Million Roses

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"Dāvāja Māriņa" (English: Māra gave)^[a], or "Dāvāja Māriņa meitenei mūžiņu" (Māra gave the girl life) is a song written by Latvian composer Raimonds Pauls with lyrics by Leons Briedis. It was performed at the 1981 Mikrofona aptauja by Aija Kukule and Līga Kreicberga. It is one of Pauls' most popular songs and has been covered by several artists, most notably Russian pop icon Alla Pugacheva in 1982 with lyrics by Andrei Voznesensky as "Million roz" (Russian: Миллион роз, "a million roses"), also widely known as "Million alykh roz" (Миллион алых роз, "a million scarlet roses").^[1] Performed by Pugacheva, the song became an international hit in Europe and Asia; it was the most popular single in Finland, Japan and Mongolia.^[2][3] While the Latvian lyrics have a domestic theme of maternal comfort and life's hardships, the Russian version tells a dramatic story of a poor artist's unrequited love. It has been covered in a large number of languages, with title and lyrics overwhelmingly based on the Russian version.

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