Yelena Vladimirovna Kiper

Jelena Kiper, 2005

Jelena Vladimirovna Kiper ( Russian Елена Владимировна Кипер ; born September 7, 1975 in Moscow ) is a Russian music producer .

From 1989 to 1993 Kiper studied music at a Moscow music school, but dropped out in the fourth year and turned to journalism. After working as a reporter for various television channels, she finally stayed with the information channel NTW . During a report on the factory of the beverage manufacturer OST in Chernogolowka in 1998, she met Ivan Shapovalov , who was shooting a commercial for the company there at the same time. Shapovalov enabled her to work as a songwriter for the group tATu , and Kiper was involved in the creation of tATu's greatest Russian-language hits, Ja soschla s uma and Nas ne dogonjat . In 2002 there was a break between Kiper and Schapowalow, among other things because Schapowalow refused to give her a share of the profits in the English-language versions of the Russian-language songs she wrote. The two-year lawsuit was decided in favor of Kiper.

Then she founded the Nitschja group together with Oleg Borschtschewski . In this she worked both as a songwriter and as a singer. After releasing two albums, the duo broke up shortly before a third album was released in 2006. In 2004, Kiper received the BMI Pop Award for All the Things She Said , which honored her work as a songwriter. In 2005 she received the award again for Not Gonna Get Us . Since the dissolution of tATu in 2011, Kiper has continued her work with Julija Wolkowa in the course of her solo career, and again acts as a songwriter for Russian-language titles.

Web links

• Elena Kiper in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• biography