
In March 2009 Valeriya was invited to join as a special guest Simply Red's "The Greatest Hits" Tour in the UK. In 2005 Valeriya was awarded the Honoured Artiste of Russia title and ranked 9th in the Forbes magazine list of 50 most highly paid people in movie, sport, literature and music industry. Also that year she won the international contest Bratislavskaya Lira and received an Audience Choice Award at Yurmala-92.Īt the Ritz-Carlton Top Beauty Awards 2010 In 1992 she won the first prize in a national TV contest Morning Star. Pobud' so mnoi (Stay with me), a collection of traditional Russian romances, was released by Lad Records a year later. Her first English-language disc, The Taiga Symphony came out in 1991 via Shulgin Records. In 1985 Valeriya enrolled in the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow which she graduated 1990.

Valeriya was born on Apin a town of Atkarsk in the Saratov Oblast. She has been a member of the Council for Culture and Art under the President of the Russian Federation since 2012. Valeriya, who is a recipient of the titles People's Artist of Russia (2013) and People's Artist of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (2016), has also won numerous awards, including Golden Gramophone (thirteen), Pesnya goda (thirteen), Muz-TV (four: Best Performer in 2004, 20, Best Video, 2014), and MTV Russia Music Awards (two, Best Performer, 2004, Best Song, 2005).

Valeriya ( Russian: Валерия) is a stage name of Alla Yurievna Perfilova ( Russian: Алла Юрьевна Перфилова, born Apin Atkarsk), a Russian singer and fashion model.
