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She was born in Barnaul, Siberia into a family of pilots. She sang from childhood for military and air force civil servants. In Khanty-Mansiysk she directed a group of amateur musicians. In Tyumen during the tour of the opera school of the Leningrad Conservatoire she became acqauinted with the singer Lidia Linkova, on whose advice she came to Leningrad to enter the Conservatoire.
In 1963 Galina Baranova was accepted in the vocal department of the Leningrad Conservatoire. In 1966 she became keen on variety and entered the VIA "Singing gitars". She worked with this group for a whole year and travelled over the whole (Soviet) Union on tour. At that time true art showed disdain for variety and punished singers for any ideological deviation from the party line. Although she managed to rehabilitate herself in college, not one censoring body has approved of her cultural programme since. The point is that her contralto is a very rare female voice, presenting a voluminous, "velvety" range of sound which so rarely occurs in general operatic parts. All her life Galina Baranova grasped what was acceptable and what was not. It turned out that in Russia even a unique voice was by no means a guarantee of general recognition. © Film Theatre (ru)
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