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Sophie Milman - Ochi Chornye (Dark Eyes)

Dark Eyes (Russian: Очи чёрные, Ochi chyornye; English translation: Black Eyes; French translation: Les yeux noirs) is probably the most famous Russian romance.

The lyrics of the song were written by the Ukrainian poet and writer Yevhen Hrebinka in Ukrainian. The first publication of the poem was in Hrebinka's own Russian translation in Literaturnaya gazeta on 17 January 1843.

The words were subsequently set to Florian Hermann's Valse Hommage (in an arrangement by S. Gerdel') and published on 7 March 1884.

Although often characterised as a Russian-Romani song, the words and music were written respectively by a Ukrainian poet Evheniy Grebenka ( Евге́ний Па́влович Гребёнка ) and a composer Florian Hermann. Feodor Chaliapin popularised the song abroad in a version in his own adaptation.

Sophie Milman (born in 1983) is a Russian-born jazz vocalist who lives in Canada.

After emigrating from Russia in the early 1990s, Milman, who is Jewish, spent most of her childhood years in Israel where she listened extensively to jazz. Her self-titled debut album was released on October 12, 2004, in Canada via Linus Entertainment and in 2006 in the United States on Koch.

Milman is a student of commerce at the University of Toronto.

She won 2008 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year for Make Someone Happy.

Her recording of "So Long, You Fool" is used in commercials for Air Wick Winter Collection candles.

Milman is married to lawyer, professor, and musician Casey Chisick, who was also the executive producer on Milman's albums Make Someone Happy (2007) and Take Love Easy (2009), as well as her concert DVD Live in Montreal (2008).

The lyrics:

Ochi chornyye, ochi strastnyye

Ochi zhguchiye i prekrasnyye

Kak lyublyu ya vas, kak boyus' ya vas

Znat' uvidel vas ya v nedobryi chas

Okh nedarom vy glubiny temnei

Vizhu traur v vas po dushe moyei

Vizhu plamya v vas ya pobednoye

Sozhzheno na nyom serdtse bednoye

No ne grusten ya, ne pechalen ya

Uteshitel'na mne sud'ba moya

Vsyo chto luchshevo v zhizni Bog dal nam

V zhertvu otdal ya ognevym glazam!