Natalia Mogilevskaya boasts a long and eventful career, and many people who have worked with her over the past years know about her resilience and determination. How did she manage to gain such a firm foothold in the changeable Ukrainian showbiz?
Natalya Alekseevna Mogilevskaya is a Ukrainian singer, actress, TV presenter, and producer. In 2004, Natalia received the title of People’s Artist of Ukraine.
Full name: Natalia Alekseevna Mogila
Date of birth: August 2, 1975 (age 42)
Place of birth: Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Country: Ukraine
Profession: singer, actress, TV presenter, music producer.
Biography of Natalia Mogilevskaya
Natalia was born and raised in Kyiv. She studied at the school named after V. I. Kudryashov No. 195 on Bereznyaki and graduated from 9 classes. After high school, the girl decided to enter the Kiev Circus Variety School.
Shortly after graduating from college, in 1995, Natalia began a solo career, changing her dissonant surname Mogila to a loud one – Mogilevskaya. In the same year, she won the “Slavianski Bazaar”, which was an incredibly successful start for the young performer. The singer’s first hits are “Girl with lily-colored hair”, “Snowdrop” and “Jerusalem”.
In 1996, she entered KNUKiM, and the very next year, in 1997, she released her first album La-la-la, which sold a million copies.
The following albums of Mogilevskaya were released one after another every year: 1998 – the album “Snowdrop”, 1999 – the album “Only Me”. In the same year, the song “Mіsyats” became the song of the year in Ukraine, and Natalia was recognized as the best singer in the country.
2000, the singer held the first all-Ukrainian tour in support of the album “Only Me”, and then again took up the active recording of albums every year: 2001 – the album “Not Like That”, for which Natalya was recognized as the best singer in Ukraine and received the Golden Firebird award, 2002 – the album “Winter” with a video clip for the song “Winter (teddy bear)” with Dmitry Gordon, 2003 – the album “The most … the most”.
2004 – reissue of the album “The Most … The Most” with a new song that became a hit, “Love Me Like This”. In the same year, Natalia Mogilevskaya tried herself as a TV presenter and received the Teletriumph award as the best TV presenter of the year.
In 2004, Natalia Mogilevskaya was awarded the title “People’s Artist of Ukraine”. In the same period, the Chance project was launched on the Inter TV channel, where Natalia acted as a TV presenter and producer. After the project, Mogilevskaya became the producer of Olga Kochetkova and shot the video “There Will Be Still”, and also drew attention to another participant in the show – Vitaly Kozlovsky, with whom she sang her song “Vidrula message” in a duet.
In 2005, Mogilevskaya shot two socially significant videos “You know”, “There is no truth in words”, as well as a popular video clip in a duet with co-leader of “Chance” Kuzma “You don’t give me”. A little later in the same year, Natalya worked in a duet with Philip Kirkorov on the song “I’ll tell you Wow! ..”.
2006 was marked by the release of a new Ukrainian-language album “Vidrula message”.
channel, in which she took second place. And in the song project “Star Duet” (together with the co-producer of the “Chance” program Igor Kondratyuk), the performer took first place.
In 2007, Natalia received the title of the most beautiful woman in the country according to the magazine “Viva!”.
The next album was dedicated to dancing, which became the real passion of the performer. The album and the title song were called “This Dance”, and Mogilevskaya held a tour of the same name around the country together with her partner in “Dancing …” Vlad Yama.
Not resigned to second place in the first season of the dance show, Natalya again took part in the project “Dancing with the Stars – 3”. However, this time the singer got silver.
In 2008, she took part in the Star Factory 2 project, where she became the main producer. Natalia took under her wing a girl group from the participants of the “Factory” called “Real O” and produced the song of the same name, written by another “manufacturer” Vlad Darwin.
In 2009, Natalia Mogilevskaya took up politics: she took part in the all-Ukrainian tour “With Ukraine in the heart!”, which she organized in support of the current Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko in the upcoming presidential elections. She was also a confidant of Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
In 2010, Natalia became a member of the jury of the Star Factory. Superfinal “, in 2011 – a jury member of the dance show ” Dancing with the Stars “, and in 2012 – a jury member and representative of the Southern region in the Mayans show on Inter TV channel.
In 2013, Natalia took part in the show of reincarnations “Yak DVI grapple“.
In 2015, the singer took on the role of a jury member and coach of the vocal show “Voice. Children, and also released the singles Hug, Cry, Kiss, and Lose Weight.
In 2016, Mogilevskaya released two main singles “Everything is fine” and “I got wound up”.
In 2017, Natalya Mogilevskaya took part in the dance show “Dancing with the Stars” for the third time and won.
Personal life of Natalia Mogilevskaya
Natalia was married twice: the first time Natalia Mogilevskaya married in 2004 to businessman Dmitry Chaly. Before the wedding, the couple met for some time and enjoyed the romantic bouquet and confectionery period, but after the magnificent and bright wedding, which the whole of Ukraine was talking about, it turned out that the romance of dating is one thing, and living together is completely different. According to the singer’s stories, after a week she and her husband realized that they were not at all like each other for living together and, having endured a “decent” six months, Mogilevskaya and Chaly broke up.
With her second husband, Yegor Dolinin, also a big businessman, the vocalist was married for five years (from 2006 to 2011). Their relationship was more mature and serious, but this marriage eventually fell apart.
The name Natalia was often associated with the men who surrounded her in her musical, television, and film career. For example, there were rumors about her romantic relationship with dancer Vlad Yama, producer Oleg Voronovich, singer Petr Dmitrichenko, legendary choreographer Radu Poklitaru. But Mogilevskaya herself denied all alleged rumors.
On the project “Dancing with the Stars”, in which Natalya won, and Vlad Yama was a member of the jury, after some verbal “collisions” of former partners, Natalya once again confirmed that she and Vlad had never had a romantic relationship. However, the singer admitted that the rumors about their alleged romance hurt her second marriage a lot.
Family of Natalia Mogilevskaya
Natalia’s father was a geologist and died when she and her older sister Oksana were very young. Therefore, the entire upbringing of the girls fell on the shoulders of their mother, Nina Petrovna. The woman worked as a cook in one of the capital’s restaurants.
Mom became Natalia’s best friend and all their lives they were support and supported each other. When the woman died in 2013, it was a real tragedy for the singer. According to Natalia, then she thought about ending her career forever and never returning to the stage or television.
It took several years for Mogilevskaya to regain her strength and move on, because, as she thinks, this is exactly what her mother would like.
Awards and titles
- 1995 – Winner of the competition “Slavianski Bazaar”;
- 1999 – Best singer and best song – Festival “Tavria Games” Golden Firebird of Ukraine;
- 2001 – Best Singer – Festival “Tavria Games”, Golden Firebird of Ukraine;
- 2001 – Honorary title Honored Artist of Ukraine;
- 2004 – Honorary title of People’s Artist of Ukraine;
- 2006 – Best TV presenter – People’s Award “TV Star”;
- 2006 – Kievan of the year;
- 2007 – The most beautiful according to the magazine “Viva!”;
- 2007 – The idol of the nation – the award of the program “Person of the Year” and the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine”;
- 2007 – Best couple (Natalya Mogilevskaya, Vlad Yama) – People’s Award “TV Star”;
- 2008 – Woman of the Year according to Hello magazine;
- 2012 – Natalia Mogilevskaya was awarded the title “Producer of the Year”.