Natalya Vetlitskaya: biography, photo, personal life

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Natalya Igorevna Vetlitskaya

(August 17, 1964, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian singer, film actress, composer, poetess, and dancer.

Biography

Childhood and youth

Born on August 17, 1964 in Moscow. Father - Igor Arsenievich Vetlitsky (June 10, 1935 - May 2, 2012) - nuclear physicist, worked for 54 years at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics,[1][2][3] mother - Evgenia Ivanovna Vetlitskaya (born September 15, 1939) - piano teacher.[4]

Two brothers[5], the younger brother is Igor Igorevich Vetlitsky (born June 29, 1971).

At the age of 10, Natasha Vetlitskaya began studying ballroom dancing, and then entered a music school where she studied piano, graduating in 1979. For ten years, starting in 1977, the future singer repeatedly took part in various ballroom competitions.

In 1981 she graduated from secondary school No. 856 in Moscow. In the same year, she began running a ballroom dancing school on her own.

Creation

Natalya Smeyan (Vetlitskaya), together with her first husband Pavel Smeyan, worked in the State Variety Orchestra of the RSFSR under the direction of Maxim Dunaevsky in 1985-1986.

In 1985, the disaster film “Unscheduled Train” was released, in which a song performed by Vetlitskaya (credited as Natalya Smeyan) was performed.

For two years, starting in 1986, Vetlitskaya performed as a dancer and backing vocalist in the Idea Fix group.

Then Vetlitskaya joined the popular group “Rondo” as a choreographer, dancer and backing vocalist, recording four solo compositions as part of the group for the magnetic album “Rondo-86”, released in 1987.

At the end of 1987, Vetlitskaya took part in the recording of the song “Closing the Circle,” which was shown on New Year’s television.

In 1988 she became the lead singer of the Mirage group. As part of this group, she toured many cities of the USSR.

In 1988, Igor Matvienko, Andrey Zuev, Oleg Katsura, Oleg Kurokhtin, Alexey Gorsky and Valery Zharov united in the group “Class”, which played in the electropop style. Vetlitskaya performed as a dancer and backing vocalist in this group.

In 1990, “Class” breaks up, Natalya Vetlitskaya begins collaboration with Andrei Zuev. The first fruit of this collaboration was the song “Look into your eyes,” which, according to Afisha magazine, was included in the list of “The brightest and most memorable Russian pop hits of the last 20 years.”[6]

In 1992, a video for this song was released, shot by Fyodor Bondarchuk.

Andrey Zuev's song "Magadan" performed by Natalya Vetlitskaya became the laureate of the Song of the Year.

In 1996, Vetlitskaya released the album “Slave of Love,” songs from which were constantly in rotation on many radio stations. Then a collection of hits “Best Songs” was released.

In 1997, Vetlitskaya played one of the main roles in the musical film “The Newest Adventures of Pinocchio.” She recorded two musical compositions for the film - “Sleep, Karabas” and “Taj Mahal” in a duet with Sergei Mazaev, who played the cat Basilio in the film. She also recorded the song “Rivers” as a duet with Maxim Pokrovsky (the leader of the group Nogu was cramped!).

In 2003, Maxim Papernik’s musical film “The Snow Queen” was released, where Natalya played the role of the Princess and sang the song “Lanterns” in a duet with Vadim Azarkh. In the same year, Vetlitskaya performed for the last time at the Song of the Year festival, performing the song “Flame of Passion.”

Vetlitskaya writes music, writes poetry, and is engaged in painting and design.

Since 2004, after the birth of her daughter, Natalya Vetlitskaya has been living in Spain[7][8] on her own estate in the town of Denia, moving there for permanent residence in 2008[9].

Personal life

She is married for the fourth time to Alexey, a yoga trainer[10][11]. Daughter Ulyana (born 2004)[12]. The first husband is Pavel Smeyan, the second is Zhenya Belousov, the third is fashion model Kirill Kirin (at one time he worked as an administrator for Philip Kirkorov)[13]. Vetlitskaya also lived in a de facto marriage with Dmitry Malikov, Pavel Vashchekin, Alexander Loye, Vladislav Stashevsky, Suleiman Kerimov, Mikhail Topalov (businessman and producer, father of Vladislav Topalov) and Sergei Zverev[14].

Since 1998, he has been practicing Kriya Yoga and attending Sri Sri Ravi Shankar courses in India.

Vetlitskaya is also involved in charity work. Since 1999, she has regularly provided financial assistance to children of psychoneurological hospital No. 4, located in the village of Nikolskoye, Ruza district, Moscow region.

Vetlitskaya accused officials of her father's death

The singer’s father, 77-year-old Igor Vetlitsky, died recently - on May 2. The Vetlitsky family, sorting through his old papers, discovered a notice of transition to a new payment. The notice states that the Federal State Unitary Enterprise, where her father worked for 54 years, will be renamed and is now called the Federal State Budgetary Institution (federal state budgetary institution) “State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation - Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics.” The renaming is due to the recent transfer of ITEP to the Kurchatov Institute. But that's not the point. At the same time, her father was notified of “a change in the terms of the employment contract regarding remuneration.” “Your salary is set at 2882.88 rubles per month,” the notice says. Next, quite categorically, 2 options for the development of the event are proposed: “In case of agreement, the employment relationship with you will be continued, and in case of disagreement, it will be severed. Notify the HR department of your decision in writing within two days.” Under the paper is the signature of the deputy director for personnel management of the institute, Lyudmila Tolokonnikova. Vetlitsky received this news shortly before his death. So the heart couldn’t stand it, the scientist’s daughter suggests.

“How could a sincerely and selflessly dedicated person, who worked in this institution for 54 years, and is one of the leading experts on semiconductors in world science, endure such plebeian, cynical humiliation? The numbers are humiliating, the form of the report is even worse,” says Vetlitskaya.

Nuclear physicist Igor Vetlitsky.

According to the ITEP memorandum, which was at the disposal of MK, Igor Vetlitsky was listed on the staffing table of laboratory 203 as a leading physics engineer at 0.2 rate and was busy working in the laboratory for one working day a week. His average monthly salary, taking into account part-time work, was 4,090 rubles per month. In the notification about the upcoming introduction of new conditions of remuneration, which Igor Arsenievich Vetlitsky was familiarized with, the tariff component of wages was indicated, and it was explained that a compensation payment would be established to preserve previously received income.

“It is quite possible that Vetlitsky could have been kept at such a salary, taking into account his age; lately we have been experiencing some kind of incomprehensible perturbation with salaries,” Alexander Akidinov, a colleague of the deceased, head of the group of the ALICE experiment at ITEP, told MK. —According to him, the average salary of a senior researcher is 18 thousand, plus payments for length of service, for harmful production, bonuses and grants. There are people who “are on state secrets” and cannot disclose their salaries.

Of course, such a salary, so to speak, can upset and shock anyone. Moreover, Igor Vetlitsky is not an ordinary clerk; he worked on magnetic systems: he manufactured, tested and adjusted a very large L3 magnet for electron-positron accelerators, and monitored magnetic fields. L3 has proven itself well, and was installed at the CERN Large Hadron Collider - now it is one of the main parts there.

It is curious that Natalya Vetlitskaya’s desperate cry coincided with an open letter from three corresponding members, ITEP employees, posted on the Internet. Here is an excerpt from that letter: “Today, the current director of ITEP, Yu.F. Kozlov, is acting as ITEP’s gravedigger... Scientific business trips, trips to conferences, youth schools are prohibited, obstacles are created for working with schoolchildren and students... ITEP management is trying to fire all employees with scientific contracts abroad. As a “control shot”, it is planned to reduce the salary rates of scientific employees by 3 times to 6,000 in the next few months.”

“The average salary of employees of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “SSC RF ITEP” for 2011 was 30,292 rubles per month,” the press service of Rosatom reported to MK.

civil position

In August 2011, Natalya published a “fairy tale” on her blog, which supposedly described a closed concert in the winter of 2008 for government members at a remote and “secret” residence. The article critically describes the organization of the concert in general and, in particular, the behavior of the artistic director of the Kremlin Palace Pyotr Shaboltai[15][16][17][18][19]. The article also ironically describes Vladimir Putin awarding singer Philip Kirkorov the title “People’s Artist”[20]. The article caused a great resonance in the press and after some time was deleted from the singer’s blog. After urgent requests from fans, the singer returned the publication to her page on the social network Facebook[21].

In 2012, after the death of his father from a heart attack, nuclear physicist Igor Arsenievich Vetlitsky (1935-2012), who worked for 54 years at ITEP, in April 2012 his father received notice of a salary reduction from 4400 to 2882 rubles, and in May he died from heart attack[22], Natalya in her blog[23] accused the head of Rosatom Sergei Kiriyenko and ITEP director Yuri Kozlov of persecuting her father, financial fraud and the deliberate collapse of the nuclear industry[24][25][26].

In October 2020, Vetlitskaya cursed in response to bullying[27][28][29].

Personal life of Natalia Vetlitskaya

Natalya lived with her first husband, musician, singer and composer Pavel Smeyan, for three years. He, being 7 years older than his wife, was already a celebrity: he founded the Rock Studio, played in musicals of the Lenkom Theater (including the famous Juno and Avos). It was Smeyan who advised Vetlitskaya to start a solo career. The marriage broke up due to Pavel’s aggressive nature - he beat his wife from time to time. On one of these occasions, the musician went too far and almost killed Natalya.

Natalya Vetlitskaya with her first husband Pavel Smeyan

Later, the girl had an affair with singer Dmitry Malikov, to whom (or rather, to the breakup) he even dedicated the song “Farewell, my blonde.” And the reason for their breakup was the Soviet pop singer Zhenya Belousov. In 1989, they met at a party in honor of the New Year (according to colleagues in the shop, they slept that same night) and quickly got married, but the marriage lasted 9 days. On the 10th day, the couple filed for divorce.

Natalia Vetlitskaya and Zhenya Belousov

For the third time, Natalya married fashion model Kirill Kirin, in the future - administrator Philip Kirkorov and the main character of her video for the song “Look into your eyes.” This marriage also did not stand the test of time.

After breaking up with Kirill, the singer lived in a civil marriage with producer Pavel Vashchekin, artists Vlad Stashevsky, Vadim Azarkh, as well as businessman Mikhail Topalov, entrepreneur and politician Suleiman Kerimov and hairdresser Sergei Zverev.

Natalya Vetlitskaya with Vlad Stashevsky

Now Vetlitskaya is married for the fourth time - her husband is her personal yoga trainer Alexey, with whom the singer gave birth to a daughter, Ulyana, in 2004. The singer gave birth in a French private clinic.

Natalia Vetlitskaya practices Kriya Yoga

Since 1998, Natalya has been practicing Kriya Yoga and makes a pilgrimage to India once a year. Vetlitskaya is also involved in charity work and since 1999 regularly transfers money to psychoneurological hospital No. 4 in the Moscow region.

Since 2004, Natalya Vetlitskaya has been living in Spain (pictured with her daughter)

After the birth of her daughter, Natalya settled in Spain, in a residence in the elite town of Denia, which has almost no Russian-speaking residents. A nanny and a gardener help Vetlitskaya with the housework. Natalya has difficulty learning Spanish, but her grown daughter speaks a second language fluently and studies at a private school in a neighboring town.

Filmography

Vocals

• 1984 - Mary Poppins, goodbye - backing vocals (uncredited), sings along in the song “Bad Weather” (music by Maxim Dunaevsky - lyrics by Naum Olev, performed by Pavel Smeyan)
• 1985 - Train off schedule - vocals, credited as Natalya Smeyan

Acting works

• 1997 - The newest adventures of Pinocchio - the fox Alice
  (“Sleep, Karabas” and “Taj Mahal” in a duet with Sergei Mazaev)
• 2003 - Criminal tango - fortune teller's client
• 2003 - Snow Queen - Princess
  (“Lanterns” duet with Vadim Azarkh)

Everyday life of a star mother

While Ulyana is going through her school program, Natalya is not wasting her time, but is doing what she loves. The pop singer has mastered a new profession - restoration and home decor. There are rumors that the cottage next door is also the property of Vetlitskaya, which she periodically rents out.

Natalya Vetlitskaya tries to monitor the economic and political situation in Russia. She regularly watches and reads news appearing in the media. After getting acquainted, the pop singer speaks quite sharply about life in her homeland, criticizing the adopted laws, the state of the roads and various changes in show business.

So, about two years ago, in an article on the Echo of Russia website, the singer spoke out and criticized the spiritual, informational and political atmosphere prevailing on the territory of the Russian Federation. In February 2020, on her page on social networks, Vetlitskaya wrote that she was tired of watching the “cotton wool”, as she noticed one common similarity among them - everyone, as if by choice, was tongue-tied and stupid.

In addition to restoring houses and communicating on social networks, the ex-soloist of the musical group “Mirage” is engaged in writing music, composing poems, painting and design. Attends kriya yoga and does charity work. Since 1999, Natalya has regularly helped children undergoing treatment at psychoneurological hospital No. 4, which is located in the village of Nikolsky, Ruza district, Moscow region.

Clips

• Tender May - White Roses (back-up dancer)
• Sergey Minaev - Karina | Sergey Minaev Karina
• Bad weather (duet with Pavel Smeyan)
• Ci Sarà (cover version of the song Al Bano & Romina Power, duet with Pavel Smeyan)
• Shower (duet with Pavel Smeyan)
• Picture of Love (duet with Pavel Smeyan)
• Medley: I don’t want/This night/Music connected us (the first video of the group Mirage)
• What a strange fate (duet with Dmitry Malikov)
• Was, was not
• Magical dream
• It's not just like that...
• Silly dreams
• Soul
• Study me
• Petals
• Boys
• Playboy
• Halves
• Look into your eyes
• Cool-okay
• Birdie
• Slave of love
• Snowflake (author of music and lyrics Alexander Shkuratov)
• Three days until September
• You are my sadness
• Think what you want
• I am waiting for a call
• Whiskey eyes

Excerpt characterizing Vetlitskaya, Natalya Igorevna

My strange “walks” were now repeated every night. I no longer went to bed, but was looking forward to when, finally, everyone in the house would fall asleep and everything around would plunge into the deep silence of the night, so that I could (without fear of being “caught”) once again completely immerse myself in that extraordinary and mysterious , a “different” world that I’m almost used to being in. I was waiting for my new “friends” to appear and for the amazing miracle to be given anew each time. And although I never knew which of them would come, I always knew that they would certainly come... And whichever one of them came, he would again give me another fabulous moment, which I would treasure for a very long time and carefully in my memory, like in a closed magic chest, the keys to which only I had... But one day no one appeared. It was a very dark moonless night. I stood with my forehead pressed against the cold window glass and kept looking at the garden covered with a shimmering snow shroud, trying until my eyes hurt to look for something moving and familiar, feeling deeply lonely and even a little “treacherously” abandoned... It was very sad and bitter , and I wanted to cry. I knew that I was losing something incredibly important and dear to me. And no matter how hard I tried to prove to myself that everything was fine and that they were just “late”, deep down I was very afraid that maybe they would never come again... It was insulting and painful and I just didn’t want to believe it . My childish heart did not want to put up with such a “terrible” loss and did not want to admit that this would still have to happen someday, but I still didn’t know when. And I wildly wanted to push back this unfortunate moment as far as possible! Suddenly, something outside the window really began to change and flicker in a familiar way! At first I thought that one of my “friends” was finally appearing, but instead of the familiar luminous entities, I saw a strange “crystal” tunnel that began right at my window and went somewhere into the distance. Naturally, my first instinct was to rush there without thinking for a long time... But then it suddenly seemed a little strange that I did not feel that usual warmth and calmness that accompanied every appearance of my “star” friends. As soon as I thought about this, the “crystal” tunnel began to change and darken before my eyes, turning into a strange, very dark “pipe” with long moving tentacles inside. And a painful, unpleasant pressure squeezed my head, very quickly developing into a wild exploding pain, threatening to crush all my brains. Then for the first time I truly felt how severe and severe a headache could be (which later, only for completely different reasons, would poison my life for nineteen years). I felt truly scared. There was no one who could help me. The whole house was already asleep. But even if I hadn’t slept, I still wouldn’t have been able to explain to anyone what had happened here... Then, almost in a real panic, I remembered the creature with an amazingly beautiful crown and mentally called him for help. It would seem stupid?.. But the headache instantly went away, giving way to wild delight, as I suddenly saw again the already familiar sparkling city and my marvelous, extraordinary friends. For some reason, they all smiled very warmly, as if with approval, emitting a surprisingly bright green light around their sparkling bodies. As it turned out later, I, completely unaware of it, passed the first test in my life that evening, of which, however, there would be very, very many later... But that was then, and it was only the beginning... I was just a child, and I could not then suspect that in those “other” incredibly beautiful and “pure” worlds there could also be bad, or, as we call them, “black” entities. Who, like fish on a hook, catch these “green”, newly hatched chicks (like I was at that time) and happily devour their raging vitality or simply connect them to some kind of “black” system forever. And, unfortunately, there are few such “chicks” who could ever be freed if they did not know how and did not have the necessary potential for this. Therefore, I could not even imagine how lucky I was then, that at the right moment I was somehow able to see something completely different from what someone very persistently tried to convince me... (I think that without realizing it myself, I was able to scan the situation that had already arisen). And if it weren’t for my amazing “crowned” friend, whom I, wildly frightened, called very timely, no one knows in which of the distant “black” worlds my essence would live now, if it were still alive at all … That’s why there was so much joyful warmth and light in the hearts of my “star” friends. And I think that this, unfortunately, was also one of the main reasons for our farewell. They thought I was ready to think for myself. Although I didn’t think so at all... Two female entities came up to me and seemed to hug me from both sides, although physically I didn’t feel it at all. We found ourselves inside an unusual structure that resembled a huge pyramid, all the walls of which were completely covered with strange, unfamiliar writing. Although, upon closer inspection, I realized that I had already seen the same letters on the very first day of our meeting. We were standing in the center of the pyramid, when suddenly I felt a strange “electric current” emanating from both female entities directly into me. The feeling was so strong that I was swaying from side to side and it seemed that something was starting to grow inside... Then a male essence with a sparkling crown stretched out its hands in my direction and... the world changed... A blindingly bright crystal tornado swirled around me, which completely “ isolated" me from my friends there. When the tornado broke up, there was a strange black bare Earth around me... I was in an unclear place and, again, I was completely alone. But for some reason it wasn’t scary. I felt that they were trying to show me something and that I should definitely try to see it. Suddenly a very eerie feeling of absolute emptiness appeared. There was nothing - no light, no sounds, no support underfoot. I was hanging “nowhere”... The only thing I saw in front of me was a luminous ball (as I now understand, it was the Earth). And inside it, a bright “egg” glowed with green fire. Then it began to grow and change, becoming brighter and more transparent. Hundreds of green “bridges” stretched from it in all directions, and at the end of each of them there was a “different” Earth... I don’t know how this can be explained differently, but this really was our Earth, only each of them looked completely different, as if I was in another time or dimension... I didn’t understand what it was, but I knew for sure that I had to remember it. And I tried as hard as I could. Suddenly everything disappeared, and I again found myself inside the same huge pyramid and saw all my shining “friends”. There were twelve of them again, and just like the very first time, they stood in a circle, and I stood inside. Only this time, in addition to the warmth emanating from them, I also felt a strange deep sadness. And I realized that they had come to say goodbye... To my great surprise, I took it very calmly, as if I knew that this would not be forever. They came up one at a time and put their right hand on my chest, which made me feel unusually warm and calm. Each touch left a different glowing color on me, and in the end my body glowed with twelve amazingly bright, changing colors. I again heard strange music inside me, and everything disappeared... I didn’t remember anything else. With dual feelings, both loss and happiness, I quietly returned home. And here a big surprise awaited me. My mother, half-fainting, was waiting for me in my room. The world turned upside down, and in quiet horror I fell from my “sparkling dreams” into a ruthless reality... I couldn’t lie. But I absolutely didn’t know what to say. And I also felt that my mother knew very well that this something, again, was somehow connected with my “strange talents,” a conversation about which neither she nor I, unfortunately, could avoid... To my great relief, in that night she didn't say anything. Perhaps she didn’t even know what to say. But the next morning the windows in my room were securely boarded up. Mom did not return to this incident for another two weeks, as if giving me time to comprehend “what she had done.” But this, of course, didn’t make it any easier for me. Dad was on a business trip at the time and I hoped with all my heart that maybe it would somehow “get over me” and everything would be forgotten before his arrival. But that was not the case... One fine morning, before leaving for work, my mother said that she wanted to talk to me. Well, naturally, there was no big secret for me - about what... Mom was, as always, affectionate and warm, but I felt with all my gut that this whole story was oppressing her and that she really didn’t know where to start. We talked for a very long time. I tried as best I could to explain to her how much all this meant to me and how scary it would be for me to lose it all... But it seems that this time I really scared her and my mother said that if I didn’t I want her to tell all this to her father when he returns home from a business trip, I must promise that this will never happen again. She did not understand that all these strange, wild “surprises” of mine do not at all happen according to my wishes and that I almost never know when one or the other will happen.... But, since my father’s opinion meant more to me than anything else, I I made a promise to my mother that I would not do anything like that, as far as of course it would depend on me. We decided on this. Honestly, like all normal children, I went to school, did my homework, played with my “ordinary” friends... and immensely missed others, my extraordinary, sparkling “star friends”. School, unfortunately, also had its difficulties for me. I started going at the age of six, because during the test it turned out that I could go to grades 3-4, which, naturally, no one liked. My school friends thought that everything was too easy for me, and their mothers simply disliked me for some reason. And it turned out that at school I also spent almost all the time alone. I had only one real school friend, a girl with whom we sat at the same desk for all twelve school years. But for some reason, relations with the other children did not improve. And not because I didn’t want it or because I didn’t try - on the contrary. I just always had a very strange feeling, as if we all lived at different poles... I almost never did my homework, or rather, I did, but it only took me a few minutes. My parents, of course, always checked everything, but since usually no mistakes were found, I had a lot of free time. I went to a music school (I learned to play the piano and sing), did drawing, embroidered, and read a lot. But still, I always had plenty of free time. It was winter. All the neighborhood boys were skiing because they were all older than me (and they were my best friends at that time). And all I got was sledding, which, in my opinion, was only suitable for children. And, of course, I also really wanted to go skiing!..

Notes

1. Vetlitskaya accused officials of her father’s death - MK
2. Chernukhina, Yulia
   . Vetlitskaya accused officials of her father’s death, Moskovsky Komsomolets (May 18, 2012). Retrieved July 21, 2014.
3. Singer Vetlitskaya published a new portion of incriminating evidence, Delovaya Gazeta (May 21, 2012). Retrieved July 21, 2014.
4. Unknown people shot up the house of Natalya Vetlitskaya’s mother » Show business news. Latest news of show business in Ukraine, Russia and the World from the online publication “ShowBiz”
5. Natalya Vetlitskaya - interviews, articles, notes
6. Alexander Gorbachev, Grigory Prorokov, Natalya Kostrova.
   History of pop music from Vetlitskaya to Yolka 1991-2011 // Poster. - 2011. - No. 312.
7. Natalya Vetlitskaya angrily ridiculed Valeria // tatar-inform.ru, November 13, 2014
8. Vetlitskaya spoke about life in Spain // dni.ru, June 20, 2017
9. After leaving the stage, the pop diva leads a reclusive life in Spain // life.ru
10. Natalya Vetlitskaya has a daughter
11. All the husbands and lovers of Natalia Vetlitskaya
12. Natalya Vetlitskaya and her daughter and husband today: photo // StoDam
13. On September 10th, singer Zhenya Belousov would have turned forty-five years old. Archived copy of March 4, 2020 on the Wayback Machine
14. Vetlitskaya is expecting a child from Smash!! (unspecified)
    (inaccessible link). Retrieved February 2, 2011. Archived August 12, 2020.
15. Singer Vetlitskaya told a “fairy tale” on her blog about how she participated in a “top-secret corporate event for the Tsar”
16. Singer Vetlitskaya told how she participated in a “top-secret corporate event for the Tsar” (unspecified)
    (inaccessible link). Retrieved March 7, 2014. Archived March 7, 2014.
17. The singer's swan song
18. An obscene “fairy tale” by singer Natalya Vetlitskaya about a specially guarded concert for 6 “men in tailcoats”
19. Pop horror story for adults from Natalia Vetlitskaya
20. DECREE of the President of the Russian Federation dated February 12, 2008 N 186 “ON AWARDING THE HONORABLE TITLE “PEOPLE’S ARTIST OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION” TO F. B. KIRKOROV.” Archived copy from October 26, 2014 on the Wayback Machine
21. Natalia Vetlitskaya on facebook
22. https://life.ru/t/news/111935
23. The machinations of the head of the mafia called ROSATOM
24. Natalya Vetlitskaya curses Seryozha Kiriyenko for her father
25. Natalya Vetlitskaya about how Sergei Kiriyenko is destroying Russian science
26. Singer Natalya Vetlitskaya publicly challenged Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko
27. Natalya Vetlitskaya: Impressions of the homeland
28. Russian singer Vetlitskaya about Victory Day: Only idiots can go crazy with joy on this day (undefined)
    . gordonua.com (May 9, 2016). Retrieved May 13, 2020.
29. Vetlitskaya swore in response to bullying // dni.ru, September 15, 2017

Natalya Vetlitskaya: I’m alone now, which I’m very happy about

In the 90s, she was not just a sex symbol, but a symbol of a new era. Bright, stylish, the first sign of social life. The whole country spoke about her romances and marriages with famous artists (Pavel Smeyan, Dima Malikov, Zhenya Belousov), with admiration and envy. But about 15 years ago, Vetlitskaya suddenly broke all ties with Russia, leaving for Spain, where she lived quietly, raising her daughter (they wrote that a certain yoga trainer became Ulyana’s father) and not remembering her career as a singer. Vetlitskaya recently announced her return. Large “solo concerts” will be held on October 10, 2020 at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall in St. Petersburg and on October 29 in Moscow at the Crocus.

We met with the artist after filming Andrei Malakhov’s program in an apartment in the City. Natalya doesn’t look at all like she’s 55—slender, graceful, with a new short haircut.

— In the 90s, many perceived you as a sexy cat who sang light songs about love without overloading people, without strain...What repertoire are you returning with?

— Stress in the sense of suffering? I generally don’t like songs about suffering, and life is not easy for everyone. I actually have three new singles that I'll be releasing soon. But I don’t think there’s any point in saturating my repertoire too much - I have such a number of hits, as it turned out - more than twenty. Of course, I get bored singing the same songs, so we are making a fresh sound. There are deadlines that the investor has given us, within which we must update the material. We must return the money we took for the project with a profit.

— Your departure came at a time of serious changes in Russia. Is there a difference between watching what is happening here on TV or hearsay from abroad, and seeing everything with your own eyes?

— I haven’t watched TV for 20 years. I think, why did I spend so much money and buy these useless screens? It would be better to donate them to the homeless. I don’t watch TV either in Spain or here. As for the agenda, sometimes if something pops up on Facebook, then I’ll read it. And so, to be specifically interested... At some point I realized that my inner state is much more important to me than participation in something that I cannot influence. All that is available to me is to calm myself down and thereby reduce the level of aggression in society. So that at least I am adequate and can create a calm and positive atmosphere in my family and among my friends.

— Many of our women “prick up” their wrinkles with Botox in order to escape from old age. They say that you have to be young and not give up until the end. Do you calmly accept your age...

“It’s not a matter of what is necessary, but of fear.” All problems and destructive things come from this feeling. I simply don’t have it. It’s not that I’m that cool, and I don’t really care what they think of me. I, of course, see that there is something on my face that is no longer quite the way I would like it to be. But I don't want to bother. The situation is not critical yet. And now I don’t even have the opportunity - in order to “prick” or cut something, I need to set aside time for rehabilitation. Until the bruises go away, for example. I don't even have time to do Botox. I have never cut anything off, the only thing is that I keep an eye on this wrinkle between the eyebrows.

— Do you remember the last time you went on stage?

— In my opinion, it was the “New Wave” in 2006. 13 years ago.

— You always dressed the coolest on stage. Where did they get all this in an era of shortages? I remember that Zhanna Aguzarova gave you the blue dress for the “Look into the Eyes” video...

- Zhanna saved me then. Well, she and I were very poor and bought everything at thrift stores. And we passed on to each other all the good things we had. If you vilify it, pass it on to someone else. And they sewed for themselves. The school labor lessons were very useful to me. After we went on a school practice, where we sewed beautiful caps for teapots that retain heat, and some pennants, I learned how to stitch on a typewriter. I sewed my own prom dress using a pattern from Burda magazine.

— iTunes doesn’t have your songs. And this is the main platform where people listen to music now!

- You know, to be honest, I never got around to it. I'm generally not a very well-adapted person. All organizational issues make me so sad and despondent that I keep putting everything off until later. I'll get to this over time.

— But you finally appeared on Instagram. Now for our artists this is the main platform for promotion...

— Instagram was opened by my PR people, I simply don’t have time for it. It's cool if other artists make money from this. In general, it seems to me that money should come easily, not through hard work. It’s great that it has become easier, and people don’t tear the veins as before. Don’t think, I’m also for money, I also need to earn money to support myself and my daughter, and to help my loved ones. But I still want to do it somehow through creativity.

— There were several important stages in your life when you changed your life. Leave a relationship where you feel bad. They left the country. We came to faith. We decided to return to the stage...

— I don’t do anything myself, I don’t change anything. Fate is leading me. Everything is automatically directed by some higher power.

- But you are not a passive observer!

“When I stop listening to my heart and follow my mind, something stupid always happens. Everything always goes wrong. I find myself in situations that I wouldn't wish anyone to find themselves in. As soon as I start listening to my inner voice, to my intuition, then everything aligns. As soon as you are overwhelmed by emotions, that’s it, you are not your own master. You are a slave to your emotions, a slave to your mind. He tells you: “Look how bad he is, how bad she is.” There is a constant internal conflict going on. And when you keep this process under control, you can already live without evaluation and reaction. And then the pain and tension go away.

— Did you really break all ties with our show business at one time?

“I wasn’t particularly friendly with anyone.” We were friends with Sergei Mazaev, of course. We had one party - filmmakers, musicians, Bondarchuks - Fedya and Sveta, Philip Yankovsky, Olya Slutsker. We met with colleagues on tour, but there was no time to make friends. That's why I couldn't break ties that didn't exist.

— Your ex-lover Dima Malikov is a unique person who is now “on the wave”, interesting both to young people and to his own generation. Did he offer you a duet?

“Dima really knows that I’m coming back.” We corresponded with him yesterday. We agreed that I would perform at his anniversary concert. He wrote me the super hit “Soul”, one of the best songs in my repertoire. I will sing it. We haven’t talked about the duet yet, I just invited them to my event.

— You once spoke about your ex-husband, Zhenya Belousov, with great warmth. Do you miss him?

“We were very good friends.” Even after we had this so-called “marriage” and “divorce,” we had a great time, hung out, came up with something. He showed me his songs, we figured out how he should move to them. We talked for a long time until life separated us. We didn't have a relationship with him like a married couple. It’s just such adventurism - they say, come on! Now this would be called a PR stunt. The situation turned out to be such that he needed marriage, and I decided to support my friend. Although everyone thinks it was different. But people often invent something that is not there.

- As I understand it, you now want to live a quiet life for yourself, without romances, because men are hard, they “drink blood” and take a lot of energy...

- Well, it's a joke, of course. Energy must be spent on everything - both on children and on loved ones. My daughter has grown up and things have become easier. She is 15 years old: a little more, and she will become quite an adult. But in my personal life I really don’t have any burdens. I am a free woman, which makes me very happy. Why? I have such a specific job that it is difficult to have a serious relationship. It’s one thing when there are two artists in a relationship who can understand absences, touring, and hours in the studio. Of course, some conflicts arise between them, but not the same as between a person of another profession and an artist. There will always be misunderstandings here. And then, let's just say, I have no passionate desire to have an affair. There is no need to immerse yourself in a relationship with any specific person. Now, if we attract someone abstract, resonate, don’t destroy each other and claim space... I’ve been on tour all my life, sat in studios, in general, I’ve been left to my own devices. And in my work, it’s difficult for me to be in circumstances that limit me. Listen to “But I don’t want you to work.” Well, how is it?

—Has it ever happened that you didn’t perform because you were forbidden?

- Well... they didn’t prohibit it, but, how can I tell you, there really were circumstances to which I obeyed.

- You probably should have been tired of the huge amount of attention from men...

“I was always so immersed in my work that I did not have free time for any kind of life. And I was always selective about concerts, and did not work wherever I was offered. I asked: what kind of people, what kind of audience, what kind of place? I didn’t have such a tight financial budget - I tried to limit my schedule so that I seemed to have enough financially, and I wouldn’t get into strange situations.

— Regarding the “ches” - at the beginning of your career, when you were in Mirage, you went on tour with the group “Tender May”. What was the most difficult thing during that period?

— Number of concerts. Now the artists do not understand how it is possible to go from some Biysk to Barnaul in a cold UAZ, without seats, on shabby stools. Icy concert halls...The audience in the hall sits in fur coats and hats, and you are naked. In Magadan there was a terrible hotel where everything was completely covered with cockroaches - everything was swarming with them so much that it was impossible to sit on a chair. Bedbugs in Moldova. In Kazakhstan, in my opinion, there was unbearable heat, temperatures over 40 and no air conditioning, it was impossible to just sleep. And we wet the sheets, laid them on us until they dried out... Now you can say - “please, please, a penthouse and a Rolls-Royce.” And everything will be provided to you.

— Allegedly there was some kind of investigation into your multiple houses...

- I am, excuse my indiscretion, a pop star. And I have the right to houses and cars that I earned myself. Who cares how much money I have - let them look into their pockets and their garden. I don't care what they say. By the way, I can say that it is very burdensome to have a certain amount of real estate and transport. These are big taxes, everything needs to be maintained. But the money issue is not so scary. Everything needs to be looked after, managed somehow so that everything doesn’t fall into disrepair, and we need to make sure it doesn’t get ruined or burned. In general, it is ideal, of course, to rent a house. In the West, only very rich and old-fashioned people live in their own. Mostly everyone spends money on travel, self-development courses...

— You seem to be from an ordinary Soviet family, you even had to work as a cleaner in a carpentry shop, but many thought that you were a criminal. Who helped you?

“We really had an ordinary intelligent family: dad was a physicist, mom was a piano teacher. I saw that even ordinary working families lived more prosperously than us. I didn’t have any connections, I wasn’t anyone’s protégé. I didn't get anything magically. I started working at the age of 17, after finishing school, I began teaching ballroom dancing and, in the evenings, aerobics for women who want to keep fit. She didn’t take a penny from her parents for her maintenance. What questions do you have for me, gentlemen?

Large “solo concerts” will be held on October 10, 2020 at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall in St. Petersburg and on October 29 at Crocus City Hall.

Natalya Vetlitskaya “Soul”.1992

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Concert of Natalia Vetlitskaya in Moscow: “Look into your eyes” after 15 years

Ex-member of the Mirage group and performer of numerous solo hits Natalya Vetlitskaya will give a concert at Crocus City Hall in Moscow on October 29, 2020. The program includes time-tested hits and new songs (details)