Natalia Igorevna Vetlitskaya is a Soviet and Russian singer and actress, popular in the 1990s, who released six studio albums between 1992 and 2004.
20 Facts About Natalya Vetlitskaya
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Natalya Vetlitskaya retired from the music scene in 2009 and, as of 2018, resides in Spain.
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Natalya Vetlitskaya was born in Moscow, to nuclear physicist Igor Arsenyevich, a piano teacher.
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Natalya Vetlitskaya enrolled into music school to learn piano, which she graduated in 1979.
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In 1981 Natalya Vetlitskaya graduated from the high school with gold medal.
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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.
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One of its members was Pavel Smeyan, whom Natalya Vetlitskaya married in 1983, and it was he who insisted that she start singing too, not just dance.
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In 1986 Natalya Vetlitskaya took up the job of choreographer in the Retsital Ballet.
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Natalya 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.
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Natalya Vetlitskaya's prospects started to look grim, but then Igor Matviyenko re-introduced her to Igor Zuyev, a young composer whom she knew from her days with Klass.
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Natalya Vetlitskaya's breakthrough came in 1992 when a video for Look Me into the Eyes, her debut album's title track received the Gran Prix at the Moscow Generation-92 Festival and launched the career of Fyodor Bondarchuk, who made the clip with Tigran Keosayan and Sergey Kozlov, the latter as a cameraman.
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In 1997 Natalya Vetlitskaya starred in the film The New Adventures of Buratino and recorded three songs for the soundtrack, including Taj Mahal, a duo with Sergey Mazayev.
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In 2003 Natalya Vetlitskaya starred as Princess Natalia in Maksim Papernik's musical Snow Queen, for which she recorded the song "Lanterns", a duet with Vadim Azarkh.
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Later that year Natalya Vetlitskaya gave birth to her daughter Ulyana and went into semi-retirement, only occasionally appearing on TV and releasing new songs and clips in the course of the next five years.
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Natalya Vetlitskaya was expected to make a major comeback in 2009, but the announced massive tour never materialized for reasons which remained unknown.
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In 2009 Natalya Vetlitskaya retired from the Russian music scene and went on to reside in Spain where since then she's been leading the life of a recluse, contacting only those who share her passions for yoga and Eastern philosophies.
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Natalya Vetlitskaya said to me: Listen, one woman wants to make me marry her.
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In 2004 in Nice, France, Natalya Vetlitskaya gave birth to daughter Ulyana.
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Natalya Vetlitskaya composes music, writes poetry, is engaged in painting and design.
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Natalya Vetlitskaya called Kiriyenko the Rosatom's mafiosi general and stated that the reason of her father's death from heart attack in May 2011 was the document he'd received notifying him that his monthly salary was being cut from 4,4 to 2,8 thousand rubles.