Childhood and youth
The biography of Elena Sever dates back to April 1973. The future star was born in St. Petersburg in the family of the director of the scientific center, Yuri Petrovich Severgin, and his wife Dina Pavlovna, who was an economist by profession.
Lena grew up as an inquisitive child, studied piano and vocals at a music school, attended a choreography studio, and became acquainted with sports through the rhythmic gymnastics section. After receiving her matriculation certificate, the girl received an economic education.
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Elena Sever and husband Vladimir Kiselev
However, fate beckoned Elena to a creative path. While still a student, the artist worked part-time in organizing events and over time participated in the preparation of fashion shows with the participation of Linda Evangelista and Cindy Crawford, concerts of Madonna and Julio Iglesias, sports competitions of famous tennis players and world basketball stars.
short biography
Rice. 1. E. North
Often children, when choosing a profession, follow in the footsteps of their parents. This did not happen to Elena. Having received a technical education, she realized in time that it was in her nature to be creative. Musical training during childhood and adolescence was of great help. But the most important thing is that there were people nearby who were ready to support her plans and help her achieve her goals.
Childhood
The only child of the family of Yuri Petrovich and Dina Pavlovna Severgin was born in Leningrad on April 29, 1973. This was the future Elena Sever, a singer whose songs are heard on radio and television programs. The pseudonym “North” came from this surname, although after marriage she became Kiseleva.
Parents were technical specialists. They met as students at a polytechnic university, after which they became employees of a research institute that dealt with electrophysical equipment. Almost her entire work history was connected with this institution, which did not prevent them from developing their daughter’s musical abilities, although many predicted a technical career for her. She attended many clubs and sections of children's creativity, starting from a very early age.
Where did you study?
As long as Lena remembers her childhood, she devoted most of her free time to music: she studied piano at a music school and studied vocals. In addition, her interests included rhythmic gymnastics and choreography.
After graduating from the Leningrad specialized school with in-depth study of the English language No. 328 with a medal (1990), she entered the University of Finance and Economics, planning to major in finance and credit.
Rice. 2 Financial and Economic University of St. Petersburg
Her knowledge of English came in handy when visiting the United States - she participated in the Children for Peace charity program.
A meeting with her future husband gave Lena the idea of becoming a businesswoman after graduating from university, especially since her educational profile corresponded to this. However, her fate had other plans.
Creation
In 2012, Elena herself decided to go on stage. She began her career in show business as a singer. The first song to be performed was “Dreams,” which was previously performed by Valery Leontyev.
The biggest hit was Elena Sever’s song “I’m Jealous.” A video was also created for it, which is often included in the rotation of music television shows. And in 2020, the hit “Don’t Call, I Can’t Hear” was released, in the recording of which Stas Mikhailov took part. For the performance of this track, the musicians were awarded the Golden Gramophone award.
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Elena Sever and Philip Kirkorov
In addition to the fact that Elena Sever is a singer, she tried herself as a film actress. In the historical and biographical film of the joint Russian-French production “Rasputin”, the artist, at the personal invitation of Gerard Depardieu, played the marquise.
Almost simultaneously with her singing career, Elena Yuryevna made her debut as a TV presenter. On the “Family” channel she had the opportunity to host the “Family Happiness” program, and on Fashion TV - the show “High life”. In the programs, Sever communicated with show business stars.
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Elena Sever and Yegor Creed
Guests of the studio were Emmanuel Vitorgan, Diana Gurtskaya and others. Each of Elena's projects had its own zest. Guests came to “Family Happiness” with their life partners: viewers got to know the stars from the point of view of their everyday life and private life, and at High life fashion fans could get answers to the most pressing questions from the most famous fashion designers and couturiers in the world.
Then Elena’s new author’s program, called “North. True stories." This transfer has a charitable status and is aimed at helping children who need organ transplantation or are awaiting rehabilitation at the Russian Scientific Center for Surgery named after B.V. Petrovsky. Singers Anita Tsoi and MakSim, Ani Lorak and Svetlana Loboda, musicians Alexey Vorobyov and Stas Kostyushkin came to visit the artist.
In 2020, the drama “Mata Hari” about the life of the great seductress and spy was released. Elena Sever appeared in the film as Tilda. The actress’s colleagues on the set were Vaina Jokante, Oshin Stak, Maxim Matveev, Alexey Guskov and others. This film is a joint project of Russia, Portugal and Ukraine.
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Elena Sever in a swimsuit
In April 2020, the son of the singer Vladimir had a presentation of a video for the song “Only I Decide.” The event was attended by Polina Gagarina, Philip Kirkorov, Nikolai Baskov and others. Elena Sever also arrived to support Vladimir.
Later, the artist appeared on the stage of the Olympic Stadium, performing at the concert “Ehh, Razgulay!”. And in May the RU.TV award ceremony took place. The singer, together with Alexander Revva and Anna Sedokova, acted as the host of the event.
In mid-June 2018, the “Radio Monte Carlo Grand Prix” races took place at the Moscow Central Hippodrome. This social event is one of the most anticipated events of the summer, which was held for the 15th time. That year, Elena Sever became a horse racing official.
Elena Sever is a new face on the main page
Part 1 - sweet (very abbreviated because one post is not enough to describe all the advantages of Elena and her family members)
Elena Sever is a popular Russian singer, actress and TV presenter. Familiar to viewers from the films “Rasputin” and “Mata Hari”. Conducts the author's program “North. True stories."
The biography of Elena Sever, singer, actress, TV presenter and public figure, dates back to April 1973. The future star was born in St. Petersburg in the family of the director of the scientific center, Yuri Petrovich Severgin, and his wife Dina Pavlovna, who was an economist by profession. Lena's parents, as intelligent people who devote their energy to science at the Research Institute of Electrophysical Equipment, wanted their daughter to develop not only mentally, but also culturally and physically, so they enrolled the child in different circles.
After receiving her matriculation certificate, the girl continued her mother’s work and entered the St. Petersburg University of Finance and Economics, where she received a profession in the specialty “Finance and Credit”. However, fate took Elena away from the economy, debit and credit. While still a student, the artist worked part-time in organizing events and over time participated in the preparation of fashion shows with the participation of Linda Evangelista and Cindy Crawford, concerts of Madonna and Julio Iglesias, sports competitions of famous tennis players and world basketball stars.
Later, the North initiated the creation of the Federation Charitable Foundation, which organized concerts to support Russia in the fight against childhood cancer and ophthalmological diseases. Thanks to Elena, Russian viewers were able to see live performances of such celebrities as Sharon Stone, Alain Delon, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Mickey Rourke and other world-class stars.
In 2012, Elena herself decided to go on stage. The girl began her career in show business as a pop singer. The first song to be performed was “Dreams,” which was previously performed by Valery Leontyev. A colorful video clip was shot for this composition, in the creation of which professional actors took part, including Russian Igor Petrenko and American Kevin Costner.
Elena Sever's videos enjoy constant success with viewers.
In addition to the fact that Elena Sever is a singer, the artist tried herself as a film actress. In the historical and biographical drama of the joint Russian-French production “Rasputin”, at the personal invitation of actor Gerard Depardieu, she played the Marquise. In the credits, Sever appeared not under a pseudonym, but under her husband’s last name, as Elena Kiseleva.
Together with her in this film, such well-known artists as Irina Alferova, Vladimir Mashkov, Philip Yankovsky and Konstantin Khabensky demonstrate their talent. In addition to starring in the feature film, Elena appeared in several dozen music videos of the Russian rock groups “Russians” and “Earthlings”.
Almost simultaneously with her singing career, Elena Yuryevna made her debut as a TV presenter. On the “Family” channel she had the opportunity to host the “Family Happiness” program, and on the “Fashion TV” channel the show “High Life”. In the programs, Sever communicated with show business stars.
Elena Sever’s husband is the famous Russian music producer Vladimir Kiselev, who became famous while performing with the legendary Soviet group “Zemlyane”. Vladimir Kiselev and Elena Sever met in the early 90s backstage at the Oktyabrsky complex, when the dance group of a 19-year-old girl performed as part of the White Nights festival. Thanks to this meeting, Elena decided not to go into economics, but to connect her life with show business.
After the wedding, two sons were born into the family - Yuri and Vladimir.
Boys were taught music from childhood; the young men graduated from music school in flute and piano and studied vocals. Fans of modern pop music could hear the debut songs of the sons of Elena Sever. The younger debuted as a singer Vladimir with the songs “Letter to the President” and “Hollywood”, and the elder, under the pseudonym YurKiss, performed duet compositions “Armani” and “Ringing” and performed in a duet with Stefania Malikova, the daughter of Dmitry Malikov.
“They respected you then / And took you for a boy, / When, having promised to kill the enemy, / Your hand did not waver,” VladiMir raps on behalf of a “simple boy,” addressing a message to his namesake Putin, at the beginning of whose reign he was born. The verse ends with regret that “we have not advanced along the Dnieper, and there are Poltava, Dnieper, Berlin.” However, “we will remain silent for now... we will not finish off the enemy.” During rotation, the song was played about 250 times, mainly on Russian Radio.
In mid-June 2020, the “Radio Monte Carlo Grand Prix” races took place at the Moscow Central Hippodrome. This social event is one of the most anticipated events of the summer, which is being held for the fifteenth time. This year Elena Sever became the official face of the races.
Today Elena Sever does not go on tour, limiting herself to performing at concerts.
Part two - with a taste...
And who won the heart of such a talented and clever beauty? Who is the father of these talented young people?
Vladimir Kiselev (born July 10, 1952) is a Soviet and Russian businessman, musician, and music producer. He is mainly known for a series of high-profile scandals and lawsuits with colleagues in show business, in some cases related to the name of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin.
In 1994, he was interrogated by investigators in the case of the Tambov-Malyshevskaya organized crime group.
During the election campaign for the 1995 State Duma elections, he led the “Cultural Initiative Our Home is Russia.”
In 1996, he was involved in the election campaign of the mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak. Then he was repeatedly interrogated by investigative authorities during the investigation into the activities of Mayor Anatoly Sobchak and members of his entourage.
Together with the then vice-mayor Vladimir Putin and many other people from Sobchak’s entourage, he appeared in the materials of criminal case No. 144128, initiated in connection with the financial transactions of the Twentieth Trust corporation. The investigation was closed after the inauguration of Vladimir Putin as President of Russia. According to the leaders of the investigation team, unprecedented pressure was put on them.
By 1998, he moved to Moscow, where, together with Joseph Kobzon, he created the Moskovit media holding.
In 1999, he created the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Kremlin" under the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. After a series of several high-profile public scandals related to the poor organization of tours of famous foreign performers, the Kremlin Federal State Unitary Enterprise was liquidated in 2007.
In December 2010, created by Vladimir Kiselyov, allegedly at the suggestion of the creators of the charitable foundation "Federation" (Kiselev himself at that time for some reason tried in every possible way to hide his direct relationship to the management of the fund, and Kiselyov's wife, Elena Sever, was positioned as the "patroness" of the fund) several charity events, one of which was attended by then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in support of patients in children's oncology departments of St. Petersburg hospitals.
A few months later, the children’s parents reported that the funds had not been transferred, and accused Kiselyov and the Federation Foundation of misappropriating the collected money. After the scandal broke, according to media reports, money began to flow into hospital accounts, but only in the form of donations from individuals.
Later, Kiselev filed a number of lawsuits against some journalists, media outlets and the founder of the charitable foundation “Gift of Life”, actress Chulpan Khamatova, for libel, since they allowed themselves to voice their critical opinion in the media, expressing distrust regarding some of the schemes of the activities of the “Federation” foundation. Kiselyov won several court cases, in particular against Chulpan Khamatova.
Scandal and trials surrounding the Russian Media Group
In the fall of 2014, Vladimir Kiselyov and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Russian Media Group CJSC Olga Plaksina wrote a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, proposing to create a kind of patriotic media holding on the basis of several TV channels, as well as RMG radio stations - “a kind of incubator for the production of domestic superstars.” , the base was to be the concert hall under construction on the territory of the Spartak stadium, and it was proposed that the FSUE Goskontsert be the coordinator of the project. As a result, in the summer of 2020, a shareholder conflict broke out in the RMG holding against the background of its possible sale to the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Goskontsert. IFD Kapital was ready to sell its stake, and the general director and chairman of the board of RMG CJSC Sergei Kozhevnikov opposed the sale and the creation of a patriotic holding. The deal was also opposed by a number of Russian performers and producers who wrote a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which they expressed their “deep concern” about the prospect of selling the Russian Media Group holding, because in their opinion, the stated price of the holding is three times lower than the market price, which causes concern They have doubts about the transparency of this dubious transaction. According to Sergei Kozhevnikov, Kiselyov made threats against him and his relatives due to his reluctance to sell his stake when the entire holding was valued at $60 million.
This whole situation provoked a sharply negative attitude and confrontation towards Kiselyov on the part of many Russian artists and their producers, with some of whom, such as Joseph Prigozhin, it came to court proceedings.
As a result, only in March 2020, VTB 24 Bank approved a loan for the acquisition of 78% of the shares of Russian Media Group from IFD Capital, but long before that, layoffs of employees began at RMG and numerous scandals with new ones were widely covered in the media appointments, reshuffles and resignations in the management of RMG. The heartbreaking and populist PR story with which it all began (about a certain patriotic media holding - “a kind of incubator for the production of domestic superstars”) was later happily forgotten by everyone, instead, in a very noticeable way, the air space of Russian Radio and the RU.TV TV channels " and "Muz TV" filled with video clips and songs of Kiselev's personal production projects (such as Elena Sever (his wife), YurKiss (son), VladiMir (son), as well as some of his own new versions of projects formed using the names of famous groups " St. Petersburg - 2", "Earthlings - 2", "Russians - 2"), and a characteristic feature of the 20th anniversary of the Golden Gramophone award was the ignoring of this event by some iconic artists announced at the ceremony (such as Grigory Leps) and the distribution of prize money figurines for Kiselev’s personal pocket projects, such as the same aspiring singer YurKiss (who is the son of Vladimir Kiselyov), a new boy version of the young composition of the group “Zemlyane - 2” (which has nothing to do with the history of the famous group “Zemlyane” of the 80s), the new composition of the group “Russians” and a certain group “Boycott” (the latter group also received a prize statuette of the award, while the songs of this group are not in rotation at all on any FM radio station), which caused obvious bewilderment and indignation among the music community and journalists .
Criminal proceedings.
On May 28, 1993, criminal case No. 827111 was opened against Kiselyov under Article 148.3 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (“Causing property damage by deception or abuse of trust”).
On March 14, 1994, Kiselyov was detained during the implementation of the operational materials of criminal case No. 72731 under articles 208 (“Acquisition or sale of property known to be obtained by criminal means”) and 196.1 (“Forgery, production or sale of counterfeit documents, stamps, seals, forms” ) Criminal Code of the RSFSR. This case was terminated on June 27, 1995 and archived.
On April 11, 1994, Operational Case No. 433-94 was opened against Kiselyov, in which he was being investigated by the 8th department of the RUOP of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg as an active member of the Tambov-Malyshevskaya organized crime group. This case was terminated on June 27, 1995 and archived.
Personal life
Elena Sever’s husband is the famous Russian music producer Vladimir Kiselev, who became famous while performing with the legendary Soviet group “Zemlyane”.
Vladimir Kiselev and Elena Sever met in the early 90s backstage at the Oktyabrsky complex, when the dance group of a 19-year-old girl performed as part of the White Nights festival. Thanks to this meeting, Elena decided not to go into economics, but to connect her life with show business.
With the advent of children, the couple did not delay. Soon after the wedding, sons Yuri and Vladimir were born. Boys were taught music from an early age; they graduated from a music school in flute and piano and studied vocals.
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Elena Sever and sons YurKiss and VladiMir
Fans of modern pop music could hear the debut songs of the sons of Elena Sever. The younger debuted as a singer Vladimir with the songs “Letter to the President” and “Hollywood,” and the elder, under the pseudonym YurKiss, performed duet compositions “Armani” and “Ringing” and appeared on stage in a duet with Stefania Malikova, the daughter of Dmitry Malikov.
Fans watch the artist’s personal life and work on Instagram. Elena posts personal and work photos for her subscribers to see. Despite the many photographs taken during her summer vacation, the artist reserves photographs in a swimsuit for personal use.
Career
In 1992, Elena was supposed to perform in St. Petersburg together with a dance group at the White Nights festival. However, the girls did not go on stage, but instead gave flowers to celebrities. At that time, Sever was still in her 2nd year at the institute and firmly intended to graduate, as she dreamed of a career as a businesswoman. She was far from show business. Everything changed when I met Vladimir Kiselev, the former drummer of the Zemlyane ensemble, who became the organizer of the festival in the early 90s.
At first, Lena was involved in organizing interesting musical and sporting events. For the first time as a presenter, the Leningrad woman appeared on the big stage in the Kremlin and was surprised at how comfortable she felt. Later she began to host the White Nights festival.
The North also succeeded on television. Viewers saw many celebrities in her programs High Life and “Family Happiness.” Guests of the olfactory TV presenter’s program “North. True Stories” included Kristina Orbakaite, Timur Rodriguez, Grigory Leps, Ani Lorak and other performers.
The Leningrad woman’s singing career began when she decided to study vocals with her sons. The children played the piano and flute and learned to sing. The family organized home concerts for family and friends. As a result, the husband invited Lena to perform on stage. The audience liked the songs she performed. Since 2020, she has been singing a duet with Stas Mikhailov. Their song “Don’t call, I can’t hear” was performed at the RU Prize. TV. and took 20th place in the Golden Gramophone hit parade in June 2020.
The singer runs the Federation Foundation, which helps children, and works as executive director at. She embodied the image of the countess in the historical drama “Rasputin”. The episodic role was written specifically for her at the request of Gerard Depardieu. In May 2020, Elena was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland
Elena Sever now
In April 2020, a video was shown for the song “Don’t Hold Evil,” which Elena sang together with Vera Brezhneva. While the performer’s creative treasury is replenished only with songs, there is no full-fledged album in her discography.
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Elena Sever now
In the fall of 2020, the long-awaited premiere of the film “Pilgrim” took place, in which Elena starred in the title role along with actor Igor Petrenko. The plot of the film is built around the main character Kira, who one day learns about a man she doesn’t know, who suffers from amnesia, but remembers her name. The film’s soundtrack uses Elena Sever’s hit “I’m Going Crazy,” which she released in 2018.
Work on the comedy “Ribs” has now been completed, in which Elena also played. And in 2020, it is planned to show Peter Buslov’s film “BOOMERANG”, in which the main female role will be played by the singer. Her partners in the frame will be Dmitry Nagiyev, Timofey Tribuntsev, Vladimir Sychev.
