Olya Polyakova

Olya Yuriivna Polyakova (Ukrainian: Ольга Юріївна Полякова; born 17 January 1984[1]) is a Ukrainian singer, TV presenter, and comedian known as Super Blonde.

For the Russian Olympic athlete, see Olga Polyakova (athlete).

Olya Polyakova
Background information
Born (1979-01-17) 17 January 1979
Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Years active2005–present
LabelsMoon Records Ukraine
Websitewww.olyapolyakova.com.ua

Career

At 15, she began her singing career at Bacchus restaurant on Kievskaya Street (Russian: ресторан “Бахус” на улице Киевской) in Vinnitsa.[2]

In 2008, she released her eponymous song Super Blonde (Russian: Суперблондинка).

In 2012, she took part in the Ukrainian national competition for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Polyakova won several music awards in Ukraine, including the 2016 M1 Music award.[3]

The Ukraine Minister of Culture had her sing for Viktor Yanukovych.[2]

After Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014, she increased her concerts in Ukraine. While other Russian language singers left for Russia, she has stated that she does not want to go to Russia, not even to visit her mother who lives in Moscow.[2]

In February 2018, she was named the most beautiful woman of the year by Viva! Magazine.[4][5][6]

In 2018, she founded the political party Blonde Party and is its chairperson. She stated that she wants to become president of Ukraine someday and would increase women's issues in Ukraine while president.[7][8]

She is friends with Volodymyr Zelensky.[2]

When asked "Superblondes are born or become?" Olya Polyakova replied, "This is a state of mind and, of course, a diagnosis from which every smart woman wants to recover. And I'm recovering quietly."[2][lower-alpha 1]

Personal life

She is married to Vadim who is 15 years older and they have two daughters Maria (b. 2005) and Alice (b. 2011).[9][6] Their home is Kiev because that is where she has called her home the longest.[2]

She was born in Vinnitsa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.[2] At 3 months old, her 43 year old maternal grandmother began raising Olya Polyakova in Vinnitsa as if Olya was her third child while her mother attended medical school. Her maternal grandmother continued to care for Olya Polyakova while her mother and stepfather were traveling on business trips.[2] Her maternal grandfather, a medical doctor, died when Olya Polyakova was six years old.[2] She spent most of her childhood with her maternal grandmother in a house in the bosom of nature with chickens and a garden.[2] She told her grandmother when she was seven that she wanted to start studying music and that Olya Polyakova would have to pay for music school which she attended the Vinnytsia School of Culture and Arts until graduating 9th grade.[2] Her family wanted her to attend medical school but Olya went to music school in Kiev, instead, attending Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts and Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine where she received a degree as an opera singer.[2] When she was eight, she performed in several roles on Yeralash (Russian: киножурнал “Ералаш”).[2]

Her father, the son of a neurosurgeon, was a musician.[2] Her father and her mother met while her mother was attending medical school where her paternal grandfather was a professor.[2] All of her grandparents are doctors.[2] Her paternal grandfather studied with Yuri Senkevich at the Military Medical Academy in Leningrad, Soviet Union.[2]

Her mother (b. 1959), a pediatrician, has had a house in Vinnitsa since Olya was 15 year old but lives in Moscow and teaches at the diplomatic academy in Moscow after her return with her stepfather from Uruguay.[2] After childhood, Olya Polyakova was much older when her mother married her stepfather.[2] After her stepfather's death, her mother has dated a diplomat.[2]

Her stepfather (b. 1949) was a senior diplomat posted to Hispanic countries (e.g. Spain and Latin America): Cuba as a consul of the Soviet Union for five years, Mexico, and his last station was Uruguay before his death.[2] Because her stepfather was good friends with not only Raul Castro and Pablo Escobar but also Fidel Castro, her godfather is Fidel Castro.[2]

Discography
Studio albums

Notes
  1. In Russian: – Суперблондинками рождаются или становятся? – Это состояние души и, конечно же, диагноз, от которого каждая умная женщина хочет выздороветь. И я выздоравливаю потихонечку.
gollark: PotatoASM™.
gollark: The PotatOS v8.34 irreality amplifier [DATA EXPUNGED] projection into conceptual/linguistic space [REDACTED] permitting possible <SQUARE BRACKETS DELETED> neutralization of ideatic anomalies.
gollark: Of course, they could fail, so we have orbital recreational nukes standing by.
gollark: Orbital laser strikes *should* be able to neutralize whom.
gollark: The one we call "whom" cannot be tolerated any more. It is time for indecisive action.

References
  1. "Olya Polyakova admitted how old she really is". The Gal Times. 5 May 2020.
  2. Гордон, Дмитрий Ильич (Gordon, Dmitry Ilyich) (15 January 2020). "Полякова: Министр культуры привез меня петь к Януковичу в надежде, что будет интим" [Polyakova: The Minister of Culture brought me to sing to Yanukovych in the hope that there will be intimacy]. Gordonua (in Russian). Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  3. "Olya Polyakova has caused a furor on the award M1 Music Awards". all.true-news.info.
  4. "Названы самые красивые мужчина и женщина Украины 2018 года. Фото" [Named the most beautiful man and woman of Ukraine in 2018. A photo]. Obozevatel (in Russian). 3 February 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  5. Дончук, Мила (Donchuk, Mila) (2 February 2018). "Viva! Самые красивые-2018: названы все победители" [Viva! Most beautiful-2018: all winners are named]. Viva! Magazine (in Russian). Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  6. "Оля Полякова празднует день рождения: горячие фото украинской поп-дивы" [Olya Polyakova celebrates her birthday: hot photos of Ukrainian pop diva]. Obozrevatel (in Russian). 17 January 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  7. Бацман, Алеси (Batsman, Alesi) (14 November 2018). "Полякова: Я хочу быть президентом. Там так много не совсем адекватных людей – чем я хуже?!" [Polyakova: I want to be president. There are so many not quite adequate people - what am I worse?!]. Gordonua (in Russian). Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  8. Бацман, Алеси (Batsman, Alesi) (14 November 2018). "Полякова: Ситуация с кандидатами в президенты – как в женском гардеробе: куча платьев, а надеть нечего" [Polyakova: The situation with presidential candidates is like in a women's wardrobe: a lot of dresses, but there is nothing to wear]. Gordonua (in Russian). Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  9. "Оля Полякова - останні новини" [Olya Polyakova - latest news]. Факти (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 23 January 2020.
Preceded by
Tina Karol		 Most beautiful by VIVA!
2018
With: Oleh Vynnyk		 Succeeded by
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