The group "My Michelle" shot on the project "Main Stage" and immediately became popular. Today, the lines from their songs have scattered into quotes: the audience fell in love with the compositions “Dura” and “Chemistry” instantly. The soloist of the band, Tanya Tkachuk, told the site which of the make-up products she has chemistry with, what is the best beauty advice she has received in her entire life and why she never follows it.
The My Michel group has an original and very recognizable style - both in music and in appearance, frontwoman Tanya Tkachuk. The guys from Blagoveshchensk, having first appeared in the competition on one of the main federal channels, immediately enlisted the support of serious star fans, among whom were even the hosts of the Main Stage, Grigory Leps and Garik Martirosyan. As a result, the team was taken under the wing of producer Igor Matvienko, and the songs "My Michel" immediately sounded at the best concert venues in the country, on radio, in movies and TV shows.
Tanya writes songs herself and also trusts her own instinct when working on the image: after the girl became famous, her appearance did not change to please the beauty standards adopted in show business. She easily puts herself in order “on the run”, loves red lipstick and easily appears on the subway without a make-up on her face, not being afraid to appear in front of fans with a “naked” face.
website: Tell us about your relationship with cosmetics - when did you start painting? Did you experiment with makeup in your youth, like many teenagers?
Experiments began at the age of three. I remember that my older sister took out some wildly scarce eyeshadow palette, very beautiful, in the shape of a butterfly. And my nephew (that is, her son - he is a year older than me) and I decided to play Indians: of course, all the shadows were completely blasphemously dug out and smeared on faces, hands ... My sister came, saw this picture and cried. I also cried and, trying to somehow save the situation, with my fingers collected piles of cosmetics from myself, my brother and the window sill back into the palette.
From the available photos and videos, it seems that you prefer to highlight the lips, not the eyes. Why did you decide to do it this way? Did you come up with this image yourself?
I hate to dye my eyelashes, but some small state can be supplied with my lipsticks. I love burgundy, red, blueberry shades, and this was not invented on purpose - rather, it “sneaked” into the image from everyday habits.
website: What is in your cosmetic bag? What foods don't you leave home without?
My purse is so small that, in addition to a mobile phone and apartment keys, only Meteorites Compact powder from Guerlain in the lightest shade and lipstick Ruby Woo, M.A.C. This is my required minimum.
website: Has the rapid growth of the group's popularity affected your personal care? Maybe you have become more careful about daily makeup, follow cosmetic novelties?
T.T.: At photo shoots, I am often offered images that I would not have dared to do in my life, so now, due to work, I experiment much more often. But I don't follow the news. If you meet me at the airport, in the subway, at the sound check, in the store - I will not have a single gram of makeup on. I feel great without makeup.
site: When a person becomes famous, his appearance usually undergoes changes due to the work of stylists - the hairstyle, hair color, etc., change. Has work been done on your image? Have there been crazy offers from stylists?
T.T.: For one of the photo shoots, my hair was white as snow. It was a pretty crazy, but one-time experiment - the composition was immediately washed off, and the hair returned to its normal state. I never dye my hair with all these colors that remain forever, I like my color. And not so long ago, a fashion shoot for InStyle took place: ten hours with the coolest team! Make-up, like the hero of Mad Max, mohawk, slicked hair like in the 1960s ... It is unlikely that it will be possible to repeat this again. The photos came out amazing!
? Do you have special fragrances "for life" and "for the stage"?
T.T.: I have one fragrance for all occasions, Elizabeth Arden. And there has never been such a thing: “Now, before going on stage, I will apply a special fragrance ...”
Tatyana, you grew up with brothers. What is it like being a little sister?
I grew up with nephews, one of whom is a year older than me. Everyone was taken to their mother, about eight people, and it began ... From the floor to the sofa, then with a run to get to the chandelier, not cut into the closet and quickly get out of the grandmother's overtaking punitive cracker. Often at such a time, a neighbor from below would come in and say that the chandelier was swinging strongly, of course, we shrugged our hands in bewilderment and after her departure continued to go crazy.
Maybe that's why you do not tolerate female competition, because you grew up in the center of attention of men?
I don't like competition - because I hate to compete.
Instinctively, since kindergarten, I deny the need to prove something to anyone. I'd rather "merge" than gnaw at someone's throat, especially for male attention. I surround myself with men because they are simpler, straighter and more unsophisticated.
Do you have girlfriends? Is it easy for you to get along with women?
Of course there is, to whom else can I say: look how magical this dry bush looks against the background of plastic red boxes ... (and so as not to be twisted at the temple)? Or about how I met a guy, and all sorts of girly things, like - my ass is not fat in these shorts? In addition, only they will be able to endure me behind the scenes of all sorts of important fateful concerts, for example, on July 16 they will definitely come to our solo concert at VDNKh in the Green Theater. And it’s easy for me to find a common language with anyone, it’s another matter that often I don’t want to.
How do you feel about the concept of female friendship? Does she exist? What myths exist about female friendship?
To be sure, I need to live another 20 years. I think friendship between women is quite possible if you do not like the same men, there is no envy and career interests do not overlap. Otherwise, you can always and quite unexpectedly see a grin)
In our new video "Dark Alleys" there is just a story about rivals, and about the fact that it is dangerous to be friends with people like Bortich (laughs)
Is it possible to be successful without being tough?
You can't be cruel, but you can't be soft. I always remember
Bob Marley in this context: he preached love and peace and an all-accepting non-aggressive culture, but at the same time he could be very tough in making decisions and in relation to relatives and colleagues. This is an inalienable quality of a leader, I have not yet seen someone carried in their arms, and he only sent air kisses to everyone from above and was inactive.
What is money for you?
Opportunities for the group in the first place, for example, to shoot a cool beautiful video. To improve the sound, to be well and qualitatively recorded, and so on.
What do you spend most of your money on?
Speaking about myself, and not about the group, then I spend money on: lipsticks,
peelings, masks, classes with a trainer in the gym, trips to Georgia, for example, or to the sea, by all means to the sea, for crazy burgers or pastas, massages, flowers, silk tablecloths, rings, tattoos, underwear.
Favorite places for shopping?
I often wear clothes by Russian designers, I love what Alena Akhmadullina does, if I need to quickly choose an outfit, I go to the Axiom store, where many interesting brands are collected. As for jewelry, I like what Zhenya Linovich does for Masterpeace. It happens that things that I cannot part with are brought to the shooting - then I buy them. And I don’t bypass the mass market - the same h & m, asos - everyone has something from these brands in their wardrobe, it seems to me.
Tell us about the contents of your handbag.
I usually have a very small handbag with me, where, in addition to the phone, credit card and apartment keys, no more than two items fit. As a rule, this is powder and lipstick, and in the summer I take matting instead of powder.
napkins.
The My Michel group appeared quickly: the guys took part in the Main Stage project, and now many, following the soloist Tanya Tkachuk, are singing their songs.
Photo: Julia Kropacheva
The members of the group call their musical style "unconfused Far Eastern" and sing about Midas and Tarantino. “If I knew where all these images come from, I would go to this store every day,” Tanya laughs. “It’s all chemistry, unregulated processes of the brain and heart, plus something from the outside.”
Tanya Tkachuk came to the interview by metro. Her lifestyle is too different from stage behavior, so the singer is rarely recognized on the streets and in public transport.
Tanya, artists, as a rule, dream of recognition, this is part of the profession. And you?
This is not the most important attribute. It's enough for me what happens in the hall when I'm on stage. Of course, somewhere in the depths of my soul recognition is pleasant to me, but in fact I am wildly shy.
You once said that you have had a love for music since you were two years old. Do you remember yourself at such a young age?
Rather, I know this from the stories of my parents. Of course, I have loved music since kindergarten, since matinees. But consciously, on a different level, I started making music at the age of eighteen, when it dawned on me that I could compose something. Although, of course, I always liked to perform and watch how a song can sound when different people sing it.
Here we are talking, but I have the impression that you are not here somewhere. Are you always so self-absorbed?
I think all people are like that. If everyone went around and told others what they were thinking around the clock, they would look like crazy. ( Laughs. For as long as I can remember, I have always been like this. From early childhood.
Did your insularity affect your performance?
I was even an excellent student - once or a couple of times. ( Laughs.) And then I got interested in music. All sorts of bands appeared, boys playing guitars ... That's when I slipped a little, but I graduated from school with one four. It seems to be. ( Smiling.)
Did you really love chemistry?
Couldn't stand it. Chemistry teacher Lidia Reingoldovna will not forgive me, but, to be honest, it was the most boring and unloved lesson. In addition, he was often the first on the schedule, and I slept on him, and on the control ones I copied from Yulia, Tanya or Olya - who gave up faster.
Why did you decide after school to get an "earthly" profession - to become a teacher of the Russian language?
As a frivolous and rather romantic person, I personally felt the imperfection of the education system. Children are not instilled with real professions, they are not taught how to live on. It would be better to take them to the enterprise once or tell them about the composition of the shampoo. I can’t say that by the eleventh grade I had clearly defined who I want to become in life. Will this profession be useful to me in the future? Don't know. Did I want to be a teacher? Probably not.
Did your parents try to help you choose your future profession?
They never forced me to do anything. I was not a fan of the Russian language. Literature attracted me first of all, but since these subjects are always studied together, I went to the pedagogical institute.
Did you graduate from the institute, or did music completely absorb you earlier?
Graduated. Of course, it is very important for me in life to have a maneuver for gouging, but this does not mean that I cannot bring something serious to the end. I am a stubborn person. My father's character. I do not think that for my loved ones I am a cloudless sky. My stubbornness is something they constantly face. It’s hard for me to ask for forgiveness, not in the sense of “oh, I’m sorry, I stepped on your foot”, but to really admit my mistakes, wrongness - this is all some kind of innate pride. Dad wanted a girl and spoiled me a lot as a child, and then he realized that he had spoiled me and began to educate me. He is strict with me. As a child, I was afraid of him. Until now, when I arrive, he tries to tell me what time to come home. Now I do not treat this with irritation and do everything so that he does not worry.
I wonder how then such a strict dad let you go from Blagoveshchensk to Moscow?
Dad realized that he had no choice: in the city where I live, I feel bad. He saw this and agreed that I needed to leave.
Have you received any musical education?
I have no musical education. I can't do anything but write and sing songs. It seems to me that this does not require a musical education. Maybe it even interferes, although, probably, all half-educated people say this in their own defense. ( laughing.)
But did you go to music school? This is also education.
Five years on the piano and two years on the guitar. She sang in the choir for another eleven years. But they also teach how to do it right, and this is very disturbing. There shouldn't be any rules.
You give the impression of a modest woman who speaks in a whisper. Where does so much strength come from to steer the men in the group?
It's not my job to manage them. It works differently. They just love and protect me.
Do you always have the last word?
What is the "last word"? Last smile for me. ( smiling.)
Fine. Can you hit the table with your fist, or is this still not your method?
I can and a fist in the forehead, but very rarely. Still, this is not mine and I need to bring it to this.
Are men easier to work with?
Never any women, except me, should not be within a radius of one hundred meters. ( smiling.) I can only say: it's good that I have only guys in my team, otherwise we would not have lived to see the first concert. It's hard - traveling with ladies on trains, living in hotels. Apart from my whims, I'm not ready to listen to anyone else. Of course, I have girlfriends, but this does not mean that I am ready to work with them.
So you can’t say that you like to be capricious.
I am capricious and patient at the same time. I don't know what it depends on. Very impulsive, apparently. The mood changes a hundred times a day. And in three days I can fall in love twice.
You once said that at first you sang about nature. Men began to disappoint and become the heroes of the songs later.
This is true. At first, the compositions were very abstract and global, then I realized that I love the details, and I began to transfer a lot from my personal life into songs, to mix.
Do disappointments inspire you?
It sounds boring, but every person in life is given to us for something, even if this something does not bring happiness. I think if you take all the songs in the world, it turns out that seventy percent were written in an unhappy state, and only thirty percent - in a feeling of happiness, and then half - by Bob Marley. ( Laughs.) But I always write songs, even when everything is fine and stable. So I don't need inspiration. I can write a song without him. If there are ideas, they need to be implemented.
Do you write songs only for yourself?
This is a tough question. I recently wrote a few lines for "Ivanushki", and then I thought: "Damn, I could sing about the knees and collarbones myself." I have yet to figure it out, the opinion is not finalized.
Do you remember when your band became popular? This happened almost overnight.
Yes, it was the fourteenth of February last year. The program "Main Stage" was released, where we performed the song "Fool". On the day of the broadcast, we had a rehearsal, everyone's phones started ringing: moms, dads, friends from the Far East were in a hurry to say that they had seen us on TV. ( Laughs.) It's all because of the time difference with the Far East, where the program was released earlier. That is, they haven’t shown it in Moscow yet, but the wave has already come. It was nice and scary at the same time.
Tanya, you have been on the stage since 2010, and your popularity came just a year ago. Have you ever had the frustration of working for nothing before?
Of course it was. Frustration is just as normal as fascination. And the fact that now there is a return does not mean that disappointment will not come again.
Do you think carefully about every step?
I constantly promise myself that I will think through every step. No, sometimes I do, but more often it happens impulsively. I don't always deal with emotions. I can’t say that this is good, so you need to count to thirty, or better to a hundred, and only then make a decision, answer, kiss, believe ...
Are scars also the consequences of impulsive behavior?
Boisterous childhood. ( smiling.) I have five scars on my face. I liked climbing trees, construction sites, trenches... Once, in the fifth grade, my friend and I swam across a lake. Parents still do not know about it, thank God. I can't say that I'm that fearless. We checked the local legend, which says that in the middle of the lake there is a bump on which you can stand, and then you will come out of the water up to your waist ... So, there really was a bump there. In general, maximalism is almost completely in the past, and now I am more attracted to wisdom and calmness.
I have been in love with music since I was two years old. I tried a lot of things: piano, guitar, a bunch of vocal groups, choirs, but somehow I gave up everything. I lacked patience, I wanted something created by myself.
How did your family react to your choice? Supported in all endeavors?
I can’t say that mom and dad jumped to the ceiling from my choice. Of course, they are proud and all that ... But on the sly they still hope that I will come to my senses, give birth to grandchildren and find a more stable job.
Heard you have five scars on your face? Where are they from? Were you a hooligan, overly active child?
I was a fearless child, desperate, I earned everything on my own, studied the world around me. My scars are from a bookcase, a mailbox, a swing, a table corner, and a scalpel—all of which sound intimidating, but I like them all and seem to fit.
Did you have idols as a child? Who would you like to be like and why?
I liked the way the white one from ABBA looked, then I wanted to become Michael Jackson's girlfriend, but it's not about similarity, it's definitely not about that.
What or who influenced your work?
Poets of the Silver Age, love and a subtle, subtle sense of elusive beauty that motivates to keep it like photographs, but not quite.
Have you ever wanted to quit your art? After all, you have been on stage since 2010, and fame came only a year ago.
Happened, of course, every six months. Then you think: well, who am I kidding? No one can guarantee popularity. And it's not about her, but about the dream. Now we are dreaming about a full house in RED on November 12, where we will present the album "Chemistry", but in the mind, further, there are already completely different scales, it is such a dream, impetuous. In general, everything turns out interesting: at school I hated chemistry, but in the end our new album will be called "Chemistry".
Photo: press service of the production center Igor Matvienk
What was the most difficult for you on the Main Stage project?
"My Michel" is not a particularly format group, but we were given the opportunity to sing our songs on the project and generally do what we want (smiles). It’s difficult in this “plastic box” with spotlights, cameras, judges ... We even talked about the fact that, probably, nothing will be worse.
How do you work with Igor Matvienko? After all, he didn’t have such a format as you yet?
Igor Igorevich goes to all our concerts like a real fan. He says he's glad he doesn't have to write songs for us.
How do you like the world of Russian show business? Have friends already appeared among venerable colleagues in the shop? Who do you communicate with?
With Anton Belyaev, Sergei Mazaev, Semyon Slepakov. With Semyon, a funny story turned out: he called me and said that he had some preoccupied people there and that our songs were very suitable for them. In general, he offered to meet and show everything to each other ... I absolutely liked the name of the new TNT series - "Concerned, or Love of Evil", I'm generally a fan of all sorts of catchy words in the titles! The serial couple - Maria Shalaeva and Yuri Kolokolnikov - look like a cardiogram together, outrageously good! And I like that in "Concerned ..." our songs sound: "Chemistry", "Midas" and "Cosmonauts".
Photo: press service of the production center Igor Matvienk
Have you already moved permanently from Blagoveshchensk to Moscow? What do you like in the capital and what do you not? What is the fundamental difference compared to your home country?
I came to Moscow eight years ago. I even remember the exact date - September 9th. By the way, it was on September 9, 2015 that we deliberately made a presentation of our EP “Fool”. As for the difference... There are such sunsets in Blagoveshchensk... I just couldn't get enough of it, it doesn't happen here. Still this snow from cicadas in lanterns. Local oriental flavor, 90-degree streets, wild cold, strange local fashion, friends there, parents there, memories from the series: and here I fell off my bike. In Moscow, I like to ride home at night in a taxi, cutting through millions of lights, when tulips are planted in May, I like to think that for my birthday, cinemas in the afternoon or in the morning, architectural surprises, like unicorns in the attic, dynamics, a red train in the subway. There is something to love everywhere.
0 December 14, 2016, 15:25 
The group "My Michel" gathers full houses today, their songs are heard in TV series, the lines from the compositions scattered into quotes, and the soloist of the group Tanya Tkachuk won the hearts of fans across the country. The other day the group released a new disc, which was called "Sucks", and gave a big concert, in connection with which the site decided to meet with Tanya Tkachuk: the singer told us about the secrets of harmony, her weaknesses, her favorite cosmetics and much more.
What is the secret to your slimness? Great genes, intense workouts, just healthy eating?
I get nervous a lot, a lot, so I can eat anything and rarely run.
How do you keep in shape? What types of physical activity do you enjoy the most, and which ones are difficult for you?
Sex, concerts and travel are favorite activities. I don't like sports, but I force myself. I like feeling tired from time to time, so I run on the treadmill and swim in the World Class pool.
What dietary guidelines do you follow? What is guilty pleasure in eating for you?
I usually have no more than two weeks in the rush to proper nutrition - and then it's more protein lean food. Most of the time, I don't deny myself anything. Let's put it this way: I'm not a sweet tooth, but I'm ready to kill for a burger.
What sport do you enjoy watching the most?
I stick with figure skating, football and diving.
You always trust your make-up before a concert/performanceIs it a makeup artist or can you make up yourself? What will you "draw" (arrows, bright lipstick) to make you feel like a queen?
I can do everything myself - both arrows and lips make up beautifully - but I love and trust makeup artists, they do it better, whatever one may say. For Moscow concerts, I am often collected by masters from the Wow To Go mobile salon right from home, very convenient.
Is there a product in your cosmetic bag that you have not changed for many years? If yes, what is the remedy?
Coconut oil for skin and hair and Clarins eye cream. And from decorative cosmetics - Mac red lipstick and Guerlain powder are always with me.
Have you ever had a desire to radically change something in your appearance (do plastic surgery, grow/cut your hair, for example). And is there such a desire now?
I even never use Facetune (a photo editor for portraits and selfies - ed. note), let alone do some kind of face manipulation. I am convinced that plastic surgery is needed to remove scars, for example, but if someone thinks that this “wrong” nose or chest is preventing you from being happy, then it is better to go to a brain specialist first.
What do you like most about your appearance?
Thinness, legs, lips and my natural hair color.
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