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Irina "Shooba-Dooba" Tomayeva is one of well-known Russian singers. Graduated from the Gnesin Academy of Music as a choir conductor in 1992. Being a classically trained vocalist she has various interests in music, but most of all she loves to express herself in jazz. She has been a soloist of MKS-Big Band leaded by famous Russian musician Anatoly Kroll (1993-1997), soloist of the legendary Oleg Lundstrem's Big-Band (2000-2001) and a soloist of JVL-Band (2005). Irena has performed with many Russian and American jazz musicians such as Anatoly Kroll, Oleg Lundstrem, Bobby McFerrin, Lew Soloff, Johnny Griffin, , Mikhail Okun, Yakov Okun, Igor Butman, Oleg Butman, Anatole Gerasimov, Sergey Manoukian, Vyacheslav Gorsky, Lev Kushnir, Alexey Kozlov, Igor Bril', Alex Rostotsky, Ivanov Brothers, Alexander Oseichuk, Oleg Kireyev, JD Walter and many others. She also took part in various jazz festivals in Russia and abroad : Moscow, Kazan', Chelyabinsk, Novokuznetsk, Togliatti, Tiumen', Kostroma, Nijny Novgorod, Samara, St.Petersburg, Sochi, Anapa, Yaroslavl', Salekhard, Montreux(Switzerland), Forssa (Finland), Paris, Shanghai, Sardinia (Italy), Baku (Azerbaijan), Kiev, Cocktebel (Ukraine), Minsk (Belarus), Almaty (Kazakhstan) and many others. Since 2003 Irina is teaching vocals at the State College of Jazz Music and at the University of Culture in Moscow.'PERDIDO' WITH ALEXANDER OSEICHUK AND HIS 'GREEN WAVE' IN CHELYABINSK, NOV-2005World Clock by Crazyprofile.comJULY, 1994. WITH MKS-BAND LEADED BY ANATOLY KROLL. JAZZ FESTIVAL IN SOCHI, ONE OF MY FIRST PERFORMANCES :)