Nino Katamadze

Nino Katamadze is a famous Georgian performer, composer and, as she calls herself, a hooligan singer. She fell in love with the public not only for her strong voice and original songs, but also for her interesting approach to folklore and classics.

One of the most famous audio recordings of Katamadze on the Web is the eternal "Suliko", which the singer performed together with Teona Kontridze in the jazz style and with numerous improvisations.

Nino Katamadze was born into a large Georgian family in the Adjarian town of Kobuleti. Here, in addition to Georgians, Greeks also lived, and the future singer grew up at the junction of these two ancient cultures. The family brought up four children, and in winter, relatives from mountain settlements came to Katamadze's house, and the number of children in the dwelling exceeded ten. There were many hunters among the girl's relatives, so little bears, eagles, deer often appeared in the yard, which, due to inexperience, fell into the trap. They were fed and released back into the forest.

From the age of 4, the girl fell in love with singing, which was not surprising, because her grandmother Guliko was also a passionate lover of singing and introduced the whole family to this. My father was a jeweler, and my uncle worked as a music teacher at school. It was he who became the girl's first vocal mentor, and her grandfather taught her to play the guitar. At a young age, Nino decided on the choice of a profession - the girl followed the musical path.

After graduating from school in 1990, Katamadze entered the vocal department of the Paliashvili Batumi Musical Institute. The student studied in the workshop of Murman Makharadze. Despite the fact that the girl chose the classical vocal department, she did not feel like an academic singer to the full. Nino wore colorful hippie clothing, large iron earrings, and other colorful ethnic jewelry.

For her character and style, Katamadze received the nickname Carmen. Already in her student years, the young artist participated in various musical projects. Since 1994, she began to try her hand at charity and founded a relief fund. However, after 4 years it had to be closed.

In 1999, Katamadze began cooperating with the Insight group, making friends with its leader Gocha Kacheishvili. One of the most famous joint compositions was the song Olei ("With Love").

This collaboration turned out to be successful: having gained popularity in Georgia, the artist began to tour abroad, which caused a strong growth in her popularity. The first concert of Katamadze in Moscow was a performance at the ethno-rock festival "Peace in Transcaucasia". At the same time, Nino acted as an accompanist for the fashion show of the countries of the Caucasus and as the opening act for Bill Evans at the International Jazz Festival in Tbilisi. This was followed by a successful performance at the Subtropic Music Festival in August 2001.

In 2002, Nino collaborated with film director Irina Kreselidze as a composer for her film Apples. This work became Katamadze's composer's debut. Subsequently, the singer recorded soundtracks for the films "Mermaid", "Heat" and "Indie", which fully represent the young cinema of the post-Soviet space. The soundtrack to the film "Indie", the song "Once on the street", which the artist sang together with Jivan Gasparyan, are considered by the fans to be the most sincere song of the singer. Later, a clip was created for this hit.

In 2002, in order to expand the geography of her fans, the singer performed in the UK and toured there for a month. The tour brought Katamadze a success: in December 2002 she was invited to the BBC radio (London branch). Then Nino went to Vienna, and after that she held a sold-out concert at the Tbilisi “Adjara Music Hall”.

After such a schedule, there was a break in Katamadze's creative biography for several years, after which the singer with renewed vigor began to tour. The beginning of a new period was laid by a tour of Ukraine in 2007. In 2009, Nino gave a number of concerts in Azerbaijan, and at the beginning of 2010 she became one of the performers of the opera-improvisation "Bobble" by Bobby McFerrin.

In 2011, Katamadze gave a solo concert at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, and the singer also performed at the opening ceremony of the Chulpan Khamatova charitable foundation entitled “Give Life”.

The celebrity also appeared on television: since 2014, Katamadze has been acting as a judge on the Ukrainian talent show "X-Factor", which is aired on STB TV channel. Nino replaced the singer Irina Dubtsova in this position, the other judges this season were Ivan Dorn and the permanent jury Sergei Sosedov and Igor Kondratyuk, already familiar to the audience of the program.

In the summer of 2015, Nino sang a duet with the legend of Russian rock Boris Grebenshchikov. The musicians performed in Odessa, at a private party of their big fan, the ex-president of Georgia and the former governor of the Odessa region, Mikhail Saakashvili. According to press reports, the governor himself published the video with the singing Grebenshchikov and Katamadze on social networks.

Another unexpected impromptu duet happened to Nino in the summer of 2016. Katamadze sang with the opera diva Anita Rachvelishvili at the latter's wedding. Everyone could hear the performers by connecting to the online broadcast of the wedding on the Internet.

Among the latest films where Katamadze's music is used, it is worth highlighting the romantic film almanac "Love with an Accent", released in 2012 by Georgian director Rezo Gigineishvili, as well as the films "Without Borders" of 2015 and "Collector" of 2016. To date, Nino's music is used as soundtracks in 12 films.

In total, the artist has released 6 albums, named in different colors. Nino started recording them in the early 2000s. The first compilations to appear were Black and White. In 2008, the singer released the disc Blue, and soon Red and Green were released. As Katamadze herself admits, these names reflect her vision of the world: for example, black reminds of what it is like to sit in a dark room waiting for a ray of light, and white is the color of transparent pouring water. In 2016, an album called Yellow was released.

Katamadze has been the headliner of the Wild Mint ethno-folk music festival, which takes place annually in the Tula region, for several years in a row.

In March 2017, a concert of Nino Katamadze & Insight with the orchestra took place in Moscow. It included songs from "color" records, and the event itself was dedicated to spring, which is also noted in the name of the concert - "Spring Beauty".

In her youth, the singer was so passionate about creativity that at one time she did not pay attention to her personal life. The emotional girl, of course, dreamed of a loving spouse, but did not find suitable applicants for this role. The singer met her husband trivially: she made an appointment with him. Husband David is a surgeon by profession. However, even the fact that the spouses do not see each other for six months because of the singer's crazy touring schedules does not diminish the love and affection between them.

In this marriage, the singer had a son, whom Nino named Nicholas. The singer learned that she was pregnant during her tour. But Katamadze decided not to stop performing. She managed to carry out all her plans in 8 months. The artist gave 40 concerts, recorded a new album with an orchestra and a soundtrack for the film.

The boy was born in 2008, at a time when a tense situation remained in Georgia. The singer decided not to leave the country and give birth to a son at home. The tense relations between Georgia and Russia did not prevent him from going to Moscow with a solo concert already 3 months after giving birth. The artist believes that music that brings light and love is especially needed where conflicts occur. In the capital of Russia, she was supported by Galina Volchek and Valentin Gaft.

Nino Katamadze refers to music not only as a creative process. With the help of songs, the artist is sure, it is possible to bring the "correct message" to the world. In her performances, the singer every time, according to her, puts the message: "Let's live in peace." Singing Nino makes the listeners cry, but according to the fans of the star, these are tears of happiness. Interestingly, Katamadze still takes a handkerchief from his grandmother to every concert, which he considers to be his talisman.

Now Nino's songs sound not only in her performance. The musical composition of the singer Olei, which at one time became Katamadze's calling card, was used by the young performer Dasha Sitnikova at Blind Auditions of the 5th season of the TV show Voice. Children".

In the spring of 2018, the artist went on a tour of the United States. The singer visited Philadelphia, New York, Boston. In Moscow, the Georgian performed at the International House of Music. In the summer, Nino visited Jurmala to attend Laima Vaikule's Rendezvous Music Festival. Katamadze reports about his speeches from the page of his personal Instagram. Bright concert photos of the star also appear there.

2003, 2006 - Black 2004, 2006 - White 2008 - Blue 2010 - Red 2011 - Green 2016 - Yellow

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