Incendiary songs of the singer IOWA ("Smile", "One and the Same" and "Minibus") successfully hit various radio stations, television channels and instantly become hits. They are taken to popular series and television programs - "Fizruk", "Kitchen", "Youth", "Voice.Children", KVN, "Dancing". Those who attended their concerts admire the indescribable atmosphere in the hall. And of course, many are interested in the history of this group, as the IOWA singer’s name, and the details of the biography. You will learn about this by reading the article.
IOWA vocalist
The soloist of this popular group is called Ekaterina Ivanchikova. She was born on August 18, 1987 in Chausy (Belarus). Therefore, everyone who was interested in how old IOWA (the singer) is, thanks to simple calculations, can find out that she is 28 years old. The girl’s talent manifested itself in childhood. At the age of five, Katya took first place in the regional vocal show jumping among kindergartens. This was her first performance.
At school, the future vocalist of the IOWA group (singer Katya Ivanchikova) loved drawing, dancing, playing the piano and doing vocals. In addition, the girl already actively composed songs and thought about creating a group in the future.
By education, the vocalist of the IOWA group (singer) is a journalist and philologist.
Group creation
In 2009, Katya created a group that quickly became popular in her native Belarus. In addition to Katya Ivanchikova, it includes Vasily Bulanov and Leonid Tereshchenko. The group has actively toured the country. And then one day it was time for them to move to Russia, in order to continue to develop their creativity and increase their popularity here. Performances in St. Petersburg made it clear that the group is interesting to the general public. They became famous thanks to the "Simple Song", and since then they have been awaited with concerts throughout the country - from Moscow to Vladivostok.
In 2012, the group became a participant in the New Wave contest of young performers, where it received a special prize from LOVE RADIO. And now, IOWA annually attends this festival as an invited guest.
Moreover, the group performed at the Olympics and Paralympics in Sochi and at many other events.
IOWA is the pseudonym for the vocalist. So called her musicians, with whom she worked even before the creation of the popular group.
Having moved to St. Petersburg, the guys found themselves in a fierce atmosphere of competition, but this only inspired the group and became an incentive for new achievements. They immediately felt a return from the fans. Those, in turn, were grateful to the musicians for the incredible charge of vivacity and good mood that they received at concerts.
For the vocalist herself, in turn, the opportunity to share her thoughts, emotions, experiences with many people has also become valuable, IOWA admits. The singer claims that this is happiness for her.
Katya the dreamer
By nature, IOWA vocalist (singer) is a big dreamer and dreamer. She is madly in love with children. After all, they are not limited in anything in their fantasies and desires, unlike adults. After all, we adults often can’t even afford to dream to the fullest - we are pressed by stereotypes and opinions imposed on us by other people, the fear of mistakes, the bitter experience of the past ... But Ekaterina Ivanchikova is not at all afraid to dream. And, as we see, her dreams are doomed to success!
The girl successfully manages to combine work and her favorite business. She gets tremendous pleasure from what she does. Despite the schedule drawn up in minutes, the girl manages to find time for her favorite activities - reading books, creating cartoons, making children's toys. And she always finds time to chat with fans - connoisseurs of her work, give them her smile, positive attitude and a lot of good mood.
At the end of 2015, the band released a new video for the song "One and the Same", which has already become very popular. In the immediate plans of the group is to release a second studio album.
Personal life of Ekaterina Ivanchikova
Many fans of Katie IOWA are interested in the question of whether the girl’s heart is free. As it turned out, no. For a long time she has been meeting with the group's guitarist Leonid Tereshchenko. The couple even shared with fans the song about their love - "Minibus". Katya wrote the words, and Leonid wrote the music. Recently it became known that the lovers secretly married after seven years of relationship. We wish them simple human happiness and great love.