1. Nina Arkadyevna Shatskaya was born on Ninel Shatskaya, April 22,1966 and is a Russian singer and actress, best known for her jazzy take on the Russian romance heritage.
17 Facts About Nina Shatskaya
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Nina Arkadyevna Shatskaya was born in Rybinsk, USSR to the jazz musician, singer and conductor Arkady Shatsky.
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Nina Shatskaya criticized me mercilessly but somehow managed to help me shape up with this criticism.
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Yet Nina Shatskaya recalled fondly her years at the Leningrad Music Hall.
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Nina Shatskaya moved to the Moscow Music Hall and studied vocals at Gnesyn Academy, in the class of Natalya Andrianova, while making miscellaneous recordings with orchestras for Soviet TV and radio.
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In 1999 Nina Shatskaya went to the US with a view of recording her Russian romances.
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Nina Shatskaya spent in America six months and spoke warmly of her vocal coach Seth Riggs.
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Nina Shatskaya's repertoire changed after she met Zlata Razdolina, a Saint Petersburg composer experimenting with the modern Russian romance genre.
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The immediate result of this collaboration was the musical version of Anna Akhmatova's Requiem, sung by Nina Shatskaya and backed by the State Cinema Orchestra.
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Razdolina and Nina Shatskaya soon parted ways, but years later they met again for another Akhmathova-themed project.
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On November 4,2002, still mourning her father's death, Nina Shatskaya triumphantly performed at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, singing songs from the Music of Love set.
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In 2004 Nina Shatskaya premiered her From Romance to Jazz concert program at the Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow House of Music.
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In October 2007 Nina Shatskaya performed at her father's fifth year memorial concert held in Rybinsk.
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Nina Shatskaya appeared in two films, Vadim Derbenyov's On the Corner by Patryarshy's and in Gleb Panfilov's In the First Circle based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle.
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Nina Shatskaya considers her father Arkady Shatsky, the leader of the Rybinsk-based jazz-orchestra Raduga as her first and most profound influence.
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Nina Shatskaya cited Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Lara Fabian, Diana Krall and Norah Jones as her favourite artists, as well as Elena Obraztsova, whom in her formative years she regarded 'a goddess'.
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Nina Shatskaya said she welcomed the kind of criticism that can be used constructively.