Valeriya Interview

12 May 2008

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What can we expect from your new album?

You can expect success (laughs) because ewe did some very good songs it sounds very international but still a very passionate Russian sound.

How did you get into music?

I was brought in a musical family, my parents were musicians, so for me it was very natural it wasn’t difficult to choose a profession. I graduated the Musical Academy in Moscow I always wanted to be able to sing.

And were your parents supportive as it’s a very uncertain career?

I always had support from my mother’s side I moved when I was seventeen to Moscow to enter the Academy and I had no support, except from my mother, and we had no money and no friends in this new city. Somehow I was admitted and spent five years there and this city became my city.

Your debut single here in the UK is The Party’s Over why did you decide to release this as your first record?

I think it’s the main song on the album it’s really big, that’s not my opinion but the experts opinion, and so it’s a really big song and we have already made several mixes that have been distributed to five thousand clubs, nightclubs, in Great Britain. Reports are very very good we are very happy and hopefully it will become a big hit.

And you are not on a major label here

No we set up our own label called Vision Inc because I think that the major labels are not in the best situation nowadays they are not developing new projects anymore so we thought it would be much more effective to do it ourselves.

Why is artistic control so important to you?

Of course I’m not a beginner I‘m an experienced artist I have my life story and my experience so I think a lot depends on my opinion. My music is my life story and I believe that I should choose.

On your album you collaborate with Robin Gibb how did all that come about?

We met when we recorded Staying Alive, as a tribute to thirty years of Saturday Night Fever, and we sent it to Robin, who responded and invited us to his house. We went to his house and they are great people, him his wife and his children, we went into the studio to work together and he is very dedicated in every way.

And what does he bring to the record?

We worked on one sing together he inspired me with his music; I was a fan of Bee Gee’s music since my early childhood.

you have purposefully sought to work with western talent, working with a string o f European writers and producers why did you think that was necessary?

We wanted to combine different styles and cultures to make an album of international sound. Each album they are not alike because I want to develop myself and his album is very different from the previous ones.

as you get more experienced in the industry how does the recording process differ?

Recording process doesn’t differ but the whole thing is more or less alike, for me I’m a beginner here so it’s not so easy to put my songs on the radio or to move forward but we are doing it. It’s always difficult to start we had the same problem in Russia, my husband is a music producer in Russia and he is having the same problem with new projects.

You are a co-writer on the album how does the writing process work for you?

It happens in the studio during the recording sessions just ideas come and we change one thing for another it’s just a process. I very much enjoy the recording process although I cannot say what I like most or more.

You are a mother of three children how do you juggle parenting with your work commitments?

I try to combine them and it seems to succeed my children are fourteen, thirteen and nine.

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