Elena vaenga

Elena Vaenga is one of the brightest stars of Russian show business today. Many argue about the secret of her phenomenon. Why has she become so popular? Why do people like her music and performance? Why do people cry at her concerts? It seems that her songs fall under the category of "chanson", and this genre of songwriting has never been so loved by the general public. However, Vaenga is adored, there are no empty seats at her concerts, she always has a full house at not at all low ticket prices.

Childhood

Elena was born in the far north, in the city of Severomorsk, in a naval hospital. Her real name is Khruleva. The family was simple, but the parents brought up the children in strictness, taking care of their discipline. Together with Lena, her younger sister Tanya and half-sister Nina grew up from her father's first marriage. My father was an engineer, and my mother was a chemist, but they worked at the same secret Nerpa shipyard, which serves nuclear submarines. It was located in the village of Vyuzhny for 15 thousand inhabitants on the shores of the Barents Sea (now the city of Snezhnogorsk), so the whole family lived there. Lenin spent his childhood in this village.

Elena's grandfather, Rear Admiral Zhuravel Vasily Stepanovich, is mentioned in the book "Famous People of the Northern Fleet" and in encyclopedias. He went through the whole war, fought near Leningrad, and my grandmother survived the blockade, worked in a hospital.

Lena studied a lot in various circles, her mornings invariably began with exercises, after school she went to additional classes. The girl studied at a music school, was engaged in drawing and skiing, attending classes at a sports school. From the age of three she learned to dance. On the piano, she easily picked up any melody by ear, so even then it became clear to her parents that a musician would come out of Lena. She wrote her first song "Doves" at the age of 9. This song made her the winner of the competition for young composers on the Kola Peninsula.

She generally tried to participate in all possible competitions. This did not affect her promotion in any way, but it gave invaluable stage experience.

Lena studied for fives and even went to the gold medal. But in high school, she seemed to be possessed by a demon. She ran away from home in the evenings, spun in some suspicious companies, drank vodka in the basements. She got so carried away that she was expelled from school, however, this did not happen because of the evening parties, but because of the scandal at the school disco.

Lena, having drunk a lot, quarreled with a philosophy teacher who expressed anti-Semitic views. The girl stood up for all the Jews in the most unpleasant form and even got into a fight, for which she was expelled from school and even ended up in the children's room of the police. Then the literature teacher helped, pulled her out.

Carier start

Having received a secondary education, Elena went to enter a music university in St. Petersburg, but it turned out that she needed to complete one more class. This was due to confusion in the education system at the time.

Enter immediately in the music school. She did not succeed in Rimsky-Korsakov, she lacked knowledge of musical literacy, so she had to study solfeggio for a whole year in order to catch up with those children who graduated from Leningrad music schools. It was hard to study piano at the school, I had to study for 10 hours a day. The first two years she studied at a paid department, then switched to a free one.

After graduating from college, she unexpectedly entered the Theater Academy, but after studying there for only 2 months, she left, thus letting her teachers down. Lena was invited to Moscow by the composer Yuri Chernavsky, having once accidentally listened to her songs on a cassette. He wanted to open her talent to people, but his connections in Moscow were not enough to promote the young singer. He often went abroad, worked there, so he did not have the necessary authority in Moscow.

Elena Vaenga at a concert on May 9:

But the time spent in Moscow, Elena was able to plunge headlong into the capital's show business, to find out all its dirt and unsightly side. The negative experience that she received was also useful to her. The producers failed to break her, she was capricious. But Lena signed an extremely unfavorable contract for her with Stepan Razin, under the terms of which she later could not perform under her real name, which is why she had to take a pseudonym. In addition, Razin received the rights to dispose of many of her songs. By the way, these songs then entered the repertoires of some famous performers.

Intars Busulis and Elena Vaenga at the speech:

In the end, one famous and influential person told her that such smart people from Peter should come back to him. In general, Lena returned to St. Petersburg "to the broken trough." Hard times came, I had to sleep on the floor, eat fried flour without salt, mixed with water. There was not even money for travel, I had to walk a lot.

Gathering her strength, she decided to enter the theater again, only in a different one. Then the course was recruited by Peter Velyaminov, and she went to him. He taught the young artist a lot and, above all, to love the world of theater and dramaturgy. She studied excitedly to such an extent that she even forgot about music. She graduated from this institute with honors and wanted to work in the theater. But her then-husband convinced her not to give up music, especially since by this time she had written many songs. It was he who instilled confidence in her and became her producer himself, leaving his car business.

Alexander Malinin and Elena Vaenga in the video "Two Souls"

The pseudonym Vaenga was invented by my mother, that was the name of the river near Severomorsk. And Severomorsk itself used to be called that.

In 2003, Lena recorded her first album, Portrait. The young performer gained popularity among the St. Petersburg public, after which she was invited to various competitions. But true fame came to her only in 2005 after the release of the White Bird album, many of which became hits.

Jan Marty and Elena Vaenga

It turned out that Elena's songs and manner of performance were very different from everything that show business, diligently promoted by eminent producers, could offer at that time. It was a new breath, music that was not expected. Elena began to receive one award after another. She began to gather full houses, go on tour around the country and abroad, and even entered the Forbes list as one of the successful stars of domestic show business.

Personal life

For the first time, Lena married at the age of 18 for a man with whom she spent 16 years together and who did literally everything for her. In defiance of her parents, she left home for him, after which she did not communicate with mom and dad for almost 3 years. It was an informal, civil marriage. Ivan Matvienko, a gypsy by nationality, had his own small business for driving cars from abroad. For the sake of Elena, he left him and started producing his beloved woman. And everything turned out thanks to the perseverance of both.

Elena Vaenga with ex-husband Ivan Matvienko

Peace and harmony reigned in the family. Despite the fact that Elena has a strong temper and a difficult character, she always found compromises in family life, there were no scandals between the spouses. One thing was missing - a common child. In the end, Elena and Ivan decided to leave, but remained best friends and even live next door.

Elena Vaenga with her second husband Roman Sadyrbaev

The new chosen one of the singer was the drummer from her team Roman Sadyrbaev. The couple had a son, Ivan, in the summer of 2012, and more recently, at the end of September 2016, the couple officially registered their relationship.

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