Nadezhda Granovskaya posted an archival photo with Svetlana Loboda. LOBODA - Your Eyes
October 18 Svetla Loboda celebrated her 35th anniversary. On this day, she received many congratulations from colleagues, friends and numerous fans. The first to congratulate her were the ex-members of the VIA Gra group, in which the traitor herself was one of the soloists, Vera Brezhneva and Nadezhda Granovskaya. The wife of Konstantin Meladze published a photo of a kiss with Loboda on her Instagram and accompanied it with a very touching comment. “Now is a super time for a singer who is not afraid of anything. I have already congratulated you and said everything personally. I admire and am proud"— Vera wrote (the author’s spelling and punctuation have been preserved. — Ed.).
And Nadezhda posted archival photographs with Svetlana on the Internet, taken during their joint vacation abroad. Granovskaya accompanied these shots with a very emotional caption, in which she admitted that she was incredibly grateful to fate for meeting the birthday girl. "My dear!!! The guy here is completely superfluous... but I chose this photo because we are happy in it, like children... You, I’m sure, will recognize this photo, remember where we are, in what country, and how “bombically” fun we had there))) And me I am immensely, infinitely grateful to fate for our first meeting, for our bright friendship... Yes, we have matured a lot, we work like “convicts”)). But I know and fully feel that the thread of warm, human relations between us will never disappear or be erased by time and distance,”— Nadezhda noted (the author’s spelling and punctuation have been preserved. — Ed.).
Loboda became the lead singer of the VIA Gra group in 2004. She sang in this group for only three months, but managed to fall in love with many fans of the group. After her departure, she was able to maintain warm, friendly relations with Brednya and Granovskaya. In addition, Svetlana was able to stop working at VIA Gre without conflict with the group’s producer, Konstantin Meladze.
Svetlana Loboda became the soloist of the group “VIA Gra” in 2004 - the singer replaced Anna Sedokova, who left the group. In a frank interview with Caravan of Stories, the artist said that she dreamed of a solo career, but Konstantin Meladze persuaded her to become the third girl in the group.
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According to Svetlana, Vera Brezhneva and Nadezhda Granovskaya treated her kindly and warmly welcomed her into the team. Loboda especially became close to Granovskaya, who also dreamed of becoming an independent artist.
“She had to go through a lot, but this did not spoil Granovskaya’s character. She dreamed that Kostya would take up her solo career and seriously prepared for this. I took Nadya to my academic vocal teacher, and she began taking lessons,” Loboda said.
Vera Brezhneva, Nadezhda Granovskaya, Svetlana Loboda
However, Konstantin Meladze was skeptical about the wishes of his charges; for him there was only one real artist - brother Valery Meladze.
“For Kostya Meladze, we were just plasticine from which he sculpted whatever he wanted. They served as guides to the masses of his magnificent, brilliant music. He did not need artists; for him there was only one - brother Valera. The rest were “projects,” said Svetlana.
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The most difficult thing for the singer was to work with producer Dmitry Kostyuk, who completely controlled the lives of the band members. Loboda admitted that because of his despotic attitude towards her, she decided to leave the group.
“Wrote a text message to Meladze: “I have no more strength to endure Kostyuk’s rudeness. No one has ever treated me like that." “Come to Kyiv, we’ll figure it out and settle everything,” Kostya replied. When we returned from the tour, I had a conversation with Meladze, I asked to be released from the group: “I can’t exist within such a strict framework, I’m suffocating.” I think Kostyuk managed to complain that I was uncontrollable and was ruining the team. Meladze did not hold back, he acted nobly: I signed the contract for five years, and he let me go after four months without any penalties. I also eventually broke up with Kostyuk and probably did the right thing,” the singer shared.
Sveta was delighted with the reviews about the new song, but she lacked another, very important opinion for her - the opinion of the girl to whom she dedicated one of her songs... Sveta’s request was heard from above, and the long-awaited call came, but since her the phone was littered with a bunch of clothes, Sveta began to look for it in a hurry. A minute later the phone was in my hands, on the screen was the name “Nadya” and a photo in which Nadya looked so at home. - Hello, Nadya! - Sveta’s voice was joyful. -Hello. “I’m calling about your new song,” Meikher said in a deliberately sad voice. “I’m listening to you,” Sveta’s voice became much quieter. -Well, how can I tell you...She's just a BOMB! “I think it should definitely become a hit,” Nadezhda shouted into the phone with delight. -Thank you so much, I’m glad you liked it. It was written at a turning point for me, a divorce from my husband, you understand, is by no means a joyful event,” Loboda said sadly, “Nadyusha, you can come to me today, we’ll sit and celebrate the premieres of our songs, otherwise we haven’t seen each other for a long time.” ? -Okay, Svetlana, I’ll come, is it convenient for you in an hour? -Just great. Waiting for you! Exactly an hour later, Nadezhda came to Sveta. They chatted for a long time about the past, about the fun four months that LOBODA spent at VIA Gre, and about plans for the future. Four hours later, Nadya received a call from her husband and said that he was flying from St. Petersburg to Kyiv that evening, and he would like Nadya to meet him. All four hours that Nadya and Sveta spent together, Svetlana looked at Nadya with such tenderness, and when Nadya’s husband called and called her home, she, unexpectedly for herself, approached Nadya’s face and kissed her, putting all the tenderness into this kiss and the love she felt for Nadya. This came as a surprise to Nadya; she carefully moved Sveta away from her and asked: “What was that?” “I love you,” Sveta answered quietly. “I guess I’ll go, I have to go!” said Nadya, getting up from the sofa and heading towards the hallway. “Stop!” Sveta shouted, ran up to Nadya, took her face in her hands and said, “Answer me, do you feel anything for me?” The evening of the next day, when Sveta, wrapped in a blanket, was sitting on the sofa, eating ice cream and writing the lyrics of a new song, the doorbell rang. Sveta reluctantly got up from the comfortable sofa and slowly trudged to the door. She simply opened the door without looking through the peephole and took a step away from it. Nadezhda stood on the threshold, Sveta smiled a forced smile and trudged back to the ice cream and the unfinished lyrics of the song. Nadya followed her and sat down opposite, saying: “I need to talk to you seriously...” “I’m listening to you,” Sveta said quietly. “I love you,” Nadya said uncertainly. “Are you sure?” Sveta asked, looking at Nadya. Instead of answering, Nadya took Sveta’s face in her hands and kissed her. Meikher looked into Sveta’s eyes; endless happiness was visible in them. Breathing became one for two, and the whole world became not enough for them. They are together, and that's the main thing.
Svetlana Sergeevna Loboda. Born on October 18, 1982 in Kyiv. Ukrainian singer, presenter, songwriter, designer, former soloist of the VIA Gra group, Honored Artist of Ukraine (2013).
Svetlana was born on October 18, 1982 in Kyiv in the family of Sergei Vasilyevich Loboda and Natalya Vasilyevna Loboda.
Grandfather - Vasily Loboda - worked in the police, then in the KGB, and traveled a lot around the world on business. In 1958, he lived in Cuba for more than six months. At that time, the revolution was being prepared; he lived in the jungle and helped develop plans to overthrow the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Grandmother - Lyudmila Loboda - was an opera singer.
Father - Sergei Vasilyevich Loboda (born 1957) - works at an aircraft factory.
Mother - Natalia Vasilyevna Loboda (born 1957) - works in Kyiv as an energy saving specialist.
There is a younger sister, Ksenia (born 1992).
In early childhood she was involved in figure skating. However, her studies ended with...
According to Sveta herself, she hardly studied at school, as she was completely immersed in creative life. She graduated from music school with classes in piano, conducting and academic vocals.
After receiving her first musical education, she entered the Kyiv Variety and Circus Academy in the pop vocal department. During this period she became a member of a popular musical group "Cappuccino", produced by Viktor Doroshenko. The group's repertoire included such famous songs as “New Fairy Tale” and “Feelings”. At some point, the group stopped developing creatively, stopped touring, and Svetlana decided to leave the group.
According to the contract, the singer was obliged to work for another 2 years as part of the group. An old friend Mikhail Yasinsky comes to her aid and invites her to work under a fictitious name. "Alicia Gorn". Together they come up with an unprecedented story about the girl’s life and Svetlana begins performing under this pseudonym in Kyiv nightclubs, in secret from the group’s producer.
After working in the group, Svetlana participates in the first Ukrainian musical "Equator"(dir. Viktor Shulakov), where she gets one of the main roles - the savage Mirana.
"Ten performances a month. It turned out to be ten for each. We ate hot dogs, rode the subway and felt the happiest.", Svetlana recalled.
On December 28, 2003, Sveta assembled her own team called "Ketch". In a short period of time, the group’s repertoire and stage costumes are created, a concept is developed, and during the New Year holidays the group already begins touring clubs in Kyiv.
In the spring of 2004, after passing the casting, she became the new lead singer of the popular group "VIA Gra". As part of the group, she took part in a tour of Asian cities, starred in the video “Biology” and the New Year’s musical of the Inter TV channel “Sorochinskaya Fair”. However, already in November of the same year, Svetlana Loboda left the group.
VIA Gra - Biology
A month after leaving the group, Loboda released her first single.
In December 2004, Svetlana Loboda, together with Taras Demchuk, recorded the composition “Black and White Winter”. This composition is of great interest both in Ukraine and abroad. The video for the song “Black and White Winter” is actively rotated on Ukrainian and Russian TV channels. In 2005, the video for the next single "I will forget you" received first prize at the festival of foreign videos in Portugal. In the same year, a video for the song "You will not forget"(a remake of the French composition Kelly Joyce - Vivre La Via) a month after its release, it was taken off the air due to claims from the morality commission, which considered the video too frank. In November 2005, Svetlana Loboda’s first solo album, “You Won’t Forget,” was released.
Svetlana Loboda - You won't forget
In 2006, a video was released, and then a single. "Black Angel", and after a trip to Japan, Svetlana records the song “Wait, man.” In the same year, she hosted the Showmania program on the New Channel, and in 2007 she became the host of the Miss CIS project on the TET TV channel.
She opens her own travel agency, Happy Vacations.
In October 2007, a video for a lyrical song called “Happiness” was released.
In 2008, the creation of a collection of youth clothing began. "F*ck the macho", in the same year the second album was released - "Not Macho". On October 18, Svetlana Loboda became the laureate of the National Olympus award in the category “Original style of performance.”
In 2009, the second clothing line from Loboda was released. This time, the singer decided to focus her attention not only on T-shirts with “NO SILICON” prints, but also to include men’s products in this clothing line - T-shirts, raglans, sports sweatshirts, as well as women’s dresses, jumpsuits and tracksuits.
Single in spring 2009 "Be My Valentine" was nominated to participate in the Ukrainian qualifying round of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. On March 8, 2009, Svetlana Loboda won the Eurovision 2009 qualifying competition and earned the right to represent Ukraine in the final part of the competition. On March 18, Svetlana Loboda presented the video Be My Valentine (Anti-crisis girl!).
At the opening ceremony of Eurovision 2009, the singer appeared in bandages and with abrasions on her body. It turned out that such noticeable injuries on the Ukrainian woman’s body are makeup designed to draw attention to Svetlana Loboda’s social campaign “Say Stop Domestic Violence,” based on the fight against domestic violence. Subsequently, the French singer Patricia Kaas joined this action.
Svetlana Loboda at Eurovision 2009
As a result, Svetlana Loboda took 12th place in the final of the competition, scoring 76 points. Low final positions did not prevent Svetlana from taking first place at the preliminary competition concerts in London, Paris and Amsterdam and becoming one of the most talked about artists: the video “Anti-crisis girl” takes third place in terms of the number of views on the official Eurovision YouTube channel.
In January 2010, a video clip for the song was released "Living is easy", where Loboda appears to the public as the 100-kilogram fat woman she became after her failure at Eurovision. Following “It’s Easy to Live,” Loboda records a duet song "Heart Beats" with manufacturer Max Barskikh, and soon a video clip is released, which becomes the most expensive in the history of Ukrainian show business.
Two years earlier, in 2008, at the final concert of the Ukrainian “Star Factory” an accident occurred: the finalist began to cut the veins on his wrist while performing his song. As he explained, he committed this act for the sake of love for Svetlana Loboda (she herself tried not to comment on the incident).
In 2010, Svetlana Loboda registered a brand and trademark "LOBODA".
In the summer of 2010 a single was released "Revolution".
In the summer of 2011, the song premiered on the Crimea Music Fest stage "In the world". Later, LOBODA presented a video. The song stayed on the first line of the country's main charts for several months.
At the beginning of 2012, the artist went to the USA, where she worked actively, combining recording in studios, master classes in vocals and choreography. I shot a video for my new single "Clouds", and also presented a short film in the suspense genre based on the musical work “Clouds” - "Criminal Woman".
On April 12, 2012, at Crystal Hall, LOBODA presented LIVE SHOW “The Beginning,” with which she toured Ukraine for almost a year. A new video for the song was released in June "What About U", recorded specifically for the EURO 2012 championship. This composition was selected among hundreds of others submitted to the UEFA European Commission and was included in the official track list of the championship. The idea of the video was supported by the singer’s star friends: Lolita, Andrei Malakhov, Lera Kudryavtseva, Anatolich, as well as Ukrainian football players: Evgeniy Seleznev, Alexander Aliev, Yaroslav Rakitsky, Evgeniy Konoplyanka, Sergei Nazarenko, Alexander Shovkovsky.
LOBODA - What about U
In August 2012, at the Crimea Music Fest, LOBODA presented a lyrical composition "40 degrees". In December 2012, LOBODA was the only one from Ukraine to perform at “Christmas Meetings,” where the singer presented the single “40 degrees” to the Russian audience.
In 2012, LOBODA became a coach in the talent show “The Voice. Children" on channel 1+1.
In February 2013, the singer presented a new single "Tenderness".
On March 17, 2013, the “Yuna” award took place on the Inter TV channel, during which the singer presented her new single called "Under the ice".
At the end of June 2013, the singer was awarded the honorary title “Honored Artist of Ukraine.”
On September 29, 2014, LOBODA and Emin presented a remake of the track "Looking at the sky". The single premiered on October 18, 2014 "Need not".
On December 26, 2014, Svetlana Loboda received the “Song of the Year 2014” award for her single "City under ban".
On March 7, 2015, LOBODA presented a new video for the song "Need not". Filming of the new video work took place in Portugal. The video shows the difficult story of a woman who, overcoming pain and betrayal, fights for her fragile feminine happiness. The video is in many ways a reflection of the singer’s personal experiences associated with her separation from her loved one.
On March 26, 2015, the YUNA 2015 awards ceremony took place at the Palace of Ukraine, where LOBODA and Emin won in the “Best Duet” nomination for their joint creation "Looking at the sky".
On April 2, 2015, the premiere of the single “It’s Time to Go Home” took place on “Russian Radio”; on May 12, 2015, the premiere took place on “Europa Plus Ukraine” as part of “Let’s Go!” Show", and on May 13, 2015 on Russian Radio Ukraine in the morning show "Alarm Clocks in Russian". Filming of the video clip for the single took place in Istanbul. The director of the video was Natella Krapivina.
The video clip premiered on May 20, 2015 "Time to go home" with the participation of the hosts of the show “Heads and Tails” Andrei Bednyakov, Lesya Nikityuk, Regina Todorenko and Zhanna Badoeva.
On June 8, 2015, the 6th annual Fashion People Awards ceremony was held in Moscow, where Loboda won in the Fashion Voice Woman category.
On September 8, 2015, LOBODA presented an original cover of Kuzma Scriabin’s song “Nobody Needs It.”
On November 4, 2015, LOBODA goes on a tour of Ukrainian cities with her new show “It’s Time to Go Home.” During the tour, she presented new songs “To hell with love”, “Angel”, “Your eyes” and “Don’t love”.
LOBODA - Your Eyes
On November 23, 2015, on the eve of the International Day for the Protection of Women from Violence (November 25), as part of the “It’s Time to Go Home” tour, she presented a social art project for the first Ukrainian-language composition "Oblish"- a message designed to draw attention to one of the most important problems of humanity: violence against women.
On November 26, 2015, a gala concert and the first award ceremony of the M1 Music Awards 2015 took place in the Kiev Sports Palace, where LOBODA won in the “Clip of the Year” nomination with the video clip “It’s time to go home.”
On November 28 and 29, 2015, solo concerts were held at the Palace of Ukraine in honor of the singer’s decade of creative activity.
On January 11, 2016, the artist presented a provocative composition about female love "Fuck love", and on February 19, 2016, the video clip premiered.
On June 30, 2016, the Organizing Committee of the international competition “Miss Ukraine-Universe 2016” officially recognized LOBODA as the brightest representative of the music industry and awarded the title “The most beautiful singer in the country.”
On September 6, 2016, the single “Your Eyes” premiered, and on November 9, 2016, the video clip premiered. The single held the lead on iTunes in the CIS countries for 5 weeks.
On November 19, 2016, she received a Golden Gramophone figurine in Moscow for the song “To hell with love.”
On March 8, 2017, LOBODA staged a three-hour large-scale show at the capital's Sports Palace and presented a new album "H2Lo", which I worked on for five years.
Svetlana Loboda's height: 174 centimeters.
Personal life of Svetlana Loboda:
Svetlana Loboda does not like to advertise her personal life. The exception was her relationship with Andrew the Tsar, her former common-law husband, with whom she gave birth to a daughter.
Svetlana had an affair with a Spaniard Enrique Lopez. The couple met either in Europe or while vacationing in overseas resorts.
Svetlana Loboda and Enrique Lopez
She dated a TV presenter Gennady Popenko, had affairs with her producers Mikhail Yasinsky And Alexander Shirkov(I later sued the latter for a long time).
In March 2017, in the show “Let Them Talk.” This was in 2009, shortly before Eurovision 2009. According to her, the man could not come to terms with the thought of her leaving, and therefore tried with all his might to keep the singer and sent bandits to intimidate her. “I said that we were breaking up, it couldn’t be any other way. It ended with bandits who came to me, men with broken ears, and demanded that I calm down and shot through my car,” Loboda admitted.
Alexander Shirkov - former lover of Svetlana Loboda
There were rumors about Loboda's affair with Max Barskikh during their joint filming in the video. However, Svetlana denied this information.
Svetlana Loboda and Max Barskikh
At the end of 2009, Loboda began an affair with dancer Andrei Tsar, who worked with the Freedom ballet, incl. on the backup dancers and with Svetlana herself.
For about six months they kept their relationship secret (or rather, they tried - they were regularly met at parties), and in May 2010, Loboda made her relationship with the Tsar public. “I won’t make big statements, I’ll just say that this person is special. We love being together.”, she said, adding that “I, like any other woman, want a wedding”.
As a result, Andrei Tsar was Svetlana’s common-law husband for several years.
While pregnant, Loboda continued to perform on stage.
Svetlana Loboda and Andrey Tsar
In September 2015, the singer showed her daughter to the public for the first time.
Svetlana Loboda and daughter Evangelina
There were many rumors about Svetlana Loboda regarding her bisexuality. Incl. and she herself gave a reason for this. For example, in one of her interviews she intriguingly stated that she had a relationship with her former VIA Gra bandmate Nadezhda Granovskaya "more than friendly".
Svetlana Loboda and Nadezhda Granovskaya
She was credited with a relationship with her friend, designer Liliya Litkovskaya.
Svetlana Loboda and Liliya Litkovskaya
The press also wrote about the singer’s affair with her producer Natella Krapivina.
Svetlana Loboda and Natella Krapivina
Since mid-2017, rumors began to appear in the media about the singer’s affair with the leader of the group Rammstein, who is 22 years older than her. In March 2018, reports appeared that. In May 2018 she... She gave the girl the name Tilda. Svetlana later explained that she named her youngest daughter in honor of the British actress Tilda Swinton: “I always liked this name, and I really love the actress Tilda Swinton. In addition, there are a couple of other facts that influenced my choice.”
Svetlana Loboda now
Discography of Svetlana Loboda:
2005 - You won't forget
2007 - Black Angel
2007 - Wait, man
2008 - F*ck The Macho
2008 - Not macho
2009 - Anti-crisis girl
2017 - H2Lo
Singles by Svetlana Loboda:
2004 - “Black and White Winter”
2005 - “There, under the clouds”
2006 - “Wait, man!”
2007 - “Black Angel”
2007 - “Happiness”
2007 - “Bear, ugly boy!”
2008 - “Not macho”
2008 - “For what?”
2009 - “Be My Valentine!” (Anti-crisis Girl)"
2009 - “Guy, you’re nothing”
2010 - “Revolution”
2011 - “Thank you”
2011 - “In the world”
2012 - “Clouds”
2012 - “What About U”
2012 - “40 degrees”
2013 - “Under the Ice”
2013 - “City under ban”
2014 - “Looking at the Sky” (feat. EMIN)
2014 - “Not needed”
2015 - “It’s time to go home”
2015 - “Oblish”
2016 - “To hell with love”
2016 - “Your eyes”
2017 - “Tequila Love”
2017 - “Random”
2018 - “Guy”
Videography of Svetlana Loboda:
2004 - “Black and White Winter”
2005 - “I will forget you”
2005 - “You Won’t Forget”
2006 - “Black Angel”
2006 - “Wait, man!”
2007 - “Bear, ugly boy”
2007 - “Happiness”
2008 - “Not macho”
2008 - “For what”
2008 - “By Your Side” (feat. DJ Lutique)
2009 - “Be My Valentine (Anti-Crisis Girl)”
2010 - “Living is easy”
2010 - “The Heart Beats” (feat. Max Barskikh)
2010 - “Revolution”
2011 - “Thank you”
2011 - “In the world”
2012 - “Clouds”
2012 - “What about U”
2012 - “40 degrees (Like)”
2013 - “Under the Ice”
2013 - “Under the Ice (Remake)”
2013 - “Kohana”
2013 - “City under ban”
2014 - “City under ban”
2014 - “Look at the sky” (feat. Emin)
2015 - “Not needed”
2015 - “It’s time to go home”
2015 - “Oblish”
2016 - “To hell with love”
2016 - “Your eyes”
2017 - “Random”
2018 - “Guy”
Filmography of Svetlana Loboda:
2012 - Female Criminal - Cameo
2004 - Musical “Sorochinskaya Fair” - Gorpyna
