5sta family is a young and talented team, which, after the release of the hit “I Will Be,” firmly established itself at the top of the charts, and then over the course of several years became the owner of various awards and prizes. What was the path to fame for these guys, who founded the group and what changes took place in its composition - this article will tell you about this.
Creating a team
Back in 2005, two talented musicians met on the Internet. After a short conversation, they realized that they both had a lot of bright ideas, one of which was the creation of a musical group. These young people's names were Vasily Kosinsky and it took very little time for other, no less talented guys to be found, and the first information about the group 5sta family (group composition, names) was as follows: V. Efremov (Cool-B), V. Kosinsky ( V-Kes), Anton Radaev (Tony), Alexander Sandrik and soloist Olga Zosulskaya (Loya).
The guys wrote the lyrics and music themselves, promoted their compositions on the Internet and organized concerts. But, of course, they were little known at that time.
In 2006, the guys who were part of the 5sta family group took part in one of the musical projects of Muz-TV and took an honorable second place in it. The group was noticed and managed to sign a promising contract with the production company Music People.
Popularity literally fell on the group in 2009, when, together with the team “23:45”, the guys shot a video for the song “I Will Be”. The composition immediately became a hit on radio stations and music channels, gaining a huge number of flattering reviews and downloads on the Internet. The guys were at the peak of their popularity.
Lineup changes
The team did not become a “one hit artist”. Other songs that everyone loved followed: “Why”, “At a Call Distance” and the single for the New Year’s comedy “Yolki” - “Love without deception”, again together with “23:45”.
In 2011, the composition of the 5sta family group changed for the first time. Vocalist Loya left the band. The girl chose a solo career for herself. There were various rumors that the colleagues did not part well, there were conflicts and mutual claims. Ill-wishers also predicted a complete collapse of the group after Loya left.
But almost immediately a pretty girl with an angelic voice appeared in the team - Yulianna Karaulova, a graduate of the next “Star Factory”. Along with the new soloist, new ideas, wonderful compositions and videos appeared. The name of the group has also become slightly different: instead of the previous 5ivesta family, it is more laconic and has become familiar 5sta family.
The first album was released in 2012 and was called the same as one of the most popular songs: “Why.”
Several beautiful videos were shot, including videos for the songs “Knock Knock” and “Together We” and “Wake Up” (a joint project with the Coca-Cola company). The 5sta family group gave fans many more bright compositions. The composition of the group (photos of the participants can be seen in this article) created the impression of a very friendly and promising team of talented musicians.
Music awards and achievements
The guys toured different cities of the country, performed on music channels, actively communicated with fans in social networks. The new composition of the group 5sta family became the best hip-hop project according to Muz-TV; since 2009, they have received two Golden Gramophones from Russian Radio and awards from the Ru-TV channel. The group was awarded the nominations “Song of the Year” and “God of the Air”. The songs of talented guys have repeatedly found their way into the top ten or top twenty according to various channels.
Unfortunately, the group has only one solo album so far, but most of the songs, when aired, instantly become hits.
Modern composition of the group 5sta family
By 2015, two musicians left the band, and the group continued to delight fans as a trio. The remaining guys are the founders V. Efremov and V. Kosinsky, as well as soloist Yulianna Karaulova.
The talented Yulianna also began to think about starting an independent career and for a long time I tried to combine work in a group and solo performances.
In May 2015, it became known that another girl had joined the team. This is a former member of the youth girl group "Ranetki". The girl immediately formed a wonderful relationship with the guys, and for several months there were four musicians in the group.
By the end of 2015, Yulianna nevertheless made a choice in favor of independence and left the team with which she had fruitfully collaborated for 4 years. Now the musical group has very warm friendly relations with the former soloist.
So, what is the 5sta family group like at the moment? The new line-up is the permanent Efremov and Kosinsky, as well as the beautiful Lera Kozlova. With the updated lineup, the group has already shot a video for the song "Metko", and the composition itself is gaining popularity on television and radio.
Fans are eagerly awaiting the release of new hits and albums, and judging by the boundless creative potential of the musicians, new items will not keep you waiting!
became a new member of the well-known popular group 5sta Family. The presentation of the updated line-up took place on May 23 at the award ceremony of one of the Russian music television channels.
Lera Kozlova's creative path began in the children's ensemble "Buratino", where she sang and played percussion instruments. And the singer came to real fame in the Ranetki project, in which she acted as a vocalist and drummer for a long time.
After leaving the group in 2008, Lera began a solo career. The first solo concert took place on February 20, 2009 in Samara. Then, under the names “LeRa” and “Lera Lera”, the singer repeatedly performed in different cities of Russia. In 2010, Lera’s debut album “Give me a sign” was released and three video clips were shot for the songs: “ Safe sex", "She-Wolf" and "Unpleasant". In 2010, the RU.TV channel named Lera Kozlova singer of the year, and in 2011, in a similar nomination, she was awarded the Bravo Otto Golden Statuette.
In 2011, Lera Kozlova played one of the main roles in the youth series “Summer, swimming trunks, rock and roll.” Then, after stepping away from music for a while, she became interested in jewelry design and created her own brand of accessories. But the desire to sing remained, and to the incredible joy of her fans, Lera decided to return to the stage. In May 2014, together with Nikita Goryuk (member of the Quest Pistols), the singer released the song “I’m Drowning.”
Participation in the 5sta Family group opens a new page in the singer’s creative biography. And a kind of “exam” for Lera when “entering” the group was her recording in the 5sta Family song “The Sky is on Fire,” which the group timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory.
Fans of the old 5sta Family lineup need not worry: Yulianna Karaulova is still a member of the group, and along with Lera Kozlova, Vasily Kosinsky and Valery Efremov will take part in the group’s concerts.
“I have known Valera and Vasya for a very long time. I always followed the work of their group. I admired their ability to work and their brilliant hits. About half a year ago, I actively began to think about returning to the stage, but I couldn’t clearly formulate what it should look like... and the Universe took everything into its own hands. One fine day the guys called me and invited me to a meeting. And already at the meeting they made an offer - to become part of their group. I agreed without hesitation,” says Lera.
The permanent members and founders of the 5sta Family group Valery Efremov and Vasily Kosinsky met Lera quite a long time ago, on the set of the musical project “Making Children” on the MTV channel, in which “Ranetki” took part. Their creative paths did not cross then, but for almost ten years the guys maintained good relations and stayed in touch. The updated lineup of 5sta Family is already hard at work on new singles, one of which will be presented to its listeners in the near future. Yes, and in general: the team is bursting with interesting ideas about its further creative development.
“We are very glad that Lera Kozlova has become part of our creative family, and we are optimistic about the future. I am sure that the new songs, which we are already actively working on with Lera’s participation, will appeal to both 5sta Family listeners and those who have supported and are supporting Lera throughout her entire musical career,” says Valery Efremov.
After a long break, the bright and daring ex-vocalist of the Ranetki group Lera Kozlova returns to the stage. Now she sings in 5sta Family. The girl’s creative path was not easy. the site was the first to whom Lera told about the betrayal of her former producer, her attempts to build a family with the lead singer of the Quest Pistols, and her work as a florist in a flower shop.
Lera Kozlova does not have a professional musical education, but she has a natural ear and love for music. Her creative path began in the children's ensemble "Buratino", where she sang and played the drums. These same skills brought her success in 2005 as part of the Ranetki group. Three years later, the girl left the group, tried to make it as a solo performer, and then suddenly disappeared. May 23 Kozlova in the company of members of the group 5sta Family. Just what is behind this sudden comeback?
Lera Kozlova: I’ve known the guys from this team for ten years now. We met at a music project. And in March of this year, when I was seriously thinking about returning to the stage, Vasya called me (lead singer of the group Vasily Kosinsky - approx.. That’s how we spontaneously started working together, and recently they officially announced that I am the new soloist of the group.. I I’m very nervous, as if for the first time.
OK.: Because at some point I decided for myself that the stage was not for me. I wanted a simple and quiet life.
“I was hoping to build a family. During the break, I tried my hand at floristry and made jewelry. But after four years of silence, I missed the stage. Many thanks to my fans, who did not forget me, wrote to me every day that they loved me and were waiting for me. I wanted to pursue a career as a singer, but had little idea how to do it. I had no songs and no team to help me. Not everything is as simple as it seems"
website: How did the public accept your return?
OK.: Basically, people are happy about my appearance, only a few write that I have no place in 5sta Family. There will always be such reviews, and I am also grateful for them: there is an incentive to become better and show how these people are wrong.
. How do you remember this time today?
OK.: In “Ranetki” we didn’t know how to play musical instruments at all. We just gathered every day at the rehearsal base and learned from the songs of the Beatles, Rolling Stones... And then we recorded something of our own and went to different festivals. Some laughed at us, others admired us.
website: Who helped the young group “Ranetki”?
OK.: Our Zhenya, the keyboard player (Evgenia Ogurtsova - member of the Ranetki group - website note) had an acquaintance, Sergei Melnichenko, a talented arranger and composer. He became our producer.
OK.: We had a girl in our group, but her parents forbade her to study music - they were afraid that she would abandon her studies. She had to leave, and I was assigned to take a place at the microphone. At that time I was 17 years old, I didn’t fully understand what was happening, and I was just enjoying myself. If I need to sing, I sing, if I need to play, I play, although I have no musical education at all. Apparently, I'm just lucky in life.
website: A little later you became the heroines of the series “Ranetki” on STS...
OK.: We took our songs to STS, where they filmed the series “Kadetstvo” at that time. Everyone liked the songs and became the soundtrack. We didn't even expect that we would be so lucky. And then the general producer of STS Vyacheslav Murugov decided to make a series about us.
OK.: The writers embellished our characters a little to make the plot more interesting. But there were coincidences.
“According to the plot, I am kicked out of the team. In my life at that time I was still in the group, there was no talk about leaving. But as soon as we played this moment on the screen, it was repeated in reality. I honestly don't regret being kicked out. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be in the 5sta Family group now.”
website: Is it true that you were informed about your dismissal literally ten minutes before the big concert at Luzhniki?
OK.: That's right. It was insulting and ashamed for yesterday’s colleagues. The girls were silent until the very end, but I considered them friends. “Ranetki” was everything to me, I spent all my time with the girls. But everything collapsed due to some producer stupidity.
OK.: I learned that I was kicked out from the guys from the Nine Lives group. They came up to me before the concert and said that they had also lost a person, because Nyuta, their drummer, had been rehearsing with Ranetki for a long time. Then I went to Serezha (Sergei Melnichenko - producer of the Ranetki group - website) to find out why I was being kicked out of the team, and he simply patted me on the shoulder and said: “Well, play for now.” I was taken aback and approached the girls. They so embarrassedly and innocently offered to play a concert and talk afterwards, but I didn’t need all this.
website: There were many rumors that the reason for your dismissal was your unsuccessful romance with the group’s producer Sergei Melnichenko, is this true?
OK.: I will say this: there were ardent feelings on his part that interfered with sober thinking and work.
“He is an adult, especially a man. Okay, we girls, but he needed to think more about the team. Sergei didn’t like that I started an affair with Nikita from Quest Pistols (, - website note). That’s when Melnichenko decided that he no longer wanted to see me in the team.”
website: Is this jealousy?
OK.: You can say that. He treated me like a girl, but I saw him only as a friend. And it offended him. Seryozha, thank God, did not harass her, but he courted her very actively and spoke loudly about his feelings.
. Where were the parents looking?
OK.: They didn't suspect anything. Seryozha is a good psychologist, he knows how to gain people's trust. Later he married another girl from the Ranetki group. (In 2009, Sergei Melnichenko married team member Natalya Shchelkova - website note)
website: Do you currently communicate with former colleagues?
OK.: Happens. There are no more grudges. Now I myself don’t know what I would have done if I were in their place. The girls have their own lives, each trying to realize themselves in a solo career. Anya Rudneva got married and is expecting her second child. She and her husband have their own studio, she writes songs, makes jewelry, and will soon have a new collection of dresses coming out. Both Zhenya and Lena have solo careers. Natasha lives with Sergei, they have a family. Honestly, I don't know what they do. I don't communicate with them.
website: How did your career develop after leaving the team?
OK.: Then I met Nikita Goryuk and lived in Kyiv, where the company “KRUZHEVA Music”, which also works with Quest Pistols, took care of me. Producer Yuri Bardash took me under his wing. This period in my life means a lot to me. His team gave me wonderful songs that tell about my destiny.
website: And what are you?
OK.: I'm simple, romantic. Yes, I love ripped jeans. But at the same time I remain very gentle. I can make faces and fool around, but these are all childish pranks.
website: Your solo career started well: 3 videos were released, and suddenly you disappeared.
OK.: At some point I was very tired. I no longer performed in the Ranetki group, but filming in the series continued. In addition, I started working on a solo project. From morning to late evening filming of the series, at night - rehearsals of solo songs. I realized that I simply didn’t have enough time to quickly record an album and start performing. I had no strength, and I gave it all up.
OK.: Yes.
“At one time I worked in a flower salon, and I was able to create bouquets, but selling them is no longer my story. In fact, I don’t like money so much... We, of course, depend on it, but it’s still somehow not very pleasant to deal with it. With my friend and Nikita, we started making jewelry - we bought the material ourselves, fantasized, and created earrings. We posted it on the Internet, but it didn’t work, and it took a lot of time.”
website: Your romance with Nikita did not work out either. Is your heart busy right now?
OK.: I'm free. At one time, I decided that I would build a family, sacrificed my career for this, but it all turned out to be in vain. I had to continue singing, then maybe something would work out with my family. But if I fall in love, then I completely dissolve in the person, and completely forget about myself.
OK.: We have different views on life. Plus, two creative people, each with their own ambitions - it was hard for us together. We still communicate, the relationship is very warm, but we are not made for each other.
OK.: You know, when a person says that he is ready, these are words. But in fact, maybe he really wasn’t ready, and if he wanted a family, it would be later.
website: If we draw a parallel, then Quest Pistols is now at a new stage and a new concept. And you have dramatic changes in your life.
OK.: Nikita and I are sincerely happy for each other. I was at the Quest Pistols show in November. Very talented guys, cool team, it’s a pleasure to watch them. I wish them nothing but success. Nikita also says that I will definitely succeed.
website: Many call your appearance in the 5ivesta Family group the last chance to stay in show business.
OK.: If it weren't for 5sta Family, I would still have taken up my solo career again. I had offers from different producers. But I met people with whom we are on the same wavelength. I left it to chance and waited because I don’t quite understand what I need. I wouldn't have joined this group if I didn't like it.
The popular youth group 5sta Family is a group of bright, self-sufficient people: they organized themselves and perform songs mainly of their own authorship. The guys who “shot” after the hit “I Will Be” are trying to maintain the level of popularity. They are known to the general public, especially young people, perform solo concerts, shoot high-quality videos and release hit albums. Who they are, how they met and what they went through - we will consider further.
The birth of the team
The group was formed in 2003 by merging a couple of musical projects: NB (creator - Vasily Kosinsky) and AzonE. Two talented musicians who met in virtual spaces and agreed on the basis of similar tastes, driven by fresh ideas, decided to collect music group. Thus, Valery Efremov, together with Vasily Kosinsky, became the backbone of the 5sta Family team. Later, the guys invited Anton Radaev and Alexander Sandrik to their place. When the male company was diluted by the visiting vocalist Loya (O. Zosulskaya), the first composition of the 5sta Family group was formed. In 2008, the musicians recorded their first single - the composition “Night City”.
Through thorns to the stars
The guys were passionate about writing music and lyrics, tried to actively promote their tracks on the Internet and organize their first concerts. But still, at that time it did not bring them much fame. The situation changed a little when in 2006 the group took part in one musical project of the Muz-TV channel (“Making Children”) and took second place there. The production company MusicPeople became interested in the guys and invited them to sign a contract. Young musicians decide to use this chance and draw the “winning ticket”.
Breakthrough
The year 2009 became fateful for 5sta Family, when they, in tandem with the group “23:45,” released a video for the song “I Will Be.” It instantly becomes a radio hit, constantly appears on music channels and surprises with the growing number of downloads on the Internet. The guys begin to understand what real popularity is, and, inspired, they delight fans with new hits: “Why” and “At a Call Distance.” In addition, together with old friends “23:45” they are recording the soundtrack for the New Year’s film “Yolki”.
Personnel changes
In 2011, the composition of the 5sta Family group underwent changes for the first time. Soloist Loya, preferring a solo career, leaves the group. According to rumors, the parting with the “classmates” was cool, not without conflicts and mutual claims. But a replacement was quickly found - she was the sweet and sweet-voiced Yulianna Karaulova, who came to the “family” practically from the stage of the last “Star Factory”. With the appearance of the girl, the group sounded in a new way: with great charm and refined sophistication.
Debut album
In 2012, the guys recorded their first album, “Why.” His presentation became a very important stage in their creative life, and also coincided with the birthday of soloist Yu. Karaulova.
The young group shared this joyful event with famous musician friends: Igor Matvienko, N. Podolskaya, Vlad Sokolovsky, Dima Koldun, Leonid Rudenko, Nyusha, the Hi-Fi and Reflex groups.
In the same year, 5sta Family shot a colorful video for the song “Knock Knock”, as well as for the song “Together We”. These compositions became no less popular than the team's previous hits.
The winter of 2012 brought the group useful experience - participation in a global project with the world famous Coca-Cola company, for which the guys composed the title track “Wake Up”. This 5sta Family lineup seemed like the perfect musical team.
First awards
The group’s active touring activities, rotation on leading music channels, and communication with fans on social networks became the prerequisites for the appearance of music awards, the first of which was “Best Hip-Hop Project” from Muz-TV. In total, since 2009, the guys have been awarded:
- media center "Russian Radio" - two statuettes of the "Golden Gramophone";
- TV channel "RuTV";
- music festival “Song of the Year”;
- the annual “God of the Air” award (the most rotated track).
The group's hits repeatedly appeared in the top tens and twenty of various music channels. Since then, competitors have been hesitant to call the guys a one-song team.
Group 5sta Family: new line-up
By the beginning of 2015, two people left the group, and there were three left. This is the same core - Vasily Kosinsky with Valery Efremov, vocalist Yulianna Karaulova. The latter, by the way, had long been tormented by dreams of a solo career, and for some time she tried to realize them, combining them with work in a group.
The spring of 2015 was marked by further changes in 5sta Family. Lera Kozlova (ex-member of the girl group “Ranetki”) joined the group as a soloist. She easily found a common language with the other participants, and the four of them worked for almost six months. At the end of 2015, Yulianna Karaulova’s contract expired, and with a clear conscience, after working for four years, she went on a solo “voyage.” But to this day he continues to be friends with the musical group.
So, the modern composition of the 5sta Family group: Lera Kozlova, V. Efremov, V. Kosinsky. At the end of 2015, the guys “in a new form” released a video for the track “Metko”, which became a very frequent guest on television and radio broadcasts.
In 2016, the group distinguished itself with the release of two singles: “Erasing Borders” and “T-Shirt,” for which a video was also shot. 2017 pleased fans with the release of only one single, “Vesuvius.” But the year began not so long ago, so everything is still ahead.
Completion
The current composition of the 5sta Family group is associated with fashion, advancement and high professionalism in the field of pop music. Compositions with original melodies, light lyrics and modern sounds predict lasting success for the group, which is what we wish for them.
