Solomon
Khromchenko

Destiny was kind to him, this man born to sing. He started humming melodies practically at the same time as he started talking and preserved his God-given voice until a very advanced age: 94 years. What a life! Pogroms in Tsarist Russia, the 1917 Revolution, two world wars and one civil war, Stalin’s terror, Khruschev’s thaw, Gorbachev’s perestroika… Imagine, he witnessed the birth of a huge political formation, the Soviet Union, and outlived it! Miraculously, Solomon Markovich Khromchenko managed to endure this for almost a century, a century full of joys and hardships having remained an ever-optimist, a kind and charismatic person, a witty storyteller, who watched the fast-changing world around him with wide-open eyes of a wise child. He managed to remain a Singer.