Singer. He is remembered for being a singer along with being a composer and a bit-part silent film actor in the first half of the 20th Century. His career started with concert singing in Russia, then Europe after World War I and immigrating to the United States before 1920 as he was registered with an agency in that year. Born with the name of Nicholas Constantinovich Gouliaeff, he was a veteran of World War I serving in the Russian army as a colonel. In the “New York Magazine”, April 1927, an advertisement for a dinner show with him performing had tickets selling for $2.50 a person. He applied for Naturalized American citizenship in 1928 in New York City. In an article in the “Picture and Play Magazine”, March to August 1928, it stated that he composed the music to songs written by actors Raymond Hatton, Adolph Menjou and Wallace Beery. A radio show airing 1933 in New York City has him in a duet with Eileen Wezel. A collector's item now, he produced 78 rpm vinyl records for Columbia Studios in the early 1930s. One vinyl has two Russian folk songs with the titles written in Russian alphabetical or Cyrillic Script, translated to “Spi, Bayushki, Bayu” and “Oruzum Ssolntze Sverkyet.” Another record from the 1940s had the song, “Moonlight Sernade,” sung in Russian with another group, the Komienko Ensemble. He was listed in the “Almanac of Russian Artists in America” in 1932 as an actor, singer, an guitar player. A 1942 newspaper article from Miami, Florida had a photograph of him with Sasha and Lola Zadorin as they performed for the Russian War Relief. According to his obituary, he was survived by a brother, Eugene Gouliaeff.
Singer. He is remembered for being a singer along with being a composer and a bit-part silent film actor in the first half of the 20th Century. His career started with concert singing in Russia, then Europe after World War I and immigrating to the United States before 1920 as he was registered with an agency in that year. Born with the name of Nicholas Constantinovich Gouliaeff, he was a veteran of World War I serving in the Russian army as a colonel. In the “New York Magazine”, April 1927, an advertisement for a dinner show with him performing had tickets selling for $2.50 a person. He applied for Naturalized American citizenship in 1928 in New York City. In an article in the “Picture and Play Magazine”, March to August 1928, it stated that he composed the music to songs written by actors Raymond Hatton, Adolph Menjou and Wallace Beery. A radio show airing 1933 in New York City has him in a duet with Eileen Wezel. A collector's item now, he produced 78 rpm vinyl records for Columbia Studios in the early 1930s. One vinyl has two Russian folk songs with the titles written in Russian alphabetical or Cyrillic Script, translated to “Spi, Bayushki, Bayu” and “Oruzum Ssolntze Sverkyet.” Another record from the 1940s had the song, “Moonlight Sernade,” sung in Russian with another group, the Komienko Ensemble. He was listed in the “Almanac of Russian Artists in America” in 1932 as an actor, singer, an guitar player. A 1942 newspaper article from Miami, Florida had a photograph of him with Sasha and Lola Zadorin as they performed for the Russian War Relief. According to his obituary, he was survived by a brother, Eugene Gouliaeff.
Bio by: Linda Davis
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