Natalia Gulkina

In 2020, she was one of the hundred members of the jury in the second season of the project "Come on all together!".

In the spring of 2020, she performed as a Mirror Man in the Mask show as a special guest.

In May 2019, Natalia Gulkina took part in a concert dedicated to the Founding Day of the City of St. Petersburg in the Frunzensky district.

At the beginning of 2016, Natalia Gulkina was the host of the project "I'm losing weight!" on the NTV channel.

In the autumn of 2016, Natalia Gulkina, with the assistance of Director Sofia Rotaru and head of the Kremlin Concert Sergey Lavrov, organized a large tour of Russia with original sets, costumes and choreographic productions, where she performed not only as a performer, but also as a director of the show.

In 2015, Natalia released a new single "Clock", which included three songs - "Clock" (music and words by N. Gulkina), "Mad World" (music and words by N. Gulkina) and a remix of the song "Falcon" (music and words by A. Demidov). The presentation of the single took place on February 26 in the restaurant of the hotel "Corston" in Moscow. On this day Natalia also celebrated her birthday and presented the first designer collection of bags under her brand "GN".

In October 2014, Natalia participated in the new project "I can" on the TV channel "Russia".

In 2013, Natalia was preparing for the release of a new solo album with songs of her own composition recorded in jazz arrangements, as well as preparing a solo performance with original sets, costumes and choreographic productions called "Love is to blame for everything", where she was going to perform not only as a performer, but also as a director of the show.

In 2013, she held a number of concerts in Russia together with former colleagues in the "Mirage" Svetlana Razina and Roma Zhukov under the title "Stars of the 80s. Together again 25 years later." In January, Voronezh and Ryazan hosted the show "New Year with Retro FM Stars", which was attended by Roman Zhukov, Natalia Gulkina and Svetlana Razina. Natalia recorded a solo version of the song "Fly, Dream", as well as a remix of the same song. Together with Svetlana Razina, a remix of the song "You can't trust a woman" was created.

In March 2013 Natalia Gulkina supported the public "Movement against Cancer". March 29 at the Morozov Hall club in Tver Natalia Gulkina, Roma Zhukov and Svetlana Razina performed at the joint concert "Legends of Discos".

In the autumn and winter of 2013-2014 Natalia Gulkina took part in the program "Live sound" on the TV channel "Russia".

In 2012 Natalia Gulkina performed solo and in a duet with Svetlana Razina.

In December 2012 on the air "Russian Radio" Gulkina's new song "Falcon", written by Andrey Demidov, sounded. In early 2013, Maxim Rozhkov shot a video for this song, with which the singer wanted to perform at "Eurovision Song Contest", but another performer went to the contest.

In January 2011, Natalia Gulkina left the group "Mirage" due to disagreements with colleagues, resuming her solo career. Her place in the team was taken by Svetlana Razina. Natalia was banned from performing even those songs of "Mirage" in which she was a soloist. But Gulkina herself refused in principle to speak with them.

In 2010, Natalia, as part of Mirage, took part in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada, where the group gave two concerts.

On September 17, 2009, the new album of the Mirage group was released under the title "A thousand stars", in which Gulkina performed four songs solo and four more in a duet with Sukhankina. At the same time, a new clip of the band "The Night is Twinkling" was released.

In 2008, Natalia Gulkina and Margarita Sukhankina took part in the television show NTV "Superstar 2008. The dream team" and became the winners of this project by the number of audience votes scored. In this show Natalia fully showed her acting talent, brilliantly playing the roles of the Snow Maiden, the Witch, the Waitress and other characters.

In 2007 Natalia Gulkina and Margarita Sukhankina teamed up with Andrey Lityagin, reviving the group "Mirage". In the same year, the video for the song "A Thousand Stars" was filmed.

The singers decided to join forces and record a common album. Natalia as a producer invited Sergey Lavrov, with whom she collaborated in "Stars", and introduced him to Margarita. The result of their joint activity was the song "Just a Mirage" and the single "Mirage of Love", which aroused great interest among the public. The words to the song were written by Gulkina herself, and the music was written by Vadim Zolotykh. Despite the dissatisfaction of the owner of the rights to the Mirage brand, Gulkina and Sukhankina continued their joint activities first under the name Solo, and then changed it to the Golden Voices of the Mirage group. The singers participated in the "Disco of the 80s" with a song from Natalia Gulkina's repertoire "Ivanhoe". In 2005, they released the album "Just a Mirage", and also shot a video for the song of the same name. Dance teams "WA", "Scotch", "VIP" took part in the project. In 2006, in the SCCZ "Russia" the concert of the Golden Voices of the Mirage group took place". The singers paid the composer To Andrey Lityagin for the right to perform his works.

In 2004, Natalia Gulkina and Margarita Sukhankina recorded solo albums at the same time, and since Sukhankina had already left the Bolshoi Theater, one of the journalists concluded that they decided to unite. Gulkina had the idea to revive the Mirage group, having created a duet with Sukhankina, with whom she was not even familiar, although at one time they both participated in recording songs for the first album "Mirage". Natalia called Margarita, but she did not immediately agree to see her, because the offer seemed to her unpromising. Natalia recalled: ""I persuaded her: "Let's tell the truth — that it was you and me, Rita Sukhankina and Natasha Gulkina, and not someone else, who made the Mirage. That we recorded phonograms, to which a dozen aspiring singers sang in different parts of the country." Persuaded ..."".

In 2003, Gulkina tried to create a new group-the duo "Malta" and recorded two new songs, but soon returned to solo work.

In 2002 Natalia took part in the festival "Disco of the 80s", performing remixes of the songs "Sunny Summer", "Mad World" and "Disco".

In 2001, to replace the Street Jazz collective, Gulkina began collaborating with the Mobius ballet, a collaboration with which lasted until January 2005.

In 2000, Gulkina recorded a remix of the song "Sunny Summer" from the first album "Mirage", for which a clip was shot by music video maker Viktor Konisevich. Racing driver Alexey Dudukalo, the champion of Russia in auto racing, took part in the shooting. At the same time, two more remixes were recorded for the songs "Mirage" — "I don't want" and "Mad World".

In 1997, Gulkina transferred to the acting faculty of GITISa and began to study at the course of David Livnev. In the same and subsequent years, Natalia worked on a new album under the working title "Sail of Dreams", which was recorded by Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra under the direction of V. I. Fedoseev and many musicians. This album was never released. In 1999 Natalia successfully graduated from GITIS, having received a diploma of a dramatic actress of theater and cinema.

In 1996, the record company ZeKo Records released the album "Dancing City" with the hits "Albatross" and "Melody of Love". In the album, in addition to the works of Molchanov and Lemokh, there were songs by young authors - Rafael Safin and Lyubov Lyubovtsova. Director Andrey Shcherbakov shot a video for the title song "Melody of Love", in which the dancers of the Street Jazz collective took part. In December, Natalia Gulkina's solo concerts dedicated to the 10th anniversary of her creative activity took place at the Moscow Youth Palace. To participate in the show, the dance groups "Krim's" and "Shine" were invited, as well as pupils of the New Generation studio school.

In 1995, Natalia Gulkina entered GITIS at the Faculty of Pop Art, majoring in "Director of pop-mass spectacles" at the course of the People's Artist of Russia Andrey Nikolaev.

In 1993 Natalia Gulkina founded the "New Generation" studio school for gifted children on the basis of the children's creativity center "Constellation". In the same year, the recording company ZeKo Records released her album "Holy Love" with the hits "Rio de Janeiro" and "Goodbye, love". In this and subsequent years, Gulkina performed concerts in Germany for a Russian-speaking audience.

Since 1992, dancers have appeared in the "Stars", cooperation with choreographer Sergei Mandrik began. For several years, the dancers changed repeatedly, and by 1995 the quartet "Street Jazz" was determined: Sergey Mandrik, Maxim Nedolechko aka "Peps", Volodya Suvorov and Araik Martirosyan. Gulkina worked with this team until 2001.

In 1991 Natalia Gulkina recorded two albums. The first of them is "You just have to dream", the songs for which were written by Sergey Lemoh on the words of Gulkina ("Ivanhoe", "This is China", etc., clips were shot on them) and Oleg Molchanov on the words Arkady Slavorosova. The second is the singer's solo album "Day Angel", the songs for which were written by Oleg Molchanov and Slavorosov. The singer took 9th place in the "Song of the Year" according to the "Moskovsky Komsomolets".

In 1990, after winning the Inter-Chance International festival, Natalia Gulkina went on tour to China, becoming in fact the first Soviet pop singer to perform in this country. In Beijinge about 20 thousand spectators gathered at the concert of "Stars" in the Sports Palace.

In 1989, the band released their second album "Disco", which gained huge popularity .

In 1988, Mirage was preparing the release of the second album "Together again", which Gulkina insisted on creating. At this time Natalia toured the country with the band. Lityagin, in order not to distract the singer, again invited Sukhankina to record, with whom the album was recorded. Natalia was offered to learn songs and perform them under the soundtrack of Margarita. Gulkina refused and left the Mirage group, deciding to start a solo career.

Natalia's performances took place in Germany and Turkey in May. On May 26, Gulkina received the first order from the Runway Charity Foundation - "For Creative Creation for the Benefit of Russia". Natalia Gulkina and Ruslan Alekhno performed at the "DISCO DACHA" party in the Leningrad Club on May 30 in Moscow. In May and June, Gulkina's song "Tears like Rain" took 1st place in the "People's Hit Parade" of Radio Radio Radio.