薇拉·勃列日涅娃(Вера Брежнева)1982年2月3日生于乌克兰第聂伯捷尔任斯克市。她成长于一个和睦的大家庭中,有三个漂亮的姐妹。
薇拉小时候爱好很多,参加过从钩针编织到打字员的许多兴趣小组,练过手球、篮球、空手道和艺术体操,但她最喜欢的还是当地的少年剧团小组。她对艺术的爱好就是从这里开始的。
2002年底,通过选拔进入“圣女天团”(VIA Gra)演唱组合来到基辅,通过辛勤的努力和对自我实现的不断追求,她超越了一名成功的演唱组成员的身份,从2007年起开始成为一名独唱演员。
2008年10月16日,她被《Glamour》杂志评为“年度最佳电视女主持人”。
2009年,电影《都市爱情》公映,她在片中饰演女主角之一,2009年,薇拉还获得了当年的世界时尚奖“World Fashion Awards 2009”。
2010年,勃列日涅娃被《Glamour》杂志评为“2010年度女性,不久之后,薇拉举行了首张个人专辑《爱情拯救世界》的发行仪式。
2012年,薇拉在《MAXIM》杂志举办的“俄罗斯最性感女性”评比中名列第一。
用薇拉自己的话说,她最大的成就是生了两个女儿索尼娅(2001)和萨拉(2009)。
Family
Vera was born on 3 February 1982 in Dniprodzerzhynsk, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. Her parents were not involved in the music or entertainment business. Her mother, Tamara, is Russian, and her father, Viktor is mixed of Ukrainian and Russian descent. Her father worked in a chemical factory located by the Dnieper River. Her mother, who had graduated from medical school, worked in the same factory as her father. Vera has three sisters - one older (Halyna) and two younger (Nastya and Vika, twins). She bought a flat for her parents in Boryspil, a town close to Kiev. The father of Veras daughter (Sonia) is Vitaliy Voychenko, to whom Vera was married for a few years. She graduated from the Rail Engineering Institute of Dnipropetrovsk with a degree in economics.
Copyright Infringement
On December 31, 2013 Vera Brezhneva went on Ukrainian television 1+1 "New Years Evening Block" and sang a song entitled "My Home." The text on the screen states that the music and lyrics were original by Vera Brezhneva. The music is a match for the song "Home" by The Magnetic Zeros and Edward Sharpe.
Nu Virgos
In 2002, Brezhneva was invited to a casting organized to find a girl to replace Alena Vinnitskaya and she won. In January 2003 Nu Virgos started performing in the new configuration (Nadezhda, Anna and Vera) that, due to its amazing popularity, gained the name of "the golden line up".
In July 2007, Brezhneva decided to have a break from the band, which ended in December 2007 with the official announcement of her leaving Nu Virgos. Vera was replaced in the group by Tatiana Kotova.
Power of 10
Vera is the presenter of the Russian version of "Power of 10" (In Russian: Магия 10-ти, Magic of 10), which premiered on January, 7th on Channel One Russia.
Return to music
In May 2008, Vera premiered her first single called Ya Ne Igrayu (Я Не Играю;I Dont Play). The song was written by her former producer Konstantin Meladze. The second single Nirvana came out on 27 October 2008. Third single Ljubov v bolshom gorode (Love in the big city) was released in 2009. Then she appeared in the video Leto vsegda (Summer forever) of the group Diskoteka Avariya with actresses Anastasia Zadorozhnaya & Svetlana Khodchenkova. The fourth single was released in April - Ljubov spaset mir (Love will save the world) and reached #1 in Russian Airplay Weekly. The next single Pronto, a duet with Potap was released in September. Her sixth single was a duet with Dan Balan Lepestkami slez (Лепестками слез; Petals tears). Early in 2011, Vera premiered her new single Realnaya jizn, and at the end of 2011 the single Sexy Bambina and early in 2012 the single Ishu tebya were released.
Films
Vera has appeared in a number of Russian-language films. She played Katya in the film "Love in the Big City" (Любовь в большом городе) in 2009 and its two sequels in 2010 and 2013. She also had a major part as herself in "Yolki" (Ёлки) and "Yolki 2", and appeared in "Jungle" (Джунгли). Most of her film work has been in romantic comedies.