Also known as Natalia Letova Role Musician Name Natalia Chumakova | Occupation(s) 1997-present | |
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Birth name Natalia Yurievna Chumakova Born 14 July 1969 (age 54)
Kyrgyz SSR ( 1969-07-14 ) Instruments singing, bass guitar, keyboards Labels GrOb-records, HOR, Misteriya Zvuka, Vyrgorod Spouse Yegor Letov (m. 1997–2008) Music group Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Since 1997) Genres Punk rock, Post-punk, Garage rock, Psychedelic rock People also search for Yegor Letov, Konstantin Ryabinov, Yanka Dyagileva, Pavel Peretolchin Albums Zvezdopad, Zachem snyatsya sny?, Poslednii kontsert v Talline, Russkii proriv v Leningrade, Russian Breakthrough In Lening | ||
Associated acts Grazhdanskaya Oborona | ||
Natalia Yurievna Chumakova (Russian: Наталья Юрьевна Чумакова (Летова)) is a Russian musician and journalist best known for being the widow of Egor Letov.
History
She was born in 1969 in Kyrgyzstan.
She first met Egor Letov at the funeral of his first girlfriend Yanka Dyagileva in 1991, but didn't marry him until 1997, when she joined Grazhdanskaya Oborona as bassist. She provided vocals for the track "Zachem snyatsya sny?", a studio outtake included with the 2011 vinyl reissue of the 2002 album Zvezdopad.
After Letov died in 2008, Chumakova took over his GrOb Records label. She remastered two GrOb albums: Poganaya molodezh and Instruktsiya po vyzhivaniyu and two Kommunizm albums: Soldatsky son and Khronika pikiruyushchego bombardirovshchika in early 2011. All except for IPV were released on the Stanzmarke label on vinyl in 2011. IPV, after resolution of the copyright with Roman Neumoev, was released in 2013.