Biography of veronika dolina

She was born and raised in Moscow, in a family of an aircraft-designer father and a doctor mother. She studied at music school when she was young and then entered the French department at university, training to be a French teacher, but she started her musical career even before graduating.

Biography of veronika dolina: Veronika Dolina (Вероника Долина)

Dolina started writing songs in , and her debut performance was that same year. However, she did not achieve the same stunning popularity as some of the other bards who were active during that time. Though Dolina performed frequently, her first record was not released until , when perestroika had started and the Soviet Union was loosening up.

After this, though, she released many albums—five alone between and , and an additional twenty after that. She also began getting her collections of poetry published, and to date has published more than twenty collections of her song lyrics and poems. Dolina has toured all over the world and written more than songs. These days, she is still performing concerts and releasing records and books.

In addition, Radio Free Liberty has made a video program about her. Find Veronika Dolina on Amazon. In her spare time Julie cautiously practices martial arts, reads feminist websites, and taste-tests instant coffee for her blog.