Singer Ekaterina Golitsyna: biography, personal life, creativity

You can talk about this woman for hours. A beloved singer with a voice of a unique timbre, a poet, a composer, and also a beauty. Who is she? This is Catherine Golitsyna, a real hurricane, a whirlwind, which, it seems, can never stop. She has great professionalism and work capacity. Being a seven-year-old girl, she often went without parents to music school to listen to music and to touch the instruments.

Currently, Ekaterina Golitsyna is a singer, author, presenter of her own programs and festivals. In her performances, she can easily get the audience, to feel her mood thinly from the very first moments of her appearance on the stage. Catherine has incredibly strong energy.

Golitsyna is a creative pseudonym. This name was her great-grandfather, who was once a Kuban Cossack, ataman.

Ekaterina Golitsyna (biography): childhood and youth

The ancestors of Katerina were from Kuban. Two great-grandfathers lived in those parts. The future parents of the girl went to Moscow to study, and then for a while the place of residence for them became the city of Omsk. There, on April 5, 1962, Katya Yakovleva (Ekaterina Golitsyna) was born, a singer who in the future achieved all-Russian fame.

Katerina's father was very fond of playing the guitar, little Katya grew up under his singing. The family had to move for a short time from Omsk to the village. When the girl was five years old, she changed her residence to the capital again. Upon arrival in the new city, the future singer visited a music school, in which her parents decided to give her to study. She was very surprised by the admission committee when, sitting down at the piano, she played and sang "Along the street a snowstorm sweeps".

Parents bought an old piano for the daughter. Father, Anatoly Evgenievich, learned her playing the guitar. At the age of 10, Katyusha freely played and sang songs "Lilac Fog", "Cranes", "Wait, locomotive". At school, she was an active participant in amateur art, she was a soloist of the school ensemble.

Ekaterina Golitsyna (biography): student years

Katya dreamed of becoming a singer from childhood. Waiting for graduation, went to Gnesinka enter the vocal department and failed. She did not want to stay without higher education, she decided to study at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. Krupskaya at the Faculty of Foreign Languages. Catherine realized her dream of becoming a music college student five years later.

In the teacher's college, the girl showed herself to be a good student, but her zeal for music did not leave her. She began to sing in a restaurant, played keyboards, bought an electronic prefix, which served as a drummer. So began her journey Catherine Golitsyna - singer, songwriter in the style of chanson.

Then Catherine took up studio work, almost completely stopping the concert activity. Songs that today belong to the genre, called "Russian chanson," she began writing in 1999, and in 2001 she began her first solo album.

Creative life of Catherine Golitsyna

Career of the future singer originates in music ensembles of restaurants. Next came the collectives of Roskontsertov, where Ekaterina worked for six years. Creative throwing lasted about ten years, the singer could not find her own style of music.

She worked in the groups "Muscovites", "Rovesniki", "Girls" until she became the leader of the Viatches "Katyusha". In the eighties, while in this group, Katya wrote the album "Call Me, Night", in 1990 the cassette "Best Friend" was published, the publisher of which was Ekaterina Golitsyna. Albums with songs of the girl were published in a large edition and gained immense popularity among the population. They were reissued on vinyl discs in 1991.

When the all-Russian fame was achieved, Ekaterina Golitsyna, whose songs belong to an easy genre, became disillusioned with disco music, earning singing was no longer necessary. She, at last, has decided to be engaged truly favorite business. The reason was the meeting with the head of the group "Moral Code" and an old friend Sergei Mazaev. He liked the creative life, which led Catherine Golitsyna. Songs written by this talented woman, performed in person in the American genre, caused him delight.

This was the reason for recording a new album in Stas Namin's studio. Later, the composition "Airplanes" became a hit. In 1997 the album "Leaving - go away" was published, which was recognized in a narrow circle of the singer's friends. From this time, Catherine decided that in her life for Katya Yakovleva already no place.

Pop singer's story

Beauty and clever, excellent singing, flew to an unattainable height - this is Ekaterina Golitsyna, her biography tells about it in detail. She also writes the songs herself and she performs them herself!

To achieve such success without external assistance would not be easy. Katya is very grateful to her husband, who helped and did everything in his power so that she could take a prominent place in the show business. Great influence on the singer had a stay abroad, where she gained invaluable experience in work.

Songs in the genre of Russian chanson

In March 2007, Moscow hosted the first big solo concert of Ekaterina Golitsyna, in November, fans of her talent had the good fortune to visit the second one under the title "Love Season". Both concerts were on the air of "Chanson TV". The singer was nominated eight times for the "Shanson of the Year". In prestigious festivals "Radio Chanson" Ekaterina Golitsyna participated three times (2008, 2009, 2011).

The well-known singer in autumn 2011 became the author and, at the same time, the leading program on "Chanson TV" called "Short talk", was a participant of "Project-130" on Taganka. The best works that Catherine represented on "Chanson TV":

• 21.10.2011 - "While playing jazz";
• 21.10.2011 - "The Post-War Waltz";
• 10/20/2011 - "I'll be back";
• 10/20/2011 - "Let's say goodbye";
• 19.09.2007 - "A classmate".

The personal life of the singer

Talk about your family talented woman tries less, does not like to do it. However, some information about your personal life is available. Ekaterina Golitsyna, whose biography shows how strong and purposeful she was, married a man who for a long time held senior positions in large companies and banks. People considered him very rich. Family life of the spouses was normal, they lived very amicably, appreciated and understood each other. The husband never allowed himself to infringe on the rights of his talented wife, was proud of her achievements.

Yuri, that's the name of Catherine's husband, was a shooting master, liked to go hunting. On the "game" they often came to friends. During his wife's trips to America, her husband stayed with his daughter. But when his business went up, Catherine could spend more time for her work, and not go to earn money on endless tours.

Ekaterina Golitsyna is a loving wife and a wonderful mother. Together with her husband they brought up two children. Son Andrew followed in the footsteps of his mother, wrote poetry, loves to play sports. He is a student of Moscow State University - faculty of management. Daughter Julia graduated from MGIMO (Faculty of International Journalism).

Professional achievements

1. 2003-2005 - participant of the festival "Long live the chanson!" In the SC "Olympic";
2. 2005 - 2006 - awarded the title of laureate of the "Chanson of the Year" award;
3. Golitsyna became the leading "Chanson TV";
4. Laureate of the "Chanson of the Year" award in 2013.