With the arrival of the new singer, the group received a second life. The biography of the soloist of the A-Studio group is full of interesting facts that generate around Katie a lot of all kinds of rumors.
Katie's childhood
Keti Topuria (full name Ketevan) was born on September 9, 1986 in Tbilisi. The singer’s father, Andro Topuria, a civil engineer by education, was a well-known businessman and criminal authority. Mom - Natalia - worked as a chemical engineer.
When the girl was 8 years old, her mother enrolled her in a school-studio for young fashion models, which Keti Topuria attended for 4 years. Next to the family of Topuria, her music teacher lived, who first drew attention to the unusual voice of the girl and advised Katie's parents to send her to a music school, where she would seriously study vocals.
When Katie was 12 years old, she received her first musical award: at the international competition "Sea of Friendship" she took 1st place. In 1998, the future soloist of A-Studio, Katie Topuria, graduated from music school. At the international competition "Path to the Stars" she won the Grand Prix. At that time, Katie was only 14 years old.
Beginning of Star Trek
Then Katie entered the music school. After graduating in 2003, she released 2 albums and became a rather famous singer in her homeland. Along with her creative work, Katie continued her studies at the State University of Georgia at the Department of Psychology. In 2004, A-Studio team left Pauline Griffis - the second soloist of the group.
A-Studio (photo above) began the search for a new vocalist. When the group was on tour in Georgia, Nato Dumbadze (a well-known Georgian producer) invited the band to listen to Katie's recordings. Her voice made a very strong impression on the musicians, and they immediately offered the girl to move to Moscow and sign a contract. Thus began in a big show business the biography of the soloist of the A-Studio group Katie Topuria.
First hit
Katie burst into the group like a hurricane. By the time she started working in the group, she was only 17 years old. By the spring of 2005, the band's first album with a new soloist was recorded. It was called “Fly Away”, like one of the songs in this collection. The album was presented in March 2005. The songs “Fly away”, “You”, “Night-girlfriend” immediately found their listeners. In the same year, for the song “Fly away”, which took the top lines of all Russian charts, the group received the prize “Song of the Year”. In the same year, a video was shot, which for a long time did not go off the screens of the Muz-TV and MTV channels. According to the results of the audience’s vote, the song “Fly Off” received two Golden Gramophone awards, and in 2006 - the prize in the nomination “Best Ringtone”.
Scandalous story
One could say that the biography of the soloist of the A-Studio group Katie is pure, like a baby's tear, if not for the sad story with her father. And the fact is that Andro Topuria was a well-known criminal authority in Tbilisi. In 2010, he was detained for drug possession and sentenced to three years in prison. Before this incident, Andro had already been tried twice for more serious crimes. He spent four months in Sailor's Silence, then was transferred to one of the colonies of the Mari El Republic. He did not stay there long. Cellmates discovered Andro’s body in the morning, caused by doctors to report death from heart failure.
Many newspapers wrote that Topuria died of a drug overdose, but this version was not officially confirmed. Katie was very upset by the news of her father’s death. Journalists literally did not give the singer a passage, bombarding her with questions about him, but Katie never said a single bad word about Andro. For her, he will always remain beloved dad. It’s good that the days have passed when children are responsible for the mistakes of their parents. This story had no effect on Katie's career, and she continues to delight us with new songs.
Ah, this wedding ...
A successful career is, of course, good, but how is the singer’s personal life?
In 2010, Leo Geykhman appeared in the life of Katie . Acquaintance took place through mutual friends. The romance between them did not begin immediately, but only a year after meeting. In the winter of 2012, Geikhman made a proposal to the singer, to which she agreed.
The official wedding ceremony took place on September 7th. Only the closest relatives attended. Katie was dressed in a white short dress with a full skirt, instead of shoes she wore fashionable sneakers, there was no evening hairstyle. The groom was also dressed informally: a t-shirt was visible under his jacket.
The main celebration took place on September 9 in the concert hall on Barvikha. A fairy-tale princess appeared before the guests as a soloist of A-Studio. The wedding was held on such a scale that it could well qualify for the title of wedding of the year. Among the guests were Alla Pugacheva, Alsu, Yana Rudkovskaya, Lera Kudryavtseva, Valeria and many other eminent guests. Here the bride and groom were already in full dress: Katie was in a white wedding dress, and Leo was in an elegant suit with a bow tie.
The wedding day coincided with the birthday of the singer, who turned 27 years old. Therefore, the congratulatory speeches of the guests sounded not only in honor of the newlyweds.
Pregnant or not?
From the very moment that the marriage of Katie and Leo took place, the media was full of headlines about the singer’s pregnancy.
And this was due to several photos where Katy appeared in loose dresses, and a video made in January. In the video, a girl frolics in the sea in a separate swimsuit. And some fans thought that the singer’s tummy was rounded. However, the singer herself refutes information about her interesting position. It turns out that the biography of the soloist of the A-Studio group was replenished with a new rumor? Or does she just not want to bring her personal life to the public? Time will tell…