Катя Лель
(Katya Lel)
Yekaterina Nikolayevna Chuprinina, better known by her stage name Katya Lel, was
born on September 20, 1974 in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkar ASSR, Soviet Union, and
is a Russian pop singer and songwriter. A piano was bought for her at age 3, and
she later studied music at the North Caucasus Institute of Arts while spending 6
years as a soloist with the Nalchik ensemble. In 1994, she moved to Moscow, won
the Musical Start - 1994 competition, and began working at the Lev Leshchenko
Theater, adopting her stage name after a character from Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera
The Snow Maiden. She laun...
