Natalya Vetlitskaya
| Natalya Vetlitskaya | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Natalya Igorevna Vetlitskaya |
| Born |
August 17, 1964 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Origin | Russian |
| Genres | Pop, Russian music, synthpop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Instruments | vocals, piano |
| Years active | 1984—2009 |
| Labels | Jeff Records, Soyuz Records, Extraphone Records |
| Associated acts | Pavel Smeyan, Rondo, Mirazh, Dmitry Malikov, Sergey Mazaev, Maksim Pokrovsky |
 Look Me Into the EyesAccording to Vetlitskaya, the much discussed 'arse powdering episode' (2:58) was a trivial working moment: "I found a nail in the studio with my very expensive tights, and the makeup artist had to quickly repair the damage." |
Natalya Igorevna Vetlitskaya (Russian: Ната́лья И́горевна Ветли́цкая, 17 August 1964) is a Soviet and Russian singer and actress, popular in the 1990s, who released six studio albums between 1992 and 2004.
Natalya Vetlitskaya was born in Moscow, to nuclear physicist Igor Arsenyevich (1935-2012)) and his wife Evgenia Ivanovna (born 1939), a piano teacher.
She studied at the Moscow School No.856, and, a self-described 'ugly duckling', hated sports lessons there, because, being the smallest in the class, had to stand always the last in the line. "I've always dreamt of becoming a doctor, and yet could never stop imagining myself on stage, singing or dancing," she later remembered. At the age of ten she began to study ballet and for ten years, since fourteen, was regularly taking part dancing competitions. She enrolled into music school to learn piano, which she graduated in 1979.
In 1981 Vetlitskaya graduated from the high school with gold medal. The same year, defying her parents' wish that she should go into studying languages, she went on to start a ballet dance school of her own.
Natalya Vetlitskaya started her musical career by taking part in the recording of the soundtrack for the 1983 Mary Poppins, Goodbye, written by Maksim Dunayevsky, then the head of the RSFSR Pop Music Orchestra. One of its members was Pavel Smeyan, whom Vetlitskaya married in 1983, and it was he who insisted that she start singing too, not just dance. Credited as Natalya Smeyan, she recorded one song for the film Train Out of Schedule (1985). A year earlier she debuted as an actress, having received a small part in the film Vyshe radugi (Higher Than Rainbow).
In 1986 Vetlitskaya took up the job of choreographer in the Retsital ballet. A year later, after the sisters Bazykins left the rock band Rondo, Mikhail Litvin invited to the auditioning Sveta Kolesnikova from the Vizit group, who brought in her friend, Natalya Vetlitskaya. "'But I cannot sing,' I argued. 'And I cannot dance,' she replied. So with a great deal of mutual help, in a ten days' time we prepared our own little show, got ourselves into our old school uniforms, drastically cut, and were welcomed in," she remembered. Vetlitskaya worked there as choreographer, dancer and backing vocalist, and took part in the recording of four songs which made it into the 1986 Rondo-86 album. Soon her relationships with Litvin deteriorated, though, and she left. In 1987-1988 she danced and sang for the bands Klass and Idea Fix, before joining in 1988 Mirazh which she left later that year. "In Mirazh I earned a certain sum, 90 per cent of which I gave to my parents for them to buy a car, and the rest kept for myself, hoping this money will keep me afloat until something else comes my way," Vetlitskaya remembered.
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