Olga Arefieva

Olga Arefieva is a Russian poet, writer, singer, musician, founder of the Kovcheg group and its leader. Known in the cultural environment as a multifaceted and talented person. Her biography is a search for herself in creativity, the disclosure and realization of her talent, musical, theatrical and writing activities.

Arefieva Olga Viktorovna was born on September 21, 1966 in the town of Verkhnyaya Salda, Sverdlovsk region. In this Ural town, her parents ended up in distribution after graduating from Saratov University. Olga's passion for music began in her school years, and the appearance of a guitar in the house helped to reveal her abilities.

Despite the poor quality of the instrument, Olya did not let go of it. I independently mastered playing the guitar, sketching chords, patiently practicing them and after some time demonstrated her skill. Even then, she wrote songs, sang in amateur performances, participated and won in school and city competitions.

Independently comprehending the basics of playing the guitar, the girl enjoyed its sound. She “re-shot” and replayed the hits of Okudzhava and Zhanna Bichevskaya, fell in love with gypsy songs and sang them with pleasure. Most of them never left the walls of their own apartment, where her family was the main listener.

In 1983 she moved to the regional center, where she entered the university at the Faculty of Physics.

Real talent finds a way to be realized, no matter how "buried in the ground". So it happened with Olga. Two years later, she commits a desperate act: she enters a music school and leaves the university without regret. The only thing she regrets is the lost time.

At the school to them. PI Tchaikovsky, she is studying pop vocal with the famous teacher Valery Borisovich Gurevich. Having brought up a galaxy of talented performers working on the stages of the best theaters in the world, he was a teacher and creative inspirer of a young student who believed in talent. Putting their voice, together they scrupulously selected the repertoire.

After graduating from college, Olga Arefieva becomes the vocalist of the "Raut" group, an activist of the famous rock club and gives aerobics lessons. Her further biography is associated with moving from Sverdlovsk to Moscow, with her studies at Gnesinka, with participation in music competitions, with large and small victories of a talented musician and author-performer.

Popularity to Olga Arefieva as a performer of songs came after participating in the all-Union song contest "Jurmala-87", in which she receives the title of laureate. Returning to the results of that competition, it is worth noting that of all the participants, not prize-winners and winners became popular musicians, but Olga Arefieva and Alla Perfilova (Valeria).

In addition to the competition in Jurmala, Olga participates and receives diplomas at song festivals for songwriters. In 1990 he took part in the Rock-Acoustics festival in Cherepovets. It was also she who organized the first rock music festival in Sverdlovsk.

Later Olga moved to Moscow, where she created the Kovcheg group, with which she continues to tour to this day.

In different periods, the collective performs music of various genres, while it is called differently - "Blues Ark", "Royal Ark", "Acoustic Ark", "Reggae Ark" and "Chanson Ark". When asked by journalists why the group is called "Ark", Olga replies that whatever you call the ship, so it will float, and the ark is unsinkable. In Moscow, Arefieva entered the Institute. Gnessin and finished it in 1995. Her teacher at Gnesinka was none other than Lev Leshchenko. In her autobiography, the master called her "one of the three most worthy students."

At the same time, the group began to be called simply "Ark", and now this name remains unchanged. Since 1995, the team regularly performs in front of compatriots, and also goes on tour to Germany. It was then that the songs "Dove", "The Road to Paradise" ("You Play"), "She Made a Step" and others were written. Sometimes she performs without a team, with her own accompaniment on the guitar. The repertoire of solo performances, as a rule, is not "Kovchegov's".

Olga's interests are not limited to music. In the 90s, Olga's poems were noticed by popular magazines. In the period 1996-1997 in the magazines Znamya and Oktyabr published collections of her poems, most of which were already songs.

For her publications in 1998, the poetess received a literary prize from the Znamya magazine. Next year, as the winner of a competition among singing poets, she was admitted to the Writers' Union of Moscow.

In the same year, she met Elena Kalagina, with whom she still works. Together they created the KALIMBA theater. The theater is not quite ordinary, it uses dance, facial expressions, gestures, performances to express ideas. Also, together with Elena, Olga shot a lot of clips.

In 2001, Olga took part in Alla Pugacheva's Christmas meetings, where she sang two songs at once: "Hallelujah" and "What the hell is war with us." Alla Borisovna herself chose them.

Since 2003 she has been participating in the Human Comedy training. Here Olga reveals her multifaceted talent, using the possibilities of voice and body, realizing them in singing and speech, rhythm and performance.

The main task of the training is to develop a person's ability to improvise in any situation. The performance created in 2005 together with the KALIMBA theater was named the best dance performance of the year in Moscow.

Olga Arefieva collaborates with cellist Pyotr Akimov. From the creative union of two talented people, a musical and theatrical duet with elements of clownery turned out. Both performers consider their meeting to be fateful, recognizing each other as the main stage partners. Petr Akimov was and remains a member of all the "Ark" teams.

In parallel with her musical and stage activities, Olga Arefieva writes a book entitled "The Death and Adventures of Efrosinya the Beautiful." The book was published in 2007, was awarded the Astrea Literary Prize and entered the long list of the Big Book Prize. A year later, another work is published, which is called "Odnostishiya". Circulation runs are quickly sold out, reprinted and reprinted.

In 2014, a new collection of poems "The pacer" was released. Initially, the book was conceived as a children's book, and therefore Olga wanted it to include illustrations. But she never managed to find such an artist who would convey everything that she was going to convey to the reader. So she took hold of the helium pen and did everything herself. But during the work, more and more poems asked to be included in the collection, and it became more and more difficult to separate the child from the adult. The result was a book that included both nursery rhymes for kids and philosophical works that can be easily disassembled into quotes and aphorisms. In 2016, the collection “Odnostishiya. Book 2 ".

In 2014, Olga Arefieva and Oleg Zhukovsky, an actor of the DEREVO theater and the head of the La Pushkin theater, met. Their joint performance "Adventures in a Novel" was created based on her book "The Death and Adventures of Efrosinya the Beautiful". As an actress, Olga was involved in the play "Love Me" by Zhukovsky.

Today Arefieva is engaged in touring, theatrical and concert activities, not forgetting about her hobbies. Olga continues to write, create clips. She also takes a lot of photographs, dances, juggles, conducts training in movement and voice. Realizes creative ideas in collaboration with the Academy of Fools by Vyacheslav Polunin and the DEREVO theater of Anton Adasinsky.

Olga Arefieva's personal life is not discussed in the press. She believes that this side of life should not become the property of the public, and there is nothing in her personal life that could interest the public.

She characterizes herself as not an amorous person with whom there have been no intriguing passionate stories that are interesting to the public. Olga does not hide the fact that she has fans, but notes that men like the image she has created, and not herself.

Arefieva is a socially active person. She has been blogging at LJ for many years, and she also has a Facebook page. Like any writer, she writes a lot and is interesting, so there are enough subscribers on her page. Olga also has an official website, which contains a huge amount of materials about the singer and her team.

By the way, no matter how Olga hid her personal life, it was in the Live Journal that information appeared that Olga was still married. Of course, the singer herself did not write about this. This was confirmed by journalist and promoter Dmitry Uryupin, who more than once arranged concerts for Olga Arefyeva and Kovcheg.

Her husband was a certain Ruslan Indian - a biker, as Olga herself says, "a romantic and somewhere crazy." In 2009, a post about him appeared on Arefieva's blog. The woman said that Ruslan had died. She did not mention that he was her husband, from her words it became clear that with him she experienced both a lot of bad and a lot of beauty. There she said that the couple had not seen each other for 12 years. People close to them say that many of Olga's songs are dedicated to Ruslan.

But about the children, she gave an answer in the FUZZ magazine, readers asked Olga why she did not give birth, and also wanted to know about her attitude towards children. The singer said that she treats children well, but does not strive for "fertility." Although he believes that such a question is incorrect. Every woman has her own reasons for not having children.

In 2016, Arefieva celebrated her 50th birthday, but we must admit that the singer looks much younger than her years. Although in an interview she admitted that she was always not happy with the reflection in the mirror. She says that she is long and thin (her height is 175 cm, weight - 54 kg, wears size 44 in clothes).

In 2015, Arefieva gave concerts in Crimea, after which she was added to the lists of the Ukrainian site "Peacemaker". Despite everything, the singer continues to create.

In 2017, two new albums were released at once: "Angel and Girl" and "Tryptits". In June 2018, Olga, together with the musicians of the Kovcheg collective, released a new disc, INAO, in support of which they gave two big concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

2001 - "Anatomy" 2004 - "Kon-Tiki" 2005 - "Spinning, spinning" 2006 - "A and B" 2010 - "Aviator" 2011 - "Snow" 2012 - "Khvoin" 2013 - "Theater" 2015 - "Time back "2016 -" Jane "2016 -" Clay "2017 -" Angel and a girl "2017 -" Tripbirds "2018 -" Iyao "

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