Rare popular singer in the post-Soviet space modern music can boast that it has its own individual style. Too are important producers and small role is played by the performer, too universal template image with most pop divas. In this respect stands Ukrainian singer Alena Vinnytsia, which in the early years has created his own rock band, and now works in the rare for the genre of post-Soviet countries, "a female pop-rock."

With a rock band at housing offices and hospitals

Olga Vinnytsia was born December 27, 1974 in Kiev, in the family of Tamara and Victor Ivanovich Vinnytsia, being the second child after his older brother Andrew .  From early childhood, the future singer accustomed to the fact that she had a double name, the official daily Olga and Alain .  The fact that the girl is officially named in honor of her grandmother Olga, which bore the name and played a major role in the education of her granddaughter on the ground, a very early stage of its life .  But Alena Vinnytsia family and friends began to call with a light hand of his father, who liked to contact her daughter that way .  That Viktor paid close attention to the fact that she grew from a young age the full development and active child himself, even before the school taught her to read and write, was engaged with her drawing and playing chess .  Father strongly encouraged the precocious daughter of poetic talent that emerged since five years .  Soon Allen not only wrote poetry, but also to actively send them to the home for children and youth newspaper of the USSR, the famous "Pioneer truth" .  The juvenile years, the end of the 1980s - the beginning of the 90s, went to Alena, as well as for a huge number of her peers, under the sign of the fierce passions work of Viktor Tsoi and group "Kino" under the influence of love for which she mastered playing the guitar and began to compose his own songs .  One of the first songs of his own composition, entitled "Winter", Vinnytsia even performed at the school prom .

After high school plans Alena were associated with admission to theater school, but to pass the exams failed. But she met a young man who was a member of an amateur rock band "7". So Vinnytsia first came to the rehearsals of the musical group, then gradually become more actively involved in his life, until a group of "7" in 1993 has been transformed into a group of "The Last Unicorn", in which the soloist and songwriter has already Alain. However, the group did not last long. On the one hand, influenced by the inexperience of musicians, on the other hand, the team simply had nowhere to perform, there was no way to bring their songs to the listener. After walking on the various requests ZhEKam isolation rooms for rehearsals and concerts and speaking anywhere, even in hospitals and hospitals, the group "The Last Unicorn" soon fell apart.

"VIA Gra" as an intermediate step - and again in the rock

For about two years, Vinnytsia engaged in activities far removed from music, working in an insurance company ASKA. But the thirst for creativity proved still more stable life, and in 1996, Allen left her job and uhoshla virtually nowhere. Together with his brother Andrew for about a year, she played in the theater at the Environmental Institute, then in 1997, it became the Vinnytsia TV and radio. First, having the casting, Alain has mastered a new profession for the Ukrainian television VJ on the music channel BIZ-TV, and then became the leading program "Fan Club" on the TV channel "Inter", a DJ on the radio "Stolitsa".

In 2000, producer Dmitry Kostiuk, cooperated with Alena on television and knew about her musical background, together with Konstantin Meladze has launched a project called the women's group "VIA Gra" and invited to attend and Vinnitsa .  That Allen was one of the first staff member of the famous group .  It is a part of this band singer gained considerable popularity in Russia and Ukraine .  After three years of being in the group of Alain I felt that becomes just part of the business of pop project, not independent creative unit, and decided to leave the "VIA Gra" and start a solo career .  And she decided to return to his first love, rock music .  Execution of classic rock in the 2000s would have looked clearly outdated and does not have any earned laurels, so Vinnytsia decided to build his own style within the pop-rock, modern arrangements, but with serious lyrics and energetic tunes .  And she managed to make themselves virtually the first solo song, which was published in 2004, called "Let's forget everything" .  Her first solo album, "Dawn" was in Ukraine a big success, as well as her subsequent albums - "007" (2005), "Dolls" (2006) (special resonance had the video for the title track of this album, in which a biting satirical manner were shows the world of contemporary show business and the unenviable role of young performers in it), "Electro" (2007), "envelope" (2008) .  In 2010, the song has gained wide popularity Alyona Vinnitskaya 'Girl, look, "distinguishes to some extent provocative content .

Alexander Babitsky

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