Biography of singer Athena. Radio chanson broadcast

Athena is the brightest, temperamental and hottest singer of the St. Petersburg stage, an independent warrior and has an amazing velvety voice. She captivated her viewers and listeners not only with her bright vocals, but also with her unbridled energy.

Performer of the most popular song genre in Russia. This is a pop chanson lyrical song. The singer Athena, whose biography is very touching and rich, sings with her heart and gives every fan a piece of her soul. Her music can touch the deepest strings of a person. Anyone who listens to her songs once will never be able to forget about them.

Singer Athena: biography, year of birth, early years

Athena was born in 1962, October 4th. Her name is real, it is of Greek origin. A girl was born in Kazakhstan in creative family: Her parents loved to dance, sing and attend opera and ballet. Her younger sister soon also joined the creative life.

Thanks to her grandmother, from childhood she became familiar with the song world of the Greek people, where the roots of her parents lead. The singer Athena herself mentioned these episodes of her life more than once. The artist’s biography, family - all this is very interesting and we will talk about this in detail in the article.

More than once, relatives supported me in creative endeavors and helped develop my talent and direct it in the right direction. This makes her style of performance individual and completely unparalleled in Russian show business.

She spent her entire childhood and youth in Sukhumi, but at the age of 17 she ran away to Leningrad to start studying and working part-time. Due to her decision and actions, she whole year did not communicate with my father, who was offended. Despite her regular calls, letters and requests, for some time her father was adamant.

The wonderful singer Athena, whose biography, year of birth and the beginning of her career are of interest to fans, was able to reach incredible heights in the music industry. This woman surprises not only with her temperament and emotionality, but also with her childish naivety, openness and trustfulness towards everyone around her.

In addition, the singer has such a charming voice that it is able to ignite a spark of hope and faith in the listener and make them realize that everything will be fine. This is her essence, her true mood, she rightfully bears the name of a mythical goddess.

Musical career: ups and downs

The young singer’s artistic career began quite by accident: she went to a restaurant and sang the song “Without Me, To You, My Beloved.” All visitors to the establishment simply cried, believing in the girl’s sincerity. As soon as she finished singing, she was immediately offered a job.

Southern temperament, talent and great desire singing played a primary role in her future fate. After 15 years of working in a restaurant, Athena finally decided to take on a solo project. She had to start all over again and defend her place in the world of the music industry. Now she appeared before the audience in the image of a gentle and beautiful mythological goddess.

This image stuck with her for many years. Since 2010, the performer’s concerts are not held under “minus”, which have become the traditional system of tours for artists, but live, accompanied by her musical group. At concerts, she prefers not to deceive listeners, but to give them exclusively real live sound.

Music albums

• In 2006 - the 1st album “Sky in October”.
• In 2007 - the second album entitled “Tent of Stars”.
• In 2008 - 2 albums: “ Best songs", "It will be so."
• In 2010 - the CD collection “New Best”, a selection of old hits and new ones.

The performer is loved both in Russia and abroad. She, in turn, is ready to do a lot for her fans, from recording beautiful lyrical songs to the sweet childish smile that she gives to everyone who looks at her.

Awards and recognition of the singer

Today, singer Athena, whose biography is impressive and diverse, combines cultural, aesthetic beauty, diligence and sincerity. 2009 was a memorable year for the artist: in Brussels she was awarded the Mary Magdalene medal. It is awarded for invaluable contribution V world culture in the field of charity. A year later, she received the well-deserved “Woman of the Year” award, which was established by the administration of St. Petersburg.

Many music radio stations celebrate Athena’s talent and presentation and award her the most prestigious prizes. She received the award People's love" from the radio station "Piter FM", twice became the laureate of the "Road Radio Star", also the laureate of the "Chanson of the Year in the Kremlin" award, became a participant in the festival " Slavic Marketplace"in Vitebsk, "Eh, take a walk" at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex in Moscow, participated in international festival"Stars of chanson in Kazakhstan."

Singer Athena: biography, personal life today

Unfortunately, she was unable to create her own strong and reliable family. The girl got married while still a student, and the marriage turned out to be fleeting. Despite the fact that the singer’s upbringing was strict and serious, according to all Greek canons, she believes that she is not meant for the kitchen and home comfort. She feels much freer on stage with listeners than as a housewife.

This strong-willed woman showed that loneliness can bring happiness. Now we have seen how interesting it is life path Athena (singer) is coming. The biography, in which her daughter Anastasia occupies the main place, is truly impressive.

The artist's life motto

The most important thing for Athena is that those people who attend her performances sing and dance with her, rejoice and cry from an excess of emotions. After all, each of her songs, as the artist herself admits, is her line own life. She once said that music for her is the true soul, the rhythm of the heart, thoughts, this movement, this is her life.

On Russian stage It’s difficult now to find a singer whose career did not include the so-called “restaurant” period. Laima Vaikule, Lolita Milyavskaya, Olga Kormukhina, more than a dozen names can be added to this list, many of whom have become real stars.

Singer Athena has been on stage for a total of more than 20 years. She managed to record a duet with Tatyana Bulanova (the song “Women’s Friendship” has been a hit in many karaoke bars for several years), became a laureate of the “Chanson of the Year” award in the Kremlin, and received the “Woman of the Year” award in the “Culture” category from the Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko. Her songs are heard on many Russian radio stations, and she has toured all over the country. And Athena began her creative journey with performances in a restaurant.

She will begin her blog specifically for “Cleo” with a story about this.

From the early childhood I dreamed of having big house, family and loving husband. It seemed to me that I could become a good wife and mother. I wanted a lot of children and a big, cozy house. But life decreed otherwise; my husband and I, unfortunately, diverged.

This happened a couple of weeks after the divorce. I walked along the streets of St. Petersburg and cried, as always. I actually cried a lot at that time. I went to the Neva restaurant on Nevsky Prospekt. There were few people, she was playing live music, some kind of slow melody. I sat down at the table and was overcome with a passionate desire to sing. I must say, I always sang well and I knew about it, I often performed at concerts at the institute. I asked the musicians to allow me to perform the song. They agreed, and I sang “Without Me to You, My Beloved” by Alla Pugacheva. I admit, without undue modesty, everyone was crying: both visitors and staff. The main thing is that it also became easier for me. A feeling appeared that had been forgotten in recent weeks: “I am alive!” The musicians really liked my performance and they invited me to join the team. We can say that from that night everything started to spin.

To paraphrase the immortal words of Dickens, I can say that “it was a wonderful time, it was a terrible time,” very terrible. As I already said, this was one of the best restaurants in St. Petersburg. He was visited by stars of show business, cinema, famous politicians. “Criminal authorities” were also frequent guests. I admit that I enjoyed some special love among them. Many said it was all because of me strong character. Things happened to us that could cost our lives. I recently gave a short interview to Starhit magazine and told how I once got into a shootout with Igor Kornelyuk and Alexander Barykin. We waited under the table. We can say that, in general, they protected me from bullets. I was really scared then. I remember everything as it is now.

At that time I sang almost everything: chansons, romances, foreign “classics” (Edith Piaf, Ella Fitzgerald, George Benson, etc.), Russian and foreign pop songs. The best songs were those of Pugacheva and Uspenskaya. That’s what they called me back then – “St. Petersburg’s Uspenskaya”. One day Lyuba had dinner in our restaurant after a performance, and I sang her song. She really liked it, we met that evening and became friends. Afterwards I wrote backing for a couple of her songs. Sometimes she performed in her concerts. Then, to my great regret, our relationship came to naught. I never understood why and I still miss our communication. She kindest person. I always smile when I remember how I came to visit her and she fed me her delicious dinners. For me, she has always been the only queen of chanson!

Working in a restaurant brought me into contact with many the most talented people our country. I achieved some success in this field, people started talking about me in St. Petersburg. Once I was invited to a meeting by actress Anna Samokhina. She started studying at that time restaurant business and had heard a lot about me. She offered cooperation and was very good conditions. I agreed. We started work and, by the way, promoted her restaurant very well. We spent time there around the clock. Celebrities began to come to us. There was Bezrukov and Rimma Markova. World celebrities often came to us after their concerts (Toto Cutugno, Gypsy Kings, Scorpions). Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko made a special impression on me. Always cheerful and carefree, no matter what happens to her. She was good at hiding her emotions from prying eyes. Whitney Houston also came to see us and even sang one of her songs with us. It’s impossible to list all the artists. It hurts to realize that many of them are no longer there. Anya has always been very supportive of me, and, probably, it was she who pushed me to start studying solo career. She called me Athena and constantly said that I had not been a restaurant singer for a long time, that I could conquer the stage. Then I decided! No sponsors, no producers. I saved money, bought songs with it, recorded them and... a year later I already had solo concert at BKZ. The hall was full, since Peter knew me, and many people used to go to restaurants specifically to listen to me. Then I managed to record my debut album, and away we go...

Burning love
Cute
I don't trust men
Nastya
New Year's
Warmed up
Podari (and Konstantin Kostomarov)
Just me and you

Music for me is the soul, it is the rhythm of the heart, it is thought, it is movement, it is life... This is my life... (Athena)

Athena is the most temperamental, charismatic and feminine singer of the St. Petersburg stage, a proud warrior and a sensual, gentle woman, the owner of an unusual deep velvet voice. She captivates the audience with her vocals and burning energy. A performer in one of the most popular song genres - pop chanson, lyrical song. Athena sings with her heart, giving everyone a piece of herself... Her work touches the most subtle and unexpected strings of the human soul.

Creative path

Athena is the real name of the St. Petersburg singer Greek origin(first and last name - Athena Delionidi). She was born in Kazakhstan, on October 3 (the site editors were unable to find out the year of birth) in a very musical family - loving music and singing, thanks to her mother and grandmother, from early childhood Athena became familiar with the song wealth of her Greek people, where the roots of her ancestors go. Therefore, this singer’s performance style is deeply individual and has no analogues on the Russian stage. Athena spent her childhood and youth in Sukhumi, and at the age of 17 she fled to St. Petersburg to study and work.

Graduated from St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts.

From an interview with Athena: “...I ran away from home to St. Petersburg at the age of 17. Family traditions They were very serious and had a good upbringing. I want to say that I always had respect for my parents, but I could not understand these views - the infringement of women's dignity. When girls get married, they start becoming aunts and don’t take care of themselves. They are obliged to stay at home, wash, clean and feed their husband. I was a fighting girl, so all this was against me. I couldn't obey anyone at all. I had to go through a lot in this life. Alone in the city, there was no stake, no yard. Because I left home, daddy didn’t talk to me for a year. I called him, wrote letters... Once I told him: “I will never disgrace your name, honor!" For my parents, my departure was traumatic, but then I proved to them that everything was fine with me. After the Institute, I got married and gave birth to a daughter. Family was the basis for me in life, but, unfortunately, the relationship with my husband did not work out and we separated. As fate would have it, one day I came to a restaurant, had an inexorable desire to sing, went on stage and sang “Without me, my beloved.” The whole restaurant was crying. I was offered to work there, and I agreed. And so the road to musical creativity, along which I have been walking for 20 years, no matter what the circumstances, I walk sincerely and boldly, trying to support the cruel laws of the music industry ... "

Southern temperament, natural talent, a great desire to sing, strength of character, stubbornness and assertiveness played a decisive role in the singer’s career, and after 15 years of restaurant work, Athena finally decided to pursue a solo career. Athena started all over again, with “ clean slate“, and again she had to defend her “place in the sun” in the Northern capital. She appeared before the audience in a new stage image of a beautiful, touching, gentle, but at the same time strong mythological “Goddess”.

The Greek temperament of the Northern Capital is an image that has stuck with Athena in recent years.

To date, Athena has already released four solo albums:

2006 - the first album “Sky in October”.
Simultaneously with the album, a video of the same name directed by Alexander Igudin was released on television.

2007 - second album “Tent of Stars”.

2008 – two new albums; the collection “Best Songs” and the album “It Will Be So...”

2010 – double CD collection “New and Best”, which presents a selection of old hits and completely new songs written specifically for the singer’s anniversary.

The main thing in creativity for Athena is that people who come to her concerts, together with her and the heroes of her songs, cry and laugh, are happy and sad, empathize, dance and sing along. Each song is a line of her own life. The singers' repertoire is designed for different listeners, both according to age category and style of musical taste. Today musical compositions The singers occupy leading positions in the charts of both regional radio stations and federal broadcasting radio stations:

Radio “Peter FM” (St. Petersburg, Vyborg)
- Road radio (broadcast throughout Russia)
- Russian radio(Kaliningrad, Saratov, Volgograd, Minsk)
- Radio Rocks (Minsk)
- Radio Keks FM (Russia).

Since 2010, Athena’s concerts have been held not only according to the now-traditional “minus” performance system, but also accompanied by their own “live” band. At her performances, Athena never deceives her listeners and sings exclusively “live”, without recognizing phonograms.

St. Petersburg singer Athena is a person who combines culture, talent, aesthetic beauty, as well as hard work and decency. In 2010, the singer received the “Woman of the Year 2010” award in the “Culture” category, established by the administration of St. Petersburg. Day after day, Athena works on herself, develops, continues to reveal her talent in order to give beautiful, life-affirming, gentle, lyrical songs to you, our dear listeners and fans!

IN last days In the summer of 2013, the single “Darling” is released, and at the end of November the singer pleases new song“But I knew.”

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Athena is not stage name, this is a tribute to the singer's Greek roots.
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She was born in Kazakhstan, in a very musical family - loving music and singing, lived in Sukhumi, and at the age of 17 she ran away to St. Petersburg to study and work. Graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Culture.
The singer’s creative path has been going on for about fifteen years. In 2006, Athena recorded her first album, “Sky in October,” and released a video of the same name directed by Alexander Igudin on television. In 2007, the singer’s second album, “Tent of Stars,” was released; in 2008, two new albums of the singer, “Collection best songs" and an album of completely new songs, work on which is in full swing.
Interview with Athena: “Athena is my real name. I fully correspond to him. I am also a warrior, like her, literally and in figuratively words..."
“I ran away from home to St. Petersburg at the age of 17. Family traditions were very serious, and the upbringing was good. I want to say that I always had respect for my parents, but I could not understand these views - the infringement of women's dignity. When girls get married, they start becoming aunts and don’t take care of themselves. They are obliged to stay at home, wash, clean and feed their husband. I was a fighting girl, so all this was against me. I couldn’t obey anyone at all.”
“I had to go through a lot in this life. Alone in the city, there was no stake, no yard. I unloaded the carriages, washed the toilets...”
"IN next year I have two anniversaries: my twentieth anniversary creative career and my birthday, fiftieth anniversary"
“Now there is a struggle, before it was only in pop music, now everyone is fighting for themselves. It's hard to survive. But I can say for sure that my work over the years has not been in vain, my audience has expanded, new songs are constantly appearing. Everything happens the way I want. I believe that my work is not in vain"
"All my Life is going war and the fight against envy, anger, injustice. I can't calm down. It’s just that everyone in this life needs to be kinder, love those around them, you can’t envy, be evil and greedy. All these qualities eat up the internal organs.”
“I never believe when they say: “I don’t have enough time for this or that. The more you do, the more you accomplish. “I go to training, take care of myself, devote time to my daughter, and go on vacation.”
“I'm not married now. I am very strong by nature. And a weak man, unfortunately, is unacceptable to me. Now I’m looking... So men, you can send your applications” (laughs)

“My mother sang amazingly in different teams, and my daddy danced very well. I remember the moments when she and my dad danced tango at some parties - it was, of course, a crazy spectacle... In general, if we talk about my family, I was lucky, I had a very good family. There was me, there was my mother, father and two more sisters. My dad died, my sister died, and my mom stayed, she stayed younger sister, who is in Athens, she also sings amazingly, she is a housewife, she has three sons, but she finds time for creativity"
“I owe my talent to my family, it was passed down genetically. And not only the voice, the figure, and the body. When I say that my daughter will soon be 27, and I will be 50 next year, everyone is, of course, shocked. Everyone notices: “You don’t need to tell you your age!” I answer: “This is all nonsense, let those who look bad be afraid, but I look fine - thanks to mom and dad!” And now I’m having my next wedding, well, I love getting married (laughs), my mother says: “Daughter, what a figure you have, how beautiful you are!” (smiles)
“I was very militant. Parents always wanted a boy, but a girl appeared. Dad chose me and trained me as a guy - he took me on hikes and in the mountains. He instilled strength in me, and if it weren’t for his training, I would not have survived.”
“Because I left home, daddy didn’t talk to me for a year. I called him, wrote letters... One day I told him: “I will never disgrace your name, honor!”For my parents, my departure was traumatic, but then I proved to them that everything was fine with me.”
“After the Institute, I got married and gave birth to a daughter. It turned out that my husband is a male in the full sense of the word. I, as a southern girl, tried to save the family, but now, from the height of my experience, I understand that there was nothing to glue together... We separated. I left the courtroom bawling like a beluga. My friend met me and we went to a restaurant. I don’t drink alcohol at all, after a glass of champagne I went on stage and said: “I want to sing!” She sang: “Without me, you, my beloved...” The whole restaurant was crying. I was offered to work there.
Later, David Avdysh noticed me - he is the choreographer of the Troika restaurant. He invited me to a variety show, then I went to another restaurant, then Anechka Samokhina invited me to work in her restaurant. I was very happy about this. I haven’t known a more pleasant, cozy, warm, intelligent person, it’s charm itself. We understood each other very well, we are kindred spirits, so to speak. I worked there as a restaurant singer for seven years. All this was before my own album. I sat and waited for the person to appear who would say: “Athena, leave the restaurant, write yourself an album!” Every cloud has a silver lining. The guy came and said: “You have the voice of a chanson, let’s do the Tais project.” And I was this Thais for two years. I collaborated with them, we wrote albums. They practically didn’t pay me any money, they deceived me. Later they began to offer swear words and hard chanson. I couldn’t afford it, high society knew me.”
“After some time, the opportunity arose not to depend on anyone: there is a material base, beautiful name Athena. We shot a video for the song “Sky in October” with Sasha Igudin, and I recorded an album.
Concerts have begun, Giant Hall, Gorky Palace of Culture, Oktyabrsky Concert Hall. Albums were recorded: “Tent of Stars”, collection “Bestsongs".

Russian pop singer and actress.

Athena– winner of the “Woman of the Year – 2010” awards in the “Culture” and “Road Radio Star” categories, laureate of the “Chanson of the Year in the Kremlin” award, laureate of the “Chanson of the Year” award (St. Petersburg, 2018).

Singer Athena. Biography

St. Petersburg singer of Greek origin Athena (full name artists - Athena Yanisovna Delionidi) was born on October 3, 1960 in the city of Kentau, Kazakh SSR. I spent my childhood in Sukhumi. In 1979, she moved to enter university in Leningrad, where she graduated from the St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts. According to the singer, she ran away from home to St. Petersburg when she was 17 years old. The reason was that due to the strictness of her upbringing in the family, with all respect for family and traditions, Athena did not accept the fact that female dignity was infringed in her homeland.

Athena began her singing career in one of the restaurants in the Northern capital. In 2001, the artist began collaborating with the producer Vladislav Sinitsky. In 2002, Athena, under the pseudonym Thais, released the disc “ Marafetik». Solo career began in 2005, at the same time its first one was released solo album « Sky in October" Since 2010, Athena has been giving concerts accompanied by live music. Performs compositions in the styles of pop chanson and lyrical song. Athena sang in duets with Tatyana Bulanova, Konstantin Kostomarov, Sergei Voitenko and others. She was friends with actress Anna Samokhina for several years, from the time when Anna was involved in the restaurant business.

Since 2009, Athena began to be invited to film television projects. So, she played small roles in TV series « Foundry season 3", "Streets of Broken Lanterns 12", "Nevsky".

Singer Athena. Filmography

• 2015 Nevsky
• 2012 Streets of Broken Lights-12
• 2009 Liteiny (Season 3)