Childhood and youth of Anastasia Polevaya
Anastasia Poleva was born in the Urals in December 1961.
A number of incompetent sources on the Internet indicate the date of birth as December 1, 1958, and the place of birth as Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg), but this information is not true. Nastya studied at a regular school in the city of Pervouralsk, and did not show any musical or creative abilities as a child. After graduating from school, she entered the Faculty of Architecture of the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute. My passion for rock music began while studying at the institute. Rehearsals with classmates eventually resulted in full-fledged creativity. It was then that Poleva became friends with the future stars of the Ural rock scene.
Zemfira
At one time, this rock singer, lyricist, and composer was called “the breakthrough voice of the generation.” Zemfira, with her appearance on the big stage, marked the emergence of a special direction in Russian rock, which after some time was defined by critics as “women’s rock”.
Her songs “Do you want...”, “Girl with a Walkman”, “Muscovite Crows” and others became symbols of the era of the late 90s and early 2000s. In addition to performing original songs, Zemfira wrote music for films. And now, almost twenty years after her first appearance on stage, Zemfira’s popularity not only does not decline, but reaches new heights.
“Track” by Nastya Polevaya
Nastya Poleva first made a name for herself in 1980, founding the rock group Trek.
The band not only performed successfully in their native Sverdlovsk, but also performed an unprecedented act at that time - “touring” to Moscow. Home-recorded tapes with Trek songs scattered throughout the Union in a matter of days. The trip to Moscow was not in vain for the team: “Track” was subjected to severe criticism from one of the then mouthpieces of youth, Komsomolskaya Pravda. The publication's reporters saw “crime” in Nastya Poleva’s work.
Nastya Poleva and Boris Grebenshchikov
Black PR - the best type of PR for a Soviet rock band - did its job: in 1980-1983, Trek became the flagship of the Sverdlovsk rock club. This, however, did not prevent the team from breaking up in 1983. For three years, Nastya Poleva did not appear on the big rock stage.
"Noah Noah" (1989)
Nastya's second album had a title no less exotic than the first.
And it was named after one of the most unusual songs, “Noa-Noa”. It’s interesting that when Nastya first introduced the music of this composition to the group (without lyrics), the bassist didn’t see anything unusual in it and even called it “clever guy” and “Murka.”
However, together with the poems of Evgeny Kormiltsev, the song acquired a bewitching magical aura. But even those who have experienced its charms do not always understand what is being sung here. What is this “Noa-Noa” that sings: “Leave your wife, come to me...”?
The text of the composition takes its origins from the biography of the great post-impressionist Paul Gauguin. This French artist throughout his life experienced increasing disgust for European civilization. His desire to “merge with nature” led to the fact that in the 1890s the artist left for Oceania - first to Tahiti, and then to the island of Hiva Oa, where he settled for the rest of his life. There he finds his “earthly paradise” and new sources of inspiration, among which was the young Tahitian Teha'amana.
Paul Gauguin:
“...I said hello. Smiling, she sat down next to me.
-Are you not afraid of me? - I asked. - No. - Do you want to live in my hut forever? - Yes.
And that's all...
A week followed during which I was younger than ever. I was in love and told her about it, and she smiled at me.
In the mornings, when the sun rose, my home was filled with bright light. Teha'amana's face shone like gold, illuminating everything around. The Tahitian “noa-noa” (fragrance) permeated me through and through. I didn't notice how the hours and days passed. I no longer distinguished between good and evil. Everything was perfect, everything was wonderful."
The artist also named “Noa-noa” a book of memories about his island life (“this will be a book about what Tahiti exudes”).
True, in Nastya’s performance, Kormiltsev’s light text acquired a somewhat “dark”, witchcraft sound. By the way, the ending song, an alarming coda, served for some time as a spectacular finale at the band’s concerts. The melody jammed into the synthesizer continued to play after all the musicians had left the stage.
Collaboration between Nastya Polevaya and Nautilus Pompilius
However, Nastya’s return to the rock scene was carefully planned and took place in the summer of 1986.
Nastya took part in the famous first Sverdlovsk rock festival. Polevaya’s songs of that time, close to late art rock, were written by Ilya Kormiltsev, the lyricist of “Nautilus” and “Urfin”. Nastya Polevaya’s backing group included exclusively Ural rock stars: Egor Belkin (“Urfene Juice”), Dmitry Umetsky (“Nautilus Pompilius”), Alexey Mogilevsky (“Nautilus Pompilius”), Alexander Pantykin (“Urfene Juice”).
Nastya Poleva - Dance on Tiptoe Excellent melody and professionalism of the session musicians made Nastya's performance a real highlight of the festival. At the same time, the group was assigned a name corresponding to the name of the vocalist. However, the group, assembled from musicians from such successful projects at that time as “Nau” and “Urfin”, turned out to be incompetent - no one was going to work with Poleva to the detriment of their own groups.
Links
Live albums and videos - Climb
- Split
- Lights out
- Titanic Live
- No cable for anyone
- Acoustics
Tributes - Report 1983-1993
- Naw Boom
- NauRock
Songs - "View from the Screen"
- "Everyone who carried"
- "Your Body Doctor"
- "Casanova"
- "Prince of Silence"
- "On the Bank of a Nameless River"
- "Last letter"
- "Festival of Common Misfortune"
- "Walking on Water"
- "Weather forecasters"
- "Chained by one chain"
- "Dead in Sleep"
- "Khaki Ball"
- "This music will last forever"
- "I wanna be with you"
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Anastasia Poleva and rock group “Nastya”
In 1987, at the second Sverdlovsk rock festival, “Nastya” again appeared on stage with an updated line-up. After the festival, the team recorded their first album, “Tatsu”. The album would undoubtedly have been on the first lines of the Soviet charts, if such existed at that time. The press called Nastya “the Soviet Kate Bush.” The band's next performance took place at the Podolsk rock festival and turned out to be a failure - the group took the stage instead of the announced performance of Urfin. Nastya Poleva - For nothing (dedicated to Sergei Bodrov) In the fall of 1988, the composition of “Nastya” was completely renewed. Of the session musicians, only Yegor Belkin remained. The group's tour of the Soviet Union in 1989 turned out to be more than successful. “Nastya” managed to perform on television, and the band’s songs were heard on the radio. March 1989 was marked by the release of the second album “Noa-Noa”. The lyrics were written mainly by Ilya Kormiltsev. In September 1989, Nastya Polevaya’s group performed in Moscow on the same stage with “Chaif” and “April March”. In 1990, a tour of Germany and the Netherlands took place, and the album “Noah Noah” was released at the same time.
Linda
Critics and fans usually classify this singer's work as trip rock. At the beginning of her career, Linda's songwriter was composer Maxim Fadeev. But after some time, the girl began to write poetry and music herself.
The singer's popularity peaked in the mid-90s. But to this day, Linda continues to write songs and perform in front of her devoted audience.
Moving Nastya Polevaya to St. Petersburg
The last album recorded in Sverdlovsk was “Bride” in 1993. After his recording, Poleva moved to live in St. Petersburg. In 1995, the successful cover album “Dancing on Tiptoes” was released, after which the group went on a two-year sabbatical.
Nastya Poleva now continues to actively tour
The band's next album was recorded together with Yegor Belkin in 1997. The record, called “Sea of Siam”, is enthusiastically received by listeners and rock critics. The album is still on the list of the most stylish records of Russian intellectual rock.
Masha Makarova
The name of Maria Makarova is primarily associated with the cult group “Masha and the Bears”. At the peak of the creative realization of this musical group, their fame was incredible. However, the group did not last long - already in 2000, “Masha and the Bears” broke up.
Maria herself is a very charismatic, bright and original person. According to the original producer's idea, Masha was supposed to appear before the public bald.
The men in the group also appeared in the photo without hair. By the way, Makarov’s cut hair was lowered by the sacred Ganges River. According to Mary herself, this ritual helps her clear her karma.
Personal life of Nastya Polevaya
Nastya Poleva has long been associated with Yegor Belkin not only by creativity.
Soon after moving to St. Petersburg, Yegor and Nastya got married. They have no children. The group's latest albums - "Herbarium" (2000), "NeNastye" (2002), "Through Fingers" (2004), "Bridges over the Neva" (2008) - were completely recorded and mixed by Yegor Belkin. The lyrics in these albums are primarily by Polevaya, and the musical parts were created by Egor. The sound engineer for the albums was one of the Nastya musicians, Igor Sorokin. Yegor Belkin also took on the functions of the group's producer. One of Nastya Poleva’s latest works is participation in the project of the BI-2 team “Odd Warrior”. Together with Leva Bi-2 and Shura Bi-2, Anastasia performed the song “Blues,” which became another hit and consistently held the top lines of the Russian charts.
Daria Nookie Stavrovich
Daria Nookie Stavrovich is a Russian singer, songwriter, lead singer of the group “Slot”. As part of this musical group, she took part in the creation of seven studio albums with her vocals, including the re-release of the album “2 Wars”.
Since 2012, Daria has been working in parallel on her solo project n¥ki. In 2021, she entered the semi-finals of the popular talent show “The Voice”, season 5.
Stavrovich admitted that her pseudonym Nookie is a proper name and does not carry any subtext (in American slang “nookie” means “sex without obligations”).
Diana Arbenina
Diana Arbenina is a musician, singer, and songwriter. Her popularity came primarily as the leader of the “Night Snipers” group. Diana is a laureate of the Triumph Prize for achievements in the field of art and literature. Also, this rock diva managed to release several books and collections of poetry.
Diana became famous in 1993, when the group “Night Snipers” was born, which was conceived as an acoustic duet of Svetlana Surganova and Diana Arbenina. The meeting of these two original musicians became a turning point in the creative biography of both.
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