Glukoza

Glukoza’s career in Russian pop music started with a computer animated video clip in 2002. In that clip Glukoza was a nothing but a cartoon character – a weird girl with two strange pony tail and an accompanying Doberman. Her voice was also weird – strong but somewhat snuffling and nasal. Glukoza’s clip “Nevesta” (Bride) was a huge success. It shot Glukoza immediately onto the top of Russian MTV charts. Nobody knew who is behind the voice. Max Fadeev, the project producer, did not comment on that problem.

In Russia pop singers make money almost always only on concert tours. Piracy makes income from CDs of MP3’s puny. It was evident that Max needed a real live person to start making cash – a cartoon character was of no help. Tabloids speculated that Glukoza’s voice belonged to Zhanna Aguzarova – an extravagant, unpredictable and almost mad singer (she believes that she’s an alien from Mars) notorious for disrupting concerts. There were also rumors that that the singer behind the voice is Max Fadeev’s own wife who was very good at parodying Aguzarova. Unfortunately, Max’s wife is not “presentable” – too old for the cartoon girl from the clip.

Fadeev needed a girl who should be (1) unknown, (2) pretty, (3) young but above all (4) with Glukoza’s unique voice. The situation was desperate. Time was pressing so one day Max Fadeev presented to the general public Glukoza in flesh. The girl, Natasha Ionova, completely satisfied condition 1,2 and 3 but with the forth one there were serious problems. I mean Natasha tried really hard to sing with a nasal twang but the result was pathetic.

Anyway Glukoza is still a celebrity. Over the last two years she released several successful singles and brought Max a lot of money.

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