This Is Who I Am (Lena Katina album)

The album marks the beginning of Katina's solo career after she and her former bandmate, Julia Volkova announced the separation of their music group, t.A.T.u.

[5] The third and fourth singles, "Who I Am" and "An Invitation", have been successful in several European countries such as Germany, Italy, Spain and Latina's homeland, Russia.

When Katina announced the separation of t.A.T.u., she immediately left Russia and went to the United States to find a label and start her solo career.

Katina spent a few years in Los Angeles, California recording and writing her first solo album with her band members, Sven Martin, Domen Vajevec, Steve Wilson and Jörg Kohring.

It took almost five years to finish the entire album and Katina said in an interview, "It is a good result of a hard work and a long path of becoming a solo singer and a songwriter, of finding myself...

Katina was highly involved with the packaging, designing the album with several photos of her with friends, parents and Julia Volkova with her personal handwriting as the caption.