The youngest participant in the “Star Factory” is Zina Kupriyanovich. “New Star Factory”: how the participants live, what they complain about and why Victor Drobysh is going to shave his head Zinaida Kupriyanovich

15-year-old Minsk resident Zina Kupriyanovich is one of the contenders for victory in the sensational music project. The performer is fighting for triumphant status as part of the North 17 trio. At these moments, millions of viewers on their television screens are watching the final concert, at the end of which the name of the winner will be known. He will talk about the life of a young artist in a starry house, her chances of winning and the experiences of her family. Inna Pilevich.

The most significant thing is the victory at the Slavic Bazaar. This is the coolest competition in our country.

Not every adult artist can boast of such a trophy fund. At 15, Zina Kupriyanovich has victories from “Slavianski Bazaar” to the radio project “Young Talents of Belarus”. The vocalist stormed numerous competitions as a family contract.

The young artist’s father took on the role of producer, and her mother artistic director and a costume stylist. They raised an artist - Zina's videos have millions of views. It was the parents who suggested that their daughter try her hand at the “New Star Factory”. At the time she got into the project, the performer was only 14.

On the way to the star house, she bypassed 3 thousand candidates. The youngest factory owner. In the rating project, the star is Viktor Drobysh. Authoritative Russian producer awarded the Belarusian the sonorous pseudonym Zena or “warrior princess” in honor of the main character of the fantasy series. Also famous composer gave the performer a song. The composition “Knock Knock” has already become a hit on the Internet and is in active rotation.

Victor Drobysh, Honored Artist of Russia, composer, producer: “If it weren’t for her, I believe my star factory would not have happened. Because this is one of the most striking characters. Such talented guys create a rating. They make my dreams come true."

More than three months in the star house. Every day - classes in vocals, acting, choreography. Every step is under the gun of 42 television cameras. Weekly reporting concerts. Despite her young age, the Belarusian managed not only to find friends in the project, but also to captivate the audience with her bright performances with Alexander Rybak, Ani Lorak, and Nyusha.

Together with factory owners Daniil Ruvinsky and Evgeny Trofimov, Zina or Zena created the group “North-17”. It was as part of the trio that the Belarusian reached the final.

In total, 6 nominees compete for the title of best manufacturer. Viewers will decide who will go down in history as the triumphant of the new star factory by voting on the Internet.

Regardless of the results of the audience voting, Minsk resident Zina Kupriyanovich is already considered one of the people in Moscow show business. Even before the final of the project, the young performer signed a contract with the producer. And now she is working on an album as part of the group “North 17”.

Participant name: Zina Kupriyanovich

Age (birthday): 17.09.2002

Minsk city

Job: singer

Family: single

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The youngest participant in the New Star Factory was Zinaida Kupriyanovich. The girl was born on September 17, 2002 in the capital of Belarus. Zina's father is the director of a production center, and her mother is a family psychologist. At all castings, the young factory owner was supported by her father.

Since childhood, Zina has been active, and therefore her parents decided to channel her energy into useful work, so she was enrolled in creative and sports clubs.

All the teachers agreed that Zina was a very talented child, seeing a good future for her as a ballerina, artist or gymnast.

Only the first piano teacher noticed that her 4-year-old student had excellent musical abilities.


Already at the age of 6, Zina became a member of the Zaranak ensemble.
, without even going through the selection process.

In 2010, she left the team and went to study at the choir department in music school.

Over the next two years, she actively took part in a lot of competitions and concerts.

In 2013, she became one of the artists of the Super Duper Production Center, whose director is her father. Since 2013, she has received invitations from I. Krutoy himself, successfully presenting himself at the finals of the “Children’s” competition New wave» in Jurmala.

Zinaida is a member of the New Wave choir. She has joint duets with Ani Lorak, L. Leshchenko and even such artists as I. Kobzon, L. Fabian.

In 2014, she won the children's Slavic Bazaar. In the same year, her debut video “Towards the Wind” was released. A year later she became a finalist in the national selection for Junior Eurovision. Her song became the anthem for the Legends Race.

In 2016, she took part in the tour of A. Lanskaya and A. Tikhanovich, released 4 original songs, sang at the “Children’s New Wave” together with Dominic Joker, A. Rosenbaum, became a finalist in the national selection “Junior Eurovision - 2016”, received a Grand Prix In the radio competition “Young Talents of Belarus”.

At the first concert of the New Star Factory, she sang the song “She’s Not Yours” in a trio together with S. Piekha and one of the manufacturers, as well as Valeria.

In March 2019, Kupriyanovich won the national selection for the adult Eurovision Song Contest. Zina will go to Tel Aviv under the pseudonym ZENA, where she will represent Belarus.

Photo by Zina

The girl has about 100 thousand subscribers on Instagram.













One of the brightest and most anticipated television projects of this season was the restart of the once sensational “Star Factory”. Now this music reality show is already at the finish line, viewers have decided on their favorites and preferences, and the remaining participants are ready for the final push in the fight for votes. Among those who, unfortunately, had already left their positions was young Zina Kupriyanovich, whose Instagram is now only gaining momentum in popularity. This talented girl passed the casting and was included in the project when she was not yet 15 years old, thereby becoming the youngest “manufacturer” in the entire history of the talent show. In our article today we will tell you in more detail about who she was, what her creative path and what Zina is doing now.

Zina Kupriyanovich, biography


The rising pop star was born in the Belarusian capital in 2002, on September 17, into a fairly famous and wealthy family. The girl’s father is the head of a large production center “Super-Duper”, and her mother is quite famous and in demand family psychologist. Zina was the eldest of three children in the family; a few years later she had a sister, who was named Lyubava, and a few years later her brother Semyon was born. Little Zinaida with early childhood was very active and talented child, she sang, danced, did gymnastics, and also attended a ballet studio and art school. Her idol has always been the Barbadian beauty and R&B diva Rihanna. The girl also dreamed of singing wonderfully, and also came up with various bright stage images. The parents enrolled the little girl in a music school for piano classes even before she entered first grade.


It was there that the teachers discovered the child’s amazing, perfect hearing. After this, the six-year-old girl, outside of competitions and auditions, was accepted into the famous Belarusian ensemble called “Zaranak”. For about two years she performed in its composition as a soloist, and then she moved to the choral singing circle of another music school. The first fame came to young Kupriyanovich when she was only 11 years old and she made it to the finals of the prestigious “Children's New Wave” competition. Before this, the little girl had already managed to win many prizes, as well as take first places in various city, national and even international competitions. A year earlier, Zinaida had already reached full professional level. She studied in a youth art studio called “Belarusians” based on the production studio “Golden Voices”. And her successful performance at a prestigious vocal competition attracted attention to the child famous producer Igor Krutoy.


The composer began to invite young Zina to many projects, such as “Christmas Song of the Year”, as well as “Children’s Song of the Year”. In 2013 alone rising star managed to sing duets with such megastars national stage like Ani Lorak, Dmitry Fomin, Joseph Kobzon, and even with the French pop diva Lara Fabian.
The next year became even more fruitful for the young singer: she shot her first video clip for a song called “Towards the Wind,” which collected over one and a half million views online, and she also often performed with famous artists and won the children's vocal competition "Slavic Bazaar". By the way, she was intensively preparing for the last one for more than a year. In 2015, the young Belarusian entered the final round of selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the song “WORLD”, and in the fall Kupriyanovich released a video clip for the same composition. In addition, the girl sang the song “I’ll be back” in a duet with Denis Klyaver. Next, the young talent toured with pop singers Nastya Tikhanovich and Alena Lanskaya around the cities of Belarus, and recorded four more new compositions, two of which had videos filmed. Also, the talented girl managed to reach the finals of the national competitive selection for Junior Eurovision by performing the song “Cosmos”. In 2016, for the first time in the history of her country, the artist voiced the main character in the Walt Disney animated family film Moana. She also performed in music show « Magic world Disney", the premiere of which took place at the Moscow Concert Hall. Towards the end of the year, the singer won the Grand Prix in the competition “Young Talents of Belarus”, in the category “ Pop vocals" In January this year, Zina Kupriyanovich, whose songs are already quite popular, released her debut album, called “Space”, and also shot several new video clips for songs from this album.

Zina Kupriyanovich, “Star Factory”


Actually, the girl came to the music reality show, called “New Star Factory”, already quite famous and having a considerable army of fans of her talent. However, the girl passed the castings and qualifying rounds along with other contestants and was among the best. She turned out to be the youngest participant in the project. Many viewers wondered: how old is Zina Kupriyanovich? Let us answer that at the time of the selection process and the start of the show, she was 14, but in the third week of participation in the “factory” the young singer celebrated her 15th birthday. During the reporting concerts, the girl was lucky enough to work with such celebrities as Nyusha, the rock group “Gorod-312”, Alexander Rybak, as well as Dzhigan and Valeria. Moreover, Zina brilliantly managed to combine her participation in a popular music project with recording her own new hits.


On her personal page on the VKontakte social network, the girl even promised that for 50 thousand “likes” she would make a video clip for her new song“Knock-knock,” which the artist sang during one of the reporting concerts. We also add that, despite such a young age, the artist already has many admirers and suitors. Among those who have tender feelings for the girl is the finalist of the KhaliHalo vocal competition, Arseny Akopyan. The young performer even came to the girl’s “star house” for her birthday, touchingly confessed his love to the beauty, and even gave Zina a luxurious ring with an elegant diamond. Also, many viewers were convinced that Zina and another participant in the television project, 24-year-old Elman Zeynalov secret romance, these guys looked very tender and romantic together. But, to the disappointment of the majority, soon the young man on his personal Instagram page refuted all these speculations, noting that he treats the girl with trepidation, but as his little sister. On her 15th birthday, young Zina’s father and mother decided to give the heiress a tattoo, which the girl had dreamed of for a very long time. Drawing on the body in the form small flower The peony was made for the girl by the most famous tattoo artist in Belarus named Ales Tabolich.

) each occupied their own niche on the musical horizon, becoming popular, sought-after performers.

In the fall of 2017, the Muz-TV channel launched “ New Factory stars." The television project once again provided young, ambitious artists with the opportunity, with the help of mentors, to sharpen their talent, making it shine with a new, hitherto unprecedented strength. One of the participants in the program was the finalist of the national selection of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 and Junior Eurovision 2016, Belarusian singer Zina Kupriyanovich.

Childhood

Zinaida Aleksandrovna Kupriyanovich was born on September 17, 2002 in the capital of Belarus, Minsk. The vocalist's father, Alexander Igorevich, is the director of the Super Duper production center, and her mother, Nelly Nikolaevna, is a family psychologist. The head of the family had a tremendous influence on the formation of his daughter’s artistic personality. Since childhood, the man instilled in the heiress a love of art.


This is how the girl’s future was predetermined when the head of the family first brought his beloved child to his Super Duper production center, where Zina heard her peers singing. Since then, Kupriyanovich has become a voluntary captive illusory world sounds.

As a child, the performer of the song “Cosmos” was an easily captivated person, so it is not surprising that in addition to her passion for music, she was also interested in painting, sports, and dancing. As a child, Zina attended many sections and different time dreamed of careers as a ballerina, artist and actress.


It is known that in school years the future participant of the “New Star Factory” took drawing lessons, learned the basics of playing the piano, and in her free time skateboarded and roller-skated.

It is also worth noting that, despite being busy, the young singer never had problems with her studies. The teachers were very supportive young talent, and if she fell behind the program due to performances, they stayed with her after class, explaining this or that material.


Zina also developed warm relationships with her classmates. On the air of the Calendar program, the performer told the presenters that in life she tries not to turn up her nose and act friendly. This position allows the artist to win over even those who initially think about her in a negative way. According to Kupriyanovich, her parents did everything possible to ensure that, against the backdrop of success, she did not develop star fever.

Music

Kupriyanovich’s piano teacher was the first to notice the musical qualities and memorable timbre of Kupriyanovich’s voice. It was she who advised the mother to send her daughter to a vocal class, which the parent did with great pleasure. As a result, in 2008, six-year-old Zina was enrolled in the Zaranak ensemble out of competition. National Center musical art named after Vladimir Georgievich Mulyavin.


In 2010, the singer left the Zaranak ensemble and entered the choral department at Minsk children's music school No. 8 named after Grigory Romanovich Shirma. In the period from 2011 to 2012, Zinaida participated in music competitions, taking only prizes in them.

In 2013, Zina reached the finals of the “Children's New Wave” competition. After a successful performance, the composer invited the young talent to join the choir performing under his leadership. As part of the ensemble, the artist appeared on stage with, and. In December of the same year, she performed with the group “5sta family”, performing their hit “I’ll be with you” on the stage of the Olimpiysky sports complex.

In 2014, Zina took first place in children's competition“Slavic Bazaar” with the songs “Smile” and “Novy Zen”. Also, Kupriyanovich’s collection of musical tandems was replenished with a duet with the group “IOWA”. The young vocalist performed the song “Simple Song” with the members of the group. Debut clip Zina “Towards the Wind” was also published this year.

In 2015, the singer became a finalist in the national selection of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Peace”. In 2016, the premieres of 4 original songs by Zina took place: “Space”, “Everything will work out”, “Peace” (remix) and “We are the new generation”. In August, as part of the “Children's New Wave”, Zina performed on the same stage in a duet with (single “Bit Bombit”) and (as part of the “New Wave” choir).

Also this year, representatives of the Disney company, who studied the vocalist’s work from the age of 6, invited Kupriyanovich to voice main character animated film "Moana". The artist also sang the title track of the film - the song “What awaits me” (second title “My Heart”). It is known that in addition to Zinaida, the leader of the Mumiy Troll group, an actor, artists and others participated in the dubbing.


In 2017, the management of the Muz-TV channel revived popular show“Star Factory” announced the recruitment of new contestants. In the summer, young singers sent their applications to the organizers and participated in qualifying auditions. By the beginning of autumn, large-scale castings were completed, and the jury selected 16 talented artists, among whom was Zina. The vocalist, along with other performers, settled in a specially equipped cottage in the Moscow region, coming under 24-hour surveillance by video cameras.


To become professional singer, Kupriyanovich will have to hone his stage skills for a couple of months under the supervision of star mentors. During her time on the project, the vocalist has already managed to sing a duet with, and. The audience also noted the song “Winter Garden” performed in tandem with the singer.

Personal life

Despite her rather young age, the press is already attributing Zina to a relationship with the prize-winner international competition“Hali-Halo” 2012, by aspiring singer Arseny Akopyan.


Rumors that the guys are connected not only by friendship appeared after the young people began posting joint pictures on their social networks. In the “Question and Answer” video blog, the aspiring artists denied this information, saying that apart from friendly sympathy, there is nothing between them.

Zina Kupriyanovich now

In 2017, Zina skillfully combines participation in the “Star Factory” with the release of new singles. In July-September, on her YouTube channel, the singer published videos for the compositions “Everything will work out,” “Golden Brick” and “Mint.” Kupriyanovich – active user social networks. IN "Instagram" the performer of the song “Towards the Wind” regularly posts photographs from her personal archive and backstage footage from performances.


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