Elena Katina

Lena Katina is the same redhead from Tatu, a group that has achieved such worldwide recognition that today's Russian performers can only dream of. "Not gonna get us!" even those who did not know Russian shouted. Now the singer is developing the international solo project Lena Katina and also hits the top lines of the ratings.

Lena by the zodiac sign of Libra, was born in Moscow in the family of the composer Sergei Katin, the creator of the Dune group, songwriter Larisa Dolina, Marina Khlebnikova and other Russian stars. After the parents divorced, the upbringing of the girl and her younger sister was taken care of by her stepfather and mother - pianist Inessa Vsevolodovna. My father's grandmother, Asya Nikitichna, an artist by profession, also helped.

Since childhood, the artist has grown active, so it was decided to give her to sports in order to channel energy into a useful channel. Hobbies included figure skating and swimming, rhythmic gymnastics, ballroom dancing and equestrian sports.

A little later, an innate musical talent also manifested itself. Little Lena began to learn to play the piano, then for 3 years she sang in the children's vocal group "Avenue".

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As a result, fate brought Katina to the legendary ensemble "Fidgets", which raised Yulia Volkova, Sergey Lazarev, Anastasia Zadorozhnaya, Vlad Topalov. Lena took part in festivals and competitions for children with this team.

In 1999, music producer Ivan Shapovalov decided to create a new project called Tatu. At the casting, only Elena Katina was selected, who at that time was 15 years old. The girl fit in external parameters - short stature (162 cm), red curly hair, big eyes, and also suited the producer as a vocalist. Lena had already started rehearsals when the leaders considered it expedient to turn Tatu into a duet and invited Yulia Volkova as well.

By the way, despite the incredible creative workload, Katina graduated from the Moscow Institute of Humanities and Economics in absentia and received a higher education with a degree in psychology.

Lena tried more than once to arrange her personal life, but the companions came across not from show business, and the relationship did not work out. The first did not understand the specifics of the artist's work, he believed that the girl was having fun and not making money. The second spoke in a commanding tone and demanded to follow his instructions unquestioningly. The third was in no hurry to call the singer to the registry office, and then completely openly changed. Only on the seventh attempt did she realize that she had met real love.

Lena met her husband, Slovenian rock musician Sasho Kuzmanovich in early youth, but simply forgot about it. A new meeting took place 10 years later in Los Angeles.

Sasho proposed on the oceanfront in Malibu during a romantic dinner. Especially for this, the young man learned a couple of phrases in Russian. In the summer of 2013, Lena Katina was officially married.

The lovers played two magnificent weddings - both in Slovenia and in Russia. In 2015, the couple became the parents of a boy, who was named Alexander. The artist dreamed of a daughter and even came up with a name for her - Anna.

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In 2019, the family broke up, the son stayed with his mother. Sasho and Lena filed for divorce secretly, rumors leaked to the media were confirmed by the PR director of the singer.

Life in Hollywood meant looking good. Katina did not go on diets, but did yoga and still bravely brags about her slim figure in a swimsuit on Instagram. The archives of the Maxim publication also contain more candid photos.

After spending 5 years in the States, the artist returned to Moscow. Lena never wanted to live in a foreign country.

Before Volkova's arrival, Lena Katina recorded the songs "Yugoslavia" and "Why Me" by composer Alexander Voitinsky. But the first joint single "I lost my mind" instantly lifted the girls to the rank of Russian stars. The video for the song received the prestigious international MTV Video Music Awards in the Viewers' Choice - Best Russian Video nomination.

It was followed by "Half an hour", "Boy-gay", awarded the "Golden Gramophone" "They will not catch us." The idea of ​​using the provocative image came to the producers of the project after watching the Swedish film Show Me Love, which showed the love of two high school girls. And the name itself could be deciphered as the phrase "She loves that." The parents of both performers did not oppose the use of the LGBT theme, although they emphasized in interviews that the girls have a normal orientation.

Surprisingly, during the first recordings, Elena had problems with diction. When performed live, they are not noticeable, but during sound recording they began to make themselves felt. Then the experts recommended Katina to sing with a cork in her mouth to develop her jaw. And this advice helped the girl get rid of the problem.

Russisches Teenager-Duo tATu bei MTV Movie Awards Yulia Volkova (l, 17) und Lena Katina (r, 18), russische ...

In 2001, the release of the first solo disc "200 in the opposite direction" followed, half a million copies of which were sold on the first day of sales, and within a year the figure increased to 4.3 million copies worldwide, with 1.8 million in Japan.

The record broke sales records, beating the CDs of Michael Jackson and Madonna. By the way, Madonna spoke warmly about the duet, and Lena Katina called the first singer from Eastern Europe, whose English is so good that it can compete with American performers.

The group's popularity abroad turned out to be no less than at home. In 2002, hits began to appear in English Not Gonna Get Us, I've Lost My Mind and All the Things She Said. The latter has won platinum status in several European countries.

In 2003, Tatu took part in the Eurovision Song Contest, where with the song “Don't Believe, Don't Be Afraid, Don't Ask” took 3rd place. The first two places went to Turkey and Belgium. The difference in points turned out to be small, and since the voting system was violated in some countries, Russia tried to challenge the results, but was refused.

In 2004, the group released the show "Tatu" in the Middle Kingdom, a year later - the album Dangerous and Moving and the disc "Disabled People." However, Shapovalov's personal ambitions outweighed commercial expediency. The producers of the teams did not agree on which name to put in the first place.

Working in a musical duet became an important stage for Lena Katina in her creative biography. At first, the soloists received $ 100 per concert; with age, they realized that overwhelming popularity is more expensive. Lawyers "knocked out" percentages of sales and performances for singers. Lena invested her earnings in real estate.

For the first time, Katina thought about her solo career when she left Volkov on maternity leave. Together with her father, she recorded a demo in the studio. None of the participants named the specific reasons for the final breakup of the group. According to Lena, this is not a quarrel, but the versions announced in the press do not correspond to reality.

Boris Rensky, co-founder of Tatu, invited the girl to record an album. Under the name Lena Katina, she moved to the USA, rented a studio in the Hollywood Hills, re-recorded old songs, and then began to offer listeners new creations. Lena's first solo song was Waiting, then, together with the Mexican rock group Belanova, the artist recorded the hit Tic Toc. Katina dedicated her ballad Keep on Breathing to people who suffered from the disaster in Japan in spring 2011.

A big hit was the Never Forget dedicated to Yulia Volkova, which topped the main Billboard world chart. Thus, the singer repeated her own success with the duet Tatu, because the song Not Gonna Get Us has already risen to the 1st line in America. By the way, none of the musicians from the CIS countries has yet succeeded.

In 2012, a video for the duet of Lena Katina and Clark Owen Melody was released, in the same year the singer visited St. Petersburg, where she performed in the program of the Queerfest 2012 queer culture festival. Soon the premiere of the song “I'll Be Near” (Shot), which Katina sang together with R'n'B-performer T-killah, as well as the musical composition Paradise, recorded to the music of Sergei Galoyan, followed.

The undoubted triumph for Lena Katina's solo career was her performance at a concert in Los Angeles at the Halloween Carnival. Soon, a joint performance with Yulia Volkova took place in the capital of Romania, as well as a reissue of the first album of the Tatu group. In 2014, the artists performed at the opening of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, where they sang the song "They will not catch up with us", and later recorded the track "Love in every moment." But the continuation of a joint career did not work out, the girls again turned to personal projects.

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In 2014, the Lena Katina project released their debut full-length album This Is Who I Am. In addition to English, Lena records singles in Spanish. In 2016, the track Levántame and the disc Esta Soy Yo appeared.

In the summer of the same year, Katina performed at a gay festival in Madrid in front of 30 thousand spectators, performed two songs from a Spanish-language album - the composition All The Things She Said and 30 minutes. The second is dedicated to the victims of the terrorist attack in Orlando.

At the end of 2017, the artist visited Moscow, where she gave two concerts - in the parks "Izmailovo" and "Sokolniki". Lena used the uncommon format among the stars in 2019 - she performed on the Arbat. The street concert turned into a kind of promotion timed to coincide with the release of the first Russian-language album.

The track list "Mono" includes compositions "McDonald's", "After us", "Smoke". Half a thousand listeners positively assessed the new style of the ex-tatushka. Of course, it was not without criticism, fans of the group still perceive Katina as a member of a popular group.

In 2020, Lena took part in the 2nd season of the vocal competition "Come on, all together!" The winner of the project gets a chance to become a pop star. Together with the former Tatu soloist, Nikita Malinin, Irina Ortman, and DJ Groove were chosen as the best candidate. The star jury was headed by Sergey Lazarev.

Then Katina herself was among the mysterious participants in the "Mask" show. The singer donned a spider costume. The judges of the program are faced with the task of guessing who is singing, while the performer's voice is deliberately distorted. "Masks" have the right to give small hints, but not mislead. Lena said that she had had a gold rush. Regina Todorenko and Philip Kirkorov were the first to guess that Katina sang Lady Gaga's composition Poker face.

On Valentine's Day, February 14, the artist presented a new track "Virus". In the fall, Lena will tour the countries of Latin America.

As part of the Tatu group

2000 - "I lost my mind" 2001 - "200 in the opposite direction" 2005 - Dangerous and Moving 2005 - "People with disabilities" 2008 - "Happy smiles" 2009 - Waste Management 2012 - 200 km / h In the Wrong Lane (10th Anniversary Edition)

Solo albums

2014 - This Is Who I Am 2016 - Esta Soy Yo 2017 - Silent Hills (single) 2019 - Mono 2020 - Virus (single)

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