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Katya Chilly

Wikipedia has articles about other people with this surname, see Bogolyubova.

Ekaterina Petrovna Kondratenko (Bogolyubova) (July, 12 ( 19780712 ) , Kyiv, Ukraine) - modern Ukrainian singer, musician and composer, performing under the stage name Katya Chilly. Over the thirteen years of her professional career, she released four albums that received significant attention from the press and public. Katya Chilly in Ukraine won all competitions in which she took part. In the Ukrainian press they call her the “Wonder” of Ukrainian alternative music. Authentic sound production of different lands is a socio-biological phenomenon that opens a tunnel into time space. A person listening, on a subconscious level, feels a bridge between the past, present and future.

Childhood and youth

Little Katya first appeared on TV channels in the summer of 1986. Her performance during the “Children of Chernobyl” concert in one of the pioneer camps showed our [ What?] TV. This was the first serious performance where the eight-year-old singer performed the song “33 Cows”.

While studying in the third grade of a comprehensive school, Katya attended a folklore club and sang in the Orelya children's folk choir. In addition, she also studied at a music school in piano and cello classes. Later (in seventh grade) the folklore department of the art school. Next came the turn of the National Humanitarian Lyceum at the National University. Taras Shevchenko.

Katya received her higher education by studying at the Faculty of Philology of the National University. Taras Shevchenko (specialization - Folklore).

Career

1996-1999

Since the spring of 1996, Katya's work has focused on a pop-avant-garde project (combining ancient ritual singing with the most modern arranged music). This caused a real stir in the media and a storm of delight among fans. Katya has become a symbol of new Ukrainian music, a new musical alternative. On May 30, 1996, Ekaterina Kondratenko began performing under the pseudonym Katya Chilly.

The ethnic material in the singer’s interpretation charmed even those who were far from folklore. Completely different people gathered under the flags of Katya Chilly fans: representatives of generation “X” who were waiting for unconventional music, adult fans of Ukrainian folklore and admirers of the “world music” phenomenon.

It took the talented girl less than a year to gain confident star status. Numerous interviews, participation in television programs, performances at the largest and most prestigious concert venues in the country, victories at festivals (including the Chervona Ruta festival).

The singer’s work has aroused keen interest from the Western community. For example, in 1997, MTV President Bill Rowdy invited the singer to participate in the programs of this channel. Katya Chilly’s work has been celebrated at various international festivals. Among them is the Fringe festival, which took place in the Scottish city of Edinburgh.

In 1998, Katya Chilly released her debut album “Mermaids in da House”, the appearance of which became a landmark event for the development of Ukrainian musical culture. Media representatives dubbed the singer’s performance style “the singing of a beautiful elf.”

During her performances, Katya Chilly truly transforms into a representative of another world: she seems to fall into a whirlwind of vibrations, becoming a medium of the ancient inhabitants of the Slavic land. Katya knows firsthand about the history of the ancient world.

After all, the research that Katya is working on in graduate school at Kyiv National University reveals the secrets of the worldview of ancestral civilizations...

Restoring archaic ethnic material, Katya Chilly gives it a unique modern interpretation. This is how the musical soul of the people finds a new embodiment.

2000-2001

Since 2000, Katya has collaborated with composers, arrangers and multi-instrumentalists Leonid Belyaev (“Mandry”) and Alexander Yurchenko (ex-Yarn, Blemish). The album “Dream”, recorded later, was never released, despite the fact that the program was successfully tested on venues in England and Russia. At this time, Katya received a higher education and continued her graduate studies at both Kyiv and Lublin universities.

In March 2001, Katya performed a concert program in London, where she gave more than 40 concerts. Katya's performance was broadcast live by the BBC. This company also shot a video clip (live) of the singer, which was broadcast on the channel for a year.

2005-2006

In the summer of 2005, together with Ukrainian Records, the singer released the maxi-single “Pivni”, which included the first single from the new album and remixes to it. Famous Russian and Ukrainian DJs worked on the creation of remixes: Tka4 (Kyiv), Evgeniy Arsentiev (Moscow), DJ Lemon (Kyiv), Professor Moriarti (Moscow), LP (Kaliningrad).

As a bonus, the disc contains a new version of the track “Ponad Khmarami”, which Katya Chilly performed with Sashko Polozhinsky, and the video clip “Pivni”, created using 3D graphics technology. The director of the video was the famous Ukrainian artist Ivan Tsyupka. Katya's appearance with new material marked a new stage in her work, the next step in musical evolution.

In 2006 Katya Chilly’s next album, “I am Young,” was released; the album included 13 tracks. Among them are several that have long been known and loved by domestic listeners: the duet with Sashko Polozhinsky “Ponad Khmarami”, the composition “Pivni” released as a single in the fall of 2005, and the song “I am Young”, the video for which was aired on television in mid-February.

Work on the disc was carried out in the Kyiv studio White Studio. The sound engineer and studio owner Oleg “Bely” Shevchenko worked on the sound, and Dmitry Prikordonny acted as a sound producer. Arrangements and programming by Sergei Gera (“Druha Rika”).

“I am young” is a synthesis of folklore and modern electronic music. Most of the album’s compositions are based on folk words (“Krashen Evening”, “Zozulya”, “Krinichenka”). The concept of the work also successfully included poems by contemporary authors - Kharkov poetess Nina Suprunenko, laureate of the Young Wine festival Olga Bashkrirova and Fyodor Mlinchenko.

2007-2009

In 2007, Katya Chilly performed in a joint project with the famous Ukrainian jazz group “Solominbend”, which includes Viktor Solomin (domra), Alexey Bogolyubov (piano), Alik Fataev (drums), Konstantin Ionenko (bass guitar). The new program “Krashen Evening” combines Ukrainian folklore with jazz interpretation. Having played this program at concert venues in Kyiv, Katya Chilly and “Solominbend” become headliners of one of the largest jazz festivals in Ukraine, which has been held annually in Koktebel “Jazz Koktebel 2007” since 2003.

Since 2008, Katya Chilly's group has included the following musicians: Maxim Sidorenko (piano), Ksenia Zadorskaya (violin), Alik Fantaev (drums), Yuri HOBOT Galinin (double bass), Valentin Bogdanov (drum book). The new program is completely acoustic, without a drop of electro.

In 2009, Katya Chilly headlined the main Ukrainian festivals: “Spіvochi Terasi”, “Golden Gate”, “Chervona Ruta (festival)”, “Antonich-fest”, “Rozhanytsya”. And at the end of 2009, Katya Chilly headlined the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which was held in Ukraine in 2009!

2010

Today Katya Chilly is working on an acoustic program, which does not contain a drop of electro. And he is preparing a new revolutionary material that is unlike anything else.

Composition of the group

Today Katya Chilly's team looks like this:

• Alexey Bogolyubov- piano
• Alik Fantaev- drums
• Valentin Kornienko- double bass
• Yuri HOBOT Galinin- harmonica
• Victor Andriychenko- violin
• Stefan Zavivalko- Tibetan bowls, dj
• Ekaterina Kondratenko- voice

Discography

Studio albums

• - I am young

Unreleased albums

Singles

• - Pivni (maxi-single)

Video clips

• 1999 - “Near the Ground”
• 2003 - “In the gloom” Katya Chilly / Sashko Polozhinsky
• 2005 - “Pivni”
• 2006 - “I’m young”
• 2008 - “Beautiful Evening”

Links

05.07.2017, 14:05

Where did Katya go Chilly / 1+1

Katya Chilly can safely be called a legend from the 90s, who stood at the origins of alternative music. The fragile, but such a vocal performer has become a real symbol of new Ukrainian music.

The story of Katya Chilly began in the summer of 1986, when the eight-year-old future singer performed at the “Children of Chernobyl” concert with the song “33 Cows” in one of the pioneer camps. Then Soviet television showed her number.

While studying at school, she attended a folklore club, sang in the Orelya children's folk choir, and studied piano and cello at a music school.

Then she received a higher education with a degree in Folklore at the Faculty of Philology of the Taras Shevchenko National University.

It was the love for everything ethnic that pushed Katya to her original style of performance, which was later called “the singing of a beautiful elf.” She began to combine ancient ritual chants with the most modern arranged music. Ukrainian music has never heard anything like this before.

A year later, Katya became famous outside the country. IN 1997 MTV President Billy Roadieinvited the girl to participate in the programs of this channel.

In 1998, Katya Chilly released her debut album “Mermaids in da Hause”, which, in fact, became a landmark event for the development of Ukrainian musical culture.

Watch the performance of Katya Chilly - "Rusalki in da house":

In the 2000s, she released the album "Dream", with which she toured England and Russia.

In March 2001, Katya performed a concert program in London, where she gave more than 40 concerts. Her performance was broadcast by the BBC.

In 2003, she presented a duet with Sashko Polozhinsky on the track “Ponad Khmarami”.

Watch the video Tartak feat. Katya Chilly - "In the gloom":

In the summer of 2005, another maxi-single “Pivni” was released, for which a video was shot using 3D graphics technology.

Watch the video Katya Chilly - "Pivni":

Then came a period of calm. The artist delved into work on solo acoustic material and began to appear in public less and less.

After 10 years, 38-year-old Katya again broke into Ukrainian show business, thanks to her participation in the show of the 1+1 TV channel.

The legendary Katya Chili became a real discovery of the project. Having come to the show as a star guest, she captivated all the star mentors with her performance, who persuaded her to stay on the project as a participant. Now they are breaking viewing records, and many Ukrainians (not only fans of the vocal project Voice of the Country-7) note that a real revival of the legend has taken place. Therefore, we decided to recall the most striking video performances, as well as the period of her work in general, recalling some moments known about Katya Chili’s personal life.

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The next stage of the show again showed a stunning level of performance. Katya Chili and Narek Gevorkyan performed a song in two languages ​​in a duet, which literally captivated the audience. Katya Chili watch online on WANT.ua.

Katya Chili's battle turned out to be impressive, but at the same vocal competition Voice of the Country-7, the song Bantik Katya Chili was also in the TOP discussion. And now Katya Chili Bantik is a hit on the Internet due to the artist’s eccentric performance.

We are sure that the Voice of the Country 2017 gave Katya Chili a new breath, a new round of creativity. Her army of fans is growing from broadcast to broadcast. Katya Chili's videos are breaking viewing records and we are pleased to publish several more videos of the singer, which are very popular among viewers. For example, Katya Chili Ponad Khmarami, which the artist sang in a duet with the group “Tartak” (frontman Sashko Polozhinsky).

Last Sunday there was a screening on channel 1+1 and on our website. The main discovery of this episode was the legendary Ukrainian singer Katya Chilly.

No one has heard of Katya Chilly for more than 10 years. The singer did not appear at social events and rarely gave concerts. And then suddenly, appearing on the stage of a popular vocal show, this charming, fragile girl with a powerful voice literally blew up social networks with rave reviews.

The editors of “The One and Only” invite you to find out little-known facts from the life of Katya Chilly in order to get to know her better.

• Katya Chilly grew up in a family of doctors. And if it weren’t for her career as a singer, she would have made a good doctor. True, as the girl herself admits, what she does on stage concerns medicine to a certain extent. Unconventional, but still medicine, because previously, only people who knew how to control their consciousness were allowed into the prophetic word. Prophetic word means the art of singing and uttering sound.

• Katya Chilly sees her ultimate task in decoding modern man, who is a cog in technogenic civilization, into those closed chakras that unite a person with the inexplicable Universe of nature, so that he (this person) feels part of the world and can live, and not exist.
• In 1998, Chilly Chilly released her debut album “Mermaids in da House”, after which her singing was dubbed “the singing of a beautiful elf”, and she herself began to be called the mermaid of new Ukrainian music.

• As for the stage name "Chilly", the word comes from "chill out" - relaxation area, coolness. Performing her songs, Katya seems to invite her listener into the chill, or rather, into the comfort of wild nature.
• Katya Chilly loves to walk through wild thickets and wild animals, in particular bears and tigers. At home, the singer keeps a cat “with character,” whose name is Aziza.
• Katya also loves adventure and extreme sports, yoga, and dancing, for example, Indian. Loves rollerblading and cycling.
• Katya Chilly has a 3-year-old son, Svyatozar. The boy, whom the singer doted on, supported his mother at the casting of the “Voice of the Country” project.

Photo in the text: press service of channel 1+1

A sweet-voiced elf, a politically correct nonconformist of Ukrainian music, a singer who destroys all ideas about the format. The voice of a siren, making you forget about everything in the world, the gingerbread face of a fairy-tale character and pure childish spontaneity. All this is about her – Katya Chilly.

Even if we discard all the enthusiastic definitions, we still cannot avoid the statement: Katya is one of the most striking phenomena of Ukrainian music. Arguments in favor of this statement? Firstly, the originality of the genre in which the singer works. Her vocal abilities and stage image give every right to consider her an unprecedented phenomenon in Ukrainian music. Yes, probably in the world as well. Secondly, this singer cannot be confused with anyone, and cannot even be compared with anyone. She is unique and there are no analogues to her work.

If we still talk about existing patterns, then Katya Chilly’s work can be classified as “world music”. But this is only a conditional definition. Because her songs go beyond any musical direction. Katya's music is much more than any definition. This is a kind of mantra framed by virtuoso electronic arrangements.

In the summer of 2005, together with Ukrainian Records, the singer released the maxi-single “Pivni”, which included the first single from the new album and remixes to it. Famous Russian and Ukrainian DJs worked on the creation of remixes: Tka4 (Kyiv), Evgeniy Arsentiev (Moscow), DJ Lemon (Kyiv), Professor Moriarti (Moscow), LP (Kaliningrad). As a bonus, the disc contains a new version of the track “Ponad Khmarami”, which Katya Chilly performed with Sashko Polozhinsky, and the video clip “Pivni”, created using 3D graphics technology. The director of the video was the famous Ukrainian artist Ivan Tsyupka. The appearance of Katya with new material marked a new stage in her work, the next step in musical evolution...

Katya Chilly's star lit up in 1996, when the artist first appeared on concert stages and presented her, without exaggeration, revolutionary material. Her appearance caused a real stir in the media and a storm of delight among fans. Katya has become a symbol of new Ukrainian music, a new musical alternative. The ethnic material in the singer’s interpretation charmed even those who were far from folklore. Completely different people gathered under the flags of Katya Chilly fans: representatives of generation “X” who were waiting for unconventional music, adult fans of Ukrainian folklore and admirers of the “world music” phenomenon. It took the talented girl less than a year to gain confident star status. Numerous interviews, participation in television programs, performances at the largest and most prestigious concert venues in the country, victories at festivals (including the Chervona Ruta festival). The singer’s work has aroused keen interest from the Western community. For example, in 1997, MTV President Bill Rowdy invited the singer to participate in the programs of this channel. Katya Chilly’s work has been celebrated at various international festivals. Among them is the Fringe festival, which took place in the Scottish city of Edinburgh. In March 2001, Katya performed a concert program in London, where she gave more than 40 concerts. Katya's performance was broadcast live by the BBC. This company also shot a video clip (live) of the singer, which was broadcast on the channel for a year.

In 1998, Katya Chilly released her debut album “Mermaids in da House”, the appearance of which became a landmark event for the development of Ukrainian musical culture. Media representatives dubbed the singer’s performance style “the singing of a beautiful elf.” During her performances, Katya Chilly truly transforms into a representative of another world: she seems to fall into a whirlwind of vibrations, becoming a medium of the ancient inhabitants of the Slavic land. Katya knows firsthand about the history of the ancient world. After all, the research that Katya is working on in graduate school at Kyiv National University reveals the secrets of the worldview of ancestral civilizations...

Restoring archaic ethnic material, Katya Chilly gives it a unique modern interpretation. This is how the musical soul of the people finds a new embodiment.