- Katya Chilly
Infobox musical artist
Name = Katya Chilly
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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Kateryna Petrivna Kondratenko
(Катерина Петрівна Кондратенко)
Alias = Katya Chilly (Катя Chilly)
Born = birth date and age|1978|7|12
Died =
Origin =Kiev ,Ukraine
Genre =Folk ,Electronica , dance, pop, rock, trance, house
Years_active =1996 - present
Label =Zone Records,Ukrainian Records Katya Chilly is a Ukrainian singer. Her style can best be defined as World Music. Her creative work is a synthesis of ancient folk songs and modern electronic music.
Biography
Katya Chilly, at 25 years, has knowledge of ancient history. Ancient civilizations interested her so much that she started studying them in depth. Right now, she is working on a scientific research paper on the mythology of the ancient Slavs.
Katya Chilly's debut album
Rusalki in da House (Mermaids In Da House) was released in 1998, when she was only 16 years of age. She started preparing material for this album in 1996 when she changed her stage name into Katya Chilly. She became popular in Ukraine after Chervona Ruta fest when she toured all over the country with its participants.In 1999, Katya Chilly took part in the International festival «Fringe» in Edinburgh, Scotland. In March 2001, she performed at more than 40 concerts in the United Kingdom. A part of her performance was also broadcasted by BBC throughout the country.
In 2000 Katya started working on her second album Son (Dream). It was planned to be released in 2002 but unfortunately this project was cancelled. Though you can find this album on the Internet.
Katya's maxi-single
Pivni (Roosters) was released in June 2005. It included the title track of the same name and remixes made by the best Ukrainian DJ’s (DJ Lemon, DJ Tkach, DJ Professor Moriarti and others).Fans waited for the next album of Katya Chilly for 8 years! Finally on March 10, 2006 Ukrainian Records released the third album,
Ya – Molodaya (I Am Young).In October 2007 Katya joined the DJuice music tour and visited 7 Ukrainian cities.
www.mtv.ua announced that the fourth album "Prosto Sertse" (Simply, Heart) will be released in October of 2007. However in the interview for galainfo.com.ua Katya stated that the release was postponed until 2008.
Discography
1998 -
Rusalki in da House
2002 - Son
2006 - Ya Molodaya
2008 -Prosto Sertse External links
* [http://www.katyachilly.com Official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/katyachilly Katya Chilly page at myspace]
* [http://community.livejournal.com/pivni Katya Chilly community at livejournal]
* [http://www.umoloda.kiev.ua/number/464/117/16814/ Katya Chilly interview with "Ukraina Moloda"] uk icon
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