Anna Pletneva is one of the most popular singers in Russian show business. Her songs are regularly included in the main music charts, and the image stands out for its special sensuality and sex appeal.
Biography
Anna was born in Moscow on August 21, 1977. Since childhood, the girl showed her creative abilities, so her parents sent her to school to study musical and choreographic skills. She also danced in the children's ballet "Ostankino".
Pletneva received her higher education at the Maimonides State Classical Academy. After graduation, she became a specialist in pop and jazz singing.
An interesting fact: from an early age, Anna was a big fan of Vladimir Presnyakov (junior). She often went to his concerts and even got the autograph of the "star".
The girl often dreamed of how she would grow up and they, together with Presnyakov, would sing a duet. As a result, years later, her dream came true: during a joint tour, the performers sang "Zurbagan" together.
Creation
Anna Pletneva's first great creative success is associated with the Lyceum group, popular in the 1990s. After leaving the trio of Elena Perova, as a result of strict competitive selection, Anna was taken to the group.
The collective was at the peak of its fame, among the awards on its account were "Silver Microphone" and "Ovation". In "Lyceum" Pletneva sang for almost eight years (from 1997 to 2005), and then decided to pursue a solo career.
Working as part of the Lyceum group became a real school for Anna, a kind of basics of show business. The singer amazed with her hard work and efficiency. Even being pregnant, Pletneva performed, covering her stomach with a guitar.
While still a "high school student" Anna dreamed of a solo career. After leaving the team, Pletneva founded her project "Coffee with Rain".
Anna was helped with the new material by her friend Alexei Romanov, who wrote the single "Nine and a half weeks" for her. As a result, their collaboration resulted in the Vintage group, which consisted of Anna, Alexey and dancer Mia.
In 2007, the group released a song called Criminal Love. Then, together with actress Elena Korikova, Pletneva shot a video for the song "Bad Girl", which turned out to be very frank.
The single became super popular, topped the Russian radio chart and won the MTV Russia Music Awards 2008.
Later, Pletneva shocked the audience with lesbian motives in the song "Eva, I loved you", which is dedicated to the singer Eva Polnaya. After such frank creativity, the soloist of the Vintage group became a truly scandalous girl for the fans.
In 2009, the group released the album "SEX". It includes both new and notorious hits "Bad Girl", "Loneliness of Love" and "Eve".
In 2009, the glossy magazine "Maxim" included Anna Pletneva in the Top 5 sexiest women in the country.
In 2010, the singer surprised her fans by posing as Mickey Mouse and performing the song of the same name.
In 2011, the group released the studio album "Anechka", which included the compositions "Roman", "Trees" and "Sign of Aquarius". A serious scandal erupted around the video clip for the song "Trees". The video was heavily censored due to the fact that in the video Anna is in a crown of thorns, which, as officials considered, could offend the feelings of believers, plus a large number of naked people were present in the video. Anna said that the main idea of the video was the supremacy of love on Earth, and not debauchery.
In 2013, the Vintage group released the Very Dance album, and a year later the new Decamerone album took place. The album immediately topped the iTunes and GooglePlay Top Albums chart in sales rankings.
In 2016, Pletneva left the Vintage group and took up a solo career.
Her new songs are slightly different from the previous ones, they are more serious and romantic. The singles "Strong Girl" and "Whose Side Are You On?" also resonated with fans and became popular.
Additional "points" by Pletneva were brought by a joint video with Marina Fedunkiv for the song "Girlfriend".
On February 1, 2018, the premiere of the single "Belaya" took place, the author of which was Alexei Romanov. The song topped iTunes Russia and became the singer's first single to succeed. Anna began to appear on stage under the name Anna Pletneva Vintage.
In July 2018, Pletneva returned to the Vintage group. And in August, the singer presented two premieres at once: a video clip for the song "Sunday Angel" and a solo album "Strong Girl". In an interview, Pletneva said that the new album "Babylon" by the group "Vintage" will have 13 songs, some of them have already been recorded.
Personal life
Anna got married for the first time in 2003. The singer did not advertise the identity of her husband. The marriage was unsuccessful, after the birth of his daughter, the husband left the family. He openly stated that he was not ready for fatherhood. Parting Pletneva was very difficult.
The second husband was businessman Kirill Syrov. He saw Anna at a nightclub and asked for her phone number. However, the singer did not pay much attention to the man, mistaking him for another fan and giving him the wrong number.
After 10 years, they met again in Dnepropetrovsk and never parted.
The relationship developed very rapidly, and soon the couple began to live together.
At first Anna was worried about how Barbarian's daughter would react to Kirill, but her fears were in vain. Today it is a happy family, in which, besides Varya, two more children have appeared. In marriage, a son, Cyril, and a daughter, Maria, were born. Pletneva's husband also has a child from a previous marriage. The husband supports Anna in her work and finances her projects.
