Vera Brezhneva
Family
Vera was born on 3 February 1982 in
Dniprodzerzhynsk, in the
Ukrainian SSR of the
Soviet Union. Her parents were not involved in the music or entertainment business. Her mother, Tamara, is Russian, and her father, Viktor is mixed of Ukrainian and Russian descent. Her father worked in a chemical factory located by the Dnieper River. Her mother, who had graduated from medical school, worked in the same factory as her father.
Vera has three sisters - one older (Halyna) and two younger (Nastya and Vika,
twins). She bought a flat for her parents in
Boryspil, a town close to
Kiev. The father of
Vera's daughter (Sonia) is Vitaliy Voychenko, to whom
Vera was married for a few years. She graduated from the
Rail Engineering Institute of
Dnipropetrovsk with a degree in economics.
Nu Virgos
In 2002,
Brezhneva was invited to a casting organized to find a girl to replace
Alena Vinnitskaya and she won. In January 2003
Nu Virgos started performing in the new configuration (Nadiya, Hanna and Vera) that, due to its amazing popularity, gained the name of "the golden line up".
In July 2007,
Brezhneva decided to have a break from the band, which ended in December 2007 with the official announcement of her leaving
Nu Virgos.
Vera was replaced in the group by
Tatiana Kotova.
