Daria Stavrovich, known to fans under the pseudonym "Nuki", is a popular rock singer. In addition to performing, the girl herself writes lyrics and music. From 2006 to 2012 she was a member of the Slot group. Then she took up solo work, the project was called "Nuki". In 2016 she became a semi-finalist of the fifth season of the project.
Daria Stavrovich was born on February 1, 1986 in the town of the Arkhangelsk region called Velsk in an intelligent family of a doctor and teacher. For a long time she lived in Arzamas, where she graduated from high school.
The girl began to sing, barely learning to pronounce the words. This is not surprising, because Daria's mother has an operatic voice, and for some time she even went on stage. The young singer also learned to extract meaningful sounds from the piano early. By the age of 11, Stavrovich already clearly understood that she would not do anything other than music and vocals. Therefore, Daria entered the Nizhny Novgorod Musical College.
This was the period of formation of Stavrovich as a vocalist. She tried her hand at several little-known musical groups in Nizhny Novgorod and gained the necessary experience in working in a team.
Music
This original singer has an excellent musical education. After graduating from college, Dariya Stavrovich entered the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2006, where she chose the faculty of academic and pop-jazz singing. In the same year, the singer was invited to the capital's new metal group "Slot". The powerful and beautiful voice of the new vocalist immediately fell in love with the band members and fans of the band. As part of the "Slot" Daria Stavrovich recorded 6 albums.
Another girl masterfully owns two instruments - piano and guitar.
In 2012, she started her solo career. The new project was called "Nuki". Daria took the same creative pseudonym. Two colleagues from the former Slot group, ID and Dudu, volunteered to work with Stavrovich.
In April 2013, the debut album "Nuki" called "Alive" was released. Clips appeared on the compositions “Alive”, “Teach” and “Fear”, which were included in the album.
In 2014, Daria Stavrovich was awarded the Golden Note prize as the best rock vocalist. In the same year, the artist participated in the filming of the film "School Shooter" and the video for the song "Reality".
In May 2015, Nuki presented her second album, Moonlight Butterfly Pollen, to fans. Like the first one, it represents the Russian rock underground. She also voiced the character of the online game ArcheAge. The heroine of Daria was the singer Aria.
The creative biography of Daria Stavrovich received a new bright page after participating in the popular television show "Voice". The girl went to the project after traveling to India. There she rested, gained strength and energy. The performer has long been advised to try her hand at The Voice, but the artist brushed it off.
The singer, accustomed to listening to the not very pleasant definition of “not a format”, eventually proved her worth and uniqueness in one of the most rated musical projects, whose audience is in the millions. And, as the first qualifying stage of the blind auditions showed, she did the right thing.
To the judgment of the audience and judges, Stavrovich presented the cult hit “Zombie”, which was difficult to perform. The appearance of Daria corresponded to the song: the same outrageous.
The contestant made a splash. All the mentors turned to her. could not resist in the chair and, under the pressure of overwhelming emotions, climbed astride the judge's chair.
He appreciated what he heard and saw: “It was terrible, disgusting, but amazing”. The rest of the mentors and most of the audience agreed with him.
However, Daria Stavrovich chose, who remained rather unperturbed after the performance. She came to the project with a ready decision who she would choose as a mentor. Even on stage, the singer shared that a friend advised her to go to Grigory Viktorovich.
As a result, the project participant reached the semi-finals of the TV show. She performed the song "Chandelier". But both the jury and the audience chose. Later in an interview, the artist admitted that she could not win. The winner has a serious tour of 40 cities in Russia, and Daria is busy in the group and cannot leave the team for a long time.
Shortly before the semi-final, at the "Knockouts" stage, Stavrovich performed the song "Circles on the Water", which she wrote together with Sergei Bogolyubsky. The song was included in the album "Septima" in 2016. The guitarist considers this composition to be the best in the entire history of the existence of the Slot group.
Personal life
Nuki's creative pseudonym has a double meaning. In slang, it means sex without obligation. But the singer claims that everything is much simpler: this is how the name Dasha sounds in Japanese.
At the moment, the personal life of Daria Stavrovich is a closed page. As far as is known, the 30-year-old singer is not married. But, according to rumors, she has a second half. The name Nuki is associated with the name of the musician Cash. This is the creative pseudonym of the vocalist of the Slot group Igor Lobanov. But there is no confirmation of the existing novel.
On April 18, 2014, an assassination attempt was made on Daria Stavrovich. 19-year-old Dmitry Kostryukov stabbed the singer several times in the larynx. The girl was urgently hospitalized in intensive care. She underwent surgery. After 10 days, the artist was discharged.
During interrogation, Dmitry admitted that he was preparing for an assassination attempt. He studied the routes and performances of musicians. Eyewitnesses of the crime said that Kostryukov exclaimed after the attack: "She's not dead yet? No one should get it!". Igor Lobanov and a fan of the group named Vitaly detained the bandit and handed him over to the police.
The life and work of the singer are watched by thousands of fans in " Instagram» artists. Daria shares personal and work photos, pictures from concerts and video files with subscribers.
Nuki also has an official website. There, fans can find the latest information about Stavrovich's new projects, see the gallery and concert schedule.
The artist herself also likes to go to events. She attended performances by IOWA, Pioneer Camp Dusty Rainbow, and PTVP.
Daria Stavrovich now
In October 2017, Daria Stavrovich and the rock band "$ 7000" presented to the Internet users a joint video for the song "Paradise Lost". The musicians shared that the text of the composition was written under the impression of creativity and symbolist poets in general. The title and themes are taken from the writer John Milton, who wrote the poem Paradise Lost.
In 2018, the group "Northern Fleet" released a new album "Other". The composition "INOY", which became the name of the collection, was performed together with Daria "Nuki" Stavrovich.
And at the end of 2017, the singer herself presented the album "Exceptions". It includes 13 tracks. In 2018, the artist and the group went on their first big tour in support of this record.
Discography
- 2007 - "Two Wars" (reissue of the album "2 Wars")
- 2007 - "Trinity"
- 2009 - "4ever"
- 2011 - "F5"
- 2011 - "Break the Code"
- 2013 - "Sixth"
- 2013 - "Alive!"
- 2015 - "Moon Butterfly Pollen"
- 2016 - "Septima"
- 2017 - "Exceptions"
The appearance of Daria Stavrovich, who is known as a singer under the pseudonym "Nuki", on the popular TV show "Voice" caused a lot of discussion. The girl has been working in the alternative rock group Slot for nine years. Despite the fact that all the jury members wanted to see the artist in their team, she preferred Grigory Leps. Stavrovich does not intend to change the style of performance and please the majority of viewers, as she believes that the Voice project should have a variety of musicians.
“It's pop because people go there and sing pop! They really love it. Actually! Nobody imposes anything on them. Television raised this gray mass of people who practically began to love all this themselves, because they were shown it for a long, long time. And it seems to me that at some point Channel One itself, having heard the Voice show, realized that everything was the same, gray. And I decided to give the green light to a freak like me, ”the participant of the TV show frankly stated.
The artist herself had never watched The Voice before, so her colleagues in the Slot group brought her to the audition. As a teenager, Daria realized that she dreams of singing exactly rock music. She believes that it is given to her by nature.
“My voice, timbre, manner of speaking, how to sing is something innate. And alternative rock - it just happened, it carried me away, it is possible that there could be something else, but also from this direction. At the age of 15, I suspected that it was probably mine, ”Stavrovich told StarHit.
Daria is glad that Grigory Leps became her mentor. Despite the fact that she respects each member of the jury, she cannot imagine how she could work under them. Daria is glad that Leps is not trying to change her and is not dictating strict conditions. Stavrovich told StarHit that she did not intend to adapt to any framework, but wanted to convey rock music to a wide audience. And I am sure that it is with Leps that she will be able to achieve this.
“He is not trying to build something out of himself. Leps is real, it seemed to me, and still, by the way, it seems, ”Stavrovich said in an interview with Life.
This fall, Daria Stavrovich passed to the second stage of the Voice show. Heavy music lovers know her as Nuki, or the frontwoman of the alternative rock band Slot. In a blind audition, she wowed the jury with a "disgusting" rendition of the '90s hit Zombie. But Nuki chose the most “driven” of them - Grigory Leps.
- Daria, why do you need to participate in such a pop project as "Voice"?
In short: enlightenment and just having fun. And those who are somehow familiar with our modern rock scene, let them look with new eyes at everything that happens.
- Doesn't it bother you that the show is mostly pop directions?
“They are different, completely different. The format of the show, in my opinion, is still done by the participants themselves. I choose what I sing, how I sing, how I look.
Why did you choose Zombie for your blind audition?
— Because all the other compositions suitable for me were too brutal and unknown. And it's still a hit. A reasonable environment won and said: “Yes, Dash, you need to sing the song that people more or less know. At least for the blind.
- Would you go to another mentor if Leps had not turned around?
- I think not. I don't know what I would do there. Firstly, I know that Leps gives a certain freedom. It seems to me that his entire team, plus or minus, is left to itself. For me it's good. Agutin, by the way, is really doing something with his own. As a musician, I respect him very much, but he, of course, does not have the emotional palette that I have. It just seems to me that he would not have understood a lot and would not have allowed it at some stages. And Leps - do not care! (slams his hand on the table and smiles).
- And before that you had to somehow communicate with Leps?
— Yes, he is an anarchist (laughs).
- Who from the team of Grigory Leps do you like the most?
— I am attracted by the fact that they are all different there. Kirill Babiev, who sang Linkin park, also went to Leps. I understand him. And to whom else? A person (Grigory Leps) clearly has a natural drive.
- He somehow dropped: “I don’t understand why I didn’t hear this before.” I think that he is attracted by such a manner of singing, driving. Someone says: “Yes, they know everything, all this (blind auditions) is a setup.” No, they really don't know Slot. We just seem to live in the same country, but in completely parallel universes.
- Do fans on the street often recognize if they come up?
- Well, yes, often enough. After this broadcast on the "Voice" especially. I had such a period of time, several hours, when it seemed to me that I woke up famous. They just come up, ask like “Is there life on Mars?” or simply wish good luck: "Tear everyone."
- As far as I read the contract, it's better not to win, because you end up in "slavery". I don't want to be a slave. You turn into some kind of corporate cover artist, and they squeeze the juice out of you there. We also agreed with Cash (the second soloist of the Slot group): if I go to Golos, then he goes to a rap battle (laughs).
Moscow alternative rock band "SLOT" presented in Voronezh a new, seventh album Septima on Sunday, October 16th. Before the performance, the vocalists of the group Nuki (Daria Stavrovich) and Igor "Cash" Lobanov told what hopes they have for Nuki's participation in the Voice show, whose concerts they are ready to attend forever, whether a rock musician needs professional education and what gift the group is preparing for fans for the New year.
Nuka's performance at the "blind auditions" in the show "Voice" had the effect of an exploding bomb. Dima Bilan tried to hide from the powerful vocals of the singer, curling up in a chair. Polina Gagarina listened to the whole number with her mouth open and later admitted that Dasha "sealed" all the judges. Leonid Agutin clapped Nuki standing up as a sign of respect. And only Grigory Leps refrained from evaluating the singer's voice, paying attention only to her extraordinary appearance and suggesting to wear a ball gown for the next number. On the advice of a friend, Daria went to the Leps team.
Daria Stavrovich:- You saw what surprise and bewilderment among mentors and viewers caused my appearance on Channel One! I'm in shock myself. I did not know that television still has such a powerful influence on our people.
Igor Lobanov:- This is done not so much for the SLOT group or Nuka's solo project, but for the development of alternative music in general. In our country there are no tools to promote this direction, heavy music is outside the show business system, it is not supported in any way. This wall cannot be broken. We hope to create a gap in it with the help of Nuka, so that such teams can also show themselves. Maybe the system will understand that it is possible and necessary to work with such music. The SLOT Group will be 15 years old in 2016. Not a penny has been invested in us, we are still unformatted, we are not in rotation anywhere. And how in this context to communicate with Eternity? Therefore, Nuki's trip to the "Voice" is, perhaps, just a conversation with Eternity from the back door.
I. L.:- I can't sing like Nuki.
D.S.:- Cash and I agreed: if I go to The Voice, then he goes to Rap Battle TV (laughs). By the way, there are even more views than the "Voice".
Photo - Natalia Trubchaninova- For the "blind auditions" contest, you chose the composition Zombie by The Cranberries, which is not quite typical for your genre. Is this such a smart move?
D.S.:- In general, at the casting, I performed KoRn. The admissions committee said: "It's certainly cool, but not a hit." Reasonable environment won. I had to choose a song that people know well.
I.L.:- In any case, everyone went nuts! Not only because Nuki, a representative of the informal scene, ended up on this show, but more because of how she did it! Physiologically phenomenal performance. Even Gagarina grabbed her throat, because she is a professional and understands how extreme the singing was. You still need to look for people like Nuki. Their units. Nuki has already done everyone on this project, including Panayotov. The video of her number on YouTube has collected 1.5 million views in a few days!
- Is it important for you to win this project?
D.S.:- Don't even know. I read the contract and realized: it’s better not to win. Otherwise, you will fall into a kind of slavery. I don't want to be a slave. I don't want to take part in the show around the country, especially with cover songs. I'm not going to turn into a corporate cover artist.
I.L.:- Ideally, if Nuki won, and she would be forbidden to tour, like Hieromonk Photius (laughs).
- If Grigory Leps had not turned to you, which of the mentors would have been chosen?
D.S.:- Don't know. Leps gives freedom. His entire team is left to its own devices. It's important for me. I know that Agutin really works with his team himself. As a musician, I respect him very much, but he does not have the same emotional palette that I have. I think he would not understand a lot and, perhaps, would not allow me in terms of creativity. And Leps, figuratively speaking, does not care. I choose the songs myself. But they, apart from Leps, still have to be approved by Yuri Aksyuta. As long as my choice suits them.
- Are you familiar with the work of Dima Bilan? Can you sing at least one of his songs?
D.S.:– Oh, unexpected question! (Laughs). I know his most, probably, shameful song from his early work about "Mulatto Chocolate". As an artist, he fries well, I saw a couple of performances. Singing live - well done!
I.L.:- And I know two whole songs of Bilan: “Night Hooligan” and “The Impossible is Possible”.
Let's go back to your mentor. What is Grigory Leps in character?
D.S.:- I don’t know if Leps is good or evil. He is an anarchist. Man without bills. He has his natural drive. I think he is attracted to my style of singing. Once he dropped the phrase: “I don’t understand why I haven’t heard you before.” Many people think that mentors at blind auditions play for the audience: they say that they do not know some artists by sight - in particular, me. This is not a base. They didn't really know the SLOT group! It seems that we live in the same country, but it turns out that we are absolutely in parallel universes.
- Who from the Leps team impresses you the most?
D.S.:- I am attracted by the fact that he has accumulated completely different characters in his team. Cool dude Kirill Babiev, who sang on the "blind" Linkin Park - he went to Leps, and I understand why. And to whom else?
- With whom from your team would you like to participate in "fights"?
D.S.:- There are some young ladies who completely fall out of my understanding of music and life in general. I wouldn't sing with them. Fortunately, Leps understands this too.
- Are you ready to put on the ball gown in which Leps so wanted to see you?
D.S.:- Of course not! And Leps immediately changed his mind.
- Give advice to aspiring singers who, like you, want to master screaming (a vocal technique based on the split ligament technique). How to learn without harming the voice?
D.S.:- Voice production should be done only with a professional teacher, this is done in opera schools. This is important, otherwise you will not sing for a long time. And then everyone starts their own schools. I learned how to scream by myself: at first I listened, removed the equipment, groaned, spat. Then I found my style and took a few lessons from experts.
D.S.:- You need to get enough sleep, and preferably, when you are sick, do not give stress on your voice. Which, alas, is almost impossible at our pace of life. I will honestly say: yes, sometimes I had to go on stage sick. And for all the practice there was only one concert that I did not cancel and still regret it. Nothing good came of it: the concert turned out to be unsuccessful, and then I felt very bad. It is not always necessary to climb the embrasure.
– Does a rock musician need a professional vocal education?
D.S.:- Vocal education is the elimination of musical illiteracy, nothing more. I have an education because my mother needed a crust.
I.L:- I also graduated from the university, however, sports, exclusively for dad. It was good for him that I have a crust. If suddenly I have children, I definitely won’t insist on getting a higher education. I consider it a waste of time.
- Dasha, you have been in the SLOT group for ten years. At what period did you realize that you are not just a vocalist, but a real frontwoman? How quickly did the guys accept you into the team and gave you freedom of action?
D.S.:- It was a smooth process associated with the acquisition of experience, not only stage. It seems to me that from the album "Trinity" I began to feel at home.
I.L.:- The main thing is not even the decision and not the right to vote in the team. Nuki not only sings, but also comes up with a lot of musical and textual material. From the album "Trinity" Nuki declared herself as a good musician, and with subsequent records - as a lyricist.
- Do you continue to learn something from the guys?
D.S.:- Undoubtedly. It seems to me that we ourselves, each individually, continue to learn something. It's an endless process.
I.L.:“You can learn something from anyone. And for Nuki, in general, you have to reach out all the time in many ways. She's such a stimulating element in our group.
- Igor, besides creative moments, what did Dasha bring to the group? Maybe she taught you how to cook deliciously or keep clean?
I.L.:- I taught you how to eat well! And don't clean up after yourself! (Laughs).
D.S.:- I am a completely anti-domestic person.
- In 2011, you recorded the song "Lanterns" with the Voronezh group "Obe-Rek". Do you plan to collaborate with any of our countrymen?
D.S.:– Now most of the bands are a bit out of style for me. In general, I am very selective about co-creation: if the song blows my head straight, then you can.
- Your new album Septima, like the previous "Sixth", was recorded with the financial support of fans. Have you ever participated in crowdfunding yourself?
D.S.:- No. Unfortunately, we are not yet in a position to help financially.
I.L.:– I once helped the familiar musicians. They suggested: “Come on now, you will throw money to us, and then we will to you!”. That's what they decided (laughs).
– One of the most expensive lots for your shareholders on the crowdfunding platform was a “perpetual ticket” for two persons to SLOT concerts. Whose concerts are you ready to go to forever?
I.L.:- Yes, it's boring! Then the band will need to change the program very often so that I don't get bored. There is hardly an artist whose concert I would go to, say, three times in a row.
D.S.:- I would go. I would definitely go to Meshuggah, but they rarely come to Russia. I would go to Björk, of course. Unfortunately, it is also a rare bird in our country.
– You have a cover of Björk. Do you pay her any money?
D.S.:- No. We only did this cover live. Now, according to the law, you can’t even post it on YouTube, they immediately ban it. Although the song is hard to recognize.
How do you feel about covers of yourself?
D.S.:- Great. We even specially post backing tracks on social networks so that everyone can sing.
I.L.:– By the way, we have already missed two albums. We should collect backing tracks from them - it will be a great gift for fans for the New Year!
- Dasha, you once said that happiness is when a person does not stand still, looking for new goals, and the phrase “I tried it for the first time” becomes his motto. What did you do for the first time in 2016?
D.S.:- I went to India, took part in The Voice, as a viewer visited the Sziget festival in Budapest and a few other small movements. The coolest impression on me was probably made by Sziget. This festival conquered me with everything, starting from the infrastructure (we still have to grow and grow before it) and ending with its multi-musicality. There was such a “delicious” vinaigrette! During the day, Sigur Ros performs, in the evening Sia, Rihanna - all on the same stage. There are also seven different venues. Just awesome! They don’t have such a strict division of genres among the audience as we have in Russia: when you go to a concert, it’s as if you take on some kind of confession. They take it easier there: pop, rap and rock fans coexist perfectly together. Because of this, it seemed to me that people there are happier. We have a very developed continuity of generations: the father listens to "Alice", the eldest son, the youngest son, grandchildren. And not a step left or right.
I.L.:- In Russia, if you listen to a certain genre of music, then you must definitely have some kind of position. “You may not be a poet, but you must be a citizen” - this is how it happens with us.
- Do you often listen to "third-party" music? How did you get carried away to the 30 Seconds To Mars concert in 2015?
D.S.:- I often get taken to strange concerts. And it was the most boring concert in my life! We slept there. I don't know what people in this group find. The most important thing that I took out for myself is that 30 Seconds To Mars on records and live are completely different things. In the studio they are very beautiful and well written. And live - these are some terrible choral chants with an acoustic guitar.
I.L.:“At the same time, we really like their album A Beautiful Lie - it's beautiful. After him, as I see it, 30 Seconds To Mars was taken over by a terrible producer from U2 and produced.
- Dash, but in a purely feminine way, Jared Leto is handsome?
D.S.:“I don't believe him. It's like he's playing a rock star. And visually it annoys me. At first, he was quite natural, he had a drive. And then he deflated and turned into some kind of doll that makes movements taken from various rock musicians. For me, Jared Leto is faceless.
- Tell me, in what mood do you compose better - sad or cheerful?
I.L.:– You can’t catch this state. Sometimes there is a feeling that you are not writing it yourself, but someone is controlling you. Like an obsession. At some point, I realized that the Moscow metro works well for me.
- How often do you see you there?
I.L.:- Constantly. I am a pedestrian. I do not know how to drive. And I don't want to. I have several reasons not to.
D.S.:- I am also a pedestrian and do not plan to change into a car yet. Cash generally says that I can’t drive. I am a fan of the scooter, a very positive mode of transport.
Do they recognize you on the street?
D.S.:- Often enough. And after the broadcast in the "Voice" in general, some kind of boom began. There was such a short period of time, literally a few hours, when I thought: “Oh, it seems that I woke up famous!”. People come up on the street and ask simple human questions out of curiosity - mostly about Leps, what he is like. Or they wish good luck, they say to tear everyone there! I enjoy this kind of attention. It is positive and unobtrusive.
- What are you like outside the stage when you don’t have to make up, put on outrageous costumes?
D.S.:- Well, I'm not going anywhere with dreadlocks! (Laughs). I don't change much in my life. If suddenly I am carried into a trolleybus, grandmothers may even cross themselves at the sight of me.
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