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You don’t have to ask Lyubov Voropaeva how many years she has been in show business, because it was thanks to her that this very business appeared in our country. Despite the fact that many changes have occurred in Russia since then, the poetess and producer in one person is still in great demand. However, first things first.

-During the times of socialism, the word “show business” was a dirty word and was used exclusively in relation to Americans. At that time we had Soviet pop music and Soviet songs. And my late husband Viktor Dorokhin and I became pioneers in the USSR. It was we in show business who created the first production project - Zhenya Belousova - and did it in accordance with Western canons. We created this project in front of the whole country. Literally breathing down our necks, Igor Krutoy and Sasha Serov came after us.

– What about the example of the group “ Tender May»?

– This group was more a social phenomenon than a musical one. She began to develop into a show business phenomenon only after the appearance of Zhenya Belousov.

– What difficulties did you encounter at the beginning of your production career?

– With everything you could imagine: from accusations that everything we did was complete vulgarity, to racketeering. But the times were interesting and even funny; it was possible to make a film in the spirit of Once Upon a Time in America.

We literally took a girl from the street and met her when she was finishing school. We trained her, improved the well-being of her family - without going into details, I will say that the situation there was very difficult. But the project ended disastrously, because at that moment the girl was rapidly going through puberty

– Unfortunately, I write very slowly. I started writing when my husband was very ill, and then he died. These memories hold me by the throat so much that when I started actively writing some time ago, I realized that it was causing me a lot of pain, and I paused.

– What is this show business like now? It seems to me that it has become somehow cliched and formal.

- Against. People who are actively involved in this field of activity call themselves show businessmen with a degree of pride. Now he has become more professional compared to when we started. In those years, the country was closed, and Victor and I were incredibly lucky to have an American friend, he worked at the American embassy. Especially for us, he subscribed to all music publications and constantly brought us all MTV releases on cassettes. We were very informed people. And Victor was one of the first musicians who learned to work on a computer. In our house there were real universities and educational programs. Tukhmanov and Garanyan came to us to study with my husband, many people constantly called with questions, and Victor advised everyone. We were just lucky we had access to information.

– Why did you move from Moscow to the countryside?

- I'm very tired. Until 2009, for 13 years, I did a lot of club events, also becoming one of the founders of the event industry in Russia, produced shows, and constantly lived the Moscow nightlife. These parties greatly undermined my health and even my creative state. When you produce five or six original programs a month, you work your ass off. My nerves began to fail. Life turned into rest days between shows. And I bought myself Vacation home. This allowed me to calm down, look at my life differently and change it. I joined the online community, immediately opened my blog on LiveJournal and began writing a book. Now the rhythm of my life has changed. Although everything can happen again if I meet people with sparkling eyes. Only with such people, with talented like-minded people, could I work. If I meet such people, I will return to the event industry without hesitation. I don't rule it out.

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– But money won’t be able to bring you back to this activity?

– Money doesn’t turn me on; I have long known the value of both myself and my business in this life. I treat them normally, but I don’t put earnings first.

I am a creative person, the first place for me is the implementation of my creative ideas, and I am happy only when they come true.

– Why did you work only with men? Zhenya Belousov, Herr Anton, Andrey Vertuzaev with the group “Kartush”...

– Viktor Dorokhin and I once had a wonderful project “Barbie”. But this experience turned out to be bitter for me. , and we could not keep her from the vicissitudes of life. And when she was two and a half hours late for her solo concert the most fashionable in those years night club"Carousel" on Tverskaya, we terminated the contract with her. There were few nightclubs at that time, and people gathered specifically for it; all the places were sold out. And our girl came straight from her bed, all disheveled, and she had to go on stage and work for two hours... After she sang the entire program with grief, Victor and I took her home and told her that our contract was no longer there. That's it... Working with girls goes fruitfully until the first man. Whoever loves the girl dances. That's why I don't like working with girls. I prefer cooperation with men. Although, if singers approach us with my new permanent collaborator - composer and music producer Nikolai Arkhipov - with a request to write a song, we do not refuse, another thing is that I will never take on a women's project. Although there were a lot of offers. I don’t want to waste my nerves on other people’s sexual instincts.

– At the very beginning of your production activities, there was romance in your songs, just remember the song “My Blue-Eyed Girl,” but now other themes, more cynical, are coming to the fore. Does romance really remain only retro?

– It all depends on the performer you work with. Nikolai Arkhipov and I are still writing wonderful lyrical songs for the most subtle lyricist Leusz Lubitsch, and our joint song with him “I am alone, you are alone” even aroused the admiration of Didier Marouani, the founder of legendary group“Space”, who unexpectedly suddenly left me the warmest comments on this song, which I posted on my LiveJournal, and even sent me a letter with an offer to work on the Russian texts of his works. If you mean the project “A Lonely Man” by Herr Anton, a Russian artist from Hamburg, then I can say that Lyubov Voropaeva is not new to ironic poetry. Back in the 80s in the section “ Ironic poetry Club 12 chairs" in " Literary newspaper"there was a regular author - Lyubov Voropaeva, and this author wrote great amount ironic and humorous poems. Recently, one person asked me: “Love, you write such wonderful lyrical poems, where did you get “Lonely Man” from? How so?" And I answered him: “Do you know all the works of the author Lyubov Voropaeva? I also work with three rock bands that play in the styles of new alternative and new punk. So Lyubov Voropaeva calmly writes punk lyrics, sometimes even using obscenities!” "How! – he was horrified. - Can't be!" - “Go to the Yandex search on the Internet, find the groups “Stinger”, “Reactor” or “Bryzgi”, listen to the songs, read the lyrics. And understand that Lyubov Voropaeva is a multifaceted person. And in the same project “Herr Anton”, of course, there is an element of punk somewhere!”

– How did Anton come into your life?

- Through the Internet. In general, he knew my name and my projects for a very long time. He was associated with music and TV. I can't say anything more about this yet. Then he went to Germany and decided, by communicating with me via the Internet, to fulfill his old dream. He just tried to sing, and our first song together, “Lonely Man,” immediately became a hit that blew up discos in Germany, Russia, and now Ukraine..

– Do you go to discos yourself?

- IN this moment, of course, I don’t go, but I watch them all the time on YouTube on the Internet. I really love it dance music and in the car I listen exclusively to dance radio stations. So I follow all the news happening in this musical direction, very carefully, collecting and analyzing all the information. In our tandem with Nikolai Arkhipov, who not only writes music, but also arranges all our songs himself and records them in our studio, also working as a music producer, the result today, in my opinion, is a very musical product. High Quality.

– Isn’t it a shame that songs are now called, like everything else in a consumer society, products?

– I spoke about the product as the result of labor. But it doesn’t offend me, because I am an Internet person, I live in the spirit of time and nothing breaks me in this time. My LJ blog has a huge number of young friends, 18-19 year old readers. This means that something attracts them to me, if they read me, write me letters, consult with me. Sometimes I even suggest where it is better for them to go, which institute, I give advice to someone in their personal life, they do not run to their parents, but to me. This means that they trust me and feel that I understand them, that we are contemporaries.

In the early nineties, a girl who looked like a doll that had become fashionable took the stage name Barbie. She sang several songs, including the hit: “You paint your eyelashes bright blue / You are waiting for beautiful love, but it’s still not there”... And then she disappeared from the stage.

Barbie - Watch with a Secret (1993)

Producers Lyubov Voropaeva and Viktor Dobronravov indignantly explained to curious journalists: “She had a “stellar” future and career ahead of her. And she got married and terminated the contract.” Fans quickly forgot the cute “star”.

Recently former classmates The singer (whose real name is Marina Volkova) sent letters to a number of Russian magazines. They asked for help “from those who remember the singer.” “Popularity and the stage broke a seventeen-year-old girl,” the young people said, “they ruined her life. She separated from her husband. Now he lives in a tiny “Khrushchev” on the outskirts of Moscow and... drinks bitters.”

Tracklist for Barbie's album "The ABCs of Love (1990)"

01. ABC of love
02. Teacher
03. Love me
04. Evil little heart
05. Fly with greetings
06. Hip Hop Barbie
07. Try it on happy face(Are you painting your eyelashes...)
08. Dance
09. My teacher (mix)
10. Do you paint your eyelashes (mix)

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It must be said that Barbie was another attempt by composer Viktor Dorokhin and his wife, poetess Lyubov Voropaeva, to provide to the Russian people new star. Unlike Zhenya Belousov with his “Blue-Eyed Girl,” she remained unsuccessful.Fans quickly forgot the cute “star”.

Barbie - Try on a happy face (You paint your eyelashes).

It’s a pity that fate turned out this way for a young, promising and talented girl. Expressive, emotional, with frantic energy and a positive attitude, she gave joy to the audience; she cannot be compared with the sad girls who are now called Barbie.

At the end of 1991, the production duo Viktor Dorokhin and Lyubov Voropaeva broke off relations with singer Zhenya Belousov. needed new soloist, which would correspond to the trends of the times - after all, together with Soviet era The popularity of Disco Perestroika was ending. At that time, the trendy trend was hip-hop, whose popularity reached Russia just by the beginning of the 90s. And the name of the project was given by the super hit of the American company Mattel - the Barbie doll, cherished dream every Soviet girl!

Background

Without exaggeration, Viktor Dorokhin and Lyubov Voropaeva can be called one of the very first professional Soviet producers! The family union of the ex-drummer of the VIA “Singing Hearts” and a professional poetess became the basis for a creative union. And the advent of the synthesizer era made it possible to create first-class hits literally without leaving home!

Before that, they had already recorded several successful hits for Ekaterina Semyonova, Ksenia Georgiadi and Roxana Babayan, but their most successful project undoubtedly there was Zhenya Belousov, who chose the career of a rock musician in the group “Integral” over the path of a pop idol, the favorite of a million Soviet girls– blue-eyed people and more!

Viktor Dorokhin’s rich family had the latest synthesizers and drum machines (his foreign colleagues were working on the same ones at that time), and he was also the proud owner of a Commodore A1000 multimedia computer. A clear electronic rhythm combined with a powerful guitar solo (as you know, Belousov was a professional bassist) became the basis of Dorokhin’s signature sound! And although today the sound of retro synthesizers like the Yamaha DX-11 seems archaic, it is simply impossible to imagine “Blue-Eyed Girl” and “Night Taxi” in any other arrangement!

“Vitya was essentially the first real producer in our country”

All profits were divided fairly in half. But for Voropaeva and Dorokhin, Zhenya was more than a partner. Having no children of their own, they took care of him as if they were their own son. They took their responsibilities as creative “parents” seriously - through American friends living in Moscow they received Western magazines for professional musicians and producers to stay informed the latest trends world show business. A linguist by training, she spoke excellent English and constantly translated new books and articles for her husband.

In commercial terms, cooperation with Belousov was very successful, although not very fruitful. Viktor Vasilyevich worked alone in his studio, so in two years only seven songs were recorded. The once warm relationship also fell apart. Zhenya was increasingly burdened by strict control - not only creative, but also personal. The singer's problems with alcohol, aggravated by increasing depression, eventually led to a break in the relationship. Zhenya’s new producer was Igor Matvienko, who at that time was working with the Lyube group, and Voropaeva and Dorokhin urgently needed new artist, because by that time producing had become their main income...

ABC of love

In 1991, the idea of ​​creating a large-scale project “The ABC of Love” was born. At first it was conceived as a kind of “Star Factory” - a production center for young and aspiring talents. The casting was announced through the newspaper. The requirements for candidates were not very typical: high efficiency, sociability, kindness, sincerity...

Dance and vocal teachers worked with the children, raising them to be future stars. But the growing economic crisis buried good initiatives. There was no money to pay for the rent of the premises. Of all the children, 16-year-old Moscow schoolgirl Marina Volkova was chosen - a girl with a doll-like appearance and good vocal abilities.

“I was small, stupid, but beautiful.”

(Marina Volkova)

“We nurtured her like loved one, hired teachers, brought clothes from America... I even ran to her market for cottage cheese when I was putting her on a diet before an important performance. They didn’t let her go on tour alone, they protected her from intimate attacks from the organizers. They wanted to make it real big star» .

Having barely embraced the new “daughter” in their strong creative embrace, the producers got down to business. Soon the magnetic album “Hip-Hop Barbie” was recorded. To promote it, Dorokhin and Voropaeva connected all the promotion mechanisms available to them, with which they last years have mastered it almost perfectly!

The choice turned out to be extremely successful: a beautiful and undoubtedly charismatic girl instantly turned the room on. She may not have sung like Margarita Sukhankina, but she was emotional and sincere – perhaps the most accurate epithet would be the nickname “lighter”, which one of the Internet commentators awarded her!

The future film director, and then still a novice video director, Fedya Bondarchuk, shot a video clip for the song “Try on a Happy Face” (the producers themselves played small roles in it, playing strict parents), which was included in the rotation of the new commercial TV channel 2x2. The same song was included in the collection of the Soyuz studio No. 4, and its notes, along with a color poster, were published by the Peasant magazine under the heading “At your request.” At first next year Barbie appeared on the prestigious Ostankino hit parade (it was held instead of “Song of the Year - 92”), as well as on the TV game “Limpopo”.

“Mask, open! It's not fair. I agree not to touch yours marital status, but at least tell me the name"

(From a letter from a Barbie fan to Peasant Woman magazine).

Of course, no one knew the real name of the “star” then. This is sung in the song “Hip-Hop Barbie”: “I have no secrets, only my name is a secret, but in a few years I will reveal my secret.”

Barbie was not alone. There was a whole galaxy of young people working in the hip-hop style back then. Russian musicians- by today's standards, still quite teenagers. Lika MC and Vzglyad MC, Igor Seliverstov and Bachelor Party, Black and White and Master Laki, and Barbie fits perfectly into the pop crowd post-Soviet Russia, where the widespread cult of America and the fashion for bikers reigned, leather jackets with studs, multi-colored leggings (“the loins are damn good”) and torn dumplings...

"The standard of vulgarity"

Almost all the songs from the first album instantly became hits. However, today texts like “come to me, teacher, I’ll teach you how to kiss” would cause indignation among many advocates of traditional values. But this was the key to success! An eccentric rebel, and at the same time, oddly enough, very romantic, Barbie was collective image Moscow schoolgirl, who has not yet decided on life position, whose main guideline in the stormy sea of ​​life was love...

Four years earlier, when Dorokhin and Voropaeva were just trying themselves as producers, the texts for Zhenya Belousov did not work out for a long time. The gap between the lyrics of an adult lady and the “Moscow mischievous reveler” was too great. And the stereotypes of the past were still alive, Soviet stage. The texts turned out to be serious and were instantly rejected by both the husband and the artist...

Then, as if in revenge, Voropaeva wrote the most vulgar thing that, in her opinion, she was capable of - the song “My Blue-Eyed Girl,” and, oddly enough, it was received with a bang! It was followed by others: “Golden Domes”, “Little Liar”, “Forget Me, Forget” for which some considered Belousov “the standard of vulgarity”, others - their idol for life. The same scheme was used with Barbie and it worked again! Of course it wasn't hip-hop pure form, rather a commercial pop version of it, and a very Russian one at that. However, there were many similar “white” hip-hop projects on American MTV at that time, on whose videos Voropaeva and Dorokhin learned the basics of the style.

Following the first album, the second “Watch with a Secret” was recorded, the sensual lyrics of the title track of which, according to the author, are one of best works Lyubov Voropaeva.

It is worth mentioning separately about Marina’s movements: today they cause nothing but bewilderment - it seems that her body does not know peace for a second, and only for long close-ups save the situation a little. But this also expressed the signature style of Dorokhin and Voropaeva - Zhenya Belousov moved in approximately the same way, performing his “ Night taxi"in a red suit with sequined epaulettes. Without further ado, we can assume that these knees and jumps were supposed to imitate some kind of dance by Michael Iosifovich Jackson (in the case of Barbie, MC Hammer and the newfangled movements of Robocop and Running man were probably added to them). But if every Michael Jackson dance was choreographed the best choreographers world, and months of exhausting training were devoted to its rehearsals, in the case of Zhenya and Barbie it was more of a posturing, and even Valery Leontiev would have given them both a huge head start.

“I admit, she sang and moved terribly, but she had charisma - she lifted the audience with her energy.”

But not spoiled by spectacular performances, the Russian public accepted this with a bang, because no one really knew “how to do it.” According to the recollections of some readers, in the wake of her popularity, Marina appeared in the program “Under 16 and Over,” where she gave a master class in hip-hop dancing!

Where did Barbie go?

Barbie can safely be called the “crown” of professionalism of Dorokhin and Voropaeva! Never before have Viktor Vasilyevich’s arrangements sounded so complete and flawless, but along with quality came quantity - if in two years only seven songs were recorded for Zhenya Belousov, then for Barbie in one year - as many as ten!

But having flashed very brightly, the star went out just as quickly, disappearing forever from the musical horizon. Her first-class dance hits were played at Russian discos for a long time, but no one remembered who performed them - either Nick or Lika MC? The producers told the press about the reasons for the separation, although their versions differ somewhat...

“...she repaid us with black ingratitude. You see, the hormones started playing in her. Somewhere on the subway I met a guy - and off we go...

...she was two and a half hours late for her solo concert at the most fashionable nightclub of those years, “Carousel” on Tverskaya, we terminated the contract with her. There were few nightclubs at that time, and people gathered specifically for it; all the places were sold out. And our girl came straight from her bed, all disheveled, and she had to go on stage and work for two hours... After she sang the entire program with grief, Victor and I took her home and told her that our contract was no longer there. That's it... Working with girls goes fruitfully until the first man. Whoever loves the girl dances. That's why I don't like working with girls. I prefer cooperation with men."

“She had a stellar future and career ahead of her. And she got married and terminated the contract.”

(Victor Dorokhin)

Barbie was the last major project of Dorokhin and Voropaeva. The following year, 1994, they will become the founders Russian Association music producers(RAMP).

As for Barbie, that is, Marina Volkova, then about her for a long time no one heard anything. There were ominous rumors on the Internet that Marina had divorced and was living in a tiny Khrushchev-era apartment with her mother in the Sviblovo area, where she was literally drinking herself to death.

The few articles about the singer (mostly collections of ephemera from the 90s) simply copied these rumors from each other, without bothering to track down Marina and ask her for a first-hand interview. Only in 2013, 20 years later, Marina Volkova appeared on air talk show Malakhov“Let Them Talk” with the symbolic title “Your Song is Sung,” where she finally spoke about the reasons for breaking up with strict “parents” and who was the first to break off the relationship.

“I was forbidden to meet young people, neither girlfriends nor friends, that is, there was no one. Only work and only producers. They gradually drove me crazy, and I decided how much they could push me and decided to end it there.”

(Marina Volkova)

So, the song " Bad Boys" turned out to be prophetic. But were Barbie's future prospects in show business so rosy? We all remember well how short the age of singers of the 90s was, most of whom were protégés of famous bandits and businessmen. If not in 93, her career could have ended in the same way in 94 - and in a completely natural way. For a girl raised in a Soviet school, love, not career and money, came first, and she preferred freedom - personal and creative - to a golden cage. Her stage image– a brave rebel who lives by love, turned out to be not fake, she played herself.

Barbie walked away undefeated, before she outlived her fame and became a laughing stock for her past. The generation of the 90s will forever remember her as a young and sexy nymphet, and not as a low-cut lady over forty with silicone lips and pigment spots on a flabby neck - such characters, alas, are becoming too many on the rapidly aging Russian stage.

Like the ex-members of the group Tender May, she only briefly touched another, better life, after which she found herself thrown into the harsh post-Soviet reality. Such withdrawal does not pass without a trace. In the talk show “Let Them Talk,” Marina admitted that problems with alcohol did occur, but she successfully dealt with them. Today she is an ordinary Muscovite who works as a secretary general director, and only her neighbors in the yard know about her stellar past, still seeing her off with the forgotten nickname “Barbie”...

Let's remember famous singers 90s, which were built solo career or sang as part popular groups, but then suddenly disappeared. What the stars of those years are doing now, this post will tell you and me.

Irina Saltykova. After the release of the video " Grey eyes", the whole country started talking about Irina. She was immediately awarded the title of sex symbol and new rising star.

With each new song Saltykova continued to establish herself on the stage. Now Irina has retired from music and is successfully running a business; she has a beauty and style house “Irina Saltykova”, her own boutique and beauty salon.

Little is known about the singer’s personal life, only that she has a beloved man, but who he is, Irina keeps secret. Songs remained in her life as a pleasant hobby.

Marina Khlebnikova. Thanks to her, people loved to drink a “cup of coffee” and even fell in love with “slanting rains.” Marina began to take part in national concerts, her videos were played on central channels.

She began to actively tour and write one hit after another. And suddenly, at the peak of Khlebnikov’s popularity, he suddenly disappears. The reason was problems in my personal life, and even health problems.

How things are now with the singer, and what she is doing is unknown. But somehow she herself said to herself that she had no talents other than the ability to sing.

Tatiana Bulanova. Tatyana is perhaps the most successful of the artists of the 90s. She managed to stay in the spotlight and not disappear into the wild 90s.

To this day, she continues to release albums, give concerts and participate in quite rated television projects.

Of course, this does not compare with her popularity 20 years ago. When the whole country literally roared at the screens, when Tanya quietly sang “Sleep, little son...” with tears in her eyes.

Lada Dance. The singer started out in the group “Women’s Council” with “friends from the shop” Svetlana Lazareva and Alena Vitebskaya at the very height of perestroika.

Then she appeared as a soloist in the group “Technology”, but did not last long, having quarreled with the producer.

Later, Lada was a backing vocalist for Philip Kirkorov and sang as the opening act for the Kar-Man group, but this seemed not enough for her. She went to Europe, but did not achieve success there either.

Maria Volkova (Barbie). In the early nineties, a girl who looked like two peas in a pod to the fashionable doll took the stage name Barbie. She sang several songs, including the hit: “You paint your eyelashes bright blue. You are waiting for beautiful love, but it’s still not there”... And then she literally disappeared.

As it turned out, apart from working 24 hours a day and loneliness, there was nothing in her life. So, Maria quarreled with the producers and terminated her contract. But she never managed to build a solo career.

Alena Apina. Apina began her ascent to musical Olympus in the "Combination" group, where she achieved dizzying success. Over the years, her popularity faded, and the artist slowly switched to her family and children.

Alena married producer Boris Iratov and gave birth to a daughter. The singer stopped giving concerts and appearing on screens. According to her, she made the decision to end her career without difficulty, feeling a pull towards her family.

Svetlana Roerich. In the second half of the 90s, when her main hits, “Palms” and “Give Me Music,” were released, the aspiring singer became wildly popular. But when a conflict broke out with the producer, difficult times came for her.

There was no help from anyone, not even from her husband, whom Svetlana married at the age of 18. Deciding to throw this burden off her shoulders, Svetlana divorced her husband and somehow terminated her contract with the producer.

Then I tried to do everything on my own, but only lasted a couple of years. Now Svetlana is the director of a PR communications agency and a single mother.

Tatiana Ovsienko. Once upon a time, it was impossible to imagine a single big concert or a single ceremony without Ovsienko’s performances. The singer’s popularity in the 90s simply went off scale.

And today we hear nothing at all about her. It turns out that Tatyana adopted a child and devoted her life to raising him.

Alexandra Zvereva (Demo). No disco of the late nineties was complete without the killer hits of the Demo group. In 2002, Zvereva and her producer Vadim Polyakov terminated their contract with the ARS company.

But, as it turns out, the Demo group exists to this day only with a slightly different lineup. And Sasha Zvereva herself from time to time records solo songs, and also produces clothes from her brand.

Natalya Vetlitskaya. The ex-soloist of the once popular female group "Mirage" managed to occupy the niche of a sexy blonde in the domestic show business for many years.

Natalya released a couple of albums that fans literally swept off store shelves, and then suddenly disappeared from the public eye.

She left the world of show business without saying goodbye, without giving a farewell concert, without explaining herself to the public. It is only known that in 2004 Natalya had a daughter, and in 2008 she decided to leave Russia and went to Spain.

Marina Zhuravleva. Once upon a time, the hits “Ah, White Bird Cherry” and “I Have a Wound in My Heart” were heard from every gateway. They were especially loved by vacationers: these songs often became the soundtrack to short summer holiday romances.

In the early 90s, Marina even went on tour to the USA and never returned. And only 20 years later she returned to her homeland. In an interview, she said that she always knew that she would not live in America forever. They say that when Zhuravleva began giving concerts again in her homeland, she was second only to Leps in terms of ticket sales!

Olga Orlova. Olga is the very first and main soloist of one of the most popular girl groups of the 90s, “Brilliant”. Olga performed her debut hit “There, Only There” when she was only 18 years old.

The composition of the group changed constantly, but Orlova remained the permanent leader for five years. The lyrics of the most recognizable song “Where are you, where?” she also wrote.

After leaving the group, Olga performed with solo projects, acted in films, played in the theater.

Irina Ponarovskaya. Foreign media have never been interested in the affairs of our stage, but “one of the main jazz singers"Irina Ponarovskaya was known very well. At international music competitions she always created a sensation, and her beauty and style also conquered the world of high fashion. She was called "Miss Chanel of the Soviet Union."

But Irina herself decided that she was not beautiful enough and dared to plastic surgery. This was a big mistake.

Recently, the ubiquitous paparazzi found Ponarovskaya, now living in Estonia, and took several photographs. In the photo - an ordinary grandmother who dotes on her little grandson.

Larisa Chernikova. Larisa Chernikova became popular in the 90s. Being the wife of a big businessman, she had a lot to record albums with.

But three years after the wedding she became a widow. She dedicated the song “Who...” to the memory of her murdered husband.

The singer’s second husband was an American whom she met on the Internet. About what she was popular singer in her homeland, Larisa confessed only a year after the wedding.

Now she lives in America, raises her son, works on her own farm and provides the services of a naturopathic doctor.

Lika Star. In the mid-90s, Lika was a cult party star: one of the first Russian girls to appear on the cover of Russian Playboy, Vladimir Presnyakov’s mistress and the heroine of a video that became legendary.

IN music video Fedor Bondarchuk, Sergei “Spider” Troitsky, Gosha Kutsenko, Masha Tsigal and others starred in the song “Lonely Moon”. But the beauty’s rapid career ended with the birth of her first child, son Artemy, in 1995.

Afterwards, the singer tried to start again by opening a production studio, but in the early 2000s she left Russia altogether, marrying an Italian businessman. From her second husband, Lika gave birth to a daughter and a son. Parenting former singer combines with the organization of gastronomic tours to Sardinia.

Lena Zosimova. If you are the pretty daughter of the founder of MTV Russia, Boris Zosimov, you have every chance of becoming popular, even your vocal abilities leave much to be desired.

But Lena’s creative ambitions were hindered by the crisis of 1998, when there was simply no money to record next album. Now 40-year-old Lena Zosimova is a housewife and has two sons.

Natalya Senchukova. The wife of the lead singer of the hooligan group "Dune" Viktor Rybin, who started out as a backing vocalist for her husband.

In the 90s, she recorded several albums and constantly performed solo, and now, together with Victor, she occasionally visits the thresholds of festivals and retro concerts. And together they raise a son.

Isolda Ishkhanishvili. Together with Nastya Makarevich and Lena Perova, Isolda shot as part of the Lyceum group in 1995 with the song “Autumn”.

Two years later, Perova set off on her own, and in 2001, the main beauty of the Lyceum, Ishkhanishvili, left the team. She married businessman Dmitry Desyatnikov, with whom she is raising a young son.

Lena Perova. Start creative life Elena Perova is closely associated with the Lyceum group. In 1997, Perova was fired from the trio for violating the terms of the contract prohibiting participation in third party projects.

Two years after leaving the Lyceum, Perova began singing in music group"A-mega." But this did not last long. And already in the early 2000s she decided to perform solo.

Having released a couple of albums, she became a member of the group “Feathers”, with whom she performed live concerts.

In 2013, she was invited by Yuri Aksyuta and Konstantin Ernst to the position of editor-in-chief of the directorate of music and entertainment programs.