[3] Her father, Ralif Rafilovich Safin, who is of Bashkir descent,[4] is a former LUKoil executive and a current member of the Federal Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament.

He is also the owner of the FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi football team and was named the 100th richest citizen of Russia by Forbes magazine in 2004.

After living in Moscow due to her father's business, she then moved to Syosset, New York, and later to the UK where she entered a private architecture college.

In 1998, at the wedding of her brother Marat which was celebrated on the bank of the Moskva River, Alsou sat at the grand piano and sang I Will Always Love You.

[7] On 7 September 2006, Alsou gave birth to her first daughter Safina at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.

[8] On 29 April 2008, Alsou gave birth to her second daughter Mikella at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.

It was very successful in Russia and spawned 3 singles: "Zimniy Son" ("Winter Dream") "Vesna" ("Spring"), and "Inogda" ("Sometimes").

After the huge success of Alsou's debut Russian album she was signed to Universal Music Russia and became its first domestic artist.

[14] In 2000, Alsou recorded her first English language single "Solo" and was entered into the Eurovision Song Contest 2000, written by Andrew Lane and Brandon Barnes eventually finishing second overall.

Alsou performed "Solo" again at Congratulations, the 50th anniversary Eurovision concert in Copenhagen, Denmark, in October 2005.

Alsou's debut Russian album was re-released twice – in 2001 and 2002, spawning two singles – "Osen" ("Autumn") and "Kogda Lubov Ko Mne Pridiot" ("When Love Comes To Me").

19 spawned such singles as "Vsyo Ravno" ("Anyway"), "Vchera" ("Yesterday"), "Perviy Raz" ("The First Time"), "Mechty" ("Dreams") feat.

Karl Frierson (mixed by Pit Baumgartner from De Phazz), "Letyashchaya Nad Oblakami" ("Flying Over the Clouds"), and "Etkey" ("Father", a Tatarstan single).

On 5 June 2003, after arriving in Moscow from working in foreign studios, Alsou unexpectedly found herself the winner of the "Best Female Artist" nomination.

To support the sales of album 19, Alsou gave successful performances in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Israel and Kazakhstan.

However, despite the heavy UK promotion, a sexy video, touring as a support act with boyband Westlife, and performing in the London club G-A-Y, the commercial single was canceled by Alsou's UK label Mercury Records, though physical copies were available for a short time.

Alsou's third Russian album Samoe Glavnoe ("The Main Thing"), her first LP in five years, was released on 31 March 2008 by Universal Music Russia.

In June 2004, Alsou performed in the British mystical thriller Spirit Trap with Billie Piper, Luke Mably, Emma Catherwood and Sam Troughton.

A release of her second motion picture is awaited in 2008 – earlier in 2006 she starred in the Russian historical drama "Vivat, Anna!"

[19] Alsou's second daughter Mikella participated in The Voice Kids (Russian season 6) of vocal competition show The Voice Kids (Russian TV series) produced by Channel One Russia, and was announced a winner of the superfinal, which was aired on April 26, 2019, as she received 56.5% of the votes.

It caused a huge outrage by social media users as they suspected Mikella's victory was a result of vote manipulation by Alsou and her husband.

The outrage prompted Channel One Russia to review the voting results and, after the fraud was proven, Mikella's victory was canceled.