Singer Zemfira Ramazanova is certainly one of the brightest stars of our time, which shines with the most different facets of her talent and at the same time does not resemble any of her colleagues on the stage. Many try to imitate Zemfira, she just remains herself. Her stage name is simply Zemfira.
Zemfira Ramazanova was born in Ufa on August 26, 1976 in the Bashkir-Tatar family of a teacher and doctor in physical therapy. Zemfira's brother, Ramil, died during a snorkeling hunt.
At the age of five, Zemfira began to study at a music school in the piano class and she was accepted as a soloist in the choir. This was the first time she appeared on local television.
At school, Zemfira was very active, studied in seven clubs at the same time, but most of all she liked music and basketball. As a result, in the early 90s, Zemfira became the captain of the junior basketball team - and this despite the fact that she is not tall. In addition, she learned to play the guitar and right on the street gathered a lot of first fans, singing the songs “Aquarium”, “Cinema” and “Nautilus”.
Faced with a difficult choice, Zemfira still preferred music to sports and entered the Ufa School of Arts, which she graduated with honors.
In 1996, Zemfira began working as a sound operator at the Ufa radio station “Europe Plus”, recording commercials (jingles). At the same time, her first and, as many believe, best songs were born - "Why?", "Snow", "Rockets", "Forecaster". In addition, Zemfira was the backing vocalist of the group Spectre Ace.
A little later around Zemfira formed a great group of musicians, gradually turned into an excellent musical team.
Then Zemfira borrowed money for a trip to Moscow and began to “promotivate” herself and her group. During the annual festival "Maxidrome" through journalists cassette with demos fell into the hands of the producer of the group "Mumiy Troll" Leonid Burlakov, who made a very risky, but, as it turned out later, a very right decision - to record the album. The debut album "Zemfira", created with the participation of the entire team "Mumiy Troll", was presented on May 10, 1999, although some songs were already in full swing on the radio. The first album became wildly popular and sold a huge circulation.
The most successful in the career of the singer was the second album of Zemfira – “Forgive me, my love” (2000), which instantly sold more than a million copies.
Then Zemfira took a break. As she said, it was important to know whether to move in a given direction. After all, it is not surprising to compose fifteen “Camomiles”, but I wanted to move. By the time the third album “Fourteen Weeks of Silence” was released, Zemfira had already completely changed the composition of the group.
In 2004, Zemfira decided to get an education and entered the philosophical faculty of Moscow State University, but immediately took academic leave because of the recording of a new album and did not return to the university.
Very significant was the performance of Zemfira during the ceremony of MTV Russia Awards, when she with the group “Queen” performed the famous song “We Are The Champions”.
In 2005, the audience was presented with a new album Zemfira “Vendetta”, and then followed by a concert tour in its support and several more very bright concerts.
In 2006, the first live album of the singer “Zemfira.Live” began to be actively sold, which included 10 songs from different albums that were performed during the tour and were warmly received by the public.
In 2007, the world saw a DVD with clips "Zemfira.DVD". The singer allowed himself a short break, after which he continued touring. In her interviews of this period, the singer admitted that the group “Zemfira” no longer exists, as such, and she cooperates with various musicians.
October 1, 2007 was presented another album Zemfira “Thank you”, which, as the singer admitted, was a reflection of her inner world at the time when she was 30 years old, she experienced serious internal storms and understood a lot. The album "Thank you" compared to the previous one is much more positive.
During the promotion of the album, a film appeared on the screens, which during the Zemfira concert in the Green Theater of Gorky Park was shot by Renat Litvinov. Truly triumphant was the concert of the singer in the “Olympic”, when during the performance of the main song thousands of spectators raised posters with the inscription “Thank you!”. The gratitude of the artist for her work was very sincere. The concert lasted almost four hours!
In 2009, finally saw the light of the album B-sides singer, which was postponed for several years in a row, and then suddenly appeared on the Internet. And on New Year’s Eve, January 1, 2010, her second live album “Zemfira.Live2” was posted on the singer’s website. After that, Zemfira went on a sabbatical.
Then there were new albums and new songs, as well as the musical design of Renata Litvinova’s wonderful film The Last Tale of Rita. Zemfira does not stop in its development: it is distinguished by a very high demand for itself, for members of its team, the quality of equipment. Ramazanova has many different awards, including, and not the most official.
If earlier Zemfira often gave interviews, now she is almost closed to communication, and in public appears infrequently. He prefers to answer questions from fans and announce concerts directly through his official website. /