Larissa has been played on NTS in shows including Beyond The Clouds w/ Masha Mar, featured first on 25 October 2023. Songs played include Heaven's Here ('Middle East' Mix).

Larisa Mondrus (Russian: Лари́са Мо́ндрус, Latvian: Larisa Mondrusa, German: Larissa Mondrus; born 15 November 1943) is a Soviet singer (soprano), who was popular in the USSR in the 1960s. In 1973 she emigrated to West Germany.

Mondrus graduated from school and in 1962 started singing in the Riga Variety Orchestra. Soon she was noticed and moved to Moscow, where joined the Eddie Rosner Jazz Orchestra. In 1964 she started performing and recording with the orchestra that was…