Video: Legends of the 1990s: Natalya Vetlitskaya, or The Story of the Mysterious Disappearance of the Generation X Symbol from the Scene
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This singer was called the most beautiful and sexy on the stage of the late 1980s - early 1990s. Natalia Vetlitskaya did not differ with outstanding vocal abilities, but when she appeared on stage, it was impossible to look away from her. At the peak of popularity, the spectacular blonde suddenly disappeared. There were many rumors: both that she had gone abroad, and that another patron forbade her to perform, and that she was carried away by yoga and she was simply not interested in show business. What really happened?
Natalia Vetlitskaya was born in 1964 in the family of a nuclear physicist and piano teacher. Since childhood, she has been dancing and studying at a music school, from 1974 to 1984. actively participated in all kinds of dance competitions. At the age of 17, she herself began teaching at a ballroom dance school, then worked as a choreographer in the Recital and Rondo groups. She later began performing with Rondo as a dancer and backing vocalist.
Soon the whole country heard her voice: in 1983 she recorded songs for the film "Mary Poppins, Goodbye!", And two years later everyone could see the owner of this voice in the "Morning Mail" program. In 1988, Vetlitskaya took part in the recording of "New Year's Light", performing the composition "Closing the Circle" together with other singers. In the same year she became a soloist of the Mirage group, and although Vetlitskaya did not last long there, it was during this period that real popularity came to her. Together with the group, the singer traveled all over the USSR.
After leaving "Mirage" Natalia Vetlitskaya took up a solo career. In 1992, her debut album Look in the Eyes was released, and these songs were in constant rotation on almost all radio stations in the country. In 1993, she released a video for the song Look in the Eyes, which was incredibly popular. This video, directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk, represented Russia at the annual Eurovideo Grand Prix competition for the best music videos from European countries.
Then Vetlitskaya released 2 more albums. Her songs "Soul", "Playboy", "Magadan", "Don't Tell Me" have become real super hits. Over the entire period of her solo musical career, Vetlitskaya managed to release 8 albums and perform in duets with Sergei Mazaev, Dmitry Malikov, Maxim Pokrovsky and others.
In addition to performing on stage, Natalya Vetlitskaya starred in feature and musical films ("The Snow Queen", "Above the Rainbow", "The Newest Adventures of Buratino", "Criminal Tango"). In addition, the singer writes music and poetry, is fond of painting and does charity work: she provides financial assistance to the children's psychoneurological hospital.
They always talked about her personal life no less than about her work. She was married several times, she was credited with novels with Dmitry Malikov, Vlad Stashevsky, Suleiman Kerimov, Vlad Topalov's father and many famous artists, politicians and businessmen.
She left the stage in English, without explaining the reasons and not performing with farewell concerts. In 2004, the 40-year-old singer had a daughter, Ulyana. They say that is why she decided to leave the stage forever - to devote all her time to raising her daughter.
In addition, she really took a great interest in yoga, went to courses in India and took these classes seriously: “This is not a one-day hobby, it is a constant improvement and replenishment of the knowledge that you already have. This is the disclosure of those abilities in yourself that you did not even know about. You improve yourself both externally and internally."
Since 2013 Natalia Vetlitskaya has been living in Spain, is engaged in interior design and has a daughter. The singer leads a reclusive lifestyle, avoids communication with journalists and does not plan to return to the stage. She moved away from the world of show business and lives for her own pleasure.
And the ex-husband of Vetlitskaya, whose marriage lasted only 10 days, passed away at the peak of popularity: Zhenya Belousov, or the story of a short life and the mysterious death of a singer-heartthrob
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