Singer Zemfira quickly broke into the national pop scene in the late nineties of the last century and immediately won the worship of many music lovers. Representatives of different generations love and listen to her songs. Her voice is not like anyone else's. When she sings, everyone knows that this is Zemfira. Her lyrics contain a deep philosophical meaning. After concerts, her words, image and voice are imprinted in the soul for a long time. And the thing is that she is not like the others, she is different, she is Zemfira. The discography and collected works testify to the unique talent of this young rock singer.
Zemfira's biography
Zemfira Ramazanova was born in 1976 in Ufa. Her father was a history teacher, and her mother was a doctor. From the age of four, she showed musical abilities, and a year later, her parents gave Zemfira to the piano class of a music school. The girl liked not only to perform musical works, but also to compose them herself. So, in the first grade of the school, she performed her first song in front of her mother’s colleagues in the hospital. Zemfira’s elder brother Ramil was fond of rock, it was from him that she was infected with love for this musical genre. She liked the work of Queen and Black Sabbath. In addition to music, she was also fond of sports, and in the 90th year she became captain of the youth basketball team of the RSFSR. At the same time, she graduated from music school. Zemfira gives his first concerts on the sidewalks of Ufa, playing the songs of Russian rock bands known at that time: “Nautilus Pompilius”, “Kino” and others. Surely many residents of the Bashkir capital today recall how they sang in front of them on the street in the early nineties. Zemfira, whose discography today includes more than 10 albums.
Way to success
After school, Zemfira immediately entered the 2nd year of the Ufa College of Music with a degree in pop vocal, where she met several musicians: drummer, saxophonist, pianists. Together with them, she began to earn extra money in local taverns, performing jazz improvisations.
After graduating from college, Zemfira begins to work on the radio “Europe +” (Ufa). It was there that she manages to tape her first experience: the songs “Snow”, “Why?”, “Weather Forecaster”. After they began to broadcast on the radio, the audience became aware of the name of Zemfira. The singer’s discography includes more than 10 albums, one of which includes her first songs.
Since 1998, Zemfira begins to speak with her own band of the same name. At one of the festivals, the singer is noticed by the producer of the Mumiy Troll group L. Burlakov, and he understands that he is facing a future star. The producer invites her to Moscow, where her songs are already professionally recorded. So the singer gets on the big stage. The first songs of Zemfira, sounded throughout the country, were “Speed”, “Rockets”, “Arivederchi”. After that, a rapid ascent to the musical Olympus began and incredible success.
Singer Zemfira: discography
- Zemfira.
- "Goodbye".
- "Forgive me, my love".
- "Snow".
- “Traffic”.
- “Fourteen weeks of silence.”
- “Immaculate.”
- “Love is an accidental death.”
- "Skyblue".
- "Vendetta".
- "Thank".
- “Green Theater in Zemfira”.
- “Ten boys.”
- The Z-Sides.
- “The Last Tale of Rita.”
- "Living in your head."
Zemfira: concerts of 2013
Last year, Zemfira delighted residents of Russia, as well as
neighboring countries with her concerts. She managed to give more than fifty concerts in many cities of Siberia and Trans-Urals: Tomsk,
Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, etc. In all three capitals of the Baltic states; in Tatarstan; in several cities of Ukraine; in the Far East. In the
capitals of Belarus and Moldova; in the Volga cities; as well as in two capitals of Russia: Moscow and St. Petersburg. The last concerts in 2013 took place on December 13-14 at Luzhniki Stadium.