Lesya Yaroslavskaya
Olesya (Lesya) Vladimirovna Yaroslavskaya (; born 20 March 1981) is a Russian pop singer, lead singer of Viktor Drobysh's girls band Тootsie (2004–2012), author and performer of her own songs. Early life Yaroslavskaya was born in the closed city of Severomorsk, where her father worked as a military officer and her mother as a music teacher. Yaroslavskaya started performing from the age of four, when she sang the song Junk Letters in the local House of Culture. At the age of seven, she and her parents moved to Naro-Fominsk. There, she started studying piano. During her teen years, she regularly took part in music festivals, including in her birth town. After finishing her secondary school, Yaroslavskaya enrolled in the Moscow Regional College of Art, specialising in pop-jazz music. Subsequently, in 2001, she entered the Institute of Modern Art, where she completed a degree in pop music. Career Yaroslavskaya auditioned for the third season of the Russian reality music competition Fabrika Zvyozd, where she became one of the sixteen contestants. Eventually, she finished eight overall, being eliminated in the tenth reporting concert. After the show had ended, Yaroslavskaya — alongside Irina Ortman, Mariya Veber and Anastasia Krainova — was put into