Diana Sergeevna Arbenina is a singer, musician and poetess, Honored Artist of the Chechen Republic. She is the leader of the rock group Night Snipers and writes songs herself.
Biography
Diana Arbenina was born in Volozhin (Belarus). Her mother and father worked as journalists. When the girl was 6 years old, the family moved to Chukotka. After 2 years, the parents divorced. The mother got married a second time, her husband was A. Fedchenko, a surgeon. Later they lived in Magadan, Kolyma.
Diana finished high school in Magadan, then entered the Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Foreign Languages. In 1993. Arbenina moved to St. Petersburg, studied at the State University (Department of Philology).
Musical career
During her student days, Diana Arbenina was an aspiring singer. In 1993. she performed at the festival of art songs, where she met Svetlana Surganova. Arbenina returned to Magadan, and Surganova also moved there. Together they sang in clubs, bars. This is how the Night Snipers group appeared.
In 1994. the girls moved to St. Petersburg, participated in rock concerts, events. In 1998. the 1st album "A Drop of Tar" was released. Then there were many concerts, the group became popular, toured the country and abroad.
In 1999-2001. the albums "Children's Babble" and "Rubezh" were released. In 2002. Surganova left the group and began a solo career. In 2002-2013. "Night Snipers" are recording 7 albums. In 2005. the group collaborated with Kazufumi Miyazawa, a Japanese musician. They had 2 joint concerts, and the song "Cat" became a hit in Japan.
Diana was a participant in other projects, in particular, she performed solo at some rock festivals, collaborated with Mr. Bi-2. In 1998-2012. 15 films were released, where the compositions of D. Arbenina were used. Diana appeared in the television project "Two Stars", voiced the cartoon "Elysium". In 2012, a collection of Arbenina's collection entitled "Auto-da-fe" was released.
In 2016. the album “Only Lovers Will Survive” was recorded, the song “I Wanted” became a hit. In 2017. "Night Snipers" continue their active tour. In 2018. the group celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Personal life
There were many rumors about D. Arbenina's non-traditional sexual orientation, the singer herself did not comment on them. In many ways, they appeared because of the songs that spoke about the relationship with the girl.
Diana was married, but the marriage with the singer K. Arbenin is fictitious, it was concluded for registration in St. Petersburg. In 2008. Arbenina had twins - Artyom and Marta. Since, while pregnant, Diana was in the United States, it was assumed that she was undergoing an in vitro fertilization procedure. Arbenina herself denied these rumors. According to the singer, their father is an American entrepreneur of Russian origin, whom she met in the States.
