If someone still tells you that Oksimiron turned the rap game upside down, play Alyona Alyona tracks to him and let the child calm down. Today we are sharing the biography of a Ukrainian rap artist who has become a real cultural phenomenon and has shown that modern rap can still be saved.
Biography of Alyona Alyona
Let’s look a little deeper into the biography of Alyona Alyona and figure out who she is and how she came to music.Real name – Alena Savranenko.
Alena was born on June 14, 1991 (according to the sign of the zodiac – Gemini) in the city of Kapitanovka, in the Kirovograd region. She lived there for 13 years until she moved with her parents to Baryshevka.
When Alena was a teenager, her family did not have the highest income: her mother worked as a packer, and her father was engaged in debugging ventilation. At the age of 15, the future singer decided that she wanted to help her parents: she got a part-time job. Among them – a seller at the market, a cleaning lady, a cashier, and even … a collector!
But it was not without other troubles. The performer has repeatedly said that in childhood she was offended and not perceived because of her excess weight:
About rejection by society, Alyona Alyona will later have the songs “Ribki” and “Building”.
As a child, Alena began to write a rap, but then she didn’t show it to anyone. Already at the age of 12, the girl mastered programs for creating simple beats, and over time, her hobby grew into a real passion and she decided: she would be realized as an artist.
By the way, did you know that Alyona Alyona has two higher educations? She trained as a psychologist, and then as an educator. The singer received her higher education at Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi State Pedagogical University named after Grigory Skovoroda.
Immediately after education, she gets a job as a teacher in a kindergarten, and for the next four years, she devoted herself to preschoolers, and even at one time was the head of a kindergarten near Kyiv.
Songs and clips of Alyona Alyona
By the way, before Alyona Alyona, the performer had another creative pseudonym: Alyona Al.kaida. Under this pseudonym, she even performed once or twice.
Alyona Alyona recorded her first track “Women’s Blow to Stereotypes” in 2008, followed by her debut album “Plus on minus gives plus”. However, Alena soon removed him from all sites: she knows for sure that she wants to be realized in the Ukrainian language, as a Ukrainian-speaking performer. And, spoiler alert, she’s really good at it!
In October 2018, Alena released her first video clip for the song “Ribki”:
And already on November 12, real popularity begins. Alena published a video for the song “Golovin”, and in a month it gained 1 million views, and the listeners fell in love with the new performer. And no wonder: it was a fresh new face, interesting lyrics, cool music that gets stuck in my head.
Next are clips for the songs “Open” and “I leave my home”.
On April 8, 2019, Alyona Alyona’s first album called “Cannon” is released, and also a video for the track of the same name, which was immediately shot and liked by the audience.
The album also included the track “Padlo” co-recorded with Alina Pash, and even a video for this song was released. In the same month, American Vogue named the singer the most unexpected rap star. Isn’t it cool?
In total, the performer released two albums: “The Gun” and “In the House of MA”, and also three singles.
The other day Alyona Alyona released a video for the song “Sumo”, which starred Anastasia Lugovaya, a girl who was tried to be raped on the train “Mariupol-Kyiv”.
“Most people are afraid to talk about violence. Therefore, for me, Anastasia’s consent to take part in the filming was a great act, because she, like no one else, understands the meaning of my text. She was not silent! And I call on every person who has experienced violence or who has witnessed it: tell us about it, do not be silent!
– calls Alyona Alyona and urged to share stories under the tags #Sumnotak and #nemovchipronasillya.
Alyona Alyona on Dancing with the Stars
We are closely following the progress of Alyona Alyona on the Dancing with the Stars project. There she performs with Yuri Gurich.
The singer was surprised with her dancing skills and her performances are very popular with the audience. She herself says:
“I want to prove that all dance steps are subject to donuts.”
Personal life of Alyona Alyona
So far, neither we nor the fans of Alyona Alyona know anything. Even if she has a couple, the singer does not admit it, and she has not said a word in an interview.
With warmth and love, the singer speaks of her parents, even shoots them in videos. They stayed to live and work in Baryshevka.
