Alice vox autobiography. The singer of the hit about Louboutins, Alisa Vox, suddenly left Leningrad
Alisa Mikhailovna Vox (née Kondratyeva). Born on June 30, 1987 in Leningrad. Russian singer, presenter, former soloist of the Leningrad group. Known as MC Lady Alice, resident of the D’12 club.
“According to the stories of my parents, at a very young age I climbed onto stools and began to sing, dance or make faces - in general, I did what I am doing now,” Alisa recalled.
Her mother wanted her daughter to become a choreographer. As Vox said, her parent tried to become a model with Vyacheslav Zaitsev in her youth, but she didn’t succeed.
However, Alisa’s mother used a creative approach in her upbringing: at the age of four she sent her to the ballet studio at the Lensovet Palace of Culture. Before this, the girl was kept on a diet for a year so that she would be quite slim. Alice still remembers how she was constantly hungry.
“For one year I hung on the ballet barre like a monkey, and then my mother took me to the children’s studio of the Music Hall, where during choir classes at the age of six they discovered my voice,” the singer shared.
And already from the first grade of school, she simply had no time left for lessons: “six days a week I attended classes at the Music Hall and there I played the main role in the play “Alice’s New Year’s Adventures, or the Magic Book of Wishes” directed by Andrei Skvortsov.”
She did her homework while sitting on the floor of locker rooms or dance classes, and therefore constantly received scoldings for bad handwriting.
But not only mother took care of Alice. As Vox noted, her father also gave her a lot: “My dad raised and raised me, taught me everything I know, told me everything I know and gave me direction in my development,” she once wrote on social networks.
However, let's return to our heroine's childhood.
Although she was taken from the children's studio (due to poor performance at school), she then studied in music clubs, was a member of the Dance Sports Federation, studied vocals and even represented the region at city competitions.
By the eleventh grade, Alice said, she came to the conclusion that she needed to enter the Theater Academy. I entered the pop department without any problems: “at the entrance exams I had to sing and dance, and in this I was strong.” But when they began to show her a teapot, an iron, a bunny, studies on justified silence, she realized that this was not hers.
The girl went to Moscow and entered GITIS. There she met a vocal teacher who gave her a start in life - Lyudmila Alekseevna Afanasyeva. Having raised more than one pop celebrity, she made Alice believe in herself.
It was difficult to study due to financial problems: “it was impossible to survive on four thousand from my parents,” Alice recalled. Therefore, she began to actively work part-time in karaoke bars.
As Vox later said, “in the capital, miraculously, every second guest turned out to be a producer who was going to make me a star, I just had to go to him.” But she refused such offers.
At the age of 20, she left GITIS and returned to her native St. Petersburg, where she entered the University of Culture and Arts, in the department of pop and jazz vocals. She was lucky again: she ended up with an excellent teacher, Natalya Yuryevna Ponomareva. As Alice said, the teacher worked with her “first of all with the personality, and not with the voice.”
In St. Petersburg, Alisa was invited to work as a vocalist in a cabaret restaurant "NEP"- there is still a photograph of Alice in a hat with a pink feather in his magazine advertising blocks.
She worked in a cabaret four days a week and hosted weddings or corporate events during the day. “At the same time, I wasn’t so torn for the sake of money, they are just bonuses for me, like in a game, and I collect them with the passion of an avid player.”“, the artist explained.
Once she had to improvise on stage at the Duhless club. She sang famous couplets to the electronic beat of the DJ, which harmoniously suited the music. It turned out well. Alice found her own format: vocal hosting, which, according to her, “has never existed in Russia before.”
She began to tour a lot and began to earn good money. And if she had previously failed to get a job as a presenter on Radio Record, then they themselves invited her to record jingles for them, which she still does.
In 2012, Alisa went to casting for the group "Leningrad" as a session vocalist, the band needed a soloist to replace the pregnant Yulia Kogan. Alice recalled how she was met: “When he appeared in the studio kitchen, introduced himself and asked if I was familiar with the repertoire, I answered: “I’ve known it since the tenth grade,” to which he muttered with a grin: “What a nightmare.”.
But after two auditions, he included her in the group and she quickly got into the swing of things. Her first performance took place in Germany.
Six months later, Yulia Kogan returned from maternity leave and they worked together. But then Kogan left the group and Vox became the only soloist.
Leningrad and Alisa Vox - "Fire and Ice"
With experience she has gained her height, "my personal pride is F sharp of the second octave", she said.
“The first year in Leningrad, I called Seryozha exclusively Sergei Vladimirovich... At first, I couldn’t raise my eyes next to him, I secretly looked at the back of his head on the tour bus, trying to believe that he wasn’t disappearing, he was real! “On stage we always did the full program of trash, debauchery and sodomy,” said Alisa.
Alisa Vox and Sergey Shnurov
In the Leningrad group, Alisa Vox performed perhaps the most powerful songs of Shnur, at least recently - “Patriot”, “Fire and Ice”, “37th”, “Crying and Crying” and, of course, “ Exhibit" - which became a super hit.
Leningrad and Alisa Vox - "Exhibit"
Also in the Leningrad group, Alisa was remembered for her outrageousness on the verge of a foul.
At the end of March 2016, it became known that Alisa Vox left the group and would again build a solo career.
True, her explanations for leaving the team and Sergei Shnurov vary.
Alisa Vox about her departure from the Leningrad group: "Friends! I decided to leave the Leningrad group and am launching my solo project! I am very glad that I can share this new stage in my life with you all. Working with Sergei Shnurov gave me a huge experience of stage life, I am eternally grateful to him for the opportunity to develop and improve. Also, I thank all the musicians and people close to the group who have been there and supported me for the last 3.5 years. Wish me good luck on my new path, and we will hear from you again very soon!"
Sergei Shnurov about Alisa Vox's departure from the Leningrad group: ““Leningrad” is what I came up with and am inventing. I live by it, no matter how pompous it may sound. I consider the fact that it changes and remains that very unexpected “Leningrad” to be one of my main successes. Fuck the viewer, I think this is playing without fire in your eyes, fuck off. Formally. The fire on stage should burn! And so it will be no matter what."
Leningrad - "I'm crying"
On July 22, 2016, the first solo album “Sama” was released, which turned out to be a re-covering of songs by the late Ukrainian performer Kuzma Scriabin. Alice's debut solo album failed.
Alice Vox's height: 168 centimeters.
Personal life of Alice Vox:
Even before joining the Leningrad group, Alisa married a club photographer from Rostov, Dmitry Burmistrov. They met at one of the parties in St. Petersburg.
In her interviews, she has said more than once that her husband is a wise man and does not make scandals for her because of what his wife does on stage, they say, a show is a show. Just like she is not jealous of Shnurov.
“I’m lucky, my husband treats everything with understanding. We met a long time ago, he went with me all the way through my development. He understands the needs of the work process, so he turns a blind eye to a lot of things and doesn’t torment him with inappropriate questions. He’s part of our circle, our dressing room, knows very well that Sergei Vladimirovich is happily married,” noted the artist.
In the fall of 2015, information appeared that Alice had separated from her husband. The reason was either her “star fever” or an affair with Sergei Shnurov.
She stopped wearing a wedding ring, and removed her husband’s last name on social networks. Also, joint photos with his wife stopped appearing on Burmistrov’s account.
Alisa Vox is a Russian singer who received national recognition as the lead singer of the Leningrad group. Resident of the D'12 club. The artist is known to club audiences under the name MC Lady Alice.
Alisa Mikhailovna Kondratieva was born and raised in St. Petersburg. The girl’s mother instilled in her daughter a desire to go on stage from an early age. At the age of 4, Alisa’s mother enrolled her in the ballet studio at the Lensovet Palace of Culture and kept her daughter on a strict diet. But when it turned out that the child had no predisposition to academic choreography, Alice was transferred to the children's studio of the Music Hall. It was there, during choir classes, that the girl discovered her talent for vocals.
While still a preschooler, Kondratyeva played the main role in the play “Alice’s New Year’s Adventures, or the Magic Book of Wishes” directed by Andrei Skvortsov, and also sang and danced a lot in other children’s productions. Thus, by the time she had to go to school, Alice simply had no time left for lessons.
Due to poor performance at school, the parents took their daughter away from the Music Hall, but Alice insisted that she be allowed to continue her vocal training with a teacher. In addition, Alisa was a member of the Dance Sports Federation and even represented the region at city competitions.
After school, the girl goes to Moscow and enters GITIS in the pop department. There, Lyudmila Afanasyeva became Kondratyeva’s teacher, having raised more than one celebrity. The vocalist made Alisa believe in her own strength and practice hard. However, due to the lack of finances, it was difficult for the aspiring singer to live in the capital, and part-time work in karaoke bars did not bring much income. Therefore, at the age of 20, Alisa Vox left the theater institute, returned home and entered the local University of Culture and Arts, in the department of pop and jazz vocals. After university, the girl worked as a vocalist in the NEP restaurant-cabaret, as well as a presenter at corporate events and weddings.
Music
The first success came to Alisa Vox when the artist began collaborating with the Duhless club. The singer improvised on stage, singing lines from famous songs to the DJ's electronic beat. Soon this direction, called vocal hosting, became popular, and Alice under the name MC Lady Alice began to be recognized and invited to perform in nightclubs. On the Record radio channel, where the singer was once rejected as a radio presenter, Alisa began recording jingles.
In 2012, the girl heard about a casting for the well-known group “Leningrad”. The team needed a new vocalist-sessionist, as she went on maternity leave. At the audition, Alisa showed herself to be quite confident and even joked. As a result, the singer was accepted into the group. Moreover, if at first the girl was only a studio assistant, then in the fall of 2013 she already appeared on stage as a full member of the team. Thanks to her participation in the creative life of Leningrad, Alisa became known to the public under the pseudonym “Vox”.
It is interesting that on stage, lead singer Alisa Vox and the leader of the group allowed themselves to act on the verge of, and sometimes beyond, the foul and staged very frank scenes, but behind the scenes their relationship was restrained. The singer even called Shnurov by his first and patronymic names for a long time.
In the Leningrad group, Alisa Vox recorded many songs that became super hits. Among them are the sensational hits “Patriot”, “Fire and Ice”, “37th”, “Bag”, “I Cry and Cry”. The song “Exhibit” especially stood out, known for its line from the chorus “On Louboutins” and which became a super hit largely thanks to Alice’s vocals. The number of views of the video for this musical composition reached 60 million.
In 2014, as a sign of protest against the ban on the use of obscene language in performances, the artist completely undressed on the stage of a concert of the Leningrad group in Moscow during the performance of the musical composition “Loves Our People.” At first, the girl found herself half naked, but at the end of the song, Alisa went behind Sergei Shnurov and took off the panties that were left on her, throwing the underwear into the audience. Photos and videos of the scandalous performance were freely available on the Internet and received a large number of views and likes.
However, after working together for almost 4 years, Vox and Shnurov came to a mutual decision. The singer decided to end the scandalous stage of her own creative biography and set sail freely. At the end of March 2016, Alisa announced her departure from the Leningrad group and the start of a solo career. One of the last songs with the participation of Alisa Vox and Sergei Shnurov was the musical composition “Prayer”.
Some sources of information indicated that the initiator of the break was the leader of the musical group Sergei Shnurov, but the singer himself declined to comment. A scandal erupted on social networks: many fans of the group expressed disagreement with the departure of Alisa Vox and threatened to stop going to concerts.
Personal life
Alice Vox got married before she became famous throughout the country. The singer’s husband was professional photographer Dmitry Burmistrov. The girl took her husband’s last name and even on posters sometimes combined it with a pseudonym, signing “Alice Vox-Burmistrova.” The singer repeatedly emphasized that her husband is a wise man who is not jealous because of piquant performances, since he knows how to distinguish the show from real life.
However, at the end of 2015, Alice began to appear in public without a wedding ring and deleted all photographs of her husband from social networks. Soon the public became aware that Vox and Burmistrov.
Alice Vox now
In 2016, Alisa Vox immediately began creating solo musical compositions. The singer's first album contained cover versions of songs from the group of the late Ukrainian musician, which Alisa sang. The artist made her debut on television and on the Internet with a video called. At the end of December of the same year, on her own Instagram account, Alisa announced the release date of her second solo video for the hit “Nights”. Both songs were included in Alisa’s studio album entitled “Sama”. The debut disc also included the songs “Prolyubov”, “Ships”, “Silence”.
Alisa Vox positions herself as a vocalist working in the electro-pop style.
In the spring of 2017, Alisa released a video for the musical composition “Baby” with an “anti-opposition” orientation, for which the singer, according to rumors, received 2 million rubles from representatives of the Kremlin administration. Fans of the artist reacted negatively to the appearance of this video. Alice Vox's ratings began to fall sharply. In August, the vocalist deleted the video from her own channel on the YouTube video hosting site. In the same year, new videos of the singer “Inexplicable”, “Eyes”, “Disco Queen” appeared online.
Now the singer is preparing to release her next album, “New Alice Vox,” which can be pre-ordered by visiting the vocalist’s page on the Internet
Alisa Mikhailovna Vox (born June 30, 1987, Leningrad; real name - Kondratyeva) is a Russian singer.
ALISA VOX is a Russian independent performer who combines in her work the most progressive genres of modern music: synth-pop, electro-pop, dance-rock. One of the main tasks of Alisa Vox and her creative group A-QuantumBand is to develop these areas on the Russian music scene.
She gained wide popularity as a soloist of the group “Leningrad” and starred in a number of the group’s videos.
Born on June 30, 1987 in Leningrad. From the age of four, for a year, she attended the ballet studio at the Lensovet Palace of Culture, and later began studying in the children's studio of the Music Hall, where at the age of six, Alice discovered her voice during choir classes. There she was soon offered the main role in the play “Alice’s New Year’s Adventures, or The Magic Book of Wishes.” However, since theatrical activities interfered with her studies, her parents took Alice away from the Music Hall at the age of eight. While studying at school, Alisa continued to attend music clubs, was a member of the Dance Sports Federation, studied vocals and represented the district at city competitions.
After school, Alisa entered the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts (SPbGATI), a year later she moved to Moscow and entered GITIS. Alisa calls GITIS vocal teacher Lyudmila Alekseevna Afanasyeva, who trained more than one celebrity before Alice, as the teacher who gave her a start in life. At the age of 20, she returned to St. Petersburg and entered the University of Culture and Arts in the pop-jazz vocal department.
After returning from Moscow in 2007, Alisa met her former choreographer, Irina Panfilova, who taught her modern jazz at the age of seven, and she invited Alisa to work as a vocalist in the NEP restaurant-cabaret. She combined this work with running corporate events, weddings, and working in karaoke bars. Then the stage name MC Lady Alice appeared. After a successful performance at the elite nightclub “Duhless” in the style of “vocal hosting” (lines from famous songs accompanied by an electronic DJ beat), tours and good earnings began.
In 2012, she successfully passed the selection for the position of session vocalist in the Leningrad group, whose repertoire Alisa was familiar with from the 10th grade of school. Alisa came to the group to replace Leningrad soloist Yulia Kogan, who had gone on maternity leave. Alice's first performance as part of the group took place in Germany. Six months later, when Yulia Kogan returned from maternity leave, the soloists performed together, but Kogan soon left the group. On September 5, 2013, at Chaplin Hall, Alisa Vox performed for the first time as the main soloist of the group.
As part of the group, Alisa Vox performed such hits as “Patriot”, “37th”, “Prayer”, “Bag”, “In short”, “Dress”, “Crying and crying”, “Exhibit” and others.
On March 24, 2016, Alisa Vox announced on her Instagram page that she was leaving the Leningrad group and starting a solo career. Alisa herself decided to leave the group and told S. Shnurov about it. Immediately a message about this event appeared on the pages of the largest Russian online media.
What actually happened between you and Sergei Shnurov?
In fact, there was no trigger. After three years of working in the group, the relationship began to rapidly deteriorate, Sergei often began to lash out at me, shouting... We stopped understanding each other. I told Sergei about my decision to leave the team on March 12, 2016. In that conversation, I immediately reassured him, saying that I would remain in the group until I found and introduced a replacement. He took this news calmly, even friendly. I asked to stay until July. I agreed. We discussed technical issues, laughed, hugged and kissed goodbye... I started looking for vocalists, showed him demo recordings of different girls. I brought Vasilisa to the team, she worked for a year after I left. In the meantime, we went to Ufa, played a great concert, after which Shnurov stopped answering calls and SMS. I learned from Vasilisa that it is forbidden to even pronounce my name in the group, and from the group’s logistician I learned that two new girls will go to big concerts in Moscow on March 24. Just before the concert, Sergei called, said something incomprehensible and hung up, without even allowing me to say goodbye to him as a human being.
Do you have unspoken thoughts that you want to convey to your former colleagues?
What can you say to a person whom you regularly supported, treated, fed, consoled, inspired and encouraged... and he... I have never been so wrong about people. But I forgive him. Apparently, I am his weakness. But this does not justify him. That's why I'm not going to talk to him. And I still communicate with some of the guys from the group.
What about the new soloists of Leningrad?
I have known Vasilisa for 5 years, and I brought her to Leningrad. After a year of working in the group, she disappeared somewhere... I’ve known Florida even longer, we often performed together long before Leningrad, I treat her very warmly and am always happy about her successes. But I don’t follow the group’s work, to be honest... If earlier they somehow ended up in my news coverage, now I practically don’t see them at all in the news feeds of even my friends.
“I have never been so mistaken about people before”
What moments do you remember with hostility?
I didn’t like the division of the team into small communities of interests. These interests, as you understand, were far from books. In the third year, the same jokes and stories (again, not from books) began to irritate me. I remember with hostility my feelings on stage during the performance of humiliating shorthand performances, as well as the scoldings that Sergei gave me when I tried to avoid these gestures. My worst memory is June 6, 2014. This is a nightmare, the trail of which haunts me to this day. The process of adopting a law banning swearing was underway. Sergei was in a panic and couldn’t find anything better than to undress me on stage. To get me to do this, careful psychological work was carried out. Sergey is an experienced manipulator. And I, a 25-year-old girl who unconditionally trusted her leader, had no choice but to obey. All! Since then, my life has been divided into before and after. I cried all night after the concert and lost my voice for two weeks due to nervousness. To this day I have not been able to wash myself away from this humiliation, in which I was the only victim. Moreover, as it turned out, this sacrifice was completely in vain, since this law did not affect Sergei. I prefer to simply forget about many other episodes.
But there is something good in any story... What are you grateful to Leningrad for?
I began to understand people better, became less gullible. Turned from an extrovert to an introvert. I learned to value myself more. I have gained enormous professional experience, including working with a team, technical issues, and organizational issues. My vocal range has increased. I learned to dance and sing at the same time without getting out of breath. Thanks to this skill, I now sing entire concerts with virtually no breaks.
“I cried all night after the concert and lost my voice for two weeks due to nervousness.”
How did you imagine your solo career? Have all your hopes come true?
My work fully meets my expectations. I have always worked solo, and working in someone else’s team was a new experience. Of course, now I have more responsibility to the viewer! But the payoff is colossal! Well, as for hopes... I hoped that no one would interfere, but... It turned out to be difficult to convey my creativity to people. A whole number of media outlets (radio, TV channels, and glossy magazines) are prohibited not only from covering my news and publishing material with me, but also from simply communicating, making friends, going to my concerts... More than once, finished material has been removed from print and even withdrawn after publications. The same ban affected many concert and club venues, as well as concert agents and private event organizers. For my first video, about five “disses” were ordered from different bloggers. In general, every success of mine is accompanied by a ton of dirt. For my birthday, I was given a “gift” - the pessimization of my Instagram account. For each clip, dislikes and angry comments are ordered. Once we got 370 thousand live views on YouTube! Now anyone with a bank card and Internet access can do this. This is why my comments and statistics on YouTube are closed. In an era when subscribers, views, likes, dislikes and comments are just a matter of money, statistics no longer reflect the real state of affairs.
What new things did you learn about yourself when you started working on your own?
That I am a strong leader and a strict leader. I used to think that I was such a cute, white and fluffy daisy girl. Now I know for sure that this chamomile has nerves of steel, an iron grip and unbending willpower. I had to believe in myself unconditionally. When you are your own boss and investor, you can’t live without it.