Svetlana Nazarenko is known to Russian music lovers under the name Aya, as the soloist of the musical group "City 312". Who is she and where from? How did you get on the "big stage"? Who is her husband and does she have children?
Svetlana Nazarenko knows how and loves to amaze her fans - creating new songs, shooting mesmerizing clips on them, taking part in projects that require complete transformation into colleagues in the vocal "workshop". Russian lovers of popular music appreciate the work of Ai and her collective “City 312”, but they know very little about Svetlana herself, since her life credo - happiness should be quiet.
Biography of singer Svetlana Nazarenko (Ai)
The future star of Russian show business and the vocalist of the City 312 band Svetlana Nazarenko, a native of Kyrgyzstan. She was born in Bishkek (Frunze) in October 1970. In the family, in addition to Sveta, there was another child - the youngest son Alex.
The girl’s parents were far from art in any of its manifestations, but she herself began to perform very early - at 7 years old she became a member of the Bolshoi Children's Choir, and at 12 she was invited to perform at a song festival of national significance.
As a very young girl, Svetlana Nazarenko became a member of the legendary Kyrgyz group Araket. Her vocal teacher was the best teacher in Kyrgyzstan - Sarlykov Rafail. It was he who helped to start her career, convinced the girl that she has the right to perform on the same stage with leading singers.
Career of singer Ai (Svetlana Nazarenko)
Svetlana understood that a proper education is necessary for career development, and the presence of numerous awards for performing at vocalist festivals is not enough. Already being quite famous and popular in her homeland, she entered the Institute of Arts at the Faculty of Variety Vocal, graduated with honors and decided to conquer Moscow.
Aya came to Moscow with the Pritula brothers - Dmitry and Leonid. Together with them, she founded the group "City 312". Already in 2017, Svetlana received the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. And this is not surprising, because in her creative piggy bank there are a lot of albums, both solo and recorded with the City 312 collective:
- magnetic albums "Good night" and "Broken radio",
- record "213 roads",
- solo albums "Light Tea" and "Music of Dreams",
- disks of the group “Turn around”, “Out of access zone” and others.
The compositions performed by Ai became the soundtracks for the films "Peter FM", "Day Watch", "New Year's Rate", "While Fern Blossoms", "Your World" and many others.