Russian rock group soloist girl. The best rock performers (10 videos)

Where did you play: The Runaways, solo career

Genres: hard rock, glam metal

What's cool: Lita Ford (real name - Carmelita Rosanna Ford) picked up the guitar at a young age. From the age of 11, the future rock star taught herself to play from her favorite records, among which were songs from bands such as Black Sabbath and deep purple. In 1975, Kim Foley called Lita to The Runaways. After the band broke up, the guitarist gave up music, but a meeting with Eddie Van Halen convinced her to return to the rock scene and create a solo project. At first, she was looking for a vocalist for a long time, but then she decided to sing herself. Lita recorded a song with Ozzy Osbourne, and rock monsters such as Lemmy Kilmister, Sammy Hagar, Ritchie Blackmore and Joe Lynn Turner had a hand in creating material for her albums. Lita Ford is the only woman, inducted into the Circus Magazine Hall of Fame in 1967, and in 1993 was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Female Rock Performance category. In February of this year, the guitarist released a book called Living Like a Runaway: A Memoir, in which she shares details of her rock and roll life.

Quote: I prefer to play with men because rock and roll is aggressive music. Men are more aggressive than women.

Ann and Nancy Wilson

Where played: Heart, solo projects

Genres: Hard rock

What are cool: Glory to the group Heart came in the 1970s. The Wilson sisters then played a mixture of American hard rock and folk. In the 1980s, they changed their repertoire and began playing rock ballads, which brought them more greater success. The group still gives concerts, and the records of the two sisters have sold over 30 million copies worldwide. According to the TV channel VH1, the group Heart took 57th place in the list of 100 the greatest performers hard rock, and the albums Little Queen (1977) and Bad Animals (1987) went triple platinum.

Quote: Our mother was a feminist. She raised us that way. Why should we be worse than men just because we are women?

Jean Kouenemand

Where did you play: vixen

Genres: hard rock, glam metal

What's cool: the guitarist formed the band Vixen while still a schoolgirl. The debut album, released in 1988, was very successful and immediately landed on many charts. The songs Edge Of a Broken Heart, Cryin', How Much Love and Love Is a Killer hit the Billboard Hot 100. The band shared the stage with such famous rock bands as Bon Jovi, Scorpions, Kiss and many others. In 1991, the group broke up, in 1997 a reunion took place, but without Jean. She instantly filed a lawsuit and won the case, winning the rights to the name of the group. In the fall of 2013, the guitarist died after a long battle with cancer. She was 51 years old.

Quote: There are a lot of women in the rock scene these days. AT old days a woman had to work hard to prove herself. I remember one time we were asked if there were guys musicians behind the stage who play for us.

Pat Benatar

Where did you play: solo project

Genres: Hard rock

What's cool: Pat started to sing in primary school. Parents forbade the young singer to even think about the rock scene: she went to theaters, operas and conservatories, but the entrance to the clubs was closed to her. Benatar realized that a career as a classical singer was not for her, dropped out of her studies, and later her career as a bank clerk, and began to study rock music. The singer is a four-time Grammy Award winner and has two multi-platinum albums to her credit. Pat Benatar's songs have been used in many films, TV series, cartoons, computer games and commercials.

Quote: I was not a visionary, but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the life of women in America.

Lee Aaron

Where did you play: solo project

Genres: Hard rock

All over the world, for the most part, it rests on female voices, whether it is an opera or an operetta, a chamber ensemble or church choir. Everywhere listeners are delighted by melodic soprano, coloratura or lyric, moderately sounding mezzo or low contralto. Musical performances would be unthinkable without them. However, there are female voices in pop culture, and in heavy metal, and in hard rock. They are everywhere, in every genre. Rock groups, both foreign and Russian, are formed according to the principle of a quartet, quintet or other composition that meets the tasks that the musicians face. The soloist always occupies a leading position, being, as it were, the center of everything that happens on the stage. She organically interacts with the musicians, at the concert all the participants become a single organism.

World of music

Pop and rock bands with female vocals are finely organized musical groups that have millions of fans around the world. Concerts of such associations never take place indoors, their stage venues are stadiums, huge beaches on the ocean or squares of megacities. Rock bands with female vocals carry their creativity to the masses tirelessly, tours can go on for weeks and months. Forms and compositions of ensembles are approximately the same for all - these are drummers, guitarists, those who play bass strings, brass instruments, and, of course, all-consuming female vocals.

Participation share

Singers take on the lion's share of creativity, they play the main role and are always in the center of events. A grateful audience is waiting for "their" performer.

Progress towards success

Rock bands with female vocals, with a fairly respectful attitude towards art, quickly become popular and gain many fans. Fame stimulates creativity, vocals improve, musical accompaniment, arrangements and compositional component of the performances are getting better.

Rock bands with female vocals of the second half of the 20th century

Ensembles with female soloists began to appear in the middle of the last century. At first it was a few groups, such as The Pleasure Seekers led by Suzi Quatro or The Supremes with Diana Ross. But gradually, foreign and Russian rock groups with female vocals began to appear everywhere. Currently, there are many instrumental ensembles with talented soloists. Rock bands with female vocals, the list of which includes dozens of names, well-known and not so, regularly participate in all kinds of ratings.

Russian and foreign

If you pay attention, you can see that mostly foreign rock bands with female vocals appear in these ratings. The list of Russian soloists, as it were, stands apart, and this has already become a tradition, since Russian musical culture is a completely separate entity, and it cannot be confused with European cultural property, much less with musical achievements in the USA.

Style and popularity

Unbridled expression - that's what distinguishes American rock bands with female vocals. Foreign modern and not so pop and rock bands have been formed over the years. Line-ups changed, soloists came and went, but thanks to precisely such changes, true like-minded people gradually gathered in groups who followed the same musical interests in their work.

USA and Europe

Most famous rock bands and soloists:

• Evanescence is one of the most successful pop-rock bands in the world. The first album in a studio recording called Fallen sold 15 million copies. The soloist, with a strong and soulful vocal, is the basis of the group and the recognized leader in a long list of performers.

• Paramore is an American supergroup, a permanent member of all kinds of charts, is a laureate of prestigious music awards. She specializes in the performance of pop-punk, in which she has no equal. Paramore currently has three members and a guest drummer. The soloist is said to be not only one of the most talented performers, but also the sexiest singer of recent times.

• Nightwish is a Finnish metal band that successfully performs against the backdrop of great vocals Not fully understood fantasy-style lyrics, rich keyboard arrangements, tireless solo guitars - all this speaks of the band's fundamental nature.

• Siouxsie and the Banshees are a band from the UK that combines melancholic melodies with rhythmic accompaniment of electronic instruments in their work. The dreamy soloist Suzy Sue is an indispensable and main link in any concert.

• Cranberries - Irish "Cranberry" under the leadership of the colorful Dolores O "Riordan. The group started with sales of compact cassettes with their records in the stalls, but today it collects stadiums of fans. Soulful songs that take the soul, filled with deep meaning, are coveted by many radio stations around the world.

• Crucified Barbara is a popular Swedish band. Started with garage punk rock, and today on the stage during the performance of "Barbara" reigns classic heavy metal and the stunning performance of vocalist Mia, who in her spare time from touring is nicknamed Coldheart ("Cold Heart").

• Arch Enemy- the most popular group from Sweden with tense vocals by Angela Gossow. He has been performing for 15 years with constant success. Previously, the soloist was a professional journalist, until she met one of the members of Arch Enemy and shared her innermost with him, talking about her passion for vocals. Since then, Angela has not written reports, on the contrary, others have written about her.

• Otep - the group was created by the brutal Otep Shamaya, who had previously actively fought for the rights of sexual minorities. Now the singer pours out her energy at concerts, directing the most powerful vocals into the mainstream of heavy and death metal.

• Within Temptation is a Dutch symphonic rock band. The vocalist with quite a decent clean soprano Sharon del Adel follows the style of Celtic motifs. Her vocals are unique and envelop the listeners with a veil of female spontaneity.

• Guano Apes - world famous with English repertoire. Soloist, Croatian girl Sandra Nasic, with good taste and voice. The group has long been in the status of restaurant barkers, but currently its popularity is off scale.

Rock bands with female vocals Russian and Slavic

On the territory of the post-Soviet space, there are many instrumental and vocal groups of various directions. The vast majority of these are rock bands with female vocals (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian). Created in different time, popular or still unknown - they all strive to somehow prove themselves. At the same time, many are trying to find a way to fame through a producer. This is possible only if there is professionalism and a worthy repertoire.

Most Popular

What are the Russian rock bands with female vocals? The list of the most famous includes the following bands:

• "Night snipers" - popular Russian group established in 1993. The permanent soloist adheres to the classical repertoire. Writes songs for poetry famous poets such as A. Akhmatova, I. Brodsky, Julia Listvitskaya. The audience of "Night Snipers" is heterogeneous, representatives of the most diverse segments of the population are always present at the concert.

• "Propaganda" Russian rock band, created in September 2001 as part of a quintet and two soloists, Maria Bukatar and Anastasia Shevchenko. On the eve of the 15th anniversary, the album "Purple Powder" was released. The group is currently in a renaissance after a long period of silence.

• Zemfira is a Russian super popular rock band, created in 1998. Permanent soloist - Zemfira Ramazanova. According to the results of the research, she was named the founder of a completely new direction in rock and pop music. Since 2012, Zemfira has been included in the list of "One Hundred Most powerful women Russia".

• "Chicherina" - a group performing in the style of Russian rock, was created in Yekaterinburg in 1997 in the format of a quartet. The soloist is the author and performer of most of the songs from today's repertoire. Collaborates with such rock musicians as Ilya Lagutenko, Sergey Mazaev, the group "Bi-2".

• Masha and the Bears is a Russian group formed in 1997 with the help of Oleg Nesterov, the lead singer of Megapolis. The initiator of the creation - who became a soloist, having signed a contract with Nesterov, who agreed to become a producer of a new creative team.

• "Nastya" is one of the oldest rock bands in Russia, founded in 1986. Founder - Anastasia Poleva, former soloist popular rock band from Sverdlovsk "Nautilus Pompilius". As part of the new team, the singer recorded her first album "Tatsu", full of oriental exoticism. 1988-1991 were for Anastasia the most creative period her life. Since 1993, Poleva and her group have been living and working in St. Petersburg.

• "Velvet" is a Russian rock band, founded in 2005, performing in the style of pop-rock, art-rock, soft rock. The personification of the collective, Ekaterina Belokon, the author of poetry and music for all songs, is a professional musician. Katya has a degree in music theory. The group exists in the format of a quintet.

Musicians of the future

Rock groups with Russian female vocals, the list of which is extremely extensive, are also represented by less well-known, but promising bands:

• "Utah",
• "Slot",
• "Tractor Bowling",
• "Mill",
• "Butch",
• "Fleur",
• "Linda",
• "Both Two"
• "Mara",
• "Surganova and Orchestra"
• "Luna"
• "Murakami",
• "Fly",
• "Blonde Xu",
• "Total",
• "Iva Nova"

Russian rock, female vocals, bands and soloists with instrumental accompaniment - all this is part of today's musical culture in Russia.

The editors of the site congratulate the beautiful half of humanity on the holiday! We wish girls to be bold like Liz Fair, adventurous like PJ Harvey, sexy like Maya Ivarsson, versatile like Shirley Manson, unpredictable like Courtney Love and just rock like women do, which we will cover in a special article dedicated to March 8. The most powerful women in Rock today.

Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth)

Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, who is in her 50s, is practically godmother American alternative scene. With her ex-husband and former band member Thurston Moore, Gordon has created some of the most distinctive musical creations of the last 30 years! Her songs touched on everything from workplace sexism ("Swimsuit Issue"), strange relationships ("Shoot") to a dedication to Karen Carpenter (an American singer and drummer who died of anorexia).

Liz Fair

Before Liz Phair hit the scene in the early 90s, indie rock was an all-male prerogative. But after her debut (Exile in Guyville), a candid and surprising collection of sexually charged songs, Fair became the unofficial spokesperson for all female singer-songwriters who wanted to be honest about relationships and insecurities.

Maya Ivarsson (The Sounds)

Swedish pop-rock vocalist bands The Sounds, Maya gets a lot of attention because of her model looks. However, she does not smile at playing the role of a "shy pretty girl" in the group. In addition, being bisexual, she is one of the few figures in modern rock who touches on homosexuality in interviews.
Must-listen: Living in America.

Shirley Manson (Garbage)

Shirley Manson came to public attention as the vocalist of Garbage. In the second half of the nineties, the group released hits in batches. After the release of their fourth album Bleed Like Me in 2005, the band decided to take a break, which gave Shirley the opportunity to try her hand at acting. Garbage recently reunited and released a dynamite album titled Not Your Kind of People last year.

Karen Oh (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

Karen Oh has expertly led her band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs since the early 2000s, becoming the face of a New York-based trio of dramatic indie punk songs. Just as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs moved from rock to New Age, the singer's vocals changed and became more "furious".

The Donnas

Inspired by tough and fast game The Ramones, Donnas play energetic hard rock. Deliberately referring to the stadium rock spirit of the 70s and 80s. This quartet loves to play pranks, while always looking charming. But if the music they revere often had sexist overtones, here the ladies have the last laugh.

Sherin Foo (The Raveonettes)

Sherine Fu is the female half of The Raveonettes. Hailing from Denmark, the Raveonettes still haven't achieved cult status in America, but Fu and her partner Rose Wagner come up with great surf-pop and garage-rock tracks. The band members sing in a duet, resulting in beautiful melodies that perfectly combine male and female energy.

Lizzy Hale (Halestorm)

Lzzy Hale is the front girl of the hard rock band Halestorm, which also includes her brother Arejay. They released their self-titled first album in 2009, and while their debut didn't contain very original work, it can be seen that Hale wanted to offer a counterpoint to the dirty songs of the male contemporaries.

Courtney Love (Hole)

Being married to Kurt Cobain in the early nineties, Courtney risked being left in the shadow of his fame. But she and her band Hole became a real force in the rock world with the release of Live Through This in 1994. Things haven't gone so smoothly for Kourtney since then, but she certainly remains an icon of female rock.

Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)

More than 30 years after first appearing on the scene, The Pretenders no longer have the commercial success they once had. But vocalist Chrissie Hynde still has one of rock's most recognizable voices. Her raw, raw, sexy vocals still make listeners and critics say “Wow!” By the way, their 2008 record, Break Up the Concrete, was rated by critics as one of the strongest for last years.

Meg White (The White Stripes)

What's cool about any new PJ Harvey album is that you never know which "Harvey" you're going to hear. Will it be the lo-fi primitivism of Rid of Me? Elegant gothic melodrama To Bring You My Love? A stern ballad on White Chalk piano? Great love songs Stories From the City and Stories From the Sea? In fact, she has proven herself to be an “adventurous chameleon” and one of a kind performer who is absolutely fearless in putting her soul into her songs.

Hayley Williams (Paramore)

Before Hayley Williams was old enough to buy booze, her band Paramore had already released three pop-punk albums. As the vocalist of one of the most promising rock bands, she gets the most attention from the press, while the girl claims that their quintet is a single entity, and not just a pretty girl and a bunch of guys.

Until the 80s, there were no women in Russian rock. That is, the fans famous musicians appeared almost immediately, but until the take-off of the Aquarium, Alla Borisovna Pugacheva was the most rock and roll woman in the country. Without a hint of irony or sarcasm - she was well versed in contemporary music, she was close friends with the Time Machine, and later with Nautilus and Alice. But for real bright women shone in the sky after the appearance of Nastya Poleva. It cannot be said that this “broke the dam”, but a window opened through which the wind of change blew. Women began to appear more often, and each time leave a very noticeable mark in national music. If Nastya was something like a "founding mother", then her successors became the real "shakers of the foundations" and "trendsetters of genres", sometimes even more important than men. When in 1999 one Ufa singer released the main album of the year, it was with him that a new musical era began in the country, which in many ways continues to this day. And women are full participants in this process.

Nastya Poleva

Where did you play: Track, Nastya

Genres: Russian rock

What's cool: Nastya Poleva - the first for real famous woman in Russian rock. Our first female rock star. It is doubly symbolic that this could only appear in Sverdlovsk, far from the centers of civilization, where rock life flowed according to its own laws. By the will of fate, Nastya is also one of the founders of Sverdlovsk rock as such: in 1980 she became a vocalist track - gloomy moralizers related Kraftwerk and Black Sabbath , in 1985 actively collaborated with the growing strength of the young Nautilus , and in 1987 she finally went to solo career. Her debut album Tatsubecame the first famous female rock album in the country. This was facilitated by the new, soft and lyrical manner of Nastya's singing, and unusual, full of references to exotic countries, fashionable arrangements, and surrealistic texts. Nastya's career after this album (and the tragedy with another album,Bride, stolen from the studio) can hardly be called a triumph, but even after moving to St. Petersburg, she retained both her unquestioned musical authority and the status of a living legend of Russian rock.

Quote: I was one hundred percent sure thatTatsuwill pass. I have always had the desire to move mountains and do something to make everyone gasp. And when such motivation appears, I become a meteor. I would endure everything to get the final result.

Diana Arbenina

Where did you play: Night snipers

Genres: russian rock, art song

What's cool: For almost 23 years of his life on big stage spent Diana Arbenina . Behind - hundreds of cities, two hundred songs, collections of poems and prose, an autobiographical performanceMotofozoon the stage of the Moscow Art Theatre. Chekhov, soundtracks for 16 films, the experience of a team mentor in the projectVoice of Ukraine(and in 2015 on the Main Stage project) and a nomination for the Russian independent award for achievements in the field of literature and artTriumph. In addition to all this, Diana successfully combines an active concert activity with the position of mother of two beautiful kids Artem and Marta.

Quote: Being a sniper means having a naked, let nervous heart to be receptive to human kindness. And as for love - do not defend yourself from it and wait, even if it takes a whole life.

Zemfira

Where did you play : Zemfira, The Uchpochmack

Genres: Russian rock

What's cool: At least in that she Zemfira . I don't think it makes sense to describe the influence she had on all of Russian music. Zemfira has become one of the most commercially successful singers on our stage, while not being a particularly public person, but simply doing her job. In November 2010, Afisha magazine included her first album in the top 50 best Russian albums of all time. And more than once Zemfira was included in the rating of the most influential women in the country. But she, however, always did not care for such titles and regalia. Two concerts are approaching, completing the tour " Small man" in Olympic , for which most of the tickets were sold out in a day and the excitement for the event "collapsed" the site kassir.ru and the site itself. Is this not the best proof of popular recognition.

Quote: It's very difficult for me to please. I am dissatisfied with the musicians, dissatisfied with myself, very often, dissatisfied with the public. Sometimes it seems to me that they could be more active. They cannot hurt me, criticize me more than I criticize myself. I know who I am, I am where I belong. I know it, I'm sure of it. And this is my greatest truth and strength. Confidence in who I am and what I am. And I will sing for a very long time.

Svetlana Surganova

Where did you play: Something Else, Night Snipers, Surganova and Orchestra

Genres: rock, alternative rock, jazz rock, trip hop, art rock

What's cool: In fact, according to her first education, Svetlana Yakovlevna Surganova is a pediatrician (Svetlana never worked in her field), which does not prevent her from being talented musician. The artist herself calls the group's style VIP-Punk-Decadence (behind the complex abbreviation lies aesthetics, "hooliganism", energetic presentation, self-irony, texts based on classical poetry), but even this definition is not enough for their work. In addition to the above genres, we can safely say that Svetlana skillfully plays with Latin, ethnic motifs, in some places - electronic samples, and at the same time she is one of the women without whom Russian rock is now unthinkable. Such an off-format group called Surganova and the Orchestra has existed for almost 14 years, is dearly loved by fans, deservedly has one of the most generous fan clubs for surprises and gifts and actively travels with concerts in Russia and abroad, and rightfully bears the title, perhaps the most touring rock band in our country (one has only to look at the schedule of C&O performances).
The group celebrated its tenth anniversary (in 2013) on a large scale with a concert not anywhere, but in the Kremlin Palace, and the releases of new albums are accompanied by concerts in Crocus.

The deep lyrics of the St. Petersburg poetess can be parsed into quotes for a very long time, but we will give one of them below.
Quote: In my work, like many others, I try to solve for myself the fundamental questions of being. I talk, I sing, I shout about it. It turns out a burning mixture of depression and catharsis.

Linda

Where did you play: Convoy, Bloody Faeries, Linda

Genres : trip hop, trip rock, new age, experimental music, ethno rock, folk rock, psychedelic rock, indie rock, art rock, alternative rock, grunge, post-punk, gothic rock

What's cool: Became one of the most mysterious singers our rock scene. Svetlana Geiman was born in the small town of Kentau in Kazakhstan, then moved to Tolyatti with her family, and at the age of 15 ended up in Moscow. Three years later, her creative career begins (Linda took her first steps in a folk art group), and after that she entered the Gnesinka. She has worked with many well-known figures Russian music industry those years, for example, with Vladimir Matetsky, Yuri Aizenshpis, Maxim Fadeev. The unusual musical style quickly helped the singer to become noticed, the albums became platinum (they were sold in more than 250 thousand copies), the Raven album becomes platinum with a sales status of 1,250,000 copies, becoming the third in Russia. Multiple changes in images from album to album, constant experiments with sound and appearance, and finally - a successful collaboration with the Universal Music label, which brought her big concerts and performances at festivals, and even performed as an opening act for Moby in 2005. Part of Linda's musical career is connected with Greece - that's where Stefanos Korkolis comes from, Greek singer and a composer, with whom Linda later tied the knot, but divorced a couple of years later. The singer continues to create, release new albums (her eighth studio album of 2013 LAY, @! was even recognized best album year according to MusicBox), and continues to create to this day. Well, who knows how long musical experiments Enough of her talent.

Quote: The image is born at the moment when childbirth occurs, “childbirth-water”, therefore the parents lay the image. Then in life you can search, try on yourself and feel with all your inner state what is closer to you, where you are more comfortable and where there are those things with which you can grow further. AT kindergarten I wanted to become an astronaut, then I really liked to fish, I always thought that I would be a dolphin rescuer. Life has always been unpredictable. Then I became very fond of the circus. Plus I was born in an ethnic place. I received my first musical burns at the age of four, when I heard ethnic instruments of simple street musicians. Another grandmother, who raised me, who gave me a lot in life, was very creative person and she had difficult fate. All this was layered over the years and acquired a certain foundation that guided me. These are all components, and this is a very global issue.

Lusine Gevrkyan

Where did you play: Sphere of Influence, Traktor Bowling, Louna

Genres: alternative metal, alternative rock, nu metal, punk rock

What's cool: Lu is considered one of the best alternative vocalists in our country, which has been repeatedly confirmed by both fans and awards such as the Chart Dozen. Recently, Lusine successfully combines work in two projects (Tracktor Bowling and Louna) with the role of a wife (Lu is married to Vitaly Demidenko, bass player of Traktors and Louna) and a caring mother, while actively performing with her colleagues at many festivals , where they are always welcome guests, work on electrical and acoustic material, charity and filming. Previously, however, Lou still taught vocals, but with such a busy schedule, this had to be abandoned. By education - an economist. For his bands, he writes part of the material on his own - both the lyrics and the musical component of the songs. She is an endorser of Sennheiser microphones and ear monitoring systems, as well as a representative of Roland brand synthesizers in Russia (she is a pianist herself).

Quote: Guys, rock music… it is truthful, it is honest, it is sometimes aggressive, it is often heavy, sometimes even heavy, energetic, but it is always against war, against weapons, against violence, against injustice, and sings of love, honesty, kindness, equality and brotherhood.

Julia Kogan

Where did you play : Leningrad, solo project

Genres: pop, pop rock, jazz

What's cool: The red-haired beast Yulia Kogan quickly burst into the musical party in 2007 and became famous in one day. Still - the team of Sergei Shnurov never left anyone indifferent, and with the advent of Yulia, the "second wind" of the group's popularity was completely opened. A beautiful figure, a cloud of red hair and songs that consist mainly of obscenities (and how else, they were written by Shnur) did their job. For almost six years, Yulia was the "face" and voice of Leningrad. In 2013, she left the group and pursued a solo career. To date, the singer has released her debut album entitled "Fire Baba".

The image of a bitchy, liberated beauty attracted television people - for several seasons, Yulia became the host of the show #YaPrava on the Yu channel. The singer also recorded several arias for the musical TODD by the King and the Jester group. You can hear it in the songs - "Death Machine" and "Lovett's Confession".

Julia is an actress by education, she began to study classical vocals quite late - at the age of 16. Leningrad got into the group by accident - in the St. Petersburg musical get-together everyone knows each other. In life, Yulia Kogan is not much like her stage image - calm and quiet, she is married, brings up her daughter Lisa and plays as a hobby in the Entreprise Theater named after. A. Mironova.

Quote: It is somewhat problematic to get away from the image that I had in the Leningrad group. This is something akin to actors who have become popular thanks to one role. You have to pay for it, not the whole audience is ready to see something different in me. I can be touching and tender on stage, or I can be tough. And for this I do not need to swear obscene words into the microphone. I'm a little worried about the audience's reaction. People are now in some confusion: they do not know which Yulia Kogan they are going for. They don't know what to expect from me. But this is a kind of challenge, and it's interesting. I want to reach such a level of perception of my solo image that the lyrical songs performed by me are completely understandable to the audience who came to the concert.

Daria Nookie Stavrovich

Where did you play: SLOT, Nuki

Genres: alternative rock, nu metal

What's cool: Daria Stavrovich, or Nookie, has been the female "voice" of the Slot group for many years. Dasha was born in the Arkhangelsk region, studied at the Nizhny Novgorod Musical College, and then in Moscow. Since childhood, being fond of creativity, little Dasha at first gravitated towards drawing, but then she was fascinated by music. Having got into the Slot group at the age of 20, thanks to friends, she stayed there - today, together with Dasha, 7 albums have already been recorded, and it’s hard to imagine someone else in this group in Nuka’s place. The singer also created her solo project Nuki, which has two releases to its credit.

Quote: I got into the Slot by a lucky chance. We do contemporary music for the youth and for all who are young at heart. With our creativity, we are trying to express our perception of the world, to show how everything is interconnected in it. We do not say: “Girlfriend, look at me, do as I do ...” We say: “If you do this, then it will be like this, and then you will figure it out yourself.” My mother watches our performances on TV. Sometimes he calls, scolds for the slang that I use in my speech. Parents know our work, but do not always understand it. Probably because of the age barrier.

Zhanna Aguzarova

Where did you play: Bravo

Genres : rock, pop rock, beat, glam rock, rockabilly

Aliases: Ivanna Anders, Nintin Nintys

What is cool: The name of Zhanna Aguzarova is always associated with outrageousness, space and a beautiful piercing voice. And of course, with the Bravo group. Despite the fact that Aguzarova in recent times not really frequent guest in public, she still remains popular, and almost everyone knows the songs performed by her. In 1983 she joined the Bravo group (then still Postscriptum). In 1988, Aguzarova left the group to pursue a solo career. From 1991 to 1996 she lived in America and very little is known about this period.
This is a woman without age and out of time, she is like an alien from outer space, we do not know one hundred percent for sure anything about her: even the date and place of birth are surrounded by mystery. And what can be said about a man who, having arrived in Moscow, lived for some time with a fake passport, and only because Zhanna did not have her own. Taking someone else's passport and correcting the name from "Ivan" to "Ivanna", Zhanna Khasanovna pretended to be the daughter of diplomats Ivanna (later - Yvonne) Anders, for which she subsequently paid first with detention and then with forced labor.

The singer made a real revolution in her time on the music scene: her outrageous clothing style, fantastic outfits, eccentric hairstyles and hair color, as well as unpredictable behavior on stage and in interviews left their mark on musical culture countries. In communication with the press, Jeanne often spoke of her connection with the Martians, now that her trace in music is being lost, fans believe that she flew home.

Quote: There is no old in art - there is real Happiness everywhere, it is around us. They say it's good where we're not, but it's not true: it's good where we are

Really popular rock- singers of the 60s - 70s can be counted on the fingers, since a woman and rock at that time were not associated in any way. But the popularity of the following performers has fundamentally turned the idea that a woman and rock are incompatible.

Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin- The legend of female rock. Back in the early 60s, she began to sing on the stages of clubs and restaurants. Her unique hoarse voice, with a range of 3 octaves, did not leave anyone indifferent. Janice came to fame thanks to hard work and a happy meeting with the Big Brother team. Toward the end of the decade, the whole world knew about Janice. Unfortunately, the addiction to drugs led to the early death of the singer. For all the time, Janis Joplin recorded 3 albums, which were included in the classics of rock.

Nina Hagen

Nina Hagen- Pride german rock. She has been called the mother of punk rock by critics. Her huge vocal range of 3 octaves allowed her to sing the most intricate songs. International fame came in 1978 after the release of the album "Nina Hagen Band". For 2 years (1978 and 1979) Nina Hagen's songs have always topped the charts in England and Germany. In 1980, the singer disbanded the group and completely went into religion.

Patti Smith

Patti Smith - American singer 70s - 80s. Thanks to her album "Horses", in the original style, Patti began to be called the godmother of punk rock, and her world-famous single "Because the Night" propelled the singer to the top of the musical world. Patti Smith was active in Greenpeace and fought for peace. Until the age of 80, Patti released 9 albums.

Debbie Harry

Debbie Harry- American rock singer, songwriter and popular film actress. Leader of the rock band "Blondie". World popularity comes after the release of the album "Parallel Lines" in 1978. After that, Debbie Hari became the most successful singer late 70s.

Suzi Quatro (Suzi Quatro)

Suzi Quatro (Suzi Quatro)- American rock singer. The beginning of her career was difficult, but thanks to Susie's dedication, the singer became famous first in Europe and then in the USA. The singer was true to her image to the end, for which she was dubbed "Miss Leather Jacket". Particularly popular are her albums Dayton's Demon and If You Knew Susie.

Donna Summer

Donna Summer- Queen of rhythm and blues of America. The best-selling singer of the late 70s. For five s small years since 1974 she has recorded 9 very successful albums, which have sold millions of copies around the world. Winner of 6 Grammy awards.

Tina Turner

Tina Turner ( Tina Turner) - One of the most famous rock singers of our time. American by birth, Tina began to sing very early. Back in 1960, the song "A Fool in Love", performed by 20-year-old Tina, took the top of the hit parades in America. After that, for two decades, Tina successfully performed and wrote popular hits. The song "Proud Mary" is still very popular and is included in the world's golden collection of songs of the 20th century.

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin- American singer - queen of soul. Thanks to the very strong and sonorous timbre of her voice, Areta performed much better already. famous hits, which climbed even higher to the top of the charts. In addition to remixes of songs, the singer herself wrote very good music. Aretha Franklin is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.