Diana Arbenina is a Russian singer and lyricist. She gained popularity as a soloist of the Night Snipers group. At the moment, Diana is not married and has two children.
Biography of Diana Arbenina
Singer Diana Arbenina was born on July 8, 1974 in the city of Volozhin, Minsk region. Diana's mother and father are journalists. Three years after the birth of their daughter, they left for the city of Volozhin, Minsk region, and then for the Far North. The girl spent her childhood in the Magadan region, in Kolyma, Chukotka.
Diana entered the Magadan State Pedagogical Institute in 1992. She chose the Faculty of Foreign Languages. In 1994, Arbenina moved to St. Petersburg and transferred to the philological faculty of St. Petersburg State University, which she successfully graduated in 1998.
Diana Arbenina began composing songs back in 1991. Even then, some of her most famous compositions were created - "Rubezh", "I painted the sky", "Evening in the Crimea", "Tosca" and others. Diana performed at amateur concerts and student competitions.
In August 1993, Arbenina met Svetlana Surganova. This meeting became fateful. The girls created the Night Snipers group, which became incredibly popular. In 2002, the collective broke up - Surganova left the group, and Arbenina remained the only soloist.
Diana Arbenina is the author and performer of her own songs. She has more than 250 songs, more than 150 poems, stories and essays on her account.
Creative activity of Diana Arbenina
Starting from the first months of her career in the Night Snipers group, Diana Arbenina combines concerts as part of a group with solo acoustic performances. Her annual December apartments in Moscow have become a tradition. Diana also participates in various concerts and an action, for example, "Own Track" or a concert of bard songs in Peredelkino "In memory of Bulat Okudzhava". He continues to publish poetry collections.
Arbenina's music sounds on television: for example, she took part in the recording of the musical splash screen for the reality show “Behind the Glass. Now you are in the army. " In 2002 she made her debut as a dubbing actress, voicing the cartoon "Elysium".
In 2004, the singer released a collection of poems "Catastrophically". In 2005-2006 she collaborated with the Bi-2 group. In 2005 she took part in their combined project "The Odd Warrior", and in 2006 she recorded the backing vocals for two songs on the album "Milk".
Since the mid-2000s, he continues to write books. In 2007, "The Deserter of Sleep" was published - a collection that includes a large number of poems, songs, and prose published for the first time. The publication included photographs of the author. In early 2008, an audio version of the book Sleep Deserter: I Speak was released. Arbenina herself read out the poems for this recording.
In 2008, Arbenina's book "Sniper Lullaby" was published. In 2009, on the occasion of Diana's 35th birthday, director Nina Chusova staged the one-man show Motofoz.
In 2009-2010, the "Night Snipers" group publishes its official magazine "Gavroche". In April 2012, Diana Arbenina's collection of poetry "Autodafe" is published, in December 2013 - a collection of poems and prose of different years "Sprinter". In 2014, the book "Stalker" is published.
Arbenina was the author of a column in the Russian Pioneer magazine, and in 2014-2016 she actively conducted creative meetings with students of higher educational institutions.
In 2015, Diana Arbenina played on the theater stage. She played the role of Bagheera in the play "Generation M" by Konstantin Khabensky. In 2016 she tried herself as an artist. The first personal exhibition of paintings by Diana Arbenina was held in the Moscow Central House of Artists.
In addition, Diana Arbenina worked at the radio station "Our Radio", where she hosted the author's program "The Last Hero".
Diana Arbenina is the owner of a number of awards and titles. She was awarded the Triumph Youth Prize for her achievements in the field of literature and art. In November 2005 she received the title of Honored Artist of the Chechen Republic. The video for Diana's song "Instagram", which was shot by Valeria Gai Germanicus, received the title of "Best Music Video" at the Prague International Film Festival.
Personal life of Diana Arbenina
Back in 1993, while studying in St. Petersburg, she married Konstantin Arbenin. The man, like Diana herself, was musicians, the leader of the group "Winter animals".
The marriage soon broke up, but Diana kept the name of her ex-husband. It was rumored that the relationship between Diana and Constantine was fictitious initially.
The personal life of Diana Arbenina after the divorce remains a mystery. Next to her, men are not often seen with whom one can suspect more than friendly or professional relations.
In February 2010, Diana Arbenina became a mother. She gave birth to twins: a son named Artem and a daughter named Martha. The artist began to prepare for the birth of children in the fall of 2009 - she left the stage, deciding to devote time to motherhood. The singer spent all the last months before giving birth in the United States, hiding from Russian journalists.
Largely due to this secrecy, rumors appeared in the press that Diana became pregnant with the help of artificial insemination. Arbenina herself refutes these rumors. According to her, the father of Artyom and Marta is a Russian businessman living in the United States. It never came to an official marriage with the alleged father of the twins: the couple broke up even before the birth of their children. At the moment, nothing is known about Diana's official or civil husband. She brings up her son and daughter alone and continues to be active in her creative work.