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Birth name Vera Viktorovna GalushkaVіra Vіktorіvna GalushkaVera Viktorovna Galushka Born Occupation(s) Singer, presenter, actress Albums Lyubov spasyot mir, VERVERA, Biologiya, Stop! Stop! Stop!, Stop! Snyato! Movies No Love in the City, The Jungle, Yolki Similar Svetlana Loboda, Albina Dzhanabaeva, Anna Sedokova Profiles | ||
Vera Brezhneva - Insomnia
Vera Brezhneva - Feel
Vera Viktorovna Galushka (Ukrainian: Віра Вікторівна Галушка; Russian: Вера Викторовна Галушка; born 3 February 1982), better known by her stage name Vera Brezhneva (Russian: Вера Брежнева), is a Ukrainian and Russian pop-singer, television presenter and actress.
Contents
- Vera Brezhneva Insomnia
- Vera Brezhneva Feel
- Family
- Nu Virgos also known as VIA Gra
- Game show presenter on Russian TV
- Return to music
- Films
- Albums
- Awards
- References
Family
Vera was born on 3 February 1982 in Dniprodzerzhynsk, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. Her parents were not involved in the music or entertainment business. Her father, Viktor, worked in a chemical factory. Vera's mother, Tamara, who had graduated from medical school, worked in the same factory as Vera's father. Vera has three sisters: one older (Halyna) and two younger (Nastya and Vika, twins). She bought a flat for her parents in Boryspil, a town close to Kiev. The father of Vera's daughter (Sonia) is Vitaliy Voychenko, to whom Vera was married for a few years. She earned a degree by correspondence from the faculty of economics of the Dnepropetrovsk Institute of Railway Engineering.
Nu Virgos (also known as "VIA Gra")
In 2002, Brezhneva was invited to a casting organized to find a girl to replace Alena Vinnitskaya and she won. In January 2003 Nu Virgos started performing in the new configuration (Nadiya, Anna and Vera) that, due to its amazing popularity, gained the name of "the golden line up".
In July 2007, Brezhneva decided to have a break from the band, which ended in December 2007 with the official announcement of her leaving Nu Virgos. Vera was replaced in the group by Tatiana Kotova.
Game-show presenter on Russian TV
Brezhneva was the presenter of the Russian version of the Power of 10 game-show called Магия 10-ти (lit. Magic of 10), which ran on Channel One Russia for two seasons from 7 January 2008 to 31 August 2008.
Return to music
In May 2008, Vera premiered her first single called Ya Ne Igrayu (Я Не Играю;I Don't Play). The song was written by her former producer Konstantin Meladze. The second single Nirvana came out on 27 October 2008. Third single Ljubov v bolshom gorode (Love in the big city) was released in 2009. Then she appeared in the video Leto vsegda (Summer forever) of the group Diskoteka Avariya with actresses Anastasia Zadorozhnaya & Svetlana Khodchenkova. The fourth single was released in April - Ljubov spaset mir (Love will save the world) and reached #1 in Russian Airplay Weekly. The next single Pronto, a duet with Potap was released in September. Her sixth single was a duet with Dan Balan Lepestkami slez (Лепестками слез; Petals tears). Early in 2011, Vera premiered her new single Real'naya jizn, and at the end of 2011 the single Sexy Bambina and early in 2012 the single Ishu tebya were released.
Films
Vera has appeared in a number of Russian-language films. She played Katya in the film Love in the Big City (Любовь в большом городе) in 2009 and its two sequels in 2010 and 2013. She also had a major part as herself in Yolki (Ёлки) and "Yolki 2", and appeared in Jungle (Джунгли). Most of her film work has been in romantic comedies.
Albums
Studio albums
Awards
Vera Brezhneva has been the recipient of numerous awards including the celebrated title of the “Woman of the Year” in Russia. She is considered one of the most beautiful women. In 2007 and 2012, she was named the sexiest woman in Russia by the men’s magazine Maxim.