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Natalia Valerievna Gulkina

(née
Klyarenok
[1][2]; born February 20, 1964, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer, ex-soloist of the cult Soviet-Russian pop groups “Mirage” and “Stars”.

Content

• 1 Biography 1.1 1964—1986: Childhood and youth
• 1.2 1986–1988: Mirage Group
• 1.3 1988-1992: Group "Stars"
• 1.4 1993–2004: Solo career
• 1.5 2004—2011: Duet with M. Sukhankina and revival of “Mirage”
• 1.6 2011 - modern period

Biography[ | ]

1964—1986: Childhood and youth[ | ]

Born in Moscow[3]. From a very early age she strove for music and creativity, studied diligently at school and “been a bit of a hooligan.” During my school years I listened to Vysotsky, Zykina, Deep Purple and Kiss. Her interest in singing arose from her father, Natalia learned to play the guitar, composed songs and sang in companies, pioneer camps, at proms, and also participated in various competitions, where she won [3].

She married Nikolai Gulkin early and gave birth to a son, Alexei, at the age of 20.

1986-1988: Mirage Group[ | ]

Main article: Mirage (band)

While studying vocals in a jazz studio, she dreamed of going on the professional stage[3]. Svetlana Razina, one of the studio participants, introduced Gulkina to the young composer and keyboard player Andrei Lityagin[4]. At that time, he was looking for a new vocalist for the group “Mirage”, since Margarita Sukhankina, who took part in the recording of three compositions “The Stars Are Waiting for Us”, “Video” and “This Night”, refused to participate in the recording of the rest of the material for the future album, because that she intended to make an opera career at the Bolshoi Theater and did not want to be noticed in a group performing pop music. Lityagin suggested that Natalya record several songs[5][6].

Gulkina performed vocal parts for five songs: “Sunny Summer”, “Mad World”, “I Don’t Want”, “Electricity”, “Magic World”[7][8]. March 3, 1987 debut album of the group “Mirage” The stars are waiting for us

saw the light.

1988-1992: Group “Stars”[ | ]

In 1988, Mirage was preparing to release its second album, Together Again, which Gulkina insisted on creating. At this time, Natalia toured with the group around the country. Lityagin, in order not to distract the singer, again invited Sukhankina to record, with whom the album was recorded. Natalia was offered to learn songs and perform them to Margarita’s soundtrack[4]. Gulkina refused and left the Mirage group, deciding to start a solo career[9].

“Probably the first time I left Mirage, because I had to try my own strength ,” said Natalia. —

And circumstances in the group developed that pushed me to this decision. Then several members of the group went on tour at the same time, which, naturally, I could not like. In addition, I learned that I earn less than other soloists. I thought it was unfair and left. By that time, I was already quite popular, so it turned out to be easier for me to start my new path.”

The singer did not understand legal issues and continued to perform those Mirage songs that she performed as the lead singer of the group. Soon, however, the group’s organizers forbade her to do this[9].

“I didn’t worry too much about this, ” said Gulkina,

— and she took it and wrote the song “The Sun is Burning,” which was immediately picked up by various radio stations. It soon became a hit and I started touring the country with it. Then a new song “I Believe and Love” appeared.”[9].

At the same time, Natalia met Leonid Velichkovsky on the “Sound Track”. He told her that he had a lot of interesting material and invited Gulkina to watch it. Natalia liked Velichkovsky’s music, and they recorded the album “The Little Prince,” which included the song “The Sun is Burning.” The album was very popular[9]. A group concert was held in Moscow's Gorky Park in connection with the celebration of City Day, which was filmed by television crews from the American channel MTV. The groups “Mirage” with Tatyana Ovsienko, “Fairy” with Svetlana Razina and Natalia Gulkina were invited to perform at it.

“Until that moment, our group did not have a name at all, ” Gulkina recalled.

— We were announced as Natalia Gulkina — “Ex-Mirage” or simply Natalia Gulkina. And then we grabbed our heads - what to call ourselves? There can’t be two “Mirages” or a “Mirage” and an ex-“Mirage” on stage. They began to come up with some names on the fly. And at this time the MTV film crew enters the dressing room. I am introduced to them as a Russian star, or rather, a star of the USSR, and let them ask what I have, since I am a star. And my husband, now deceased, Kostya Terentyev, suddenly begins to tell them that I have my own train, on which my group and I travel throughout the country. And that we also have an airplane. And how he went to lie! I am terrified. What is he talking about?! And he just wanted to show that we are no worse than their stars. And suddenly one of us has an idea, what if we called our group “Stars”. At first I doubted that we would call ourselves stars - that we are so cool, or what? And then someone said what does cool or not cool have to do with it. There is also the Moon and the stars. And they are already shouting to us: “Your way out!” How to announce?!“ Well, we waved our hand: “Announce: Natalia Gulkina and the Stars group.”
[4][9].

At the same time, the group shot the first two videos for the songs “The Sun Is Burning” and “I Believe and Love.”

In 1989, the group released its second album, “Disco,” which gained enormous popularity[8].

In 1990, after winning the international festival “Inter-Chance”, Natalia Gulkina went on tour to China, becoming in fact the first Soviet pop singer to perform in this country. In Beijing, about 20 thousand spectators gathered at the “Stars” concert at the Sports Palace[4].

In 1991, Natalia Gulkina recorded two albums. The first of them is “You just have to dream,” the songs for which were written by Sergei Lemokh with lyrics by Gulkina (“Ivanhoe,” “This is China,” etc., videos were shot on them) and Oleg Molchanov with lyrics by Arkady Slavorosov. The second is the singer’s solo album “Day Angel”, songs for which were written by Oleg Molchanov and Slavorosov[3]. The singer took 9th place in “Song of the Year” according to Moskovsky Komsomolets [10].

Since 1992, dancers appeared in “Stars”, and collaboration with choreographer Sergei Mandrik began. Over the course of several years, the dancers changed several times, and by 1995 the “Street Jazz” quartet was formed: Sergey Mandrik, Maxim Nedolechko aka “Peps”, Volodya Suvorov and Araik Martirosyan. Gulkina worked with this team until 2001[3].

1993–2004: Solo career[ | ]

In 1993, Natalia Gulkina founded the New Generation school-studio for gifted children at the Constellation children's creativity center[3]. In the same year, the recording company ZeKo Records released her album “Holy Love” with the hits “Rio de Janeiro” and “Goodbye, Love”[8]. In this and subsequent years, Gulkina performed concerts in Germany for Russian-speaking audiences.

In 1995, Natalia Gulkina entered GITIS at the Faculty of Variety Arts, majoring in “Director of Variety and Mass Performances” on the course of People’s Artist of Russia Andrei Nikolaev.

In 1996, the recording company ZeKo Records released the album “Dancing City” with the hits “Albatross” and “Melody of Love”[8]. The album, in addition to the works of Molchanov and Lemokh, contained songs by young authors - Rafael Safin and Lyubov Lyubovtsova. For the title song “Melody of Love,” director Andrei Shcherbakov shot a video, in which dancers from the “Street Jazz” group took part[3]. In December, Natalia Gulkina’s solo concerts were held at the Moscow Youth Palace, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of her creative activity. The dance groups "Crim's" and "Blesk", as well as students of the studio school "New Generation"[3], were invited to participate in the show.

In 1997, Gulkina transferred to the acting department of GITIS and began studying on a course with David Livnev. In the same and subsequent years, Natalia worked on a new album under the working title “Sail of Dreams”, in the recording of which the Tchaikovsky Big Symphony Orchestra conducted by V. I. Fedoseev and many musicians took part. This album was never released[7].

In 1999, Natalia successfully graduated from GITIS, receiving a diploma in dramatic theater and film actress.

In 2000, Gulkina recorded a remix of the song “Sunny Summer” from the first album of “Mirage”, for which a video was shot by music video director Viktor Konisevich. Racing driver Alexey Dudukalo, Russian champion in auto racing, took part in the filming. At the same time, two more remixes of Mirage songs were recorded - “I Don’t Want” and “Mad World”[3][11].

In 2001, replacing the “Street Jazz” team, Gulkina began collaborating with the ballet “Mobius”, joint work with which continued until January 2005[3].

In 2002, Natalia took part in the “Disco 80s” festival, performing remixes of the songs “Sunny Summer”, “Mad World” and “Disco”[3][8].

In 2003, Gulkina tried to create a new duet group “Malta” and recorded two new songs, but soon returned to solo work[12].

2004—2011: Duet with M. Sukhankina and revival of “Mirage”[ | ]

In 2004, Natalia Gulkina and Margarita Sukhankina were recording solo albums at the same time, and since Sukhankina had already left the Bolshoi Theater, one of the journalists concluded that they decided to unite [13][14][15]. Gulkina had the idea to revive the group “Mirage”[9], creating a duet with Sukhankina, with whom she was not even familiar, although at one time they both participated in recording songs for the first album of “Mirage”[14]. Natalia called Margarita, but she did not immediately agree to see her, because the offer seemed unpromising to her. Natalia recalled: “I persuaded her: “Let’s tell the truth - that it was you and me, Rita Sukhankina and Natasha Gulkina, and not anyone else, who made “Mirage”. That we recorded phonograms to which a good dozen aspiring singers sang in different parts of the country.” Persuaded..."

[13].

The singers decided to join forces and record a common album. Natalia, as a producer, invited Sergei Lavrov, with whom she collaborated in “Stars,” and introduced him to Margarita[7]. The result of their collaboration was the song “Simply Mirage” and the single “Mirage of Love,” which aroused great interest among the public. The words to the song were written by Gulkina herself, and the music by Vadim Zolotykh[9]. Despite the dissatisfaction of the owner of the rights to the Mirage brand, Gulkina and Sukhankina continued their joint activities, first under the name “Solo”, and then changed it to “Golden Voices of the Mirage Group”. The singers took part in the “Disco of the 80s” with a song from the repertoire of Natalia Gulkina “Ivanhoe”. In 2005, they released the album “Simply Mirage” and also shot a video for the song of the same name[16]. Dance teams “WA”, “Scotch”, “VIP”[3] took part in the project. In 2006, the “Golden Voices of the Mirage” concert took place at the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall [3]. The singers paid composer Andrei Lityagin for the right to perform his works[9].

In 2007, Natalia Gulkina and Margarita Sukhankina teamed up with Andrei Lityagin, reviving the Mirage group[8]. In the same year, a video was shot for the song “A Thousand Stars”[5].

Natalia Gulkina at the festival "Legends of Retro FM 2009"

In 2008, Natalia Gulkina and Margarita Sukhankina took part in the NTV television show “Superstar 2008. Dream Team” and became the winners of this project in terms of the number of audience votes received[8]. In this show, Natalia fully demonstrated her acting talent, brilliantly playing the roles of the Snow Maiden, the Witch, the Waitress and other characters[17].

On September 17, 2009, a new album of the Mirage group was released, entitled “A Thousand Stars”[8], in which Gulkina performed four songs solo and four more in a duet with Sukhankina. At the same time, a new video for the group “The Night Flickers” was released.

In 2010, Natalia, as part of Mirage, took part in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada, where the group gave two concerts[15].

2011 - modern period[ | ]

In January 2011, Natalia Gulkina left the Mirage group due to disagreements with colleagues, resuming her solo career. Her place in the team was taken by Svetlana Razina[8]. Natalia was forbidden to perform even those Mirage songs in which she was a soloist. But Gulkina herself refused to speak with them on principle[9][18].

Natalia Gulkina has taken up new projects. In February, she gave her first solo concert at the Jazzman club, performing her famous hits “Disco”, “Ivanhoe” and others in a jazz arrangement. On April 21, Natalia’s new solo song “Your Name” was released[8]. She starred in “The Best Film-3” and the series “Baby” on the STS channel, and in the musical “The Three Musketeers” to the music of Maxim Dunaevsky, she played the main role, appearing in the image of Queen Anne of Austria[19].

In 2012, Natalia Gulkina performed solo and in a duet with Svetlana Razina.

On November 28, the presentation of Natalia Gulkina’s fifth solo album “On My Own” took place, the songs for which were written by Arsen Kasiev. Natalia appeared in a new image and new costumes of her own design, prepared for the release of the album[20][21].

In December 2012, Gulkina’s new song “Falcon”, written by Andrei Demidov, was broadcast on Russian Radio. At the beginning of 2013, Maxim Rozhkov shot a video for this composition[21], with which the singer wanted to perform at Eurovision, but another performer went to the competition.

In 2013, Natalia was preparing for the release of a new solo album with songs of her own composition, recorded in jazz arrangements, and was also preparing a solo performance with original scenery, costumes and choreographic performances called “Love is to blame for everything,” where she was going to perform not only as performer, but also as a show director.

In 2013, she held a series of concerts in Russia together with former Mirage colleagues Svetlana Razina and Roma Zhukov under the title “Stars of the 80s. Together again 25 years later." In January, the show “New Year with the Stars of Retro FM” took place in Voronezh and Ryazan, in which Roman Zhukov, Natalia Gulkina and Svetlana Razina took part. Natalia recorded a solo version of the song “Fly, Dream”, as well as a remix of the same song. Together with Svetlana Razina, a remix of the song “A Woman Cannot Be Trusted” was created.

In March 2013, Natalia Gulkina supported the public “Movement against Cancer”[22]. On March 29, at the Morozov Hall club in the city of Tver, Natalia Gulkina, Roma Zhukov and Svetlana Razina performed at a joint concert “Disco Legends”[23].

On April 7, Gulkina took part in the “Book Walker” event for children, which was held at the Russian State Children’s Library[24], on April 21 she took part in the “Angels of Spring” ball, organized by the “Constellation of Children’s Talents” Charitable Foundation at the Korston Hotel Moscow[25] .

In April, Gulkina again visited China with concerts. The tour in this country, as before, was a great success[26].

In May, Natalia performed in Germany and Turkey. On May 26, Gulkina received the first order from the Runway Charitable Foundation - “For creative creation for the benefit of Russia”[27]. On May 30 in Moscow, at the “DISCO DACHA” party in the Leningrad club, performances by Natalia Gulkina and Ruslan Alekhno took place[28]. In May and June, Gulkina’s song “Tears Like Rain” took 1st place in the “People’s Hit Parade” of Radio Radio.

On June 12, Natalia Gulkina performed at group concerts dedicated to Russia Day at the All-Russian Exhibition Center and Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow[29]. In the same month, she recorded a new song by Arsen Kasiev “CE LA VIE” together with the Shakhunts brothers. On June 29, Gulkina, together with Svetlana Razina and Roma Zhukov, performed at City Day in Tver with the program “Retro Legends”[30].

On July 7, Gulkina took part in a concert dedicated to the Day of the City of Sebezh[31][31].

In the fall and winter of 2013-2014, Natalia Gulkina took part in the “Live Sound” program[5] on the Rossiya TV channel.

In October 2014, Natalia participated in the new project “I Can” on the Rossiya TV channel.

In 2020, Natalia released a new single “Clocks”, which included three songs - “Clocks” (music and lyrics by N. Gulkina), “Mad World” (music and lyrics by N. Gulkina) and a remix of the song “Falcon” (music and words by A. Demidov). The presentation of the single took place on February 26 at the restaurant of the Corston Hotel in Moscow. On this day, Natalia also celebrated her birthday and presented the first designer collection of bags under her brand “GN”.

At the beginning of 2020, Natalia Gulkina was the host of the “I’m Losing Weight!” project. on the NTV channel.

In the fall of 2020, Natalia Gulkina, with the assistance of director Sofia Rotaru and the head of the Kremlin Concert, Sergei Lavrov, organized a large tour of Russia with original scenery, costumes and choreographic performances, where she acted not only as a performer, but also as a show director.

In May 2020, Natalia Gulkina took part in a concert dedicated to the Founding Day of the city of St. Petersburg in the Frunzensky district.

In 2020, she was one of one hundred jury members in the second season of the project “Let’s all get together!”

In the spring of 2020, she performed as Mirror Man in the show “Mask” as a special guest.

Natalya Gulkina and the group "Mirage"

By a lucky coincidence, it was at that moment that the leader of the Mirage group was looking for a new vocalist for his band to replace the departed Margarita Sukhankina.

After the audition, a place in the group was offered to our today’s heroine. However, surprisingly, Natalia Gulkina for quite a long time did not want to participate in the project, which seemed rather dubious to her. As a result, the girl gave her consent in principle only two months later. This began the collaboration of the young artist with the newly formed group “Mirage”.

As part of the legendary group, the blond beauty took part in the recording of one album. In total, Natalia Gulkina performed vocal parts for the compositions “Mad World”, “Sunny Summer”, “I Don’t Want”, “Magic World” and “Electricity”. These songs were subsequently presented on the album “The Stars Are Waiting for Us” (1987).

After the record was released, Natalia Gulkina began touring frequently around the country. For some time she became the main face of the Mirage group, but as it turned out, her collaboration with the group was short-lived.

The same endless tours were to blame for everything.

Having written several new compositions, Andrei Lityagin first decided to offer them to Natalia Gulkina, but later abandoned this idea due to the fact that at that very moment the girl was at the other end of the Soviet Union. As a result, the songs were performed and recorded by the old soloist of the Mirage group, Margarita Sukhankina. Natasha herself was invited to subsequently perform these songs to a soundtrack. However, the girl considered this situation offensive and, in the end, decided to leave the group.

Personal life[ | ]

• 1 husband - Nikolai Anatolyevich Gulkin (born September 19, 1960). Son - Alexey Nikolaevich Gulkin (born February 6, 1984) - composes and performs music, which Natalia Gulkina calls “complex”.

Discography[ | ]

Main article: Discography of Natalia Gulkina

As part of the group "Mirage"[ | ]

• “The stars are waiting for us” (1987)
• "A Thousand Stars" (2009)

As part of the group "Stars"[ | ]

• “My Little Prince” (Magnetoalbum) (1988): “Intro”
• “The sun is burning” (N. Gulkina - N. Gulkina)
• “I Believe and Love” (L. Velichkovsky, N. Gulkina - N. Gulkina)
• “No, I want...” (L. Velichkovsky - N. Gulkina)
• “You are a beautiful angel” (L. Velichkovsky - N. Gulkina)
• “I’m waiting for you” (L. Velichkovsky - N. Gulkina)
• “I’m not sad” (L. Velichkovsky - N. Gulkina)
• “Only with you” (L. Velichkovsky - N. Gulkina)
• “My little prince” (L. Velichkovsky - N. Gulkina)
• “You will call” (L. Velichkovsky - N. Gulkina)
• “Night” (L. Velichkovsky - N. Gulkina)

Work with other performers: group "Sheriff"

• “Natalie” (1991) “Julia” (D. Bohlen - N. Gulkina)
• “Don’t go” (E. Sargsyan - N. Gulkina)
• “Natalie” (E. Sargsyan - N. Gulkina)
• “Fast Train” (E. Sargsyan - N. Gulkina)
• “This Day” (E. Terentyeva - N. Gulkina)
• “Birthday” (E. Terentyeva - N. Gulkina)
• “Warm Rain” (E. Terentyeva - N. Gulkina)
• “Where are you” (E. Terentyeva - N. Gulkina)
• “Fairytale Forest” (E. Terentyeva - N. Gulkina)

Solo creativity[ | ]

• "Day Angel" Magnetoalbum (1991)
• “Holy Love” MC, CD, LP (1993)
• “You just have to dream” LP (1993) CD (1994)
• “Disco” MS, CD (1995)
• “Dancing City” MS, CD (1996)
• "The Sail of My Dreams", unpublished (1998)
• “Legends of Russian disco” MS, CD (2000) - collection
• “Sobranie /collectional edition/” CD (2003) - collection
• “Queen DISCO” (2004) - collection
• “In the Mood for Love” (2004) - collection
• “On my own...” (2012)
• "C'est La Vie" (2014)
• "The Hours" (2015)

In a duet with Svetlana Razina[ | ]

• “Mirages” song 2012 (author G. Fillipov)
• “You can’t trust a woman” song 2012 (author S. Razin)
• “Fly, dream” song 2012 (author N. Gulkina)
• “You can’t trust a woman” remix 2013 (author S. Razin)

DUETS

• It hurts (with Sasha Popov (ex-group “Turbomoda”) (2014)
• Be with me (with Tatiana Tretyak) (2016)
• Our Spring (with Felix Tsarikati) (2016)
• It doesn’t happen that way (with Roma Zhukov) (2017)
• I'm choking feat ILLUS!`I (2018)

Musicals[ | ]

• “The Three Musketeers”, the role of Queen Anne of Austria, 2011.

In a duet with Margarita Sukhankina[ | ]

• "Mirage of Love" single (2004)
• “Just a Mirage” album (2005)
• “Ivanhoe” (2004) (S. Lemokh - N. Gulkina)
• “New Year” (2004) (V. Zolotykh - N. Gulkina)
• "Moonlight Shadow" (2004)
• “Medley” (2004) (A. Lityagin - V. Sokolov)
• “Sunny Summer” (2005) (A. Lityagin - V. Sokolov) with the group “MultFilms”
• “Tricky Candies” (We are being watched) (2005) (E. Timofeev) with the group “MultFilms”
• “I don’t ask anymore” (2005) (A. Lityagin - E. Stepanova)
• “The stars are waiting for us” (2005) (A. Lityagin - V. Sokolov)
• “Night is coming” (2005) (A. Lityagin - V. Sokolov)
• “Music has connected us” (2006) (A. Lityagin - V. Sokolov)
• “Together again” (2007) (A. Lityagin - V. Sokolov)
• “Disco” (2005) (L. Velichkovsky - N. Gulkina)
• “I see you again” (2007) (A. Lityagin - E. Stepanova)
• “Sunny Summer” (2007) (A. Lityagin - V. Sokolov)

"YOU ARE A SUPERSTAR"
2008.

• Cinderella. with L. Senchina and M. Sukhankina
• I will live. with M. Sukhankina, T. Ivanova and A. Apina.
• I've lost my mind. with M. Sukhankina.
• Adagio G-Minor. with M. Sukhankina. (T. Albinoni-S. Osiashvili)
• Yes Sir, I Can Boogie. with M. Sukhankina.
• Whether you believe me or not. with M. Sukhankina. (A. Rybnikov).
• Goodbye. with M. Sukhankina. (V. Dobrynin - L. Derbenev).
• Just a Mirage. (V. Zolotykh - N. Gulkina) with M. Sukhankina.
• "Music has tied us". with M. Sukhankina. (A. Lityagin - V. Sokolov)

"Live Sound" 2013.

• Alone.
• Sign your name.
• The final countdown.
• Heaven.
• Airport.
• Margarita.
• I will.
• Drum dance.
• Three white horses.
• Flowers are blooming.
• I am looking for you
• Snow.

Video clips[ | ]

• The Sun is Burning (1988)
• My Little Prince (1989)
• Disco (1990)
• Ivanhoe (1991)
• This is China (1992)
• Melody of Love (1996)
• Sunny Summer (2000)
• Simply Mirage (together with Margarita Sukhankina) (2005)
• 1000 stars (as part of the Mirage group) (2008)
• The night flickers (as part of the group Mirage) (2009)
• New Year (2012)
• Falcon (2013)
• In the hubbub of the city (2015)
• Clock (2016)
• Eye to eye (2017)
• I'm choking feat ILLUS!`I (2018).
• You have me. (2018).
• The ball flies into the sky. (2018)

The habit of getting married. Natalia Gulkina

Don't offend women

- What kind of men did little Natasha like? Advertising:
- Blondes with blue eyes. Later tastes changed. Now I like brunettes more.

Natalia Gulkina photography

- Do you remember when you first fell in love?

— One of the brightest events of my life. I first fell in love when I was 15 years old. I didn’t realize what I was doing, it was some kind of brain dump. I was studying at the communications school on Taganka and met with my friend every morning on Oktyabrskaya in a dead end. I noticed a guy who, like me, meets his friend there every day. At first I didn’t pay attention to him, and then I caught myself thinking that I was rushing to the metro station and seeing if he was standing there? He had a bright blue jacket, and one day at school I noticed a figure wearing a similar jacket. Everything went cold inside me. I ran up, but it wasn’t him. The most interesting thing is that on the same day we ran into each other on a flight of stairs. It turned out that he studied two years older at the same school. He waited for me after class, and things started to spin. It was such crazy love! His name was Sergei. This name haunts me throughout my life. But this story ended sadly. I didn’t wait for him to leave the army and got married a couple of months before his return.

Natalia Gulkina photography

- How could you? Such love was...

“It seemed to me then that this was once and for all.” But at some point he lost interest in me and backed off. He said, let's take a little break from each other. And I realized that they were abandoning me. I was depressed, I got sick, I just fell ill. The turning point was my hysteria in class, which happened to me after a conversation with my loved one. The teacher yelled at me and told me to get this guy out of my head. I calmed down, and after a while new attempts on his part began. It amused me. We got back together again, and I even promised to wait for him from the army, wrote him letters almost every day, but I was no longer confident in myself. There is no need to offend women... We met much later, when I was already married for the second time and he was married, and we realized that we had nothing to say to each other.

Natalia Gulkina photography

Don't get married... at 18!

- Why did you get divorced the first time?

Natalia Gulkina photography

— I married Kolya Gulkin, and a year later we had a child. At this time, I began to wonder if I had made the right choice. But at this age, at 18, it is impossible to make the right choice. It happens, of course, that people get married before reaching adulthood and live together “happily ever after,” but this is rare. As a rule, people get married just to put on a dress and veil. I honestly got married almost exclusively for this reason, although, of course, I was in love with Kolya.

Best of the day

- Maybe then there was no need to do this?

“Of course, I shouldn’t have, but it just so happened, I got married foolishly.” But I don't regret it. We lived on Obruchev Street, and nearby there was a club where I began to study in a vocal ensemble. It was here that I met Svetka Razina, she had already brought Andrei Letyagin, and this whole story with “Mirage” and “Stars” began.

Natalia Gulkina photography

— How did it happen that you divorced your first husband? You had a child together...

“I was given a choice: stage or family. Since childhood, I dreamed of singing and was not going to give up on my dream. I chose the stage. She took the child and went to her mother.

Blind love

- What about the second marriage?

— It was like in a movie. I got into the car, turned my head, our eyes met, and I realized I was gone. Kostya Terentyev manipulated me as he wanted. I lost everything I had earned up to that point.

- And you didn’t understand anything?

- It was blind love. I didn’t see, I didn’t understand that he was not behaving very nicely, he was deceiving me. Moreover, it was not about money, but about human relationships. I found out that my husband was cheating on me, and I broke off the relationship quite harshly. I am very grateful to fate and God that we do not have children together, otherwise I would have had to communicate with this person all these years, whether I want it or not. I don’t know what’s wrong with him now, how he lives.

- What happened after the divorce?

- There was still love. You know, in my life the number 4 has a magical meaning. I lived with one husband for four years, another four with my second, and with my third - 8 years. Moreover, in this life everything is balanced. I left the first two and left. I made the final decision. And my third husband left me with one and a half year old Yanochka in his arms.

- For what reason?

— I found a young and beautiful one. Everything is banal. Time has passed, and now he sees his daughter from time to time.

Attempt No. 4

— Was the meeting with your current legal spouse romantic?

- Oh! Very! My daughter got sick, and my friends advised me to contact a paid service. I called. Sergei has arrived. Yana is a very calm child, but then she spit in his face, so deliciously, from the heart. I was stunned. And Seryozha reacted completely calmly. He went to rich houses on Rublyovka and was used to treating the spoiled children of the new Russians. Then I began to take a closer look at him. You know, over the years you understand that the main thing in human relationships is care, mutual assistance, understanding.

— Does Sergei know about your marriages?

- Everything. At first he was jealous of both Kolya Gulkin, Lesha’s father, and Sergei, Yana’s father. And now I see they communicate so nicely.

— How did Yana react to the new dad?

- She has one dad, and she knows about it. She sees him on TV, he’s dancing with the “Hands Up!” group. He reacts very calmly to the appearance of his father on TV, and also to the appearance of his mother.

- And your son?

— My son lives with my mother and studies. I think it’s time for him to go to work so he knows the value of money.

— He’s almost 20, hasn’t he gotten married yet?

- Thank God no.

Thrills and pickles

— Do you play sports?

— I always try to keep myself in sports shape. I’ve been going to the same gym for three years now: they have excellent service and wonderful trainers. I absolutely love swimming in the pool and working out on the “Bicycle Track” simulator. I don’t like extreme sports, especially those related to the vestibular system. I really want to try to put on water skis and run through the waves with the breeze, and also go underwater with scuba diving, but they say that I need to take special courses. And, despite the fear of heights, soar into the clouds on a hang glider and circle over the expanse of water. I really love NTV+, where I constantly watch Eurosport: car racing, diving competitions, synchronized swimming and figure skating, especially ice dancing.

— And do you like to eat too?

- Especially salty. So Seryozha tells me: salt retains all the harmful things in the body, they say, eat everything without salt and you will lose weight, but I can’t. I really love Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Moreover, I love Chinese food, both eaten in Chinese restaurants and cooked at home. I’m not such an expert in Japanese, but I just bought a cookbook of Japanese dishes, the recipes of which I adapt to my kitchen. By the way, I am not very good at using chopsticks, but every year I get more and more used to it. From Chinese cuisine, I prefer Chinese chicken, which is served with sweet and sour sauce and cashew nuts; salmon fish with hot or sweet and sour sauce and pine nuts. Absolutely amazing rice vermicelli, which is brewed with boiling water, small pieces of meat are added to it, multi-colored peppers and carrots, cut into thin strips, are fried for 2-3 minutes, and everything is mixed together.

— Is it difficult to cook something yourself?

— My son always says that I should have been a cook. My grandmother, who I grew up with, was an amazing cook. When I was 15 years old, I spent the first whole day in the kitchen and, apparently, I got sick of it. Now I always cook myself and come up with all sorts of interpretations of common dishes. My weakness is sweets. I do very well with sweet beetroot soup, borscht, cabbage soup with fresh and sauerkraut, pickles, solyanka, fish soup, and salads. One day I decided to make a quick salad, and I came up with my own recipe, which I called “winter”: crab sticks, cheese, sweet corn, cucumbers, cut into strips, sour cream (can be replaced with mayonnaise or mixed in a 50:50 ratio) and sweet peppers.

Best weeks

Notes[ | ]

1. Natalia Gulkina: “Left with my daughter in my arms, I cried all day long” (unspecified)
   . Kleo.ru. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
2. N. Gulkina: “I didn’t sing to Sukhankina’s soundtrack!” (unspecified)
   (inaccessible link). World of news. Retrieved January 29, 2014. Archived February 2, 2014.
3. ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
   Biography
   (unspecified)
   . Official website of N. Gulkina. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
4. ↑ 1 2 3 4 Degtyareva G.
   Natalia Gulkina: “I don’t want to lose myself” (Russian). A woman's whim (February 21, 2012). Retrieved February 2, 2014.
5. ↑ 1 2 3 Khramtsova A.
   Singer Natalia Gulkina: “My daughter treats me and my work with understanding” (Russian). Arguments and facts (November 11, 2013). Retrieved January 29, 2014.
6. Alexander Kondukov, Natalya Pykhova, Svetlana Repina, Olga Fokina.
   Voice dialing (Russian). rollingstone.ru (January 26, 2007). Retrieved January 2, 2012. Archived February 16, 2012.
7. ↑ 1 2 3 Kalashnikova U.
   Natalia Gulkina: “Thank you to Mirage for treating me badly” (Russian) (inaccessible link). Moskovsky Komsomolets (March 2, 2011). Retrieved February 2, 2014. Archived February 22, 2014.
8. ↑ 12345678910
   Ex-soloist of the Mirage group Natalia Gulkina almost died at a concert (Russian). Arguments and facts (June 28, 2011). Retrieved February 1, 2014.
9. ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Fedotova A.
   Natalia Gulkina: “Now you can’t force me to sing Mirage songs!” (Russian). Argumenty.ru (April 8, 2013). Retrieved February 1, 2014.
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11. Stanina A.
    Gulkina’s sunny summer (Russian). Labor (November 27, 2000). Retrieved February 2, 2014.
12. Natalia Gulkina is working solo again (Russian). Disco 80s. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
13. ↑ 1 2 Paderina K.
    Natalia Gulkina: “Everyone thought that without Mirage I would be lost” (Russian). TV week (November 11, 2013). Retrieved January 29, 2014.
14. ↑ 1 2 Evsyukova E.
    On stage I’m like a fish in water (Russian). Musical truth (October 1, 2010). Retrieved January 29, 2014.
15. ↑ 1 2 Ekaterina Evsyukova.
    Natalia Gulkina: my dream is to get married (Russian).
    "Companion"
    . "Sobesednik-Media" (7.10.2010). Retrieved January 29, 2014.
16. “The golden voices of the group “Mirage” have acquired an album” (Russian). InterMedia News. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
17. Natalia Gulkina (Russian) (inaccessible link). RU.TV. Retrieved February 1, 2014. Archived February 2, 2014.
18. Sharlovskaya L.
    “Mirage” is melting again (Russian) (December 29, 2010). Retrieved February 2, 2014.
19. Good M.
    Natalya Gulkina: “I don’t want to be called a thief behind my back!” (Russian) (December 11, 2011). Retrieved February 2, 2014.
20. The itself is a presentation by Natalia Gulkina (Russian) (inaccessible link). Moscow News (November 29, 2012). Retrieved February 3, 2014. Archived February 21, 2014.
21. ↑ 12
    Natalia Gulkina wants to get to Eurovision with the song “Falcon” (Russian). Russian radio (February 6, 2013). Retrieved February 3, 2014.
22. Natalia Gulkina admitted that her grandmother had cancer (Russian). WomanHIT.ru (March 26, 2013). Retrieved February 3, 2014.
23. Natalia Gulkina admitted that her grandmother had cancer (Russian). Tver digest (March 29, 2013). Retrieved February 3, 2014.
24. On April 7, 2013, the children of Moscow performed the “Book Walk” (Russian) for the first time. stranamam.ru. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
25. Charity ball-concert “Angels of Spring” (Russian) (inaccessible link). fond-sozvezdie.ru. Retrieved February 3, 2014. Archived February 20, 2014.
26. The Chinese greeted Natalia Gulkina with fireworks (Russian). 7days.ru (April 18, 2013). Retrieved February 6, 2014.
27. The final of the first open festival-competition of young talents “Moscow - Dream Flight 2013” ​​(Russian). Moskovskaya Pravda (June 7, 2013). Retrieved February 6, 2014.
28. Radio “Dacha” invites you to the party “DISCO DACHA” (Russian). Radio “Dacha” (May 24, 2013). Retrieved February 6, 2014.
29. Nikolskaya Yu.
    See you on Poklonnaya Hill (Russian) (inaccessible link). Moskovskaya Pravda (June 7, 2013). Retrieved February 6, 2014. Archived February 24, 2014.
30. Information about City Day 2013 (Russian) (inaccessible link). Official website of the Tver city administration. Retrieved February 6, 2014. Archived February 22, 2014.
31. ↑ 12
    Day of the city of Sebezh (Russian). Official website of Natalia Gulkina. Retrieved February 6, 2014.
32. Konstantin Terentyev | Biography, Discography, Photos | Disco Encyclopedia
33. Sergey Mandrik (@mandriksj) • Instagram photos and videos
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“MY PERSONAL LIFE IS UNDER CONTROL”

— Is it true that you were once given a horse as a gift while on tour? And what is the fate of the gift?

— (Laughs.) The owners of the stud farm presented it to me for my 50th birthday while on tour in Ussuriysk. But I have to support it myself. And this is at least 80 thousand per month. Besides, there are not many stables in Moscow. If something doesn’t work out with the stable, what will I do with him? Shall I sit on the balcony?

Therefore, although I have a horse, and this somehow warms me, he is in Ussuriysk. Sometimes I call there: “How is my Ruslan?” - "Everything is fine. When are you going to ride the horse?” (Laughs).

It’s clear that if I go to those parts on tour, I’ll go to them first. And those people who gave me the horse also have their own reindeer herding farm. They then gave me a bottle of deer blood and said: “Natasha, drink. You need a tablespoon a day. And not a single illness will stick!” I didn't make up my mind. This bottle is still in the refrigerator. The expiration date has long passed. They advise me: “Take healing baths! There’s an incredible amount of vitamins and microelements!” I'm thinking about this proposal. (Laughs).

- You already look beautiful. Are you on a diet?

— It seems to me that any woman today is practically a nutritionist. Anyone can open weight loss seminars because each has experience, and often successful. For example, I have a friend who was able to lose 50 kg. Three years ago, I also lost 26 kg. Naturally, after this it’s a pity to lose your achievements, and along with them the compliments. It’s always nice to hear: oh, how good, how young you look! That's why I gave up bread completely. In the evening - boiled turkey or steamed fish, vegetable salads. But when I come to visit someone, I don’t start like some people: oh, I’m on a diet, I don’t eat after six! Well, why did you come then?

— But here’s a question that’s impossible not to ask: what about your personal life? I assume that your director Lyon is scaring potential suitors away from you.

- Agree. I think this is what is happening in my life. But perhaps there are more pros than cons. For example, I don’t use social networks; Lyon is responsible for me. And he says: “Wow, how many men write to you, offer their hand and heart! But I won’t let anyone near you.” That is, he is waiting for a worthy person to whom he could entrust me with peace of mind. (Laughs.)

True, even then he will control everything. This is my Lyon... “Why,” he says, “do we need an army of young people who are breaking in on you? To sit on your neck? I will not let it". And it’s true: we women can be so flighty and naive! They will say beautiful words to us, but we are left hanging. So, I think it’s good that I’m under such control! (Laughs).

* With son Alexey and daughter Yana