Elena Vaenga

Today Elena Vaenga needs no introduction. She does not like the loud epithets that music critics and journalists give her: artist, poetess, queen of chanson, etc. She calls herself modestly – a musician. Her songs are frank and emotional. The secret of her success is obvious, it's on the surface. Her trump card is simplicity and sincerity!

Very often we want to look into someone's inner world, and if it is especially rich, like Elena Vaenga's, then this journey can become doubly tempting. One line "reach out with your hand – yours ...." can describe how close, natural and understandable it is to everyone.

"Chopin", "Girl", "Queen", "Neva", "Airport"... These and many other songs have found their way to the hearts of the audience, because everyone can see their own story in them.

Today, in the age of the Internet and social networks, when a new artist can become "famous" overnight thanks to artificial viral promotion, Elena remains at the peak of her popularity without rotating clips on television, without Internet promotion using advertising technologies and other tricks.

Nowadays Elena Vaenga is one of the rarest artists who you really believe as a loved one. And many listeners are greatly captivated by her sincerity and unwillingness to fight for popularity and ratings, in her case this is not paramount. The long-term touring biography of Elena and her team has passed and is taking place in a mode where most of the time of life is given to the road. Watching from the train window the dim light in Russian houses, which are scattered across the vast expanses far from Moscow or St. Petersburg, she realized that millions of people do not care about the concept of top or rating, they are looking for sincerity and solace in music. Russian Russian folk song, Western European trends (funk, soul, boss nova, folk rock, rock), old Russian romance, music of the peoples of the world (Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian, Spanish and other folk songs), therefore, together with her unique team, Elena creates a musical world on stage in which a variety of styles and genres are intertwined: author's song, Western European trends (funk, soul, boss nova, folk rock, rock), old Russian romance, music of the peoples of the world (Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian, Spanish and other folk songs). And many of them find a new life in her performance.

Going on stage, Elena does not just perform her works, she invites the listener to her confession. Each of her concerts is a monologue with the audience – ideas of the eternal and especially significant today. She is always unpredictable, every appearance on stage is a new performance with a special dramaturgy and relationship with the audience. This is the "Elena Vaenga Theater"…

Elena Vaenga: "When you come to my concert, the first thing you will think is, did you come to Vaenga? I write and perform completely different music, diametrically opposite songs. And I always say: in order to understand anything about me, you just have to go to my concert."