Estonian opera singer (tenor). People's Artist of the Estonian SSR (1957).

In 1918 he graduated from the Petrograd National Conservatory (teacher of the Sea), after which he improved in Italy. He returned to St. Petersburg, where he and his wife Lydia Alexandrovna Ots (name at birth Wijholm) (1898-1988) on March 21, 1920, son George was born.