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Journalist, singer, Manager, member of the editorial Board of the magazine "jazz.Ru". Grew up in a family of musicians, she graduated from music school in piano and soon discovered that his vocal abilities. In the 14-15 years I began to take in the food groups, interested non-academic music. Tastes vocalist formed under the influence of the records George Benson (especially liked the improvised unisons voice and guitar), later intrigued artists like Patricia Barber, Joni Mitchell, John Patitucci, Eberhardt Weber, Michael Brecker, the group "Weather Report". As a jazz singer debuted in 2003 with Kramatorsk Amateur group "Ground Beat". In 1998-2003 he studied at Kramatorsk economic-humanitarian Institute (Department of foreign Philology) and in parallel worked as backing vocalist and arranger at a local Studio "the Pyramid". Later he graduated from the graduate linguistic courses at the Kharkov University. T. G. Shevchenko, taught English and German, proved himself as a talented PR Manager in the company "Promo Ua", and in may 2005 became the founder and editor-in-chief of the jazz portal Uajazz.com. Since 2004 collaborates with the Internet portal Jazz.Ru he became editor of Billboard, was the portal in Ukraine, and then together with Yuri Lnogradskiy joined the founders of the magazine Cyril and Anna Moshkova Filipjevi (joined the four founders). In 2007-08 was the PR Manager of the Moscow jazz club "Union of composers", and helped Yuri Vinogradskogo to draw up and implement a programme of festivals of improvised music in Dubna "Muzenergo". In 2007-08 used to sing at a jam Sachs in Moscow clubs, performed a duet with guitarist Alim Nastavim or with pianist Alexei Nazarovym festivals in Voronezh, Sumy, Cherkasy, Rivne, Lutsk, Dubna. As a jazz journalist actively represented by a series of festival reviews and interviews in each issue of the magazine "jazz.Ru".