Anita Tsoy
| Anita Sergeyevna Tsoy | |
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Anita Tsoy, 2013
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Anna Sergeyevna Kim |
| Born | 7 February 1971 |
| Origin | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Genres | Pop, pop-rock, dance |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, violin, piano, flute, guitar |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Labels | Soyuz (1997) New Hollywood International (1998) Real Records (2003) Universal Music Russia (2005 – present) |
| Website | anitatsoy |
Anita Tsoy (Russian: Анита "Анна" Серге́евна Цой; born Anna Sergeyevna Kim; 7 February 1971, Moscow) is a Russian singer-songwriter of Korean descent. She is a Meritorious Artist of Russia (2003).
Anita's grandfather, seeking free education, emigrated from Korea to the Russian Far East. He, his wife and his children were later caught up in the 1937 deportation of the Koryo-saram to Central Asia. Anita's mother was born in 1944 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union and successfully graduated from the Moscow State University and became a chemistry doctor.
Tsoy's mother did everything she could to make her daughter educated in all kinds of arts [2]. Anita's favourite one became music. She began violin lessons at a young age; she later studied piano, flute, and guitar.
When Tsoy became an adult, her mother was branded a "class enemy" in the 1970s in response to her record of speaking out in support of Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Andrei Sakharov. For her dissent, she was briefly committed to a mental institution and became a permanent invalid. After leaving school Tsoy attended the teacher training college, then law school at Moscow State University, where she met her husband Sergey Tsoy.
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