In 2003, she scored her biggest hit, "Roza chaynaya" (Russian: Роза чайная, meaning "Tea rose"), a duet with Philipp Kirkorov.

Rasputina was born in Inskoy, Kemerovo Oblast in 1964 as the daughter of an employee of the local power station and an Odessa-born hydriologist.

Eventually, she was employed as an ensemblist in a Moscow ensemble and decided to pick up studies at the Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts.

[4] After her fame rose in the newborn Russia in the early 1990s, Rasputina decided that she wanted to break through abroad with an album with Russian-language chansons called I was born in Siberia.

[5] In that time, Masha Rasputina toured the country and took part in many television recordings, most notably Fabrika Zvyozd, in which she guest performed alongside several participants.

During the peak in her career, Rasputina was known for her over-the-top, husky vocal style, fiery stage persona and flamboyant, somewhat controversial image[9] with the emphasis on grotesque sexuality and crude, ‘common girl’ manners.

[2] In a 2021 interview, Rasputina said that her image was part of the showbusiness culture of that time, which was expecting "youthfulness, energy and mischief", but that it never contained vulgarity or filth in her eyes.