Colleagues, friends and admirers bid farewell to folk singer and Deputy Joseph Kobzon in Moscow Concert hall named after Tchaikovsky, reports journalist Last news . Colleagues and friends bring flowers to honor the memory of the performer, expressed condolences to the widow and children Kobzon. In the room, which gradually filled with people, plays sad music on the stage exhibited numerous wreaths. Among the first who came to say goodbye to the outstanding performer, was Valentina Tereshkova, and Leonid Roshal. People's actor of the USSR, the Deputy of the state Duma Joseph Kobzon died Thursday at 81-m to year of life after long illness. On Sunday he will be buried in the Jewish part of the Vostryakovskoye cemetery, near my mother. The career of Joseph Kobzon Kobzon was born eleven September 1937 in the Ukraine in the town of chasov Yar of Donetsk region, began to sing in early childhood. At the age of nine, he spoke In the leadership of the Russian Federation to the Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Joseph Stalin performing the song " Flying birds ". on the vocal faculty of the State music and pedagogical Institute Gnesin (now the Russian Academy of music Gnesin) Kobzon arrived after the army, where he served in the song and dance ensemble of the Transcaucasian military district. Fame came to the student gnesinka a year later, when he began to perform a duet with a classmate Viktor kokhno at the all-Union radio. Victory at the all-Russian contest of performers and the festival in Sopot, Poland in 1964 he consolidated his position on the stage. Touring singer lasted more than half a century. In 2012, the actor said to finish his speech on the day of his 75-th anniversary of the September eleven 2012 solo concert in the State Kremlin Palace, however, and then continued to go on stage, to travel across the country to tour and to participate actively in the political processes of Russia. <span style="color:darkgray