Among the creative achievements of the star are five full-fledged albums, two concerts, four collections, a video album and a side project "ЯАVЬ", as well as more than three dozen music awards, including the Golden Gramophone, Tophit Awards, Muz-TV, YUNA, many nominations, titles of the singer of the year and the most rotated performer.
Her super hits “Forever”, “Provence”, “Near You”, “Let the Music In”, “You Know” (ft. Burito), “I Warm Happiness”, “The World Opens” occupied the top lines of various charts. Critics called her "the contender for the throne of popular music" and the "first lady" of musical art, comparing with Adele.
Childhood
The future pop singer was born on July 2, 1982 in Transcarpathia, in the city of Uzhgorod, in western Ukraine. Everyone in her family was very fond of music. Mother, Marina Eduardovna, worked as a doctor, but owned the game on several musical instruments. The head of the family, Valdemar Mironovich, was an employee of a security company and a jazz fan, collecting records of his favorite performers. Even their parents were involved in the creative field: they were part of the artistic composition of the well-known professional group "Transcarpathian Folk Choir" and often sang at home in the evenings. 
It is not surprising that little Liza also had good hearing and musical abilities. From elementary school, she performed in a school choir, as a teenager she began to study singing at the Palace of Pioneers.
At the age of 11, with the light hand of one of her witty friends, she received the nickname Yolka. According to one version - because of the ruffiness, according to another - because of the love for bright clothes and accessories.
The girl was lucky with her family. When she turned from a sweet angel into a wayward teenage maximalist who needed to constantly protest, they loyally perceived all her initiatives, including piercings and extravagant hairstyles. She dyed her hair in unthinkable colors and even shaved baldly.
In 1996, the mother of the future singer had another man. She left the family, and the daughter took pity on her father and stayed with him. Soon Lisa had a half-sister Zhenya. According to neighbors, the woman rarely visited her eldest daughter - at first she took care of the baby, and later worked a lot: she was on duty at the hospital, she taught.
KVN
In the eighth grade, an extraordinary and charming lover of extravagant deeds was invited to the school team of the club of cheerful and resourceful "Ward No. 6". At the games, along with wit, she conquered the fans with an unusual voice, expressive manner of performance, sincerity, charm and an amazing image, including incomparable hair color options (mostly red).Singer Yolka in KVN (Team Chamber No. 6)
After graduating from school, the girl entered the faculty of academic singing of the Uzhgorod Music College and, according to some sources, did not enter, according to others, she studied for six months, but left because of difficult relationships with teachers.
After that, Elizabeth with pleasure plunged into the unique KVN life with night parties and tours in the company of the same as her, non-standard, extraordinary, witty, who know how to joke funny and pun guys.
But KVN did not make it possible to earn a living, and Lisa got a job at the Medellin cafe, where subsequently many visitors specially came to drink coffee with the famous barista from Ward No. 6. In the early 2000s, on the basis of their team, the combined team of Uzhgorod and Vinnytsia was created, and on its account there were television broadcasts and games in the First League. In total, Yolka participated in television humorous games for about seven years.
The beginning of the creative path
In addition to games, the tireless cavalry girl did not leave her passion for music. As a teenager, she became a fan of the soul and rap genre, attended music festivals, kept in touch with local groups, and eventually became a backing vocalist in the B&B group, which performed in the R'n'B style.Their group successfully gave concerts in their city and went on tour. In 2001, they went to the White Stone Capital for the largest hip-hop festival at that time, Rap Music. The idea of its creation belonged to the rapper and producer Vlad Valov, known as SheFF. He highly appreciated the work of Yolka and her group and organized a presentation for them, but she did not impress his colleagues, so the cooperation stalled.
But in 2003, Valov wanted to create something “revolutionary” (in his own words), and he remembered the singer from Uzhgorod that interested him, called and invited him to come. By that time, the Yolka group had broken up, so the musician's proposal was very helpful. She signed a contract and began working under the mentorship of Valov.
The first result of their creative union was the composition “Words spoken by you”, which was included in the unique collection “Girls Attack”, where all 16 tracks presented in style were performed exclusively by women. At that moment, the producer suggested that the ward change her pseudonym or act under her real name, but she insisted on the usual "Yolka".
A year later, she covered the song "Bitch Love" at an evening in memory of its author, rapper Mikhey, which is organized annually by his colleagues since his death in 2002. Then the vocalist recorded Valov's composition "City of Deception", which got into a hot rotation of stations, instantly became a hit and brought the performer the title of "discovery of the year" according to Radio Maximum.
Yolka - Bitch love
In 2005, the first studio album of the talented Ukrainian woman "City of Deception" was presented, which consolidated her success. It included the songs "Dust", "Girl in a Peugeot", "Vanity" and other compositions of different styles, but they all had one thing in common - the chic vocals of a charismatic performer. She got mass positive feedback about his work and a nomination for the MTV RMA Award for Best Rap. The author of most of the presented songs was her extraordinary producer.
In 2006, a new single "Student Girl" was released, as well as the singer's next solo disc called "Shadows". NewsMusic considered that it did not make such a splash as the first one, but in an enthusiastic review of Tektonika they emphasized that it instantly brought the favorite of millions "to the first row of Russian performers." Most of the compositions for this album were also composed by Valov.
Yolka - City of deception
During the same period, she voiced the role of the central character - a karate-wielding pie delivery girl - in the domestic adaptation of the American comedy-drama cartoon The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood. In the original version, the cartoon character speaks in the voice of Anne Hathaway.
Despite the fact that Yolka was produced by Valov, who is called the father of Russian hip-hop, Yolka is not close to the rap genre:
[About the opportunity to record a rap song] I already had one, at the Big Russian Boss show. We love, we know how, we practice - that, perhaps, is all. This is flirting with youth. Like: “Guys, I'm still relevant. Do you want some funny ones?" But this is not my cinema, not my culture.
In 2007, the 25-year-old rising star received the first Golden Gramophone for her 100% hit Handsome Boy. At the same time, her only video album “Yolka DVD” was presented, and a year later - the third disc “This Magnificent World”, where there were fresh intonations atypical for the artist, in particular, in the track “Do not lose heart”. 
The popularity of Yolka grew every day. The songs included in the disc were actively rotated on radio stations, the clips on TV channels, and the melody "A Man Lives" was even present as the title song in the play "Suppress and Excite" by the theater "Et cetera" by Alexander Kalyagin.
Interview Yolka
In 2008, she earned a nomination on Muz-TV in the category "Best Hip-Hop Project". In addition, in the same year, the performer recorded the song "Freedom" in her native Ukrainian language, and three of her collections were released: "Remixes", "The Best Hits" and "Duets", which included a joint song with Albert Krasnov (pseudonym Al Solo) work "Happiness".
Career heyday
In 2009, the singer continued to actively work on the release of new compositions and the creation of clips ("Dreams", "Your Words"). Fruitful and interesting cooperation with Vlad Valov logically ended with the expiration of the contract. She began to move away from the former format of her tracks, which combined R'n'B and alternative rock in different proportions. She was inspired to expand her creative scope by a conversation with Alla Pugacheva, which took place on the Alla radio, where the Primadonna personally invited her. 
Fans expected a new round in the work of the vocalist, an updated image and amazing achievements. She signed a contract with the Velvet Music production center and began working with Liana Meladze (sister of Valery and Konstantin Meladze) and Alena Mikhailova.
In 2010, Yolka joined the judging panel of the Ukrainian vocal show "X-factor", and her famous composition "Provence" appeared on the radio stations, the author of which was the Ukrainian musician Yegor Solodovnikov, and the producer and one of the arrangers was the star composer Konstantin Meladze. A charming voice, charisma, a magnificent melody provided the track with the highest positions in the charts, and the singer was included in the top 10 most successful representatives of show business in Ukraine (according to the Focus edition), three nominations for the Muz-TV award, the RU channel award. TV in the Best Song category.
The composition was included by Time Out magazine in the list of "One Hundred Songs That Changed Our Lives", by the Afisha publication - in the list of the most striking pop hits over the past two decades, by the newspaper "Kommersant" and the online publication "Elephant" was called "unconditional and the biggest Russian hit of 2011”.
In the clip, which was filmed in a Ukrainian village near Kiev (which did not prevent us from conveying the magical atmosphere of the French province in the autumn), the star appeared in a new incomparable image - elegant in French, extremely graceful, incredibly sexy, sophisticated and still positive and self-ironic. By the way, among her favorite fashion designers, the artist named the Ukrainian fashion designer Lydia Litkovskaya, who created concert dresses for her.Yolka - Provence
The following singles, recorded in collaboration with the composer Solodovnikov - "In a Big Balloon" and "Near You" - also became number one hits on the Russian radio charts. And in November, the artist's fourth studio album, Dots Are Set, was released on the Velvet Music label, which attracted attention with a softer sound, where different genres harmoniously intertwined. According to many critics, the album became an event in musical life country and the singer's application for "all-Union domination".
When preparing a new material, the performer for the first time worked with a dozen new authors and arrangers, at different studios, enthusiastically experimented with styles. In addition to the above hits, for this album, which included 13 songs, a duet was recorded with the famous artist Pavel Volya called "Boy". Spectacular clips were filmed for her, as well as the songs "Chain Tapes" and "Throw".
Yolka ft Pavel Volya - Boy
Among the numerous awards received by Elka for this record were the prestigious title of “Singer of the Year”, the second “Golden Gramophone” for the song “Provence”, the inclusion of the track “On a Big Balloon”, which topped the playlists of Tophit radio stations for eight weeks in a row, in the list of title songs of the year. In 2012, the singer was nominated for the Muz-TV award in four categories (among singers, duets, songs and albums of the year), and won in the "outstanding performer" nomination.
In March, Yolka gave the first solo concert in Kyiv, to which her relatives came from Uzhgorod. The singer decided to leave the judge's chair on the Ukrainian "X-Factor", focusing on creativity.
At the April performance at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex, she presented two new songs - "Above", another hit to the music and poems of Yegor Solodovnikov, and "I Want", which became the title musical theme movie "Love with an Accent" and a year later won the RU.TV award in the "Best Soundtrack" nomination.
In the summer, at the age of 56, the singer's father died. IN last years In his life, he worked as a coach in a sports club and died of a heart attack after another session.
He left laughing. Just sat down, laughed and died. It happened after a workout. I only cried a little, because it's very selfish, it's about self-pity. I feel connected to him all the time.
. In the same year, Yolka received the RU.TV award for the song from the fourth album "Near You", performed in the capital's club "16 tons" and on the "New Wave", released the mini-album "Quiet Concert", recorded together with a rock band "Megapolis" a series of compositions for the detective television series "Fight", where she appeared with a cameo. She also played herself in the comedy “Gentlemen, good luck!”, the fifth series of the sitcom “SashaTanya” and the comedy “This is love!”. 
In 2013, couturier Vyacheslav Zaitsev called the singer an icon of style, adding that he loves her marvelous voice and stunning image. Among her works of that period, the audience remembered the cheerful composition “The Body ofigelo”, written by the author of “Provence”, and the video for it, as well as the single with the song “Above” and the video clip. Together with Noize MC, she recorded the recitative "We do not understand", and with rapper Zhorik - "New World".
Yolka - Body ofigelo
In November, in the October Palace of the Ukrainian capital, a very personal performance of the artist took place from a series of unformatted “Quiet Concerts”, filled with emotions and incredible energy, held in a confidential, almost family atmosphere.
The year 2014 was extremely productive for the artist. She presented two hits and clips for them at once: “It all depends on us”, which was included in the soundtrack for the film “A Gift with Character”, and “You Know” (together with the Burito group), named by Afisha magazine the most popular song of the year.
Christmas tree ft. Burito - you know
The singer participated in charity concert in Moscow, and on her solo presented four new compositions - “Kohati” (which means “Love” in Ukrainian), “Sea Inside”, “Passer-by”, “Draw the sky for me”. For the last of the mentioned songs, she received a laureate diploma at the Song of the Year festival. In addition, Yolka released the collection "Fake Love".
Critics also recognized the fifth album of the singer "#Heaven", which appeared in 2015 and became one of the best-selling discs of the year, as a quality work. Its unusual name is the hashtag with which Yolka posted pictures of the sky taken during her travels. The disc included previously released popular songs “I want”, “Fly, Liza”, “Everything depends on us”, “You know”, “Draw me the sky”.
Yolka - Fly, Lisa
In the same period, her live album "#2" was released, containing 16 compositions of different styles. Among them is the song "Sea Inside", which received the status of "Song of the Year" and sounded in the romantic comedy "Without Borders" by Rezo Gigineishvili. The director, who also shot a magical video for this song, noted that Yolka won "boundless people's love", it "has sincerity, light and great love for its work and for the listener." Among the singer's seven awards in 2015 were the "Golden Gramophone" for "Provence" in the "Best of the Decade" category, the title of "Singer of the Year" and the title of the most rotated performer.
The following year brought the delightful artist another title of "Singer of the Year" and an award from Russian Radio - the Golden Gramophone. But this time - for the composition "I warm happiness", created in a creative tandem with Yegor Solodovnikov. In addition, she recorded the song “Be with me” (with BANEV!), “Chance” (with L “One), and also “Forever” by Stanislav Butovsky. Lisa sang it in the summer at a concert in the Hermitage Garden in Moscow and in the TV show "Evening Urgant". Later, a music video for this composition was released.
Christmas tree ft. L "One - Chance
In the same year, Yolka "fulfilled her cherished dream", namely, she created with her longtime idol, the soloist of the Mumiy Troll group Ilya Lagutenko, a new version of the composition "Do not part with your loved ones", which sounded in the fifth part of the popular New Year's franchise "Yolki". The artist was delighted with the offer to sing such touching and subtle poems by Alexander Kochetkov in a duet with "a man-holiday in the film of such a director!" [meaning Timur Bekmambetov - approx. website].
In 2017, Yolka delighted fans with a new song by composer Solodovikov "Let the Music in". Its premiere was timed to coincide with Valentine's Day and performed in the capital at the Big Love Show gala concert. Later, she sounded in the entertainment program " New year's night on the first".
In September, her new single "The World is Opening" was released, which brought her another "Golden Gramophone". The performer accompanied him with the words that you can talk about happiness and love in different ways, the main thing is from a pure heart.
In the same period, the singer became a producer and judge of the international vocal competition "You are super!", Held for talented children who find themselves without parental care. The contestants - pupils of boarding schools, orphanages and foster families aged 7 to 18 - came to the Russian capital from different parts of the post-Soviet space. The pop artist emphasized in an interview that each of the project participants had difficult stories. She tried to fairly assess their abilities, support, give advice, find good words, and not just regret. But in the end, she herself learned from them - friendship, anti-stress, endurance.
In January 2018, the pop singer presented the song "On the Knee", performed at the LiveFest festival, held in Sochi at the Rosa Khutor resort. In March, her big solo concert took place in the Moscow Crocus City Hall. She performed the compositions “Wow!”, “Drop it”. And the hits “I warm happiness”, “Chocolate”, “The bell of heavenly distances”, numerous fans who knew the text by heart, sang along with her. 
In September 2010, Yolka married a simple guy from the Moscow region, Sergei Astakhov. They met in their youth, on vacation in the Odessa region, and 6 years later they accidentally crossed paths at one of the parties in Moscow, began to meet, and then live with his parents.
He did not work anywhere, his father also did not have a permanent income (there was a seasonal income - he dug wells to order), his mother was sick a lot, and all the cares for providing for the family lay on the shoulders of the artist. According to the stories of fellow villagers, she brought gas and heating to their house, helped to complete the garage.
Later, she made her husband her administrator, bought land near their village, in Sergiev Posad, and began building her own housing for them - a 500-square-meter cottage. But in 2016, construction was suspended, she fired her husband from his position and stopped publishing their joint photos on social networks. There is no official information about their divorce.
In 2019, the artist published a photo with her adult daughters Valeria and Alexandra. According to some reports, Sasha participates in advertising projects and does charity work, collaborates with one of the orphanages in Minsk, and Lera is a student at the Minsk Higher School of Economics. However, many fans do not believe that Elka has children, since in an interview in February of the same year, the singer stated that she had no children: “I do not consider myself a childfree. I don't have children for certain reasons."
Singer Yolka in a discussion about the right to have or not to have children
The artist regularly focuses the attention of her subscribers on helping homeless animals. She participates in the activities of the Gift of Fate Foundation, where they try to find shelter and owners for dogs and cats, arrange exhibitions, charity events, and do educational work.
The pop star continues to experiment with looks. Her hairstyles are legendary. In 2010, she stopped eating meat and immediately lost a few extra pounds. She got acquainted with the special literature on vegetarianism, and now she is sure that a person is not a predator by nature. The singer is very fond of mushroom and sour cream dishes, popular in her homeland (western Ukraine), as well as potato and flour dumplings.
She considers Moscow her home, loves to walk in its parks and streets. True, in Belokamennaya she misses her mother. She also called Uzhhorod more than once the most beloved, native and beautiful city on Earth. The singer never talks about politics, allegedly because she does not understand anything about it.
Singer Yolka now
In January 2019, the debut album "Yav" of the singer's new side project called "YAV" appeared, which included 11 tracks and received mixed ratings. She decided to move away from radio hits, taking steps towards experimental non-format music.YAV - One warrior in the field
Before the release of the disc, the artist stated that she "really does not want to stagnate" and that she will have a real musical breakthrough only when she begins to "express herself." The compositions included in the presented album reflect the sensual, personal side of the star, "open her new facets". In addition, Yolka released a joint single "In each of us" with her longtime good friend Artem Pivovarov. The recording of the song was carried out by them remotely. They worked in real time, but in different cities.
In the same period, her track “On the Little Planet” appeared, as well as a music video for the song “Missing You” and an amazing video for the lyrical Ukrainian-language ballad “Come on, Letai”, created together with the Kiev group Dilemma and filmed in an unusual location - indoors, flooded with neon light.
In May 2019, Yolka went on a tour of the United States and Canada, performing four big concerts in New York, Chicago, Toronto and Miami. In September, the performer made a pleasant surprise to millions of her fans by posting a video for the song "I Stay", which was filmed in Manhattan.
The pseudonym Elka was born by itself back in school years, when the eleven-year-old Lisa was called that by school friends. Now the girl almost never responds to her real passport name Elizabeth.
Height, weight, age. How old is Elka (singer)?
Fans often want to know what kind of physique their idol has. Fans who demand information about the approximate height, weight, age of Elka are no exception.
The Christmas tree was born in 1982, respectively, she turned 34 years old. At this age, she managed to achieve a lot, much more than her colleagues in the artistic workshop. According to the sign of the Zodiac, the talented singer is Cancer, and according to the eastern horoscope - a dog.
The tree looks at its fans from a height of one meter and sixty-two centimeters. The girl weighs quite a bit for her height - 51 kilograms.
The bust is 94 centimeters, and the waist is 60. If we add to these parameters the hips of 95 centimeters, we get an almost classic formula 90-60-90.
Singer Elka real name, surname and nationality
Elizaveta Valdemarovna Ivantsiv - the famous Ukrainian and Russian singer, which is known under the unusual pseudonym Elka. She's got enough interesting surname. She performs in pop and rock styles, and also tried herself as a performer of alternative music. The nationality of the Christmas tree is Russian-Ukrainian.
Little Liza was born on July 2 in the city of Uzhhorod. Her parents were related to the musical light. Her father collected jazz vinyl records, and her mother masterfully owned three musical instruments. By the way, the grandparents of the future singer performed with the folk choir of Transcarpathia.
Elizabeth sang almost from the cradle. Like all talented children, she sang in the choir, and then studied vocals for a long time. The girl was very artistic, so she performed as part of the KVN team.
She constantly attended international music festivals, adored rap and soul music.
After school, she studied at a music school in the vocal class. Lisa was unable to graduate due to the thought that teachers consider her mediocrity. After six months of study, the girl expelled herself so that she would not be expelled. Perhaps this was due to the extravagant appearance of the future singer, because she got tattoos and piercings, wore very bright makeup and even shaved her head bald.
Later, a talented girl performed on stage as part of local musical groups, played in KVN, and also worked as a dishwasher in a cafe. There was a catastrophic lack of money for life, so Elka grabbed every opportunity to earn extra money.
In the nineties, a talented girl performed as part of the B&B group, however, only as a backing vocalist. Later, Elka's biography was replenished with an acquaintance with the SheFF rapper, who in 2004 began to produce the future star. For the first time she performed on the capital stage at a concert in memory of Micah.
SHEF offered Elka to sign a contract with him, but offered to change his stage name to a regular name. The girl resolutely refused and began performing under her fictitious name.
Elka did not fail, because in 2005 the first solo album "City of Deception" was already released, which topped the charts. The young singer was named the discovery of the year.
After that, the composition "Student Girl" and the solo album "Shadows" brought success, which made the singer even more popular. And already in 2007, the first video album of Elka was released, in which clips in the style of heavy and guitar R&B were collected.
She was nominated for an MTV channel award as the best rap music performer. I tried myself in the voice acting of animated films.
2007 brought Elka the Golden Gramophone and a new album in quiet and peaceful tones, This Magnificent World. Soon cool songs appeared, one of which was recorded in Ukrainian. She was associated with political events in Ukraine.
2009 presented the magnificent hits "Dreams" and "Your Words", which did not make it to the fourth disc of Elka due to the fact that her contract with Vlad Valov ended.
The girl collaborated with Alena Mikhailova and Liana Meladze. In 2010, she appeared on Ukrainian television as a judge on the television show X Factor.
Pugacheva had a great influence on the work of Elka in recent years, after an interview with whom she began to sing the most positive pop songs. The woman changed the outrageous style to a more feminine version.
In 2011, the girl became the owner of three Muz-TV awards, released several songs that instantly became hits. In the same year, she became one of the most successful show business figures in Ukraine.
In 2014, a new album "#SKY" was released, which contains only high-quality compositions. In 2016, she once again received the Golden Gramophone Award and recorded a song with her idol Ilya Lagutenko, which became the soundtrack to the popular film The Christmas Tree.
She starred in the films “Gentlemen, good luck!”, “SashaTanya”, “A gift with character”, “Fight”, “About love”.
Elka's personal life (singer)
Like many Russian pop stars, Elka's personal life is under an unspoken press ban. The girl only jokes that she lives with her beloved cat.
When Lisa played in the KVN team "Ward No. 6", she met with its captain Vasily Kraynai. The moment the girl moved to Moscow and the rupture of the seven-year relationship, the guy experienced very hard.
The star has many male fans, and even more work and plans for the future. She admits that she simply has no time to improve her personal life, and she broke up with her loved one and business partner.
Former husband of Elka (singer) - Sergey Astakhov
Lisa met her beloved person in her youth, but they did not feel any feelings for each other. The girl believed that this meeting was a banal holiday romance, which would take place in a short time. Romantic relationship started six years later, when fate brought the young people together again.
The couple lived only on the earnings of Elizabeth, and after they officially got married in 2010, the guy with the light hand of his wife found a prestigious job. Ex-husband Elki - Sergey Astakhov - worked as an administrator for the singer for a long time.
Singer Yolka with her husband Sergei Astakhov photo However, Sergei earned little, so the couple traveled and built a house with the girl's money. The Christmas tree was very tired of dragging a wagon of financial problems alone. Six years after the wedding, she fired her husband from the position of administrator and filed for divorce. A strong family was destroyed by domestic problems, lack of funds and lack of finance for the construction of a cottage.
Many acquaintances of Elka openly call Sergei Astakhov a gigolo, whom the singer fully supported. Now the girl has abandoned her personal life and plunged headlong into work.
However, some friends of Elka claim that the break in this relationship is temporary, as she is madly in love with her husband.
Children of Elka. Is the singer pregnant? From whom? When to give birth?
Elka's children are not even present in the project, because she has not yet found the man from whom she would like to give birth to a baby.
The woman is madly in love with children, as can be seen from her reaction to the television show "You are super." This project involves kids and teenagers who ended up in orphanages and found themselves in difficult life circumstances. Elka proved to be not only a strict member of the jury, but also a kind, caring and understanding mother for kids. While Elka's pregnancy is hidden from the public.
On her Instagram, Elka never ceases to admire talented children who deserve to be taken into the family.
Like most Russian pop stars, Elka claims that she is calm about plastic surgery, but she has never done it. But on dubious sites on the Internet, you can find photos of Elka before and after plastic surgery, which are not supported by facts.
The singer emphasizes in her interviews that the fashion for plastic surgery has long passed, so she definitely will not “make” plump lips or huge breasts for herself.
Experts emphasize that Elka 100% did Botox injections that lift her face. And from earlier and current pictures, you can understand that she slightly enlarged her lips.
Instagram and Wikipedia Yolki (singer)
Elizaveta Ivantsiv, like any progressive person, has pages on social networks where she shares the latest news with fans.
Official Instagram and Wikipedia Christmas trees are full of beautiful photos of nature and the sky. This rather interesting account of the singer has a lot of publications, about seven hundred notes have been added. Photos from tours, videos of new clips, as well as personal photos of the girl and news from the life of her friends are often posted. IN Lately on Instagram, you can find posts dedicated to stray dogs and providing veterinary care to pets.
There you can also find reliable information about future concerts and tours canceled for any reason. There are also testimonials from people who have attended the concerts.
You can find an informative page on Twitter that contains a lot of interesting facts from the life of a celebrity.
Elizaveta Valdemarovna Ivantsiv or simply Elka is a girl who blinded herself. She went from an informal girl to a chic singer who is adored by many people. This incomparable woman washed dishes for a penny and did not change her dream, so now she provides for herself and invariably gathers full halls.
Elizaveta Valdemarovna Ivantsiv. Date of birth: July 2, 1982 (age 30). Place of birth: Uzhgorod, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Nickname: Yolka
Elizaveta Valdemarovna Ivantsiv (Ukrainian: Elizaveta Valdemarivna Ivantsiv), known as Yolka.
July 2, 1982, Uzhgorod, Ukrainian SSR, USSR - Ukrainian singer. Former member of the Uzhgorod KVN team "Ward No. 6".
Christmas tree Biography
Singer Elka. BiographyStarted her musical career as a member of the Uzhgorod band B&B. In 2004, she signed a contract with Vlad Valov and released a successful debut album, City of Deception, with the hits Girl in Peugeot and Good Mood. Subsequently, in collaboration with Valov, two more albums were released: "Shadows" and "This Magnificent World", which were not as successful as the debut work of the performer.
From 2010 to 2012 she acted as a judge on the Ukrainian show "X-Factor". In 2011, she gained great popularity with the song "Provence" and became a nominee in three categories for the 2011 Muz-TV awards. The fourth studio work of the singer "The Points Are Set" was a success, both among music journalists and the public. The album received positive reviews from critics, who considered it the best pop album of 2011. Magazines such as Afisha, Time Out and Interview have included the record in their editorial lists of the main albums of the year. "The Points Are Set" also topped the Russian album sales rating "2M. Russia Top-25”. At the end of 2012, Yolka was recognized as the most rotated performer on Russian radio stations.
Yolka is a three-time winner of the Golden Gramophone award (for the songs Handsome Boy, Provence and Near You) and a nominee for the MTV RMA award. In 2011, she was recognized as the “Singer of the Year” according to Glamor magazine and entered the top ten most successful figures in Ukrainian show business, according to the Focus publication. In the same year, she was recognized as the “Singer of the Year” at the ZD Awards, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper.
2001-2005: Early career and album "City of Deception"
There is still a Cinderella story in my life. Moreover, the meeting with Vlad took place at the moment when I finally forbade myself to even dream of big stage. Then I was dominated by youthful maximalism, I was indignant about what I see on the TV screen. I could not understand why many artists, not being able to sing and not having a good repertoire, regularly appear on the air? I thought: “Give me at least a folding bed in this city, and I will show you what a real artist is!”
Christmas tree about the beginning of cooperation with Vlad Valov.
In 2001, the B&B group performed at international festival Rap Music "01, where Yolka was noticed by Vlad Valov, the leader of the Bad Balance group, who later became the first producer of the singer. After the group broke up, and the singer did not appear on stage for some time. At this time, she abandoned her dream of becoming an artist and got a job a waitress in a cafe. Three years later, Yolka received a call from Valov's company. The singer said that she thought for a long time that she was being played, but then she spoke with Vlad, who sent her tickets to Moscow and suggested: "come for a week, we will experiment." Vlad Valov signed a contract with Yolka and one of the first songs recorded with him was "Words spoken by you", included in the collection "Girls Attack".
In 2004, Yolka performed in a concert at the memorial day of Mikhey, with her group, which also included two guitarists and DJ Lenar. At the concert, Yolka sang Mikhey's song "Bitch Love". “It was a deliberate move. I didn't just pick up and sing this song. It was dedicated to the evening in memory of Mikhey, I performed the composition especially for his parents. Very, of course, there were a lot of rumors, but still more positive feedback. I always emphasize that it is not a commercial move, but a tribute to a person, ”the artist later said. Continuing cooperation with Valov, the singer recorded a song of his composition "City of Deception". “Vlad, looking at me, wrote the song “City of Deception”, a song that is my reflection,” the singer recalled. The composition was released on the radio in the summer of 2004 and became the first hit of Yolka, hitting the hit parade of the radio station “Maximum” and staying there for twelve weeks.
On November 9, 2005, the debut album of the performer, entitled "City of Deception", was released. Work on the disc, released on the 100PRO label, was completed in mid-2005, and as the performer said, the record was written "in one breath." Yolka presented music in a different style, which was attributed to both rock (due to guitar parts) and hip-hop (due to “broken” rhythms and scratches). The singer herself described her style as "guitar-heavy R&B". NewsMusic.ru wrote that "in Russia, such a mix is being done for the first time." The album was met with mixed reviews. Rita Skeeter at InterMedia was positive about the work, saying: "Yolka and Valov have found a way to make this genre truly competitive even in our market with its national characteristics". Andrey Nikitkin wrote in Rap.ru that Yolka is still a pop project, but “very high quality. Incorporating elements of both r "n" b, and rock, reggae, chanson and pop music. And designed not so much for fans of one of these styles, but for a wide audience. Boris Barabanov in the Kommersant newspaper also spoke of the singer as the main hope of Russian pop music.
The amazing, extravagant, successful singer Elka reacts very sharply to questions about her personal life. “It will always be like this, trust me,” she says firmly. No matter how hard the artist tries to hide her privacy something is known about her.
Chance acquaintance and meeting ten years later
The real name of the singer Yolka is Elizaveta Ivantsiv, and she is married. Her husband, the most ordinary guy named Sergei Astakhov. They met in 1994, when Sergei and his family were vacationing at the Karolina Bugazu resort, and Elka was on tour there. Young people met, spent some time together - an ordinary holiday romance. Much later, after Elka moved to Moscow, he met again, and the relationship continued.
At that time (and it was 2004), Elka only signed a contract with Vlad Valov and disappeared into the recording studio. The debut album "City of Deception" took almost all the time, and Sergey faithfully waited for his beloved in the car. As the producer himself recalls, even from the musicians and the whole group, Elka hid her romance. One day, the secret union ceased to be secret, and Vlad said: "Drag him here, we will feel him."
Sergei gave the impression of a complaisant man, it was clear that the Christmas tree in these relations is the leader, and this suits her. Her future husband lived with his parents in Khotkovo near Moscow, and the artist began to live with him. The contract did not limit the personal life of the singer (get married, have children), so the producer had no influence on this situation. Sometimes it seems to him (Vlad Valov) that in vain.
Love is evil
The fact is that Sergei does not have any profession, he did not work anywhere for a long time, and, according to the same Valov, he led the life of a typical gigolo. The Christmas tree increasingly began to talk about where and how to make more money. Spitting on this, in collaboration with Valov, the number of her performances was reduced to two per month.
In order to reach a new level, it was necessary to “go into pop music”. What happened.
The tree was bought by the influential producer tandem Alena Mikhailova and Liana Meladze.
There was a fantastic song "Provence", there was a wider, even ubiquitous recognition, money appeared.
Lisa and Sergey entered into an official marriage almost at the same time when the Christmas tree had a creative breakthrough, in 2010.
The celebration was modest, almost homely. Family life had an unusual character - Elka worked hard and was the only breadwinner in the family. Sergei's father earned a living by digging wells, and did not have a stable income. Astakhov's mother was ill a lot and did not work. Elka had to support the whole family.
Fellow villagers say that with the advent of the singer, the life of the Astakhovs improved significantly - she brought gas and heating to their house, helped to complete the garage.
Was there a divorce?
She even began to build a house in Sergiev Posad, the construction was mainly done by her husband and father-in-law. A cottage of 500 square meters overlooking the Trinity-Sergius Lavra began to be built in the same year when the young people got married.
Construction stopped in 2016. According to neighbors, the couple stopped appearing in Sergiev Posad due to emerging disagreements. “The star was tired of dragging everything on itself, so she kicked him out,” the neighbors gossiped.
Elka does not comment on this information. It is known that in 2016 the singer fired Astakhov from the position of her administrator. His labor activity in this field was the longest, but even a loving wife could not motivate this person to productive work. Astakhov did not cope with this profession.
In social networks, posts of that period are characterized by the fact that The Christmas tree appears in the photo in splendid isolation, but does not remove the wedding ring. In the recent photo, the husband is also absent, but there are many concerts, friends and dogs. In recent years, the singer has been helping shelters and homeless animals a lot, helping them find their owners, save them from the euthanasia procedure.
There is no official information about the singer's divorce from Sergei Astakhov. There are no children in this marriage either. Public opinion about this union was divided into two unequal parts. Most consider this couple to be a classic union of mommy and gigolo, others, especially those who know Sergey personally, believe that he is a very sincere, polite, calm young man, and Elka is quite happy with him. A strange family is darkness, and who knows what exactly conquered a simple rural guy with a bright informal girl.
Singer Yolka is today one of the most popular performers, her songs are sung by young people and adults, and, good texts know by heart many fans.
When Yolka began her solo career and first appeared on the screens, and her songs began to sound on Russian radio stations, many thought that the girl, with her eccentric appearance and interesting costumes, was ineptly parodying the Soviet singer Zhanna Aguzarova. However, it quickly became clear that the girl did not claim the throne of the “goddess of shocking”, but simply expressed her “I”.
Height, weight, age Yolki (singer)
With his songs, Yolka stands out among the rest of the Russian stage. In her texts there is no thirst for wealth, cars, stardom and even love drama, she, like a real workaholic, knows that “everything depends on ourselves” and this is what she conveys to us. She "flies in a tangerine-colored balloon" and, perhaps, precisely with her vivid images and positive songs so loved by the listener. After the girl began to flicker on the screens more often and released her own videos, fans became interested not only in the new hits of her favorite, but also in the height, weight, age of the Christmas tree.
The singer is a very fragile girl, her height is 162 cm, and her weight is about 50 kg. As a child, the girl was very complex because of her short stature, but as she matured, she realized that people are different, and she can be who she is, and even chose a pseudonym for herself that most suited her mood - Yolka. Photos in her youth and now the singers say that the performer has not changed much in appearance during her career. This is not surprising, because Yolka turned 35 in July, she still has many plans and ideas.
Biography Yolki (singer)
Yolka's biography began in 1982 in the city of Uzhgorod, which is located in Ukraine. The real name of the performer is Elizaveta Ivantsev, however, no one calls her even in the circle of relatives and friends for a long time.
The girl from childhood was very artistic and already at a young age showed herself like a real star - she loved to recite poetry, played her mother's musical instruments ineptly, and said that she would definitely sing. Actually, such a desire of the child is not surprising, because his father, Valdemar Mironovich, was very fond of jazz and collected all the records that he could buy or find through acquaintances and friends, and his mother, Marina Eduardovna, played three musical instruments excellently, and from childhood she taught her daughter to play music .
After graduating from school, Lisa entered a music school, where she studied vocals, but she never graduated. As the star herself admitted, she did not have relationships with classmates and teachers, and youthful maximalism did not allow her to sit still.
In the mid-90s, Yolka first came to Music band. It was the Uzhgorod group "B&B", in which Lisa sang as a backing vocalist. It was as part of this small group, when the guys performed at an international festival, that the founder of one of the Russian groups and the musician SHEF, who later became its producer, heard the voice of Yolka. Is it true, famous singer The Christmas tree did not immediately become.
For a few more years, she was part of the B&B group, and after its collapse, she got a job as a waitress. When the girl was already completely desperate to become a singer, the long-awaited bell rang, and Lisa left to conquer Moscow.
The first album "City of Deception" brought the girl popularity almost instantly. Interesting motives and the bewitching voice of the singer sounded from all radio stations, and Yolka very quickly began to work on the second album. Since 2001, the artist has managed to present different styles of music in her albums, and her lyrics have changed, like herself.
From heavy songs with tragic lyrics, Yolka got out into the world of Paris and Provence, and she even quit smoking, so perked up from the attention and love of her fans. The singer's hit "Provence" became one of the most popular tracks on the Russian stage in 2011, and received the Golden Gramophone award in the Best of the Decade nomination.
This is not the only award that Yolka has during her variety activities. The performer already has six Golden Gramophone awards, the MUZ.TV and RU.TV awards, as well as the Russian Music Awards, Tophit Awards 2015, and several other significant prizes. In addition, today Yolka is not only a singer and musician, she is a producer, actress and TV presenter.
After a stunning creative success, Elizabeth began to be invited to films and television. She starred in episodes in six films, in two of which she played herself, and took part in the youth series SashaTanya.
Yolka's personal life (singer)
The personal life of Yolka, unlike many Russian pop stars, is not so stormy. The girl cannot boast of multiple novels, she never had an affair at work and generally tried not to give rise to public discussions around her person.
At many events, the girl appeared alone or surrounded by her colleagues, and photographs from the rest, which now and then appear on the network, also do not clarify the topic of the performer's admirers.
Today it is known that while still very young, the girl met a young man, Sergei Astakhov, with whom she had been friends for six years. Young people did not think to take their relationship to a new level, but at some point they realized that they were so used to being together that they were probably a good match for each other.
In 2010, fans finally rejoiced - their favorite married her friend, and now she has a real family. True, the happiness of the young, alas, was not eternal, and in 2016 they started talking about the fact that the couple was breaking up. Yolka herself did not comment on this information in any way until it became known that the young people were divorced.
Yolki family (singer)
In the development of Lisa as a performer, the Yolka family played an important role. Singer with early childhood I went to different circles, my parents tried to comprehensively develop the girl and never limited her in her choice. Already at school, Lisa enjoyed playing KVN as part of the school team "Ward No. 6". This practice allowed the girl in the future not to be afraid of the stage, and always follow her star.
Parents supported Lisa and at the moment she started solo career when the girl decided to take her favorite pseudonym. As the singer herself said, at home, her mother affectionately calls her “Herringbone”. Such a name stuck to the girl back at school, when, at one of the holidays, classmates dubbed Lisa a "Christmas tree", meaning that she dressed up as a New Year's symbol.
Children of Yolka (singer)
As soon as Liza Ivantsev got into the world of show business, the attention of fans immediately fell upon her, numerous questions rained down on the star from journalists who wanted to know not only about her creative plans and new works, but, of course, about her personal life and plans for the future.
For a long time, the singer managed to laugh off her secluded and closed life with ten cats and not directly answer about her personal life, but the ubiquitous tabloids were still able to learn something about the closed life of the performer. For example, the fact that Yolka would very much like to have children, but so far she does not have such an opportunity, since the girl divorced her husband last year. Why young people never had children is a separate question, but the singer does not like to talk about this either.
So far, Yolka's children are her five albums that she has released during her career.
Former husband of Yolka (singer) - Sergey Astakhov
Yolka's ex-husband, Sergei Astakhov, is not at all Russian famous actor as many readers might think. The young man and Lisa met in their youth, and six years later they got married. The marriage was short-lived due to the fact that the performer pulled almost the entire family budget alone. After the marriage, the young family decided to build a house, but it was Yolka herself who had to invest in the construction.
In order to somehow improve the financial situation of the family, Lisa signed her husband to work as an administrator in her team. However, the constant joint pastime at work and at home played a cruel joke on the couple, and they, unable to stand it, broke up in 2016.
Photo of Yolka in Maxim magazine
Singer Yolka is a rather closed person. Therefore, despite the desire of fans to see a photo of Yolka in Maxim or Playboy magazine, the artist does not succumb to persuasion about photographs in men's magazines. To be honest, it would be strange if the artist, who does not even want to talk about her personal life in public, appeared naked in the pictures.
The only candid photos that the star agreed to completely hid her body with a white duvet, and for the eyes of fans, the singer opened her long legs and a tattoo on her shoulder. Such photos appeared on the Internet in March 2017 before the release of the song “Let the Music In”, and before that, fans had not even seen photos of the singer in a swimsuit.
Instagram and Wikipedia Yolki (singer)
After the divorce, the artist devotes more and more time to herself: she does vocals, gives concerts, participates as an invited guest on many TV shows, and, of course, travels, which Instagram and Wikipedia Yolki can tell us about.
The singer on her page communicates with fans with pleasure, shows off new outfits and talks about her future concerts and projects. In November, the artist became a participant in the immersive show of the play "Faceless", this type of art is rapidly developing in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The article was found on alabanza.ru
