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Lada Dance

Lada Dance, popular Soviet and Russian singer

Lada Dance, popular Soviet and Russian singer


Lada Dance is a popular Soviet and Russian jazz and dance music singer, actress. Her real name is Lada Volkova. By the way, her popularity peaked between 1992 and 1996, and then she abandoned her career. In the late 1990s, she also worked as an erotic model for some time. You know, in December 1996 the girl appeared on the cover of Playboy. In 2002 she played one of the lead characters in the Russian TV sitcom Balzac Age, which was called Russian Sex and the City.
Beautiful Lada was born on September 11, 1972 in Kaliningrad. In 80s she moved from her home town to conquer Moscow. At the final concert of the pop songs festival Jurmala-88, Lada met Alina Vitebskaya and Svetlana Lazareva. And soon the girls form a trio Female Council (Zhensovet). Alina’s husband Khariton Vitebskiy, became their producer.
Three charming girls in miniskirts and flashy red armbands Female Council on the sleeves immediately became popular and often end up various TV programs. Instead of songs about love the girls decided to sing songs about social problems. Soon such songs became unfashionable and the trio broke up.
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Katya Ryabova, young singer

Katya Ryabova, young singer

Katya Ryabova, young singer


Katya Ryabova is a Russian singer.
Ekaterina was born on August 4, 1997 in the small town Schelkovo not far from Moscow. Then her family moved to the town Yubileiny of the Moscow region. The girl started singing when she was a little child. Beautiful girl has sister Anastasia.
Also she is a member of the children’s vocal studio SvetAfor and takes choreography classes in the classic ballet studio Fairy-tale.
In 2009 Ryabova won the national final of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and represented Russia at the Junior Eurovision in Kiev with the song Malenkiy Prinz (The Little Prince). As a result, she became the runner-up of the show.
By the way, in 2011, she became the first returning artist in Junior Eurovision history. That time she represented her country with the song Kak Romeo i Dzhulyetta (Like Romeo and Juliet) and took the fourth place.
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Proskuryakova Yuliya, Igor Nikolaev’s wife

Proskuryakova Yuliya, Igor Nikolaev wife

Proskuryakova Yuliya, Igor Nikolaev’s wife


Proskuryakova Yuliya is an aspiring Russian singer, wife of the famous composer and singer Igor Nikolaev. They got married in 2009. (Igor is 22 years older than Yuliya). In the fall of 2015, Yuliya gave birth to their daughter Veronica.
The girl was born on August 11, 1982 in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). From 13 to 17 years old Yuliya was a part of the VIA Alyonushka.
Actually, Yuliya hasn’t got any special musical education, but she has a natural vocal talent.
She is the constant participant of many young performers’ contests.
In 2004 Proskuryakova graduated from the Ural State Law Academy. You know, she participated in the competition among the students of the Russian universities Voice of Russia-2000 in Samara. There Yuliya received the Audience Award and the Special Jury Prize.
In addition, Yuliya took part in the musical TV projects Popstars, People’s Artist, and Musical Ring.
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Sofia Rotaru, famous Soviet singer

sofia rotaru

Sofia Rotaru, famous Soviet singer

Sofia Rotaru is a Soviet-Russian, Ukrainian and Moldavian pop singer-songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress and fashion icon. She is often called the Queen of Pop. For the strength of voice Sofia was called Nightingale from Bukovina.
Actually, she was the first female pop singer in history to receive the award People’s Artist of the USSR in 1986.
Beautiful girl was born on August 7, 1947 in Marshintsy village, Chernovtsy region. Until 1940 the village, where the singer was born, was a part of Romania. After the war the area was attached to the Ukraine. The girl was the second of six children in a family of winegrowers. To tell the truth, Sofia celebrates her birthday twice. Due to a mistake her birthday in passport is August 9.
Her blind elder sister Zinaida, who had unique hearing, taught the future star to sing. Sofia Mikhailovna calls her the most favorite teacher. Their father also loved to sing and had a beautiful voice.
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Diana Gurtskaya, blind singer

Diana Gurtskaya, blind singer

Diana Gurtskaya, blind singer


Diana Gurtskaya is a Russian singer of Georgian origin, social activist, Honored Artist of Russia (2006). In addition, she is a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.
Pretty Diana was born on July 2, 1978 in Sukhumi, Georgia, USSR. Blind from birth, she was the youngest of four children. Her elder brother Robert is her producer. At the age of 10 the girl made her debut at the Tbilisi Philharmonic Society, she sang a duet with the Georgian singer Irma Sokhadze.
Outstanding vocal talent ambition and hard work let Diana become the winner of the International Festival of Young Singers Yalta-Moscow-Transit 1995 and receive a special prize.
In 1999 Diana became the winner in the contest Slaviansky Bazar in Vitebsk, Belarus. She repeatedly became the winner of the Golden Gramophone, Song of the Year Awards and many others.
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Alexandra Gurkova

Alexandra Gurkova

Alexandra Gurkova


Alexandra Gurkova is a Russian pop singer, actress and fashion model. She is an ex-member of such pop groups as Tango and Cash, the KGB, and Princessa Avenue. In 2006 Gurkova became a finalist of the popular musical television project Star Factory – 6 on the first channel.
Pretty Alexandra was born on April 23 1988 in Samara into the family of a saxophonist and a head of tourist office. The girl has an older brother – Stanislav. Since her childhood Alexandra was fond of jazz and wanted to become a famous actress.
At the age of 6 the little girl began performing on stage. To tell the truth, she actively participated in various contests and competitions, received many awards and titles. Several times she won the Grand Prix at All-Russian contest Voices of the Twenty-first Century.
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Tatyana Tereshina

Tatyana Tereshina

Tatyana Tereshina


Tatyana Tereshina (better known by her stage name Tanya Tereshina) is a Russian singer and model, ex-singer of the group Hi-Fi.
Pretty girl was born on May 3, 1979 in Budapest, Hungary into a family of Soviet military man. Only in 1992 the family finally settled in Smolensk, where she graduated from school. In addition to compulsory school, she attended music, art and ballet classes. She was a soloist in the children’s ensemble. In 1996 the girl entered the Art Institute and after graduation she decided to move to Moscow.
Almost immediately after moving to Moscow, Tatyana was admitted to the modeling agency Modus Vivendis. She was the flagship model, traveled a lot for shows in Europe. Then she worked for such modeling agencies as Fashion and Point.
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