Elizaveta Valdemarovna Ivantsiv is a singer of Ukrainian origin.
Place of Birth, Education
She was born on July 2, 1982 in Uzhhorod. She studied at the local school No. 8.
Career
In 2008, Yolka received the Golden Gramophone Award for the song “Handsome Boy”.
From 2011 to 2012, she was a member of the jury of the X-Factor project on the STB TV channel. She also released the album “Dots Are Placed”, which received favorable reviews from music critics.
On February 18, 2014, the label “Velvet Music” released the single “You Know” by Yolka and the Burrito group. Critics of the magazine “Afisha” called the song the most popular Russian-language song of the year.
On April 23, Yolka released the song and video “Everything depends on us”, which became the soundtrack to the film “A Gift with Character”. At the end of May of the same year, she took part in a charity concert in Moscow.
On May 30, she gave a big solo concert at the Moscow club “Ray Just Arena”. During the performance , she presented 4 new songs, including the Ukrainian-language “Love”, as well as the compositions “Sea Inside”, “Draw Me the Sky” and “Passerby”. The next day, May 31, the music award of the RU TV channel took place in the hall of the Crocus City Hall. TV, where the singer was nominated, but without participating in the concert program.
The first reports about the new material appeared in May 2014 on the eve of the concert. The songs – “The Sea Inside”, “Passer-by” and “Draw Me the Sky” – were performed live, received favorable reviews from listeners and critics.
On November 7, she performed a concert-presentation of new material in the club “Artist Concert Hall”, where she performed the songs “Sea Inside”, “Floors” and “Passerby”.
On December 6, 2014, she performed at the festival “Song of the Year” at the Olympic Sports Complex, where she received a diploma and a statuette for the song “Draw Me the Sky”.
At the beginning of 2015, the release of the fifth studio album was announced. It was supposed to include tracks released during the previous 2 years, as well as new songs that have been played at concerts since 2014, including “Sea Inside”, “Floors”, “Passerby”, “Love” and “Draw Me the Sky”.
Between 2017 and 2020 in Moscow, Yolka regularly released new singles and duet works, including with Burito, Loc-Dog, Basta, Marie Craimbreri and the band 25/17. Some of the compositions were released as joint projects, some as solo releases.
After the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation (RF) in 2022, Yolka remained in Russia and did not publicly comment on the war.
In 2025, during the performance of the song, “Provence” removed the mention of Boryspil.
Personal Life
In 2026, according to media reports, Yolka decided to renounce Ukrainian citizenship in order to obtain a Russian passport before marrying Rozhen Anusi.
