daniel Kahn, Michael Alpert, Jake Shulman-Ment, Bob Cohen, and Hampus Melin
	Equine, Canine, Soldier, Whore	2017	Israelifts
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II		2018	Anna Shternshis, Sergei Erdenko, Sophie Milman, and others; Grammy-nominated
|	Fishers of Music	2020	Дефеса - Defesa (Alisa Ten, Yuliya Teunikova, Yan Bederman, and others)
The Unternationale: The Third Unternational		2020	Daniel Kahn and others
The Unternationale: The Fourth Unternational		2020	Daniel Kahn and others
:	Chronicles of Analogous Life: Songs of Guy Béart	2020	Fyodor Chistyakov, Olga Chikina, Gary Katz, Andrey Matlin, and others

See also

• List of multilingual bands and artists

References

• Psoy's bio
• Rokhl Kafrissen. Psoy Korolenko's 21st Century Humor. The Forward, February 28, 2012.

External links

• Template:Trim/ Template:PAGENAMEBASE at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidata
• Official website of the Dust film
• The Origins of "Psoy Korolenko": Vladimir Korolenko, Anti-Anti-Semitism, and Coptic Saints, interview by the Yiddish Book Center on YouTube