Anna Osipova

Fans love this singer for her sincerity and versatility. Utah has songs in the genres of rock, chanson and folklore. She sings romances and punk grunge compositions. The performer also became famous as a composer and author of soundtracks for popular films. She has remembered songs for the TV series "Soldiers", "Students", "Lavrova's Method" and a dozen other top-rated film projects.

Anna Vladimirovna Semina (this is the singer's real name) was born in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in the summer of 1979 in a creative family, Russian by nationality. The mother of the future Utah performer is an opera singer, so classical music has become a kind of background for Anna's childhood and youth. Parents, noticing the musical abilities of their little daughter, sent her to learn to play the flute. The girl completed the course and at the age of 11 began to master a new instrument - the piano. At the same age, Anya sang, shocking her mother: her daughter preferred not the classics, but the chanson, revered in the working-class district of Sverdlovsk, in which the family lived.

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Music was not the only one: Utah attended the pool and rhythmic gymnastics classes. But the genes won: the daughter focused on musical creativity. The girl was so carried away by the piano that she continued to master the instrument in the capital "Gnesinka". Anna entered the school without a completed musical education in the piano class. Relatives did not believe that she would be able to achieve success in this field, but Anya showed amazing dedication and hard work: the piano department of the school named after A. She graduated from the Gnesins with honors.

After graduating from music school, Utah again surprised the family: she lost interest in the piano and took up jazz vocals. The girl took her first steps in this musical direction in her third year at Gnesinka. Tatiana Markovich gave lessons to the young singer, and Utah studied composition and arrangement under the People's Artist of the RSFSR Yuri Saulsky.

An affair with film producer Oleg Osipov began in 2004. After two years of dating, Utah and Osipov got married, Anna took her husband's surname, which she still carries today. In 2007, Utah gave birth to her husband's first child, whom the couple named Anatoly. Three years later, twin girls Katya and Masha appeared. Grief came to the family when the little ones were one year old. Oleg Osipov died suddenly: the cause of death was cardiosclerosis. Previously, the producer was diagnosed with a heart attack.

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Utah recovered from the blow and returned to creativity. Mom helped to survive the tragedy, without whom, according to the singer, she would not have been able to cope with her grief. Son Anatoly at the age of 7 sat down at the piano and composed the first music. Utah claims that the boy has a mathematical mindset and is a copy of his dad. And Katya and Masha draw beautifully. In the singer's personal life, there is a lull. According to Utah, there are many talented and bright men next to her, but "none of them pulls on a life partner."

Utah is not one of those who attract attention with provocative pictures on Instagram, but photos in a swimsuit in a woman's tape sometimes do appear. Regardless of her age (in 2019, the artist turned 39 years old), she remains in excellent shape (height 165 cm, weight 55 kg), since she pays attention to her health, eats right and spends a lot of time in the fresh air.

Anna's acquaintance with the musicians of the Sverdlovsk rock group "April March" influenced the further biography of the vocalist. The girl created her own team, for which she wrote songs and music, made arrangements. The creative pseudonym Yuta, translated from Japanese, means song, melody. The group got the same name.

Utah made her debut with an album titled "Easy and Even Graceful" in 2001. She has an image of a punk-grunge-singer performing compositions to extreme music. Utah has been called the pioneer of Russian punk grunge. Critics and music lovers noted the similarity of Utah's early work with Zemfira.

Utah's second collection, Hops and Malt, released in 2002, turned out to be less hard and lighter and more melodic. The songs "To Fall" and the title song, which gave the name to the album, took places in the rotations of Russian radio stations. Utah was noticed and invited to the Nashestvie rock music festival, which is held with the informational support of Nashe Radio. For the song "Hops and Malt" director Alexander Solokha shot a video.

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The following year, Utah presented the disc "Rye and Clover", including songs to the verses of his fellow countryman and then State Duma deputy Yevgeny Roizman. The most popular compositions of the new album were the songs "Name" and "Violet-Black", which got into radio rotation.

The fifth studio album (in the same year a collection of remixes was released) appeared in April 2004. It is named "Girl" and is released by the Nikitin company. The collection turned out to be more romantic and melodic than all the previous ones. Utah's song "Waiting", performed in a duet with Vladimir Shakhrin, got into the rotation of "Our Radio", and the single "Heaven is Equal" in the Tophit music chart took 59th place.

2005 was a breakthrough year for Utah: the singer was recognized as a film composer. The first soundtrack that made Utah famous was Youth in Boots for the TV series Soldiers. The first swallow was followed by others: for the series, the composer wrote the soundtracks "Once upon a time" and "That same girl". The songs got into radio circulation. In the same year, the vocalist recorded the album "Teleradiosny", in which she completely moved away from rock. The compositions included in the collection reminded many of the Soviet pop songs performed by Klavdiya Shulzhenko and Maya Kristalinskaya.

In the spring of 2007, Utah presented its sixth album, After. The name was dictated by the song of the same name, written for the film "After Life". The composition was awarded a special prize at the Fourth International Film Festival in Sevastopol. A clip appeared for the song, edited from film frames. Two more songs of the album - "Name" and "Jealousy" - became soundtracks for the tapes "Soldiers" and "Ensign". Utah sang the composition "Name" together with Alexei Maklakov.

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In 2008, the premiere of the album "On the Edge" took place. Utah shared that the album became a turning point for her, prompting her to search for new forms. It combines cold rhythm and blues compositions with warm and romantic songs. The title composition became the soundtrack of the comedy "If only, if only", and the song "About him" sounded in the TV series "Provincial".

In 2009, Utah announced that the band of the same name no longer exists. In 2012, after a long intermission, the vocalist announced the start of a solo career, taking the creative pseudonym Anna Herzen. But the new name did not take root, and Anna again returned to the usual. Utah continued to write soundtracks for films, and soon there were songs for the projects "Lavrova's Method" and "Men's Women's Game". The composer wrote music for the circus show program of the Safronov brothers and the soundtrack "My beloved" to the melodrama "While the village is sleeping". The song won the Golden Gramophone

In 2014, the premiere of the 8th Utah album "By the way", released on vinyl, took place. The critic Denis Stupnikov noted that the songs included in the album contain a lot of hidden pain after the experience. But Utah "does not speculate with this pain, but speaks about it implicitly, allegorically." In the same year, the songs "Once Upon a Time" and "Hops and Malt" were included in the list of the 500 best compositions of "Our Radio". The track "Meeting", recorded in the same year, received no less positive reviews.

Soon after that, Utah appeared on the air of the program "Pravda-24", the guests of which are cultural figures, politicians and simply famous people. During a big interview, the singer shared information about the new album, as well as the death of her husband, who died of heart disease in 2011. The woman admitted that in recent years her husband was tormented by panic attacks, but in general, the man's health did not cause concern, and his premature departure from life was a huge surprise for everyone.

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In 2015, Utah presented the fans with the collection “My Beloved. Best Songs ", wrote music for the serial melodrama" Family Values ​​"and participated in concerts in Donetsk and Lugansk, supporting the residents of the unrecognized republics. Fans follow the news in the singer's creative biography on her official website, where there is a Utah concert schedule, as well as music and poetry.

In 2016, the vocalist presented the singles "Mama" and "For Russia". In the same year, Utah presented the studio album "My Family", which included the named songs. The disc is a combination of folk songs in pop arrangement and chanson. According to the Russian company "Cyril and Methodius", the album entered the top ten Russian music discs of the year. In the same year, the woman presented the song "About him" on the air of Avtoradio.

In the spring of 2017, Utah was awarded the Chanson of the Year statuette. At the ceremony, the singer performed the compositions "My Beloved" and "Hello, People!" She recorded the latter in a duet with Marina Devyatova. Later, the artists performed with her at more than one concert.

In 2018, the singer was noted for the release of two good songs "My Motherland" and "I am a girl", which had digital distribution and received radio rotation.

Utah still continues to work, regularly appears on television. In mid-February 2020, she became a guest of the Our Favorite Songs program on the Spas TV channel. Also, the celebrity does not stop giving concerts, the spring months were filled with tight tours, including several performances in Moscow, a concert in Zelenograd and Yekaterinburg.

A couple of months earlier, Utah performed at a strongpoint in Mitras, Haseke province in Syria, singing songs for Russian military personnel. For the concert, the woman selected military-themed compositions. In addition to her, that evening there were also artists from the Central House and the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army on the stage.

2001 - "Easy and Even Gracefully" 2002 - "Hops and Malt" 2003 - "Rye and Clover" 2004 - Remixed 2004 - "Girl" 2005 - "Teleradios" 2007 - "After" 2008 - "On the Edge" 2014 - "By the way "2016 -" My family "2017 -" Deep in your heart "