Biography
Christina's father was a military man, so he always kept the girl strict. Christina also has a younger sister. Mom devoted herself entirely to raising children.
As a child, the girl was very interested in music, so her parents decided to send her to a music school to study vocals and play the piano. After graduating from school, she entered the university to study journalism. She liked to study, but she never worked a day in her profession. While still studying at the university, the girl became interested in directing and began working as a camera operator.
As her musical career developed, the girl starred in videos shot for the famous songs “Beat” and “Let’s Forget Everything,” produced by the group Quest Pistols. I became interested in video making. She shot video clips for Yulia Nelson and the group Nerva.
At the end of spring 2016, the singer’s first solo album, entitled “Mag-ni-you,” was released. It was during this period that she took the pseudonym Luna. On October 27 of the same year, the girl released the album “Sad Dance,” which took first place in the top in one day best songs Ukraine.
After the stunning popularity of the released album, the girl conducted the “Eclipse” tour. On November 3, 2016, Luna held big concerts in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Riga.
At the beginning of April 2017, the single “Bullets” premiered. In mid-July of the same year, the second song from the album “Ogonyok” was released, Christina immediately presented her video clip for it. Luna calls her music soulful, as it reminds her of the 90s.
Personal life of Christina Bardash
The singer is the wife of producer Yuri Bardash. In 2012, the couple moved to Los Angeles. At first they lived in the Hollywood Hills, and later moved to the Venice area. In the same year they had a red-haired son, George. In America, she devoted herself entirely to her child, leaving creative activity for a while.
In one of her interviews, the singer admitted that all the time she lived in Los Angeles, she learned to be free and independent from anyone.
The couple lived in America for two and a half years, after which they returned to their homeland to continue developing the creative potential of Luna in the vastness of Ukraine and Russia.
Regarding the fact that her husband is promoting the Mushrooms group, Luna says that she sees nothing wrong with it. She says that singer Luna's audience is growing gradually, so she will never have problems with having listeners.
In one of the interviews, Luna admitted that the song “Boy, you are snow” was addressed to her lover, with whom she had an argument, and she felt insulted. She was referring to her current husband and musician of the group “Mushrooms” Yuri Bardash.
Christina Bardash loves to cook for her husband and son, she dreams of opening a bar-restaurant. She explains her craving for cooking by the fact that she is a vegetarian and finds shortcomings in all vegetarian restaurants, so she dreams of opening a place that will meet the needs of all people who refuse to eat meat.
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Now the singer’s entire family is leading healthy image life, and she does yoga and meditates every day.
The singer notes that her main goal is the happiness of family members and only in second place is creative activity. Although it is quite difficult to imagine this girl not involved in musical activities.
Simple, sincere lyrics and minimalist arrangements in the spirit of the 90s - according to American Vogue, this is what “the face of the Ukrainian musical revolution” looks like. The publication assigned this status to Kiev resident Kristina Gerasimova, who performs under the pseudonym Luna. Her songs were not played on the radio, and her videos were not broadcast on TV. Luna's work has become popular thanks to the Internet. At the same time, the artist herself states that she does not consider herself an indie project.
Childhood and youth
Kristina Gerasimova (at the time of her marriage - Bardash) was born on August 28, 1990 in the German Democratic Republic, where her father served at that time. The family lived in the town of Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz) for about two years, after which they moved to Ukraine. The Gerasimovs settled in Kyiv.
Together with her younger sister Alina, Kristina studied at school No. 53 in Kyiv, having time for choreography classes after school. IN junior classes Christina visited folk dances, later - ballet, to which she devoted 6 years. Then the girl changed dancing to music. At art school for two years she studied solfeggio, vocals, attended a choir and took guitar lessons.
Music
Christina recorded her first demo when she was 14 years old. While studying at school and then at university, the girl wrote poetry and music, but did not consider it necessary to demonstrate her creativity to the public. The first performance took place only in 2015. The actress took part in Mercedes-Benz Kiev Fashion Days. And a year later she presented her first album “Mag-ni-you”.
Grandiose solo performance made too strong an impression on the performer: Christina took a break from creating songs and focused on performances. Following the capital of Ukraine, the concerts of the “Eclipse” tour took place in Riga, Yekaterinburg, and Moscow.
Moon, video "Autumn"In the songs of the first album - “Boy, you are snow”, “Bottle”, “Bambi” - the melancholic mood and sound in the style of pop music of the 90s, characteristic of Luna’s work, were immediately determined. Critics draw parallels with creativity,. The singer herself names Glass Animals, groups, “Guests from the Future”, as well as performers and. Own style she defines it as “soulful pop.”
At the end of 2016, Luna released the mini-album “Sad Dance”. The album made a successful debut: on the first day it took first place in iTunes Ukraine and second in iTunes Russia and iTunes Armenia.
Luna's video for the song "Ogonyok"In 2017, the performer released her second album, “Island of Freedom.” Of the 8 tracks, 3 were presented earlier during the year: “Bullets”, “Ogonyok”, “Friend”. The video for the song “Ogonyok” turned out to be the most popular video in Luna’s assets: more than 50 people were in the frame. In 6 months, the clip collected a million views on Youtube. The songs "Jukebox" and "Free love" became hits.
Luna performs the song "Jukebox"It is noteworthy that in the first clips, the “multi-stanker” Luna not only thought through the plot and style of the video, but also tried to control the technical side:
“On the set of “Bullet” I really gave it my all, because I thought through every shot, went to the rental store, chose lenses, a camera, set the light - in heels, then climbed into the frame.”IN further singer agreed to delegate these responsibilities to directors. This, however, does not exclude Luna’s participation in creating the script and developing images.
Personal life
Christina was married. Her ex-husband is a producer, co-owner of the Kruzheva Music company, participant. The hit “The Ice Is Melting” is dedicated to the Moon.
In 2012, the couple had a son, George. At that time the family lived in Los Angeles. Christina describes this period of her biography contradictorily:
“I have just begun my adult life. And all this came at me. This is all great, but this America is still around, and I just found myself alone with myself and my calling to be a woman. I butted heads for a while because I wanted to remain a girl who could go to discos, smoke, party... I threw objects out of the house, screamed for the police to come and take me to the madhouse, and could run naked into the street. But that's okay, I'm not ashamed of it. I had to get over this trash."Luna’s life returned to a calmer direction after writing her first album. As the artist admits, she was referred by a friend. The girl became interested in the connection between humans and natural cycles, the cosmos, and ways to manage their energy.
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Almost everyone started talking about Kristina Bardash as the singer Luna at the same time. Her amateur and simple girlish clips began to appear on social media feeds. The most popular of them is “Autumn”, to date it has been viewed more than 90 thousand times.
On May 20, at the presentation of her debut album “Mag-ni-you,” Luna gathered a full hall - about a thousand people.
What others are saying:
Vlad Fisun, DJ, host of Aristocrats radio:“The entry of such a seemingly simple project as “Luna” into the musical field turned out to be difficult for many - for adherents of the competitive idea in music, for those who are accustomed to seeing song performers in all guises, from people's judges to culinary specialists, for those , who needs a singer to broadcast and throw down from the stage. And Christina Bardash’s project is a study of the world around her with big, moist eyes, a study in which even flowers or precipitation can cause genuine trembling, make you watch for hours how the heat of June dissolves the last cloud. in the sky. Without the roar of the timpani. And with such parameters of sound and ideological pressure, it seems that you will not penetrate the audience shackled in office chains. But they come to sing, drink and cry. Although in reality she is a cheerful girl."
Yuri Kaplan, leader of the group "Valentin Strykalo":"The form that appeals to nostalgic feelings is often devoid of new meanings, and as a rule there is nothing behind the shabby screen. In in this case everything is different. The music of the Moon is certainly part of our cultural code, she speaks to the generation of the nineties in a language very familiar to them, but now it is a conversation with adults. And there is nothing infantile about him. We are all very sad, we miss, and this is serious."
What Christina says:
In our group I write songs. When the impulse arises, I write down a poem on my iPhone. Then another mood comes, more melodic, and I write music to the poem. But I want to put the melody into some form, and here my desire is simply not enough. And in terms of music, the guys come to my aid. I'm glad they exist. Their masculine energy complements mine, we have a balance of masculine and feminine principles.
We don't want to focus on the fact that we are a group. It is enough that we ourselves know it. We have the face of the "Moon" - beautiful girl who writes songs. This image doesn't need to add anything extra.
For me, "Moon" is not just a name. I began to immerse myself in this topic, and the more I listen to the moon, the lunar calendar, the more I feel interaction with it. And the guys feel it too. But I don’t want to pretend to be a person who says “if the moon told me no, then I’ll stay home.”
On the day of the album presentation, I imagined the worst case scenario so as not to be upset later. But deep down I knew that everything would be great. And when I saw the hall, I realized that this was the power of lunar standing. There was a full moon that day.
On stage I was as sincere as possible. There is no such thing that I somehow transform myself on stage. Every girl is an actress. Now I talk to you like this, but at home with my husband - in a different voice. Everyone does this, it's normal. We always play some role, but this role is organic. I don’t transform into another person and don’t act fake. These are my feelings.
“An artist must go on stage and give his all” is wrong. Above me is space, below me is the earth - these are two huge inexhaustible forces. And I am a transmitter. When people look at me, I can take power from space, power from the earth and transmit it to them through my heart.
I think my audience ranges in age. But mostly these people- dreamers. For them, sensations and emotions are very important, and they are not afraid of them.
During the concert I changed clothes three times. My friends have created a new brand, Drag and Drop, which everyone will soon hear about. I am the first to wear items from this collection. When I saw these clothes, I was very happy, because for a long time I could not decide what to wear to the concert.
Singer Luna (Kristina Gerasimova, at the time of her marriage she performed under the pseudonym Bardash) - Ukrainian singer, whose musical career, which began with posting songs on YouTube in 2014-2015, reached the peak of popularity in the period 2016-2018.For me, the right collaboration is a collaboration without nerves. When you really give each other something in return and everyone feels comfortable about it. No one suffers or caves. This desire must come from two hearts, and if it coincides, then it coincides.
I recently had a super collaboration with Victoria Kokha, a girl from Moscow. She blew up the Internet with her images. She performs on Instagram as a make-up artist under the name vivicoxy - this is her main profession. And she has another account where she creates strange makeup on her face. In this account she made a video parody of my song “Boy, you are snow.” They tagged me in the comments and I subscribed to it. Then she wrote to me that I inspired her and that she wanted to come to me. In Kyiv, we made a joint video with her, which will be released soon. Half of the clip was shot on an iPhone, half- on a Panasonic film video camera.
When I came up with the video for "Autumn", I had a certain idea- take my son and shoot a video on a laptop, but I didn’t know what would happen in the end. It was impromptu, I couldn’t predict that he would cry and that the girl in the background would pump her abs. It turned out very atmospheric.
My son teaches me a lot. I'm glad that he appeared at a stage when I had not yet matured. Because now he won't let me do it. I don’t want to become an adult and serious, I want to always remain a child.
Everything that is happening to me now, and all the results of the work done bring me closer to popularity every day. It’s not easy, the responsibility is growing, but I’m ready for it. If I am a dreamer and a child at heart, this does not mean that I do not understand how to build my life correctly.
Some people say I'm better on record than live. I have special vocals. I understand that somewhere the voice sounded too loud because I couldn’t hear myself well. But I am an inexperienced artist, this was my first concert. I've never played an hour-long program before.
I love criticism, it helps me analyze myself and move on. I even felt a little uneasy when everyone praised me in the dressing room after the concert. Inside I felt: it was so cool that I felt sick.
Now I’m not the only one thinking about how the Luna project will develop. There are already many of us, and this is my achievement. Now I can only worry about my songs.
I’m not some star that was put on TV and she’s spinning there. I'm just a girl from the street, and everyone can see how I'm developing. Two years ago they would have laughed at me if I had said that I wanted to record a track. And now I have gathered a thousand people in the hall.
Attractive appearance, pleasant voice and nostalgic performance style, characteristic of pop music of the post-Soviet space of the 90s in modern processing allowed the performer to gain wide popularity among an interested audience.
Childhood and education
Kristina Viktorovna Gerasimova was born on August 28, 1990 in the city of Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz) in the German Democratic Republic. Her parents lived in this German city during military service father of the family. After the reunification of Germany in 1990 and the dissolution Soviet Union in 1991, the Gerasimov family moved to Kyiv. 
The period of life in Germany had practically no effect on Christina, who was still little at that time, although she recalled in an interview mom's stories about joint walks along Dresden art gallery or her birth in a boat sailing on the Elbe.
WITH early childhood Christina strove for music and art, which was greatly encouraged by the girl’s parents. Their considerable merit was that Kristina Gerasimova studied at music school in vocal and piano classes.
By the singer’s own admission, the event that determined her desire for musical career, was a trip to Cuba in 2002. Finding herself far from her parents, Christina did not study, but only composed songs, enjoying the special Cuban atmosphere of freedom and joy.
In 2007 future singer Luna successfully graduated from Kyiv school No. 53 with in-depth study German language. The next stage was studying at one of the Kyiv universities at the Faculty of Journalism. Although directing and music attracted the girl much more than the profession of a journalist.
The beginning of a musical career
In 2009, Christina met with her future husband Yuri Bardash, a music producer, founder and lead singer of the hip-hop group “Mushrooms”.Interview with Kristina Gerasimova
Relations with Yuri have never been easy. According to the singer herself, first her pregnancy, then postpartum depression ruined the relationship between the spouses, and in 2014 they decided to temporarily separate. It was during this period that Christina experienced a creative surge, wrote more than 30 songs and, after setting music to the text, published compositions called “Moon” and “Vigray” on her YouTube and Soundcloud accounts. The new performer quickly attracted the attention of the audience.
According to Christina’s memoirs, in her childhood she was already interested in music of a certain genre and direction. Her circle of interests firmly included Zemfira, Mumiy-Troll, Linda and Guests from the Future. This greatly influenced musical style the Moon itself in the future. Christina's songs belong to pop music, while the performer herself and her fans associate the specifics of her compositions with nostalgic aesthetics musical culture 90s of the last century.
Quick take off
Christina consolidated her success on October 15, 2015 with a video for the song “Autumn,” which she filmed in the courtyard of her house. The simplicity and originality of the setting and the text itself aroused great interest among connoisseurs of popular music. The video quickly collected several hundred thousand views, and this success ultimately became the beginning of the singer's career.Moon - Autumn
Christina’s first public performance took place as part of the autumn fashion show “Mercedes-Benz Kiev Fashion Days”, where she managed to captivate the audience with her simple love songs. It is noteworthy that in the following years the singer took part in this event more than once, leaving her mark even in one of the fashion collections, items from which were decorated with lines from the texts of the Moon.
The period from the end of 2015 to May 2016 was entirely devoted to preparations for the release of Kristina Gerasimova’s first studio album, entitled “Mag-ni-you.” It was for its release that the singer took the pseudonym Luna. It was presented in full at the debut solo concert singers in Kyiv. A number of lyrical and memorable compositions (“Moon”, “Autumn”, “Magnets”, “Bottle”, “Distances” and “Boy, you’re snow...”) immediately captivated major Ukrainian and Russian radio stations. The album was produced by Luna herself.
Until the end of 2016, the main occupation of Luna and her partners was touring the CIS countries and Israel, and on November 3, the singer’s debut Moscow concert was a success. In parallel with this, on October 28, 2016, Luna released the mini-album “Sad Dance”.
Constant touring and separation from her son served as inspiration for Luna to create songs on the theme of love at a distance, which were included in her second studio album, “Freedom Island.” The release was scheduled for November 18, 2017, and the main single of the disc was the song “Free Love”, the video clip for which collected a record number of views for the singer on YouTube - 4.8 million. Soon after its release, the album reached 3rd place in downloads in the Russian-language section of iTunes.
Video making
In addition to some of his own clips, a shining example which became the video for the song “Autumn”, in 2011 Kristina Gerasimova filmed and edited for popular singer Julia Nelson video clip for the song “Not By You”.The video that Christina Bardash shot for Yulia Nelson
The successfully completed work gave the girl self-confidence; later, the list of Luna’s works included videos for compositions by the singer Inaya and the group “Nerves”. By the way, all projects, except for Yulia Nelson, belong to the Ukrainian company “Kruzheva Music”, the founder and owner of which is Yuri Bardash.
Luna's personal life
As mentioned above, Kristina Gerasimova married producer Yuri Bardash in 2009. While pregnant, Christina and her husband flew to Los Angeles in 2011, where their son George was soon born.Moon - Light
All latest news You can learn about Luna’s life from the vocalist’s pages on Instagram and VKontakte, and you can get acquainted with her compositions and videos on the singer’s profile on YouTube.
It is known that on April 12, 2019, Cosmonautics Day, Luna will present a new, very personal album “Enchanted Dreams” in one of the clubs in Minsk.
Adultery is an unpleasant matter, but a purely personal one. However, the founder of the group “Mushrooms” and part-time husband of the singer Luna, Yuri Bardash, decided to take the family squabble to the public and published a large open letter the culprit of the discord is the singer’s sound producer Alexander Voloshchuk. The post became a real sensation, many users social network Facebook comments were left to sympathize with the musician’s grief. Others accused Bardash of inadequacy and sexism. Read more in the “360” material.
The breakup launched a career
Luna said in many interviews that it was the discord with her husband that made her a singer. When Christina, which is the name of the star, met Yuri, he had already created the group Quest Pistols and successfully toured the country and abroad. The girl was 19 years old at the time, and he was 27.
After the birth of her child, Christina Bardash plunged into postpartum depression. Frequent quarrels began with my husband. Then the couple decided to take a break from their relationship and separated for six months. During that period, Luna said, she wrote more than 30 songs. She filmed her debut video for the song “Autumn” on her phone in her yard, edited it in a couple of hours and posted it on YouTube. The video had the effect of a bomb exploding: more than a million people watched it. They started discussing the moon.
Soon Christina and Yuri were able to restore their relationship. Luna claimed that Bardash was her support and support not only as a husband, but also as a producer: it was he who negotiated concerts and helped film videos.
“The fact that I cheated on my wife is our problem.”
On May 25, a video with an ambiguous caption appeared on Luna’s Instagram. In the publication, the singer said that her life had begun new stage, and called the title of the series “Islands of Freedom” symbolic.
On Thursday, June 7, a post appeared on Yuri Bardash’s Facebook account with a large number of obscene words and grammatical errors. It’s quite difficult to read, so let’s freely retell it briefly: Bardash turned to Luna’s sound producer Alexander Voloshchuk with the accusation that he forced Christina will cheat on him. Also in the text, the producer admitted that he himself cheated on his wife more than once, but he considers all this to be purely family matters. At the same time, Bardash does not throw accusations towards Luna, because he believes that “there is no demand from the woman.”
Photo source: screenshotpublications Yuri Bardash on Facebook The publication instantly spread across the Internet. Luna herself also commented.
The post did not hang for even six hours: Yuri Bardash deleted the publication. After some time, he published another post, the meaning of which remained unknown to fans.
Photo source: screenshotpublications Yuri Bardash on Facebook At this time, a photograph appeared on Luna’s Instagram confirming that the singer had left her husband for Voloshchuk.
The singer's fans supported her decision:
“For some reason it seemed to me that you seemed like two different people you live under a roof. At first I couldn’t believe that you were married...”
“Christina, I want to sincerely wish you happiness and true love, yes for your whole life. You are worthy, you deserve it, let all the bad things be quickly forgotten, and let the good things happen every day, wake up with your beloved and fall asleep with your beloved. And so on endlessly...”
“Love is free and pure! Even at the concert in St. Petersburg I noticed a spark between you and had long suspected your love!!! I'm happy for you! This best couple! I am only for you!
“He screams about a destroyed family, reproaching a child who should not be involved in these squabbles at all. However, when he jumped on some women, he was not stopped by the fact that there was a “beautiful wife with a golden child.” This is his boomerang for his disregard and treacherous attitude towards his family, which he did not value when he went to the left. All these whims on social networks are so stupid that you feel nothing more than pity. Christina, I am incredibly glad that you are now happy, loved and enjoying life. I wish you prosperity and lots of love, which you definitely deserve.”
“Everyone is urgently Googling who Bardash is”
A special spice of the scandal that erupted were the comments under the post of the offended husband on Facebook. During the short period of “life” of the post, a serious battle broke out in them. Fans of the union of Christina and Yuri were divided into two camps. Some saw sexism and inadequacy in Bardash’s words:
Photo source: TV channel “360”Others suspected that in this way Bardash decided to fuel his popularity, and at the same time practiced humor:
