I want to hand my friend headphones with my demo that I adore, that I am thrilled with, and say: 'Listen to my song.'
According to producer Olesya Sazykina, Rozhden Anusi may have married Elizaveta Ivantsiv to avoid mobilization in Ukraine.
Recently, the 43-year-old singer from Western Ukraine, Elizaveta Ivantsiv, who has long lived in Russia and performs under the stage name Yolka, unexpectedly attracted attention on the internet. Initially, she was criticized for performing an edited version of her main hit "Provence" at the "Golden Gramophone" without mentioning Kyiv's Boryspil Airport in the lyrics. Then, the subject of lively discussions became the artist's carefully concealed personal life.
Until recently, the public only knew of two men with whom Yolka had close relationships. She met the first one at the age of 14 in her hometown of Uzhhorod. He was the head of the local KVN team "Palata No. 6," Vasily Krainy.
Sergey Denisенко, co-founder of "Palata No. 6," told "Express Gazeta" that Elizaveta performed in their group for seven years - she studied at the very school where this project was created. Despite the eight-year age difference with the leaders Denisенко and Krainy, Ivantsiv became their close friend. Outside of rehearsals, they communicated a lot: they walked, visited each other, and celebrated holidays.
However, Denisенко did not want to discuss Elizaveta's personal relationship with Krainy, emphasizing that "it's very personal."
- She was bright, extraordinary, and she was drawn to creative, unconventional, informal people, - summarized Sergey.
If things didn’t lead to marriage with Krainy, another man became her official husband for several years. This happened when Elizaveta had already moved from Uzhhorod to Moscow and began to gain popularity with the help of the leader of the group Bad Balance, Vlad Valov.
- At one point, she was hanging out with a boy from the Moscow region, Sergey Astakhov, - Valov shared with our publication. - He didn’t work anywhere and lived at her expense. In short, he turned out to be a gold digger. And then Yolka began to change. Apparently, in exchange for supporting this boy, she stopped renting an apartment in Moscow and moved to live with him in the Moscow region. He had a house there with his parents. She was always worried about how to earn more.
Valov added that the singer once demanded to get rid of the investor, stating: "He has already made his money. It's enough to share with him!" Vlad replied: "Understand, if it weren't for the person who believed in you and gave you money at the first stage, when it was unclear whether you would succeed or not, you would be nobody now and would never have risen like this."
- And I stayed with the investor, - summarized Valov. - And Yolka found interested people who were engaged in the PR of my projects but wanted more. And these people came to me with an offer to buy her from me. Where they got the money - I don’t know. Maybe from Pugacheva, if we believe the rumors. We sold Yolka to them and parted ways with her. After that, she changed all the musicians, and her husband, the gold digger, became her administrator.
Broken Heart
Ivantsiv has never publicly spoken about her men - neither bad nor good, not even naming names in interviews. She considered this topic painful and protected it from outsiders.
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You understand, because you don’t talk about it, it really stirs everyone up, - blogger Nadezhda Strelets tried to draw her out in 2021. - They were already wondering - are you heterosexual or not? They married and divorced you a hundred and fifty times. And when you posted a photo with two girls, they assumed they were your children.
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I just have friends who are like children to me, - Elizaveta explained. - We call each other "mom" and "children": "My children! Follow me! I will show you the way." And we go to training. Of course, I laughed when this was picked up. Each of them has their biological parents listed in their profiles. And I started joking with them: "Until there is a DNA test with Andrey Malakhov, I will defend my rights to the children." It seemed to me that this was such obvious and rich humor. But it turned out that due to the informational vacuum, it worked like a well-thought-out leak.
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Since you don’t specifically discuss your personal life, I’ll ask at least this - has there been a time in your life when you had a truly broken heart?
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Yes. That's exactly why I hide all these things. Of course, when you are on the rise, when you are carried away in euphoria, you want to tell the whole world: "He is unreal!" But everything is not forever. I understand perfectly well that the most beautiful story can end at any second… I don’t know how to experience these things publicly. I almost left the profession when I last had a broken heart. I love very deeply and take a long time to recover.
Secret Bonds
Nevertheless, the singer hinted at changes in her personal life recently. She posted a video for the song "Zodiac," where she was hugging a man, but his face was not shown, and she displayed a wedding ring on her ring finger.
The media immediately spread the news that Yolka had secretly gotten married. Soon, her chosen one was revealed to be 36-year-old Ukrainian singer and composer Rozhden Anusi. He gained fame in his homeland in 2011 as a finalist of the TV show "The Voice of the Country" from Diana Arbenina's team. In 2015, he was featured in the local tabloid press as yet another lover of former "VIA Gra" soloist Anna Sedokova.
- There is no romance between Rozhden and me, - Sedokova stated to "StarHit" at that time. - He is undoubtedly a very talented composer and performer, and just a nice person. We do spend a lot of time together - we are working on a new album. I support him a lot; I like his music - I am sure Rozhden will achieve great success.
As it turned out later, at that moment, Sedokova's previous lover, choreographer Sergey Human, had returned to her. He left his model wife and small son for her. And apparently, Anna found it inconvenient to publicize that, having just broken up with him, she was already having an affair with another.
- Yes, we tried to build a relationship with Anya, but at a certain point, we realized that two artists is very complicated, - Anusi justified himself in 2018 on the TV show "The Bachelor." - So each went their own way. Yes, I was definitely ready to become a father to her children. The more you get attached to children, the harder it is to part with a person later.
Rozhden appeared next to Yolka in the early twenties.
He was then taken under the wing of the label MeladzeMusic, created by composer Konstantin Meladze. And Elizaveta, who was promoted by the company Velvet Music of Alena Mikhaylova and Konstantin Meladze's sister, Liana Meladze, began collaborating with Anusi as a songwriter.
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Yolka presented a cover of the soulful ballad "Scary" by Rozhden Anusi, - reported the FON MUSIC portal in 2022. - The singer decided to abandon the anxious original title and named her version of the song "Will I Protect You" - after one of the chorus lines. The vibe and production of the new release do not differ much from the original material.
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The premiere of Yolka's new song "Monday" took place on September 22, - reported the InterMedia agency three years later. - The digital release was carried out by the Media Land label. This is the artist's first release after going solo. Previously, the singer left the Velvet Music label. "I have been looking forward to this day, - Yolka noted on social media. - I want to hand my friend headphones with my demo that I adore, that I am thrilled with, and say: 'Listen to my song.' The author of the song was Rozhden Anusi.
Fake Smile
- I don’t believe that Yolka is in love with this Ukrainian singer, - admitted former "Muz-TV" producer Olesya Sazykina. - In my opinion, this lady is not capable of loving anyone but herself.
I first saw her when she was working with Vlad Valov: he came to my rented apartment in Zhulebino, where I had a mini-video studio, and introduced her as his new project. At that time, she sat quietly like a mouse. Later, when she was promoted by Alena Mikhaylova from Velvet Music, I encountered Yolka at "Muz-TV." Mikhaylova pushed her stars for our programs - Valery Meladze and the group "Uma2rman." But for this, she made us take new artists - "Chili," "Vintage," the same Yolka. But there was no friendship between us, unlike my communication with Anya Pletnyova from "Vintage."
Yolka's song "Provence" took off. There were crazy tours. And she immediately began to act like a star. If there was some delay during filming, Pletnyova was always ready to meet us and wait. But Yolka was acting like a diva and demanded to shoot her first. She didn’t let anyone into her dressing room. She looked down on everyone. Her fake smile drove me crazy. I wanted to punch her in the face. I can’t imagine how someone could be friends with her.
Even with Mikhaylova, who did so much for her, she severed ties. Apparently, she thought that Alena could no longer give her anything and there was no need to share income with her. As for her newfound husband, I think their alliance pursued some selfish goals. Since Yolka received Russian citizenship several years ago, he could have married her to settle in Russia and avoid mobilization in Ukraine. She, in turn, might have been interested in having a songwriter in her life whom she wouldn’t have to pay for songs.
