Via gra new group. Why is Via Gru no longer worth it?
History of creation
The idea of creating a group belongs to the Ukrainian businessman, owner of the music channel "Biz-TV" Dmitry Kostyuk. Inspired by the success of the Spice Girls, he invited the composer Konstantin Meladze, well known for his creative alliance with his brother Valery, to launch his own women's project.The first participant was Alena Vinnitskaya, who then worked as a host on Biz-TV. Two more girls were picked up for her and a trial clip was shot. But the result did not impress the producers, and they continued to search for new participants.
During a tour in Zhytomyr, Valery Meladze met Nadezhda Granovskaya and recommended that his brother pay attention to her. The girl was approved immediately after the first viewing, and the work began to boil. Initially, the group was supposed to be called "Silver", but, looking at the sexy Nadia, the producers decided to call the team "VIA Gra".
Another version says that the name of the group is composed of the names of the first composition. "VI" is the first letters of the surname "Vinnitskaya", "A" - from "Alena", "Gra" - Granovskaya. Also "Gra" can mean "Voice, Joy, Artistry".
The main stages of creativity
In the summer of 2000, a video was shot for the song "Attempt No. 5", which made an incredible sensation. After recording six more songs and shooting a video for the song "Hug Me", the producers and the group began touring.VIA Gra - Attempt No. 5
On December 20, 2000, the first concert of the newly minted group took place in Dnepropetrovsk, which was a resounding success. Girls began to be invited to television and radio, and their performances were invariably accompanied by an enthusiastic reaction from the public. In the fall of 2001, the group's first album, Attempt No. 5, was released and a contract was signed with Sony Music to record five more. Alena and Nadia starred in the New Year's musical for the Inter channel with the participation of leading show business stars, which further added to their popularity.
At the peak of success, Nadezhda suddenly found out that she was pregnant and decided to leave the group. This event came as a complete surprise to Kostyuk and Meladze. They urgently began to look for a similar participant, and soon St. Petersburg model Tatyana Naynik took the place of Granovskaya. She lacked neither Nadia's charisma nor her vocal abilities, so it was decided to strengthen the line-up with the young charming Anya Sedokova, who had a beautiful voice and a luxurious figure. The audience favorably accepted the video for the song “Stop. Stop. Stop ”with new soloists, and the group continued to exist safely.
However, six months later, Granovskaya, barely recovering from childbirth, came to Meladze and tearfully asked to take her back. For a while they performed as a foursome, but later Nainik took up a solo career.
VIA Gra - Stop! Stop! Stop!
Soon it was the turn of Alena Vinnitskaya to leave the group. The girl was much older than the rest of the participants and felt uncomfortable. And the singer's husband, musician Sergei Bolshoi, was not happy with her participation in Viagra.
Alena quickly picked up a replacement in the person of a resident of Dneprodzerzhinsk Vera Galushko, who was ready for anything to break out of poverty. In record time, the girl has turned from a simple provincial girl into a luxurious sexy beauty that can turn any man's head. Vera came up with the sonorous pseudonym Brezhnev and shot with her participation a video for the song "Don't Leave Me, Darling", which became an absolute hit in 2003.
In the same year, the second album of the group “Stop! Shot”, in support of which a grandiose tour was organized. The success of the album exceeded all expectations of the producers, and it was decided to go global. With the release of the English version of Stop! Stop! Stop!”, the group went on a tour of the countries of the East (Japan, China, Thailand, Hong Kong), which was a resounding success.
The group entered the Western market under the name "Nu Virgos" (which means "Nude Maidens" in translation) in order to avoid lawsuits from the manufacturer of the drug "Viagra".
Satisfied producers were already making plans to conquer Europe and America, when in April 2004 Sedokova unexpectedly announced her pregnancy and left the group a month later. Her departure cost the producers several tens of millions of dollars. The casting was urgently announced, and Ani's place was soon taken by the wayward Svetlana Loboda, who never managed to find a common language with either the participants or the producers.
Four months later, the girl left the group, and Valery Meladze's protégé Albina Dzhanabaeva (as it turned out later, the mother of his illegitimate son Kostya) took her place. The girl was much inferior to the rest of the participants in appearance and the notorious sex appeal, but, having enlisted the support of Valery, she began to restore her own order in the group.
VIA Gra - Biology
In 2005, serious problems began in the team. His popularity with the departure of Sedakova sharply declined, and soon Vera and Nadia asked for "freedom". Konstantin Meladze did not interfere with them, and he himself was already thinking of closing the project.
Kostyuk still managed to persuade his colleague to continue working, and soon a real leapfrog of the participants began. Over the next seven years, six soloists changed: first, Christina Kots-Gotlieb, then Olga Koryagina, and, finally, Meseda Bagaudinova came to Granovskaya's place. They were looking for a girl to replace Brezhneva for almost a year, all this time VIA Gra was a duet. Finally, in March 2008, the singer Tatyana Kotova joined the group, then Granovskaya returned to the group to replace the departed Bagaudinova. In March 2010, Kotova's place was taken by Eva Bushmina, and a year and a half later, Nadezhda, who again expressed her desire to leave the group, was replaced by Santa Dimopoulos.
After a year in the team, Santa got married. "VIA Gra" again turned into a duet. At the end of 2012, the producer of the group announced the closure of the project. But, as it turned out, the news was a carefully planned PR campaign. Meladze, who by that time had already broken up with Kostyuk, decided to recruit a completely new line-up. To do this, he organized the television show "I want to Meladze", whose mentors and jury members were former participants.
Winners of the show "I want to VIA Gro"
Three girls reached the final - Misha Romanova, Erika Herceg and Nastya Kozhevnikova, who became the new VIA Groy. At first, the girls loudly declared themselves with the songs “Truce” and “I have another”, but over time, interest in them faded. They never managed to repeat the phenomenal success of the “golden” composition of ViaGra, which shone on the stage in the mid-2000s.
Collaborations with other artists
- “I didn’t understand” - VIA Gra ft. Verka Serdiuchka
- "Ocean and three rivers" - VIA Gra ft. Valeriy Meladze
- "There is no more attraction" - VIA Gra ft. Valeriy Meladze
- "There is nothing worse" - VIA Gra ft. TNMK
- "I don't want a man" - VIA Gra ft. TNMK
- “I have another one” - VIA Gra ft. Vakhtang
- "Oxygen" - VIA Gra ft. Mot
VIA Gra and Mot - Oxygen
Scandals
After Meladze's decision to reform the group and recruit new members in the TV show, a black cat ran between the producers of the group. They could not agree on the rights to the brand. Dmitry Kostyuk decided to open his own project with the same name, since in Russia the rights to the name belonged to him, and in Ukraine the VIA Gra brand was registered on Meladze. As a result, Kostyuk recruited a new line-up, which included Dasha Medovaya, Dasha Rostova and Aina Vilber. In 2015, the group ceased to exist, as Rospatent stopped the protection of Kostyuk's trademark ahead of schedule.Discography
- Attempt #5 (2001)
- Stop! Taken! (2003)
- Stop! Stop! Stop! (2003)
- Biology (2003)
- L.M.L. (2007)
Group "VIA Gra" now
Staff turnover did not bypass the updated version of VIA Gra. On March 24, 2018, the group performed with an updated line-up: the place of Misha Romanova was taken by no one famous singer Petersburg Olga Meganskaya. The replacement became known 2 days before the concert. The previous soloist left the band for personal reasons.
In September 2018, Anastasia Kozhevnikova left the group - her 5-year contract with Meladze expired, and shortly before that she married a businessman who, after the wedding, decided to help Nastya produce a solo project. In her place came a graduate of the "New Star Factory" Ulyana Sinetskaya. The group in the new composition continues to tour and break the audience applause.
Queue for tickets at the box office.
On the stage of one of the largest concert halls in Moscow, the group "VIA Gra" was supposed to appear on February 17, however, unfortunately for the fans, the concert was canceled. As it became known to Life, there were very few fans upset about this, because the Concert.ru ticket agency sold only 31 tickets for the show for a total of about 90 thousand rubles. By the way, the organizers of the concert, with a minimum site configuration designed for 3241 people, announced the cost of tickets from 1500 to 3000 rubles. Prices for ground seats reached 15,000 rubles.
What is the reason for the decline in interest in the cult female group, which has conquered the male population of the country since the beginning of the 2000s? Life asked show business experts and people involved in the project over the years about this.
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contentThe new "VIA Gro" Konstantin Meladze assembled in 2013, making a large-scale reality show "I Want V VIA Gro" out of the casting of the singers. Together with producer Alan Badoev, Meladze agreed to broadcast the project on four major CIS TV channels at once: Belarusian ONT, Russian NTV, Ukrainian 1 + 1 and Kazakh NTK. Then the new "VIA Gru" included 25-year-old Erica Herceg, 23-year-old Misha Romanova and 20-year-old Anastasia Kozhevnikova. In the next year and a half, the hits "Truce", "I Got Another", "So Strong" and "Oxygen" appeared on the music charts. However, despite the active PR in the TV show and the rich heritage of the group, Meladze did not save the updated group from the disastrous cancellation of a large solo concert in the capital's Crocus City Hall.
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The last time the many-thousandth hall in Moscow "VIA Gra" gathered back in 2011. Then, on the 10th anniversary of the group in the same Crocus City Hall, several bands sang at once. The girls on stage were accompanied by Grigory Leps and Valery Meladze. Since then, the new "VIA Gra" has not achieved greater success at the capital's concert venues. Music critic Sergei Sosedov explains what is happening with the disappearance of the main feature of the band - sex.
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"We decided to better prepare for the big concert and moved it to the fall - it will be more correct in all respects, besides, there will be other big concerts in February, like the Big Love Show",
The Ukrainian female pop group, which appeared in 2000, has been “registered” in the Ukrainian-Russian show business for a long time and is confidently moving towards its 20th anniversary.
The project experienced periods of prosperity, when at the peak of its popularity it gathered stadiums and concert halls of many thousands, and lulls. But every time VIA Gru tried to “write off to the archive”, the new line-up of the group rose like a Phoenix from the ashes and gave a new hit, once again proving that the last page had not been written.
The composition of the ensemble for 17 years has changed as many times. The group from a duet turned into a trio, then expanded to a quartet and returned again to a duet and a trio. The participants changed - sexy beauties of varying degrees of talent. The names of many were remembered by music lovers, but the title "golden" was given to the composition, and.
Compound
The VIA Gra project was born in the 2000s thanks to a producer from Ukraine, Dmitry Kostyuk, the owner of the Biz-TV rating music channel. Dmitry was inspired to create the female ensemble by the British group Spice Girls and the Russian one. To promote the team, Kostyuk invited the music producer "Biz-TV"
Today we will tell you about how one of the most beautiful models with a chic voice and stunning external data, Erica Herceg, managed to get huge popularity in Ukraine and abroad, what is the secret of the singer's beauty and why Erica decided to have plastic surgery. And also we will definitely tell you if Erica Herceg is personally registered in the social network Contact.
Biography of the girl
- Erika was born in Ukraine, in the Transcarpathian region. At school, the girl sang in the church choir, where she began to get involved in music.
- The future singer received higher education at the Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute. Ferenc Rakozzi II, majoring in Economics and Management.
- In order to make her old dream come true - to become a model, the girl had to lose 30 kg.
- In 2011, at the peak of her modeling career, the girl moved to the capital of Ukraine and signed a contract with a well-known company.
- A little later, she brilliantly won the show “I want to join VIA Gru”.
- To maintain excellent physical shape, Erica rests a lot, eats right, does yoga and dancing, and leads an active lifestyle.
- After the girl threw off 30 kg, her breasts noticeably decreased, so she decided to have plastic surgery. Erica also posed for Playboy.
Celebrity Page
And now it's time to find out if there is an official page for a slender blonde with great vocals. Erika Herceg is indeed registered in Vkontakte at this address: http://vk.com/erikahercegThe singer has about 260 friends and more than 103 thousand subscribers. All network users can subscribe to Erica's page, but not everyone can send her private messages. On the avatar you can find photos of Erica in underwear, in beautiful dresses and from different angles. Great competitor!
Erica Herceg has published about 13 photo albums on VKontakte: “TopHit Music Awards 2014”, “BlackhallBar [Minsk]”, “Viva! Behind the screen" and others. The album "BlackhallBar" published photos from the performance of "VIA Gra" in Minsk. The album "Photosessions" contains the brightest photos of girls from different photo shoots in various outfits and angles. In the album "Viva! Behind the Screen You can see photos of the singer being made up and dressed backstage.
Erica in social network Contact published about 50 videos. Here you can watch a video confirmation of the singer's page, congratulations from the VIA Gra group on Valentine's Day, the VIA Gra concert in Batumi and other videos from the concerts of the VIA Gra group in different cities, clips and Erica Herceg's performance on the show I Want in VIA Gro" .
On her wall, Erica publishes her photos and addresses her numerous subscribers. Under the posts, you can leave your comments, put "I like" or repost on your wall. Erica Herceg is subscribed to more than 130 publics, among which you can find communities dedicated to VIA Gre.
So, now you know that Erica Herceg is really registered and is always glad to new subscribers. Therefore, subscribe to the singer's official page in Vkontakte, listen to new songs and watch new clips of the VIA Gra group!
VIA Gra is the most successful female pop group of the 2000s, founded by Konstantin Meladze and Dmitry Kostyuk. Its feature was the frequent change of participants. For 19 years, the composition has changed 19 times! Singers one more beautiful than the other came, became famous and left for the sake of a solo career. We restored the order of all the lineups and found out what happened to the ex-members of the legendary team.
First cast
Nadezhda Granovskaya and Alena Vinnitskaya
Initially, the group was created for Alena Vinnitskaya from Kiev. By 2000, she was already quite a popular person in Ukraine, she wrote songs, worked as a presenter on Biz-TV. A brunette Nadezhda Granovskaya (Meikher), a native of the Ukrainian village of Zbruchovka, was paired with the blonde Vinnitsa. The girl from childhood was engaged in folk dances. After graduating from a pedagogical school, she worked as a dancer in clubs. The debut video "Attempt No. 5" immediately rose to the top positions of the music charts and became a kind of "business card" of the duo.
In the fall of 2001, the girls released their debut album of 11 songs.
Second cast
Participants: Alena Vinnitskaya, Tatyana Naynik, Anna Sedokova
(April - September 2002)
Alena Vinnitskaya, Tatyana Naynik (below), Anna Sedokova
In early 2002, Granovskaya announced that she was going on maternity leave. In her place, they took a professional model from Leningrad, Tatiana Nainik. Before the new line-up had time to start work, it was decided to turn the duet into a trio. The third participant was a TV presenter from Kyiv Anna Sedokova. With her arrival, the group found its classic look: blonde, brunette and brown-haired, which was diligently maintained all subsequent years.
In May 2002, the video clip “Stop! Stop! Stop!”, where the leading vocal parts for the first time since the creation of the group were performed not only by Alena, but also by the newcomer Anna.
On May 23, the trio received the Ovation Award as the Best Performer of Youth Dance Music.
Sedokova, Vinnitsa, Naynik
Third squad
Participants: Anna Vinnitskaya, Nadezhda Granovskaya, Anna Sedokova, Tatyana Naynik
(September - November 2002)
Granovskaya, Vinnitskaya, Naynik, Sedokova
On September 12, 2002, the clip "Good morning, dad!" was aired. This event was marked by the return of the young mother Nadezhda Granovskaya to the team, so four soloists were involved in the video.
In the expanded composition of VIA Gra, she gave several concerts and the producers came to the conclusion that one of the brunettes was superfluous. Tatyana Naynik had to leave the team.
After leaving, she did not try to develop a solo career very successfully. In 2008, the singer was diagnosed with "anxiety-depressive disorder" and she has to constantly struggle with this disease. AT personal life Nynik is fine. She married the son of Margarita Terekhova Alexander and gave birth to a daughter.
Quadruple composition
Soloists: Anna Vinnitskaya, Nadezhda Granovskaya, Anna Sedokova
(November 2002 - January 2003)
Sedokova, Vinnitsa, Granovskaya
VIA Gra is rapidly gaining popularity. According to the results of the Russian award "ZD Awards-2012", the group received the title of "Breakthrough of the Year". Despite the resounding success, Vinnitskaya left the project. After leaving, she released several Russian-language and English-language albums, shot many clips. By the time she joined VIA Gro, Alena was married to musician Sergei Bolshoy. They are still together.
Golden composition of Viagra (fifth)
Soloists: Vera Brezhneva, Nadezhda Granovskaya, Anna Sedokova
(January 2003 - May 2004)
Brezhnev, Granovskaya, Sedokova
The vacant place of the blonde was taken by Vera Brezhneva (Galushka). The new participant was born in Dneprodzerzhinsk. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Dnepropetrovsk Institute of the Railway Institute. For the first time she sang together with VIA Gra as a wish from the audience during the tour of the group in June 2002. She was remembered and invited to the casting. Upon learning that Vera was a fellow countrywoman of the Secretary General of the USSR, the producers suggested that she take the pseudonym "Brezhneva".
The composition, which was formed with her arrival, is traditionally called "golden", that is, the most successful and fruitful. Previously, such a term simply did not exist in Russian pop music, and the concept of “golden composition” took root on our stage precisely thanks to the VIA Gra trio.
During this period, the group received its first Muz TV awards, entered the world market, recorded singles with Valery Meladze - “There is no more attraction”, “Ocean and three rivers”, released a video “Do not leave me, darling!”, which lasted for on the first lines of music ratings for more than 7 months and recognized as the best Russian video of the decade.
Attraction is no more
Ocean and three rivers
Don't leave me, love!
According to critics, later "the girls came and went, but the new combinations of bodies and voices could not be compared with the effect produced on the public by Brezhneva-Sedokova-Granovskaya."
Sixth cast
Soloists: Vera Brezhneva, Nadezhda Granovskaya, Svetlana Loboda
(May - September 2004)
Brezhnev, Granovskaya, Loboda
In 2004, Anna Sedokova became the wife of football player Valentin Belkevich and left the team, but soon returned to the stage for a solo career. Today she is actively acting in films and gloss, has released three solo albums, one brings up two daughters and a son. Moreover, the singer broke up with the father of the youngest child immediately after giving birth. Svetlana Loboda from Kiev was invited to replace Sedokova. The girl sang professionally from early childhood, from the age of 15 she studied in the specialty "pop vocal" at the Kyiv Variety and Circus Academy.
As part of the group, Loboda starred in the video "Biology" and the film musical "Sorochinsky Fair".
Seventh composition
Soloists: Vera Brezhneva, Nadezhda Granovskaya, Albina Dzhanabaeva
(September 2004 - January 2006)
Dzhanabaeva, Brezhnev, Granovskaya
Loboda stayed in the group for only 4 months and after leaving she began to actively build a solo career. Today she is an Honored Artist of Ukraine, a laureate of various music awards and one of the most successful singers on our stage. The singer is not married, she has two daughters.
Svetlana Loboda was replaced by Albina Dzhanabaeva, who previously worked as a backing vocalist for Valery Meladze and, as it turned out a few years later, the mother of their common child. Albina was born in Volgograd. She studied at the department of pop vocal at the school. Gnesins. After graduating from college, she worked in Korea, sang the part of Snow White in the musical of the same name and broke the contract when Meladze offered her a place in his team.
In this line-up, the group, together with Valery Meladze, received the Golden Gramophone for the joint single No More Attraction and sang one of their best songs, Diamonds.
Eighth composition
Soloists: Vera Brezhneva, Christina Kots-Gotlieb, Albina Dzhanabaeva
(January - April 2006)
Brezhnev, Dzhanabaeva, Kots-Gotlieb
In 2006, Granovskaya again left the team. In her place, they took a native of Donetsk, model Kristina Kots-Gotlieb. From the age of 15, the girl participated in competitions, won many titles, including Miss Donbass-2003, Vice-Miss of the Decade.
In VIA Gre, she managed to star in only one video - "Deceive, but stay."
Ninth squad
Soloists: Vera Brezhneva, Olga Koryagina, Albina Dzhanabaeva
(April 2006 - April 2007)
Three months later, it became obvious that Christina did not fit into the team, largely due to the fact that she looks younger than her groupmates. The girl had to leave. After leaving, she continued her modeling career, and in 2009 she won the title of Miss Ukraine Universe.
Kristina was replaced by Olga Koryagina, who was previously kept as a backup. Olga was born in Nikolaev. At the age of 15, she won the Miss Black Sea 2001 beauty contest and worked as a model. With her participation, the clips “Flower and Knife” and “L. M. L.
"Flower and knife"
A year later, Olga left the project due to pregnancy, married businessman Andrei Romanovsky, and in September of the same year gave him a son. After that, with varying success, she pursued a solo career, and in 2016 she was the host of the fourth season of the Revizorro TV project.
Tenth squad
Soloists: Vera Brezhneva, Meseda Bagaudinova, Albina Dzhanabaeva
(April - July 2007)
The place of the brunette in the group was taken by a native of Grozny Meseda Bagaudinova. At the Rostov School of Arts, the girl graduated from the department of pop-jazz vocals, then entered GITIS at the pop faculty. The composition of Brezhnev - Bagaudinov - Dzhanabaev actively toured, rehashing existing hits.
Eleventh composition
In July 2007, VIA Gra again became a duet, Vera Brezhneva left her.
After leaving the band, she was recognized four times as the sexiest Russian singer according to the results of a vote by Maxim magazine, starred in films, and released two solo albums. In 2015, she married Konstantin Meladze. He has two daughters from previous marriages.
It was difficult to find a replacement for such a bright participant, so for almost a year Viagra existed in a reduced composition.
In November, the album "Kisses" was released, in which several new songs were added to the old hits.
Twelfth composition
Soloists: Tatiana Kotova, Meseda Bagaudinova, Albina Dzhanabaeva
(March 2008 - January 2009)
The popularity of the group was falling, and the producers hastened the search for a third soloist. She became "Miss Russia-2006" Tatyana Kotova. The blonde beauty was born in the village of Sholokhovskiy, Rostov Region. As a student of the Faculty of Economics of the Southern Federal University participated from Russia in the contests "Miss Universe" and "Miss World".
For the sake of Tatyana, several new scenes were filmed for the previously released video “I'm not afraid”.
Thirteenth composition
Soloists: Nadezhda Granovskaya, Tatiana Kotova, Albina Dzhanabaeva
(January 2009 - March 2010)
In January 2009, Nadezhda Granovskaya returned to the team again. Meseda Bagaudinova had to go into free swimming. She was forced to suspend her solo career due to her marriage and the birth of her son. In 2015, Meseda divorced her husband, businessman Alan. She released several singles, played a small role in the series Hold Me Tight.
In August of the same year, they shot a video for the song "Crazy".
Fourteenth composition
Soloists: Eva Bushmina, Nadezhda Granovskaya, Albina Dzhanabaeva
(March 2010 - November 2011)
In March 2010, Tatyana Kotova left the trio for the sake of her musical and acting career. She played a major role in the TV series "And happiness is somewhere nearby", was a host on MUZ-TV, shot several clips.
Tatyana was replaced by a graduate of the Kyiv Variety and Circus Academy, a native of the city of Sverdlovsk, Lugansk region, Eva Bushmina (Yana Shvets). Before joining VIA Gra, Eva led a program on M1, participated in the Ukrainian Star Factory-3.
During this period, the clips "Get out!"
Fifteenth composition
Soloists: Eva Bushmina, Santa Dimopoulos, Albina Dzhanabaeva
(December 2011 - October 2012)
In November 2011, Granovskaya finally left the project. Today she is happily married to businessman Mikhail Urzhumtsev, has three children, and sings solo.
In her place came another graduate of the Ukrainian "Star Factory-3", "Miss Universe Ukraine - 2006", from Kiev Santa Dimopoulos. The new member has been professionally engaged in vocals, ballroom dancing, fitness since childhood and even won the World Fitness Championship in Thailand.
The presentation of the new composition on television took place during a musical break on the program “What? Where? When? ”, where the group presented the composition with the song “A Day Without You”.
This line-up also released the video “Hello, Mom!”, which gained more than a million views on YouTube in a week.
He became the only one in VIA Gre for Dimopoulos. In October, she left the project.
Sixteenth composition
The group performed as a duet Eva - Albina until the closure of VIA Gra was announced in January 2013.
Together with Konstantin Meladze, ex-participants Vinnitskaya, Granovskaya, Sedokova, Dzhanabaeva, Bagaudinova and Dimopoulos selected new girls. Vera Brezhneva became the host of the show.
As for Eva and Albina, like most of the participants, they managed to realize themselves outside the project. Bushmina began to sing under the pseudonym Layah, married businessman Dmitry Lanovoy, and gave birth to a daughter.
Albina in 2014 gave Valery Meladze a second son. By this time, the musician had already divorced his first wife. Today, the singer performs solo, shoots videos and plays in the theater.
Seventeenth composition
Soloists: Erika Herceg, Anastasia Kozhevnikova, Misha Romanova
(October 2013 - March 2018)
On October 25, 2013, the show determined three winners. In the final, the girls presented the composition "Truce", which became the hallmark of the new VIA Gra.
Erika Herceg was born in the village of Malaya Dobron. While studying at the Lyceum, she sang in the church choir. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Management. She became famous for the fact that for the sake of her modeling career, she got rid of 30 kg in 8 months. Before joining the group, Erica starred in a candid photo shoot for Playboy magazine.
The second participant Anastasia Kozhevnikova is from Yuzhnoukrainsk. Before joining the group, she studied at the second year of the Kyiv National University majoring in management.
Misha Romanova (Natalia Mogilenets) was born in Kherson. She won prizes at children's music competitions many times. She graduated from the Kyiv Variety and Circus Academy. Misha's stage debut took place in Gorlovka, where she sang a duet with Max Barskikh.
According to the results of "Tophit-2014", the updated VIA Gra entered the top ten most rotated teams on the air. In June 2015, the group received the golden plate of Muz-TV for the eighth time, becoming the most successful pop group of the award.
Erika Herceg, Anastasia Kozhevnikova, Misha Romanova
Eighteenth composition
Vocalists: Erika Herceg, Anastasia Kozhevnikova, Olga Meganskaya
(March - September 2018)
Olga Meganskaya, Anastasia Kozhevnikova and Erika Herceg
In March 2018, Romanova announced her departure from the project for personal reasons. She was replaced by a native of Yaroslavl Olga Meganskaya. The girl is studying at the pop department of the Leningrad College of Culture and Arts as a vocal teacher. Before joining the group, she performed at various enterprises and corporate parties. She took part in blind auditions in the show "Voice", but the teams were recruited before she went on stage.
Nineteenth composition
Soloists: Erika Herceg, Olga Meganskaya, Ulyana Sinetskaya
(September 2018 - present)
Ulyana Sinetskaya, Erika Herceg and Olga Meganskaya
On August 24, 2018, Anastasia Kozhevnikova announced during her wedding banquet that she would not renew her contract and would start her own career. In the winter of 2019, her debut video “Love You” was released.
In this composition, the premiere of the video “I fell in love with a monster” took place and the show called “VIA Gra” continued.
In 2020, VIA Gra will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its creative activity. The words "she sang in VIA Gre" became a kind of quality mark of female attractiveness. Almost all the ex-soloists continued their careers after leaving and were not lost in the open spaces of show business. Therefore, we will not worry about the fact that the team changes too often. After all, there is never too much beauty and talent.