Iowa how old is the girl. IOWA: biography

- Katya, recently it became known that you and the band's guitarist Leonid Tereshchenko got married ...

There hasn't been a wedding yet. We have been together for a long time and, of course, we are thinking about this event. What will it be like: solemn and crowded - for all relatives or a modest holiday - for the two of us? Chic outfits - or jeans and sneakers? I can’t say that love between us arose from the very first sight. You know, it happens that you see a person - and either intuition works, or some other inner feeling, but you understand: “He will take me away!” This idea has been circling in my head since our very first meeting. And then everything somehow happened by itself. I never told anyone about this. We started working together and then we just got together. I was incredibly lucky, Lenya is a wonderful person. He has no flaws. I like his thinking. Music unites us, because music is our life. I have no idea how representatives get along different professions. There is a belief that love lasts three years. Perhaps that is the way it is. But if, besides love, people are connected by something else: interest, friendship, respect, then three years is far from the limit!

Ekaterina Ivanchikova is known as a soloist of the popular musical group IOWA. In Russian and Belarusian show business, the singer stands out for her expressiveness and eccentricity. The compositions, poems to which the talented girl writes herself, are outstanding and emotional. This allows the group to stay on the top lines of the charts for a long time.

Biography of the singer

Katya IOWA - many fans call the talented singer that way. In fact, IOWA is the name of the group where the girl is the soloist. The real name of the singer is Ivanchikova Ekaterina Leonidovna.

Katya came from Belarus. She was born on August 18, 1987 in the town of Chausy, Mogilev Region, in an ordinary family. Her father worked as a builder, her mother worked as a kindergarten teacher. Parents loved their daughter and strongly encouraged her passion for creativity. WITH early childhood Katya was engaged in drawing, singing and dancing.

At the age of 6, she first announced her desire to become a singer. Then in 1992, the girl took 1st place in the regional competition among children's institutions. Later, her parents enrolled her in a music school in the piano class. However, playing the instrument and doing solfeggio did little to enthrall Katya. Then her vocal data left much to be desired.

Ekaterina grew up as an active and kind girl. As a child, she often brought home and provided assistance to sick and homeless animals. The future singer studied well, for which some pranks were forgiven her.

At the age of 15, the girl fell in love for the first time, which was the impetus for writing her first poems. At this time, she began to visit neighboring Mogilev frequently. This city is a kind of mecca for rock musicians in Belarus. There, Katya made new acquaintances, which later came in handy for her in conquering the stage.

More and more she thought about musical career, but for admission to the Conservatory or the Mogilev School of Culture, academic singing was required. The girl did not have enough data, and she entered Pedagogical University in Minsk, which she successfully graduated with a degree in philology and journalism.

In her student years, a career as a singer began. In 2005, Katya participated in several Belarusian television projects: "Star stagecoach" (an analogue of the Russian "Star Factory"), "Hit-moment" and "Stargazer". In 2007, she performed as a soloist in Ilya Oleinikov's musical The Prophet.

Increasingly, Katya is thinking about creating her own group. After graduation, she moved to Mogilev and got a job in her specialty. Then she met Leonid Tereshchenko - the guitarist of the future group, and a little later with Vasily Bulanov - the drummer of the group.

The composition and history of the name of the group IOWA (IOWA)

In 2008, the guys decided to create a group. At that time, the team included 3 people: Ekaterina Ivanchikova, Leonid Tereshchenko and Vasily Bulanov.

The guys had no money, they had to earn extra money. Katya worked as a waitress and sang in restaurants. Once she was even hospitalized due to tobacco smoke poisoning. The group did not immediately decide on a style. At first, the guys were addicted hard rock. Katya sang in the manner of growling and almost planted her voice because of this.

Fans are interested in the meaning of the group's name: who came up with what IOWA is and how this abbreviation is translated correctly. The fact is that friends called the young aspiring singer because of her passion for the work of the Slipknot group.

IOWA stands for "Idiots Always Walk Around", which literally translates as "Idiots Always Walk Around". Despite such a strange decoding, Katya liked the nickname. Therefore, the newly minted team did not have any questions about how they should be called. The guys gave the group this name - the nickname of the soloist.

Now it has 6 people. In addition to the 3 founders of the group, keyboardist Andrey Artemiev, drummer Ruslan Gadzhimuradov and bass player Alexander Gavrilov joined the team. The producer of the group is Oleg Baranov.

Musical creativity

Since 2008, the guys have been singing in bars and cafes. Once they managed to perform as an opening act at a concert by Animal Jazz. In 2010, they received an offer to perform in St. Petersburg at the apartment from Vitaly Glushchak. At that moment, the guys had no money. They sold some of their instruments, took $100 with them and went to another country.

Difficulties began at the station. In the exchange office they were given 500 rubles instead of 2500. Despite this, the guys liked the city so much that they decided to move to St. Petersburg. Members of the group recall that they came across helpful people always ready to help. For example, at a concert they met 2 girls who offered them accommodation and then helped with stage costumes.

The group even performed on the streets, collecting money for numbers from passers-by. Later they got a job at a factory where they painted decorative candles. At this time, their "Simple Song" was already playing on the radio, and a video was filmed. It is considered the first song of the group. But this composition did not bring them popularity.

The group members used all known ways to get noticed. They handed out CDs, applied for various festivals. So they were noticed by the future producer Oleg Baranov. It happened when the team auditioned for a performance on Scarlet Sails.

Oleg did not like the work of the group at all and the way they behaved on stage. However, he noted the charisma and energy of the guys, which allowed him to see future stars in them. The musicians were delighted with the new acquaintance and agreed to cooperate. After that, the touring life of the group began. Oleg changed the style of the team, helped to decide on the images and direction.

In 2012, the guys get into the TV show "Red Star" on Channel One. After that, they shoot a video for the song "Mom". This composition becomes their first hit. On the Internet, the video quickly gained a million views. The same year of release is also for the video “Smile”, the song from which Katya sings in an advertisement for phones.

And in the middle of the year, the group receives a special prize at the New Wave competition and the title of Discovery of the Year at the Belarusian National Music Award.

At the beginning of 2013, the guys participate in the TV show "Let's Get Married" with the song "Looking for a Husband" and in " big dance with the song "Mom". In 2014, the group's first single called "One and the Same" was released, and the song itself sounds like a soundtrack to the sitcom "Kitchen". In the same series, a little later, the song "Smile" appears. And "A Simple Song" falls into the series "Fizruk".

Increasingly, Katya and the group are invited to various ceremonies and festivals. The guys collaborate with famous brands. In 2014, the group released their debut album "Export". The team continues to conduct active concert activities and shoot videos. A year later, IOWA receives the first award at the Golden Gramophone 2015 award. In early 2016, the group released their mega-hit "Minibus".

Katya also worked on the voice acting of several cartoons. She speaks in her voice main character movie "Sheep and Wolves: Mad Transformation". The title soundtrack "Be Yourself" also belongs to the authorship of the singer.

Released in November 2016 new album"Import" group. Ekaterina Ivanchikova performed the song “Beat the Beat” on the air of the 5th season of the show “Voice” together with Mikhail Zhitov and Sardor Milano. IOWA performed on Big Love Show and Evening Urgant”, and their new album was awarded in the nomination “Best Belarusian pop album” of the award of the portal “Experty.by”.

In 2017, the group went on the Bad Dance tour and gave a starting concert in St. Petersburg. In the same year, the guys were lucky to record a joint composition with the soloist group System of a Down by Serj Tankian.

It was the soundtrack "A Beautiful Day to Die" for the film "The Legend of Kolovrat". By the end of the year, the team receives several more awards and starred in " New Year's Eve on Channel One.

In 2018, the guys released new single“You are silent on me” and recorded a duet with Elena Temnikova.

Personal life

First love

Love overtook Katya at a young age. She was only 15 years old, her chosen one was older. Then, under the influence of the first feelings, the girl began to write poetry. The novel was short-lived. However, he left a mark on Katya's work. The girl became even more strengthened in the desire to become a singer.

Leonid Tereshchenko

At the beginning of her career, Catherine did not reveal the secrets of her personal life. According to the singer, she had no time to think about novels, because after moving to St. Petersburg and starting performances, their days were scheduled by the minute.

However, already at that time she had developed romantic relationship with the band's guitarist Leonid Tereshchenko. From the first days they understood each other perfectly. For a long time Their relationship was friendly, and later grew into love. A romance began between the guys.

Katya always dreamed of a reliable and sensitive man nearby. This is exactly what her chosen one turned out to be. According to the guys, joint work does not interfere with their relationship at all, and even brings the couple even closer.

did not affect the feelings of young people and candid photos female artists for men's publications. Katya's photos appeared on the pages of Maxim and Playboy magazines. According to the couple, they understand that this is the price they pay for fame.

Despite the high growth of the singer and her model figure, Katya rarely pampers her fans. candid shots. She recently posted on Instagram a photo in a swimsuit, in which she is relaxing with Leonid.

Wedding

The couple's romantic relationship lasted 10 years. Leonid made an offer in 2012. According to Katya, it happened in mall when they went shopping with their mother. Lenya unexpectedly presented the bride with a huge bouquet of roses and a ring. The girl agreed.

The guys signed in the same year at the Chaussky registry office. However dense tour schedule did not allow the couple to immediately arrange a celebration. It took another 4 years before the newlyweds had a real wedding.

It happened in the fall of 2016. The guys secretly got married in Karelia in an abandoned church of 1935 in the village of Lumivaara. The date of the ceremony was not made public, so the guys had only close relatives and friends at the wedding. Journalists and fans learned about the event only a few days later, when Katya posted a photo on Instagram in wedding dress. The guys admit that the celebration took place in a warm and romantic atmosphere. And the Comedy guys invited as hosts did not even charge the newlyweds.

Kate , tell me how you, such a sweet girl, got attached to the nickname IOWA in honor of the title of the Slipknot album?
Oh, this is such a joke! They began to call me that in my native Belarus. I hung out at the apartment with heavy teams, I also tried to growl. And they gave me that nickname. And later I found out that the album is not named after american state Iowa, and the consonant abbreviation "Idiots Always Walk Around". We constantly repeat our mistakes - I like the meaning of my nickname.

Wait, wait! Did you sing in the growling technique?
It was terrible! I don't know how I survived. It's very difficult, actually. You are constantly straining your ligaments. But I had a whole concert in this style in Mogilev! Or a five-hour rehearsal during which you growl all the time.

And how did you come...
In pop?

Well why at once in a pop-music. To lighter music!
After moving to St. Petersburg, we began to write more cheerful songs. Well, still people pass different stages. In adolescence, I had the song "She was burned like Jeanne d'Arc" and similar depressive creativity. But all these sad songs were incoherent, they lacked integrity, harmony. And in St. Petersburg everything worked out, everything became brighter!
I also love to mix and match. I like folk with jazz, rock with pop and hip-hop. There are no boundaries or rules in music. I like it when they rap in classic costumes, when they skillfully combine soul and rock, as, for example, John Newman and Stromae do. That's what I wanted to mix. For example, I have not completely abandoned growling. While performing the song “I'm crazy” on stage, I growl when the heroine of the song quarrels with her boyfriend. And by the way, for two years I was engaged in academic singing - I also use this skill, of course. I also want to learn how to beatbox and play the guitar well.

So are you all from Belarus?
Yes, many years ago we came to St. Petersburg with the guys, settled together, got a job at a factory.

Where?!
We worked at a factory on Pionerskaya Street and painted New Year's candles to our own songs, which were already played on the radio. Well, how? It was necessary to pay for the apartment, to live somehow. We worked there for a year, recorded "Mom" in parallel, and suddenly it started to spin. Therefore, I want to say to desperate readers and our fans who often write that their labors are futile: “Just do what you love, and everything will grow together, because you really want it!”.

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From the factory to show business. And how do you like the status of popular musicians?
We still have not felt it, we do not fully understand what is happening. In general, we are quite closed people- Our circle of friends is narrow, and therefore our life has not fundamentally changed. Yes, we travel a lot, people began to see more, but we don’t feel famous. Even our songs are not immediately recognized on TV or on the radio. Although it is nice that different shows or competitions children sing our songs. This is happiness! Someone sends wedding photos with a comment that they met at our concert, they organize flash mobs to our songs, wish each other a happy birthday. That's when you realize that your songs are connected with someone's memory. Cool!

Your group has been going to the first album for five whole years.
This is our omission. We should have been in the studio much earlier, but we just didn't have the time. After the release of the song "Mama", we began active tours, we could not record, the clips were made in a hurry. Thank God that the tour is still going on, that there are many of them and they want to see us. But due to this rush, we, unfortunately, did not have time to make an album. I promise that with the next album we will not delay.

How would you describe your average listener? Who is this album for?
I used to check the statistics of views on Youtube and realized that different songs have different listeners. "Mama" was watched by girls from 12 to 25 years old who wanted to be like a lyrical heroine: to leave their mother, fall in love, become independent. And then there were other songs and other people, and it was so nice that we were able to capture a wide audience. I am glad that completely different people began to come to our concerts, including people of age. I recently wrote a poet who is 77! He says that we have very funny songs. He considered it necessary for me to write and express his attitude, I was pleasantly surprised. One day a 58-year-old woman, a biology teacher, came from a small village. I came with my daughter (and she doesn’t listen to us, it’s her mother who is a fan). One elderly couple tore off the thorns of roses so that I would not prick myself, and then they kissed me as if they were their relative. Children also listen to us, but the problem is that they are not allowed to concerts. I struggled for a long time with the fact that our shows have a limit of +18. Often we give club performances, but children are not allowed to go to clubs. But soon there will be solo albums without age restrictions.