Irina Aleksandrovna Smelaya (; born 21 December 1991), better known by her stage name Tatarka (), is a female hip-hop artist from

Tatarstan Tatarstan, officially the Republic of Tatarstan, sometimes also called Tataria, is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is a part of the Volga Federal District; and its capital city, capital and largest city i ...

, Russia. Her songs are written in

Tatar Tatar may refer to: Peoples * Tatars, an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" * Volga Tatars, a people from the Volga-Ural region of western Russia * Crimean Tatars, a people from the Crimea peninsula by the B ...

and English.

Music and vlogging

Smelaya was born in

Naberezhnye Chelny Naberezhnye Chelny (, ; , ) is the second largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. A major industrial center, Naberezhnye Chelny stands on the Kama River east of Kazan near Nizhnekamsk Reservoi ...

. She currently lives in

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601, ...

and is a

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. Her YouTube blog named "Tatar Days" () has almost a million subscribers. "Altyn" ("gold" in Tatar) was her first song, which was launched in 2016 and praised her in the Russian music scene. Smelaya is currently working on recording her debut album. It is known that the album will be in two languages, Tatar and English.

Personal life

Smelaya married Ilya Prusikin, the vocalist and frontman of the Russian pop-rave-band Little Big, on 6 July 2016. She gave birth to her and Prusikin's son Dobrynya on 26 November 2017. Smelaya and Prusikin publicly announced their separation on 21 August 2020.

Discography

;Albums ;Expanded Plays ;Singles

Video Clips

Participations

* 2014 – Little Big – "Public Enemy" * 2016 – Little Big – "Big Dick" * 2016 – Little Big – "Hateful Love" * 2018 – Bread – "Shashlyndos" * 2019 –

Animal Jazz Animal ДжаZ ("ДжаZ" can be transliterated as "jazz", although "джаз" is the usual Russian spelling) is a Russian, Saint Petersburg-based alternative rock and pop rock band, formed in 2000. They are best known for their 2006 song "Т� ...

– "Feelings"

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