Biography
Now Iowa (also known to numerous fans as Ekaterina Ivanchikova) occupies a noticeable niche in the Belarusian and Russian show business. At a talented and expressive singer, each song is similar to history from his personal life. These compositions are as if skipped through the heart and warrend by experienced emotions of the artist. As it is clear, because the soloist itself writes poetry to all its creations.Childhood and youth
Catherine was born in the Belarusian town of Chaus on August 18, 1987 (the lion on the sign of the zodiac). The girl grew in a simple working family: the father worked by the mechanic, mother raised the children in kindergarten. Parents were busy on the work of the entire light day, so in childhood the future pop star most of the time was granted to herself.
Katya did what she liked, never suffered from loneliness. Friends and girlfriends often gathered in the house. And the girl often brought homeless and sick animals to the apartment. A kitten or puppy, selected on the road from school home, always found shelter at the defenders.
The ability to music from Iowa was revealed early. Therefore, the schoolgirl was taken to a music school at the local House of Culture. Here the artist not only learned to play the piano, but also sank. In high school classes, the performer was fascinated by heavy rock, began singing in the manner of hard rockers and grounders. The performer dreamed of the scene. The singer dreamed of crowded halls and stadiums, light of sophods and ovation. But it was not possible to get a special education: to the conservatory and the Mogilev school of culture took applicants with academic vocals.
Therefore, Beloruska went to Minsk and entered the Pedagogical University. After 4 years, the graduate had diplomas at once two spheres: philology and journalism. True, none of them came in handy.
The creative biography of the artist began in student years. The vocalist hit the casting of the TV show "Star Dilizhans", analogue of the Russian "Star Factory". At first, the performer was not taken to the final stage, but when one of the past participants fell ill, Catherine was invited to take her place. In addition, the singer took part in the musical Ilya Oleinikov "Prophet".
Songs
In 2009, Ekaterina Ivanchikova remembered the youthful dream to gather his own musical team. Together with the guitarist Leonid Tereshchenko and the drummer Vasily Bulanov, the artist founded the rock band Iowa. As the name, the guys chose the nickname Kati - Iowa, this is exactly what the girl was called in rock-party in honor of the beloved album of the metal project Slipknot.
Initially, the team is performer and sang, and played on the bass guitar. Later decided to focus on the vocal. Texts for team compositions creates Beloruska itself. Iowa poems began to write in school. Talent opened with her when the vocalist fell in love for the first time. All the author's poems are sensual, missed through themselves, always based on personal experiences. Songs and manner of execution of artist fans called expressive and charging energy.
During the year, a young rock team toured in the cities of Belarus. Creativity Iowa, like the soloist of the group, liked youth audience. Crowds were gathered for concerts who wish to listen to the original singing of vocalists.
And then the guys realized that you need to go ahead, grow. To do this, moved to St. Petersburg, where the air was breathing with creativity and where the rock musicians selected Iowa directions were concentrated. Those concerts who gave the Belarusian group in the city on the Neva, Petersburgers accepted very warmly.
Soon the existence of vocalists and the team learned many inhabitants of vast Russia. The musicians had a huge Russian fan group. Iowa developed and regularly pleased fans with new songs. Some hits fell on television, and bright clips were removed. One of the first hits of the team became the composition of Mom, which was in the twenty of the best in the results of 2012. In the spring of the same year, the video on the loved track was collected on the Internet a million views.
Single performed by the soloist "I am looking for a husband" first sounded in the transfer of Larisa Guzeeva "Let's get married", "simple song" was performed in the TV series "Fizruk", and the "one and the same" and "smile" turned into hits after being saunts Sitkom "Kitchen".
In 2014, the Iowa group released the second Export Studio Album. The disk had a considerable success among the public and musical critics. It is noteworthy that the team first consisted of only three people. The producer of the group became Oleg Baranov.
In January 2015, fans saw the clip on the hit "same". Vladimir Besedin became the director video. In the same year, Iowa received a prestigious prize "for the popularization of Belarusian music abroad." The award was presented with the guys on the national musical award "Lira" in Minsk.
In general, 2015 was very generous and saturated for vocalist and its team. In March, they came to the "Best Group" nomination on the RU.TV premium. In the same month, the MUZ-TV premium was nominated at once in two nominations: "breakthrough of the year" and "Best Song". The last nomination is per track "Minibus".
In April, the group gave a solo concert in the Moscow Crocus City Hall. And at the very beginning of the summer, the solo program Iowa saw the team fans in Minsk. In September 2015, the team nominated for the MTV EMA Prize. Iowa got into the category "Best Russian Artist". And in October, the "minibus" hit was opened with the competition "New Wave". In the same place, participants presented the new composition "Bighting Bit", which instantly turned into a hit.
The year ended wonderful. In November, the Iowa project performed the song "Smile" at the 20th Gold Gramophone-2015 Music Prize Ceremony. Here the musicians got their first award.
2016 brought a soloist and its colleagues a lot of pleasant gifts. With the trac of the "minibus" they spoke on January 1 at the New Year's Eve on the First Channel. And in February, the premiere of the video clip on the song "Three Days of Cold" took place. In April, Iowa was presented in the "Best Pop Group" nomination on the MUZ-TV premium.
And in September, the team visited the "new wave" for the second time. The project participants performed at the opening of the competition with the new song "140". In the same month, they started shooting the video for the single "my poems, your guitar." In December 2016, the performer, together with Mikhail Zhitov and Sardor Milano sang "Beat Bit" on the 5th season of the "Voice" project.
In 2017, the singer recorded a joint composition a Fine Morning to Die ("Beautiful morning to die"), and also starred in the video on this track with Serge Tankian, the soloist of the famous American rock band System of A DOWN. This single became a soundtrack to the Russian historic militant "Kolovrat".
Also in 2017, the vocalist recorded a new dance hit "badly dance", where he called on fans to be ourselves, because "badly dance is also a position", as the refreent of the incendiary song says. Later in the same year, the singer presented a music clip to this track.
In March 2018, the performer presented the Single "Faday", which later took off the clip. And in May, the group fans were able to evaluate the work "silent to me." In the same month, the artist recorded a new track with Elena Dameman. In 2019, Iowa appeared in the song "Songs on TNT" together with Cyril Mednikov.
Personal life
The first love was labeled Iowa, when the girl was a high school student. The chosen one was older than a girl for several years. This first pure feeling has become an impetus to the fact that the singer began writing poems that served as a starting point for texts of future hits.In 2008, the personal life of Ekaterina Ivanchikova lit up with a new romantic light, the actress met Gitarist Leonid Tereshchenko. Musicians liked each other immediately. Roman lasted ten years. Not only popular Iowa group in Belarus and Russia increased from these relationships, but also a loving family.
Fans of Kati claimed that in the actual marriage a couple lived for 7 years. According to the singer, the proposal of Tereshchenko did back in 2012, but the musicians decided to legalize relations only in 2015. Ivanchikova and Tereshchenko told them then in an interview, which is already preparing for the wedding and choose the dress of the bride. At this, lovers were finished to devote fans and press in details of personal life.
The musicians decided to spend a secret wedding and even before a solemn event did not inform the fans and the press that they were planning to become a family in the coming days. As a result, only native and friends of newlyweds were played at the wedding.
The ceremony took place in October 2016 in Karelia and lasted two days. Wedding itself passed in the 1935 church in the village of Lumivaara. This abandoned church, which no longer works as a regular church and is not in the best condition, but the fans of exotic periodically decide to get married here.
Ivanchikova and Tereshchenko marriage for a long time and after the wedding were not commented. The fact that a vocalist changed marital status, fans learned thanks to one photo in the instagram account of the singer, on which the room in the country club was captured.
The interior was decorated with festive garlands, and a lace luminous dress with an open back was hanging on the window. Iowa's followers immediately recognized the bride's dress in this outfit and rushed to congratulate the performer with this happy event. Now the family lives in St. Petersburg, who has long become native for this couple.
Ekaterina Ekaterina's appearance, model parameters, figure, growth (169 cm) and weight (56 kg) were the reason why photographs of beauties appeared in Maxim and Playboy magazines. The husband on this occasion did not suit the spouse of scenes of jealousy. Soloist and guitarist have wonderful trusting relationships. Each of them understands that for the popular artist, it is extremely important for the popular artist, and with some things you have to put up.
Also, the singer is engaged in charitable and social projects. The Belarusian team launched the Dobropoque project - the organizers ask for no money, and a letter or a postcard with warm words addressed to the sick child. In 2018, the singer gave an interview about this initiative, telling what purpose it was the "brainchild".
According to the performer, the project provides psychological assistance to children in need of treating in the hospital. Such guys fall out of social life, and writing with support becomes a symbol of their own significance and peace with the world. Talking about young patients who can write a letter, the organization also distributes information, and therefore someone may want and financially help certain children.
Ekaterina Ivanchikova now
In 2020, Iowa continued to engage in creativity. Despite the epidemic of coronavirus infection, the singer together with the group released a new album "Lighthouses". As part of the promotion of the disk, the artist, together with his spouse, came to the show "Evening Urgant". The program of a vocalist told about the compositions "Dance with me" (for which remixes already appeared) and "Mayakni me".
It turned out that the second hit caused a large response in the hearts in the hearts - people began to send "beacons" by the performer - reports about how they were able to overcome vital difficulties. As a result, this resulted in the real flash mob. At the end of the year, the soloist presented the song "Dream" and "Spice". Later in the "Instagram", Iowa posted a video from the Besteja shooting of the clip to the "sharp" hit. At the same time, the fans heard a vocalist in the program "Evening Show with Assault Predlatova".
In 2021, the singer pleased the fans with new works, replenishing discography. Among them, the composition "Take the joy of my palms" to the poems of Osip Mandelstam was bright. The song was created within the framework of the project "Save my speech", dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the Russian poet. In addition to creative classes, the artist participated in a Duet with a blogger named Klava Coca in the entertainment program "Where is the logic?".
Discography
- 2014 - Export
- 2016 - Import.
- 2020 - "# Loose"