Onu Bella (\u2018Uncle Bella\u2019, real name Igor Maasik, until 1989 Maksimov; 19 September 1961 \u2013 1 May 2018) was a musician, entertainer and writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Onu Bella was born and attended school in Tartu, graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry at Tartu State University. He held various jobs being a teacher, a chemical engineer and a laboratory technician at a veterinary clinic. Onu Bella became more widely known in the late 1980s as a musician and entertainer with his band Onu Bella ja \u00d6\u00f6rahu.<\/em> This was followed by stardom as a solo artist on the Estonian music scene of the 1990s. He gained great popularity with his extraordinary, sometimes shockingly outspoken and prankish lyrics for cover versions of well-known Western pop songs. Some of them, such as Ma v\u00f5tsin viina<\/em> (\u2018I Got Drunk on Vodka\u2019), became tokens of his era. Bella as a trickster phenomenon in the entertainment world of his time is depicted in the Estonian Drama Theatre\u2019s production Onu Bella t\u00e4hestik<\/em> (\u2018Onu Bella\u2019s Alphabet\u2019, directed by Kertu Moppel), which premiered in 2023. Onu Bella was a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union from 2015 until his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In literature, Onu Bella uses the same device \u2014 building his own piece on a well-known work of literature. For example, travel impressions frame the story of personal development and the era in Dekameron<\/em> (\u2018The Decameron\u2019, 2012). M\u00f5ned hallid varjundid<\/em> (\u2018Some Shades of Gray\u2019, 2013), referring to the erotic bestseller of the time, contains short stories with various references and allusions. A painfully honest insight into the story of a disease is offered by Tappa prostatav\u00e4hk<\/em> (\u2018Kill the Prostate Cancer\u2019, 2017), which refers to Quentin Tarantino\u2019s film dilogy Kill Bill<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With his encyclopaedic knowledge of pop and rock music, Onu Bella hosted radio shows on various radio stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A. K. (Translated by I. A.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Miscellaneous<\/em><\/strong> Onu Bella (\u2018Uncle Bella\u2019, real name Igor Maasik, until 1989 Maksimov; 19 September 1961 \u2013 1 May 2018) was a musician, entertainer and writer. Onu Bella was born and attended school in Tartu, graduated from the Faculty of Physics and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":663,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5354","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5355,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5354\/revisions\/5355"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Books in Estonian<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Ma v\u00f5tsin viina. Tallinn: Menu Kirjastus, 2010, 224 lk
Koduperemehe nipiraamat<\/strong>. Tallinn: Menu Kirjastus, 2011, 223 lk
Dekameron<\/strong>. Tallinn: Menu Kirjastus, 2012, 159 lk
M\u00f5ned hallid varjundid<\/strong>. Tallinn: Pegasus, 2013, 200 lk
Keemia diskreetne v\u00f5lu<\/strong>. Tallinn: Pegasus, 2014, 190 lk
Tappa prostatav\u00e4hk<\/strong>. Tallinn: Ema&Isa, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"