Elena Maksimova is a successful singer in Russian show business and simply a beautiful and talented woman. Has two higher educations. She began to build her career as a member of the musical groups “Non Stop” , “Decadence ” and “Reflex” . She gained worldwide fame after participating in such TV shows as “The Voice”, “Exactly Exactly” and “Exactly Exactly. Super season." Elena Maksimova is thirty-nine years old. The woman married Vadim Gitlin. Unfortunately, the marriage did not last long, and after the birth of their daughter Diana, the couple filed for divorce.
Elena Maksimova was the lead singer of the group "Reflex"
The artist's childhood and adolescence
Lena was born on August 9, 1979 in the resort city of the Crimean Peninsula - Sevastopol . In this sunny city, to the sound of the surf, the singer spent her childhood and teenage years. From an early age the girl began to sing. Lena's magical voice and absolute pitch were discovered in kindergarten, where the young singer attended. Her mother worked as a teacher in the same kindergarten. The head of the family was a military man. My grandmother worked as a primary school teacher, and my grandfather taught physics all his life.
Elena Maksimova - star of Russian show business
Elena was the star of all matinees, she performed almost non-stop. Her signature performance was the song of the elephant trainer. The role of the elephant was played by the teacher, who was covered with a gray painted blanket, while the young artist performed a song. Also in kindergarten, Maksimova first tried herself as an actress. At children's performances, my mother's pride was the irreplaceable Snow Maiden and Little Red Riding Hood.
At the age of eleven, Lena began performing in the Multi-Max ensemble. Our heroine, as part of a children's team, traveled to many cities across the country, where she took part in various children's talent competitions. The ensemble often brought home victories. Lena's mother sacrificed her work in order to take her beloved daughter to competitions. Despite such a busy schedule, Maksimova did not forget about her studies. She graduated with honors from high school and music school.
Elena Maksimova - star of Russian show business
Bright projects
In 2020, the singer appeared before fans as a participant in the new season of the show “Just the Same.” The girl reached the finals. Popular projects brought new compositions to the repertoire. Among them, the most memorable were “Weightless Words”, “Our First New Year” and “I Won’t Let You Go”.
In 2020, Elena was invited to the competition project “Exactly. Super Season" as one of the brightest stars of the second edition. With the maximum score, the vocalist became its winner with a gap of only one point over second place Gleb Matveychuk.
The personal life of the star was not easy. At the age of 21, Elena met her chosen one. With Vadim Gitlin they became husband and wife. Soon the family moved to Moscow. A child appeared, daughter Diana.
The relationship began to deteriorate and the union fell apart. Maksimova left for Sevastopol, and her ex-husband became the head of the capital’s Consumer Union “Roskontrol”.
Student years
After school, the girl dreamed of studying at the theater, but her parents insisted that their daughter choose a more serious profession. Therefore, Elena had to apply to the university for the Faculty of Foreign Languages, from which the girl graduated with honors. Her parents had big financial problems, so the girl started working at an early age. She sang in the open areas of Crimean holiday homes and sanatoriums, as well as in nightclubs and cafes. It was during this part-time job that Maksimova realized that she wanted to become a singer.
Soon after this, Lena went to receive her long-awaited theater education at the Russian Institute of Theater Arts in the Black Sea department. While still a student, the girl became a soloist in the orchestra at the Sailors' Club theater at the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, where she gained good experience for a future creative career.
Elena Maksimova - singer
In the late 90s, musicians represented Russia at the military band festival in Cannes. The singer then performed several compositions by Patricia Kaas. In 1998, our heroine won the Yalta-Moscow-Transit festival. Elena Maksimova also worked as a soloist during holidays in sanatoriums in Crimea.
Growing up and career achievements
At the age of 11, Lena joined the Multi-Max team, and together with other guys she went on numerous tours around Ukraine. There were many diplomas and certificates collected in her house. Received a school certificate, Elena became a university student, where she actively began to study foreign languages. The parents insisted that their daughter should have a serious profession.
In order to cope with tuition fees, because it was not easy for her parents at that time, Lena got a job in nightclubs and cafes, where she sang. She made good money and was doing what she loved. Having received her diploma, she went to study at GITIS in the Black Sea branch of the Sailors' Club, which was owned by the Russian Black Sea Fleet. So Elena ended up among the soloists of the orchestra of the headquarters of the Russian Federation. What awaited her next was a rapid ascent up the career ladder.
Maksimova toured extensively with the Russian Headquarters Orchestra. She took part in the Military Band Festival in Cannes. Also in 1998, she attended the Yalta-Moscow-Transit festival, where she became the winner.
In 2004, her knowledge of English helped her when Maksimova successfully passed the casting for the musical “We will rock you.” She joined the main cast. For the next six months she worked seven days a week. And then I received an offer to join the group “Non Stop”.
Elena took part in the 5 Stars festival and attended the New Wave. In 2009, the first album was released, where Lena presented songs in English. Subsequently, she worked in such popular Russian groups as Decadence and Reflex. She also starred in candid photo shoots for Playboy magazine.
In 2013, Elena Maksimova took part in the show “The Voice” season 2. She took second place, losing the prize to singer Nargiz. In 2015, Elena Maksimova could be seen in the second season of the show “Exactly the Same.” She was able to reach the finals. She also presented new songs to the public.
In 2020, she again pleased her fans with her participation in the project “Exactly the Same”. Super season." In 2020, Lena presented a new track “Until Dawn” and released a video for it. I also pleased with the fiery composition “Happiness Within”. In 2018, she was involved in a scandal amid expressed dissatisfaction with the directors of Channel One. Recently she presented the song “Magic Mittens” and shot a video.
Elena plans to continue to delight fans of her work with new tracks and videos for them. She does not want to dwell on the successes achieved, believing that her level needs to be gradually increased.
The beginning of the singer's creative path
Elena Maksimova does not regret at all that she went to university, where she diligently studied foreign languages. Knowledge of English came in handy for the singer in her future work. In 2004, Elena decided to take a risk and attend the casting of the musical “We will rock you” . To the surprise of the girl herself, she beat out several hundred competitors and made it into the main team. The project consultant was Brian May himself, a member of the legendary Queen group. The man appreciated the excellent vocals of the young talent, and throughout the entire project he closely followed the successes of the talented performer. We worked on the musical every day, without breaks or days off, for six months.
Elena Maksimova participated in the musical “We will Rock you”
During the filming of the musical “We will rock you,” Elena Maksimova was noticed by the famous producer Vyacheslav Tyurin, and at the end of the project he invited the young singer to become a member of the “Non Stop” group. Lena entered a new step on the career ladder, and it was then that the path to Russian show business opened for her.
As part of this group, the girl took part in the “Five Stars” music festival. And in 2008, the group went to conquer the international competition “New Wave”, and they succeeded. “Non Stop” reached the finals. The following year, the singer's first full-length album was released, all of the compositions of which were performed in English.
Elena Maksimova (center) was the lead singer of the group "Reflex"
Elena Maksimova was also a soloist in such groups as: “Decadence” and “Reflex” . The heroine of our article has been watching her figure all her life: she adheres to proper nutrition and plays sports. Having a wonderful figure, Lena is not shy about showing it off, so the girl without hesitation agreed to a candid photo shoot for Playboy .
Elena Maksimova in playboy magazine
The beginning of the career of singer Elena Maksimova
Despite graduating from college with honors, the girl never worked in her specialty, but it cannot be said that knowledge of foreign languages was not useful to her in later life.
In 2004, she successfully passed the casting for participation in the musical “We will rock you”, was selected from 1000 applicants and was included in the main cast. Brian May became her musical consultant. It turned out that a member of the Queen group had been following the successes of the aspiring singer for a long time; he noted her excellent pronunciation and amazing timbre. For six months the performance ran every day, seven days a week.
Voice 2 - Elena Maksimova, Nargiz Zakirova, Inna Zhelannaya - `Ivan` Producer Vyacheslav Tyurin invited Elena to a new project in 2006. It was work in the group “Non Stop”, which became a good step in her career for the young singer, since it was with this group that she became a participant in the “Five Stars” music festival.
In 2008, Maksimova took part in the New Wave competition and reached the finals. In the finale, she performed the song “Angel Wings,” which amazed the audience and for a long time was one of the most frequently downloaded songs on the Internet. This competition made the girl recognizable. She immediately began recording the album. It was released in August 2009. The following people worked on this album with her: composer Pavel Kashin, the group “Ethnosphere”, author Olga Shamis. Elena performed the songs in English. Her perfect knowledge of the language and her education once again helped her.
In Moscow, at the Mir concert hall, composer Kashin presented his new project “Decadence”. Maksimova became the voice of this group. In the same year, she became one of the soloists of the Reflex group, where she worked for almost two years. When she started singing in the group, it was no longer very popular, but the singer gained invaluable touring experience. In the spring of 2011, she left the group to try her hand at solo performances.
Maksimova began preparing her concert program, which she had already presented by the summer. The singer calls the new musical direction in which she is now working intellectual pop. In the summer of the same year, Elena appeared in Playboy magazine, where her candid photographs were published.
2013 brought the singer the opportunity to reveal herself in a new way, becoming a participant in the show “The Voice 2”. She performed at the blind audition with the song “Run to You”. The performance was so worthy that all four jury members voted for Elena. Perfectly clear vocals created the impression of being an accomplished singer at the concert. Leonid Agutin became Maximova’s mentor on the project. The singer believes that the strongest team was selected from her mentor.
Voice 2 - Elena Maksimova - “Back in USSR” Elena reached the semi-finals of the show. She performed a cover version of the famous song “Back in USSR”, which was performed at one time by The Beatles. Their songs were often performed by the singer with her group, and in her soul she feels like a “rocker”.
The mentor cast his vote not for Elena, but for Nargiz, another participant from Agutin’s group. Maksimova believes that he did the right thing, since Nargiz is the strongest among them. She herself also plans to root for her in the finals.
Speaking about her participation in the project, Maksimova said that it was a great success and personal victory for her that she reached the semi-finals. She came across worthy and strong opponents who would not be offended by losing. Although, as an ambitious and professional singer, Elena really wanted to get to the finals.
Elena Maksimova on television
2013 became a very fruitful year for our singer. Maksimova came to the second season of the TV show “The Voice” , where she performed the song “Run to You”. All jury members were delighted with the flawless performance of the song. Elena ended up in a strong team whose mentor was Leonid Agutin .
Elena Maksimova on the TV show “The Voice”
In the quarterfinals, she received rave reviews from the audience and jury members for her performance of the touching song “Je Suis Malade.” In the semi-finals, Maksimova presented a cover version of the song “Back in USSR”. Unfortunately, it was not our heroine who managed to win, but her opponent Sergei Volchkov.
In one interview, Elena Maksimova stated that she was very happy about her participation in this project. She admitted that “The Voice” played a huge role in her life, and her mentor Leonid Agutin managed to reveal all the facets of vocals. In 2020, the artist tried on the images of Irina Saltykova, Mireille Mathieu and Vanessa Paradis on the TV project “Exactly the Same”. In this show, Lena reached the finals.
After two popular television projects, several new songs by Maximova were released. The most striking and successful were such compositions as: “Weightless Words”, “Our First New Year” and “I Won’t Let You Go”. In 2016, the singer took part in the project “Exactly the same. Super Season”, where only the brightest stars of previous editions were invited. In the final episode of the “Super Season”, Elena transformed into Zemfira. Our heroine managed to score the maximum number of points and take first place.
Elena Maksimova transformed into Zemfira in the show “Exactly Exactly”
Successful start
Having completed her studies brilliantly, the girl immediately entered the Black Sea branch of GITIS. They immediately paid attention to the girl. She was invited to be a soloist in the orchestra of the Black Sea Fleet headquarters, since the girl’s university was located in the Sailors’ Club.
The performer's musical career began. The aspiring vocalist gained invaluable experience. She visited Cannes with the orchestra. The girl performed songs from the repertoire of Patricia Kaas.
In 1998, Maksimova became the winner of the Yalta-Moscow-Transit festival. Knowledge of the English language was very useful to the girl in 2004. Elena passed a strict selection process and became a participant in the musical “We will rock you.” She managed to beat hundreds of applicants.
Brian May, a member of the legendary Queen group, who consulted on the project, noted both the impeccable pronunciation and the amazing timbre of the artist’s voice. Rehearsals continued for six months every day.
After completing work on the project, Maksimova was invited to join the “Non Stop” group. Participation in the team was the next step towards success.
Personal life of the artist
At the age of twenty-one, Elena married Vadim Gitlin. The lovers moved to the capital. The couple's relationship deteriorated after the birth of their daughter, who was named Diana. After the divorce, with a small child in her arms, the girl returned to her hometown. Our heroine experienced the breakup of the relationship very painfully. She was disappointed in men, and believed that she would rather become a grandmother than walk down the aisle again. And after the divorce, the ex-husband headed the Roskontrol Consumer Union.
After a certain period of time, the singer began an affair with her work colleague Evgeny Viktorovich Kungurov. The couple even recorded several joint compositions, the most famous of which was the song “Promise Me Love.” As it turned out, Evgeniy was married to actress Natalya Troitskaya at the time of the affair. The man repents of his ex-wife, but in one of his interviews, Kungurov said that after his affair with Lena, his eyes were opened to problems in his relationship with Natalya Troitskaya.
Elena Maksimova and Evgeny Kungurov
Maksimova did not want to start a relationship with a married man, so she made it clear to the womanizer so that he could make up his mind. The singer did not want to be part of a love triangle, for this reason their romance was short-lived. At the moment, the personal life of the heroine of our article has improved. The artist is in a serious relationship. She prefers to keep the name of her loved one a secret.
Elena Maksimova and Evgeny Kungurov
The girl is convinced that happiness loves silence. Despite such secrecy, media representatives still managed to find out that Elena’s current man is her old good friend, who also deals with Russian show business. Maximova’s closest person is her daughter Diana. The girl has long decided on her future profession: she dreams of becoming a flight attendant, as she adores the sky. Elena Maksimova also actively maintains a microblog on Instagram, where she shares personal photographs and videos from performances with her subscribers.
Maksimova Elena with her daughter Dianna
Personal life
At the age of 21 she became the wife of Vadim Gitlin. Together with her husband she moved to live in Moscow. After the marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, whom it was decided to name Diana. But the relationship with her husband deteriorated and the marriage fell apart. Maksimova had a hard time with the breakup.
Elena Maksimova with her daughter Dina now
Subsequently, the singer entered into a relationship with singer Zhenya Kungurov. Together they recorded songs. One of them is “Promise me love.” Then Evgeniy was married to actress N. Troitskaya. Afterwards, the lovers never stayed together. Kungurov gave an interview in which he admitted that he regretted his decision to have an affair on the side, deceiving his wife. The couple broke up, and the singer went in search of her true happiness.
Today Elena Maksimova is not alone, but she is in no hurry to talk about her chosen one. She says that she is afraid that she can destroy happiness with her conversations. It is known that he is a musician. Elena is proud of the successes of her daughter Diana. She dreams of becoming a flight attendant, as she has always been crazy about the sky.
Maksimova shares her personal life with fans through the Instagram microblog. She often posts photos and videos, shares career achievements and plans for the future. She admits that she really loves being photographed and enjoys taking part in various photo shoots, and even more she likes sharing their results with her subscribers.
Elena Maksimova in our time
Maksimova is very glad that she had a good experience in her life on the TV show “The Voice,” which she was able to use in her future work and career. She is grateful to Agutin for revealing her potential as a musician and director. According to Elena, it was the mentor who helped her achieve this level of success.
The singer once stated that as long as people listen to her compositions, she will delight everyone with her creativity. At the beginning of the summer of 2020, Elena Maksimova presented a new fiery song called “Happiness is Within.” In the fall of the same year, a video for the song “Until Dawn” was released.
In the winter of 2020, the singer was involved in a small scandal. On her Instagram account, Elena expressed dissatisfaction with the directors of Channel One, who cut the performer’s number from the New Year’s broadcast. The same fate befell Nina Shatskaya, Elmira Kalimullina and the Buranovsky Babushki. The artist’s fans supported their favorite and advised her not to be upset.
An attractive and talented artist is in great demand on the Russian stage. The woman can often be seen on popular television shows, which brought her nationwide fame. Elena Maksimova has a large audience of fans who admire her creative work.
Personal life of Elena Maximova
The young man appeared with Elena Maksimova during her student years. Immediately after graduating from university, the couple got married and moved to Moscow. The newlyweds became parents, but soon separated. With little Diana in her arms, Elena returned to Sevastopol.
For the second time, Maksimova came to Moscow as a promising singer. At first she lived in a rented apartment with her daughter, and then she took her mother too. In 2020, the family acquired their own property, the construction of which lasted more than 10 years.
Elena’s second marriage has not yet taken place, and her heart is still not occupied. The star spends all her free time in the company of her daughter and close friends.
Life off stage
Actress Elena Maksimova, whose personal life was no less successful than her acting career, met her future husband in 1927. And at the beginning of the next year she became the official wife of Georgy Nikolaevich Lukyanov. Having an engineer's education, he worked at the Heat Engineering Research Institute named after. Dzerzhinsky.
In 1934, the couple had a son, who was named Gleb. Elena Alexandrovna devoted all her free time to the child. Before the start of the war, the actress worked at the Soyuzdetfilm film studio, and after the children of employees were evacuated near Ufa, Maksimova gave up everything and went to work as a cook for food, just to be close to the child. In the winter of 1942, the film studio’s children’s camp was taken to Dushanbe, and in the spring the actress returned to creative work.
Subsequently, the son of Elena Maksimova and Georgy Lukyanov chose a creative professional direction: he worked as a cameraman, tried to shoot and stage films for government orders. Gleb lived until 1999. The actress’s grandson Andrei Lukyanov was educated as a lawyer, was involved in the music and advertising business, and since the 2000s has been acting in TV series and feature films, continuing his grandmother’s work.
Maksimova, Elena Gennadievna
early years
Elena Maksimova was born in August 1979 in Crimea. The singer spent her childhood and teenage years in the city of Sevastopol. Maksimova’s father, Gennady Nikolaevich, was a military man. Mother, Nina Mikhailovna, is a teacher, worked as a teacher in a kindergarten, the same one where her daughter went. The girl began singing from early childhood, since at the age of 4 she discovered perfect pitch and a good voice. Maksimova sang and performed almost non-stop. In kindergarten, she was practically the constant Snow Maiden and Little Red Riding Hood. Her signature number was the elephant trainer's song. Covered with a gray painted blanket, the teacher portrayed an elephant, and the young artist sang[11]. The parents did their best to develop the child’s abilities and sent their daughter to a music school, and at the age of 11 the girl sang in the Multi-Max ensemble, one of the most famous children’s groups in Ukraine. As a member of this dance group, she visited many cities in the country and became a laureate of many television competitions[12]. The mother did not have time to work and accompany her daughter to competitions at the same time, so she decided to quit and devote herself to the child. Maksimova graduated from music school with a degree in piano.
Career
Despite the fact that since childhood, Elena Maksimova dreamed of a career as an artist, her parents insisted that her daughter receive a serious education, so after graduation she submitted documents to Northern State Technical University for the Faculty of Foreign Languages, from which she graduated with honors. But after graduating from high school, she still decided to fulfill her dream and entered RATI GITIS, namely its Black Sea branch, where she studied for three years. Their course was based at the Sailors' Club Theater, which belongs to the Russian Black Sea Fleet. There she was noticed by the conductor of the orchestra of the fleet headquarters and invited her to become a soloist of the orchestra of the Black Sea Fleet. They sailed on the ship "Kerch". This was an invaluable singing experience, since she often performed with the orchestra and took part in major competitions, and in 1998, with this composition, she represented Russia in Cannes at the Military Bands Festival[13]. At the same time, she became the winner of a festival called “Yalta-Moscow-Transit”[14].
In 2004, Elena Maksimova managed to pass the casting for participation in the Russian production of the musical We Will Rock You, leaving behind more than 1000 applicants and getting into the main cast, where Brian May, guitarist of the band Queen, became her musical consultant[15]. The young vocalist surprised the musician with her timbre and pronunciation. After Brian May, her second musical mentor was the musical's bass guitarist Danny Miranda. He also recorded bass on some songs on Maximova's upcoming album.
In 2006, producer Vyacheslav Tyurin invited the young singer to his new project, which he called the group “Non Stop”[16]. It was as part of this new pop group that Maksimova took part in the Five Stars music festival[17][18].
In 2008, the girl became a finalist in the international competition of young vocalists “New Wave”, where she performed the song “Angel Wings”, which for a long time was one of the most frequently downloaded compositions on the Internet[19]. In the same 2008, she became one of the soloists of the group “REFLEX”[20], where she worked for almost two years[21].
In March 2009, the premiere of a new project by composer Pavel Kashin, “Decadence,” took place in the Moscow concert hall “Mir,” with Elena Maksimova becoming the voice of this group[22]. As part of this project, Maksimova performed more than 10 compositions in English.
In 2012, Elena Maksimova became a participant and reached the final of the national selection of Eurovision 2012 with the song “Brave”, written by Swedish authors[23].
