Award-winning Russian singer who debuted in 1992 with the albums Pobud' so Mnoi and The Taiga Symphony. She would go on to release more than a dozen albums throughout her decades long career.
As a child, she studied piano at her local music school, and she would later graduate from the Gnesin Academy of Music in 1990.
In 2006, she released the autobiography Life, Tears and Love and would later follow with the 2010 fitness book Yoga with Valeriya.
She was born into a family of classical musicians: her father, Yuri Ivanovich, was a Director, and her mother, Galina Nikolaevna, was a Teacher for their local music school. She was married to Alexander Shulgin from 1993 to 2002. She then married Iosif Prigozhin in 2004. She has three children, Anna, Arseny, and Artemy.
Chantal Kreviazuk worked with her on her 2007 album Out Of Control, which was released in both Russian and English.
