Anna Lesko

[1] Lesko was born on January 10, 1979, in the city of Chișinău in the Republic of Moldova - at that time part of the Soviet Union - into a family of Russian - Ukrainian origins, with her father being half-Moldovan.

[2][3] The singer's father, a construction engineer by profession, is also passionate about music, playing a number of instruments, including accordion or guitar, while her mother inherited the family business,[4] a company producing a range of clothing and footwear.

[4] She continued to move to this artistic area, but migrated to classical and modern dance, and at the age of seventeen made a trip to Romania, in the company of the ballet band she was part of.

[4] Once this procedure was completed, Lesko learned Romanian in the company of a person who did not know Russian, but this influenced her to move to a legal profession, which would have helped her to integrate more easily in society.

[4] Lesko entered the Faculty of Law in Bucharest, where she had to face a number of difficulties, most of which were related to the language, but nonetheless she succeeded in completing her studies.

[4][5] In 2000, Lesko decided to focus on a number of music projects, thus beginning to participate in concerts with the band Direcția 5 [ro], with which she worked for about a year.

[8][9] The recording, composed by music producer Marius Moga,[9] benefited from a video - filmed in the presence of director Andreea Păduraru- and a promotion campaign.

"Inseparabili" was included on the compilation album Sete de distracție, along with hits by artists such as Bere Gratis, Marius Moga and Vank [ro].

The song, entitled "Anicyka Maya", was composed by Laurențiu Duță [ro] and contains Russian influences, added at the artist's request.

"Anicyka Maya" was the only single promoted from the album, but at the same time, the artist collaborated with band Animal X, recording with them "Ca la început".

According to the Romanian press, the artist gave up collaborating with Animal X because she was forced by her producer, Laurențiu Duță [ro], against the background of an older conflict between him and the aforementioned band.

A year later, in 2008, present on the show Răi da 'Buni, hosted by Mihai Morar, the soloist promoted a series of projects and performed her next single, "Ignoranța", which did not benefit from a video and did not obtain remarkable positions in the official charts in Romania.

During the same period, there were reports that the soloist was in the recording studio to release a new album, collaborating with producers Keo [ro], Laurențiu Duță and Gabriel Huiban.

Later, she started promoting the song "Balalaika" - written by the artist in collaboration with Claudiu Cota and produced by Angelika Vasilicov and Dan Griober, which was released as the first single excerpt of the upcoming album.

The music video - directed by the same Bogdan Toader - takes place in a Soviet military base hidden in a cave under a bombed city.

The recording marks a change of style, with Lesko migrating to the area of dance - house music, being the first song of the English soloist to benefit from the promotion.

The album Jocul seducției is a combination of a number of musical styles, including songs performed in Romanian, Russian and English.

The clothing displayed by her and the dancers who accompany her on stage and in television shows is made by the artist herself, being helped by professional designers Andreea and Matei Corvin.

Other Romanian performers were co-opted for this project, including Elena Gheorghe and Oana Nistor [ro] (soloist of the band Activ).

[4] Throughout her artistic career, the singer appeared on the covers of magazines such as Bolero [ro], FHM Romania, Ideal Mariaj,, Story and The One.

Lesko was also criticized by the Romanian press for the fact that she is not used to giving live recitals, being also blamed by the TV moderator Cătălin Măruță, who (according to 9am.ro) made a series of allusions to the soloist constantly in his shows, to which allegations the singer responded with a statement.

According to the Romanian press, Lesko also had love affairs with Marian Ionescu, the leader of the musical group Direcția 5 [ro], Liviu Moreanu, Codin Maticiuc and Elan Schwartzenberg.

Lesko collaborated with fellow Moldavian singer Pavel Stratan on "Leagană barca" (2013)
Connect-R collaborated with Lesko on "In My Bedroom" (2010)