Zemfira is the stage name of a Russian rock musician Zemfira Ramazanova, born in
Ufa (then in Russian Soviet Republic) on August 26, 1976. She studied music
since the age of 5, first – at the music school and later at the College of Fine
Arts in Ufa. Working as a sound engineer at a radio station, she used its
equipment to record her first singles "Почему" ("Why") and "Синоптик"
("Weatherman"). Zemfira’s life dramatically changed in 1999 when her demo tape
made its way into the hands of the Mummiy Troll’s producer Leonid Burlakov. That
led to the recording of the debut album Zemf...