Alyosha (singer)

Alena Kucher was born on May 14, 1986 in the city of Zaporozhye in the family of a policeman, traffic police officer Alexander Nikolaevich Kucher and Lyudmila Fedorovna Kucher ^[7] , a worker at an aircraft factory, Alena has two brothers, one of them is Ruslan Kucher ^{[8] [9] [10 ] ]} . Alena's father is a fisherman, and therefore she sold fish in her childhood ^[11] . The Alena brothers practiced karate and kung-fu , she helped them to train, they also took her to their company and called her Lyoshka, more often just Leo ^[12] . During her school years, she sang in the choir and worked in the music studio of popular music "Youth", under the guidance of Honored Worker of Culture Vladimir Artemyev (his pupil, in particular, is Alexander Panayotov ). After school, she graduated from the pop vocal department at the Kiev National University of Culture and Arts .

In 2006, Alyona won the international competition "Yalta-2006". Two years later, the singer won the first prize at the International Festival "Songs of the Sea" (2008) in Sevastopol . In 2009, she signed a contract with the production center “ Catapult music ”, where she received her stage name ^[13] .

Ukrainian listeners singer conquered the song "Snow". In December 2009, a video was filmed on "Snow".

Elena herself writes the words and music for her songs. For example, she wrote the music for the song "To be free" . She is also the author of some songs by Nastya Kamensky , Natalia Mogilevsky , the duet Potap and Nasty Kamensky ^[14] .

Singer Alyosha with her song "To Be Free" was selected for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 as a result of the National Vote. At the same time, Alesha scored the same number of points with another applicant - Masha Sobko . After deliberation, the jury decided in favor of Alyosha ^[15] .

On March 21, 2010, a scandal broke out, the reason for which was the information that Alyosha’s contest song is a plagiarism ^[16] . The song “To Be Free” , according to the official legend, was written back in 1977 in the United States and all this time has been waiting for its performer. For Eurovision song writing time is not significant. According to the rules of the competition, it is only important that the song not be performed publicly six months before the competition (that is, before October 1, 2009). However, since April 12, 2008, the song is available for download on the German Amazon (under the name Alonya).

March 22, 2010 it became known that the song "To Be Free" does not comply with the rules of the European Broadcasting Union . The song was removed from the contest, and on March 25 Alyosha presented a new song, with which she went to the contest: “Sweet People” ^[17] .

“Sweet People” is a song-appeal to people with a call to protect our planet. The song is distinguished from other pop ballads about love by a more emotional and meaningful content. “I am convinced that the fact that the song was created in record time did not affect its quality in any way. My song is fundamentally different in style from the songs of other countries participating in Eurovision 2010, ”said Alyosha.

The English text of the song “Sweet People” was written by the singer herself, and the creation of music, in addition to Alyosha, was implicated by its producer Vadim Lisitsa and the well-known sound producer Boris Kukoba (together they worked on “ Star Factory 2 ”, they write songs by famous Ukrainian performers, particular Natalia Mogilev ) ^[18] .

On May 27, the singer went to the Eurovision final, becoming one of the ten performers who won the second semi-final. In the finals of the song contest, on May 29, 2010, Alyosha performed the seventeenth. In the final she took the 10th place, gaining 108 points ^[19] .

• Former actual husband until 2011 her producer Vadim Vadimovich Lisitsa (born August 2, 1975) (who also comes from Zaporozhye and is also a trainee of the popular music studio “Youth” under the guidance of Vladimir Artemiev).
• Husband (since summer 2013) - Taras Topol (born June 21, 1987) - singer, leader of the group “ Antibodies ” ^[20] .
• Son Roman (born April 3, 2013) ^{[6] [21]}
• Son Mark (born November 30, 2015) ^[22] .

2017 - “Little Secret”

• 2016 - the song “Run” became the soundtrack to the romantic comedy “ Wives on the Warpath ”
• 2017 - the song “Drops” became the soundtrack for the TV series “ Paradise place ”

2010

Awards “Favorites of Success - 2010”, winning the nomination “Singer of the Year” ^[23] .

2011

Golden Gramophone Prize (Ukraine) for the song "You are the meaning of life" (duet with Vlad Darwin)

Golden Gramophone Award (Ukraine) for the song “I Came Home”

Award "YUNA" Victory in the nomination "Duet of the Year" (With Vlad Darwin)

Crystal Microphone Award Winning the Song of the Year nomination for the song Sweet People

Crystal Microphone Award Winning Radio Hit of the Year nomination for the song You Are the Meaning of Life (duet with Vlad Darwin)

2013

Award "Song of the Year" (Ukraine) for the song "Point on the map"

2014

Award "Song of the Year" (Ukraine) for the song "Unarmed"

2017

Award "Viva! The most beautiful "victory in the nomination" Mom of the Year. "

Music Platform Award for the song "Kalina"

Award “M1 Music Awards” victory in the nomination “Chervona Ruta” for the song “Kalina”

• alyosha.com.ua - the official site of Alesha
• Site Production Center «Catapult Music» - catapult.com.ua
• Alyosha and Vlad Darwin More than love
• Photos and biography