Elena Khruleva

In the circle of friends, Elena Vaenga is called Lenenergo for her charisma, irrepressible character, the gift of raising the degree of mood in the room where she appears. It doesn't cost a singer anything to call in the middle of the night if a question arises in her head about the concert program. And surprisingly, no one will point the clock to the artist.

Vaenga realizes that the idea that the world revolves around her is a problem and inconvenience, but she is already used to it. Elena herself is ready to respond to the call for help, regardless of where she is and what time of day outside the window.

Elena Vaenga, according to the passport Elena Khruleva, was born on January 27, 1977 in the seaport town of Severomorsk. Parents worked at a shipyard, father is an engineer by education, and mother is a chemist. The girl grew up with her younger sister Tatyana and her half-sister Inna from her father's first marriage.

The future singer spent her childhood in the small village of Vyuzhny at the place of work of her parents. The Khrulev family brought up children in severity, instilling discipline. The girl's days were literally scheduled by the hour: exercises, schoolwork, attending circles and again lessons.

Later, in an interview, Elena said that she had a combat biography. In the house, she stood in all corners, a belt hung in a conspicuous place, from which Vaenga sometimes got it. At school, the singer frightened the teachers, got into boyish fights. Due to a conflict with an anti-Semitic teacher, Lena was expelled from school and taken back only when another teacher vouched for the student.

Elena's talent began to manifest itself in early childhood. Vaenga learned to dance from the age of 3. At the same young age, the girl easily repeated the melody played by her father on the piano, and her parents realized that they had a future star. At the age of 9, the child wrote the first song.

The parents sent their daughter to a music school. At the same time, Vaenga studied at a sports school, which helped to maintain good physical shape. After graduating from school, Elena moved to St. Petersburg to her grandmother to enter the university there. However, it turned out that one class was not enough for a complete secondary education, the girl was forced to go to school again in order to finish the 11th grade.

In 1994, Elena Vaenga entered the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College, where she continued to master the piano. It was hard for her to study, the level of musical education did not reach the capital, she studied mainly with fours. The future singer showed enviable zeal, in the 2nd year Vaenga was even transferred from the paid department to the budget.

After graduating from college, Elena decided to make her childhood dream come true and go to study acting. The choice fell on the Theater Academy (LGITMIK), where the singer entered the course of G. Trostyanetsky. There Vaenga studied for 2 months, having received an invitation from Moscow to record a music disc.

Returning to St. Petersburg, Elena entered the Baltic Institute of Ecology, Politics and Law at the theater department. The girl was sure that she would become a theater actress. However, after graduating from the university with honors, Vaenga returned to music.

As a student of the theater institute, Elena Vaenga traveled to Moscow at the invitation of music producer Andrei Razin to record the 1st album. But the record was never released, and Razin sold her work to other performers on the Russian stage. However, the celebrity is not in the mood to sue the eminent producer.

The girl became disillusioned with show business and again decided to become an actress, but civil husband and producer Ivan Matvienko persuaded the artist to return to the music scene again. Thanks to her husband, in 2003 the first album of Elena "Portrait" was released.

At the same time, Khruleva, on the advice of her mother, took for herself the creative pseudonym Vaenga after the name of the river near her hometown, and this word, translated from the Sami, means “deer”. The disc comes out under the new name of the singer. The record was popular in St. Petersburg, but the talented young performer was noticed and began to be invited to various festivals and song contests.

Vaenga received recognition and love of the audience by releasing the album "White Bird" in 2005, which included the songs "Taiga", "I Wish", "Airport", "Chopin" and others.

A number of compositions instantly became hits in Russia. Journalists wrote en masse about the growing popularity of the singer and about the "phenomenon of Elena Vaenga", who achieved serious success without the help of famous producers, composers and influential relatives. The artist's songs favorably differed from what modern pop singers offered the listener in large quantities.

Soon, Vaenga was awarded the title of "Queen of Chanson". In 2009, the singer received her first Golden Gramophone award for the song "I smoke". A year later, the composition "Airport" received the award "20 best songs", and the track "Absinthe" - "Song of the Year". Since 2011, Elena has been touring the countries of the former CIS, Germany and Israel.

In 2012, the artist had to take a break from her concert tour, because Vaenga damaged her vocal cords and was physically unable to sing. She performed in her homeland and went on maternity leave, reappearing on stage only at the end of the year. Since 2012, Elena Vaenga has been honored with the title of singer of the year according to the "Chanson of the Year" award for 5 years.

In addition, in 2012 the composition "Where Was I" received the prestigious awards "Song of the Year" and "Golden Gramophone", in 2013 "Golden Gramophone" was awarded to Vaenga's new song "Bride", and in 2014 - recorded in a duet with Intars Busulis "Neva". The creative union with Busulis was not limited to this. Together with the singer, Elena Vaenga performed another composition called "Gravity".

In 2013, the singer performed at the Slavianski Bazaar festival. The event was remembered by Elena's fans for another interesting duet. She sang the song "Two Souls" with Alexander Malinin.

In 2014, Vaenga, as a member of the jury, participated in the show of transformations "Just the same" on Channel One.

At the end of 2015, Elena Vaenga gave a solo concert in the Kremlin and performed both the best songs from the repertoire known to the public and completely new compositions. The performance at the State Kremlin Palace was timed to coincide with the release of the singer's new program and new album.

In 2016, the composition "Lady Di" was nominated for the Russian National Music Award in the category "Urban Romance". Also this year Elena has traditionally taken part in the gala concert of the national award "Chanson of the Year", where she sang the song "What have we done" together with Mikhail Bublik. The concert was broadcast on the First Channel.

In December 2016, Elena Vaenga performed at the annual New Year's concert "NON-Blue Light", where she sang a duet with Lyubov Uspenskaya, the "Tortilla's Turtle Song" familiar to many from childhood, and also appeared with the Latvian pop singer Laima Vaikule. Elena shared a joint photo with the latter on Instagram and received compliments about the festive look of the artists.

In 2017, the singer went on a tour of the cities of Russia and the near abroad, but was forced to cancel or postpone some concerts due to the fact that she was hospitalized with the flu.

To count the number of Elena's clips, the fingers of one hand are enough. She does not like this kind of television art, she believes that the main thing for the singer is live communication, “let the viewer see me shouting into the microphone”.

Elena met her common-law husband Ivan Matvienko in 1995 in St. Petersburg. He is of gypsy blood, which caused disapproval from the girl's parents. However, 18-year-old Vaenga preferred her beloved to the opinion of her family. The artist almost immediately moved to Ivan, having quarreled with her family.

Matvienko supported his talented wife as best he could. The man left the city to work in order to provide Elena with the opportunity to record albums and buy stage costumes. He produced her first and subsequent albums. Despite the perfect relationship, the couple broke up in 2011. According to Elena, the reason for the termination of the relationship was the absence of children in this union. Nevertheless, the singer remained on friendly terms with Matvienko, the former spouses even live in neighboring apartments and now continue to communicate.

In 2012, Vaenga gave birth to a son, whom she named Ivan. Later, she admitted that the baby's father is a member of the musical group Roman Sadyrbaev.

In September 2016, colleagues entered into an official marriage at the St. Petersburg Furshtatsky registry office. The ceremony was attended by 20 relatives and friends, the press was denied access to the building. The singer's husband was born in 1983 in Krasnodar, where he graduated from a music school, played drums in the ensemble of Svetlana Surganova.

Motherhood gave real happiness to Elena, although she does not see her son so often because of the tour. Ivan is raised by his grandparents, whom Vaenga sends every winter to live in Cyprus with a friend. The performer tries to visit her son as often as possible, and sometimes takes Vanya with her on tour.

The artist only dreams of spending the winter by the sea and says that she sacrificed her personal life for her career: Elena is the only breadwinner in the family.

In 2016, the singer drew attention to her appearance. At the beginning of the year, Elena dyed her hair blonde, which shocked the fans, and then changed her image again and cut her hair short.

In addition, that year, the woman once again lost weight, provoking the approval of fans. Elena immediately shared the changes in her appearance with her subscribers on Instagram. However, the artist, whose height is 177 cm, did not perceive excess weight as a problem. Although in 2014 she lost 15 kg in 4 months, arguing with her own concert director for money.

Elena Vaenga's concert schedule, judging by the official website, is scheduled 3 months in advance. The singer's tours are held in Russia, the Baltic countries and Central Asia. In 2016, the artist visited Crimea for the first time and since then she comes there every year, for which the Ukrainian site "Peacemaker" included her in the black list.

At the beginning of 2018, Elena presented a new song "Confession" to the audience.

In the autumn of the same year, another album called "1 + 1" was released, on which compositions were recorded performed by a duet with Mikhail Nikitin, Alena Petrovskaya, Jein (Evgenia Lavrentieva) and a participant in the "Voice" show Achi Purtseladze. The already familiar Laima Vaikule and Intars Busulis are also present.

Latin American motives were sounded in the song Mueve la Cintura Mulata, sung by Vaenga with Roberto Kele Torres, who represented Cuba at the 2013 New Wave competition.

The festival "Slavianski Bazaar 2018", as a number of sites wrote, showed a new Vaenga: live sound, an incendiary program, works in which jazz, rock and gypsy tunes are heard. Wind section, drums, percussion. In general, nothing from that familiar chanson, where the criticism attributed the artist's work in the early 2000s.

Elena also changed as an actress, who is not inferior to Alla Pugacheva in experiencing each song as a separate performance. In the performance, the singer got rid of the tragic anguish and sluggish pronunciation of the ends of the phrases, which used to blur the meaning of the song.

Vaenga invited artists to Vitebsk, “who are not played either on TV or on the radio,” including Lyudmila Sokolova. Elena liked the native of Volgograd since the time of the show "Three Chords", where a woman sat on the jury. Both performers were remembered by the audience for a kind of version of Vladimir Vysotsky's song "Fussy Horses".

2003 - "Portrait" 2003 - "Flute 1" 2005 - "Flute 2" 2005 - "White Bird" 2006 - "Chopin" 2007 - "Absinthe" 2007 - "Dunes" 2008 - "Keys" 2012 - "Lena" 2015 - "New" 2018 - "1 + 1"

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