Zemfira
Zemfira (. Земфира Russian, English transcription: Zemfira ) is the stage name of Russian singer and songwriter Zemfira Talgatowna Ramasanowa ( born August 26, 1976 in Ufa, Soviet Union, Russian Земфира Талгатовна Рамазанова ). The artist with Tatar - Bashkir roots singer of the band of the same name. So far, the singer sold over 3 million albums.
Biography
The well-known under the simple stage name Zemfira Zemfira Ramasanowa in Russia grew up in a middle-class family in Bashkortostan, on the eastern edge of the European part of Russia on. Since the age of five, she attended a music school in Ufa in the children's choir sang of their natural aptitude for correct intonation as soloist.
The early 1990s, she was always known in Russia. First, she was a member of Russia's junior basketball team. Then followed a member of various rock bands. In 1996 she started her solo career. Three years later, their first album Zemfira. To date, they published every one to two years an album.
Among her most famous titles include the singles Iskala, tobacconist, Paranoija and Matscho. As Russian-speaking artist is Semfiras career focus mainly in the countries of the former Soviet Union, but it has on their tours and performances again and again in countries such as Germany or Israel, where she also enjoys great popularity among the sowjetischstämmigen migrants.
Music style
Zemfira is known for demanding but catchy and temperate singer-songwriter rock. The sound lives of the powerful voice of the singer and can be compared to international best with Gianna Nannini, early Alanis Morissette and Melissa Etheridge.
Zemfira coverte songs by Viktor Tsoi, the late singer of the major Russian rock band Kino, including " Kukushka " (German cuckoo ) and " Kaschduju Notsch " (Eng. Every night ).
News
The singer publicly distanced itself from the Russian youth organization Nashi.
In the Russian press reported by progressive weight loss of the singer since early 2007. Recent photos on Semfiras website show an extreme change in appearance of the singer. The pictures from the Russian Vogue show an extremely emaciated Zemfira. Possible causes are drug abuse, anorexia, and a dangerous disease, over which the singer does not want to talk discussed. Others suspect that the complicated relationship with the director and actress Renata Litvinova is responsible. Zemfira manifests itself only evasive visible to her poor health. At a press conference on the occasion of the release of their new album " Spassibo " she explained, the related stress is responsible for the weight loss. At another press conference, she claimed to have written a song from their new album under the influence of hashish. When appearance on a radio show, she responded to the question of the presenter after the veracity of the rumors about her drug abuse with a Wutattacke.
2008, a movie came across it on the Russian market. The film included, among other things, their greatest hits. In September 2010 their mini-tour launched by Russia. Their first three albums were re-released as a set.
On February 15, 2010 officially released their new album " Schit w twojei Golowe " (engl.: " lives in your head "). In 2011 the first single " Bes Schansow " ( "Without opportunities ") (" money " ) appeared from the fact, in 2012, " dengue ". 2013, finally, the current single " Kofewino " ( German: about: " Coffee Wine ").
On June 13, 2010, her brother died in an underwater hunting.