Biography
Lera Gehner - Jazzazy Singer, Creator and Head of FanCe-Show Groups "L.E.R.A." , Lera Gehner Band and No Budds. In 2016, she took part in the fifth season of the popular TV show "Voice".
Lera was born in St. Petersburg. Her father was a rather famous composer and multi-instrumentalist Yuri Kasyanik, and Mom sang as a back-vocalist in a number of vocal instrumental ensembles. So love for music by the girl was inherited. The creative biography of Lera Gehner began when she was still preschoolcars and went to learn from the music school in the class of violin, and also became part of the Leningrad Children of Radio and Television.
In addition, in school years she was engaged in sports, namely, hockey on the grass, and also went to the theater studio and played three years in the performances of the Blue Bridge Theater. In general, Gehner dreamed of becoming an actress. She went to Moscow, but did not go to any of the metropolitan universities. In his native Leningrad, she successfully overcame all creative tests, but failed on the subject "History of the USSR".
Disappointed in the current situation, the girl leaves for Germany, where he begins to sing in local clubs and restaurants jazz, Russian and Gypsy romances. In Germany, Lera wrote a movie script and even won the Grand in the nomination "Best Foreign Scenario". But for filming the picture of the money was not enough.
Upon returning to Russia, Lera appears on the theatrical stage, for example, she had one of the main roles in the sensational play "Monologists of Vagina", as well as with a head plunge into the world of music.
Music
During his creative life, Gehner was the organizer of several copyright projects. In the team "L.E.R.A." She mixed jazz standards with rock and reggae, in the group "Lera Göhner Band" to this cocktail also mixed such styles like funk, soul, blues, ballads, disco, jazz. There was a similar project "No Budds".In general, the style of the singer teams is very difficult to drive into some one genre. "Lera Gehner," as the vocalist itself says, in fact, not only the name, but also a musical image and style. During one concert, the singer has time to change many timbres and vocal genres and constantly achieves the voice diversity of his speeches.
Together with the team "Lera Göhner Band" in 2004, the singer recorded and published the Studio Album "Today I Am Part Of You, Dear". Five years later, in collaboration with Alexey Popov, after joint cooperation over a number of projects, Flora & Fauna was released, consisting of two parts.
On one half, traditional jazz and vintage compositions in an old, "vintage" arrangement are recorded. And the second part is the lyre geekhner songs, designed to modern, with the use of electronic samples and with the participation of professional DJs.
TV
In 2016, a multiple and demanded performer decided to try his hand at the TV show "Voice". As the singer stated in an interview, unlike novice participants, she no longer have any overestimated expectations and pseudo-ambitions, so it enjoys the very execution process with a large scene and sings first of all for listeners. And they prompted to come to the project "Voice" Leru Göhner requests of her fans who wanted to see a favorite singer on television.
At the blind auditions, the Gehner presented to the court members of the jury of Vladimir Vysotsky "My Gypsy". Her expressive manner struck Polina Gagarin and Leonid Agutina, and Dima Bilan was even talked during the Lerina number. It was in favor of the young mentor that Lera made his choice and eventually entered the team of Bilan.
Personal life
When Lera lived and worked in Germany, she met the German photographer Ulrik Genner. Later he also began to shoot documentary films. Life's personal life Gehner was connected with his spouse for several years, but later they broke up, and the singer returned to his homeland.
By the way, her new surname "Gehner" is pronounced in Russian as "Genner", but when documents changed the documents, employees of the passport department made a mistake by making a boring transliteration, and the "Gehner" in the Russian passport now appears.
Discography
- 2004 - Today I Am Part of You, Dear
- 2009 - Flora & Fauna