Full name: Zemfira Talgatovna Ramazanova
Stage aliases: Zemfira
Age: 42 years
Zodiac sign: ♍ Virgo
Place of Birth: Russia, Bashkortostan, Ufa
Nationality: Tatar
Height: 172 cm
Family status: Single
Activity: singer, composer, singer-songwriter, writer
Instagram:@zemfiralive
Biography of Zemfira
Zemfira is a singer, which many call the "voice of the generation" and the founder of "female rock". She was born in the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa, on August 26, 1976. The full name of the girl is Ramazanova Zemfira Talgatovna.
Zemfira's family: parents and brother
Zemfira grew up in a prosperous, loving family. The girl's father, Talgat Talkhovich, was a teacher of history, and her mother, Florida Khakievna, worked as a specialist in physical therapy.
Photo of little Zemfira with her mother
Zemfira had an older brother, whose name was Ramil. Since childhood, the singer and her brother have developed a very warm relationship. Ramil was a major entrepreneur, director of the Polushka trading network.
Zemfira with parents and brother
Unfortunately, in June 2010 he died - the man drowned in the river during spearfishing. The singer's parents are also no longer alive.
Zemfira in childhood
Zemfira recalls that as a child she hated bows, at school she often took them off her head and hid them in her briefcase, next to her older brother's toy gun. Ramazanova was more interested in games in the company of boys than in the “cares” of girls. At school, she was called "Ramazan Partisan" - for a short haircut, jeans, sweaters and T-shirts.
Childhood photo of Zemfira
Since childhood, the singer was fond of music, and those around her noted that the girl was talented. At the age of five, Zemfira was sent to study at a music school in piano. The girl once appeared on local television, singing a funny children's song. And Zemfira wrote her first song at the age of seven and did not hesitate to sing it at her mother's work.
Zemfira at school age
It is known that Zemfira listened to the songs of Viktor Tsoi and Thom Yorke, she learned to play the guitar and often performed the compositions of "Cinema", "Aquarium", "Nautilus Pompilius" and foreign performers - George Michael and Freddie Mercury right on the street.
Zemfira in his youth
When the girl graduated from high school, she had to choose between music and basketball, which she was also seriously interested in. Zemfira decided to connect life with creativity and immediately entered the 2nd year at the local art school.
Career of the singer Zemfira
It was Zemfira who was destined to open a new page in Russian rock and become the "erupted voice of a generation." Even in her student years, she worked as a singer in Ufa restaurants.
Zemfira Ramazanova, 1999
After college, she got a job at the Bashkir branch of the Europa Plus radio station, where she recorded her first demos. Further, Zemfira's career developed rapidly.
1997-1999: release of the Zemfira album
Thanks to familiar journalists, her recordings came to Leonid Burlakov (producer of the Mumiy Troll group). In 1998, the girl recorded the first album "Zemfira", the music producer of which was Ilya Lagutenko. In the spring of 1999, the presentation of the album was held at the 16 Tons club. The success was overwhelming, in the first six months 700 thousand copies were sold, clips were shot for three compositions.
Zemfira and Mumiy Troll: first concerts
In February of the same year, the composition "Speed" was constantly heard in the programs of the radio stations "Nashe Radio" and "M-radio". On September 1, Zemfira's first tour started in Moscow, she traveled throughout Russia and several cities of the near abroad.
2000-2001: recording of the collection "PMML"
In 2000, the singer recorded the second collection "Forgive me, my love", which became the most popular disc in Russia. The song "Looking for" sounded in the cult film "Brother-2".
Zemfira, "Forgive me, my love"
In 2000, the OM magazine recognized Zemfira as the "Performer of the Year". In 2001, due to overexertion, she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown and took a sabbatical.
2002-2006: Release of Fourteen Weeks of Silence and Vendetta
In 2002, the third album "Fourteen Weeks of Silence" was released, and in 2003 the singer became the owner of the "Triumph" award. The new album "Vendetta" Zemfira presented in 2005, it turned out to be the best-selling release in the country.
Zemfira's album "Vendetta"
The collection won the "Domestic Album of the Year" nomination at the "Record" award ceremony in 2006. Soon the singer began to collaborate with director Renata Litvinova, she wrote the music for her film "Goddess: How I Loved".
2007-2010: the release of the album "Thank you"
In 2007, the next album “Thank you” was released, and a year later a big tour took place in support of it. In 2009, a collection of b-sides "Z-Sides" appeared on the Web, and on New Year's Eve 2010, the singer presented the "live" album "Zemfira.Live".
2011-2014: recording of the album "Live in your head"
In 2011, Nashe Radio premiered the song No Chance, which was subsequently included in the new album. In the spring, Zemfira performed with her songs at the Maxidrom 2011 festival, and in the summer she took part in the Muz-TV Prize as a headliner. 2012 - participated in the concert of the Queen group in the Olympic, performed at the festival "Invasion-2012".
Zemfira and Queen concert, 2012
In 2013, the official release of Zemfira's sixth studio album “Live in your head”, the tour “Zemfira. Tour 2013 ”, a performance with the composition“ We crash ”was held at the closing of the World Summer Universiade in Kazan.
2015-2016: release of the album "Little Man"
The longest tour - the Little Man tour, announced in the fall of 2015, began in February 2016. During the tour, the singer announced that she was ending her concert activity.
Zemfira's album "Little Man"
At the end of the year, Zemfira released the album “Little Man. Live". Since 2017, Zemfira has given few concerts, in the summer of 2018 she took part in the Wild Mint festival.
Personal life
There are a lot of rumors and speculation about Zemfira's personal life in the media. Interestingly, some of them were provoked by the singer herself in order to draw attention to her person, as was the case with the wedding story of Zemfira and Vyacheslav Petkun.
Zemfira and Renata Litvinova
Of great interest to the singer's fans is her relationship with Renata Litvinova. Celebrities have repeatedly explained that they are connected by strong female friendship. So, Zemfira declares that Litvinova is her only friend, and this is enough for the girl.
Zemfira and Renata Litvinova
The singer does not like company - this is not her style. But Zemfira considers Renata a multifaceted and interesting person, with whom he is never bored. The girls are connected by many years of cooperation - together they released several clips, recorded the soundtrack for Renata's film "Rita's Last Tale" and created the film "Green Theater in Zemfira".
Zemfira's novels
Zemfira's first love was Vlad Kolchin, with whom the girl studied at the Ufa School of Arts. In the mid-nineties, they worked together in one of the restaurants in Ufa - "Jespar". Roman Zemfira and Kolchin lasted several years, until the guy moved to St. Petersburg.
In the photo: Zemfira and Vlad Kolchin (right)
After Zemfira began dating Sergei Anatsky, who was her boss at the Europa Plus radio station. The man was married, and when Zemfira moved to Moscow, their relationship ended. In the capital, Zemfira lived with sound engineer Arkady Mukhtarov. It was this person who helped the aspiring singer record her first "demo" and played a role in the video of the girl "Macho".
Arkady Mukhtarov in Zemfira's video "Macho"
In 1999, Zemfira announced an affair with the leader of the Dancing Minus group, Vyacheslav Petkun. They even shared with the media their plans for the wedding. After 5 months, it became known that the relationship between Zemfira and Petkun was a PR stunt.
Roman Zemfira and Vyacheslav Petkun
The press also talked about the relationship between Zemfira and Roman Abramovich, thanks to which, allegedly, the girl became incredibly popular. The singer's romantic relationship with the oligarch, according to media reports, lasted several years. After the man became interested in Dasha Zhukova. The singer does not comment on these rumors.
Husband and children
Zemfira is not married and has no children of her own yet. True, the girl has been taking care of her nephews, left without a father, Arthur and Artem for many years.
Zemfira with her nephew Arthur
Together with them, Zemfira created the rock band The Uchpochmack and recorded several musical compositions.
Zemfira's interview
The singer rarely agrees to an interview, this way of communication is a real stress for her. She feels much more comfortable performing in a concert hall or in a stadium among fans than talking with someone under the guns of many cameras. Nevertheless, Vladimir Pozner and Ivan Urgant managed to invite Zemfira to their programs.
Vladimir Pozner
In December 2015, before the concert tour "Little Man", the singer visited the author's program of Vladimir Pozner. She said that she first sang a song about a worm on Ufa television at the age of five. And the beginning of his professional musical career considers admission to the College of Arts after school.
To the host’s question: “Is Zemfira a glamorous person?”, She answered categorically “no”, adding that she is more suitable for an informal girl.
Once again she admitted that her favorite performers are Viktor Tsoi and Paul McCartney. She said that she spends a lot of time on the Internet, and the morning begins with watching sports and political news.
Zemfira at Vladimir Pozner
After this interview, fans left about two million comments. Many wrote that Zemfira looked bored during the conversation, to which the singer replied: “It’s convenient for me to be like this, there is more demand from smart people.”
Ivan Urgant
In October 2016, Zemfira visited Channel One in the Evening Urgant show. The singer said that the audience who come to her concerts always have the right to count on a good evening, she never lets her fans down.
Zemfira in the TV show "Evening Urgant"
Recently, during performances, Zemfira jumped from the stage into the crowd several times. When she does this, she tries to tighten her legs strongly so as not to injure someone with her shoes. In addition, the singer shared that she prefers running and fitness from sports activities. She does not like training in silence, she always listens to “running” music.
Yuri Dud
The well-known video blogger and journalist Yuri Dud, who interviewed many famous personalities, has long dreamed of talking with Zemfira. But the singer refused him, explaining that she did not need it, now she does not give interviews to anyone, including Dudya.
The girl, unexpectedly for fans, became active in social networks, answered some of their questions and shared several posts on her official Facebook page.
How much does Zemfira earn?
Despite the rather modest environment in which Zemfira lives, she is one of the richest and highest paid stars of domestic show business.
Financial condition according to Forbes
In recent years, the singer has firmly established herself in the TOP-50 Russian celebrities according to Forbes magazine. Her name first appeared on this list in 2005. In 2016, she entered the top ten with an income of $6 million.
In 2017, the amount decreased slightly, according to the magazine Zemfira earned about $5 million. In 2018 - $1.5 million. Main sources of income: concerts, performances at corporate parties, tracks on the Internet.
How much does Zemfira's concert cost?
In 2003, the singer bought an apartment in Moscow on Frunzenskaya Embankment. She managed to earn the necessary amount to purchase housing in one of the most elite areas of the capital on fees for performances. 1 hour of her concert cost about $50 thousand.
Concerts are Zemfira's main source of income
Since then . For example, Zemfira's performance at a corporate party on New Year's Eve 2017 cost businessman Suleiman Kerimov, a big fan of her work, 150 thousand euros. The most profitable tour of her career was the "Little Man" tour. Tickets for performances cost from 65 to 150 dollars. The fees from only two Moscow concerts exceeded 150 million rubles.
Zemfira: height, weight, eye color
Zemfira never had problems with being overweight, but in recent years she has seriously lost weight. The singer is tall for a girl, and in her youth she was the captain of the junior women's basketball team.
Zemfira figure parameters:
- Age: 42 years (as of October 2018)
- Height: 172 cm
- Weight: 47 kg
- Dimensions: 78/56/81
- Foot size: 39
- Eye color: brown
- Hair color: brunet
A few years ago, the singer weighed 58 kg, but she rapidly lost weight. The girl recalls that in 2006 she plunged headlong into work, lived in a grueling rhythm. Ramazanova lost about 10 kg, and she liked it.
Zemfira is tall and athletic.
The singer began to move more and get less tired. Zemfira stopped having dinner, gave up alcohol, and started running in the morning. In addition, Zemfira included in her rider a request to provide her and the musicians with mineral water, freshly squeezed juices and fruits.
Zemfira lost weight and she likes it
The girl does not consume dairy products - she considers them harmful. The singer is very worried about how she looks. Therefore, Zemfira often looks in the mirror. Even at the age of 13, she watched her reflection in the piano lid and imagined how she would look on stage - she honed her winning poses.
Zemfira does not use harmful products
But when a girl begins, in her opinion, to eat too much - she tries not to look at her reflection. Some consider Zemfira too thin, but she strives to maintain her weight and not get better.
Zemfira now - latest news
After a grandiose tour with the Little Man program, the singer rarely appears on stage, performing only for the elite. So in May 2018, she sang at a private Kommersant party as part of the SPIEF, where representatives of Russian secular society gathered.
“... I will write an album. I don't know how long this will last...
And in August 2018, she performed in Sochi at Rosa Khutor as part of the Live Fest Summer music festival. Zemfira sang in the mountains at an altitude of 1600 m and called this concert the last in the foreseeable future. She still communicates with fans on the VKontakte social network, where she recently gave a description to the singers Monetochka and Grechka.
Fans are waiting for Zemfira's new concerts
Admirers of her talent do not want to believe that the "Little Man" tour was the final one, and there will be no more such space concerts from a sincere singer with a "magnetic" voice. Indeed, for 20 years of creativity, the girl managed to create her own galaxy in the musical universe, and in each of her albums there is a new Zemfira.
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Zemfira is a Russian rock singer, composer, producer and songwriter. Zemfira is called the founder of "female rock" and the "voice of a generation."Childhood and youth
Zemfira Talgatovna Ramazanova was born in Ufa in 1976. Already at the age of five, the future celebrity began to study music, enrolling in a music school in piano, where she was accepted into the choir. Already at the age of 7 she wrote her first works. 
During her studies at school, Zemfira tried herself in many ways, attending seven circles. For example, she was the captain of the junior women's basketball team of the Russian Federation, and in 1990 her team even won the youth championship of Russia.
However, Zemfira chose a musical career and immediately entered the second year of the Ufa College of Arts in the pop vocal department, which she graduated in 1997. During her studies, the future rock singer worked as a presenter in the Ufa branch of the famous Europa Plus radio channel.
Musical career
Zemfira wrote her first works, which made her famous throughout the country, in parallel with her work on the radio. In early 1997, she created the Zemfira musical group, and a year later she moved to Moscow. It was then, after listening to her songs by the producer of the Mumiy-Troll group, Burlakov, that she was invited to record her debut album at the Mosfilm tone studio. Ilya Lagutenko volunteered to be the music producer for him, and Vladimir Ovchinnikov was the sound engineer. The music of the first record was unlike anything that existed in Russian rock at that time. At first glance, understandable themes of creativity, such as love, loneliness, nostalgia, were dressed in non-trivial texts and the original sound of the melody.Zemfira - "Arivederchi"
Already in February 1999, the song "Speed" broke into the rotation of the radio stations "Nashe Radio" and "M-radio". A month later, Zemfira filmed her first video in Prague for the song "Arivederchi". The girl's official first performance took place on March 24 at the Republic Beefeater club in Moscow, and six months later she left for her first concert tour of the CIS cities until 2000.
On March 28, 2000, the presentation of Zemfira's next album "Forgive me, my love" took place. During this year, the singer recorded a video for the song "Iskala", which will sound in the cult feature film of Alexei Balabanov "Brother 2" and received the first Shaikhzada Babich Prize in the field of culture, awarded in the Republic of Bashkortostan.
Zemfira - "Looking for"
April 2002 began for the singer with the presentation of the new, third, album "Fourteen Minutes of Silence", for which Zemfira received the prestigious Russian Triumph Award in 2003.
On October 16, 2004, Zemfira was honored to perform the hit "We Are The Champions" together with the Queen group during the MTV Russia Awards ceremony. In the same year, Ramazanova entered the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, but after taking academic leave to write an album, she never recovered.
Queen & Zemfira - "We are the champions"
In 2005, a new album, Vendetta, was released, and a year and a half later, sales of a DVD with her clips called Zemfira.DVD started.
In July 2006, Zemfira performed on Lake Seliger at a rally of the Nashi political movement, which she later called her mistake.
By the end of the year, the singer released another album with concert recordings "Zemfira.Live", which included 10 hits from previous records.
October 2007 launched the sales of the singer's new album Thank You, which continued with a concert tour that ended at the Olympic. In March of the following year, Zemfira was awarded the famous "Chart Dozen" music award, where she won in the "Music" and "Soloist of the Year" nominations.
In 2008, the full-length musical film "Green Theater in Zemfira" by Renata Litvinova, the singer's closest friend, was released. The film revealed the theme of the uniqueness of Zemfira's work: a completely new image of a self-sufficient woman appeared on the Russian stage.
In 2011-2013, the singer worked on the album "Live in your head." Prior to its creation, an extraordinary collection of b-sides was released, called "Z-Sides". During this period, Zemfira gives concerts in the cities of the Czech Republic, Belgium, Germany and other European cities, and also participates in the creation of soundtracks for the film "Rita's Last Tale" by Renata Litvinova.
Soundtrack to the film "Rita's Last Tale"
In April 2012, the singer for the first time in a long time appears on television with the presentation of the song "Money" on Ivan Urgant's show "Evening Urgant".
In 2013, she was awarded the most honorable MTV Europe Music Awards in the Best Russian Performer nomination, and by the end of the year, Zemfira's sixth album, Live in Your Head, was available on the Yandex.Music service. For a long time, the relationship between Renata Litvinova and Zemfira was discussed in the press. The girls were often seen together, and they often worked on joint projects. In 2017, information appeared in the media that Zemfira and Renata Litvinova got married in Stockholm, but both girls did not comment on this news.
Zemfira today
In 2018, the singer performed at the Live Fest Summer festival in Sochi and at the Afisha picnic in Moscow.Zemfira - "Non-vulgar" (2018)
In the summer of 2018, there was a conflict between Zemfira and the singers Monetochka and Grechka. It all started with the release of the show on the YouTube channel "Viska", where Liza Monetochka called Zemfira "a complex person, closed and incomprehensible." She, in turn, sharply criticized the work of young performers, saying that Grechka has a “terrible appearance”, and Monetochka has a “disgusting voice”.
Zemfira is the “breakthrough voice of the generation,” as the magazine Ogonyok called the singer, a Russian rock singer, lyricist, composer and music producer. Zemfira set the direction in Russian rock, which journalists defined as "female rock".
Zemfira Ramazanova once opened a new page in Russian rock music. The press calls her style "female rock", and the popularity of the singer, who has rapidly soared to the tops of all radio stations, has not only not declined in eighteen years, but continues to steadily win more and more new fans.
Zemfira was born in Ufa in an intelligent Tatar-Bashkir family. Her father, Talgat Talkhovich, taught history, and her mother, Florida Khakievna, worked as a specialist in physical therapy. The girl had an older brother named Ramil, with whom the singer had a close and trusting relationship.
Zemfira's talent for music was revealed very early, from the age of five the future singer studied at a specialized music school, where she studied piano and was a soloist in a student choir. Then she appeared on local television with a children's song.
The girl was seven years old when she wrote her first song, performing it at her mother's work. During her school years, Zemfira was fond of the work of the Kino group: according to the singer herself, the songs and Thom Yorke largely influenced her development as a musician.
At school, Zemfira was seriously involved in basketball. Despite the fact that the girl was the lowest in the team, she became the captain of the Russian junior team. Thus, in the last classes, she faced a dilemma: sports or music. Zemfira chose the latter and entered the Ufa School of Arts in the department of pop-jazz vocals.
In parallel with her studies at the university, the girl began to earn extra money, performing popular songs in Ufa restaurants. However, she quickly got bored with such activities, and in 1996 Zemfira got a job on the radio: she recorded commercials for the Bashkir branch of the Europa Plus radio station. Then she records her first demos.
Music
Zemfira's biography changed dramatically in 1997, when at the annual rock festival "Maksidrom" a cassette with her songs fell into the hands of Leonid Burlakov, then producer of the Mumiy Troll group, through acquaintances of journalists. Leonid decides to give the talented performer a chance, and at the end of 1998 Zemfira recorded her first album, Zemfira, at the Mosfilm studio.
The mixing of the first album was done in the British capital under the guidance of the frontman and leader of Mumiy Troll. The guitarist and drummer of the band also took part in the recording. The disc was released in May 1999, while individual songs - "AIDS", "Rockets" and "Arivederchi" - entered the rotation of radio stations in February. Thus, the public was prepared for the birth of a new star. The composition "Arivederchi" has received deafening popularity, but due to the complex name, fans often call this track "Ships" by the first word of the chorus.
The presentation of the album took place on May 8 at the club "16 tons". The stage was designed in spring style, and the singer wove flowers into her hair. On a flower from Zemfira's hairstyle, she wondered, singing the song "Daisies".
The album also included the songs "Rumba", "T-shirts" (also often signed as "Anechka"), "Forecaster", "Why" and others.
The album was a resounding success, over seven hundred thousand copies were sold in the first six months. Video clips were shot for three songs: the Riga video for the song "AIDS", which in the end did not come out on wide screens, "Why" - a concert video from the singer's performance in Ufa, as well as the video work "Arivederchi", which immediately won the hearts of thousands fans with her extraordinary approach to editing and directing (Zemfira's face was shaded in this video, there were rumors that the singer was a side project of Lagutenko himself). The compositions "Snow" and "London" were also released as a separate single.
The first tour, which started three months after the release of the album, also exceeded all expectations, the concerts were sold out. At the end of the tour, Zemfira becomes the headliner of the first Invasion music festival.
Upon returning from the tour, the Zemfira group begins to record a new album, which they also named after one of the songs "Forgive me, my love." The singer herself admits that the names were always difficult for her.
Nevertheless, "Forgive me, my love" became the most popular disc of 2000 in Russia, as well as the most commercially successful of Zemfira's entire discography. The track "Looking for" from the new album sounded in the cult film "" and was included in the film's soundtrack album.
The disc also included other compositions, which later critics and fans called Zemfira's hits: “Ripened”, “Do you want?”, “City”, “Proved”, “P. M. M. L. and "Dawns". The album also included the tracks "Cigarettes", "Don't Let Go" and "London". A live recording of the last composition was also released on the single "Snow/Sky of London".
The singer herself becomes "Performer of the Year" according to the music magazine "OM".
The increased popularity rather burdened rather than pleased Zemfira, and at the end of 2000 she went on a sabbatical, taking part in only one project dedicated to her musical idol -. For the concert "Kinoproby" Zemfira recorded the song "Cuckoo", which later also entered the single "Goodbye", and "Every Night".
The next step was Zemfira's album "Fourteen Weeks of Silence", which was released in 2002. During this time, the girl rethought a lot in her work, and the album turned out to be solid, but unlike her previous works. Zemfira completely departed from the stylistic framework that Burlakov once set, which is why she was constantly compared with Mumiy Troll, although the band's musicians still participated in the recording of songs.
The album included the songs "Webgirl", the undisputed hit of the performer, which fans remember under the Russian name "The Girl Living on the Web", "Fairy Tales", "Macho" (also known as "Drunk Macho"), "Main" and others. The circulation of the disc crossed over a million discs, and the singer herself received the Triumph award in 2003. The compositions "Infinity" and "Traffic" were released as separate singles.
The year 2004 was marked for Zemfira by several events at once. She performed two of the brightest duets: one at the Maksidrome rock festival in tandem with Ilya Lagutenko and the second with the Queen group at the MTV Russia Music Awards (the immortal hit "We are the Champions").
Zemfira decided to get a higher education in philosophy and entered Moscow State University, but she failed to finish her studies, music took too much time.
In 2005, Zemfira began collaborating with an actress and director, charismatic. Zemfira was invited to create music for Litvinova's film "The Goddess: How I fell in love." Subsequently, Renata directed the video for the song "Itogi" and many of the singer's subsequent works. Zemfira's song "Love, like an accidental death" was included in the film's soundtrack.
In 2005, the singer presented the fourth album "Vendetta", which included the songs "Airplane", "Breathe", "Sky Sea Clouds", "Let's leave it like that." The performer called the album eclectic in sound, and identified search and anxiety as the main theme.
In October 2007, the release of Zemfira's new album "Thank you" took place, which the singer released on her own behalf, stating that the Zemfira group no longer exists, but there is only she - the singer Zemfira Ramazanova. The title track of the album was the composition "In the Metro", which the performer herself described as both combative and lyrical.
Before the presentation, the radio single “Boy” and the video clip for the song “We Break Up”, filmed by Renata Litvinova, were released. The singles prepared the audience for the upcoming album.
During the tour, a special single "10 Boys" was on sale at the concerts, containing ten remixes of the song "Boy", collected from works that people submitted to the Internet competition. At the same time, the film-concert "Green Theater in Zemfira" was presented, which was filmed by Litvinova during the singer's performance at the site of the same name in Gorky Park in Moscow.
The final concert of the tour was held at the Olimpiyskiy. According to the singer, the concert was being prepared for two years and became a major victory for Zemfira.
In 2009, Zemfira released a collection called "Z-sides", and also toured extensively in Russia and abroad. The singer is also working on the soundtrack for the arthouse film "Rita's Last Tale", filmed by her friend Renata Litvinova. In the same year, the singer recorded the single "Australia".
In 2010, Afisha magazine compiled a list of the 50 Best Russian Albums of All Time. Choice of young musicians. The debut album of the performer took fifth place in this list, and the album "Forgive me, my love" - 43rd. Zemfira also received an award from the Russian Authors' Society "For contribution to the development of science, culture and art."
In 2011, the singer released the singles "Money" and "No Chance".
Zemfira's next album was another breakthrough in the history of Russian rock. The disc "Live in your head" with an amazing combination of minimalism, style and sound accuracy said a new word in modern music. It set a new record in domestic online sales.
At the end of 2013, three songs were posted on iTunes, which almost immediately topped the Russian chart. The performer was a group, this Bashkir word means "triangle". According to the legend, described in the official community of the group on social networks, the band includes guitarist Bro, bassist and drummer Luka and vocalist Rocket, represented by animated characters.
The listeners immediately recognized Zemfira's characteristic vocals, and soon she herself announced the performance of her side project in the main concert hall "Russia", where the secret of the personalities of Bro and Luka was revealed: they turned out to be Zemfira's nephews, the twins Artem and Arthur Ramazanov.
At the end of 2103, Zemfira was awarded the MTV Europe Music Awards as the best Russian performer. In 2013, 2014 and 2015, the rock singer was included in the list of "One Hundred Most Influential Women in Russia".
At the end of October 2015, Zemfira announced the start of a new concert tour "Little Man".
Personal life
Zemfira's personal life for the entire musical career of the singer was filled with all sorts of rumors and speculation. The singer herself laid the foundation for this, at the very beginning announcing the upcoming wedding with the leader of the Dancing Minus group, which was nothing more than a publicity stunt. Since then, the press has unreasonably associated Zemfira's name either with the oligarch or with the director of the singer.
In recent years, journalists have been saying: Zemfira and Renata Litvinova are not just friends, supposedly women are connected by something more. There were even rumors in the media that the stars got married in Stockholm. Friends do not comment on this information. The secretive nature of the singer and her dislike for interviews allows journalists to only speculate about her private life.
In 2010, misfortune occurred in Zemfira's family - her older brother Ramil drowned in the river while spearfishing. A year earlier, the singer's father Talgat Talkhovich died of a long illness, and in early 2015 the singer died. Since then, the girl has been trying to take care of the remaining nephews Artur and Artem, therefore, at the end of 2013, Zemfira created a joint musical project with them. The singer has no children of her own.
Zemfira is dedicated to a page in " Instagram”, which is signed by 188 thousand people. The account is not verified, and the photos appearing in it are mainly taken at concerts and other social events.
Zemfira now
During the tour "Little Man" the performer visited more than 20 cities of the Russian Federation, as well as cities of near and far abroad. The first part of the huge tour started in February 2016 in Omsk and ended in April in Moscow, the second part took place abroad: in Israel, Germany, Great Britain, the United Arab Emirates, the USA and Canada.
During the large-scale tour "Little Man" Zemfira. Nevertheless, the singer continued to present, and even more so to distribute already recorded songs. Today, Zemfira's official website is a business card website. The page with a large black and white photo contains links to popular online music stores where you can buy Zemfira's tracks: Apple Music, Google play, Yandex. Music, Spotify, Deezer and Zvooq.
In 2016, Zemfira recorded a new track "Come back home".
In July 2017, journalists learned that Zemfira could write the soundtrack for the film Sevastopol 1952 about the Great Patriotic War. The directors of the film are negotiating with the singer.
Discography
- Forgive me, my love
- Fourteen weeks of silence
- Vendetta
- Thank you
- live in your head
Now there is probably no such person in the country who would not hall the singer, composer and poetess Zemfira. Many are interested in her personal life.
Bold, daring, more like a guy than a feminine girl, she became the creator and personification of a new trend in music called "female rock". Her songs are similar to herself: free, bold and daring. Her life will be discussed in the article.
Zemfira Ramazanova is one of those people who hides their personal lives. Her biography began in 1976 in Ufa. The girl was born in a Tatar-Bashkir family. Her parents are intellectuals. My father taught history at school, and my mother was a therapeutic gymnastics coach. Zemfira had an older brother, with whom they were very friendly.
The girl began to study music early. At the age of five, she already attended a music school and was a soloist in a children's choir. Once she even appeared on local television.
At the age of seven, the future celebrity composed her first song. During her school years, the girl was fond of the work of Viktor Tsoi and Thom Yorke. This markedly influenced her further development as a musician.
The future singer learned to play the guitar and performed the songs of the Kino group right on the street.
Zemfira was fond of basketball in parallel with music. She was the leader of the team, despite the fact that her height was shorter than the rest of the girls. This passion for sports was so strong that after graduation, the girl chose her future path between music and sports. Music won!
Zemfira entered the music school at the pop-jazz department. She was accepted immediately into the second course. During her studies, the girl began to earn extra money by singing songs in restaurants in Ufa. She was accompanied by a classmate on the saxophone.
The beginning of a creative career
After receiving a red diploma from the School of Arts, Zemfira went to work as a sound engineer at the Europa Plus radio station. At the same time, she sings in the Spectrum Ace group as the second vocalist.
At night, Zemfira composed her songs and recorded them on a computer. According to her personal words, she went to a friend in Moscow and captured her songs recorded on CDR. Here, for the first time in her life, she showed her songs.
In the capital, she got to the Fili recording studio. But she was refused, saying that they only accept cassettes. Zemfira left, but she left the notes to her friend. A few days later, her friend showed the recordings to the producer of the Mumiy Troll group. He liked Zemfira's songs so much that he called her in Ufa. I had to go back to Moscow.
The singer arrived in the capital with her new band. How she collected it is another story. They rehearsed in the building of a teenage club (Zemfira persuaded the director). The only thing missing from the band was a lead guitarist. They became Yuri Tsaler from Mumiy Troll.
Producer Leonid Burlakov gives the young talented singer to record her first disc, which was called Zemfira.
In her personal words: “There is so much music in my head that there is nowhere to go!” The release of the singer's first disc in the life took place in the 99th year. This album did not include only the song "Do not let go!". She will be on the second album.
It was a real success in the creative biography of the singer! Video clips were filmed for many songs.
Rise of popularity
Shortly after this, a tour of the newly minted group took place. The concerts were full house! Zemfira was simply covered by a wave of sudden popularity.
On March 24, 1999, the singer gave a press conference in a Moscow club. Moreover, she answered questions only in Bashkir. The audience immediately fell in love with the unusual, strange star.
In May, the presentation of the group's album took place. Grass was scattered across the stage. The singer herself wove a chamomile into her hair and during the song "Daisies" she guessed on it. It was unexpected and amazing!
In December of the same year, the group began to prepare for the recording of the second disc. The singer admitted that song titles have always been difficult for her. It's like naming a child!
At the beginning of the new year, stunning news swept through the country. Zemfira and her group won in the OM magazine nominations: "Best Performer of the Year", "Brawler of the Year", "Breakthrough of the Year" and "Album of the Year".
In March, the premiere of the group's second album entitled "Forgive me, my love" took place. He had even more success. The singer gave a big solo concert, which was also sold out. Her song "Looking for" sounded in the new film "Brother 2". But popularity tired the singer more than pleased. Therefore, she took a short vacation, taking part in only one project dedicated to Viktor Tsoi. There she sang his song "Cuckoo".
Glory was not without victims and sad incidents. During one of her concerts, a tragic incident occurred. People suffered as a result of a stampede at the stadium where the singer performed. The authorities and the police blamed Zemfira, but she did not understand what her fault was if more tickets were sold than the stadium could accommodate people.
This tragedy greatly upset the singer. She said that fame prevents her from working normally. She would like to abolish her popularity, that she should not be made into a guru or an idol. This prevents her from working.
Creativity of the singer
The creative style of the singer can be called rock or pop-rock. Some have dubbed it "female rock". In this style, there are recognizable different currents that existed at different times in music. This is Choi, and Susan Vega, and Alanis Morissette, and Bjork. Her singing is close to Aguzaros vocals. Sometimes you get the feeling when listening to her songs that they were recorded in the 80s.
The singer owns many musical instruments, which makes it possible to diversify her performances.
As for the lyrics of her songs - this is a separate issue. It raises topical issues of the time. Therefore, they are relevant and find a wide response in the hearts of listeners. For example, sometimes the problems of teenagers are visible in the songs (lack of money, desire for love and self-realization, etc.). Then the singer raises the topic of the terrible scourge of time - AIDS. The conclusion suggests itself as follows - sometimes you have to pay for love with illness and death.
Unusualness, brightness, creativity, courage, audacity - these are, in a few words, a characteristic of the creative direction created by the singer. It cannot be said that no one sang like that before her. But something in it catches, leads to ecstasy, makes you think.
Zemfira: A Love Story
She sings passionately about love. Her poems are filled with love. And it seems that Zemfira's songs are a cry from the soul, confessions, revelations. Perhaps the recording studio is the only place where she does not speak, but screams about her feelings. In other places, with other people and under other circumstances, she cannot be forced to speak out loud about personal things.
Zemfira's love story is shrouded in riddles, speculation and rumors. According to some sources, Zemfira Ramazanova herself spreads false information about herself. Many such novels, which allegedly became known, can be found in her biographical data. Which of them actually took place, Zemfira will not tell about this.
It is obvious that it is impossible to sing about love like that with an absolutely cold heart and a sober mind. To whom does Zemfira dedicate her most touching lines?
The star spoke openly about only one man in her life. Vlad Kolchin is her first love. A talented saxophonist studied with her at the same music school in Ufa. It seems that the music connected them. And this love was strong and true, according to the testimony of old friends of the singer.
Vlad Kolchin is far right
Vlad Kolchin himself recalled in an interview: “I was always strained by her strength, assertiveness, one might even say, male character traits. We often quarreled, yelled at each other until hoarse, fought to the point of blood. Because if she decided , he will never give up."
The novel of young musicians "ordered to live long". Vladislav literally broke Zemfira's heart when he left to conquer St. Petersburg. Rumor has it that he did not call her with him, despite the joint plans that the lovers had built before.
Then Zemfira found solace in the arms of a married man. It is difficult to call the singer's second novel serious and long-term. But at first she still made plans for the future with Sergei Anatsky. Perhaps that is why she was unable to hide her relationship with the head of the Europa Plus radio station from outsiders. They were often seen together, but ... Intoxicating conversations and passionate evenings did not lead to anything. Zemfira moved from Ufa to Moscow, putting an end to this love story.
Sergei Anatsky
Zemfira was lucky in the Russian capital. Her genius was recognized, she quickly became popular and wealthy. In the same period, the topic of personal life is a taboo for the star. Fans are interested in the details, journalists are beginning to "peep through the keyhole." Zemfira does not confirm or refute the information that the tabloid press is full of in any official interview.
But the public demands "bread and circuses" - so begins a series of her real and fictional lovers. And the singer herself started first. In 1999, she acted out love with her friend Vyacheslav Petkun. During this period of life, the taciturn Zemfira made vague hints of tender feelings, and also said that she was preparing for the wedding.
In March 2000, the false story collapsed and the singer again stopped going into the details of her personal life.
But a new fantastic article has appeared in the media that Zemfira is having a passionate affair with billionaire Roman Abramovich. Interestingly, he is her ardent admirer. It was rumored that the businessman sponsored the star group, but confirmation of their passionate love was never found.
At the same time, even more piquant stories about Zemfira begin to circulate. She begins dating her female director, Anastasia Kalmanovich. Nastya even divorced her husband and plunged headlong into feelings. The girls spent two years together. The novel was flavored with violent quarrels and reconciliations, but the romantic tandem broke up. The reasons for the final separation were never leaked to the press, and the singer herself, as you know, stopped commenting on even indisputable facts about her.
In 2005, Zemfira began to appear in the company of Renata Litvinova. Girls spend all the time together: work, parties, weekends and holidays. And again, no comment. They evade questions about each other, calling their relationship purely friendly. For some reason no one believes in it. But what's the difference?
She sings her songs like that and writes her music like that, while she loves so much.
