Podolskaya, Natalya Yuryevna (singer)

Born May 20, 1982 in Mogilev . Father - Yuri Alekseevich, lawyer. Mother - Nina Antonovna, director of the exhibition hall. She has a twin sister Juliana, an older sister Tatyana and a younger brother Andrei ^{[1] [2]} .

At the age of 9 she entered the Rainbow Theater Studio ^[3] . She began to sing at Studio W of the Mogilev Lyceum of Music and Choreography. She won as a teenager the grand prix of the television competition of young performers Zornaya Rostan (Belarus), the international festival of sacred music Magutny Bozha (Mogilev) and Goldenfest (Poland) ^[4] . From 1999 to 2004 she studied law at the Belarusian Institute of Law , graduated with honors ^[5] . In 2002-2003 she became a finalist at the national Belarusian television festival “At the Crossroads of Europe”.

In 2002 she moved to Moscow and entered the vocal department at the Moscow Institute of Modern Art , where Tamara Miansarova taught her singing lessons ^[6] . She became famous in 2002, after participating in the music festival " Slavic Bazaar " in Vitebsk. In the same year, in Prague , at the international festival "Universetalent Prague 2002" she won in the categories "Best Song" and "Best Singer".

In March 2004, Podolskaya participated in the qualifying round for Eurovision 2004 from Belarus. In 2004, having passed the casting , I got into the project of the “First Channel” “ Star Factory-5 ” ^[7] .

December 17, 2004 released the debut album "Late." The disc includes 13 compositions written by Victor Drobysh , Elena Stuf, Igor Kaminsky and Arthur Baido ^[8] . The song "Late" became a hit, long time was in the top five popular compositions according to the hit parade of the First Channel “ Golden Gramophone ”. On December 20, the final concert of Star Factory-5 took place at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex . According to the results of the audience vote, Natalia Podolskaya took 3rd place.

Eurovision 2005

In February 2005, the Russian national selection for the Eurovision song contest took place. Natalia won the selection final and represented Russia with the song “Nobody Hurt No One” at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kiev . In May, in preparation for participating in the Eurovision Song Contest, Podolskaya participated in a promotion tour in countries: Greece , Belgium , Croatia , Bulgaria , Moldova , Ukraine , Belarus . The singer’s management released the single “Nobody Hurt No One”, which contained 4 versions of the track (Euroversion, Radio Version and 2 remixes) + bonus track “Late”. On May 21, the final of the Eurovision 2005 contest was held in Kiev. Natalia Podolskaya spoke at number 20, according to the results of the vote she took 15th place.

Podolskaya said that she was very painfully experiencing her defeat. “What happened after the performance, I practically do not remember. My heart was racing, I was in a state of passion. If she killed a person at that moment, I would definitely get away with it ” ^[9] ,” she said. The 15th place was for the singer “a complete surprise and personal fiasco”, but at the same time a useful lesson that taught her a lot ^[9] .

After Eurovision

In 2005, on the “ Russian Radio ”, Natalia Podolskaya’s song “One” was performed, and later a video was shot for this song. In early 2006, the clip was shown on music channels, and also hit the rotation on MTV . “One” reaches the first place in the MTV charts “SMS-chart”.

Podolskaya tours Russia, performs new songs, such as “Turn off the light”, “Blown out, flew over”, “Swirls of days”, “From the earth to heaven”. In March 2006, another song by the singer, “Light the Fire in the Sky,” appeared on Russian Radio. The chorus of the song is reminiscent of the style of Nobody Hurt No one. On "Russian Radio Belarus" the song falls into the top three. The Fresh Art trio worked on the video clip. They became not only stylists, but also directors ^[10] . With the song “Light the Fire in the Sky” Podolskaya performs at the festival of the First Channel “New Songs about the Main”.

In the personal life of the singer, changes are taking place. She begins to meet with singer Vladimir Presnyakov ^[11] , and also takes part in various projects. One of these was the new TV show "Robot Child" on TNT ^[12] . In the same year he again takes part in the program “Full Contact: Next Generation Against the Stars of the 90s”, where he competes with Alena Apina . On the set, Podolskaya performed the new song “Have you ever been” ^[13] . On December 13, 2006, the “Battle of the Year. Full contact ”, Podolskaya performed the song“ One ”and a duet with Vladimir Presnyakov“ The Wall ” ^[14] .

I tried myself as a model ^[15] . At the final festival "New songs about the main 2006" Podolskaya sings a new song "Have you ever been."

March 11, 2007 on the Internet portal TopHit there was a new song of Podolsk “My Man” ^[16] . She performed it at various concerts (such as "New Songs about the Essentials", "5 Stars", "New Wave") both solo and in a duet with Vladimir Presnyakov . On March 2, she performed at the Luzhniki Stadium in the MTV concert “Baboon Riot” with the song “One” and the number “Freedom” together with singer Sasha and Anastasia Stotskaya . At the contest "New Wave" Podolskaya in a duet with Presnyakov sang the song "My Man." The same song became the laureate of “New Songs about the Main 2007”. On September 6, the song “Firebird” ^{[17] was released} , which was recorded in Finland ^[18] . The song was created by composer Sergei Aristov and poet Olga Korotnikova . The song fell into the rotation of "Russian Radio" and other radio stations. On average, the track was broadcast over 58 thousand times ^[19] . The producer of the singer decided to make a video for the song “Firebird”. On November 8, the shooting of the clip took place. Marat Adelshin became the director ^[20] . The video was released in late 2007 - early 2008. In 2008, Natalia received the citizenship of the Russian Federation ^[21] .

Podolskaya and Presnyakov with Leonid Agutin and Angelika Varum jointly performed the song “Be a part of yours”. The song was first performed at the New Wave contest. The quartet composition was rotated on radio stations. She stayed for several weeks in the charts of the Russian radio Golden Gramophone, and also became the laureate of Songs of the Year 2008. Victor Drobysh wrote the song “You are with me” for Podolskaya and Presnyakov in the words of Shakhmatova . The composition did not receive wide rotation on the radio, but it could be heard occasionally on Radio Mayak and Radio Dacha ^[22] . The clip for this song hit the rotation on “ MuzTV ”, MTV , Music Box , “Music of the First”, RU.TV and other music television channels. The song becomes the laureate of “Songs of the Year 2009”.

The premiere of the song “Love-Drug” took place on August 26 at TopHit. Music and words were written by O. Popkov. The song fell into rotation on the radio stations “Radio Dacha”, “Radio Alla”, “Radio Mayak”, “First Musical” and “ Humor FM ”. television.

Since 2010

In March 2010, the contract expired between Podolsk and the production center of Victor Drobysh “National Music Corporation”, after which the singer became an “independent creative unit” ^[23] . The consequence of the contract termination was the possibility of stage experiments: in Minsk in 2010, Podolskaya and Presnyakov gave a joint concert with Leonid Agutin and Angelika Varum ^[24] .

The first independent work was the new track, recorded in collaboration with Israeli DJs Noel Gitman, “Let's Go”. Podolskaya first performed music in the style of progressive trance ^[25] . In 2010, at the festival “ Slavic Bazaar ” in Vitebsk, Podolskaya performed the song “Pride”, the words and music of which were written by Vika “Yasha” Dayneko, daughter of Valery Dayneko from “ Belarusian Songs ”. A dance arrangement of a song for rotation on dance radio stations ^[26] was released, which was helped by DJ Ruslan Nigmatulin . In late August, the video for the song “Pride” was filmed, and the singer’s twin sister Julia took part in them ^[27] ; the presentation of this clip was held in the club "Clouds" ^[28] . The clip got into rotation on the Russian MusicBox channel, and a little later it began to be broadcast on Music of the First, MuzTV , MTV.

At the New Wave contest of young performers in Jurmala, Podolskaya sang in a duet with singer Angelika Varum, “The day went out again”. Became the laureate of the festival “Song of the Year 2010”. In 2011, she took part in the project “Star Factory. “Return”, where graduates of the “Star Factory” of different years compete, as part of the team of producer Viktor Drobysh.

The song "Rain" for Podolskaya and Presnyakov was written by Sergey Trofimov. The song premiered in March 2011 at the concert of Igor Nikolaev and Yulia Proskuryakova “One hope for love” ^[29] . The song lasted 7 weeks on the Radio Chart of the Red Star charts ^[30] . The song also hit the summary radio chart for September, October and November ^[30] . The duet composition “Rain” became the laureate of the festival “Song of the Year 2011”.

On December 22, a new song by Podolsky “Winter” appeared on the TopHit.Ru portal ^[31] . The video was directed by photographer Vladimir Shirokov] ^[32] .

March 7, 2012 on the radio station " First Popular " appeared a new track Podolskaya - "Intuition" ^[33] , the author of which was Egor Solodovnikov . The song appeared on the air of other radio stations: Radio Dacha , RU.FM , Militia Wave , Love Radio . Sergey Tkachenko shot the clip for this composition. In the “Music of the First” Parade, the clip reaches high lines, as in TOP 10 on the Musicbox and “10 Girls” on RU.TV. The clip is in hot rotation throughout the summer season and early fall.

At the end of June 2012, the media reported that a new composition called “Let They Speak”, also written by Yegor Solodovnikov, and then a clip for it ^[34] will be released in the fall. The song kicked off on August 17 on First Popular Radio. October 17 in China, where, together with representatives of the Russian stage, participates in the event "Days of Russian Culture in China." In addition to performing Russian songs at the festival, Natalia also became the host of this event ^[35] .

In mid-November, the official version of the “Winter” video clip, shot back in January, appeared on the Internet. The clip gained over 400 thousand views in a couple of weeks. On December 4, Podolskaya presented this video on the RU.TV channel in the “Table of Orders” program, and also announced that in 2013 she plans to release an album ^[35] .

In January 2013, the DJ Smash album “New World” was released, the title track of which was duet work with Podolskaya. Soon the media reported that the track "New World" will become the main song for the film "12 months", which will be released at the end of April 2013 ^[36] . In February, the track was slightly modified and rewritten specifically for the film. On March 29, the premiere video for the new version of this song was premiered on the ELLO Internet channel. In late February, Podolskaya introduced a new official website. In early April, information appeared on it that the singer, along with Presnyakov, presented the new song “ Kisslorod ” in May, and on April 19-21 the shooting of the clip, directed by Alan Badoev , took place in Kiev ^[37] . The video came out on the screens of music television channels in late May.

On September 12, 2013, a solo concert was held by Podolskaya in the Moscow club Alma Mater, where she presented a new song from the album Heart. October 15, 2013 released the second album entitled "Intuition". The album was recorded in a mixed style - it combines pop music, pop rock and ballads. The track list included 14 songs, including Intuition, Kisslorod, Winter, Day Out Again, The Firebird and The New World.

From March 2 to June 8, 2014, she participated in the First Channel project, Just Like , where she took 3rd place. In the spring of 2014, she released the song "Real Love." In the fall, she introduced the song "Far Away." and on November 14, a big concert of Podolskaya and Presnyakov took place at Crocus City Hall in Moscow. In January 2015, a new video was shot for the song “There is Far”, the director was S. Tkachenko. Podolskaya returned to the scene after the birth of her son. A new composition “I Remember Everything” was also presented in a duet with Vladimir Presnyakov. In the fall of 2015, a video was shot for the song.

Personal life

June 5, 2010 Natalia Podolskaya married singer Vladimir Presnyakov Jr. ^{[5] [38]} . They met on the set of the program " Big Race " in 2005. The wedding ceremony was held in the capital’s church of the Holy Unmercenary Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka . The " honeymoon " in Thailand , which the press wrote about, according to the singer, was invented by journalists ^{[24] [39]} .

At the end of January 2015, it became known that they were expecting the birth of their first child in late spring - early summer ^[40] . June 5, Natalia Podolskaya gave birth to a son Artemy ^[41] . On July 19 of the same year, the parents christened the boy in the Moscow church of the holy disembodied Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka ^[42] .

• 2004 - Late
• 2013 - Intuition

• 2003 - Unstoppable
• 2004 - Everybody Dance
• 2004 - Late
• 2005 - Nobody Hurt No One
• 2005 - One
• 2006 - Light a Fire in the Sky
• 2007 - Firebird
• 2008 - Nobody and Never
• 2009 - Love Drug
• 2009 — Быть частью твоего (квартет)
• 2010 — Гордость
• 2011 — Дождь (с Владимиром Пресняковым)
• 2012 — Интуиция
• 2012 — Зима
• 2013 — Новый мир (c DJ Smash!!)
• 2013 — KISSлород (с Владимиром Пресняковым)
• 2013 — Прощаю
• 2014 — Там далеко
• 2015 — Я всё помню (с Владимиром Пресняковым)
• 2016 — Дыши (с Владимиром Пресняковым)
• 2017 — Маму я не обману
• 2017 — Ни много ни мало
• 2017 — Землянин
• 2017 — Проиграл
• 2018 — Сильная Слабая

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