Retro WWWSC #64

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Я вас любил (trans: I loved you) is a Russian-language song from 1979 sung by a famous Azerbaijani opera singer Fidan Qasımova. It tells the story of a person who "loved silently and hopelessly"

I like this song for three particular reasons: first, because of Fidan Qasımova, the singer, for her incredibly powerful vocals and emotions she conveys through her music; second, because of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, the lyricist, the worldwide renown Russian poet and novelist, for reflecting on sorrowful love from such a poetic perspective; and third, because of Qara Qarayev, the composer, one of the most prominent Azerbaijani composers of all time whose music echoes the pain and the melancholy of the story excellently.