Yulia Savicheva

Julia Savicheva was born on 14 February 1987 in Kurgan (small city in Ural region) in musicians family. Music is definitely in the 17-year-olds blood. Both Julias parents are musicians. After graduating from music school, her mother worked as a music school teacher for 12 years. Her father Stas Savichev is an excellent drummer; now he accompanies Julia. Her first appearence on big scene happened when she was 4 years old. Russian popular rock group " " (Agatha Christie) gave its perfomance and Julia decided to help them with dance improvisation. Spectators were deeple impressed by emotional dance of this young girl.Since 5 years old Julia became a member of children's choreograpic group "Svetlyachok" (Fire-Fly). Despite she was the youngest in that collective, Savicheva was chosen to be the soloist of group soon. In her 6 Julia with parents moved to Moscow. In Russian Capital Julia spent all her spare time at her mum's working place - The Palace of Culture "MAI" - and associated with other musicians and choreographers constantly. In that Palace of Culture there was student's theatre "Faust". And its head R.A.Polejko noted such talented child as Julia Savicheva and soon little girl played main part in New-Year's concerts and got her first money for it. 7 years old Julia has got no free time at all as she played and had rehearsals in the theatre, studied in school and in choreographical collective "Zhuravushka" (Yong Crane). Becides that L.Azadanova (known teacher of ball-room dances) noted Julia also and offered girl to dance in her group. Soon Savicheva & her dance partner became Moscow champions in their age group 2 times. Julia associated with musicians constantly and listened to music a lot, so it's clear that she tried her in singing. She liked to perform songs of Tony Braxton and Whitney Houston and everybody, who heard her singing, was impressed deeple by her beautiful and strong vocal. In 1996 Julia took part in recording of album "VORONA" (The Crow) with famous russian singer Linda. Julia sang part of children's back vocal in several song. It should be mentioned, that Linda's producer name is Max Fadeev, who also was born in Kurgan and was familiar with Julia's father. In 2001 the head of student's theatre "Faust" R.A. Polejko offered, that Julia should play main part in original New-Year's concerts in The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. This perfomance became the most visited and popular New-Year's concert in the Capital of Russia. In 2002 Julia was offered a role in this performance and she played main part of "Pozyomka" again. Julia took part in all 40 concerts of that show. On 7th of March 2003 new Julia Savicheva reached new horizont in her musical career. She became a member of "Fabrika Zvyozd-2" project on Channel One Russia. "Fabrika Zvyozd" is russian analog of "Fame Academy" and "Operacion Triunfo". And producer of this show (and so Julia's producer) was ... Max Fadeev. Despite Savicheva was not even top 3 in "Fabrika Zvyozd" she was the 1st from show to enter many charts. Her song "Visoko" (High) became a big hit in Russia. In the beginning of 2004 Julia was chosen to be russian representative in WorldBest because of her success. It's known, that she will perform "Torn" which was a hit of Natalie Imbruglia. Despite touring constantly all over Russia and CIS with "Fabrika Zvyozd-2" project, Julia pays special attention to her self-education as this year she graduates school. In this summer Savicheva plans to enter the Theatre Institute (GITIS) and to study the art of acting or the choreography. Julia likes dancing, singing, painting and eating sweets... Also she is fond of choral singing. One of Julias favourite movies is "Leon" by Luc Besson, a fact which explains why shes been nicknamed Matilda since her school days