Irina Bilyk: biography of the Ukrainian performer. Irina Bilyk - biography, information, personal life

Irina Nikolaevna Bilyk(ukr. Irina Mikolaivna Bilik; genus. April 6, Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) - Ukrainian singer and composer, People's Artist of Ukraine (2008).

Biography

Youth

Father Nikolai Semyonovich Bilyk was an engineer at an aircraft factory. Mother Anna Yakovlevna Bilyk worked as an engineer at an aircraft factory and works as a chef at the Inter TV channel. Brother Sergei Nikolaevich Bilyk (born 1979) graduated from the Faculty of Sociology and Law. At the age of five she started dancing. At six she became a soloist in the children's ensemble “Solnyshko”.

1990s

In 1989 she took part in the Chervona Ruta festival. A year later, with the musicians of the Ajax group Yuri Nikitin, Georgy Uchaikin and Zhan Bolotov, he took part in the creation of the group “Tsei doshch nadovgo”. In 1991, the group began cooperation with the creative agency Rostislav-Show.

In 1992 she took part in the Slavic Bazaar festival and became a laureate international festival“Song Vernissage. New Ukrainian wave." Filming of a professional video for the song “Lishe Yours” took place. In 1993 she graduated from the State School of Music them. Gliera (pop vocal department). With the group “Tsey doshch nadovgo” she took part in the festival “Maria” (Truskavets) and the first international festival “Slavic Bazaar” (Vitebsk).

In 1994, she made her debut as the host of the New Year's TV show "New Year's Night" on the state channel UT-1. In 1995, Bilyk went on the “Nova” concert tour, during which the first big solo show took place at the National Palace “Ukraine”. Some experts even call that tour the first in the history of Ukrainian popular music. In 1996, she participated in the Tavrian Games festival and received the Golden Firebird award in the Singer of the Year and Song of the Year categories (the hit “So Simple”). Irina was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine.

In 1997, the singer won the Grand Prix of the Parade of Hit Parades festival. The composition “So Simple” is recognized best song of the past year. Receives the “Golden Firebird” in the nominations Singer of the Year and Album of the Year (“So Simple”).

In 1998, Bilyk was again awarded the “Golden Firebird” award in the categories Singer of the Year and Album of the Year (“Farbi”). A year later, at the NOVA records awards ceremony, she wins in three categories - Best Singer, Best Album(“Farbi”), Best video clip (“And I’m Spitting”). At the same time he becomes the “face” of brands and companies: “Dirol wild berry”, “Peugeot 206”, “Idea Studio” (Italy).

In 2000, the pop-rock album “OMA” was released, from which the songs “Vibachai”, “Vіter”, “Bez Nazvi” were released as singles. In August 2002, she participated in the Yach Film festival (Poland), and was awarded the Pochesny Yach award in the Discovery of the Year category.

2000s

In June 2004, the first album in Russian, “Love. I ". In the first 10 days of sales, the album went platinum - sales exceeded more than 100 thousand copies. In the spring of 2005, Bilyk went on an all-Ukrainian tour with a new album. In May 2005, Irina Bilyk performed at youth festival"Tavrian Games". On August 24, 2008, on the Independence Day of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine awarded Irina Bilyk the title of People's Artist of Ukraine.

In 2006 - victory at the “Showbiz AWARD” in the category best singer. In 2007, she participated in the project “Dancing with the Stars - 2” on the TV channel “1+1”; in 2009 - in the project “People's Star” on the TV channel “Ukraine”; in 2010 - in the project “Zirka+Zirka” on the TV channel “1+1”.

2010s

In 2011 - member of the jury of the project “Factory of Stars-4” on the TV channel “New Channel”. In the same year, she won the YUNA Award in the category “Best Singer of the Twenty Years”. In January 2013, she received an award from "Road Radio" in Russia - recognized as a "People's" Artist of Russia. In March 2013, together with the group “TIK”, Irina Bilyk went on the all-Ukrainian tour “The Best Ukrainian Hits”. 24 concerts were given in a month, for which, after the end of the tour, the artists were included in the Book of Records of Ukraine with the wording - for the largest number of concerts.

Released in 2014 new album"Dawn", performed at the festival " New wave"with the song "Rassvet" and went on the "Krashche" (Best) tour in support of her new album. In May 2015, Irina gave a big solo concert“About Love” in the “Ukraine” palace, where a duet version of the song “Lonely” from the 1998 album “Farbi”, performed with Natalya Mogilevskaya, was presented.

In the spring of 2015, a video was released for the song “Shout” from the album “Rassvet”. Irina also took part in a concert in memory of Kuzma Scriabin, performing their joint hit “Movchati” with Svyatoslav Vakarchuk. In the summer Bilyk gave another one big concert in Kyiv, entitled “Bilyk. Summer. Let’s dance!”, where one could hear the artist’s hits in a completely new sound, as well as original numbers - for example, during the performance of the song “I Plivu,” Irina unexpectedly rose into the air. On September 25, the song and the video shot for it, “Shoes,” were released, created back in 2006 for the unreleased album “Without Makeup.”

In the spring of 2017, she released a new album, “Without Makeup.” In February 2018, she went on a large-scale tour “No Makeup. The best. About love". In two months, the singer gave 37 concerts in 35 cities of Ukraine, ending the tour with three sold-out shows in the capital's Ukraine Palace.

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Personal life

Among the unofficial and official spouses of I. Bilyk were:

Discography

Studio albums

Collections

• 1998 - “Better”
• 2006 - “It’s so easy to help”
• 2006 - “Forever”
• 2012 - “We will be together. "The best"

Singles

• 1996 - “So Simple”
• 1999 - “Vibachai”
• 2001 - “Kraina”
• 2002 - “Droga”
• 2002 - “Anioł”

Charts

"-" means the single did not chart.

Videography

Filmography

Having matured a little, the future singer devoted all her time to creative self-development. Secretly from their parents they visited music studio and practiced at the neighbor's piano. At the age of ten, Bilyk became the best student in the group; already at that time she had a good command of the instrument, and also seriously studied vocals.

After graduating music school, she worked part-time as a children's music teacher, for a while, burying her dream of conquering the stage. In 1989, Bilyk became a student at the Kyiv State Music College named after. Gliera specializes in pop vocals. And since 1988 he begins to work on his own repertoire. Luck smiled on Irina in 1989: at the age of 29, she took part in music festival"Chervona Ruta". In 1990, at the Spring Hopes festival in Vinnitsa, Irina Bilyk met the musicians of the Ajax group: Yuri Nikitin, Georgy Uchaikin and Zhan Bolotov. Soon the group “Tsej doshch nadovgo” was organized, which quickly gained popularity in the early 90s.

In 1992, already as a solo performer, Irina Bilyk represented Ukraine at the Slavic Bazaar festival in Vitebsk. In the same year, her first song “Your Lishe” was released, as well as a video of the same name, and Irina won the music competition"Song Vernissage. New Ukrainian wave." A year later, the singer took part in the song competition "Maria" in Truskavets. In December 1993, instead of the group “Tsei doshch nadovgo”, the Production Agency “Nova” was opened.

Since 1994 it's already quite famous performer Irina Bilyk begins to actively tour Ukraine. During the same period, she tried her hand as a television presenter. New Year's program on the channel "UT-1". Her first show as part of the Nova concert tour attracted more than 3,600 spectators and was sold out.

Two years later, in 1996, Irina won the “Golden Firebird” award at the “Tavria Games” festival, winning in the categories “Singer of the Year” and “Song of the Year” (“So Simple”). In the same year, Bilyk received the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine. In 1997, the singer was awarded the Grand Prix of the “Parade of Hit Parades” festival for the song “So Simple,” which was named the best in 1996.

In 1997, the artist’s second grand tour “So Simple” took place, which was subsequently nominated for the “Event of the Year” award in the field of contemporary Ukrainian music and mass spectacles "Golden Firebird". And two large-scale shows Bilyk again attracted a full house at the National Palace "Ukraine". The singer was again awarded two Golden Firebird awards in the nominations “Singer of the Year” and “Album of the Year” (“So Simple”).

Her album "Farbi", which was released in 1997, sold 1 million copies, and the singer again drew full houses at the best concert venues countries and receives the "Golden Firebird". In 1999, at the NOVA records awards ceremony, Bilyk became the winner in three categories: “Best Singer”, “Best Album” (“Farbi”) and “Best Video Clip” (“And I Spit”).

In 1998, on the tenth anniversary of his creative and professional activity Irina Bilyk dedicated the new collection album "Krashche: 1988-1998" ("The Best: 1988-1998") and organized a concert-presentation, which became the main event in cultural life countries. In the same year, the singer's first concert abroad took place - the hall in London where Bilyk performed was packed to capacity.

In 2000, Irina Bilyk’s new album “OMA” was released, and a month later a clothing collection of the same name created by the singer was presented. During the same period of time, Irina Bilyk stormed the Polish music market. She created the label Mama Music Polska, and released several singles Kraina ("Country"), Aniol? (“You are an angel”) and Droga (“Road”), and a little later the full-length album Bilyk. In August 2002, at the Polish Yach Film festival, she was awarded the Pochesny Yach award in the Discovery of the Year category.

In 2004, Bilyk released his first Russian-language album, “Love. Poison,” which went platinum within the first weeks of sales. And in 2006 she received the Showbiz AWARD in the category “Best Singer”. From 2004 to 2012, the singer released a dozen singles, each of which became a hit. These are the compositions “If you want”, “About love”, “I’m not sorry”, “We are not there”, “We will be together” and others.

Irina also participated in various television projects. In 2007 - in the project "Dancing with the Stars 2" on the "1+1" TV channel, in 2009 - "People's Star" on the "Ukraine" TV channel, in 2010 - in the "Zirka+Zirka" project on the "1+" TV channel 1", and in 2011 acted as a member of the jury of the project "Factory of Stars-4" on the "New Channel".

Personal life

First common-law husband Irina was her manager and producer Yuri Nikitin, a relationship with whom lasted seven years. In 1998, Irina married model Andrei Overchuk, to whom she gave birth to a son, Gleb, in 1999. After separating from her husband, the singer had whirlwind romance with choreographer Dmitry Kolyadenko. Irina’s next chosen one was dancer Dmitry Dikusar, with whom the age difference was 15 years. Three years later, Dmitry and Irina broke up.

Interesting Facts

In the spring of 1995, Irina Bilyk was officially invited to participate in the program of US President Bill Clinton's visit to Kyiv. Then she received an audience with Bill Clinton and his wife

Irina Bilyk pleased fans with unexpected news: the singer announced that she had become a mother for the second time. The artist shared the good news on her blog, posting a photo of a child’s hand.

The singer bore her second son, whom Bilyk named Tabriz Aslan oglu surrogate mother. In the last few years, Irina has repeatedly admitted in interviews that she dreams of having another baby, but doctors forbade the singer to give birth. Therefore, the artist decided to use surrogacy services. Baby Bilyk was born on December 8 in one of the private clinics in Europe. His weight is 3.5 kg and his height is 50 cm.

The child's father became famous. He shared his impressions of the birth of his son on Facebook.

“You can read about this as much as you like, listen to the stories of friends and relatives, you can imagine and try to try on this role, looking at other people’s experiences, but only by holding your newly born child in your arms can you feel this incredible feeling of immense happiness. And it fell to my lot. I became a Pope! My son was born! Wonderful Akhmadov Tabriz Aslan ogly! No words can express what I feel right now. I'm absolutely happy! Welcome to our world, my dear son! May your life be happy and interesting!” - Aslan wrote.

Let us remind you that Irina Bilyk is now raising.

Irina Bilyk and the father of her child Aslan Akhmadov

And Aslan himself looks great as a fashion model

Irina Bilyk began singing at the age of four; she also studied ballet and dancing, and at 6 she was already a member of the children’s ensemble “Sonechko”, which toured throughout the USSR. As a 10-year-old girl, Irina wrote her first song. In addition to classes at theater studio, devoted several years to studying at a music school. Having reached adulthood, she began teaching music herself.

First album

In 1989 she entered the Kiev State Music College named after. Gliera by specialization " Pop vocals"and took part in the Chervona Ruta festival. A year later, the singer performed at the Spring Hopes festival. Here she met musicians Yuri Nikitin, Georgy Uchaikin and Zhan Bolotov. Very soon he and Irina were born joint group“Keep this board forever.” And in 1990, the first album “Kuvala Zozulya” was released.

First professional video

In 1992, Bilyk shot the first professional video for the song “Your Lishe” and became a laureate of the international festival “Song Vernissage. New Ukrainian wave." IN next year She graduated from music school and took part in the “Maria” and “Slavic Bazaar” festivals, where she performed the composition “Nova” - a song that at that time was new in every sense for the Ukrainian listener. At the same time, Irina tried herself as a TV presenter in the show “New Year’s Night” on UT-1, and the members of the group “Tsei doshch nadovgo”, having become the management of Irina Bilyk, organized the “Nova Production Agency”. Soon the work on the next album “I Will Rozkazhu” was completed, which was released in 1994.

First concert tour

In 1995, the first concert tour called “Nova” took place not only in the history of the singer, but also in the history of Ukrainian pop music. Irina gave her first solo show at the Ukraina Palace (Kyiv), which was sold out. In the same year, according to statistics from the American Embassy in Ukraine, Irina Bilyk became the most popular singer in the country. And according to the results of a survey of journalists “Mystetsky Vershki Roku-95”, Irina was named the most prominent figure in modern Ukrainian music.

Title of Honored Artist of Ukraine

1996 was a landmark year for the singer: she received the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine. Her composition “So Simple” was named the best song of this year. In addition, Irina took part in another festival “Tavria Games”, where she received an award in the field of modern Ukrainian music and mass entertainment “Golden Firebird” in the categories “Singer of the Year” and “Song of the Year”. A year later, Bilyk received the Grand Prix of the “Parade of Hit Parades” festival.

Second all-Ukrainian concert tour Bilyk

In 1997, Bilyk’s second all-Ukrainian concert tour “So Simple” took place. During this time, Irina gave 38 concerts in largest cities countries. This time, her performances at the Ukraina Palace were sold out for 2 days in a row, and the tour was nominated for the “Event of the Year” award in the field of modern Ukrainian music and mass entertainment “Golden Firebird”. Here Bilyk received two more awards in the categories “Singer of the Year” and “Album of the Year” (“So Simple”). In the same year, a new album “Farby” was released. It sold more than 1,000,000 copies throughout Ukraine alone.

Bilyk's third concert tour

In 1998, Ukraine saw Bilyk’s third concert tour together with singer Linda and Max Fadeev, “Farbi of the Sky.” The concerts took place in sports palaces and stadiums, and overall attracted a record audience. Irina once again became the winner of awards in the field modern music and mass spectacles “Golden Firebird” in the nominations “Singer of the Year” and “Album of the Year” (“Farby”).

For the 10th anniversary of her creative and professional activities, Bilyk released the collection “Better: 1988-1998.” The following year, she won in the categories “Best Singer”, “Best Album” (“Farby”) and “Best Video Clip” (“And I’m Spitting”) at the NOVA records awards ceremony. But the main gift of fate in 1999 was not the titles, but the birth of his son Gleb. His father Andrei Overchuk was Irina’s favorite person at that time.

New album "OMA" has been released

In 2000, a new album “OMA” was released, after which the singer gave two sold-out concerts of the same name in the Kiev palace “Ukraine” and released her own collection “OMA”, making her debut as a fashion designer. And in the fall she returned to the western part of the country with the “Without a Name” tour.

In 2002, Bilyk pleased listeners with a new Polish album called “Bilyk” and became the winner of the “Honored Yach” award in the “Indignation of Rock” category at the Polish festival “Yach Film”.

In 2003, Irina released the album “Bilik. Kraina”, in support of which her concert tour across Ukraine took place. The concerts were sold out.

A new stage in Irina Bilyk’s creativity

2004 can be considered a new stage in Irina Bilyk’s creativity. She recorded the first Russian-language album “Love. Poison", which sold 100,000 copies in the first 10 days and received platinum status. The song “Snow” was first heard in Verka Serduchka’s SV-show on channel 1+1 and immediately won the hearts of millions of listeners in Ukraine. This was the first composition performed and recorded by Irina Bilyk in Russian. The video for the song “Snow” also became one of the first video works of the now famous music video director Alan Badoev.

mp3 collection “Forever” has been released

In 2006, the mp3 collection “Forever” was released, which included 8 albums and the title bonus track. Later, the singer released an album for the upcoming charity tour “It’s So Easy to Help,” which received the same symbolic name. The tour started in the fall and covered 24 regional centers of Ukraine, where her lover Dmitry Kolyadenko and his show ballet went with Irina. During this time, the team collected more than 250,000 hryvnia, which were transferred to the Kiev International charitable foundation"Father's house". In addition, Irina filmed 13 street children in her video “Scarlet Rowan”. And at the final concerts of the tour in Kyiv, Bilyk not only invited the guys from orphanage to concerts, but also shared the same stage with them. In the same year, she became the best performer according to the Showbiz AWARD and received an award from the Hit-FM radio station in the Singer of the Year category.

Participation in television project"Dancing with the Stars 2"

In 2007, Bilyk took part in the television project “Dancing with the Stars-2,” where she now showed herself to the audience as a talented dancer. The show gave Irina a fateful acquaintance with her dance partner Dmitry Dikusar.

rank People's Artist Ukraine

In August 2008, Irina Bilyk was awarded the title of People's Artist of Ukraine. Even having achieved the highest degree of recognition, the singer considers the success of many years of service to creativity not only as a personal merit. “My fans helped me achieve what I have now,” these words confirmed her gratitude to her listeners. And in the fall, Irina went to the cities of Ukraine with concert program"20 years together." This time, in addition to lyrical compositions and favorite famous songs, the audience was surprised by Irina’s soulful poems, which she dared to read in front of the whole country. Original outfits from fashion designer Sergei Ermakov were also noted. The tour had big success, and even after its completion there were requests for additional concerts. However, Bilyk's efforts were directed in a different direction. A collection of her best hits “Forever” was published, as well as a video clip for new song“I’ll give it to you.” And for the New Year, Irina Bilyk gave her fans a long-awaited gift: she released a new disc “Encore!” It included 16 compositions, among which “The World Doesn’t Know,” “I’ll Give You,” and “The Love That I Gave You” received the highest ratings.

Irina Bilyk’s song “Snow”

In 2011, Irina Bilyk’s song “Snow” performed by the King Russian stage Philip Kirkorov was awarded the Golden Gramophone award in Moscow! And in April 2012, on the eve of Kirkorov’s 45th anniversary, Channel One (Russia) aired a special episode of the popular TV show “Property of the Republic.” Based on the results of the nationwide audience voting the song “Snow” was named the best song of Philip Kirkorov in his entire career!

Irina Bilyk became the star coach of the TV show “Battle of the Choirs”

2013 was a very busy year for the singer. In the spring, Irina Bilyk and the group “TIK” got into the Book of Records of Ukraine, giving 24 concerts in 30 days as part of the all-Ukrainian tour “Best Ukrainian Hits”! Her song “We Will Be Together” entered the top 10 most downloaded melodies in Russia and took an honorable 8th place! Irina mastered the Internet, became an active user, and the number of her fans on Facebook reached 40 thousand users in a year!

The star also visited Moscow as a guest of Natasha Koroleva and her mother Lyuda’s program “Time for Lunch” and defeated a professional chef! In 2013, Irina traveled a lot. She visited the Czech Republic and Greece, Sardinia and the famous Hungarian Lake Heviz, traveled around Spain and visited Philip Kirkorov in Crete, where she met his children Alla-Victoria and Martin.

In the fall, Irina Bilyk became the star coach of the TV show “Battle of the Choirs.” With her men's team from Sevastopol, she made it to the finals of the project. In December, another scandalous precedent occurred in which Irina became the main character. The singer went to court to defend her rights and good name. Thus, Bilyk was the first Ukrainian star to win a lawsuit against the “yellow” publication and punish unscrupulous journalists!

Hit Bilyk “Taxi” takes first place

2014 Bilyk’s hit “Taxi” ranks first in the Ukrainian charts for a record 6 months! On her birthday on April 6, the star is throwing a grand a charity concert and presents his own fragrance: signature perfume “IraBi”. Irina records a duet with Boris Moiseev for the song “It doesn’t matter” and shoots a video with the venerable Moscow video director Aslan Akhmadov! In July, the singer attended the Slavic Bazaar competition, where she became a member of the international jury from Ukraine and made her debut in Jurmala at the New Wave. In the summer of the same year, Irina Bilyk announced the termination of cooperation with producer Yuri Nikitin and announced her new album “Dawn” on the Internet. The presentation of the long-awaited album “Dawn” took place in September, at 6.30 am on the roof of a fashionable hotel in the very heart of Kyiv. On the same day, the star presented her new website.

But what do we know about the person we see on television almost every day? What secrets does the biography of Irina Bilyk hide? And how much interesting person does she remain outside the stage?

Today we decided to tell all the most interesting things from the life of this extraordinary artist.

Early years, childhood and family of Irina Bilyk

As for Irina directly, unlike all her relatives, she began her path to the world of art very early. Already at the age of five, the girl began dancing, and a year later she also began to sing, performing with the children’s ensemble “Solnyshko”.

Subsequently, the artist systematically developed her talent. For some time, secretly from her parents, she visited a music studio. Homework she learned simple musical parts in the form of simple musical parts while practicing at a neighbor's piano. Therefore, such diligence very soon began to bear fruit. At the age of ten, Ira became one of the best students in her group. She wrote songs, played the piano well, and also studied vocals.

After graduating from music school, our today's heroine took up teaching. For several years she worked with children's groups and such an activity brought her great pleasure. However, all this also had a downside. For the sake of “bird in hand,” I had to abandon “pie in the sky.” At some point, the young artist stopped even dreaming about big stage. Time passed, and along with it, hopes for all-Ukrainian fame and a bright career as a pop singer melted away.

However, in 1989, fate still gave Irina Bilyk another chance. At the age of 19, the singer took part in the Chervona Ruta music festival, which was her first in many years. Thanks to him, the artist again remembered what it was like to sing on stage.

Irina Bilyk - Girl

After participating in a music competition, Irina made acquaintance with the musicians of the Ajax group, among whom was her future husband Yuri Nikitin. Together with him, as well as some other artists, the singer took part in the creation of the group “Tsey Doshch nadovgo”, which became quite popular at the turn of the eighties and nineties.

In 1992, already as a solo performer, our today’s heroine represented Ukraine at the Vitebsk festival “Slavic Bazaar”. In the same year, she recorded her first song, “Lishe Yours,” for which a video was soon shot.

A few months later, the artist achieved victory at the music competition “Song Vernissage. New Ukrainian wave." A year later, Irina Bilyk also appeared before the audience as part of song competition“Maria”, held in the city of Truskavets.

Such successes made the artist popular in her homeland, Ukraine and in some other CIS countries. Since the nineties, Irina has become a real star of the Ukrainian stage. She has been in this status for many years in a row.

Star Trek by Irina Bilyk: from the first songs to great fame

Irina Bilyk - We will be together

In 1995, the artist went on an all-Ukrainian tour with the “Nova” program, the finale of which was a large solo concert in the Kiev palace “Ukraine”. In this context, it is worth noting that a tour of this magnitude was the first in independent Ukraine. After returning home, the artist received prizes in the categories “Song of the Year” and “Singer of the Year”, and was also awarded the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine. In addition, Irina Bilyk took part in several major song festivals as a guest star.

In 1995, 96 and 97, our today's heroine released three more solo album, each of which became famous and popular in Ukraine. During this period, she literally collected awards one after another. And therefore, very soon she became one of the record holders for the total number of prizes and nominations.

In addition, in the second half of the nineties, the artist worked as a model in the advertising companies Idea Studio, Peugeot 206 and Dirol Wild Berry.

After this, the artist released four more studio albums, as well as two official collections. Irina Bilyk still toured the cities of Ukraine and the CIS countries as before, collecting prestigious awards one after another. In 2009, our today’s heroine received the title of People’s Artist of Ukraine. Four years later, she was awarded a similar title in Russia.

Irina Bilyk today

At the time of writing this article, Irina Bilyk was on a large-scale tour, during which the audience was presented with the “Best Ukrainian Hits” program.

Personal life of Irina Bilyk

In 1998, after breaking up with her former lover, Irina Bilyk began dating fashion model Andrei Overchuk. The result of their love union was their common son, Gleb (born in 1999).