Mara Vladimirovna Kana (russian: Ма́ра Влади́мировна Кана́, birth name Marina Vladimirovna Nesterova (russian: Мари́на Влади́мировна Не́стерова); born November 25, 1978, Moscow) is a Russian rock singer, musician, and songwriter.
Biography
She was born on November 25, 1978, in Moscow. Until 2000, she lived in
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, near Moscow, then moved to the capital.
Studied at the Moscow University of Consumer Cooperatives. In 2003, on the air of
Nashe Radio, for the first time, Mara's song ''Airplanes'' was heard, which subsequently was on the ''
Chart Dozen'' hit parade for several months.
Scandals
In 2004, at the
Nashestvie rock festival, the singer exposed her
breasts
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In females, it serves as the mammary gland, which produces and secret ...
while performing the song ''Sex'' in front of a 70,000-strong crowd of spectators.
Since 2014 she has been performing a number of
nationalist
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works in the sense of
Blood and soil.
In 2022, she supported the
Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Discography
Studio albums
* 2003 — Frankness
* 2005 —
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* 2012 —
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* 2015 — War and Peace
* 2018 — Russian Star
Live albums
* 2008 — Unplugged
* 2013 — Feel the Difference
References
External links
Мара о бывшем муже и о гомофобии
Мара и Рейхстаг
Мара: Донбасс хочет в Россию больше, чем Крым
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1978 births
Living people
21st-century Russian women singers
Musicians from Moscow
Russian pop singers
Russian rock singers
Russian women composers
Russian women singer-songwriters
Russian singer-songwriters
Indie rock musicians
Anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Russia