Elena Sergeevna Katina is a Russian singer-songwriter and former lead singer of the pop group t.A.T.u. Since 2009 he has been participating in the international solo project Lena Katina. In 1999, according to the results of a casting organized by an advertising agent Ivan Shapovalov, Lena got into a musical project, which soon became known as Tatu. With the participation of the composer Alexander Voitinsky, the songs "Yugoslavia" and "Why am I" were recorded. Later, according to the results of an additional casting, 14-year-old Yulia Volkova was also enrolled in the project. The first single of the Tatu group called "I'm crazy", released in December 2000, became a hit first in the CIS, and after the translation of the song into English - in the world. After graduating from school in 2001, Lena entered the Moscow Humanitarian and Economic Institute at the Faculty of Psychology, from which she graduated in absentia in 2007. In 2006, the duet of Lena and Yulia began posting videos of their lives on the Internet. In March 2009, the management of the Tatu group announced that the soloists stopped working in the group in the “full time” mode and began their solo careers, and in January 2011, at the premiere of the film “You and Me” in Moscow, the members of the group announced the final collapse groups. Since April 2009, Katina began her solo career in the international musical project Lena Katina, having moved to live from Moscow to Los Angeles. Lena covered the old hits of Tatu and recorded new songs. September 11 opened the official website of Lena.