Natalya Lagoda. The tragic story of the life and death of a sex symbol of the 90s.

Biography

Natalia Lagoda is called one of the most beautiful singers of the 90s. The artist’s clips were shown on the country’s main channels every day. However, the singer’s fate was tragic.

Natalya Lagoda was born in Cherkassy in March 1974 into a simple family. She graduated from school No. 26 in the same city. After school, she entered a vocational school, where she learned to be a seamstress, but her education was never useful to her in life.

Natalya Lagoda in childhood and youth

In the mid-1990s, Natalya Lagoda came to conquer Moscow. In the capital, the girl rented a room and sold vegetables at the market. Then Lagoda got a job as a dancer at the Dolls strip club, where she met influential businessman Alexander Karmanov.

Conquest of Moscow

After breaking up with her husband, our heroine decided to radically change her life. She left her son with her parents and went to Moscow. In the Russian capital, the girl rented a room and got a job at the Dolls strip club. It was there that she met her second husband, businessman Alexander Karmanov.

The new lover moved the brunette to his apartment located in the center of Moscow. Natalya never worked another day at the strip club. Alexander Karmanov made every effort to make her a pop star. He also accepted her son from his first marriage into the family.

In 1998, performer Natalya Ladoga appeared (see photo above). Then her video for the song “Little Buddha” was released. The audience appreciated the girl’s vocal and external abilities. Soon the album of the same name was released.

At the beginning of 2001, the singer presented a new video for the song “Your eyes are lying to me.” Natalia begins recording her second album. But this record was not destined to be released.

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The creative biography of Natalia Lagoda is similar to the fairy tale about Cinderella. A poor girl from the provinces became rich and famous after meeting a famous metropolitan businessman. Alexander Karmanov spared no expense on Natalya and decided to make her a singer. It was more a whim of a man than of a future artist.

After two incredibly expensive videos filmed in Thailand with the money of a businessman, Natalya Lagoda woke up famous. “Little Buddha” and “Your eyes are lying to me” were sung by everyone around, Lagoda’s photo was published by the tabloids. The singer was talked about as a rising star.

Fans waited for the girl at the dressing room and showered her with flowers. The businessman invested money in promoting several of Natasha’s songs and videos. She recorded a solo disc and posed for the cover of Playboy magazine.

After the release of the song “Your Eyes Are Lying to Me,” the artist began work on a second collection, which she never released.

Natalya Lagoda had another little-known song that can be called autobiographical. The plot is based on the tragic fate of a provincial girl who comes to Moscow and gets a job at a strip club, where she meets a young man. He soon leaves her for another woman. The song is called "Don't Promise".

The clip was not shown on screens because it contained an advertisement for one of the capital's clubs. There are two more hits that are remembered by the public: “Martian Love” and “Our Love”. The Karmanovs invested their money not in vain. Natalia Lagoda's videos were played on all major channels and radio every day, and only the lazy did not hum “Little Buddha”.

Biography of singer Natalia Ladoga: photo, education and path to fame

The whole country knew our heroine as a beautiful and talented performer. Her songs were popular and played on all radio stations and television channels.

Natalya Ladoga was born into an ordinary family in Cherkassy. She graduated from school No. 26 in the same city. After studying in middle school, she entered a vocational school, where she later received a qualification as a seamstress. However, this education was not useful to her in life.

In the mid-90s, Natasha decided to go to conquer Moscow. She left her infant child in the care of her mother. The future singer rented a room and began visiting modeling agencies in the hope that she would be noticed and invited to work. But neither her beautiful appearance nor her figure helped her. No one signed a contract with her. As a result, the beauty had to sell food at the market in order to somehow survive.

After some time, Natalya got a job as a dancer at the Dolls nightclub. It was there that she met the love of her life, Alexander Karmanov. He was an influential man, a businessman. Soon Alexander became the common-law husband of the future star. Further events in the biography of Natalia Ladoga were simply fabulous.

Personal life

Natalya Lagoda's first husband was her fellow countryman Eduard Fisak, with whom she gave birth to a son, Dmitry, in 1992. The marriage broke up almost immediately. Natalya met her fatal love in Moscow when she worked as a dancer at the Dolls club.

The singer herself said: “Alexander Karmanov came every evening and left a thousand dollars just for me to communicate with him. I didn't even have to dance for him. And it so happened that we fell in love with each other.”

Alexander Karmanov and Natalya Lagoda
It seemed that the fairy tale would last forever. The girl loved Karmanov almost fanatically and was sure that Alexander was her destiny, her other half. The couple lived together, Lagoda brought her son to Moscow. However, the star’s lover became interested in another woman - Olga Orlova, the ex-soloist of the group “Brilliant”, and soon Olga became pregnant.

Lagoda later recalled how, after performing the song, a former member of “Brilliant” approached Natalya backstage and talked about her pregnancy. Then the woman even congratulated Orlova. But the second one added: “From yours.”

Natalya Lagoda with her son

In February 2001, Alexander and Olga formalized their relationship. Lagoda could not survive this blow. In 2001, after a year of severe depression and unsuccessful treatment, Natalya Lagoda jumped out of the window of her apartment on Begovaya Street in front of her 8-year-old son. The singer was in a coma for a long time, having undergone 16 operations, including craniotomy. After 8 months of treatment, she learned to walk, talk, and write again.

The personal life of Natalya Lagoda then turned out to be the top topic of all tabloids and media. After a suicide attempt, Lagoda disappeared from show business.

Natalia Lagoda

After the incident, in an interview, the woman shared that she survived because she heard Dima’s voice asking his mother to come back. Lagoda didn’t want to, but she returned.

Presumably, Natalya Lagoda’s third common-law husband was businessman from Lugansk Vitaly Simonenko. He took the singer from the hospital and took her to Lugansk. There, the former artist worked in a car repair shop. Later, Natalya Lagoda said that the woman’s lover was a former classmate from Cherkassy, ​​with whom she sat at the same desk.

Natalia Lagoda and Vitaly Simonenko

The family of Natalya Lagoda accused Simonenko of fraud, saying that he forcibly took Natasha from Moscow and forced her to sell the apartment, taking advantage of the woman’s illness and inadequate condition. Natalya’s relatives also accused Vitaly of abusing alcohol and introducing Natalya to this addiction. Lagoda herself denied these accusations and insisted that she was happy with Vitaly and loved her husband.

Tragedy

In 2001, A. Karmanov left Natalya for one of the lead singers of the Blestyaschiye group, Olga Orlova. Our heroine could not forgive such a betrayal.

On September 21, 2001, the singer decided to take a desperate step. A 37-year-old woman jumped from the window of an apartment located on the 5th floor. Do you know what's the worst thing? All this happened in front of her 8-year-old son.

The singer remained alive. However, she remained in a coma for a long time. She underwent 16 operations, including craniotomy. When Natalya Ladoga came to her senses, she immediately asked to bring her son.

The recovery process lasted almost 8 months. Ladoga learned to talk, walk and write again. And all this time she was within the walls of the hospital. The doctors' forecasts were not bad. But Ladoga had to forget about the singer’s career forever.

Death

From Moscow the singer moved to Lugansk. According to media reports, when fighting began in eastern Ukraine, Lagoda and her husband refused to leave Lugansk. The couple's house was destroyed by bombing, and then the family lived in a bomb shelter. Natalya rarely contacted her family. Earlier, the media reported that the singer’s son Dmitry moved to Russia. Other sources said that the guy was fighting on one of the sides in the conflict.

On May 31, 2020, brother Sergei told the public that the young man’s sister Natalya Lagoda died on May 29, 2020. The cause of the singer’s death was not announced, but some sources claim that addiction to alcohol could have led to death, but there is no official confirmation of this information. According to Natalya’s brother, the woman’s death is “the result of a tragic fate.” She was only 41 years old.

Then the public learned that Natalya died from an acute form of advanced pneumonia. The funeral took place in Lugansk.

In June 2020, one of the “Let Them Talk” episodes on Channel One was dedicated to Natalya Lagoda. The woman’s husband, Vitaly Simonenko, was invited to the program. On the show, the man denied that he and his wife existed like homeless people. Vitaly claimed that the couple lived with his aunt and then moved to a service station. And there were the necessary conditions for life.

After the death of Natasha, Simonenko went to prison: the man turned out to be a suspect in the case. And just before the funeral, Lagoda’s husband was released. As Vitaly himself assured, he could not even prepare a farewell to the woman he loved.

Singer Natalya Lagoda

Natalya’s mother and father are sure that it was Simonenko who brought their daughter to a critical condition and death.

Lagoda’s son, Dmitry, was present at the program. The young man said he came to tell him what a good person his mother was. And Dima is also sure that Natalya died because of the war in Donbass. Dmitry also stated that his mother and stepfather lived in normal conditions. The young man himself could not say goodbye to his mother, since he was not allowed to leave the Russian Federation.

The son and brother of 90s star Natalia Lagoda did not come to her funeral

Friends: “The cause of death is drugs”

The 41-year-old singer, who never left TV screens in the 90s, was buried yesterday in the Mirny district of Lugansk - it was there that she spent the last 15 years of her life with her third husband Vitaly in poverty and oblivion. Those who knew Natalya Lagoda claim that in recent months she and her husband have been homeless, hiding in bomb shelters, and alcohol drove this woman to her grave. Or drugs - this is the version voiced by singer Natalya Sturm: “I feel sorry for her. Good. The reason is drugs. This has always been the case. Alas…"

Lagoda’s relatives never reported the official cause of death: this means there is something to remain silent about...

The once popular artist left behind an adult son Dmitry, brother Sergei and sister Irina, but only her sister came to the funeral.

Striptease - oligarch - jump from the 5th floor window

The story of provincial Natasha is reminiscent of the story of Cinderella of our time, but without a happy ending. Disillusioned with the delights of marriage (in Cherkassy she married Eduard Fisak and gave birth to his son Dima), the young girl set off to conquer Moscow. She sold vegetables at the market, then got a job at the elite strip club “Dolls”, where businessman Alexander Karmanov became captivated by the rhythms of erotic dances. It was this millionaire oligarch who took Natasha from the pole and put her on stage. But happiness was fleeting: a couple of years later, the amorous Karmanov gave his heart and wallet to the lead singer of “Brilliant” Olga Orlova, telling Lagoda: “Sorry, Natasha, love is gone.”

Heartbroken, Natalya, unable to withstand the blow of fate, jumped out of the window of her apartment on the fifth floor in front of her son. She survived miraculously. Coma, 16 operations (the woman was literally pieced together), intensive care, several years of rehabilitation. All expenses (including plastic surgery) were paid by the ex-husband Karmanov.

Lagoda, who became disabled in the second group, was found by her classmate Vitaly, who had loved her since childhood. It was he who took Natalya from the hospital, persuaded her to sell her Moscow apartment for half a million dollars and offered to move to Lugansk, where the couple opened their own small car service business in 2000.

With the outbreak of the war in Donbass, the family’s connection with Natalya was interrupted. Her mother and brother Sergei were looking for her, accusing her son-in-law of alcoholism, and asking her to leave the danger zone, but Lagoda refused. Recently, her mother died, but Natasha was unable to come to her funeral. Moreover, recently she lived with Vitaly in the garage, then they wandered around bomb shelters. They say they drank a lot, which ultimately became the cause of her death.