The singer was born into a large family in the Ukrainian village of Marshintsy. Because of the passport officer, who mistakenly wrote August 9 in her passport, Sofia celebrates her birthday twice. He considers his first vocal teacher to be his father, who himself loved to sing and had an absolute ear for music and a beautiful voice.

Rotaru owes her impeccable figure to regular trips to the pool, exercise equipment and proper nutrition.

Of course, Sofia’s ideal appearance is not only her natural abilities, but also work on herself. The star owes her flawless figure to regular trips to the pool, exercise equipment and proper nutrition. The singer loves going to the sauna and massage therapists' offices. This allows her not only to be in excellent physical shape and move well, but also to endure a two-hour concert. Rotaru admits that he practically does not add salt to his dishes, does not eat fatty foods and eats a lot of plant foods. As for plastic surgery, the singer assures that she has never resorted to it and uses exclusively proven methods and folk recipes.

ALLA PUGACHEVA

“The Woman Who Sings” and the real Diva of Russian show business first appeared on stage at the age of five, and today she has an enviable career behind her. In 2010, the singer announced the end of her touring activities and still keeps her word. She only appears at social events and television shows, gives interviews and voices over films.

Alla Pugacheva, like any woman, has her own secrets of beauty and youth. The secret to her thick and luxurious hair is... her wig. Yes, yes, the singer wears a wig, her hair has not been so beautiful for a long time (this information is confirmed by the fact that at one of her concerts Pugacheva simply tore off her wig right on stage). Alla maintains her figure with a salt-free diet and a complete refusal of bread.

IRINA ALLEGROVA

Irina was born into the family of a theater director and actress. The first years of their life the family lived in Rostov-on-Don, after which they moved to Baku. At the initial stage of her career, Allegrova provided voice acting for Indian films, and then began performing on stage.

The singer found a solution in proper nutrition - her diet is dominated by vegetables, fruits, seafood and honey.

Irina has tried many diets throughout her life, even taking Thai diet pills. But none of this helped her lose those extra pounds. The singer found a solution in proper nutrition - her diet is dominated by vegetables, fruits, seafood and honey. Irina relieves stress with culinary therapy. The singer regularly swims in the pool, visits a massage therapist, a sauna and does aerotherapy. All this helps the star keep her body and figure in good shape.

VALERIA

Alla Perfilova, better known as Valeria (now this is the name that appears in her passport), was born in the city of Atkarsk. Valeria studied variety art from Joseph Kobzon and Gelena Velikanova.

As the singer herself says, she owes her stunning appearance to yoga, morning jogging, a healthy lifestyle, proper nutrition, cheerfulness and natural ingredients in cosmetic products. For example, Valeria not only often visits beauty salons, but also uses village sour cream as a face mask. To care for the area around the eyes, the singer applies cotton pads with cool rose water. She also prefers natural scrubs. Here is one of the recipes: 1 tsp. honey, a pinch of sugar, olive or flaxseed oil. This scrub is perfect for hand care.

NATASHA KOROLEVA

The Honored Artist of Russia first appeared on stage at the age of three as part of a large children's choir of radio and television of Ukraine. Having already matured, she recorded the song “Yellow Tulips” and literally immediately became a star.

The Queen is an ardent opponent of plastic surgery, although she resorts to Botox injections.

The Queen is an ardent opponent of plastic surgery, although she resorts to Botox injections. Natasha has her own beauty salon, so her appearance is the work of top-class professionals working in her salon. As for an attractive figure, it’s all about tennis. The singer works out with a personal trainer three times a week. Natasha admitted that she cannot go on a diet, but she eats in small portions and controls the consumption of flour and sweets. Natalya also resorted to the procedure of hirudotherapy (healing with leeches).

Nyusha

The very young singer Nyusha (Anna Shurochkina) had never studied vocals professionally and never graduated from music schools. She began performing at the age of 11, and at 17 she came up with a pseudonym, which is still with her today. Now the girl’s songs occupy leading positions in the Russian charts, and she herself has more than once become a laureate of prestigious music awards.

Nyusha monitors her appearance and health as much as possible. She does not smoke, drinks alcohol in moderation and only on holidays. The singer considers healthy sleep and good rest to be the key to attractiveness and health, so she tries to never go behind schedule. The girl drinks a lot of clean water and uses natural masks and moisturizers for her skin. The singer’s good figure is the result of training with a personal trainer and a set of daily exercises. Nyusha does not go on a diet and can afford various delicacies (the main secret is not to eat in the evening).

ANNA PLETNEV

The former lead singer of the Lyceum group, and now the lead singer of the Russian pop group Vintage, is a native Muscovite. At school, Anna studied choreography and music, and also danced in the children's ballet Ostankino. She joined the Lyceum after the dismissal of Lena Perova and was a permanent member of the group for eight years, and then created the Vintage group together with former member of the A-Mega group Alexei Romanov.

After the birth of the child, the singer diligently practiced dancing and singing to get her body in shape.

After the birth of the child, the singer diligently practiced dancing and singing to get her body in shape. But Anna’s diet does not in any way correspond to the standards of nutrition: according to her admission, she eats when she has to and whatever she has to. True, there is still one secret: after eating, the girl simply stands against the wall for 20 minutes. Her dad taught Anna this trick, believing that this way food is better absorbed. The singer disdains plastic surgery, but does not condemn those who resort to it. The star loves naturalness more and uses only high-quality cosmetics.

YULIA NACHALOVA

The ex-wife of Russian football player Evgeniy Aldonina has shown singing abilities since childhood, which were noticed by her father (by the way, a musician and composer). Her father began singing vocals with Yulia at the age of 2, and at the age of five the girl began singing on the professional stage. After winning the TV competition “Morning Star”, the singer was noticed by prestigious music and social programs, who began inviting her to the central channels.

Yulia adheres to the correct daily routine and plays sports. She is not a supporter of fasting days, diets and hunger strikes, since after such experiments she feels bad. On her birthday and New Year, the singer does not limit herself to food at all and can eat whatever she wants. In one of the interviews, Yulia admitted that she does not trust folk recipes, but she simply adores high-quality cosmetics and various mixtures for home use. She always tries to use thermal water and is not afraid to undergo therapeutic and rejuvenating acupuncture procedures. Nachalova does not like to sunbathe either in the sun or in a solarium, as her skin is prone to burns.

ALEXANDRA SAVELIEVA

The 30-year-old lead singer of the Factory group was involved in figure skating as a child and attended a music school where she studied flute and piano. Teachers predicted a sports future for Sasha, but the girl preferred music. Success came to her after participating in the first episode of the show “Star Factory” and founding the “Factory” group.

Teachers predicted a sports future for Sasha, but the girl preferred music.

Sasha has repeatedly been included in the list of the most beautiful girls in Russia. At the same time, she does not try to meet any beauty standards, feels confident in her weight and rejoices at every kilogram she gains. The girl does not go on a diet, because she believes that nutrition should be balanced, but she eats often and in small portions. Loves dark chocolate with salt. For beautiful and youthful skin, Sasha takes fish oil capsules, and also makes natural face masks and does not forget to apply creams with sunscreen. In the morning, the singer washes her face with ice water, and in the evenings she carefully removes her makeup. Sasha also doesn’t forget about sports: she loves swimming, exercises and does myostimulation.

VERA BREZHNEVA

As a teenager, Vera Brezhneva was fond of sports, many types at once. She studied foreign languages ​​and dreamed of becoming a lawyer. But it didn’t work out, so I got a degree in economics. The singer was a member of VIA Gra for 5 years, after which she began her solo career.

As Brezhneva herself admits, she has no special beauty secrets. Mandatory procedures for her are morning and evening facial cleansing and the use of moisturizer. Every week she makes sure to visit a cosmetologist to make an anti-stress mask or perform a deep facial cleansing. Vera does not use anti-cellulite products, but she likes coffee and salt peels, as well as contrast showers. The singer trusts her hair only to professionals. The main secrets of beauty, as she herself admits, could be called exercise and diet - and, with the help of the latter, the singer not only loses weight, but also gains weight when she considers it necessary.

Jasmine

real name - Sara Manakhimova, b. October 12, 1977 U, Derbent, Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian pop singer, actress, model, TV presenter. Honored Artist of the Republic of Dagestan.

(born March 27, 1987) - Russian-Ukrainian singer, songwriter and composer, actress, winner "Star Factory-2", laureate of a music competition "New wave", television festival "Song of the year", National Television Awards for Popular Music "Muz-TV Award".

(born December 13, 1983, Moscow, USSR) - Russian singer, performer of traditional Russian songs in modern adaptation, finalist of the competition "People's Artist-3". He often acts in different countries as an “ambassador” of Russian culture.

(born January 31, 1981, Voronezh) - Russian singer, actress. Took part in an international vocal competition "Big Apple-95", where she won the Grand Prix. Since then, her popularity has grown: she was the host of the program "Saturday evening" and channel "Star". In 2000 she starred in the musical "Formula of Joy", in 2001 - in the film "The Hero of Her Novel", in 2004 - in the series "Bomb for the Bride".

(born March 1, 1980, Moscow) - Russian figure skater, actress, TV presenter and pop singer; former lead singer of the group “Brilliant” (2003-2007). Films with her participation: “Club”, “Daddy of All Trades”, “Taming of the Shrew”, “Rzhevsky against Napoleon”, etc.

(born December 25, 1983, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian singer, lead singer of the pop group “Factory”, formed in 2002 on the “Star Factory-1” project. Graduate of State Medical University named after. Gnessins (department for training leaders of folk choirs and folk ensembles).

(born August 30, 1985, Vytegra, Vologda region) - Russian singer, actress and TV presenter. Films: “Bachelors”, “Young and Happy”, “Swan Paradise”, “Three on Top”, “The Crime Will Be Solved”, “Love in the City”, “In Love and Unarmed”, “Heavenly Relatives”.

Varvara

(real name Elena Susova; born July 30, 1973 in Balashikha) - Russian singer. Honored Artist of Russia (2010). She graduated from the Gnessin School and GITIS. She performed as part of the troupe of the State Theater of Variety Performances. The performer released her first solo album, which was called “Varvara,” in 2001. She also released the albums “Closer” (2003) and “Dreams” (2005).

(born October 2, 1982, Verkhny Kurkuzhin, Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) - Russian singer, former soloist of the Russian women's group "Fabrika" (from December 2002 to May 2010).

(born April 23, 1988 in Sochi) - singer gr. "Yin-Yang", actress of the youth series "Give Youth".

Alsou

(maiden name - Safina; born June 27, 1983, Bugulma, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) - Honored Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan (2000), People's Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan (2010). UNESCO Artist for Peace (2011). In May 2000 she represented Russia at a music competition "Eurovision", where she took second place.

(born December 16, 1982, Kyiv) -pop singer of Russian origin, TV presenter, actress. Former soloist of the “golden lineup” of the Ukrainian female pop group VIA Gra.

(better known by the stage names Tanya Tereshina, Tanya and Tanya; born May 3, 1979, Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic) - Russian singer and fashion model, ex-soloist of the Hi-Fi group.

(born September 27, 1978, Leningrad, USSR) - Russian singer, musician, composer, lyricist.

(born September 3, 1985, Sholokhovsky village, Rostov region, USSR) - Russian singer, title holder"Miss Russia 2006" , former soloist of the Russian-Ukrainian female pop group “VIA Gra” (2008-2010). After leaving the group, she began her solo career and also starred in the TV series “Happiness is Somewhere Nearby.”

Modern domestic show business is a special and in some way separated from the rest of civilization world, in which slightly different people live, with their own worries, affairs and quirks. Russian performers are in most cases persons, albeit without a world name, but quite famous in the vastness of their land and within their native state, and perhaps within the neighboring countries too. This article will tell you about popular and in-demand Russian performers over the last decade.

First echelon

So, let's start, Russian performers will be described below. The list is opened by old-timers of the national stage. Leonid Agutin, Nikolai Baskov, Oleg Gazmanov, Valery Leontyev, Alexander Rosenbaum, singer Slava, Lolita, the groups “Para Normalnykh”, “Mumiy Troll” were quite popular at the beginning of the 2000s and were famous for their armies of devoted fans, but with the onset of the second decade of the century they the fame has faded a little. Today these artists can only be seen at the most traditional concerts and musical evenings. The same cannot be said about Philip Kirkorov, Valery Meladze, singers Natalie and Anita Tsoi, and the groups “Zveri” and “Splin”. These artists are in demand and loved by audiences even today. Their concerts still attract millions of fans. And all this despite the fact that they also have the right to call themselves “old-timers of the stage.”

The youth

Russian performers are also representatives of a new generation. Their popularity today is at its peak, their discs are selling faster than others, their tours are scheduled for five to seven years in advance. There are a lot of young Russian pop singers. Their list includes several hundred names and pseudonyms, the most famous are Dima Bilan, Sergey Lazarev, rapper Timati, his protégé - Yegor Creed, Andrey Grizzly, Alexey Vorobyov, Dan Balan, Dominic Joker, Irakli, Max Korzh, Denis Maidanov, Tamerlan, Vyacheslav Basyul, Ani Lorak, Ivan Dorn, Nyusha, Pelageya, Yulia Savicheva, Anna Sedakova, Vera Brezhneva, Tati, Elena Temnikova, Polina Gagarina, Elvira T, Maxim, Loya, Svetlana Loboda, Stas Kostyushkin, Noise MC, Yuliana Karaulova, "Pizza" ", "Silver", M-Band, "23:45", "Banderos", "30.02", Quest Pistols, "Degrees", quartet "Heroes", "China", trio "VIA GRA" and many others.

Voice

Russian performers today also come from many popular television shows. The project with the highest ratings on domestic television is the show “The Voice”. This platform has produced wonderful singers such as Gela Guralia, Elina Chaga, Nargiz Zakirova and many others.

Russian show business is replenishing and Victoria Petrik can be called a prominent representative of this separate group of the domestic stage. The girl is the winner of the world famous Children's New Wave festival. This is certainly a worthy replacement for the old-timers of Russian show business. Now you know which Russian performers are most in demand at the moment.

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Nobody in the world knows Soviet and Russian pop musicians. Especially in the West. Nevertheless, musicians from Russia entered the Western charts at different times.

All attempts to promote and impose our popular music on the Western public have failed. Russian pop music is very secondary and backward - both technologically and stylistically.

But it has already become a good tradition to tell the Russian public lies about the successes of certain performers in the West. It's getting really funny.

Kirkorov traveled to Monte Carlo for The World Music Awards - a show of the best-selling performers in their countries, but it is quite difficult to find a person in Russia who has Kirkorov's album. Pugacheva, as you know, in 1997 took only 15 place out of 25 at the useless Eurovision.

For some reason, Sergei Lazarev sings in English, something the human brain simply cannot handle. Joseph Prigogine, who became an obsession with pushing Valeria to the West, once said in a paid article in a British newspaper that his wife had sold 100 million albums in Russia.

The rapper Timati had the biggest success when the Swiss DJ Antoine remixed Timati's song Welcome to St. Tropez. The song topped the charts all over the world, except for the UK and the US. In Switzerland, the song took sixth place at the end of the year. This is the peak for our pop singers in recent times.

Which of our musicians actually achieved high places in the Western (and this, in a musical sense, primarily the USA and Great Britain) charts and is generally more or less known in the West.

1. Composer Aram Khachaturian - 1972

One of the recordings of the music from his ballet “Spartacus,” called Spartacus, which Khachaturian made together with the London Symphony Orchestra, entered the British album chart in 1972, reached number 16 and stayed there for 15 weeks.

By the way, his music is so popular in the world that it was even used in such famous films as “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick, “Aliens” by James Cameron and “Caligula” by Tinto Brass.

2. Boris Grebenshchikov - 1989

His album Radio Silence, released in England and the USA, took 198th place on the Billboard200, despite the fact that it was recorded with the then super-popular group Eurythmics. The video shows BG's performance on David Letterman's popular TV show.

3. Gorky Park-1990

The success of Gorky Park in the USA cannot be exaggerated. They did not conquer America. Just look at their achievements on the charts. On the Billboard Hot 100 they only scored with the single Try To Find Me (81st place and 6 weeks on the chart), and on the Billboard 200 with the album Gorky Park (80th place and 21 weeks on the chart).

But Gorky Park generally sold well - 300 thousand copies sold in America alone - this is a very good result. The group achieved much greater success in Scandinavia. Gorky Park in Norway reached 9th place, and the single Bang - 5th. In Denmark, the album Moscow Calling It even went platinum.

4. Alsou-2000

With the song Before You Love Me "under Britney Spears" she got to 27th place for only a week, during the period when they were trying to promote it in Europe after 2nd place at Eurovision.

5. PPK-2001

The Rostov trance project PPK, with the release of a separate single ResuRection (Eduard Artemyev’s melody from the film “Sibiriyada” by Andrei Konchalovsky with the voice of Yuri Gagarin), debuted in the UK immediately in third place!

The song became the first track from Russia to be in hot rotation on BBC Radio One. ResuRection was then released in other countries, where it also charted successfully - number 5 in the Netherlands, number 9 in Belgium, and number 15 in France and number 36 in Australia.

6. Tattoo-2003

In 2002, the English version of their album “200 in the opposite direction” was released and “Tatu” generally became the most popular Russian group in the world. The girls did not become stars of the first magnitude, and their success was not that long, but they sold about 10 million of their records abroad. This is an unattainable result for Russian performers.

The English-language album now has gold status in four countries and platinum in Europe as a whole, the song “All the Things She Said” occupied the first line of the British chart for several weeks, and a cover of The Smiths was performed in the TV series “Gossip Girl” in 2009.

7. Leonid Agutin - 2007

The author of “Barefoot Boy” and husband of Angelika Varum graduated from the Moscow Jazz School and from his youth was interested not only in pop music, but also in a variety of acoustic guitar music - from jazz to flamenco. In the early 2000s, Agutin began playing concerts, and then recorded the album “Cosmopolitan Life” together with Al di Meola, an American virtuoso of the genre. In Germany the album had more than good sales.

8. Eduard Khil - 2009

A well-known, sad and beautiful story, due to which the great pop singer is known in the world as “Mr. Trololo”. On November 26, 2009, user RealPapaPit posted on YouTube the vocalization “I’m very happy, because I’m finally returning home” - today this video has 19 million 700 thousand views.

They say that the singer was even offered an international tour - but he refused. Both Gawker and The New York Times wrote about Gil's death.

9. Pussy Riot-2012

This is the only group here that has not been on the Western charts, but it cannot be ignored. From a musical point of view, this is a comical story. The group, whose songs no one had ever really heard anywhere, became the most famous musical group from Russia in recent times. Suffice it to say that in the West the Cathedral of Christ the Savior is known as the Pussy Riot Church.

Soon after the arrest of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich, musicians around the world began to carry out actions in their support - ranging from Madonna and Paul McCartney to Mike Patton and The Knife and Die Antwoord.

10. Anna Netrebko - 2007 - present

The opera singer was able to achieve real world fame, including the United States. She enjoys particular success in Austria, where she received citizenship. Also lives in New York. Her recordings are constantly on the classical music charts, but in some countries they also appear on the general music charts. Especially in Austria and Germany. Thus, 15 of Netrebko’s albums entered the Austrian chart .

Bonus: The most famous Russian music video in the world

The bloody viral hit “Bad Motherfucker” from the Russian group Biting Elbows, filmed in first person and therefore more reminiscent of an action video game than a music video. The clip was publicly celebrated by Samuel L. Jackson and Darren Aronofsky. 24.6 million views on Youtube.

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