finetune artist: Tamara

b. Tamara Drasin, c.1910, Sorochintzy, Ukraine, d. 22 February 1943, near Lisbon, Portugal. Educated mainly in the USA, Tamara appeared in the revue The New Yorkers (1927, not the Cole Porter show) and was in Crazy Quilt (which starred Fanny Brice) and Free For All (both 1931), Americana (1932), Roberta (1933, introducing Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach's "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"), Right This Way (1938, singing Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal's "I Can Dream Can't I?' and Brad Greene and Marianne Brown Waters" "Don't Listen To Your Heart"), and Leave It To Me! (1938, in which she sang Cole Porter's "Get Out Of Town", also singing duets with William Gaxton on "From Now On" and "Far, Far Away"). Before and during her Broadway years, Tamara sang in cabaret, first at Russian restaurants in New York, later at some of the city's fancier night spots. Throughout her career Tamara, who was billed only by her forename, was sometimes confused with other similarly named Russian artists who appeared in New York, especially ballerina Tamara Geva.

Listen to Tamara at Finetune.

Si Nos Dejan
Celos
El Gato Que EstÃ¡ Triste Y Azul
Gracias
Si Dios Me Quita La Vida