It's hard to believe, but today, August 26, Zemfira Ramazanova will be 40 years old. The presentation of her first album took place in 1999. During this time, she turned into a musical legend, and her life was overgrown with all sorts of speculation. StarHit chose five myths and tested them.
Myth 1. The Uchpochmack fell apart, and the singer's nephews went abroad (True)
After the death of her parents and brothers, Zemfira has no one closer than her nephews, 26-year-old Arthur and Artem Ramazanov. Three years ago, she sang with them in The Uchpochmack. “Their album First and Last was the only one,” Dmitry Emelyanov, the band’s guitarist, told StarHit. - We performed together, but the group did not last long. The last time I saw the guys was in 2014.”
Having traveled for a year on tour with an aunt, the nephews returned to their native Ufa. “Artem and Arthur are still making music, they write songs in their studio, but few people are allowed to listen to them,” Yevgenia Ostapenko, cousin of the Ramazanovs, shared with StarHit. - They sing for friends or for relatives at home gatherings. They don’t think about getting married yet, although there are many fans. Yes, and the thoughts of the guys now are about something else. At the end of August they fly to London, they will study at the pop vocal faculty. A few years ago they were already in England, just mastering the directing business. Then Zemfira helped them.”
In the meantime, the guys are in Ufa, Artem helps his mother Natalya Vladimirovna. She is a businesswoman and is the founder of Forward CJSC, which supplies products to the supermarket chain.
MYTH 2. ZEMFIRA'S FIRST LOVE IS A MUSICIAN FROM UFA (THE IMAGINATION)
More than once they wrote that the first love of the star was Vladislav Kolchin, they performed in the Ufa restaurant "Jespar" in the mid-90s. In his autobiographical book "Music as a Chance to Beat Multiple Sclerosis" - its presentation will take place on September 14 - Vlad spoke about the fight against the disease and devoted an entire chapter to the singer. In it, he revealed the truth about their relationship - the future star was just a cover for Kolchin. An old friend writes the following: "... The owner of the institution showed interest in me ... Zemfira, just in case, fearing for my safety, played the role of my girlfriend as best she could."
MYTH 3. RAISED A HAND TO A MAN (TRUE)
// Photo: From the personal archive of Leonid Burlakov
“Zemfira was at the center of a scandal...” - such headlines can often be found in the press. Even friends know that it is better not to fall under the hot hand of the singer.
“A slap can be slapped on anyone,” recalls musician Vlad Kolchin. - Bandits often gathered at the Jespar restaurant. One day they got tipsy and started ordering songs. One Zemfira flatly refused to perform. Then one skinhead came up, bent over her and began to whisper something. Zemfira, as usual at such moments, fell silent and listened attentively. When the speech ended, she coolly slapped him in the face and rushed to the back room. In the hall began disassembly, noise, screams. We were protected by the restaurant guards, and in order to hush up the conflict, I had to call the gangsters I knew.
Why the singer behaves this way, her first producer Leonid Burlakov explained: “Insolence and rudeness are the usual defense against people. In fact, Zemfira is a sincere and attentive person. A year and a half ago, she called me to see how things were going. She said that she was in Ufa with her mother. I handed the phone to Florida Khakievna. She thanked me for helping my daughter in her musical career. And I said thank you for Zemfira. She also adores children and next to them she herself turns into a child. Once my daughter Masha and I stopped by to visit her. She not only welcomed us cordially, but also fried delicious cheesecakes.”
MYTH 4. THE SINGER HAS A SERIOUS ILLNESS (THIS IS A FAKE)
“To work like Zemfira, you need a lot of strength,” says producer Leonid Burlakov. - No doping will help, but will only interfere. Zemfira understands this. She has been performing live for almost 20 years."
But the star does have health problems.
“She has a chronic disease, she constantly complained of pain in her left ear,” recalls journalist and producer Alexander Kushnir. - I remember that when she first moved to Moscow, she had no money and no registration. I helped her with the doctors. Among my friends there were specialists of the highest qualification.
A few years ago, an old disease - chronic otitis media - worsened, and the singer even ended up in the hospital.
MYTH 5. LIVES IN AN EMPTY APARTMENT (TRUE)
“If you ever visit her, you will see that the singer uses only three items,” says Leonid Burlakov. - This is a sofa - she sits on it, a table - for work, a piano - for writing music. Zemfira is not a fan of things, and by and large she does not care what she is wearing. And yes, taste is a problem. Outwardly, she was transformed under Nastya Kalmanovich and Renata Litvinova, who had a hand in her style. She cares more about other things. I remember with what enthusiasm Zemfira was looking for an amplifier for bass. I ordered it from London, and when I received it, I was happy as a child.”
By the way, on the cover of the first album of the singer "Zemfira" there is also nothing superfluous - only floral wallpaper from her first rented apartment. “She then lived in Peredelkino,” recalls journalist and producer Alexander Kushnir. - That's where the picture was taken. And when it became clear that the album exploded, they made a witty gift for the insiders - they released a limited edition of CDs, only 999 pieces. A beautiful brown chair was added to the cover, as a sign that there used to be only wallpaper, and now there is money for furniture. Now this record costs unthinkable money, and I have it.
// Photo: Personal archive of Leonid Burlakov
Our today's article will be of interest to everyone who is a fan of the domestic rock scene. You will be able to get acquainted with the life and creative milestones of the popular Russian rock singer, who writes her own lyrics - Zemfira.
Some journalistic publications note that she gave rise to a new direction in music called female rock. Not surprising, because she really brought many new features to the domestic scene, which influenced a large number of musical groups. In other words, she turned the page and opened up new trends for domestic rock music. Needless to say, the popularity that she won in the territory of the CIS countries over the twenty years of her musical career.
Very often, fans are interested in various data regarding a particular person. It can be a sign of the Zodiac, hometown and so on. Do not forget about external data that, for one reason or another, attracts the attention of the public. Of course, our today's singer is no exception, and fans are interested in her height, weight, age. How old is Zemfira - young people and older people ask. Not surprising, since several generations have passed since she began her musical career.
There is nothing special to hide here, and the information is available to any user - Zemfira's height is just over 172 centimeters, and her weight is 58 kilograms. Last summer, Zemfira celebrated her 41st birthday. Photos in her youth and now will confirm that for so many years she has hardly changed in appearance.
Biography 👉 Zemfira
Zemfira's biography begins in the city of Ufa, in 1976. The family had Tatar-Bashkir roots, which, one way or another, was reflected in the appearance of the singer. Father Talgat Talkhovich worked at a school, and his mother Florida Khakievna was engaged in physical therapy. Also, her older brother, Ramil, was brought up in the family. By the way, the real name of the future performer is Zemfira Ramazanova.
She began to show her desire for music at an early age. As a five-year-old girl, Zemfira is sent to a music school, where she learns to play the piano and sings in the choir along the way. Even then, she appeared on local TV channels, where she performed children's songs.
At the age of seven, Zemfira composes her own musical composition, where she was first presented to the public at her mother's work. While at school, she is fond of the work of the Kino group, and in the future she will tell that this significantly influenced her musical views.
Despite her relatively small height, Zemfira played basketball and was the captain of the youth team of the Russian Federation. Because of this, before graduation, there was a choice - to go in for sports or music. After a little thought, she decides to give preference to the second and enters the school of the city of Ufa, where she studies pop-jazz vocals. Being in her second year, Zemfira begins to earn extra money - she performs famous songs in the restaurants of her native city. And already in 1996, she got a job at a radio station. Around the same time, the first recordings of their own songs were released.
Radical changes took place in the life of the singer a year later, when one of her recordings came to the producer of Mumiy Troll. He invites Zemfira to record a full-length album, and already in 1998 a full-length album was released. Some songs from there appeared on the radio even before the official release, and the first crowds of fans began to appear.
Biography of Zemfira
Childhood. Zemfira Talgatovna Ramazanova was born on August 26, 1976 in Ufa. The parents of the future star were not connected with music, but the girl got involved in creativity early - at the age of five, she began learning to play the piano at a music school. She was a soloist in the choir, additionally played the guitar. She wrote a song at the age of seven. Her passion for rock music was passed on to her from her brother. She attended several circles, but she gave preference to music and basketball: she was the captain of the junior team of the country, she graduated with honors from a music school.
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Career. 1996-1998. After school, she successfully passes the entrance exams at the School of Arts, she is immediately enrolled in the second year. He graduated from his studies in 1997 with honors. For a short time, the future star with her friend Vlad Kolchin performed in restaurants. From the 96th, her work begins on radio "Europe +" in Ufa. At the same time, works were written that became hits - “Why”, “Snow”, “Forecaster”. In 1998, a rock group called "Zemfira" was created. On June 19, the team made its debut at the celebration of the anniversary of the local radio "Silver Rain".
At the Maksidrome rock festival, the recordings of the future star get to Leonid Burlakov. It was he who suggested that the talented performer make the first album. 1999 In the autumn of 1999, work began on an album named after the singer at the Tonstudio of the Mosfilm film concern. On November 7, it was completed. In February, the songs "AIDS" (an absolute hit of the season), "Rockets" and "Arivederchi" appear on the country's radio stations. In the spring, clips are shot for the popular compositions "AIDS" and "Arivederchi". At a briefing on March 24, 1999, the rising star is introduced to the media. May 8 - presentation of her debut work in the famous club "16 tons". Since September, tours around the country begin, which lasted until the beginning of 2000. By the end of 1999, remixes for the songs "Snow", "London Sky" were recorded. Zemfira's performances begin to be broadcast on television. On December 11, the group was invited as a headliner to the largest national rock music festival "Invasion". Since December, work on the next collection has already begun. year 2000. On March 28, the new album “P. M. M. L. ”, which surpassed the mark of 1,500,000 copies in sales, becoming the best-selling. In August, the rock star receives the Shaikhzada Babich Award for special achievements in the field of art. 2001-2002. In 2001, she was awarded the "Record" award in the "Performer of the Year" and "Album of the Year" nominations. In April 2002, another collection of "Fourteen Minutes of Silence" appeared. He wins in the nomination for the award of the Muz-TV channel "Album of the Year". Then the award in the field of the highest achievements of art "Triumph" was won. 2004-2006. In 2004, the singer entered the Faculty of Philosophy at Moscow State University. But in winter, he takes academic leave to record an album and never returns to study. On October 16, 2004, the award ceremony of the MTV-Russia RMA channel took place, where Zemfira sang "We Are The Champions" with the legendary rock band Queen. March 1, 2005 was the presentation of the new work "Vendetta". Critics greeted her with enthusiasm, calling her the second take-off of the singer. In 2005, the video clips and compositions of "Vendetta" were nominated in several categories for the award of the MTV-Russia RMA channel, the video for the composition "Blues" was awarded the prize. 2007-2010. At the beginning of 2007, a DVD with video clips “Zemfira. DVD". In the spring, the Deja Vu tour begins with already well-known songs in a new arrangement. In October 2007, the release of the album "Thank you", which includes 12 songs, begins, the next tour begins, ending with a concert at the "Olympic". On February 21, 2008, the premiere of the musical film by Renata Litvinova "Green Theater in Zemfira" took place. On January 1, 2010, the concert collection “Zemfira. Live 2" recorded on the "Thank You" tour. In August 2010, a collection of previously unreleased songs written from the beginning of his creative activity until 2006, Z-Sides, was released. 2011-2013. Work is underway on the next album "Live in your head." July 2012 was marked by a performance at the Olimpiyskiy at a Queen concert. The year 2012 is devoted to work on the music for the next directorial work by Renata Litvinova "Rita's Last Fairy Tale". 2013 began with a tour of Zemfira. Tour 2013, which included performances in 50 cities. At the same time, the TV channel MTV Europe Music Awards received the award in the category "Best Russian Performer". 2015-2016. In the fall of 2015, it becomes known about the Little Man concert tour. There will be performances in 20 Russian cities, in Belarus, the Baltic states. The tour started from Omsk in February 2016 and ended in April in Moscow. This is the final tour of Zemfira Talgatovna. “It’s hard, troublesome, nervous,” she explains the refusal to tour, but she will not refuse concerts and songwriting.
Zemfira's personal life
There are many rumors about Zemfira's private life. It is known that she is not married, there are no children. Her first hobby back in Ufa was Vlad Kolchin. Their romance ended with Vlad's departure to St. Petersburg. For some time, the singer lived in a civil marriage with sound engineer Arkady Mukhtarov. They broke up because of his passion for alcohol. At the beginning of her career, she announced her wedding to Vyacheslav Petkun, the leader of the Dancing Minus group, but this was just a PR move.
Information appeared in the press about the closeness of the singer with Roman Abramovich, and later - about relations with Anastasia Kalmanovich. In recent years, the media have claimed that Zemfira and Renata Litvinova have a closer relationship than just friendship, but the girls leave such information without comment. Dislike for interviews and secrecy allows journalists to speculate about the singer's personal life. Millions of fans love her for who she is. The rock singer, the idol of several generations, has not lost her popularity over the years.
She graduated from the pop vocal department of the Ufa College of Arts.
Since 1996, she worked as an operator at the Ufa branch of radio "Europe Plus". At the same time, she wrote her first songs: "Why", "Snow", "Forecaster".
In early 1998, she organized her own group "Zemfira". For the first time, the group performed on June 19 of the same year at a celebration dedicated to the birthday of the Silver Rain - Ufa radio.
The recording of the group came to Leonid Burlakov, the producer of the Mumiy Troll group, and he decided to record an album with the new group. Work on the debut album continued for several months, and in May 1999 the presentation of the Zemfira album took place. The album became very popular and quickly sold out in large numbers throughout Russia.
In September 1999, in Moscow, the singer began her first concert tour, which ended in early January 2000 in Riga.
In March 2000, the next album of the singer was presented, called "Forgive me, my love." In 2000, this album became the leader in sales in Russia, the circulation of the album exceeded one and a half million copies.
The first big solo concert of the singer was held with great success on April 1, 2000 in the capital's sports complex "Olympic".
In 2002, the third album "Fourteen Weeks of Silence" was released. The album includes 13 new songs. By this time, Zemfira completely changed the composition of the group. The tour in support of the new record started in Chelyabinsk in April.
In March 2004, she released the album "Vendetta" and in May began a new tour. In the same year, she was admitted to the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, but during her studies she took academic leave to record the next album, after which she did not begin to recover at the university.
A significant event in Zemfira's life was the performance on October 16, 2004, together with the Queen group, with the song We Are The Champions at the MTV Russia Awards ceremony.
On June 13, 2006, the singer performed in St. Petersburg at the "Stop Counterfeit" festival together with the Scorpions.
In 2007, Zemfira continued to perform with concerts, held the Deja Vu tour, during which she performed songs from previously released albums. In the same year, she released a DVD with clips Zemfira.DVD, which also included a clip shot by Renata Litvinova.
In October 2007, the album "Thank you" was released with songs written in 2006-2007. After the release of the album, Zemfira held a tour that ended with a final concert on April 1, 2008 in Moscow at the Olimpiyskiy.
In the same period, a film was released on the screens, shot by director Renata Litvinova during a concert in the "Green Theater" of the park. Gorky June 8, 2007.
On March 21, 2009, an album of b-sides (songs not previously released on numbered albums) Z-Sides appeared on the Internet. The singer planned to release this album a few years ago, but postponed the release due to work on the albums "Vendetta" and "Thank you".
On January 1, 2010, on New Year's Eve, the second "live" album "Zemfira.Live2" appeared on the singer's website. The album includes 11 songs recorded during the "Thank you" tour.
On February 14, 2013, the sixth studio album "Live in your head" was released on the Yandex.Music service. Its official release took place on February 15, 2013. The income from the album sales for the first month amounted to two million rubles, which was a record for online sales of works by Russian artists.
In total, Zemfira has released six studio and two live albums (including an album of b-sides). Most often, she produces her albums herself.
Many of Zemfira's songs became very popular and topped the charts in Russia. Among them are such compositions as "Sky of London", "Arividerchi", "Do you want", "Daisies", "Infinity", "We are breaking", etc.
In 2008, Zemfira became the producer of the film "Green Theater in Zemfira", which was highly appreciated by critics.
In 2012, Zemfira and Renata Litvinova became the producers of the film "Rita's Last Tale". In addition, Zemfira wrote the musical score for this film. The picture took part in the Odessa and Moscow film festivals.
The singer began the Little Man tour. During a concert in Nizhny Novgorod, Zemfira said that this tour would be her last. The first part of the tour covered 20 cities in Russia and neighboring countries and ended with two concerts in Moscow on April 1 and 3, the second part will open on September 26 with the only concert in Russia in Yekaterinburg. After that, the singer will give concerts in Germany, the UK, the USA and Canada.
The singer is actively involved in charitable activities. She directs the funds from the concerts to financially support large families, orphans, and for the treatment of cancer patients.
In 2000, Zemfira was awarded the State Youth Prize of the Republic of Bashkortostan in the field of culture named after Shaikhzada Babich.
In 2003 she became the winner of the Russian youth award "Triumph" for outstanding achievements in the field of culture and art and the MUZ-TV award for the best album ("Fourteen Weeks of Silence").
In 2008, Zemfira received the prize of the annual music award in the field of rock and roll "Chartova Dozen. Top 13" in two categories: "soloist of the year" and "music" (for the song "We are breaking" from the album "Thank you").
In June 2008, the singer became twice the winner of the Stepnoy Volk alternative direction award, established by music critic Artemy Troitsky.
In 2010, she became a laureate of the honorary award "For contribution to the development of science, culture and art" of the Russian Authors' Society (RAO).
In 2013, Zemfira received the MTV Europe Music Awards in the category "Best Russian Performer".
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources
Today, August 26, marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most popular non-pop singers in our country - Zemfira. 17 years have passed since the release of her first album, but she still remains a very popular and successful performer. Next, we propose to trace how Zemfira's image has changed over the years.
Nizhny Novgorod, November 1999, Zemfira 22 years old
November 1999 Zemfira's debut album was released in May, and over the summer half the country learned all fourteen songs by heart. Then Zemfira was known as a singer, open and promoted by Ilya Lagutenko and Mumiy Troll's manager Leonid Burlakov. Zemfira was a discovery, but no one could yet say with certainty that she had a long history ahead of her, and not short-term success, as happens with young stars.
Ufa, August 2000, 23 years old
In the spring of 2000, the second album "Forgive me, my love" was released. Zemfira quickly showed her character, abandoning the producers and taking control of the music and design of the record in her own hands.
The tour in support of "Forgive Me, My Love" came out so hard that the singer was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. “I just needed to rest. Otherwise, something bad would have happened to me ... Maybe it's wrong that I admit it, but for the last three or four concerts I played with hatred. I hated the songs, the speakers, the audience, myself. I counted the number of songs left until the end of the concert. When it all ended, I didn’t leave the house for two or three months, but just stupidly sat on the Internet, ”said Zemfira.
At the festival in Batumi, August 2002
After recovering from the tour, Zemfira began writing the third album, Fourteen Weeks of Silence. As is the case with most of the singer's records, the work took a lot of time - as much as her perfectionism demanded. The album was released on April 1, 2002.
Moscow, Zemfira 28 years
In 2004, Zemfira performed with Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor, who came to the premiere of the musical We will rock you. With May, the guitarist of one of her favorite bands, Zemfira became friends.
In 2004, Renata Litvinova's film "Goddess: How I Loved" was released, the music for which Zemfira wrote together with Igor Vdovin, a former member of the Leningrad group. Zemfira also worked with him on her fourth album - it was supposed to be semi-electronic, in the spirit of the song "Walk". But when the album was almost ready, Zemfira abruptly changed course and remade most of the tracks. Released in the spring of 2005, "Vendetta" turned out to be predominantly hard-rock. They say that the singer was influenced by the album “Civil Defense”, released the day before, “Long Happy Life”.
At a concert in the Kiev Palace of Sports, October 2005
Zemfira began recording an album, which was released in 2007 under the name "Thank you." Zemfira appeared in the new work calm, contemplative and grateful to the Creator for life. The singer herself called the album very positive: “As a result of some internal storms, I understood a lot. If Vendetta was restless, I was looking for something, then here I found it.
April 2008
The big tour dedicated to the Thank You album ended with a large-scale concert in Moscow - Zemfira's first solo performance at the Olimpiysky.
Zemfira at a press conference in 2010
In 2010, the singer released a collection of songs that were not included in previous albums, called "Z-sides".
At the "Afisha Picnic" in July 2011, Zemfira - 35
After a long break, Zemfira performed in front of a large audience at the Afisha Picnic in the summer of 2011.
Zemfira and Renata Litvinova
Zemfira also wrote music for the second directorial work of Renata Litvinova - the film "Rita's Last Tale".
Zemfira at the closing ceremony of the XXVII World Summer Universiade 2013 at the Kazan Arena stadium
In the summer of 2012, Zemfira announced that she would not be giving interviews for the foreseeable future. At the beginning of 2013, Zemfira's last album to date, "Live in your head", was released.
Picnic "Afisha" in Kolomenskoye, 2015
St. Petersburg, March 2016
In February 2016, the singer announced that she no longer wanted to go on tour. Her tour "Little Man", which ended with two sold-out concerts at the "Olympic", may be the last, although the singer does not refuse one-time performances.
