The 1990s were marked not only by an unstable economic and political situation, but also the emergence of new stars Russian stage . It was then that we heard the loud hits of Linda, Irina Saltykova, Lada Dance and other pop singers.
We invite you to remember most famous singers that time and see what they look like now.
Natalia Vetlitskaya
Dmitry Malikov and Zhenya Belousov admired her and dedicated songs to her. We remember her as the sexiest singing blonde of the 90s. Her songs "Look Into Your Eyes" and "Playboy" everyone knew. In 2004, Natalia left the stage. Now she is 51 years old, she lives in Spain and looks just amazing.
Lika Star
Lika Star was one of the first Russian girls to appear on the cover Playboy magazine. In her debut video for the song "Lone moon" Gosha Kutsenko and Masha Tsigal were filmed, and Fyodor Bondarchuk was the director. The singer's career was short-lived. Early 2000s she moved to Italy. AT this moment Lika is 43 years old, and she wishes not to remember her turbulent past.
Irina Saltykova
Irina became popular after the release of the video "Grey Eyes". She later starred in the movie "Brother-2" and released 5 albums. Currently former singer 50 years old, she is a successful businesswoman. And Saltykova still looks great!
Lada Dance
Her songs are still played in discos, although the woman has not sung or recorded albums for a long time. After her singing career went into decline, Lada began acting in films in the form of luxurious bitches and femme fatale. Now Lada is 47, she looks great and continues to "live high."
Marina Khlebnikova
Everyone knew the song in the 90s "cup of coffee". And no wonder, because the album with the same name became the fourth on the basis of sales in 1997. The following albums were not so successful, so Marina left the stage. Khlebnikova is 51 years old She runs her own business.
Isolda Ishkhanishvili
most famous member of the group "Lyceum". In the early 2000s, she left not only the group, but also the stage. Currently, it can often be seen on secular parties, and on Instagram, all fans can follow her life.
Alena Apina
In the 90s, the beauty wore short skirts, high boots and preferred bright makeup. Can you tell that she is 52 years old?
Tatyana Ovsienko
In the 90s soloist of the group "Mirage" was similar to most of the stars of those years. But in 1996, she cut her hair like a boy, and many girls began to imitate her style. AT currently she's 50: she doesn't look her age at all.
Linda
Linda stood out among the singers of the 90s: black lipstick, black hair hanging over her face, piercings. She did not sing about unrequited love and unfaithful men. Now Linda is 39, she still gives concerts and regularly surprises the audience.
Olga Orlova
The soloist of "Brilliant" sang her first hit at the age of 18. After she left the group and gave birth to a child. Olga returned to the stage in the 2000s. Now, still the same tender and fragile, she starred in TV shows and plays in movies.
Despite the fact that more than 20 years have passed, the stars of the 90s look just as awesome. How do you remember these singers? Tell us about it in the comments!
In the 1990s there were many popular songs and great bands: scooter, spice girls, Aqua, Ace of Base and many others. They sounded on all beaches, discos, from every stall and cafe, their posters were hung with teenagers' rooms. But time runs, teenagers are coming, the musicians themselves are changing ...
spice girls. The English female pop group was formed in London in 1994, and two years later they debut single"Wannabe" conquered the charts. In our country, as well as around the world, the girls were simply crazy about the five singers.
After several attempts at reunion, the girls went their separate ways, but many became successful in new roles.
Ace of Base. The band's album "Happy Nation / The Sign" is the best-selling debut album in history. Thousands of discos in our country danced to the rhythms and tunes of the collective.
In 2009, lead singer Jenny Berggren left the band. The remaining members created a new musical project but three years later new team broke up.
Scooter. A German musical group focused on dance and energetic music, in the 90s only the lazy did not ask “How much is the fish” along with the frontman.
The band's manager and frontman H. P. Baxter are the only ones left from the original line-up. Scooter is still touring and releasing albums.
No Doubt. American ska punk band formed in 1986 in Anaheim, California, USA. Most famous bought after release Album Tragic Kingdom in 1995, with a hit from which "Don't speak" was played on every radio station.
The group still exists, although its members have become more stylish, and vocalist Gwen Stefani has completely built successful career fashion designer.
Roxette. The Swedish pop-rock band, led by Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson, in the late 80s and early 90s literally conquered musical Olympus around the world with their romantic ballads.
In 2000, the vocalist was diagnosed with brain cancer and operated on. The work of the team was suspended, but the participants recorded solo records.
In 2013-2016, the musicians actively toured the planet, last performance took place on February 8, 2016 at the Grand Arena in Cape Town, South Africa, after which the doctors recommended Marie to stop her concert activity.
Pet Shop Boys. British synthpop duo formed in 1981 in London.
Is one of the most commercially successful and fruitful bands in the UK, recording dance music: over the past thirty years they have released more than forty singles (of which 20 hit the top ten of the British charts). Until now, they perform and record albums.
take that. Another English pop-rock band that differed from other "boy" bands of the 1990s in that the members composed their own songs. Already in 1996, the group broke up.
successful solo career managed to build only Robbie Williams. In 2010, the team reunited and even released an album a little later, but in the end, only a trio remained from the original line-up.
La Bouche. The project of the famous German producer Frank Farian, whose second single, Be My Lover, was in the top ten in 14 countries, and in first place in Germany.
Vocalist Melanie Thornton died on November 24, 2001 in a plane crash. Albums La Bouche and solo recordings of the singer are still popular, regularly reissued and remixed.
Bad Boy Blue. During its history, the Eurodisco group has released about 30 hit singles that have hit the charts in many countries of the world, including the USA.
Currently, the Bad Boys Blue group is John McInerney, who quarreled with other members, and two backing vocalists - Sylvia McInerney, John's wife, and Edith Miracle. The group performs at many shows in countries such as Germany, Poland, Great Britain, Finland, Israel, Russia, Romania, Hungary, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkey, USA and others.
Mr. president. german a dancing group in Eurodance style, whose most famous composition"Coco Jamboo" in the mid-90s was not heard only by the lazy.
Release new material the group stopped back in the late 90s, now active creative life leads only her vocalist Lay Zee.
Mo Do. Fabio Frittelli - italian singer and a disc jockey, whose most famous single was "Eins, Zwei, Polizei", which sounded at all discos in Europe and Russia.
On February 6, 2013, Fabio Frittelli was found lifeless at his home in Udine. At the time of his death he was 46 years old. The cause of death is suicide.
Doc. Alban is a Swedish Eurodance musician of Nigerian origin. Perhaps his most famous work was the composition "It's My Life", which almost became calling card Dr. Alban
Alban created his record label Dr. Records, under whose label all Dr. Alban, starting with "Born In Africa". Continues to release albums and singles.
Aqua. Musical dance-pop group consisting of one Norwegian girl Lene and three Danish men, which gained worldwide fame in the 90s thanks to the songs "Barbie Girl", "Roses are Red", "Doctor Jones", "Turn Back Time". ", "Lollipop (Candyman)", "My Oh My", etc.
The group disbanded in the early 2000s and reunited in 2007, and in 2013 even released new album. After that, the group again scattered and gathered, now the team with a changed composition occasionally tours retro festivals.
Europe. The Swedish rock band, founded by vocalist Joey Tempest and guitarist John Norum, achieved notoriety with the hit "Final countdown".
In 1992, the group broke up and reunited only in 2004. On March 2, 2015, their tenth studio album War of Kings, which charted in Sweden at number two.
Backstreet Boys. The American boy band was formed on April 20, 1993, and since the debut album of the same name in 1996, they have sold about 130 million copies of their records.
Since then, the group has scattered and reassembled, its members being treated for drug and alcohol addiction, but occasionally even released albums.
'N Sync. The “boy” group was formed in 1995, and the teenage hysteria around it reached its climax in March 2000.
Since 2002, the frontman of the group - Justin Timberlake- got busy solo career, resulting in the band not releasing new records. On August 25, 2013, the group held a two-minute reunion on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards.
"Lyceum". The main hit of the pop group, "Autumn", sounded in 1995. In addition to her, the history of "Lyceum" has dozens of songs that conquered the top lines in music ratings.
Anastasia Makarevich has been the only permanent member of the team since its foundation in 1991. The group still exists and records new songs.
"Red mold". Russian-Ukrainian group created by musician Pavel Yatsyna, who single-handedly recorded the first four albums. The team is known for performing songs using profanity, as well as verses, ditties, fairy tales, musical parodies, poems and anecdotes.
Now the team still exists and is touring for the eighth line-up. By the way, Pavel Yatsyna was the first to make an electric guitar out of a shovel, which he later patented and performed with it at concerts.
"Ladybug". In 1994 the band rode the wave of success with the version Soviet song"Granite stone". Clothing, shoes and accessories became the hallmark of the group: boots, jackets and umbrellas stylized as a ladybug.
Vocalist Vladimir Volenko survived major operation, after which, together with his wife, he began to record songs on religious topics. The group also records regular albums, and also gives regular concerts.
Balagan Limited. Hit group "What do you want?" only the lazy did not hear. The band has appeared on TV, recorded three successful albums, and toured extensively.
In 1999, the producer of the group secretly registered the trade name "Balagan Limited" and dialed new composition. Old musicians after a whole year failed attempts to defend the name began to be called by his first hit - "What do you want?".
"Arrows". The pop group was created by the Soyuz studio in 1997 and was considered as "our answer" to the "Spice Gilrs". The group became especially popular in 1999 after the release of the song and the video "You left me", in which the popular actor Ivar Kalninsh starred.
In the early 2000s, due to frequent line-up changes, the group's popularity began to decline. Information about the breakup of the group varies. Some call 2004, others - 2009. Some girls managed to build solo careers.
"Bachelor party". Russian hip hop the trio was formed in 1991 by producer Alexei Adamov. The very first albums of "Bachelor Party" "Sex without interruption" and "Let's talk about sex", released by the studio "Soyuz" in 1991 and 1992, brought the boy band incredible popularity throughout the country.
Having successfully worked together until 1996, the musicians closed the "Bachelor Party" project. Dolphin began a solo career, and Dan and Mutobor created the Barbitura group, whose focus was electronic music.
"Shao? Bao!" Ukrainian group in 1997 she recorded the song "Kupyl mother konyk (and konyk without a leg)", which became the hallmark of a trio of young musicians from Dnepropetrovsk.
The group changed line-ups, but, alas, "konyk" remained their only hit.
In the 1990s there were many popular singers and groups. Many of them are still performing today, they are no less popular than then. A striking example such a group - "A-Studio". Some Russian singers of the 90s (list below) are not so popular anymore, but they continue to perform at corporate parties and small concert stages in the provinces. However, there are those that no one remembers today, and they have disappeared from the public eye.
Let's remember what the Russian singers of the 90s were like. Many artists are listed in alphabetical order. What is happening to them today, how did their destinies turn out?
Singers of the 90s - list. Russian stars - women
Now these names are almost unknown to listeners. But once these people were very popular.
Alena Apina
What were the popular singers of the 90s like? Russian listeners often start the list with Alena Apina. Many knew her as a member of the Combination group. But since 1991, the girl began to perform solo, recording the hit songs "Ksyusha" and "Accountant" in a separate performance from the "Combination" group. She was popular until the end of 1998, but after that she began to slowly fade away. Then she flickered more on television as a host of various programs and released clips less and less. In 2001, she gave birth to a daughter and plunged into the family. Now she rarely appears on television.
Today, Alena Apina can only be seen at a disco in the 90s.
Alena Sviridova
What else were famous singers 90s, Russians? The list continues Alena Sviridova. Popularity came to Alena in 1993 with the song “Winter just ended”, and the artist consolidated her success in 1994 with the song “ Pink flamingo". Alena's star began to fade in 2001-2002. Now she still releases little-known albums, spends anniversary concerts performs by invitation at various events.
Alice Mon
"Singers of the 90s Russian" - a list that includes Alice Mon. For the first time, the artist felt the popularity back in 1986, writing the hit "Plantain Grass". After that, she stopped her activities on stage, but resumed it in 1997 with the song "Diamond", which brought success. After Alice disappeared again and forgot about her. Today, Alice Mon can only be seen in clubs, but she performs very rarely.
Alika Smekhova
Alika Smekhova is mostly an actress, she deserves a place in the list of "Popular Russian Singers". The list of the 90s would be incomplete without her, although she got there by accident. In 1997, she released the song "Do not interrupt", for which she shot a video. The song brought the actress additional success as a singer, since she was already widely known as an actress at that time. Alika has only 5 recorded songs, but they are little known. After the popularity of the song "Do not interrupt" passed, everyone forgot about Alik as a singer. Today she rarely sings, more and more preferring cinema and theater.
Alena Ivantsova
Alena Ivantsova is known for the only song "Rain Man", which was written by Leonid Agutin and sung by the singer in 1995. But Alena fled under the auspices of M. Shufutinsky, with whom she lost 2 years as part of the failed Taste of Honey group. After 2 years, she left M. Shufutinsky and released debut album"Rain Man". But since the main hit of the album had already outlived its popularity, the disc went unnoticed. Since 2008, Alena has become a little-known performer who performs in small nightclubs.
Andrey Gubin
Andrey Gubin became popular singer in 1995, when he released his first album, Tramp Boy, which included a major hit with the same name. The song "Vagabond Boy" was born back in 1986, but only in 1995, with the support of Leonid Agutin, it was recorded at the studio.
In 1998, A. Gubin released the second hit album "Only You", and in 2000 - the last successful album called "It was, but passed."
In 2001, 2002, Gubin released 2 more collections of songs, but they are already less popular than the previous ones.
Today, the singer can only be seen as a jury member or songwriter for other performers.
Andrey Derzhavin
Andrei Derzhavin gained great popularity in 1990 by writing the song "Don't Cry, Alice". Since at that time Andrei was still part of musical group"Stalker", a hit was recorded on an album in 1991 as a joint song with the group. However, in 1992 the group ceased to exist and A. Derzhavin continued to sing this song, only solo. In 1993, he released 2 more hits: "First Flowers" and "Someone else's wedding."
In 1996, the musician recorded the song "Cranes".
Until 1998, many more hits were written, such as "Katya-Katerina", "Natasha" and many others.
In 1998, he wrote another song and shot a video, participated in "Song of the Year". In 1999, Derzhavin shot a video for the song "The One That Leaves."
Realizing that his former popularity had passed, Andrei Derzhavin left solo swimming and joined the Time Machine, becoming an ordinary keyboard player. He combines this with individual activity as a composer. Derzhavin writes a lot of music and songs for different films and serials.
Arkady Ukupnik
Glory to Ukupnik came in 1993 with the song and album "The East is a delicate matter, Petruha." Since then he has been permanent member New Year's program"Christmas meetings of Alla Pugacheva". Now Arcadia own studio recording, he produces, writes music and poetry.
Bogdan Titomir
Bogdan Titomir began his career in 1989 as part of the Kar-Men group.
Since 1991 he has been performing solo. Bogdan Titomir was remembered for 3 events in the 90s:
1. The song "Do as I do."
2. Having once said in an interview the phrase “people hawala”, which has become winged in show business.
3. With their outrageous costumes and behavior.
What Bogdan is doing today is unknown.
Vika Tsyganova
The main success for Vika Tsyganova came in 1991, when the album Walk, Anarchy was released. Until 2000, Vika had many more hits, including in the new image of a Russian and romance singer. In the 2000s, oddly enough, Victoria did not become less popular and won herself new audience chanson fans. Together with Mikhail Krug, she recorded 8 successful songs that fans listen to to this day.
Today Vika still sings, records albums, but they are already less popular than her previous ones.
She began to devote more time to her once hobby, which has grown into a serious business. Vika creates designer clothes under the TSIGANOVA brand.
Forgotten names
Many more interesting singers It was in the 90s, which had so different fates. Below are the singers of the 90s. Russian men. The list is in alphabetical order. It included names that thundered very bright hits at one time:
- Vlad Stashevsky;
- Vladimir Shurochkin;
- Danko;
- Dolphin;
- Decl;
- DJ Groove;
- Evgeny Osin.
A rather popular group with Eva Polna at the head, immediately won the wide love of the public with their good arrangements and quickly riveted a lot of catchy hits that girls tearfully sang in almost all discos of the vast Motherland. Songs such as "Dislike", "Run from me" and, of course, "Love me in French" became integral compositions in the playlist of any self-respecting bachelorette party of the 90s and 2000s.
2. Disco Crash
Even the most inveterate rapper and the most hardened metal worker, no, no, and even remember the incendiary motives of this group, well, “Drink beer - eat meat” sounded from every iron at one time. Disco Crash, having gone through the death of one of the participants, has actually created many very good different songs and about love and about friendship and aram-zam-zam there too. Crowned by their creativity New Year rushing towards us, everything will happen soon ”- known from the first chords and recognizable by absolutely everyone.
3. Ivanushki International
The epic boy band of our country, where the members of the group have already become practically grandfathers, still continues to sing songs about unhappy girlish love. In the turbulent nineties, there was " Poplar fluff”, and “Bullfinches”, “Clouds”, “Dolls” - it was on these hits that the all-Russian popularity of one redhead and two non-redheads was won.
4. Lyceum
Darling girl group, changing soloists like gloves. Well, and whoever didn’t do this, you can remember, for example, such a crazy group as Strelki, where there were about 20 different girls on vocals and backup dancers, replacing each other regularly once a month. “Lyceum” against their background with the permanent Anastasia Makarevich was just a model of stability, and their “Autumn-autumn, the years have cooled down and shed their leaves” and “And I am a winter girl” have firmly and permanently ingrained in the brain of all our compatriots.
5. Mirage
The mastodons of this list, who started back in the USSR. A large number of squads and girls who grew up into independent stars like Vetlitskaya, Ovsienko or Saltykova, who traveled around the country in the 90s and collected entire stadiums. It was they who massively brought to the country electronic music, and I still remember very well how my parents lit up under "Music connected us"
6. Hands Up
Another epic and most popular mega-project named after Sergey Zhukov. If the progressive youth listened already to the Western clubbing, then the Russian youth in the outback came off to the frantic rhythms of the Hands Up. “Ai-yay-yay girl”, “I’m already 18” and others, still rattles at all sorts of discos of the 90s and regularly gathers halls.
7.Tattoo
Our "European breakthrough", lesbian image and incredible drive, of course, did their job and "tattoo" became popular not only in Russia. At first everything went well, really strong albums and hits - "They won't catch up with us", and at concerts they were laid out every time like the last one. Then the rehashing of Western hits began, songs in English, and the Russian audience began to slowly leave, and with it, popularity also waned.
8. Technology
The Technologiya group at one time claimed the laurels of the most advanced electronic disco group in young democratic Russia. Copying the then insanely popular Depeche Mode, the group with their hit "Press the button - you get the result", managed to break through to fame and popularity and gathered at the Luzhniki arena, which at that time were rented to anyone and anything, a record 70 thousand Man, those were the times.
9.On-on
Perhaps the first sane boy band brought to our country four smiling guys who sang cute, meaningless songs about “Hat Fell, Fell to the Floor” and gained immense popularity among young and not so girls. They say that the group is still alive, and this is almost 20 years old, and still performs on tour somewhere abroad.
10. Inveterate scammers
Reckless and hooligan recitatives from Amoralov and the company, of course, remember all the "clear boys" of that time. The first bright hoodies, saggy pants and glasses of unimaginable shapes, as well as uncomplicated texts about how to glue a girl, don’t worry and score on study and ancestors, of course, found their way into the minds of young people after straight, like a stick, doctrines Soviet Union. Such was the time - every innovation was accepted with a bang, and each, even the weakest and most obscure of their albums, had some success.
We invite you to remember the main singing beauties from the 90s and see how they look now.
Natalia Vetlitskaya
Songs were dedicated to her by Dmitry Malikov and Zhenya Belousov. The latter, by the way, albeit not for long, but was the legal spouse of the singer. Natalya Vetlitskaya was perhaps the sexiest singing blonde of the 90s. Her songs “Look into your eyes” and “Playboy” were sung by the whole country, and Fyodor Bondarchuk himself shot the clips. In 1998, Vetlitskaya became interested in yoga, and in 2004 she left big scene. Now the singer is 51, she lives in Spain and still looks amazing. Fans even call Natalia the "Russian Sharon Stone".
Lika Star
Popular
Lika Star is another sexy blonde, one of the first Russian girls to appear on the cover of Playboy. Gosha Kutsenko and Masha Tsigal starred in her debut video for the song Lonely Moon, and Fyodor Bondarchuk became the director of the video. But Leakey's career ended as quickly as it began. In 1995, the singer gave birth to a child, and in the early 2000s she left for permanent residence in Italy. Today, Lika Star is 43 years old and reluctant to talk about her turbulent past.
Irina Saltykova
Irina Saltykova has always been successful. Even when she was selling cosmetics in a tent. Irina became a star after the release of the Gray Eyes video - revealing outfits and luxurious forms did their job. Later there were "Blue Eyes", a role in the film "Brother-2" and 5 more albums. Now Irina is a successful businesswoman, she rarely sings, but she still looks luxurious. You will never believe that this slender blonde is 50 years old.
Lada Dance
Thanks to Lada Dance, we all knew that you need to live in a high! Her songs "Girl-Night" and "Reggae in the Night" are still put on discos, although Lada Dance has not recorded albums for a long time. After her singing career began to decline in the late 90s, Lada began acting in films. She is excellent at the role of luxurious "bitches" and femme fatales. Today Lada is 47, she looks great, leads successful business and continues to "live in a buzz."
Marina Khlebnikova
Thanks to this sultry brunette with very long nails, we all sang a song about "Coffee Cup". And not surprisingly, the album by the same name ranked fourth in sales in 1997. Subsequent albums were not so successful, Marina became interested in new projects and appeared less and less on stage. Now Khlebnikova is engaged in her own business. Judging by the photos on Instagram, the singer looks great at 51 years old and still loves long sharp nails.
Isolda Ishkhanishvili
The most curly blonde from the main trio of the 90s - the Lyceum group. She left the group in the 2000s, and Lyceum seemed to have lost its "zest". Today, 39-year-old Isolde can be seen at secular parties, where the girl is happy to pose for photographers and walk exclusive bags. The Instagram of the former “lyceum student” is full of photos of a beautiful life, the main hashtags are “no filters”, “no photoshop”, “no sports”. What for? The years did not affect Isolde's chic appearance in any way.
Alena Apina
Alena Apina, the soloist of the Combination group, is grateful to all the now 30-year-old Lesha and Ksyusha, you yourself know why. The spectacular blonde wore short skirts, high over the knee boots and preferred bright makeup. Today the star of the 90s leads healthy lifestyle life, wears classics and does not look at all for his 52 years.
Tatyana Ovsienko
In the early 90s, the soloist of the Mirage group Tatyana Ovsienko was not much different from the then popular singers: blond curls, mother-of-pearl lipstick, a slip-on dress and high stilettos. Until in 1996, the singer hit all the ultra short haircut"under the boy." It is Ovsienko that we owe to this very trend. You look at the fresh photos of Tatyana and do not believe it - she turned 50 this year.
Linda
Calling Linda a classic beauty is difficult. Rather, she was for us like an alien from another galaxy, a girl from parallel world. There was nothing familiar in her texts: neither you unhappy love, nor unfaithful men. To be honest, we still do not really understand what Linda sang about. But we remember very well what she looked like: black lipstick, black hair falling down her face, a bunch of piercings. The singer generally liked to shock the audience: for example, in 1998 she sued Madonna - they say that she "stole" the plot of "Crows" from Linda. Now Linda is 39, she still writes songs, gives concerts and continues to amaze the audience with her appearance.
Olga Orlova
The charming soloist of the "Brilliant" sang her first hit "There, only there" at the age of 18. Then the girl fell in love, left the group and gave birth to a child. Olga returned to the stage already in the 2000s with solo project. Last years the singer plays in films, acts in television shows and leads a completely secular lifestyle. At 39, she is still as tender, fragile and graceful.
Svetlana Vladimirskaya
Svetlana Vladimirskaya was different. A fragile brunette with a short haircut and a deep voice also sang about unhappy love, but in a different way ... At the peak of her popularity, the singer left everything and left with her husband for Siberia. And there - a garden, a vegetable garden, a healthy lifestyle - not up to new songs, you know. After 10 years, Vladimirskaya returned, recorded a couple of albums, but, alas, the former glory did not happen. Today Svetlana is 47, she brings up children and grandchildren, sings in the choir and rarely appears on the pages of gossip.
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