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Julia&Lena
Occupation
- Singers
Date of Birth
- Yulia was born on 20th February 1985
- Lena was born on 4th October 1984
Birth Place:
- Moscow, Russia
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Name: Yulia Olegovna Volkova
Date of Birth: February 20, 1985
Birthplace: Moscow
Nationality: Russian
Parents: Oleg Victorovich Volkov, Larissa Victorovna Volkova
Family Members: Mom and Dad, no siblings
Original Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 1,55 m
Weight: 42 kg
Yulia Olegovna Volkova
Educatiocation:
1992 - 1996 - Jr High School #882, Moscow
1996 - 2000 - Sr High School #1113, Moscow
2000 thru today - Moscow State Music School, faculty of vocals
Work Experience:
1996 - 1998 - Member of the children's band "Neposedi"
From August 1999 - Member of the duo "t.A.T.u."
Plays Musical Instrument: Piano
Studied: Ballroom dancing, figure skating, swimming, and tennis
Hobbies: Music, big tennis, and bowling
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Meals and Drinks: Meal - Everything; Drink - Tomato Juice
Favorite Car: "BMW"
Favorite Flower: Roses
Favorite Sport: Tennis
Elena Katina Sergeevna
| Year and place of birth: 4th of October,
1984, Moscow, Russia Education: Working experience: Hobbies: Figure skating, gymnastics, ballroom dances, horse-riding, swimming |
Official Album Biography ("200 km/h In The Wrong Lane") -
Feisty brunette Julia and soulful redhead Lena, two teenage girls from Moscow known as t.A.T.u, are the Russian equivalent of pop-meets-Prodigy.
"People love us or hate us but nobody thinks nothing about us," says Lena Katina, the older of the striking singers. Tearing down walls of all sorts throughout the brave new world, t.A.T.u became the most explosive and controversial act in Eastern Europe last year with the scandalous single "Ya Soshla S Uma" ("All The Things She Said"), the story of a love affair, whose evocative video was named MTV Russia's Video of the Year. 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane, t.A.T.u's 2001 debut album on Universal Music Russia, sold more than 1,000,000 copies and t.A.T.u's concert appearances at huge clubs and stadiums draw upwards of 50,000 fans.
Now t.A.T.u's tempestuous teens are readying to conquer America. Just don't expect very close friends and flirtatious Julia and Lena to tone down their bold, fearless sense of freedom.
"Our songs are not silly," says Lena. "t.A.T.u is more sincere, more honest about ourselves and others. We don't shape ourselves for the audience. In Russia, life is not polite. If we don't like something, we say we don't like it. If we don't agree, we say 'f - - - you.'"
Even t.A.T.u's pop electronica has an edge. That's what enticed esteemed producer Trevor Horn to work with t.A.T.u on English-language versions of 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane to be released via Interscope Records. Horn, whose credits include membership in The Buggles ("Video Killed The Radio Star"), prog-rock's Yes and the acclaimed The Art Of Noise as well as producer for The Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones, Seal, Simple Minds and Frankie Goes To Hollywood, compares t.A.T.u's sound not only to Prodigy but also a group he worked with in the '80s, Propaganda.
Show Me Love (English
Lyrics)
Allo,
Allo,
Vidish' veter?
Nu I chto?
Posmotri v okno,
Nu I chto?
A vchera bylo solntse,
Nu I chto?
Zachem ty vse vremya govorish' odno I tozhe?
A ya avtootvetchik.
This was an accident
not the kind where sirens sound
Never even noticed
we’re suddenly crumbling
Tell me how you’ve never felt
delicate or innocent
Do you still have doubts that
us having faith makes any sense
Tell me nothing ever counts
Lashing out or breaking down
Still somebody loses cause
there’s no way to turn around
Staring at your photograph
everything now in the past
Never felt so lonely I wish
that you could show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
till you open the door
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
till I’m up off the floor
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
till it’s inside my pores
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
till I’m screaming for more
Random acts of mindlessness
commonplace occurrences
Chances and surprises
another state of consciousness
Tell me nothing ever counts
lashing out or breaking down
Still somebody loses cause
there’s no way to turn around
Tell me how you’ve never felt
delicate or innocent
Do you still have doubts that
us having faith makes any sense
You play games
I play tricks
Girls and girls
but you’re the one
Like a game of pick-up sticks
played by fucking lunatics
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
till you open the door
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
till I’m up off the floor
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
till it’s inside my pores
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
Show me love
till I’m screaming for more
Show me love
Show me love
Give me all that I want
Show me love
Show me love
Give me all that I want
Show me love
Show me love
Give me all that I want
Show me love
Show me love
Till I’m screaming for more
In the end, however, t.A.T.u is unlike any other in the East or the West. "Russians are not dark but we are not light either," says Julia Volkova. "We have a different view, maybe deeper, because life is more difficult in Russia."
Julia and Lena had already known each other for several years while in another music group when they came together for t.A.T.u two years ago. Both had also studied music formally for 8 years. But that's where their commonality ends.
Julia is an only child of middle-class parents; Lena, the youngest of three, is the daughter of a well-known musician/pop-songwriter father. "We love each other very much but Lena is totally different from me," says Julia, who has also acted in small films. "She doesn't like to party; I like to party. She's more quiet, reads a lot. I don't like reading." Yet the contrasts between sweet, dramatic Lena and energetic, in-your-face Julia complement each other in t.A.T.u
The video for "Not Gonna Get Us" (t.A.T.u's second Russian hit "Nas Ne Dagoniat") has Julia and Lena commandeering a huge fuel tanker, speeding across a snowy Siberian road past anyone who would stop them, triumphant.
"t.A.T.u is about saying what you feel, not what others expect," says Lena. "Be in love. Be yourself. We are."
