Katya Lel (Ekaterina Nikolaevna Chuprina) is a famous Russian singer who is known, remembered and loved by the audience for the many hits that occupied the leading places in the charts in the early 2000s.
Today, Catherine continues her stage career, being not only a singer, but also a producer. Her repertoire has changed: light, laid-back songs replaced the others, with a deep meaning and content. Katya Lel is actively working, releasing new albums and is not going to stop there. The biography of the singer is multifaceted. Her work is associated with many famous musicians and producers.
Childhood Katie Lel
The future singer was born in the city of Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria), in September 20, 1974, and was her second child with her parents. She has an older sister - Irina.
From childhood, the girl was fond of music, the family supported her in every way. A creative atmosphere reigned in the house, although the parents were not people of art. By the age of three, the girl began to sing, and then a piano appeared in their house. A few years later, Katya began to study music at school in two directions at once: piano and conducting. She graduates from music school with honors and continues her education at a music school, and after it enters the Institute of Arts.
Carier start
Having received a diploma from the institute, Catherine decides that achieving success, popularity and making a career in Nalchik is not easy. Therefore, she leaves for Moscow, where she enters the Gnesinsky College. At the same time, she was hired by the theater under the direction of Lev Leshchenko, where she became a backing vocalist.
The singer began to think seriously about her solo career after the end of Gnesinka. Creating a stage image, the singer decides to change her surname and, choosing a creative pseudonym - Katya Lel, begins to make her way to the heights of fame.
In 1994, Catherine received her first recognition among young singers and musicians in the competition "Musical Start". Since that time, work begins on creating an image and recording albums. Her first producer was Alexander Volkov, with whom the singer was introduced by Leshchenko. Their collaboration lasted several years and thanks to him, solo compositions by Katy Lel appeared.
The singer’s first album, released in 1998, was called Champs Elysees. Then Katya releases the discs "Sama" and "Between Us", but they did not become popular.
The first success came after the song "Peas", which Lel recorded with DJ Tsvetkov.
Katya Lel and Max Fadeev
2002 was a fateful year for the singer. She meets the famous producer Maxim Fadeev, who offers her to record several songs. From this moment, the career of a young singer begins to skyrocket.
Fadeev completely changes the image of Catherine and writes several songs for her. Their collaboration has yielded results. The main hits of Katie Lel saw the light thanks to Max Fadeev.
In 2003, songs were recorded: Musi Pusi, My Marmalade, Fly Up, soaring to the top of the charts. Then the singer records the famous album "Jaga-Jaga" and receives recognition from the public, music critics. She becomes the winner of the Silver Disc, Song of the Year, Golden Gramophone awards, is nominated for the Muz-TV Prize as the best singer, performs on the leading venues of the country and her photos are printed on the covers of popular music magazines.
Video clips were shot for all the songs that didn’t go off the TV screens, and the song “Two Drops” becomes the most famous work. The peak of Katy Lel's popularity falls on 2004.
Creative search for a singer
After finishing work with Max Fadeyev, Lel writes his own album, "Twist and Turn, " which she produces. It included songs of Catherine’s own composition.
In 2008, the next album "I am yours" is released. During this period, her popularity is not as high as in previous years, so in 2011, Lel again returned to cooperation with Fadeev, recording the song "Yours".
A few years later, in her career, a meeting with the famous Swedish singer Bosson took place. In collaboration with him, the composition "I live by you" is released. Evgeny Kuritsyn shot a clip for this song in 2014.
A little later, Lel released her new album - "The Sun of Love", which included many of the songs of past years.
You can judge how Katya Lel lives today by her creative projects. The singer’s life and great creative experience has changed her approach to the repertoire and performed songs. Now she has in her collection a lot of serious compositions telling about love, about a woman, about joy and sorrow, partings and meetings. She tries herself in various genres, including song ballads, and is not going to stop in her creative search.
Popularity with the audience was her unexpected duets with Alexander Ovechkin in the song "Let them talk" and Sergei Kurenkov - "Crazy Love". The clip, shot with Kurenkov in 2017, permeates the pain of emotions, and the brutal image of the protagonist was remembered for a long time by the audience, as well as the role of the artist, performed by the popular actor Alexander Domogarov in the series "Pearls", for which the song became the main musical theme.
The creative career of the singer is not limited to the stage. She starred in episodic roles in a number of feature and documentary films and recorded dozens of video clips.
