Iryna Bilyk

Bilyk Irina Nikolaevna: Madonna of Ukrainian showbiz

Bilyk Irina Nikolaevna - Ukrainian singer, People's Artist of Ukraine, composer and TV presenter. Created 12 studio albums. In addition, she has a very rich personal life: she married and divorced several times. Among Irina's chosen ones are producer Yuri Nikitin, dancer Dmitry Dikusar, choreographer Dima Kolyadenko and others.

Irina Bilyk was born on April 6, 1970 in Kyiv.

The parents of Irina Bilyk - Anna Yakovlevna and Nikolai Semenovich - were not creative people. Unfortunately, both of them are already deceased: Irina Bilyk lost her father in 2019, and her mother in 2020. Parents lived not far from Kyiv (150 km), had a private house and a garden. The singer regrets that she often did not have time to visit them.

The personal life of Irina Bilyk is quite eventful. She was married more than once. The first actual (lived in a civil marriage) husband of the singer was Yuri Nikitin, a well-known producer, as well as a former musician who performed in the Tsey Doshch Nadovgo group. The couple met in 1990 at one of the festivals. Subsequently, the man became the producer of Irina Bilyk. The relationship between Nikitin and Bilyk lasted seven years. But even after their completion, Yuri and Irina did not stop working together. Only in 2014, Irina Bilyk left her producer. She stated that she lacked freedom.

The next chosen one of Irina Bilyk was Andrey Overchuk - fashion model and model. The singer officially legalized relations with him. The couple even got married in the church. The wedding took place in 1999, it was rather modest. From this marriage, Irina Bilyk has a son, Gleb (born in 1999). Interestingly, the godfather of the boy was the former Irina - Yuri Nikitin.

In 2002, Irina Bilyk left Andrei. Subsequently, she began an affair with choreographer Dmitry Kolyadenko. Irina stayed with him for about three years. However, these relationships did not last forever.

Irina's next husband is Dmitry Dikusar. With a beautiful dancer, Irina had an age difference of 15 years. However, this did not stop the couple from getting married. They played a wedding in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. For three years Irina and Dima were together, they later broke up.

After Dikusar, Irina Bilyk married Aslan Akhmadov. He is a photographer, director and stylist. He is considered a close friend of the legendary Lyudmila Gurchenko. It was Aslan who created the famous photo shoot of the actress, in which she looks very rejuvenated, about 25 years old. It turned out that Irina and Aslan legalized the relationship back in 2013, but the press did not know about it for three whole years.

Aslan and Irina have a son, Tabriz. He was born in 2015. The couple used the services of a surrogate mother. The singer has repeatedly said in an interview that, in addition to her first son Gleb, she wants another child. However, doctors forbade Bilyk to give birth due to medical contraindications. Therefore, Irina used the services of a surrogate mother. Tabriz was born in one of the private clinics in Europe.

Irina Bilyk called love with Aslan cosmic. According to her, they still love each other, but in 2021, despite all the feelings, Irina announced that she was breaking up with Aslan. The reason, according to the singer, is simple. Aslan has not visited her for a year with his son from Russia. And although they continue to love each other, the singer initiated a divorce.

Irina Bilyk has a higher education, which she received at the Kiev National University of Culture and Arts. Irina has been fond of creativity since childhood. At the age of five, she began going to dance and ballet. In 1998, the girl graduated from the Glier School of Music.

In addition, in her youth, Irina Bilyk also studied at the theater studio. The girl was predicted to have an acting career, but music turned out to be closer to her.

Childhood

We can say that Irina Bilyk began her musical career at the age of six, when she performed in the song ensemble “Sonechko”. The ensemble went on tour throughout the Soviet Union. Irina wrote her first song at the age of 10.

Youth of Iryna Bilyk

At the age of 18, Irina Bilyk taught music to children. So, she even had her own permanent class.

In 1989 there was a turning point in Bilyk's career. She performed at the Chervona Ruta festival, where they noticed her and started talking about the singer. After meeting Yuri Nikitin, Irina Bilyk sang in the group “Tsei doshch forever”. With the group, Irina Bilyk performed at several festivals, among which was the “Slavianski Bazaar” in Vitebsk. Over time, the group turned into the management of Irina Bilyk - the production agency Nova was founded, with which the singer worked.

Solo career of Irina Bilyk

Already in 1994, Irina Bilyk began to actively tour Ukraine. She also became the host of the New Year's Eve show. In 1995, Irina Bilyk was called the most prominent figure in contemporary Ukrainian music. This resulted in the fact that Irina was invited to meet with Bill Clinton and his wife, who arrived in Kyiv.

In 1995, Irina Bilyk showed a big solo show at the Palace "Ukraine". Then there was a full house. In addition, Irina Bilyk went on a big concert tour “Nova”, which became the first such tour in the history of Ukrainian pop music.

Two years later, Irina Bilyk again broke all records by holding a grandiose concert tour “So Simple” - such a Ukrainian show business at that time had not yet seen. The singer visited 25 cities and held 38 concerts.

In 1998, Irina became the singer of the year, and also won the Golden Firebird nomination - Album of the Year. A year later, Irina Bilyk gathered a full house at a concert in London. The concert took place as part of the celebration of the Independence Day of Ukraine.

In 2003, Irina Bilyk released the disc "Kraina". Subsequently, she recorded the song "Love. Poison", which has become one of the most popular in the singer's repertoire so far. This song greatly increased Irina Bilyk's popularity in neighboring Russia.

Further, Irina regularly released new studio albums, went on tours in support of them. Now Irina Bilyk has 12 studio albums, the last one was released in 2017 (among them are “So Simple”, “Love is Poison”, “Without Makeup”, “Dawn” and others).

Clips of Irina Bilyk are popular on the net. So, on YouTube, the video for the song “Girl” has collected more than 7 million views, “Remember” - 1.9 million, “I'm not sorry” - 1.4 million, “About love” - 3.4 million, “Love is poison "- 2 million," Rowan Scarlet "- 3.3 million.

In 2021, Irina Bilyk presented a new video for the song “Don't hold back your eyes”. She also created an animated video for the song "Angels Can't Be Chosen". Irina Bilyk dedicated this track to her mother, who died in 2020. According to Irina, this was the first time when she herself could not act in the video, because from the very first lines of the song the singer starts crying every time.