Her parents are Russian pop star Alla Pugacheva[3] and Lithuanian circus performer Mykolas Orbakas [lt].

At the age of 7, she debuted in the Soviet children's television program "Veseliye Notki" (Happy Musical Notes) with the song "Solnyshko Smeyotsya" (The Sun Laughs).

In 1982, she was cast in the leading role of "Lena Bessoltseva" in Scarecrow, a film by Rolan Bykov based on the Vladimir Zheleznikov play of the same name.

[6] Having met with success in film and music, Orbakaite tried her hand at theater, appearing in 1995 as Helen Keller in an adaptation of William Gibson's The Miracle Worker on the stage of the Moscow Art Theatre.

In 2017, the tour was presented in Russia, Israel, France, Kazakhstan, the United Kingdom, Germany and all Baltic states.

Orbakaite also has two sons from previous marriages to singer Vladimir Presniakov Jr. and businessman Ruslan Baisarov, born in 1991 and 1998.