Katya Lel (Ekaterina Nikolaevna Chuprina) is a famous Russian singer, who is known, remembered and loved by the audience for her numerous hits, which took leading positions in the charts in the early 2000s.
Today, Ekaterina continues her stage career, being not only a singer, but also a producer. Her repertoire has changed: light, easy songs have been replaced by others - with deep meaning and content. Katya Lel is actively working, releasing new albums and is not going to stop there. The singer's biography is multifaceted. Her work is associated with many famous musicians and producers.
Katie Lel's childhood
The future singer was born in the city of Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria), in 1974 on September 20 and was the second child of her parents. She has an older sister, Irina.
From childhood, the girl was fond of music, the family supported her in every possible way. A creative atmosphere reigned in the house, although the parents were not people of art. By the age of three, the girl began to sing and then a piano appeared in their house. A few years later, Katya began studying music at school in two areas at once: piano and conducting. She finishes music school with honors and continues her education at a music school, and after that she enters the Institute of Arts.
Carier start
Having received a diploma from the institute, Ekaterina decides that it is not easy to achieve success, popularity and make a career in Nalchik. Therefore, she leaves for Moscow, where she enters the Gnessin School. At the same time, she was recruited to the theater under the leadership of Lev Leshchenko, where she became a backing vocalist.
The singer began to think seriously about her solo career after graduating from Gnesinka. Creating a stage image, the singer decides to change her surname and, having chosen a creative pseudonym - Katya Lel, begins to make her way to the heights of fame.
In 1994, Ekaterina received her first recognition among young singers and musicians at the Musical Start competition. From that time on, work began on creating an image and recording albums. Her first producer was Alexander Volkov, with whom Leshchenko introduced the singer. Their collaboration lasted for several years and thanks to him, Katya Lel's solo compositions were born.
The singer's first album, released in 1998, was called Champs Elysees. Then Katya released the discs "Sama" and "Between Us", but they did not become popular.
The first success came after the song "Goroshiny", which Lel records with DJ Tsvetkov.
Katya Lel and Max Fadeev
2002 was a fateful year for the singer. She meets the famous producer Maxim Fadeev, who invites her to record several compositions. From that moment on, the career of a young singer begins to rise rapidly.
Fadeev completely changes the image of Catherine and writes several songs for her. Their collaboration yielded results. The main hits of Katya Lel saw the light of day thanks to Max Fadeev.
In 2003 the following songs were recorded: "Musi-pusi", "My marmalade", "Doletai", which soared to the top of the charts. Then the singer records the famous album "Jaga-jaga" and receives recognition from the public and music critics. She becomes a laureate of the Silver Disc, Song of the Year, Golden Gramophone awards, is nominated for the Muz-TV Prize as the best singer, performs at the country's leading venues and her photos are printed on the covers of popular music magazines.
For all the songs, video clips were filmed, which did not leave the TV screens, and the song "Two Drops" became the most famous work. Katya Lel's peak of popularity was in 2004.
Creative search for a singer
After finishing work with Max Fadeev, Lel records her own album, "Kruchu-Verchu", which she produces herself. It includes songs of Catherine's own composition.
In 2008 the next album "I am yours" was released. During this period, her popularity is no longer as high as in previous years, so in 2011 Lel again returned to cooperation with Fadeev, having recorded the song "Your".
A few years later, in her career, there was a meeting with the famous Swedish singer Bosson. In collaboration with him, the composition "I live by you" is released. Evgeny Kuritsyn shot a video for this song in 2014.
A little later, Lel released her new album - "The Sun of Love", which included many compositions of past years.
You can judge how Katya Lel lives today by her creative projects. The singer's life and great creative experience has changed her approach to the repertoire and songs performed. Now she has many serious compositions in her collection that tell about love, about a woman, about joy and sorrow, partings and meetings. She tries herself in various genres, including song ballads, and is not going to stop in her creative search.
Her unexpected duets with Alexander Ovechkin in the song "Let Them Talk" and Sergei Kurenkov - "Crazy Love" gained popularity among the audience. The video, shot together with Kurenkov in 2017, pervades the pain of the experiences, and the brutal image of the protagonist will be remembered for a long time by the audience, as is the role of the artist played by the popular actor Alexander Domogarov in the TV series Pearls, for which the song became the main theme of music.
The singer's creative career is not limited only to the stage. She has appeared in small roles in a number of feature films and documentaries and recorded dozens of video clips.
Relationships and family
The singer's first common-law husband is producer Alexander Volkov. At that time he already had a family and was not going to divorce his wife. The relationship with Volkov lasted for several years and ended in a scandalous break with lawsuits. They say that the decline in the singer's career in 2005 began due to the stormy showdown between Lel and Volkov and the presentation of copyright claims for the singer's early work. The scandal lasted several years and ended only after the death of Volkov, who died in Berlin from oncology.
After the end of her relationship with her former lover, Katya continues to dream of a happy family life, as exemplified by her parents.
In 2008, Katya meets her love and becomes the wife of Igor Gennadievich Kuznetsov, a businessman. A year later, a daughter, Emilia, appeared in the family, and Lyudmila Narusova became the girl's godmother. Her husband does not prevent Katya from making music and creativity, believing that in the family, first of all, there should be mutual understanding and trust. Ekaterina and Igor are happy in marriage and are sure that they are the perfect couple.
