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Бархатные тяги (DJ Prezzplay Remix) Gazan
Gazan (Konstantin Zhukov, also known as Gazan; born August 23, 1995, in Moscow) is a Russian singer, songwriter, and blogger. He studied law and worked night shifts in a flower shop — where he wrote his first tracks — and entered music in late 2018.
Standouts include the viral meme hits “Che za lev etot tigr,” “Barkhatnye tyagi,” “Abu bandit,” “Suyetolog,” “Sheykhami,” and the Gidayyat duet “Koronaminus.” Later catalog cuts include “Oboyudno,” “Chernyy merin,” “Pantera,” and newer releases like “Khochu byt kak Gazan.”
Gazan (Konstantin Zhukov, also known as Gazan; born August 23, 1995, in Moscow) is a Russian singer, songwriter, and blogger. He studied law and worked night shifts in a flower shop — where he wrote his first tracks — and entered music in late 2018.
Standouts include the viral meme hits “Che za lev etot tigr,” “Barkhatnye tyagi,” “Abu bandit,” “Suyetolog,” “Sheykhami,” and the Gidayyat duet “Koronaminus.” Later catalog cuts include “Oboyudno,” “Chernyy merin,” “Pantera,” and newer releases like “Khochu byt kak Gazan.”
The sound is light pop / dance with TikTok-ready hooks: irony, slang, an Eastern-tinged image, and short videos. Without formal music school, he built a career through social media and streaming.
Don’t confuse him with other artists named Gazan: this is Moscow’s Konstantin Zhukov, known for “Che za lev etot tigr” and “Barkhatnye tyagi.”
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Асфальт (Silver Ace Radio Edit) Olga Seryabkina
Olga Yuryevna Seryabkina was born on 12 April 1985 in Moscow and grew up in the Taganka district; the family line runs back to the Orenburg region. Her father was in the military and died young; her mother was an engineer. They had known each other since childhood and ran a practical household with little patience for a “creative” career. At six a dance teacher said the girl had no rhythm; the next day her father brought her back anyway, and by seventeen Olga was a Candidate for Master of Sports in ballroom. Her parents pushed a “normal” profession: she trained as an English and German translator and never worked as one. In 2004 she was already in R&B dance crews, appeared as an extra in Dima Bilan’s “Mulatka” video, backed Irakli onstage, and met Maxim Fadeev at a rehearsal — the door into the group Elena Temnikova later pulled her through.
Serebro from 2006 to 2019 was her main stage, and Seryabkina was the only member who lasted every lineup. At Eurovision 2007, with Temnikova and Marina Lizorkina, they sang “Song #1” and took third. Olga wrote most of the hits: “Mama Lyuba,” “Mi Mi Mi,” “Malo tebya,” “Ya tebya ne otdam,” “Pereputala,” “Ne vremya.” On tour they long shared a hotel room with Temnikova; Seryabkina later spoke of a four-year relationship and said it was her last of that kind. When Temnikova publicly alleged an affair with Fadeev, Olga called it slander and did not go to court. She announced her exit in autumn 2018 and sang through early 2019 — the constant vocalist leaving while the brand still rested on her voice and lyrics.
Olga Yuryevna Seryabkina was born on 12 April 1985 in Moscow and grew up in the Taganka district; the family line runs back to the Orenburg region. Her father was in the military and died young; her mother was an engineer. They had known each other since childhood and ran a practical household with little patience for a “creative” career. At six a dance teacher said the girl had no rhythm; the next day her father brought her back anyway, and by seventeen Olga was a Candidate for Master of Sports in ballroom. Her parents pushed a “normal” profession: she trained as an English and German translator and never worked as one. In 2004 she was already in R&B dance crews, appeared as an extra in Dima Bilan’s “Mulatka” video, backed Irakli onstage, and met Maxim Fadeev at a rehearsal — the door into the group Elena Temnikova later pulled her through.
Serebro from 2006 to 2019 was her main stage, and Seryabkina was the only member who lasted every lineup. At Eurovision 2007, with Temnikova and Marina Lizorkina, they sang “Song #1” and took third. Olga wrote most of the hits: “Mama Lyuba,” “Mi Mi Mi,” “Malo tebya,” “Ya tebya ne otdam,” “Pereputala,” “Ne vremya.” On tour they long shared a hotel room with Temnikova; Seryabkina later spoke of a four-year relationship and said it was her last of that kind. When Temnikova publicly alleged an affair with Fadeev, Olga called it slander and did not go to court. She announced her exit in autumn 2018 and sang through early 2019 — the constant vocalist leaving while the brand still rested on her voice and lyrics.
Solo, she first hid behind aliases: Holy Molly beside DJ M.E.G., then simply Molly, and in February 2020 she dropped the mask and took back her own name — “erase every border.” The album “Kosatka v nebe” still came out on Fadeev’s label in 2019; soon the producer cut ties with all his artists, and she went independent: the “Prichiny” EP, 2022’s “Siniy tsvet tvoey lyubvi” dedicated to her son, “Zimniy,” a spring 2025 mini-album, duets with Basta (“Veter dorog”), Kosta Lacosta and DJ Smash. In 2020 she married Georgy Nachkebia, a former staffer at the same label and a businessman with a second home near Vienna; both speak German, and they held the ceremony there. Their son Luka was born on 20 November 2021, with her husband in the delivery room. The household rule is blunt: do not finish what the child can do himself, and do not leave socks in the corner.
After that, life stopped splitting into “band” and “solo.” She acted in the film “Samy luchshiy den,” published the poetry collection “Tysyacha M,” hosted dance and karaoke shows, was guessed as the Mantis on a 2025 mask series, and left the survival show “Survive in Samarkand” early because she missed her husband and son: family first. On 27 February 2026 came the single “Asfalt” — sad, but about the hope that the people you love stay together; on 11 September the five-track EP “Slava,” with “Toyota,” “Gravitatsiya” and “Do utra.” Cards now often file her as SERYABKINA; people mix her up with other Mollys and with later Serebro lineups. She is the Muscovite once told she had no rhythm, who wrote “Mama Lyuba,” and who after scandals, aliases and exits still sings about love, asphalt and glory in her own words.
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