Irina Bilyk (Irina Bilik) is a famous Ukrainian singer who has a huge number of fans not only in her country, but also abroad.
The future star was born on April 6, 1970 in Kiev. Her parents were ordinary people who had nothing to do with the world of art, but they tried to instill in their daughter a love for music from early childhood. When the little girl was 5 years old, she was taken to a dancing school, and after that - to the children's ensemble "Solnyshko", the soloist of which Ira became less than a year later. In addition, the girl attended drama class, studied piano, being considered one of the best students in the group.
From the first songs to fame
After graduating from school, Bilyk herself entered the Glier Music School. Glier, which for a girl from an ordinary family was in itself supernatural. Dreaming of a career as a singer, she studied a lot, participated in competitions. In her autobiography, the current celebrity notes that the first step on the way to fame for her was the festival "Chervona Ruta". While performing at it, Irina became close to the musicians of the group "Ajax". Together they decided to create a new project, calling it "Tsei dosch nadovgo". Participation in this collective was the starting point in Bilyk's creative biography.
The following years (1990-1994) became for the singer a period of active fruitful work, she:
- released two albums "Kuvala zozulya" and "I will tell you";
- became the winner of the festival "Song Vernisage. New Ukrainian Wave";
- shot the first video clip for the song "Lishe Yours";
- represented the country at the "Slavic Bazaar".
In 1995 the artist went on tour in Ukraine with the program "Nova". It was the first event of such scale for the independent country. Its final chord was a grand concert in the capital's palace "Ukraine". For her participation in the tour Irina Bilyk received prizes in two categories and the title of Honored Artist.
But the singer continued to strive hard to achieve universal recognition: released new albums and compilations, traveled with concerts in the cities of the post-Soviet space, participated as a model in various advertising campaigns. Prestigious awards came one after another. In 2009 Bilyk became the People's Artist of Ukraine, and 4 years later - and the Russian Federation. The growth of the star's popularity in Russia was greatly facilitated by her album "Love. Poison" - the first of those released in Russian.
Today the singer continues to release new songs, presents music videos (she has more than 50 of them), actively participates as a guest star or expert in numerous TV projects, starring in musicals, writes songs for herself and her colleagues in show business. One of them was the composition "Snow", which Irina gave to Philip Kirkorov. In her opinion, he sings it in a different way than she does, and very beautifully. Another track Bilyk "About Love", sung by Kirkorov, became the soundtrack in the movie "The Crew", which starred Danila Kozlovsky and Vladimir Mashkov.
All details about the star's new achievements can be found in our blog about artists.
Personal life
The personal life of the singer has always been an object of close attention from her fans. She was attributed numerous fans and husbands, envied and judged. In fact, the singer was married 5 times.
The first spouse of the star was Yuri Nikitin, who is now a famous producer and showman. The couple lived together for about 7 years.
After parting with Yuri, the singer had an affair with Andrei Overchuk, who works as a model. The couple concluded an official marriage and even got married in church. Soon Irina had a son Gleb. But the marriage was not saved.
Irina filed for divorce and plunged headlong into a new romance with a well-known choreographer Dmitry Kolyadenko. Their relationship and the subsequent separation after 3 years were accompanied by violent scandals and racy details, which did not skimp on the former favorite man.
In 2007, the singer once again married. This time her chosen one was Dmitry Dikusar, who was 15 years younger than Irina. The couple lived in marriage for about 3 years, after which a divorce followed.
Another spouse Bilyk became a photographer, stylist and director Aslan Akhmadov. Their marriage was registered in 2013, but was kept secret for a long time. In 2015, Irina found a second child: son Tabriz was born with the help of a surrogate mother.
The head of the family does not live with his wife and children constantly, comes as soon as business allows. But, as Irina Bilyk notes, this does not affect the depth of feelings.
