Olga Arefieva is a famous singer, poet, actress, writer and musician in creative circles. A woman gifted in many respects, giving particular importance in her works to improvisation, movement, light and the accuracy of the word.
Biography
Olga was born in the Urals, in the industrial town of Verkhnyaya Salda. This significant event took place in a family of ordinary engineers on September 21, 1966. The girl grew up quite unsociable, she hated the Soviet school system, system formation and patriotic events.
In her school years, she never made friends, immersed in the world of her fantasies and books. There she began to sing in amateur performances, accompanying herself on a seven-string guitar converted to six strings, which my father gave. Olga learned to play it on her own, picking up tunes by ear. And she began to win all contests in a row.
Education
After school, Olya left for Sverdlovsk, where she entered the Ural University at the Faculty of Physics. By the way, now this city is called Yekaterinburg. But after two semesters, the girl unexpectedly drops out of school and enters the local music school.
Olga’s vocal teacher was the legendary Gurevich, whose pupils, mainly opera singers, perform in the best world theaters. Then there was the Gnesins Institute, where Olga studied pop singing with Lev Leshchenko. In 1987, Arefieva took part in the Jurmala-87 contest, becoming his laureate, and for the first time faced with the obsessive censorship of the organizers of such projects. And she forever decided for herself that she would become independent from editors and government events.
Career
In 1990, Arefyeva Olga Viktorovna moved to Moscow. It was there that the collective with the name "Ark" was born.
Olga was constantly experimenting with musical styles. Her group periodically changed its name, from “Acoustic-Ark” to “Reggae-Ark”, eventually settling on just “Ark”. Tours in Europe, organization of independent music festivals, publication of poetry in magazines
.In a word, Olga was engaged in all areas of creativity that were of interest to her and involved others in it, generously sharing with them her vision of the world.
Since 2004, she created a performance group called KALIMBA as part of her Human Comedy project. Olga believes that serious performance with voice and body is required in any performance, rhythm, movement, sound, poetry, and, of course, love are important. The style of this incredible woman is a cross between a traveling circus and the academic classics of the theater.
Arefieva has written several books, collaborates with many creative teams that do something that goes beyond standard shows. She has her own website, magazine and video channel on the network. Freedom and imagination dominate the work of Olga, who once said in one of her famous "one-man": "Normality in this world is inappropriate
