Elena Maksimova is an attractive girl and a talented performer. Her participation in the show “The Voice” (Channel One) brought her all-Russian fame. Would you like to read the biography of the singer? Are you interested in her? marital status? Then we recommend reading the article.
Elena Maksimova: biography, childhood and youth
She was born on August 9, 1979 in Crimea, in the hero city of Sevastopol. What kind of family did our heroine grow up in? Nothing is known about her father. But my mother worked in kindergarten, which Lena visited.
At the age of 11, she was accepted into the children's group "Multi-Max". Talented guys toured all over Ukraine. In the Maximovs’ house there was a whole collection of diplomas and certificates awarded to Lenochka.
Student time
After graduating from high school, our heroine applied to a local university, choosing a faculty foreign languages. To support herself and help her parents, the girl went to work part-time. She performed in nightclubs and cafes. Her songs could also be heard in the open areas of holiday homes and sanatoriums.
Creative path
Elena Maksimova received a diploma of completion. Then she successfully entered GITIS. She studied at the Black Sea branch of the university, located in the Sailors' Club. For some time, the girl was a soloist in the orchestra of the Black Sea Fleet headquarters.
In 1998, Maksimova went to the Yalta-Moscow-Transit festival. The professional jury recognized her as the winner.
IN different years she participated in the creation of the musical “We will rock you”, participated in the “Five Stars” festival, and also sang in the groups “Non Stop”, “Reflex” and “Dencadance”.
TV
In 2013, Elena Maksimova went to the casting of the 2nd season of the show “The Voice”. At the blind audition, the blonde performed the song “Run to You.” All the jury members turned to her. Lena ended up on Leonid Agutin’s team. Maximova managed to reach the final. The winner of the show “The Voice-2” was Nargiz Zakirova.
In 2013, Lena appeared in another program. We are talking about the transformation show “Exactly”. She appeared before the audience in the most vivid and recognizable images: Irina Saltykova, Mireille Mathieu, and others. Our heroine successfully reached the finals.
Personal life
Elena Maksimova is a bright blonde with a chiseled figure. Many men dream of such a chosen one. But is the singer’s heart free? Now you will find out everything.
At the age of 21, Lena married her beloved guy. The newlyweds went to Moscow together, where their daughter Diana was born. However, family happiness did not last long. Maksimova was forced to return to Sevastopol, taking her daughter. After the divorce, the girl did not even think about relationships with men. She devoted herself to her career and raising her daughter.
Now the blond beauty's heart is occupied. The singer does not want to disclose his name, surname and occupation. And that's her right.
38-year-old participant of the show “The Voice” and “Exactly” Elena Maksimova celebrates important event in life. Last week, the singer legalized her relationship with her chosen one. The wedding ceremony took place in Paris. Elena’s microblog featured footage taken in one of the luxurious five-star hotels in the capital of France. In the photographs, the artist is captured with her husband. The couple looks very happy. For painting Maksimova chose blue dress with a full skirt and veil from a Russian designer.
According to Elena, the main celebration is scheduled for early autumn. Apparently, the newlyweds are planning to gather their family and friends at a grand party.
“There’s so much I’d like to tell you about our preparations for painting. And although this was not yet a wedding celebration (it will take place in September), we also wanted to make the day itself when my beloved husband and I became a family unforgettable. There was a lot of interesting things, maybe our tips will help couples in love do something beautiful and interesting too! We did everything ourselves, without turning to agencies,” the singer wrote on the microblog.
After Elena married her chosen one, she went on a honeymoon. The choice of the singer and her husband fell on Bahamas. The lovers settled on the Exuma area. Newlyweds enjoying picturesque views, which open from the coast, and crystal clear water.
“My beloved husband and I and the bride’s bouquet crossed the ocean. The Bahamas are magical. In short, this is a complete lack of sane service, but you quickly get used to it and relax. I’m glad that it’s not very hot, and, of course, the ocean is just fresh milk. Very unusual, not at all the Maldives or Bali, everything here is so American. We are still relaxing, sunbathing, enjoying ourselves! We send you our hearts and kisses!” – with these words Elena addressed her followers.
While on vacation, Elena sunbathes a lot. The singer is not at all afraid of getting sunburned and posts pictures taken at a foreign resort in social networks. The author of the shots was Maximova’s husband. The artist called him a “beginner, but very promising” photographer.
The fact that the star of the second season of the show “The Voice” Elena Maksimova was preparing for the wedding became known at the end of April. Producer Vyacheslav Voron announced the singer’s upcoming wedding ceremony. The singer shared important news with him while recording a new track. “I am very happy for Lenochka and congratulate her. But she didn’t even tell me the groom’s name,” noted Raven.
Finalist of the second season of the show “The Voice” Elena Maksimova Since childhood, she aspired to be on stage, but it took her 20 years to reach her goal. At some stage, the singer was forced to start everything from scratch - in a foreign city, without money, with a little daughter in her arms... But now, according to her admission, everything is finally going as it should
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Last year, Elena Maksimova was already in great demand: she performed with an orchestra for ten days as part of the Spasskaya Tower military music festival, gave several concerts in St. Petersburg, recorded a song that Leonid Agutin gave her, shot a video for it, then composed a composition "Our first New Year"... “This song was written by itself, I still don’t understand how,” says Elena. - In three minutes I came up with words and music, then I took everything to the arranger, and we shot a New Year’s video with the participants of the “Voice” project. And on the day of the presentation, Channel One called me and said that this song would become the final anthem on the “New Year’s Light”.
Elena, at the Five Stars festival in Yalta last summer you also performed the anthem. Do you specialize in them?
(Smiling.) I don’t know, maybe this is my purpose? With that song, everything turned out the same way as with the New Year's song, only my daughter Diana became the ideological inspirer. We were going to celebrate her birthday, I had full car her classmates, and suddenly a song started playing in my head. Initially, I was invited to Yalta to sing “Two Stars” in a duet with another participant in “The Voice,” Sharip Umkhanov, but then I realized that I was now writing an anthem for “Five Stars”! Yalta is a native place for me, I come from Sevastopol. During the festival, everyone celebrated the entry of Crimea into Russia, and I myself had just received a Russian passport.
As they say, the stars aligned.
Yes!.. And we are driving in the car, I am steering with one hand, and writing the lyrics of the song with the other... When we arrived at our destination, the song was already ready, and a few days later it was recorded. You know, I really like the energy of something large-scale; I constantly feel the desire to unite everyone. And I worked well in groups - in the musical We Will Rock You, and in the group Non Stop, and in Reflex...
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You are in no way associated with Reflex.
This needs to be sorted out. Despite the fact that the participants perform in rather revealing costumes, there are excellent vocals and live singing at concerts. Ira Nelson is a great singer and artist. Slava Tyurin - talented composer, producer. It was he who invited me to the group when I was after " New wave"In 2008, she looked around in search of herself. At that time I had what seemed to be a fairly successful track “Angel Wings” on my hands, but there were no connections and no understanding of what to do next. I always wanted to study solo career, and after “Wave” it seemed to me that I had learned something and could handle everything on my own. But then I realized that no, I couldn’t handle it. A year later, Slava called me - even before Volna I worked for him in the Non Stop group - and said: “Come join us at Reflex.”
And you immediately agreed?
I respect their creativity very much, so I agreed without a doubt. But she didn’t shine much in the group, because at that time there was some downtime: Slava and Ira lived in Los Angeles, they wrote albums there, and, by and large, there was no time to work with the group. But I have improved relationships in the right circles. In general, the first offer that I received after working at Reflex was to star in men's magazine. At first I refused, but then I thought: why not? The yacht, the sea, I am the master of the situation, they promised me that I would shoot as I want, and besides, the photographer is my old friend Roma Kadaria... But then the editors and I fought a lot over each photo - I wanted to choose less candid, but more aesthetic. It wasn't easy.
What happened after Reflex?
I participated in the national selection for Eurovision with a song written by Swedish authors, but after that everything stalled for a while, and then I got on “The Voice”. At the blind audition, all four chose me - Leonid Agutin, Dima Bilan, Alexander Gradsky, and Pelageya.
And you weren't ready for this...
I thought: “Oh my God, I need to make up my mind.” Agutin didn’t show any special emotions, but Dima, I remember, jumped up from his seat and started screaming, Polya also supported him, and Gradsky gave it to me last place in his team, although there was still a whole day of casting ahead and among the fifty participants there could have been someone more talented. I was very flattered and now I want to tell everyone Thanks a lot. Everyone who knows me knows that I have been working towards this for a very long time. As a result, I worked with Leonid Agutin, which I am very happy about: he is a talented composer, a wonderful artist who performs all production tasks himself. And I have always strived for the same. I had two producers, but somehow it didn’t work out with them, and now I act on my own.
So now you are your own boss?
Yes, but my team helps me. You must have your own management, because it is impossible to simultaneously iron your suit and think about where you need to go and what to write down. Sometimes I don’t have time to put on my makeup, comb my hair, or eat; I even arrived at my own presentation after drinking just one cup of coffee. Now I’m learning from my mistakes, I write a lot, I try to show everything I can. Thank God, “The Voice” gave us all the opportunity to be heard. There are viewers, and this motivates me to write new songs, such as “Our First New Year.” My daughter, by the way, took it for a school event - she asked for a backing track, remade the text and presented it at her “New Year's Light” » . (Smiling.)
Does she also play music?
Diana belongs to that category of children who, having creative parents, like to do everything themselves: she sings, comes to the studio, records something, participates in theatrical productions at school, organizes some events. Unfortunately, we see each other almost once a day, or even less often, so I try to take her to all the shoots, she also starred in my video. I don’t drag her into show business because... For example, at her age I couldn’t imagine my life without music, without a stage, without all this paraphernalia, but with her everything is different. She is a person of mood: when she is comfortable, she can be very, very bright, when not, she gets tired quickly. My mother didn’t drag me anywhere either, I shook her myself: “Do something, I need to sing.” ( Smiling.) In Sevastopol there was only one group in which I subsequently ended up. It was called “Multi-Max”, and there were many Maxims and Maximovs. It was just fate that I ended up there. I sang in it for six years and learned a lot as an artist.
But what about the classic parental “you need to get a serious profession”?
And I received a specialty - I graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages in Sevastopol. I understood that I needed this for life. And now knowledge of English and French helps to sing songs and communicate with people on tour. Nowadays languages are a completely natural and obligatory element of education. And I’m not talking about the university, but in general - you need to know at least one foreign one. But I didn’t intend to work in my specialty, because music and the stage are my calling, I don’t know how to do anything else at a professional level.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that you didn't have many prospects in Sevastopol. How did you see your future?
There were and are very good music schools there. My mother saw how rhythmic I was, how I could listen and hear music, and sent me to school. If she hadn’t done this... In general, everything comes from the parents, they must develop the child’s talents. At school, the teachers took charge of me and told my mother: “You have talented child, who will go to competitions.” My mother still sometimes asks me: “How is this possible? Maybe they replaced you at the maternity hospital?” He doesn’t understand how it is that in a family where there are no musicians, a person appears who plays music at a certain professional level.
What is your family's profession?
Mom is a teacher, dad is a military man, grandmother is a school director, another grandmother is a teacher. primary classes, grandfather is a physics teacher... This too creative professions In fact. A good teacher is an artist. To my relatives open lessons people came to watch this stage performance. ( Smiling.)
Elena, in yours creative biography there is a gap, you were married then. Did you really leave the stage for the sake of your family?
(Thinking about it.) I am the kind of person who cannot do many things at once. If I am intensely involved in artistic activities, then I have little time left for my family, and then my mother and all my relatives join in to almost spoon feed me. After getting married, I focused exclusively on myself, my pregnancy, my apartment, and borscht. I was just such a wife-wife. My husband and I came to Moscow together from Sevastopol, and I was building a family home in a city that was still unfamiliar. I understood: when the child is born, I will be with him for some time, and I did not have the thought, like many colleagues, that “I’ll take a short break and then go to work.” Perhaps if I had now gotten married again and given birth to a second child, I would have reasoned exactly like this, but then I didn’t. I actually didn’t know if my career would start, since I had absolutely nothing here. I just watched TV and dreamed about the stage, but I also dreamed that I had happy family- beloved and loving husband, the child I was really looking forward to. But it didn’t work out.
What happened?
I realized that nothing would work out with my husband, and I started all over again. Left in my arms small child. My father was sick. I wasn’t entirely healthy either: difficult birth, postpartum depression, lack of milk... I didn’t leave the hospital: my daughter constantly had a tummy ache, she didn’t sleep. And at that moment we were left in female composition. My father is gone. Diana's dad and I have already had different lives. And my mother helped me with my child for twelve years so that I could do my work. She supported the family, and I was a dad to both myself and Diana - I earned money, realizing that there was no one to count on. This is how we existed. We also had a cat, but she died. Now I feel as if I am my own daughter’s child, because in some matters Diana has already outgrown me.
Is she an independent girl?
Absolutely. She can live alone for weeks, cook her own breakfast and still not be late for school. We don’t have this: wake me up, iron my shirt and take me out, and then wait with lunch. We never had a nanny. Now Diana has grown up and does everything herself.
Diana is thirteen, a difficult age begins. Are you waiting for some teenage rebellion?
No, the only problem so far is that she cut off her hair, a whole 15 centimeters. I wanted volume, curls. How I squealed! “Diana, no more, you’ll want long ones and won’t know how to grow them!” ( Smiles.) I have already started to put on makeup, but with restraint. Her dad, whom she sees once every few months - despite the fact that they live in the same city - is against it, and in general everyone is against it. In general, Diana and I, of course, are not without conflicts, but I am very proud of her, I have an amazing child. She has a core. And that's why I know I can rely on her. Sometimes she says to me: “Mom, stop it, mom, what are you doing?” We have a partnership with her. We have been living as dorm roommates for two years now, sharing our nice rented apartment for two.
Rented apartment?
About housing - this is absolutely lovely. I've been waiting for my apartment since 2008. Everything I ever earned I invested in it. That is, in fact, I don’t have money, it’s all there. And the house took twelve years to complete - it started back in 2002. And all this time we
Diana and I lived out of suitcases. Perhaps soon we will finally move into our own home, hurray! Some time ago, an excellent initiative group of shareholders decided to draw the attention of the press to the problem and asked me to contribute to publicity. I sang on the ruins, on the concrete. The governor of the Moscow region, the TV channels “360° Podmoskovye” and “Russia 1”, and other reporters came. A few months - and the problem was solved. One of these days we should receive the keys to our apartment.
Wow, when I saw you on stage - blooming and laughing, I thought that everything in your life had been arranged for a long time.
You know, nothing is ever given for nothing. When I appeared on stage, I had a blue dress, artificial diamonds worth one and a half thousand rubles, I was tanned - I came from Sevastopol. And someone thought: “Yeah, everything is tied up with her, she bought them all.” And when they ask me how I do everything, I tell them how much they need to eat first. I don’t want to say: look what I had difficult life. It's not easy for everyone. They just think about those on TV: “What problems could they possibly have? Children were fathered by oligarchs, everything is free for them.” And if the artist is divorced, then everyone is sure that she, let’s say, lives well on the compensation. This is not always the case.
I see that this attitude really upsets you.
Yes. But now everything is finally going really well. Friends come up and say: “Lena, congratulations, you’ve been working towards this for so many years, you deserve it!” I tell everyone: “Guys, the main thing is to really, really want it.” And don’t forget about all sorts of karmic things: you need to give more to people, do good, love more, sing for free. I often did this at charity events and in orphanages. And my mother, whom I have now sent to rest, also repeats: “Lena, you don’t need to constantly do this for money, do as much as possible for people just like that.”
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Biography, life story of Elena Maximova
Elena Maksimova is a Ukrainian and Russian singer.
Childhood
Elena was born in Sevastopol on August 9, 1979. The girl's singing talent manifested itself in kindergarten. Lena's mother, who worked as a teacher in that same kindergarten, sent her daughter to music school so that experienced teachers could properly work on her voice.
At the age of 11, Lena Maksimova became a member of the children's musical group "Multi-Max", with which the girl toured many cities. home country. The ensemble often occupied prizes, which further convinced Lena that she had musical abilities.
Youth
After graduating high school, Elena entered the university at the Faculty of Foreign Languages. And although in her heart the girl dreamed of becoming an artist, she had to get a “normal” profession for the sake of the peace of mind of her beloved mother.
In her free time from lectures and seminars, Elena Maksimova worked as a singer in local cafes, nightclubs and sanatoriums. This was her outlet, an activity that helped her cope with the stress of intense study and provide herself with the most necessary material goods.
After receiving her diploma with honors, Elena decided to continue her education and entered (this time by her sincere desire) the Black Sea branch of GITIS. The department itself was located in the Sailors' Club, which belonged to the Black Sea Fleet Russian Federation. The leaders of the local orchestra singled Maksimova out from the crowd of other students and invited her to become their soloist.
Career
Working in the Black Sea Fleet orchestra was the first step for Elena on the path to fame. In 1998, the aspiring singer visited the military orchestra festival in Cannes, then she went to the Yalta-Moscow-Transit festival, where, by the way, she won a well-deserved victory.
In 2004, Elena Maksimova successfully passed the casting for the role of a singer in the musical We will Rock You. Her brilliant knowledge helped her beat several hundred competitors English language, charm and stage presence. Maksimova attracted the attention of Brian May, the band's guitarist, who was a consultant on the project.
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The production of We will Rock You was performed every day for six months. After the end of the project, the girl was invited to the Non Stop group. With this musical group Maksimova participated in music festival"Five stars." In 2008, Non Stop attended the New Wave and reached the finals.
In 2009, Elena Maksimova released her debut solo album in English. After this, Lena's popularity began to gain momentum. The singer was a participant in such popular groups, like "Decadence" and "". In addition, her candid photographs in Playboy magazine added another drop of fame to her.
Participation in TV shows
In 2013, Elena Maksimova decided to try her luck on the vocal TV show “The Voice”. The artist performed the song Run to You superbly, earning the honor and respect of the jury members and the love of the audience. Became Lena's mentor famous musician. Elena reached the semi-finals, losing the palm to the shocking one.
In 2015, Elena Maksimova became a participant in the parody project “Exactly the Same”. The artist transformed into such stars as Vanessa Paradis, Irina Saltykova and.
Personal life
Elena Maksimova got married at the age of 21. After the wedding, the newlyweds set off to conquer Moscow. Soon the couple had a daughter, Diana. Unfortunately, after this, the relationship between Lena and her lover began to deteriorate. Maksimova took her daughter and left for her native Sevastopol. She left to return to White Stone again a few years later, but this time not as a girl offended by fate, but as a confident woman, a loving mother and a sought-after artist.
Many media outlets have information that Elena’s heart is taken. True, the name and occupation of the person who conquered her is not mentioned anywhere.