Little coin

Born on June 1, 1998 in Yekaterinburg. Father, Andrei Evstigneevich Gyrdimov, a builder by profession, mother, Elena Alexandrovna Girdymova, works in a travel company ^[3] . In 2005 I went to the first class of school No. 32 of Yekaterinburg with in-depth study of certain subjects (including music and literature), where I studied for 9 years, receiving general and musical education in the piano class ^[4] ; In addition, she attended a ballet club and wrote poems ^[5] .

In 2014 she went to the tenth class of the Specialized Educational and Scientific Center of the Ural Federal University ^[2] . After graduating from eleven classes, in 2016 she entered the specialty “ producing ” at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow for the correspondence form of education ^[6] . The reason Liza chose VGIK was her love for classic cinema ^[7] .

Since September 2016, she continued her studies at VGIK, and her first practice was held in her native Yekaterinburg on the TV channel “ETV”, where she produced joint projects with the poetess Alexandra Aksenova ^[8] .

He plays the piano and composes poetry ^[9] . Her work is simple, ironic songs on socially important topics ^{[2] [9]} . The choice of themes for songs is connected with the relation of the Coin to the surrounding things: from everyday life to unpleasant or, on the contrary, joyful phenomena ^[9] .

Initially, she saw fifteen-year-old girls with “pink hair” as her target audience, but as a result, people of completely different age groups began to pay attention to the singer’s work, regardless of gender ^[9] .

Separates the concepts of show business and creativity and gives preference to the latter ^[10] .

On June 1, 2017, she posted on the YouTube channel a video for the song “Childfree”, recorded together with hip-hop performer Noize MC (Ivan Alekseev) ^[11] . On May 25, 2018, she released a new album, “ Coloring for Adults, ” of 10 songs on M2, under which such artists as Bi-2 and Dolphin are released ^[12] . All songs from this album were in the top-100 Yandex music chart, and the track Nymphomaniac took the first place ^[13] . “ Coloring pages for adults ” is a new, atypical for the performer sound ^[14] . Mostly the album refers to the music of the 1980s and 1990s, contemporary club music and even folklore ^[15] . Several tracks of the new album reveal the theme of death and "dislike".

On May 28, 2018, she performed on the show “ Evening Urgant ”, where she performed the song “Every Time” ^[16] . Ivan Urgant , introducing the singer to the viewers, said that “some of the critics” consider the new Coin “ Adult Coloring ” album to be “one of the main Russian-language albums of the year” ^[16] . June 1, 2018, the birthday of Coin, took place in Moscow concert presentation of the new album and the video for the song "Zaporozhets".

Music critic Alexey Mazhaev wrote in a review of “Psychedelic Cloud Rap” on “ InterMedia ” that “the banter is combined in Liza’s texts with sanity on the verge of cynicism”, and “excellent command of the word, sense of language and precise orientation in the signs of the time are spiced with charming naive " ^[17] .

According to music journalist Alexander Gorbachev (“ Meduza ”), despite the fact that Coin “shot” as an Internet meme, she did not share the patterned path of “flash” and continues to stay afloat. Comparing the first songs of the singer from “Psychedelic Cloud Rap” and the new songs “Coloring Pages”, Gorbachev notes that studying at VGIK did not prevent Elizabeth from doing music - on the contrary, her approach became more professional ^[18] .

Critic Denis Stupnikov in his text about the singer on the site “ Cyril and Methodius ” noted that Coin gives the impression of a modest girl, but not shy and able to communicate politely with the audience ^[19] .

On June 28, 2018, Moscow lawyer Sergey Afanasyev reported that the prosecutor’s office, according to his application, began checking the song “Childfree” Monetochka and Noize MC for telling teenagers to suicide, as the song sings: “Listen to my advice in MP3: don't wait, for now grow old soon die It is a pity that your parents are not childfree , burn in hell, burn in hell! ” ^[20] .

Singer Zemfira called the Coin texts “excellent”, but the singer’s voice was considered “disgusting” ^{[21] [22]} .

Music critic Artemy Troitsky called the songs Buckwheat and Coin "dull orphan songs on the train for alms", but noted that "Coin has at least literate lyrics and a bit of irony" ^{[23] [24]} .

Boris Barabanov , summing up the year 2018, called the track “Every Time” one of the 16 main songs of the year, and wrote that by releasing the “ Coloring for Adults ” album, Elizaveta “managed to break the framework of an independent scene and break into the mainstream field” ^[25] .

In December 2016, in the rating of the 50 best tracks of 2016 from The Flow, her studio track Gosha Rubchinsky ranked 11th ^[26] .

In January 2017, in the rating “33 best domestic albums-2016” from The Flow, the album “Psychedelic cloud rap” won the 6th place ^[27] . Journalists of the Daily Playbill presented their rating of “40 albums of the year: the choice of“ Posters ”, which includes the twenty best foreign and twenty best domestic albums. In the rating of domestic albums “Psychedelic Cloud Rap” by Liza Coin on 14th place ^[28] . In December 2017, The Last Disco in the ranking of the top 50 tracks of 2017 from The Flow took 17th place ^[29] .

In 2018, at the Jager Music Awards, Coin won in the nominations "Group of the Year" and "Single of the Year" with the song "Every Time" ^[30] . All 10 songs of the album “ Coloring for Adults ” three days after its presentation hit the Top 100 chart on the Yandex.Music site. The highest rating was received by the song “Nymphomaniac”, taking the first line of the rating ^[31] , and summing up the results of 2018 , this service called Coin the Breakthrough of the Year ^[32] , the album “ Coloring for Adults ” - the Russian pop album of the year ^{[33] [34]} and the song “Every Time” is a controversial song of the year ^[35] . VK Music and BOOM put the song “Every Time” to 21st place in the list of 30 most popular tracks, and “Coloring for Adults” to 4th place among the 10 most popular albums ^[36] . The Flow project put the tracks of the Coin “90” and “Every Time” to the twentieth and first place, respectively, in the ranking of the top 50 tracks of 2018 ^{[37] [38]} , and according to the results of a popular vote on this site ^[39] , the album “Coloring for adults ”ranked third among the main albums of 2018 and first place among pop albums of the year ^[40] .

Charts

Albums

• 2016 - Psychedelic Cloud Rap

• 2018 - Coloring pages for adults

Mini Albums

• 2017 - I'm Lisa

Singles

• 2016 - “Gosh Rubchinsky”
• 2016 - Capital
• 2016 - “Trump Ace”
• 2016 - “Gone to the Realist” ^[44]
• 2016 - "Plant"
• 2016 - "Hello, Angelina"
• 2017 - “Daddy, I'm sorry”
• 2017 - “Risa-chan”
• 2017 - “The Last Disco”
• 2018 - “I don't want to know anything”
• 2018 - "At the Dawn"
• 2019 - “Falling in the dirt”

Guest Attend

• 2016 - Noize MC - "Childfree"
• 2016 - Han Zamay & Slava KPSS - Hype Train (“Gosh Rubchinsky” feat. CD , Zoo In Space, Booker D. Fred, Ovsyankin, “Pokemons” feat. Ovsyankin)
• 2017 - Satan Bakes Pancakes - "Selfie"
• 2018 - Satan Bakes Pancakes - "The Student's Dream"
• 2018 - Noize MC, Swanky Tunes - “People with guns”
• 2018 - Cobain jackets - "DNA strands" (" Bi-2 " and Coin)

Video Clips

• 2017 - “Gone to the Realists” (to the song “Gone to the Realist”) ^[45]
• 2017 - “Childfree” (feat. Noize MC )
• 2017 - “Farewell, my Ekaterinburg!”
• 2017 - “The Last Disco”
• 2018 - Zaporozhets
• 2018 - "90"
• 2018 - “DNA Strands” (feat. “ Bi-2 ”)
• 2019 - Nymphomaniac
• 2019 - “Falling in the dirt”

• Boris Barabanov . Monetization Coin. Chronicle of the summer musical phenomenon // Kommersant . - 2018. - August 29 ( No. 155 ).

• The official group of Coin VKontakte (Neopr.) .