Alisa Vladimirovna Mon (born 15 August 1964) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer who became popular in the late 1980s after performing the song "Plantain". The second wave of popularity was associated with her 1997 hit "Diamond".
Early life
She was born Svetlana Vladimirovna Bezukh in
Slyudyanka
Slyudyanka ( rus, Слюдянка, p=slʲʉˈdʲankə) is a town and the administrative center of Slyudyansky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located at the southern tip of Lake Baikal, south of Irkutsk, the administrative center of the o ...
,
Irkutsk
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.
In 1983, in Novosibirsk, she entered the pop department at a music school. She worked as a singer in restaurants in
Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census, it had a population of 1,633,595, making it the most populous city in Siber ...
. In 1985 she became a soloist of the school's jazz orchestra. Subsequently, she left the educational institution without receiving secondary education (in her own words, she was expelled for incompetence ).
Career
She took the pseudonym "Alice Mon", which is consonant with the word "
Mona Lisa
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".
From January 1986 to December 1989 she worked in the Labyrinth collective under the direction of Sergei Muravyov at the .
In 1988, the album "Take My Heart" was released. It also included the song "Plantain" (lyrics by Mikhail Tanich), which became the singer's first hit after her performance in the program " Song-1988 ". The festival brought the performer the Audience Award and all-Union popularity. In the late 1980s, the first big tour of the Labyrinth group took place.
In 2021, she appeared on the programme, Superstar! Return on the
NTV channel. She also performed ''
Can't Get You Out of My Head
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'' on the programme S''howmaskgoon''on the same channel.
In 2022, she performed as a cat as a special guest in the Russian version of
''The Masked Singer''. In 2025, she will appear on ''
One to One!
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''.
Personal life
She lives in
Moscow
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.
References
External links
Official websiteApple MusicFacebook
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1964 births
Living people
People from Irkutsk Oblast
20th-century Russian women singers
21st-century Russian women singers
Soviet pop singers
Russian pop musicians
Musicians from Novosibirsk
Moscow State Art and Cultural University alumni