Beloved and adored by many, Zemfira, whose biography will be described in this article, grew up on the music of such legendary performers as Tom York and Victor Tsoi, and Queen, Aquarium, Nautilus Pompilius, Black Sabbath. Her elder brother introduced her to rock. It can be said that thanks to him the world learned about who Zemfira Ramazanova is.
Artist Biography: childhood
The future singer was born on August 26, 1976 in the city of Ufa. The girl showed abilities for music from an early age. At five she went to music school for the first time, at seven she already wrote her first song. Zemfira was born in an intelligent family: my father taught history, my mother worked as a doctor. The daughter pleased her parents - she was an excellent student at school and achieved considerable success in sports: in 1990 she became the captain of the Russian women's national basketball team. Despite the fact that the monotony in the music school began to get on Zemfira’s nerves, at the insistence of her mother, she nevertheless finished her studies, besides with a red diploma.
Zemfira: biography - education and the beginning of a career
At first, the future singer planned to enter the Faculty of Philology, but she accidentally saw an announcement of entrance examinations at the music school - she decided to try it. She was immediately accepted to the second year, but after a year Zemfira becomes bored, she regrets her choice and hardly finishes the school that disgusted her. In 1996, he works as an operator on the Europa + radio (a branch in Ufa) during the day, and writes his first songs on the computer at night, which later became real hits: Weather Forecaster, Snow, Why, and others.
In 1998, the singer creates her own group "Zemfira". A lot of material had already accumulated in the singer’s arsenal at that time, which she decided to transfer through her friend Leonid Burlakov (producer of the Mumiy Troll group). The fact that Zemfira is a real nugget, Leonid does not doubt for a minute and immediately invites her to the capital to record the album. On March 24 of the same year, a new singer Zemfira was presented to the public for the first time at a press conference of the company “Stream Sound Recording”. The biography of an extraordinary artist, of course, contains information that not everyone accepted her work, there was also criticism. Vladimir Polupanov wrote in a review of the album that Zemfira’s lyrics are illogical, “do not bring truth into the world” and have philological flaws. But this did not stop the singer from capturing the hearts of millions of fans.
Zemfira: biography - on the wave of fame
In 2000, the country heard the second album of the artist, which sold a crazy print run (more than one and a half million copies). The album has become one of the most successful in the history of Russian show business. The year 2002 presented fans with Zemfira 's third album, copies of which on the first day, sold more than one hundred and eighty thousand. In 2003, Zemfira became the winner of the Triumph Youth Prize. And in 2004, her biggest dream came true - she sang the song “We are the Champions” at the MTV Russia Awards in a duet with Queen.
Zemfira: biography - personal life
It is known that the singer is not married. Rumors of a romance with musician Petkun in the late 1990s turned out to be just a well-thought-out marketing move to promote her first album. The press contains unconfirmed information about Zemfira’s gay orientation and her particular relationship to actress Renate Litvinova.