Diana Sergeevna Arbenina (nee Kulachenko; genus. Honored Artist of the Chechen Republic.
In the biography of Arbenina there are many interesting facts, which we will tell about in this article.
So, before you is a short biography of Diana Arbenina.
Biography of Arbenina
Diana Arbenina was born on July 8, 1974 in the Belarusian city of Volozhin. She grew up in a family of journalists Sergei Ivanovich and Galina Anisimovna.
Due to the work of her parents, Diana managed to live in different places, including Kolyma, Chukotka and Magadan. After graduation, she entered the Magadan Pedagogical Institute at the Department of Foreign Languages, where she studied for a couple of years.
Having moved to St. Petersburg, Arbenina graduated from the local university, where she studied at the faculty of Russian as a foreign language.
The girl began writing songs at the age of 17. It is curious that it was during that period of her biography that she composed the famous composition "Frontier". It is worth noting that then Diana performed exclusively at amateur concerts.
Music
In 1993, Arbenina met Svetlana Suroganova. The girls quickly found a common language with each other, as a result of which the "Night Snipers" group soon appeared.
In the period 1994-1996. the artists have performed at various music festivals in the city on the Neva.
In the middle of 1998, "Night Snipers" presented their 1st album "A Drop of Tar / In a Barrel of Honey", which was a success. They began touring Russia and other countries, gathering full houses at their concerts.
The following year, Arbenina and Suroganova recorded the disc "Babbling", which consisted of songs written in the period 1989-1995. In 2001, the album "Rubezh" was released. In addition to the composition of the same name, the song "31st Spring" gained great popularity, which even now can be often heard on the radio.
After that Diana and Svetlana presented their famous CD "Tsunami", which brought them even greater fame. It was attended by such hits as "You Gave Me Roses", "Steamers", "Catastrophically", "Tsunami" and "Capital".
At the end of 2002, Suroganova announced her retirement from the band, in connection with which Diana became the only soloist of "Snipers".
In 2003, Arbenina with the rest of the group recorded the acoustic album "Trigonometry". After 3 years, the guys gave 2 concerts of "Shimauta" in the Russian capital together with the Japanese artist Kazufumi Miyazawa, after which they went to perform with the same lineup in Japan.
Then Diana, together with the group "Bi-2", performed the compositions "Slow Star", "Because of Me" and "White Clothes".
In 2007-2008, she participated in the television project "Two Stars", where her partner was the actor Yevgeny Dyatlov. As a result, the duo took the honorable 2nd place.
In 2011, Arbenina, as a mentor, participated in the Ukrainian show "Voice of the Country". An interesting fact is that her ward, Ivan Ganzera, took first place. In the second season, her ward named Pavel Tabakov won again.
By that time, "Night Snipers" had managed to record such albums as "SMS", "Koshika", "Bonnie & Clyde", "Army" and "4".
In addition to studio recordings, Arbenina wrote dozens of soundtracks for various films. Her songs sounded in the films Azazel, Tochka, Rasputin, Radio Day, We are from the Future 2 and many others.
At the same time, Diana Arbenina published many books in which readers could familiarize themselves with her poems and see interesting photos of the singer. Over the years of her biography, she published more than ten collections of poetry. In 2017, the girl presented the book "Tilda", written in the genre of prose.
In the period 2013-2018. the singer has recorded the albums "Boy on a Ball", "Only Lovers Will Survive" and "I Can Fly Without You." In addition, many singles by Arbenina were released, where the most popular were "Tsoi", "Instagram" and "Ringtone".
In 2015, Diana entered the theater for the first time, playing Bagheera in the production of Generation M. The following year, an exhibition of her art paintings was organized in the Central House of Artists. At that time of her biography, she also hosted the author's program "The Last Hero" on "Our Radio".
Personal life
In the press and on TV, news often comes across, which speaks of Arbenina's unconventional orientation. However, such rumors are not supported by reliable facts.
In 1993, Diana married Konstantin Arbenin, the frontman of the Winter Animals group. It is worth noting that this alliance was fictitious and was concluded only for the sake of registration in St. Petersburg. Over time, the couple broke up, while the girl decided to leave her husband's last name.
In February 2010, in a US hospital, Arbenina gave birth to twins - a girl Martha and a boy Artyom. Since she never talked about the father of the children, journalists suggested that the singer could have resorted to artificial insemination.
Later, the artist nevertheless admitted that the father of Martha and Artem is a surgeon, whom she met in America.
In addition to playing the guitar, Diana can play the accordion and piano.
Diana Arbenina today
In 2018, Night Snipers celebrated their 25th anniversary. In 2019, Arbenina was invited to the judging panel of the show "You are super!" At the same time in the comedy "Mistresses" the singer's soundtrack sounded - "I can fly without you." In addition, the album "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" was released.
As of 2020, Diana has written over 250 songs and over 150 poems, stories and essays.
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