Penza, 28 February 2012. PenzaNews. Popular Russian singer Alexander Rosenbaum will appear at the stage of Penza Regional Drama Theater named after A.V. Lunacharsky on Tuesday, February 28. The actor will present a concert “Fifty Years Passed since Childhood.”

Alexander Rosenbaum said at the press conference devoted to anniversary tour that for the last summer he had written about 10 new songs, but all of them couldn’t be presented in the program, because, spectators come to listen well-known hits first of all.

“People often said that my songs have rescued them during the certain vital period. But there are also those people, of course, who have physical heartburn while listening to my songs. And it is normal because I don’t want to be good for everyone, it is frivolous. After all if all people like you it means that you affect nobody,” the singer added.

Alexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum (born September 13, 1951 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian bard from Saint Petersburg. He is best known as an interpreter of the blatnaya pesnya (criminal song) genre.

Among his most famous songs are the ones about Leningrad, the Soviet-Afghan War, Cossacks, and the Jewish Mafia in Odessa. Songs such as "Gop-Stop" (a comedy about two gangsters executing an unfaithful lover) and "Vals-boston" (The Boston Waltz) are popular across Russian social groups and generations.

Rosenbaum accompanies himself on either a six- or twelve-string acoustic guitar, using the Open G tuning adopted from the Russian seven string guitar.