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A policeman from Finland Petrus Schroderus, who was awarded the title of "singing" by Internet users, has released an album with songs in Russian. According to him, he hired a tutor to study the language, the Zvezda TV channel reports.
Petrus Schroderus, a senior constable from the city of Oulu, sang the popular Soviet song "I love you, life.", the video went viral. The hit performed by him became the most popular video of the year in the Finnish Youtube segment. The video has become a real anthem in Finland to counter the coronavirus pandemic.
The Soviet song of the composer Eduard Kolmanovsky is known and loved in Finland, earlier it was included in the repertoire of a number of famous Finnish singers.
The policeman has a lot to do with music. Until 2012, he sang at the Finnish National Opera and won prestigious song competitions. A difficult divorce prompted Petrus to sing the song, he wanted to tell everyone and himself that good times are not far off.
The repertoire of the "singing policeman" contains many Soviet songs. According to Schroderus, the songs he performs on the album are familiar to him in Finnish. Now he wanted to sing them in Russian. He admitted that pronunciation was not easy for him, but now he is sincerely happy when people write that they understand him.
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