You can talk about this woman for hours. A beloved singer with a voice of a unique timbre, poet, composer, and also a beauty. Who is she? This is Ekaterina Golitsyna, a real hurricane, a whirlwind that seems to never be able to stop. She has great professionalism and ability to work. Being a seven-year-old girl, she often went without parents to a music school to listen to music and touch instruments.
Currently, Ekaterina Golitsyna is a singer, author, presenter of her own programs and festivals. At her performances, she can easily lead the audience, subtly feel her mood from the first minutes of entering the stage. Catherine has an incredibly strong energy.
Golitsyna is a creative pseudonym. This great name was her great-grandfather, who was once a Kuban Cossack, chieftain.
Ekaterina Golitsyna (biography): childhood and youth
Katerina’s ancestors were from the Kuban. Two great-grandfathers lived in those parts. The future parents of the girl left for Moscow to study, and then for some time the city of Omsk became their place of residence. There on April 5, 1962, Katya Yakovleva (Ekaterina Golitsyna) was born - a singer who in the future achieved all-Russian fame.
Katerina’s father loved to play the guitar, little Katya grew up under his singing. The family had to move from Omsk to the village for a short time. When the girl was five years old, they again changed their place of residence to the capital. Upon arrival in the new city, the future singer visited a music school, in which her parents decided to give her to study. She greatly surprised the admissions committee when, sitting down at the piano, she played and sang “A snowstorm sweeps along the street”.
Parents bought an old piano for their daughter. Father, Anatoly Evgenievich, learned her playing the guitar. At 10, Katyusha freely played and sang the songs “Lilac fog”, “Cranes”, “Wait, the engine”. At school, she was an active participant in amateur performances, was a soloist of the school ensemble.
Ekaterina Golitsyna (biography): student years
Katya from childhood dreamed of becoming a singer. After waiting for graduation, I went to Gnesinka to enter the vocal department and failed. She did not want to remain without a higher education, she decided to study at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. Krupskaya at the faculty of foreign languages. Catherine fulfilled her dream of becoming a student at a music school five years later.
At the pedagogical institute, the girl proved herself a good student, but her zeal for music did not leave her. She began to sing in a restaurant, played keyboards, bought an electronic console, which served her as a drummer. So began her journey Ekaterina Golitsyna - singer, performer of songs in the style of chanson.
Then Catherine took up studio work, almost completely stopping the concert activity. She began to write songs that today belong to the genre called “Russian Chanson” in 1999, and in 2001 set to work on her first solo album.
Creative life of Ekaterina Golitsyna
The career of the future singer originates in the musical ensembles of restaurants. Then went the groups of the Rossconcert, where Catherine worked for six whole years. Creative throwing lasted about ten years, the singer could not find her style of music.
She worked in the groups “Muscovites”, “Peers”, “Girls” until she became the leader of VIA “Katyusha”. In the eighties, being 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 the songs of the girl were published in a large circulation and gained immense popularity among the population. They were reissued on vinyl disks in 1991.
When all-Russian fame was achieved, Ekaterina Golitsyna, whose songs belong to the light genre, became disillusioned with disco music, it was no longer necessary to earn by singing. She finally decided to do what she truly loved. The occasion was a meeting with the head of the Moral Code group and long-time friend Sergei Mazaev. He liked the creative life led by Ekaterina Golitsyna. Songs written by this talented woman, performed personally in the American genre, aroused delight in him.
This was the reason for recording a new album in the studio of Stas Namin. Later, the song "Aircraft" became a hit. In 1997, the album “Leaving - go” was released, which was recognized by the narrow circle of friends of the singer. Since that time, Catherine decided that there was no longer any place for Katya Yakovleva in her life.
Pop story of the singer
The beauty and clever girl, she sings perfectly, soared to an unattainable height - this is Ekaterina Golitsyna, her biography tells in detail about this. She also writes songs herself and performs them herself!
To achieve such success without outside help 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 show business. A 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 recital of Ekaterina Golitsyna, in November, fans of her talent had the good fortune to attend the second one, entitled “Season of Love”. Both concerts were aired by Chanson TV. The singer was nominated eight times for "Chanson of the Year." Ekaterina Golitsyna took part in the prestigious Radio Chanson festivals three times (2008, 2009, 2011).
The famous singer in the fall of 2011 became the author and, at the same time, the host of the program on Chanson TV under the name Short Talk, she was a participant in Project 130 on Taganka. The best works that Catherine represented on Chanson TV:
• 10.21.2011 - "While playing jazz";
• 10.21.2011 - "The Post-War Waltz";
• 10/20/2011 - "I'll be back";
• 10.20.2011 - "Let's say goodbye";
• September 19, 2007 - "Classmate".
Personal life of the singer
A talented woman tries to talk less about her family, does not like to do this. However, some personal information is available. Ekaterina Golitsyna, whose biography shows how strong and purposeful she is, married a man who has long held senior positions in large companies and banks. People considered him very rich. The family life of the spouses was normal, they lived very friendly, 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 was the name of Catherine’s husband, was a shooting master, he loved to go hunting. Friends often came to "game" to them. During his wife’s trips to America, the husband stayed with his daughter. But when his business went up, Catherine was able to devote more time to her work, rather than travel to earn money on endless tours.
Ekaterina Golitsyna is a loving wife and a wonderful mother. Together with her husband, they raised two children. Son Andrey went in the footsteps of his mother, writes poetry, loves to play sports. He is a student at Moscow State University - Faculty of Management. Daughter Julia graduated from MGIMO (Faculty of International Journalism).
Professional achievements
- 2003-2005 - participant of the festival "Long live Chanson!" In the IC "Olympic";
- 2005 - 2006 - Awarded the title of laureate of the Chanson of the Year Award;
- Golitsyna became the host of Chanson TV;
- Winner of the 2013 Chanson Award.