Serebro

Serebro
Serebro during her performance at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest
General information
origin	Moscow , Russia
Genre (s)	pop
founding	2007
resolution	2019
former members
Marina Lisorkina (2006–2009) Anastassija Karpova (2009–2014) Jelena Temnikowa (2006–2014) Darja Schaschina (2013–2016) Polina Faworskaja (2014–2017) Ekaterina Kishchuk (2016–2019) Olga Serjabkina (2006–2019) Tatiana Morgunowa (2017-2019) Irina Titowa (2019) Jelisaveta Kornilowa (2019) Marianna Kotschurowa (2019)

Serebro ( Russian Серебро , German : "Silver" ) is a Russian girl group founded in 2007 , which represented their home country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki .

Members

• Jekaterina Kishchuk ( Russian Екатерина Кищук ; * December 13, 1993) since April 2016, as the successor of Darja Schaschina member of Serebro.
• Polina Faworskaja ( Russian Полина Фаворская ; born November 21, 1991 in Volgograd ) since 2014, as the successor to Jelena Temnikowa, member of Serebro.
• Darja Schaschina ( Russian Дарья Шашина ; born September 1, 1990 in Nizhny Novgorod ) since 2013 as the successor to Anastassija Krapowa, a member of Serebro.
• Jelena Vladimirovna Temnikowa ( Russian Елена Владимировна Темникова ; born April 18, 1985 in Kurgan ) was the lead singer of the band and became known in 2002 through the talent show Star Academy of the Russian television channel Channel One . Her parents discovered her musical talent early on and promoted it. At the age of five she received violin lessons . Not a member of Serebro since 2014.
• Olga Serjabkina ( Russian Ольга Серябкина ; born April 12, 1985 in Moscow ) took ballet lessons from the age of seven and completed her vocal training at an art college. She later took part in international talent competitions and studied business management.
• Marina Lisorkina ( Russian Марина Лизоркина ; born July 9, 1983 in Moscow ) sang in a choir from the age of twelve and entered the University of Contemporary Art at the age of 16 , where she received her vocal training. She is an ex-member of the band Formula .
• Anastassija Karpowa ( Russian Анастасия Карпова ; born November 2, 1984 in Balakowo ) devoted herself to music and ballet in early childhood before she took singing lessons and decided to pursue a career as a singer. Former member.

Band history

Elena, Marina and Olga in Helsinki (2007)

Serebro, consisting of Jelena Temnikowa, Olga Serjabkina and Marina Lisorkina, was put together in 2006 by the well-known Russian pop music producer Maxim Fadejew . Fadeev counts the singers Linda and Julija Sawitschewa among his protégés. The latter artist represented Russia in 2004 at the 49th Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul .

The pop band was on March 10, 2007 internally by an expert jury of the television station Channel One selected, Russia at 52 Euro Vision Song Contest in Finland Helsinki responsible. With the English-language title Song # 1 composed by Maxim Fadejew , Serebro was automatically placed for the final on May 12th, after Dima Bilan took second place last year . Although the girl group had not made a public appearance and made their stage debut with the ESC final, they were counted among the extended circle of favorites by international betting agencies and were able to take third place behind the winner Marija Šerifović from Serbia and the drag queen Verka Serduchka ( Ukraine ).

On June 18, 2009 it was announced that Marina Lisorkina is leaving the band for financial and personal reasons. She was replaced by Anastassija Karpowa.

After Anastassija Karpova left at the end of September 2013, Darja "Dasha" Schaschina was accepted into the group as a new singer at the beginning of October 2013. Karpowa justified her departure with the planned start of a solo career.

Discography

Albums

• 2009: OpiumRos (ОпиумRoz)
• 2012: Mama Lover
• 2016: Сила трёх (German "The Power of Three")

EPs

• 2010: Isbrannoye (Избранное)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		CH	UK	CZ	IT
2007	Song # 1 ОпиумRoz	CH68 (1 week) CH	UK99 (1 week) UK	-	-
2011	Мама Люба / Mama Lover Mama Lover	-	-	CZ58 (11 weeks) CZ	IT6th platinum (10 weeks)IT	Sales: + 30,000
2012	Мальчик / Gun Mama Lover	-	-	CZ67 (7 weeks) CZ	-
2013	Mi Mi Mi Сила трёх	-	-	-	IT11 platinum (8 weeks)IT	Sales: + 40,000

More singles

• 2007: Дыши
• 2008: Опиум
• 2008: Скажи, не молчи
• 2009: Сладко
• 2010: Не Bремя
• 2010: Давай держаться за руки
• 2013: Sexy Ass
• 2013: Мало тебя
• 2013: Угар ( feat.DJ MEG)
• 2014: Я тебя не отдам
• 2014: Не надо больнее
• 2015: Kiss
• 2015: Перепутала
• 2015: Отпусти меня
• 2015: Blood Diamond ( feat.Yellow Claw )
• 2016: Chocolate

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Netherlands 2013: for the single Wed Wed Wed

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Italy (FIMI)	-	2 × platinum2	60,000	fimi.it
Netherlands (NVPI)	gold1	-	10,000	nvpi.nl
All in all	gold1	2 × platinum2

swell

1. ↑ cf. “The favorites of the betting offices” at eurovision.de (May 11, 2007) ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ cf. Band biography on the official website (Russian; accessed December 22, 2009)
3. ↑ Chart sources: CH UK IT CZ

Web links

Commons : Serebro  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (Russian)
• Russia: Serebro at eurovision.de
• Short portrait with lyrics and video
• Profile of Serebro including music video on eurovision.tv (English)