Masha Rasputina (birth name: Alla Nikolaevna Ageyeva, born May 13, 1964, Inskoy, Kemerovo Oblast[1][2]) is a Soviet and Russian singer who has released eight studio albums and collaborated with, among others, the composers Alexandr Lukashenko and Aleksandr Lukashenko. May 13, 1964, Inskoy, Kemerovo Oblast) is a Soviet and Russian singer who released eight studio albums and collaborated with, among others, composers Alexander Lukyanov, Maxim Dunayevsky, Arkady Ukupnik and songwriter Leonid Derbenev. Her father was Nikolai Ageyev, a worker at Belovskaya GRES. Her mother was Lydia Georgievna Ageyeva (1932-1986), a hydrogeologist from Odessa, who came to Siberia with an expedition and stayed there with her husband. She lived in the village of Urop. She studied well at school, graduating from it at the age of 18, moved to Kemerovo for higher education. In Kemerovo tried herself in different professions, and after six months, having decided on the choice, entered the Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts. Brother Nikolai Nikolaevich Ageyev.
At the entrance exams, she was met by a vocal teacher from the Tver Music College, who suggested that she enter his university. Alla entered the conducting and choral department of the Tver college and graduated in 1988.
Musical career
After graduating from the music school, she moved to Moscow, where she met musicians and recorded her first song "Play, musician". In 1989, the song became a hit and won the Grand Prix of the pop and rock music festival "Pyongyang 89". On the advice of an acquaintance, Alla Ageyeva took the pseudonym "Masha Rasputina", explaining that Masha is a traditional Russian name, and the surname Rasputina makes it on the one hand more erotic, on the other - connects its owner with one of the founders of Russian mysticism Grigory Rasputin