Yana Igorevna Shvets was born on April 2, 1989 in the city of Sverdlovsk, Lugansk region. Parents: Svetlana Aleksandrovna Shvets (nee Bushmina) and Igor Mikhailovich Shvets (businessman). Yana graduated from Sverdlovsk school No. 9, in 2001 her family moved to Kyiv, where she entered the pop vocal department at the circus academy. Her brother Oleg Shvets is an information security specialist. Yana studied at the academy together with Nastya Kamenskikh.
Career
Eva was a soloist of the group Lucky, a TV presenter of “Guten Morgen” on M1, danced in the ballet The Best, was a participant in the third Ukrainian “Star Factory” (took 5th place), and participated in the TV show “Factory Superfinal”. On March 21, 2010, she announced the early completion of participation in the project and the transition to the VIA Gra group, where she replaced Tatyana Kotova. Eva’s debut as a member of the group took place on March 30, 2010 on the set of the “Evening Quarter” program. Release of Eva's debut song as part of VIA Gra - “Get Out!” took place on March 29. On April 10, a video of the same name was released. In 2010, Eva Bushmina entered the Top 10 discoveries of the year according to the Life-Star website.
Star Factory 3
Through a selection process that took place in October 2009 from among thousands of applicants, Eva Bushmina became a participant in the “Factory”. For three months, she performed songs together with Ukrainian and Russian pop stars, as well as songs by general producer Konstantin Meladze. On New Year's Eve, the winner of the project was named; according to the results of the audience vote, it was Stas Shurins, and Eva Bushmina took fifth place, but the first of all participants.
From January 20 to February 27, 2010, Eva Bushmina and other manufacturers took part in a tour of the cities of Ukraine. On February 27, two final concerts took place in Kyiv.
VIA Gra
On April 11, 2010, the group released a new video, “Get Out!” On September 15, 2010, the premiere of the video for the song “A Day Without You” took place on the official ELLO channel, and in February 2012, the video for the song “Hello, Mom!”
Personal life
Since 2011, Bushmina has been dating the son of former Minister of Economy of Ukraine Vladimir Lanovoy, Dmitry. On September 4, 2012 they got married.
website: Eva, what do you think caused the collapse of the VIA Gra group?
Eva Bushmina: The decisive role, in my opinion, was played by Kostya’s fatigue from constant rotations in the group. Anyway, he is a creative person and creates songs for a specific artist, not a group as a whole.
website: How long ago did you realize that the musical group no longer had a future?
Eva Bushmina:“VIA Gra” has always been on the list of the most successful groups in Russian and Ukrainian show business, so it is incorrect to say that the group had no future. The point is different. Konstantin worked with VIA Groi for 13 years, Albina joined the group eight years ago, and I joined for three years. For each of us this time became decisive. We wanted change, something new. For Konstantin Meladze, “this new” was full-length, and for Albina and me – solo projects.
website: In one of the interviews, you talked about how you never found a common language with another member of the group -. Please tell us in more detail what your conflict was?
Eva Bushmina: We have never had serious conflicts. There were disagreements, but only on work issues. It is normal when a person has his own point of view and expresses it. As they say, truth is born in dispute. To be honest, Santa and I did not become close friends. We probably didn't work together for that long, and we simply didn't have time to get to know each other better.
website: Are you allowed to perform VIA Gra songs after the band ceases its activities?
Eva Bushmina: Now my thoughts and energies are aimed at creating a solo project, my own songs. Perhaps over time I will return to this issue, but as an accomplished performer.
website: When you came to VIA Gro, you became a new blonde beauty, replacing . Is this your natural hair color?
Eva Bushmina: Yes, this is my natural color. I once dyed my hair brunette and really regretted it, I was waiting for my natural shade to return. Now I’m trying not to torture my hair too much even with care products. I only do comprehensive hair protection procedures.
website: Are you friends with the singer Nastya Kamenskikh, do you want to turn the duet “Potap and Nastya” into a trio?
Eva Bushmina: I am currently fully immersed in working on a solo project and plan to present it to the general public early next year. Someday Nastya and I may record a song together, but only as a creative experiment.
website: Are you going to continue performing in the “VIA Gra style,” that is, relying not only on similar songs, but also on a sexy image?
Eva Bushmina: I can assure you that I will move away from the “VIA Gra” image, but let me leave the details secret.
website: Who is your favorite singer? Would you like to be like any celebrity?
Eva Bushmina: It is difficult to name just one performer when there are so many talented singers in the world. I am very inspired by Rachel Ferrell - a true genius in the world of music. But I wouldn't want to become like her or anyone else. The meaning of our profession is precisely to be unique.
website: What other areas of activity would you like to prove yourself in? Now many celebrities are applying, for example, to become designers...
Eva Bushmina: I make every effort to succeed as a solo performer, and I don’t want to be scattered with other activities. Perhaps time will pass and I will want to try myself in a different form.
website: You are several months old, congratulations! Please tell us about your chosen one.
Eva Bushmina: Unfortunately, I do not comment on my personal life. It's personal, isn't it?!
website: Some ex-soloists of VIA Gra, for example, Olga Koryagina, decided to leave the group in order to devote themselves entirely to their family. Have you ever thought about something like this?
Eva Bushmina: I am thinking about how to successfully combine these aspects of my life, and do not intend to put work and personal life on different scales.
website: Do you think there is an ideal age for motherhood?
Eva Bushmina: It's hard for me to judge this. I have friends who gave birth at both 20 and 40 years old. Looking at them, I understand that age does not matter. The only thing that matters is your state of mind.
website: When do you want to have children?
Eva Bushmina: Everything has its time.
Eva Bushmina (Layah)
Eva Bushmina, real name is Yana Igorevna Shvets. Born on April 2, 1989 in Sverdlovsk (Lugansk region). Ukrainian singer, former soloist of the VIA Gra group. Since 2016, she has taken the stage name Layah.
Mother - Svetlana Aleksandrovna Shvets (nee Bushmina).
Father - Igor Mikhailovich Shvets, businessman.
She has a brother Oleg Shvets, an information security specialist.
Yana graduated from Sverdlovsk school No. 9; in 2001, her family moved to Kyiv, where she entered the pop vocal department at the circus academy. Yana studied at the academy with.
Eva was a soloist of the group Lucky, a TV presenter of “Guten Morgen” on M1, danced in the ballet The Best, was a participant in the third Ukrainian “Star Factory” (took 5th place), and participated in the TV show “Factory Superfinal”.
Through a selection process that took place in October 2009 from among thousands of applicants, Eva Bushmina became a participant in the “Factory”. For three months, she performed songs together with Ukrainian and Russian pop stars, as well as songs by general producer Konstantin Meladze. On New Year's Eve, the winner of the project was named; according to the results of the audience vote, it was Stas Shurins, and Eva Bushmina took fifth place, but the first of all participants.
From January 20 to February 27, 2010, Eva Bushmina and other manufacturers took part in a tour of the cities of Ukraine. On February 27, two final concerts took place in Kyiv.
The artist also took part in the “Superfinal” of the Ukrainian “Star Factory”, but left it already at the third concert, having received an offer to sing in the group "VIA Gra".
On March 21, 2010, she announced the early completion of participation in the project and the transition to the VIA Gra group, where she replaced.
Her debut as a member of the group took place on March 30, 2010 on the set of the program “Evening Quarter”. Release of Eva's debut song as part of VIA Gra - “Get Out!” took place on March 29. On April 10, a video of the same name was released.
VIA Gra - Get out!
On September 15, 2010, the premiere of the video for the song “A Day Without You” took place on the official ELLO channel, and in February 2012, the video for the song “Hello, Mom!”
In May 2012, she took part in the First Channel project “Star Factory: Russia - Ukraine”.
Immediately after leaving VIA Gra, Eva began working on a future solo career, recording the first single “Soboy” in January 2013 and filming a video. The song premiered on March 22, 2013, exactly three years after Eva officially joined the VIA Gra group.
On July 4, 2013, an online release of a new single called “Summer for Rent” took place. On September 25, Eva presented another single called “Religion”.
In April 2016, she announced that she had changed her stage name. “Eva Bushmina” is an artificially created character and it’s time to say goodbye to him. I want to be real with my audience. My name is Yana. Inside, I am radically different and I want the viewer to understand this and accept me, my creativity and attitude. Now my music will be performed under the name LAYAH,” the artist explained.
In May 2016, the singer - already under the stage name Layah- presented a video clip for the song “Shadows”.
Layah - Shadows
Eva Bushmina's height: 165 centimeters.
Personal life of Eva Bushmina:
Since 2011, she met with the son of the former Minister of Economy of Ukraine Vladimir Lanovoy, Dmitry.
Clips of Eva Bushmina:
as part of VIA Gra:
2010 - “Get out!”
2010 - “A Day Without You”
2012 - “Hello, Mom!”
Solo:
2013 - “By myself”
2013 - “Summer for Rent”
2013 - “Religion”
2014 - “#kakvoda”
2014 - “Cannot be changed”
2015 - “Not a Crime”
2016 - “Shadows”
The period 2010-2012, since 2016 he has been working under the pseudonym LAYAH.
Yana Igorevna Shvets, better known to fans as Eva Bushmina, was born in the Lugansk region. The singer took her mother’s last name later, adding Eva to her stage name.
The future singer spent her childhood and youth in Sverdlovsk, Ukraine. Yana's parents had nothing to do with the art world. Father Igor Shvets was engaged in business. Mom Svetlana Bushmina raised her children - daughter Yana and son Oleg. Later, the older brother mastered the profession of an information security specialist. The girl began taking vocal lessons at the age of 12, but at first Yana was not happy with the sound of her own voice. Thanks to diligence and work, the girl soon achieved the desired sound.
When Eva Bushmina turned 17 years old and the girl received a school certificate, the family changed their place of residence and moved to the capital of Ukraine. In Kyiv, the girl became a student at the Variety and Circus Academy, choosing the department of pop vocals. Eva studied on the same course with. The artists still maintain friendly relations today.
Music
The creative biography of Eva Bushmina began in her student years. For some time, the girl was a soloist in the musical group Lucky and a ballet dancer in The Best. She also tried her hand as a TV presenter of the Guten Morgen program on the M1 channel.
But all this was just preparation for Eva Bushmina’s finest hour. In the fall of 2009, the girl took part in the selection for the Ukrainian reality show “Star Factory”. The girl managed to leave behind several hundred applicants and got into the project. The contestant reached the final. On New Year's Eve the names of the winners were announced. Bushmina received 5th place.
In the winter of 2010, the factory owners went on a tour of the cities of Ukraine. Eva Bushmina toured with everyone. The girl also took part in two final concerts in Kyiv. But the singer refused the offer to sing at the 3rd concert, because she signed a contract with the VIA Gra group, in which a place had just become available after leaving.
Eva Bushmina, having an attractive figure (with a height of 165 cm, her weight is 56 kg) and a strong voice, received an offer from the producer of the group. Initially, the trio, which included Eva, consisted of former participants and, but the latter was replaced by participant in 2011.
Bushmina made her debut as part of this female team in March 2010. This happened at the comedy show “Evening Quarter”, after which the musical group went on a tour of the cities of Ukraine with the anniversary program “VIA-GRAFIA”. Eva Bushmina, as part of a musical group, participated in the New Wave 2010 festival; at the author’s evening, the group performed the song “Hutsulochka”.
The debut song performed by Eva Bushmina in the group was the track “Get Out!” In 2010, Eva was included in the TOP 10 discoveries of the year. This was followed by work on the songs “A Day Without You”, “Hello, Mom!” and clips on them.
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the VIA Gra group, the girls were invited to film the program “Let Them Talk,” in which, in addition to the three current soloists, former performers participated -, and. The celebration continued with a big concert at the Kiev Palace of Arts “Ukraine”, at which, in addition to the current lineup, the golden lineup of “VIA Gra” (Vera Brezhneva, Nadezhda Granovskaya, etc.) performed.
In 2010, the group’s ratings steadily began to fall: out of the planned 80th anniversary concerts, only 15 took place. General producer Dmitry Kostyuk terminated the contract with the group. “VIA Gra” became the winner of the “Disappointment of the Year” award “ZD Awards”. In 2011, the musical group lost in the “Best Group” category at the Muz TV awards, but continued to develop the project. The girls went to the next festival “New Wave 2011” and a big tour of Belarus. Another replacement of the lead singer in 2011 again affected the group’s ratings, which resulted in another “Disappointment of the Year” award.
In 2012, the girl temporarily left the team, deciding to participate in the “Star Factory: Russia – Ukraine” project. Since Santa Dimopoulos had left VIA Gro by this time, Eva Bushmina still remained in the team, which had now turned into a duet. But at the end of the year it was already clear that the project would cease to exist. Konstantin Meladze's message became the main news of this period in the field of show business.
In the same 2012, Eva Bushmina announced that she was ready for a solo career. The following year, the singer’s debut hit “Soboy” appeared. Soon a video was shot for the song. The single premiered in March 2013. And in July, the singer’s fans received a new gift: the song “Summer for Rent.”
Eva Bushmina demonstrated miracles of hard work. Already in September 2013, a new single “Religion” was released, which was also received favorably. Since Konstantin Meladze’s new project, the reality show “I Want V VIA Gro,” was launched in 2013, the producer was looking for mentors for the competition. Eva Bushmina refused the offer from her former manager - the girl had recently become a mother and could not be away from her newborn daughter for a long time.
In December, fans of Eva Bushmina watched the transformations of their favorite singer in the program “Yak dvi krapli”. On the screen, the artist appeared in the images of, and even. The following year, the single “Can’t Be Changed” was released.
In the spring of 2016, the singer surprised fans. The artist announced that the “Eva Bushmina” project is closed. In its place came another called “LAYAH”. This word, taken from Sanskrit, means “dissolution,” and in yoga practice it means getting rid of duality. This is what Eve strives for. The girl has returned her real name, Yana, and is declaring a new image in which the artist will be herself. Yana has been recording the songs that appeared on the artist’s first album under a new name since 2014.
In the spring of the same year, LAYAH starred in the title role of the social film “Swallow the Dust” by Nicky Madisan.
Personal life
When the young singer, who became recognizable after participating in the Star Factory project, received an offer to become the third participant in the highly successful VIA Gra project, many fans of the group started talking about an alleged romance between the girl and producer Konstantin Meladze. But the rumors turned out to be just rumors.
But soon the personal life of Eva Bushmina again came into the spotlight because of a real affair with Dmitry Lanov. This name is known in Ukraine, because Dmitry’s father, Vladimir Lanovoy, is a well-known politician in the country, a former minister of economics. What added piquancy to the situation was the fact that Lanovoy Jr. was married. But the rumors were confirmed. There really was a connection between the singer and the son of the ex-official, which led to marriage. The relationship was kept a deep secret for a long time. The wedding, which took place in 2012, also turned out to be deeply classified.
In the summer of 2013, Eva Bushmina gave her husband a daughter, who was named Edita.
Now Eva Bushmina, a former member of the VIA Gra group, maintains warm relations only with Albina Dzhanabaeva, with whom she still posts joint photos on her own account in “ Instagram ».
Eva Bushmina now
In 2017, while continuing to work on the new project LAYAH, Yana released videos for the latest hits - “Don’t hide”, “Forever”, “Silence”, “Flock”. The filming was supervised by the music video director and director Tanya Muinho.
Discography
Singles as part of VIA Gra
- 2010 – “Get out!”
- 2010 – “A Day Without You”
- 2012 - “Hello, Mom!”
Solo album
- 2016 – “LAYAH”
There is a widely held point of view that the singer’s solo work has become favorably different in its drama, emotional component and intrigue not only from her own previous works, but also from the majority of the musical material that has captured the pinnacle of domestic show business.
Childhood and youth
The future artist was born on April 2, 1989 in the Ukrainian Sverdlovsk, Voroshilovgrad region (now Lugansk region). Her father Igor Mikhailovich is an entrepreneur, her mother Svetlana Aleksandrovna is a housewife. The singer has an older brother Oleg, who works in the field of information security. 
From an early age she was interested in and seriously studied dancing, developing plasticity and grace. But when their family moved to Kyiv in 2001, she did not find a suitable dance school and, on the advice of her father, a former musician, she began to attend a vocal studio and learn to sing. Then she worked part-time in an audio studio, recording children's songs, CDs with which were included in magazines for children.
After graduating from school, she became a student at the Faculty of Variety Arts of the Kyiv Variety and Circus Academy, but interrupted her studies without receiving a full higher education.
During her student years, she met and became friends with a member of the duet “Potap and Nastya” Anastasia Kamenskikh, with whom she later continued to be friends.
Working at a recording studio on a permanent basis, the girl sang backing vocals and performed in show ballet. At different times, she was a member of the pop group Lucky, a ballet dancer at The Best, and worked as a TV presenter for the infotainment program “Guten Morgen” on channel M1.
Star Factory
In 2009, a girl who had long dreamed of getting into show business managed to audition for the Star Factory music competition (Ukrainian version), the producer of which was Konstantin Meladze himself. According to her, a friend who was an administrator of a reality show helped her bypass the queue of hundreds of applicants. As a result, she ended up in the “Star House” and took the name Eva and her mother’s maiden name, Bushmina, as her stage name.Casting for "Star Factory-3". Eva Bushmina (2009)
During the three months of participation in the project, the manufacturer managed to sing on the same stage with such stars as Valery Meladze (“In spite of”), Sofia Rotaru (“I loved him”), Verka Serduchka (“I didn’t understand”) and many other pop artists .
Eva Bushmina and Sofia Rottaru - “I loved him” (2009)
The singer won the love of the audience by performing the compositions “Painful or Sweet”, “Stop”, “Beyond the River”, “Mysticism”. At the show’s reporting concert, her performance in a duet with Latvian singer Stas Shurins with the driving song “Goodbye, Mom!” caused a real explosion of emotions and a flurry of applause. At the end of the show, she took fifth place. By the way, another future “Viagryanka” Santa Dimopoulos took part in the project, but she never made it to the finals.
In 2010, the aspiring artist, together with other talented graduates of the show, including Alexei Matias, who was dubbed an “angel” in the press after performing the song “Angels Don’t Die”, Odessa comedian Kolya Serga, owner of amazingly flexible vocals Erica, went on a tour of Ukraine. Then she took part in the final concerts and in the Superfinal of the TV show, which she left, having received an offer from Konstantin Meladze to become a member of VIA Gra instead of Tatyana Kotova.
Eva Bushmina and VIA Gra
At the end of March 2010, the singer’s debut performance as part of one of the most popular Ukrainian groups took place in the “Evening Quarter” program. In April, a video was released for the song “Get Out!”, followed by a tour of Ukrainian cities called “VIA-Grafia”. In September of the same year, the team, the relationships within which were quite complex, presented a new composition “A Day Without You”, and in October - a video clip. 
At the enchanting anniversary concert dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the group and held in November in the Kiev palace “Ukraine”, the former and current sexy soloists of “VIA Gra” hugged and kissed on stage, and behind the scenes they did not hide their negative attitude towards each other. So, according to some media reports, at a rehearsal Meikher called Bushmina a “shitty ballerina” after the girl demonstrated several dance moves. Although it was possible that this was said as a joke, because Eva herself later noted that she saw off Nadya, who left the team in November 2011 due to pregnancy, literally with tears in her eyes.
"VIA Gra" - "Get out!" (2010)
In 2010, Life-Star magazine included the singer in the “Top 10 Discoveries of the Year.” Then, having starred in several candid photo shoots and demonstrating her slender figure, the performer took fourth position in the “Sex Symbol of Ukraine” rating from the BLIK publication.
In 2012, another VIA Gra video for the song “Hello, Mom!” was released. Then the artist, together with Max Barskikh, Erica, Stas Shurins and the DiO.films group (Dantes and Oleinik), took part in the duel of Ukrainian factories against Russians “Star Factory: Russia - Ukraine”, missing several performances of her team. In December of the same year, the collapse of VIA Gra was announced.
Solo career
At the beginning of 2013, the ex-Viagra woman began her solo career, presenting the hit “Soboy,” which personified a new milestone in her work, and a video clip in which the singer meets a prince on a white horse. In July of the same year, the premiere of her composition “Summer for Rent” took place, where she sang the most wonderful time when everyone dreams of meeting true love.In September, the singer pleased her fans with the single “Religion”. The filming of the music video of the same name was carried out in Lviv in black and white, allowing viewers to plunge into the world of experiences of its heroes - a young man and a girl who met on the station platform.
Eva Bushmina – “Religion” (2013)
At the end of the year, the artist shone on the Ukrainian television show of transformations “Yak dvi krapli”. Together with other participants - Olya Polyakova, Irina Rosenfeld, Alina Grosu, EL Kravchuk, Fagot, Dantes, Natalya Mogilevskaya, Valery Kharchyshin and Vasily Bondarchuk - she very believably, brightly and artistically played the role of show business stars. Among others, she embodied the image of Adele, Rihanna, Lara Fabian and even Michael Jackson and Mikhail Boyarsky, heroically imitating the hoarseness of a musketeer's voice.
In April 2014, the vocalist presented her next video work for the composition “#kakvoda” (“Like Water”), made in Spain in partnership with Ukrainian video director Tanya Muinho. This composition was created especially for the singer by the talented participant of “Voice of the Country” Rozhden Anusi.
Eva Bumshina – “Like Water” (2014)
In September of the same year, she presented the video “Cannot be Changed”, the creator of which was again Muinho, and the author of the music was Born Anousi.
In 2015, the singer presented a new extraordinary sound, “Not a Crime,” created by Rozhen Anusi in a unique style. He declares the idea that no matter how difficult it is to love a person without reciprocity, you still cannot go against your heart, since going against it means destroying yourself.
Personal life of Eva Bushmina
The singer is married to Dmitry Lanov, a businessman, the son of Ukrainian politician and former minister Vladimir Timofeevich Lanov. Their wedding celebration took place in September 2012 in Koncha-Zaspa, Nastya Kamenskikh was the witness. For the sake of the beautiful blonde, Dmitry divorced his first wife. Beyonce. She enjoys wakeboarding, windsurfing, horseback riding, cycling, yoga, swimming and has even completed two parachute buckles (with an instructor).Eva Bushmina now
In 2016, the vocalist, after a creative rebranding under the name Layah, which means “dissolution” in ancient Indian Sanskrit, presented the public with a sensual video clip from Tanya Muinho for the song “Shadows”, written by Rozhen Anusi. Its filming took place on the roof of an old Odessa house. 
During this period, she took part in the social project of the Nika Medisan brand with the support of the World Fund for Nature Protection WWF, performing together with Rudolf Krajewski, the founder of the Vegano Hooligano fast food chain, in the short film “Swallow the Dust.”
"Swallow the Dust" (2016)
In September, she presented her first studio disc, “Layah,” the author of all eleven tracks of which was Rozhen Anousi. In support of it, a video was released for the song “Weightless,” filmed in Spain. The following month, the artist released the album, adding four new compositions. Its presentation took place in December at the Bel’etage nightclub in the Ukrainian capital. A month earlier, a new video from the ex-Viagryanka “Betrayed” was released, telling about devotion and betrayal.
Layah – “Betrayed” (2016)
In 2017, Layah presented her fans with a candid photo shoot and a new video for the song “Don’t Hide,” created in Los Angeles, a city where, according to the singer, “you want to create without wasting a second.”