Tattoo soloist biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Being a member of the world famous team, she already experienced all the pros and cons of unprecedented popularity at the age of 15, the boundaries of which often went beyond the rational. Now Lena is successfully promoting her solo project, in which it can be realized as an independent creative unit. In the photo: Lena Katina's childhood and family Lena - a native Muscovite, was born in a creative musical family.

Father, Sergey Vasilievich Katin, played in the bass gitar in the early youth in the Arsenal team, then, together with Dmitry Thursday and Viktor Rybin, created the Dun group. He is the author of the hits "Country of Lemonia", "Hello from the Big Bodun", "Communal Apartment", "Sea of ​​Beer" and many others. He also wrote songs for Marina Khlebnikova. In childhood, Lena Katina, Inessa Vsevolodnovna, graduated from the Gnesin School in the piano class and the pedagogical institute, where she received a specialty of a speech therapist.

But life turned out so that in E she had to do business. However, things went uphill - she became the manager of two metropolitan fashion stores.

Lena Katina and her parents divorced his parents when Lena was barely three years old. Soon, the girl had a stepfather Oleg, but her own father did not disappear from her life. Sergei Katin constantly held his hand on his pulse, was interested in the successes of his daughter and played an important role in the formation of her musical career. In school years, Lena Katina at first parents gave the little Lena to sports - she was engaged in rhythmic gymnastics, figure skating and swimming.

The game on the piano was taught the girl by mother, and when it became clear that she also had good vocal data, it was decided to determine her in a music school. At 10 years old, Katina began to perform in the Avenue children's ensemble, and three years later she became a member of the famous Nesteda team. There she met Julia Volkova, the future partner in the world -famous duet "Tattoo".

Lena Katina in the “fidgets” in the “fidgets” Lena performed until the age of fourteen until she left the team, as she no longer fought in the age framework. But on this her musical career did not end - producer Ivan Shapovalov and composer Alexander Votinsky invited Katina to their new project, for whom they needed a fragile young girl with a gentle voice. It was planned to take part in a large-scale musical campaign against the war in Yugoslavia, where famous rock bands were supposed to perform.

The appearance on the stage of such an ephemeral creation after brutal men with electric guitars was supposed to play in contrast and, in their opinion, to make a strong impression on the public. Initinsky wrote for Lena the songs “Yugoslavia”, “I am your enemy” and “why am I”, and the girl began rehearsals. Lena Katina - “Yugoslavia” but the financial sponsor of the project Boris Ransky proposed not to be limited to a one -time action, but to create a full -fledged duo of two participants.

So Volkova appeared in the team, which was selected at a casting from many applicants. The decisive word was for Lena, who was already familiar with Julia for "fidgets." At first, the producers did not understand the Tattoo group in which the way they move, until they watched the Swedish film “Show me Love” about the touching romantic relations of two schoolgirls. And then the idea was born to write a song on this subject, which was brought to the logical conclusion, journalist Elena Kiper.

It was she who became the author of poems for the track “I have gone crazy”, which formed the basis of the entire concept of the group. Lena Katina and Julia Volkova at the beginning of his career, the single with the same name saw the light in December of the year and instantly became a hit: first in the CIS, and after the English version and far beyond. The clip, taken to this song, produced a splash in the musical world and was awarded the prestigious international award MTV Video Music Awards.

Such a success was largely provoked by the kiss of the girls, who at that time looked bold and revolutionary. The Tattoo group caught Hype’s wave on the lesbian theme, the creators of the group of began to continue to exploit this idea. By the way, the girls themselves adhered to traditional orientation and depicted love only to maintain legends about two schoolgirls in love. Lena Katina was generally raised in strict Orthodox traditions and from the age of five visited festive church services with her grandmother.

But what can you do for the sake of world glory and recognition, which suddenly fell on the heads of very young girls. An interview with the Tattoo group, the year and the success was really phenomenal - the first solo album “on the counter” in the year was sold by the amount of more than five million copies and bypassed Madonna and Michael Jackson disks in popularity.

In support of the album, the group went on a large tour: first in Russia and European countries, and after the release of the English -speaking version reached America and Japan. Lena Katina in his youth, one by one, came out hits, who immediately occupied the upper lines in the world charts.Due to the fact that Lena graduated from a school with an in -depth study of foreign languages, the texts sounded at a very high level, but the hooligan tricks of the girls on the stage brought the audience in full delight.

With producer Ivan Shapovalov, Shapovalov was a master of shocking and provocations and was considered a little out of this world in the Russian show business. But Lena and Julia completely trusted his professional instinct and unconditionally realized all the crazy ideas of their producer. They went on stage in T -shirts with obscene inscriptions, shot the audience from toy machines.

In maybe the whole point is that the operators shot them from afar, and the picture turned out to be poor -quality, moreover, a technical failure occurred in telephone voting, and the results were incredibly low. Russia was not enough only three points to the first place. Despite the protests of the Russian side, the organizers refused to revise the voting results, and the Tattoos were in third place.

They were eagerly awaited at the most prestigious concert venues in the world, and many Western performers, including the cult rock band Rammstein, were not averse to working with shocking Russian girls. A quarrel with Ivan Shapovalov was affected during work on the reality show “Tattoos in the Middle Kingdom”, as well as the destruction of the “lesbian” legend after Yulia Volkova’s pregnancy from his guard and the aggravated contradictions between Lena and Julia.

Julia took up her personal life, and Lena Boris Rensky suggested starting a solo career. For the first time, Lena thought about a solo career about a solo career when Julia was on maternity leave for a while. With the help of her father, she recorded her first solo demo-songs, assuming that in the future they would be able to come in handy. In parallel, she graduated from the Faculty of Psychology, as my mother insisted on higher education.

When Volkova returned, the Tattoo reached a new round of popularity, and temporarily had to be forgotten about a solo career. But in the year there was a clear awareness of the impasse and the acute desire to radically change their life, which before that was limited only to the framework of the group. From the inhuman load per month, they could give up to 30 concerts, Lena began nervous breakdowns: once I got down with a nervous breakdown and I had to cancel the concert in Anadyr.

It was the peak of the popularity of Tattoos, we had 30 concerts per month. This schedule knocked out the soil from under his feet, it was difficult to recover very much in the year, the executive producer Renskiy told the girls that he was tired of the non-professionalism of Volkova and did not want to have anything in common with the Tatu, but offered Lena Katina a solo project. Rensky helped Lena move to America, where she rented a house in Los Angeles and started working on a solo project with familiar musicians.

Lena Katina and Boris Rensky in the year took place the first performance by Katina in the Trubadour club; The girl performed the well -known hits of the Tattoo and presented her new songs to the public. In it, she released the single “Waiting” and, together with the Mexican group, Blanova recorded the song “Tic-Toc”, which was shot by the video clip. Belanova Feat. Lena Katina-Tic-Toc in December of the same year, Katina spoke with a charity concert, all funds from which were transferred to the victims of the destructive earthquake in Japan.

And six months later, Remix to the singer’s debut single “Never Forget” was headed by the main American hit parade Billboard and took the upper lines in other overseas charts. Lena Katina - Never Forget in a video clip in the literal sense of the word buried all the hopes of fans for the Renaissance of the Tattoo: in one of the scenes on the lid of the coffin there are their joint photos.

Katina devoted this song to Volkova, their friendship and crazy concert youth. But Julia did not appreciate this step and publicly called the song “Nudotina”, thereby offending Lena to the core. It was a purely commercial move dedicated to the anniversary reprint of the most sold group sold. In the year, Lena and Julia again reunited at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and with their performance caused the stormy ovations of the thousands of thousands.

Fans immediately fell asleep their favorites with wishes to see them as soon as possible together in a revived group. To which Katina recorded a video message on YouTube, in which she stated in a categorical form that she would never work with Volkova again, and the Tattoo group should be forgotten forever. Three days later, Julia answered her the same, posting on the network an even more sharp video.

The Reyunion “Tatu” at the Olympics in Sochi in the year Lena decided to return to Moscow and continue her creative activity in his homeland. She recorded several duets with the t-killah rapper and the former soloist of the Vintage group Anya Pletneva and began to work on the Russian-speaking album. Lena Katina was realized as a solo singer in the year Lena released her first solo Russian -speaking album “Mon”, which included 8 tracks.

In his support, she arranged a street promotion on Arbat, which became a pleasant surprise for her fans.In the year, Lena Katina, in parallel, Katina appeared in several television projects “Well, all together”, a spider from the show “Mask”, which was exposed by the jury and was not afraid to invite journalists “one day” to her home, thereby opening the veil of her personal life.

Lena Katina in the Mask show, as for most artists, has become quite complicated for the singer. The tour of Latin America, planned in the spring, was postponed indefinitely, and most Russian concerts were canceled due to quarantine. But Lena was not used to sitting idle and used this period with benefit, graduating from work on the next album. In addition, she had the opportunity to spend more time with a five-year-old son, whom she does not so often see because of a stressful working schedule.

In her personal blog, Lena promised that the autumn of the year would bring her fans a lot of happy moments: this autumn will be very fruitful, ahead of many interesting premieres and multi-row projects, it is cool to try something new. So it happened. In September, a video was scattered over the network, on which Lena Katina sings with a duet with Olga Buzova the song “I have gone crazy”.

Innocent entertainment provoked a flurry of negativity to both singers. They met on the set of this project, and nevertheless, they immediately worked out - the subscribers called their duet one of the most sensual ones in that issue. Dava and Lena Katina - do not go crazy “duets” Lena Katina's personal life, despite the frantic popularity and crowds of fans, Lena did not immediately manage to arrange her personal life.

She had several unsuccessful attempts to build relationships with young people, but she met her chosen one only in the States when she had already left the Tattoo group. Slovenian Sasho Kummanovich was also a musician and often had fun in the company common with the company. Lena Katina and Sasho Kummanovich, at the closest acquaintance, turned out that they had already intersected for several years before, but Lena could not remember where and under what circumstances.

Sasha offered this in some way - he was spoiled by female attention and could boast of a solid Don Juan list, so he set himself a goal - to win an impregnable red -haired beauty, who did not even remember her name. The wedding of Lena Katina and achieved his own - a month later the lovers settled under one roof. Soon Sasho made a proposal to Lena, handing the ring in a romantic atmosphere on the ocean.

In the summer, their wedding took place, and two years later the baby Alexander Lena Katina and her son Katina gave birth in Moscow, although many advised her to stay in the United States so that the child had American citizenship. But Lena already knew that she would return to Russia, and did not want this important event to occur in a foreign country, far from relatives and friends.

Unfortunately, this marriage turned out to be short -lived - in the year Lena and Sasha broke up. But for the sake of the child they managed to maintain warm friendly relations, and the boy can see his dad when he wishes. True, due to Pandemia of Coronavirus, Alexander has not seen his father for almost the whole year. In an interview, the singer has repeatedly admitted that she is ready to give her love to another man and the second child.

She lived together with her son in a spacious apartment in the prestigious area of ​​Moscow, next to her mother.