Tina Kuznetsova: biography
Tina Kuznetsova is a Russian singer, composer and arranger. Khristina Anatolyevna Kuznetsova, whom the world knows better as Tina Kuznetsova, was born in August 1982 in Kazan. Her father is a physicist by education, her mother is a pianist, she worked as an accompanist and piano teacher at the local conservatory. Christina inherited her musical abilities from her mother. In addition to Tina, an older brother and sister grew up in the Kuznetsov family.
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Already at the age of 4, Tina, under the guidance of her mother, began to study music and play the piano. At the age of 6, the girl went to music school, where, in addition to playing the piano, she mastered the violin. According to Christina’s mother, her daughter, already at school age, knew how to select chords for the music she liked. Perhaps this talent for improvisation was passed on from his grandfather, an engineer-inventor who independently learned to play several musical instruments and spoke seven foreign languages.
Singer Tina Kuznetsova
In 1997, Tina became a student at the Kazan Music College, where she studied piano and piano. During this period, the girl became interested in jazz. So much so that because of this hobby he refuses the decision to continue his studies in Holland. Tina is transferred to the jazz and pop department, where she ends up in the class of the talented teacher Anatoly Maklygin. Here Kuznetsova masters playing the jazz piano and at the same time practices vocals.
In 2000, the young singer received the Grand Prix at the Nevskaya Lyra festival in St. Petersburg. This award is considered the most significant that Tina has received.
Yuri Usachev (“Guests from the Future”): biography
The musician was born on April 19, 1974 in the Northern capital of Russia. Usachev Yuri Alekseevich became imbued with music as a child. While studying at a music school, he mastered playing the piano, guitar, cello, drums and clarinet. In addition, Yura was a member of the choir (consisting only of boys) of the Leningrad Radio House.
In parallel with his passion for instrumental music, Usachev is mastering computer electronic music and is even an active participant in the Jungle movement (St. Petersburg).
Music
As part of various competitions and festivals, Tina Kuznetsova often visits the capital. During one of her trips, the singer met pianist and fellow countryman Renat Gataullin. Together the musicians created a duet and began performing. The fruit of joint creativity is the Grand Prix at the jazz festival at the Moscow club “Blue Bird”. The duo Kuznetsova-Gataullin earned this award for the best jazz vocals. It was then that Tina was noticed by one of the competition jury members, Yuri Saulsky. Thanks to Yuri, Kuznetsova was able to transfer to the budget department of Gnesinka, and immediately to the 3rd year of pop-jazz vocals.
Tina Kuznetsova
In 2002, Tina Kuznetsova created a group, calling the team Project C4. The vocalist performs jazz compositions in original improvisation, which deserves the attention of fans of jazz music. Tina’s work was appreciated at the “Jazz in the Hermitage Garden” festival, where the singer received the Grand Prix and was awarded the title “Young Hope of Jazz”.
In 2006, Tina founded a new original project, which she calls Zventa Sventana. Its basis is Russian authentic folklore. In the spring of the same year, Zventa Sventana performed at a closed party in a popular Moscow club, after which the group became famous among the capital's jazz music lovers.
Also in 2006, the first album of Tina Kuznetsova and Alena Romanova was released, the songs for which were collected during an expedition to the Russian outback. In the same year, the singer released the song “The Side of the Rain.”
In 2007, Kuznetsova, together with Yuri Usachev, created an electronic project called My-Ti. This is club music, with which the couple successfully performs in many clubs in the capital. A year later, joint creativity with Uchachev brought Tina the Triumph Prize, which is awarded to young performers.
Tina Kuznetsova and Pelageya
In September 2014, the girl became a student at the Institute of Contemporary Art, where she studied in the department of Tatyana Markovich.
Biography
Tina started playing the instrument at the age of 4[1]. The mother herself taught music to her daughter. From the age of 6, Tina studied at a music school, where she graduated in piano, and for 5 out of 7 years she also studied in violin class. She also studied at the folklore and ethnographic studio “Obereg” in Kazan.
In 1997, she entered the Kazan Music College, majoring in piano, and had great prospects as a pianist[2]. I was planning to move to Holland to continue my studies there. But, having fallen in love with jazz, she made a difficult choice, transferring from the second year to the jazz and pop department into the jazz piano class with teacher A. Maklygin. At the same time, since 1999, Tina has been successfully practicing vocals, which immediately brought her several top awards in republican and all-Russian competitions, the most significant of which was the Grand Prix in the “Nevskaya Lyra” competition in St. Petersburg in 2000.
Tina began her singing career long before participating in the Voice 2 project. Frequent trips to Moscow determined the desire for further development in this musical environment. Having met a fellow countryman in the capital, pianist Renat Gataullin, Tina creates a duet with him and soon performs at a festival at the Blue Bird jazz club, where she is again awarded the Grand Prix for the best jazz vocal. Members of the jury - A. Kroll, I. Bril, A. Green, Yu. Saulsky. It is thanks to Yuri Saulsky that Tina is soon transferred (on a budgetary basis) to the State Music School of Pop and Jazz Art (GMUEDI) named after. Gnessins immediately to the third year in the specialty “Pop and Jazz Vocals”[3].
In 2002, Tina organized the group “Project C4”[4] (FusionJazzRock)[5], with which she performs jazz standards with non-standard improvisation. It was with them that in the summer of 2002 she performed at the “Jazz in the Hermitage Garden” festival, receiving the Grand Prix and the title “Young Hope of Jazz”. A frequent guest of the Jazz Crossroads festival in Kazan, Tina also performs as a touring singer with other projects and such masters as Vl. Chekasin[6], the Ivanov brothers, A. Kruglov and others.
Tina’s next big undertaking was the founding in 2006 of her own Project “Zventa Sventana”[7], based on authentic Russian folklore. Wanting to find her own special path, in 2004 she went to the Days of Russian Culture in Thailand festival. There she performed as a solo singer and as part of the trio of S. Starostin[8], V. Volkov and A. Gerasimov[9] (rip). Returning to Moscow, at the “Folklore of Russia” festival in the “Dom” club, I met Alena Romanova and, appreciating her vocal and performing talent, invited her to my Project[10]. The sound producer of the group was Yuri Usachev. The performance of “Zventa Sventana” in the spring of 2006 at the closed party “PLAYBOY OLMECA CLUB” marked a successful start. Together with Alena, Tina several times undertook expeditions to the villages of central Russia, where they selected material for their first album “Suffering”[11], released in 2006. It included lyrical songs, ditties, lullabies and spiritual verse[12].
In 2007, together with Yuri Usachev, Tina created the club electronic Project “My-Ti”. With him they successfully performed at large open air clubs, as well as in Moscow clubs (TATLER, GQ, Mannon) and many other fashion venues.
A striking event in the career of the young singer can be considered the Triumph youth award she received in 2008[13].
Tina collaborates with DJs who write original music. In addition, the singer has experience writing songs for Russian pop stars. She is a frequent guest at events related to the Jazz Parking project[14].
Since September 2014, Tina has been studying at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)[15] in the correspondence department, majoring in “Variety Musical Art. Pop-jazz singing" in the class of Professor Tatyana Markovich.
Show "The Voice"
In 2013, Tina Kuznetsova’s biography received a new page: the performer filled out a form and got into the casting for season 2 of the show “The Voice”. After performing the song “Feeling good” at the blind audition, four jury members turned their chairs towards the girl. Tina ended up in a group with mentor Pelageya.
It was a strong tandem, as a result of which the mentor brought Tina to the finals of the “Voice” project. Tina performed in the final, singing the song Now We Are Free with Pelageya. Tina did not become a winner, but she gained a huge number of admirers of her talent.
At the show, the singer performed the song “Vanya”. TV viewers will call this composition the best in the performer’s creative biography. In the quarterfinals, Tina performed the song of the Nekrasov Cossacks “Oh, you gypsies!” in the author’s arrangement, and in the semi-finals she presented to the jury her interpretation of Zemfira’s song “London Sky”. These songs were also appreciated by fans of Kuznetsova’s talent.
Kuznetsova had very serious competitors. At the same time, after this show, the singer gained many new admirers. No one, having heard the girl’s voice, can remain indifferent; Tina conquers every listener with her individual style.
Yuri Usachev: wife Tina Kuznetsova
Yuri Usachev’s wife Tina Kuznetsova gained popularity not only thanks to her marriage to a famous musician, ex-soloist of the group “Guests from the Future,” but also due to her own talent - they learned about her after Christina (that’s her full name) became a participant in the second season of the show “ Voice" and reached its finale. She wrote the song that captivated the audience of the competition together with her husband. Khristina Kuznetsova is a member of the group “My-Ti” created by Yuri Usachev and its project “Zventa Sventana”. She met her future husband in 2004 while working in the studio, and they got married only five years later. When Tina Kuznetsova came to producer Yuri Usachev, she had studied at the Gnessin School, two of her own jazz projects, and performed at club and festival venues not only in Russia but also abroad. At first they only communicated about work - they recorded several English-language compositions, and then Christina and her friend created their own ethno-project “Zventa Sventana”.
In the photo - Yuri Usachev and Tina Kuznetsova
Gradually, Yuri realized that Tina was the woman with whom he would be interested and with whom he would be happy. A romantic relationship began between them, which lasted for five whole years. Before this, Kuznetsova had just broken up with a guy who had problems with drugs, was very upset about this breakup and lived in anticipation of new love. When she felt sympathy and attention from Yuri, she was pleased, because she also liked Usachev, but at that time he had a common-law wife and daughter, so the romance between Christina and Yuri did not begin immediately.
Usachev tried several times to break up with Kuznetsova, feeling guilty before his wife and little daughter, but his personal life cracked - his common-law wife had someone else, and they still broke up, and now nothing stood in the way of his romance with Christina. Tina did not insist on sealing the union with a stamp in her passport as soon as possible, so Yuri was in no hurry to make an official proposal, although he understood that she, like any girl, would like to have a real family.
In the photo - Tina Kuznetsova with her son Gabriel
Usachev proposed to his future wife in an unusual setting - at an altitude of ten thousand meters, when they were flying home from Israel from the wedding of their friends. They decided to hold their own wedding in a small circle in the restaurant of one of their friends.
To give birth to a child, son Gabriel, whom Yuri Usachev was looking forward to with great impatience, Tina went to London, to one of the best British clinics. To support his wife, he not only attended the birth, but also spent several weeks in London to be close to his wife and newborn baby.
Yuri Usachev’s eldest daughter Emilia turned fourteen this year; she lived in London for a long time, and recently returned to Russia. Yuri's daughter often comes to visit him, and he is glad that she has a good relationship with his wife and her little brother.
Tina Kuznetsova now
Tina continues to be active. In February 2020, she performed on the Main Alley of Victory Park during the celebration of “Broad Maslenitsa”. Guests of the event enjoyed a colorful concert of modern folk performers, songs performed by Kuznetsova, and also visited the Yarilo art object. The singer often participates in such festivals and charity events.
In 2020, Tina Kuznetsova, together with a rap artist under the pseudonym Legalize, performed the song “Melody of the Soul.” Fans of the performer’s work, as well as users of social networks, constantly follow the work of the idol, waiting for the appearance of new compositions and videos.
