Singer Slava is a bright Russian pop star, who owes her fame, perhaps, not only to her spectacular appearance and thoughtful repertoire, but also to a memorable pseudonym. However, the girl does not hide her real name either.
The Russian singer, performing under the pseudonym "Glory", is known to the listener for her popular songs "Cool", "Fellow Traveler" and many others. In total, during her creative career, she released four solo discs, and also acted in films and became the owner of many prestigious awards, including the Golden Gramophone, the MUZ TV Prize and others.
The real name of the singer Glory and the beginning of a career
Singer Slava was born on May 15, 1980. At birth, the girl was named Nastya: thus, the full real name of the artist is Anastasia Vladimirovna Slanevskaya. Her father was a professional driver and her mother was an economist. However, when Nastya was two years old, her parents separated, and her daughter stayed with her mother. In search of something to her liking, Anastasia tried many types of activities - she studied to be a psychologist, linguist, tourism manager, tried to work as an administrator in a casino and do interior design.
The singer's creative career began at the age of 22, when in 2002 television director Sergei Kalvarsky drew attention to her. He noticed her at a karaoke club and invited the girl to try to work together. The result of this collaboration was the song "I Love and Hate", for which a bright video was shot. The work quickly gained popularity not only among the broad mass of listeners, but also among professionals: in 2004, the video was nominated for an MTV award.
The history of the origin of the pseudonym
Anastasia Slanevskaya immediately appeared on the domestic stage under the pseudonym "Glory": obviously, the professionals who collaborated with her understood that a girl with a short, sonorous and unusual name would have more chances of success than if she tried to win the love of the audience using her real name. Further developments showed that this calculation was correct: today only the most devoted fans remember the singer's real name, while the majority of the audience prefers to identify him with a pseudonym.
In one of her interviews, Slava mentioned that the person who proposed such a stage name was her common-law husband Anatoly Danilitsky, who always took her creative activity to heart and supported the singer. He, according to the artist, deciphered her real name Slanevskaya as "a glorious Neva girl." And in response to Anastasia's objections that she was a Muscovite, he agreed to reduce the transcript to just "glorious." This is how the stage name appeared, which today is known to almost every lover of Russian popular music.
