Nastya Poleva is the soloist of the famous rock band called Nastya. Many have known her unusual voice since the beginning of the 80s. She is also the author of most songs of this group. Today she is 56 years old. She has come a long way towards a professional career.
Biography of Nastya Poleva
Anastasia was born on December 1, 1961. She spent all her childhood in her hometown of Pervouralsk (Sverdlovsk Region, Russia). Her parents were hard pressed to take custody of the child, because they worked at several enterprises at once to provide the family with everything necessary. From an early age, Nastya Poleva knew that she would devote her life to creativity. However, her mother was against it.
The fate of Nastya
In school years, Anastasia was an active and cheerful girl, which was more often seen in the company of boys. Already in the 9th grade, she began to think about choosing a university for admission. But given the financial capabilities of her family, the choice settled on the local Institute of Architecture. Moscow GITIS parents could not afford.
After leaving school, Nastya Poleva went to submit documents to the educational institution, where at that time the spirit of rock music reigned. Young people carried tape recorders with them, guitar melodies sounded from almost every classroom, and they all dressed in black leather pants and vests. Just then, musical groups were massively created. Young people themselves invented a repertoire and wrote lyrics. She was fond of rock music and Nastya.
The first steps towards a dream
As Anastasia shares her memories, before entering the university she had no idea about rock, and about music in general. But she was so absorbed in the sound of the guitar that she wanted to pick up the documents and go to study at a music school. She dreamed of learning to sing, and she wanted Nastya Poleva’s songs to be known all around.
Over time, she began to attend small concerts, then come to rehearsals of local rock groups and try to sing. The girl had an unusual timbre of voice, which everyone quickly remembered. In 1980, the Track group was created, and Poleva became one of its members. A couple of songs she was entrusted to perform solo. And so the first jerks occurred on the way to the fulfillment of the dream of the scene.
Professional musical activity
In 1984, the team "Track" broke up, and the girl went into a prolonged depression. Little experience did not allow her to go into independent swimming, and Nastia did not invite other teams to her. However, over time, she began to recover and turned to friends to write several songs for her.
In 1985, for Nastya, songs were first written by Vyacheslav Butusov. Other songwriters refused a young, novice singer. Thanks to Butusov, she learned to play keyboards. Then Nastya had to compose tunes for her songs on her own. Over time, there were several dozen.
In 1986, Nastya Poleva was officially enrolled in the ranks of rock artists. A little later, the girl was able to create her own rock band, calling him by her name "Nastya".
In 1987, Polevoy, together with her group, managed to release the first album titled “Tatsu”. On the cover was the artist herself. The following year, Anastasia spoke at a congress of rock performers in one of the Sverdlovsk clubs. Then she won the Miss Rock competition in Kiev (Ukraine).
In 1989, the Nastya collective released another Noa Noa record. After touring the country, the group makes several clips for songs from this album.
In the same 1989, the girl tries her hand at writing texts. One of the first songs by Anastasia gained victory at the festival of rockers in the friendly capital of Ukraine - Kiev.
In the 90s, the singer and the group toured Russia, then they went to Germany, and then to Holland. In both countries they were received with warmth and love, the halls and stadiums were crowded with fans and ordinary lovers of rock music.
Another album, which was released by the group "Nastya" - "Bride" (1992). The most successful and favorite compositions of the fans were the songs “Flying Frigate” by Nastya Poleva and “Fortunately”.
Life in St. Petersburg
In 1993, the singer’s life changed dramatically. She decides to change her place of residence and move to St. Petersburg. Following Nastya goes and her friend Yegor Belkin. At first, the girl takes a break, and for about two years nothing was heard about her. But already in 1996, she again took up the job. This time she releases the album “Sea of Siam”.
Anastasia admits that at the initial stage of her musical career there was a lot of ambiguity in the songs, but at the same time they were lyrical in nature. A vivid example of this is the song “Voices” by Nastya Poleva. Then the girl performed everything that they could write for her. Now she carefully chooses melodies, and the lyrics of her songs are filled with deep meaning.
In one of her interviews, Nastya admitted that she regrets that from a young age she did not perform beautiful and lyrical music. Today, the singer rarely uses keyboard musical instruments when writing songs, she prefers the guitar.
Personal life of Nastya
All the way in her musical career, Nastya went along with her faithful friend, who then became for her a faithful life companion. Egor and Anastasia have not been separated for more than 35 years.
The exact date of registration of official relations of this couple is still unknown. They never even thought about children, as they were completely dedicated to work. In 1987, a film was released about the two with the name "Nastya and Yegor." The guys themselves became the authors, and they entrusted the right to film this work to a good friend director Alexei Balabanov.
The last album of the singer is called "Bridges over the Neva". His fans first heard in 2008. To reporters about the question of such a long break in her career, she replied: “I do not intend to go with the flow and, as the artist is fit, to give an album every two years. I live, just live, and create when I have inspiration. And through force, I can’t do it. At the moment, I do not worry about this and do not hide the fact that today creativity just does not go. But there are already new songs, there are so many that there’s enough for the whole album. I’m not in a hurry to publish it. ” Still loves to say Nastya Poleva: "Everything has its time."