Marina Gordon was born on December 11, 1917, in Minsk, Belarus. At the age of 16, she was accepted into the vocal studio of the Minsk Opera House. Thereafter, she continued studies at the Minsk Conservatory. In 1940 she was granted the option to continue her vocal training at the Glazunov College of Theatre and Music in Moscow, where she graduated in 1946. Meanwhile, she was accepted as a soloist to the USSR State Pop Orchestra. During World War II she got enlisted first into the militia, than drafted into the Soviet Army to perform in military arts ensembles for Soviet troops. After World War II she was a soloist of the Moscow Variety Shows Enterprise. Upon retiring, she immigrated to the US in 1977. Gordon died on December 13, 2013, in New York.
