Olga Arefieva Explained

Years Active:	1985–current
Birth Name:	Olga Arefieva
Birth Date:	21 September 1966
Birth Place:	Verkhnyaya Salda, Russia
Genre:	Singer-songwriter, rock, folk, dance, reggae
Occupation:	Singer, composer, poet
Instrument:	Vocals
Associated Acts:	Kovcheg(ark)

Olga Arefieva (Arefeva, Russian: Ольга Арефьева) (born 1966 in Verkhnyaya Salda^[1]) is a Russian singer-songwriter, poet and musician.^[2]

Her poetry was described by literary critics as a combination of realism and mysticism, possibly inspired by the absurdism of Daniil Kharms or the magic realism of Gabriel Márquez.^[3] She is a member of the Union of Russian Writers.

Discography

• Batakakumba, Arefieva and band The Ark, 2000^[4]
• Anatomy, Disk 1 and Disk 2, 2000^{[5] [6]}
• Concert on radio, 2002^[7]
• Snow, 2011
• Theater, 2013
• Jan, 2016
• Clay, 2016
• Angel and girl, 2017
• Trybirds, 2017
• Yiao, 2018
• Hina, 2020
• Ko-Mix, 2021
• Amona Fe, 2023

External links

• Official website (English)
  • • Links to selected CD
• Her site on bards.ru
• , Livejournal, Twitter, Vkontakte
• Air with Olga Arefieva on Echo of Moscow with Natella Boltyanskaya, 1 March 1998
• Olga Arefieva on Kroogi

Examples of songs on YouTube posted by author

• "The Juggler" by Olga Arefieva and group The Ark'
• "Not in tact"
• "Do you have anything to tell?"
• "Autumn"
• "Asymmetry"

Notes and References

1. Web site: 21 September 2019. Ольга Арефьева, Одностишия (сборник) – читать онлайн полностью. Russian. Olga Arefieva, Odnostyshia (collection). ЛитРес – библиотека электронных книг. 3 April 2016 .
2. http://www.ark.ru/ins/english/times.html Rock Away Summer at Love Street
3. http://www.ark.ru/ins/articls/alexandrova.html Subject of death in works by Olga Arefieva (Russian)
4. http://www.bard.ru/cgi-bin/disk.cgi?disk=1284 Batakakumba
5. http://www.bard.ru/cgi-bin/disk.cgi?disk=1282 Anatomy, Disk 1
6. http://www.bard.ru/cgi-bin/disk.cgi?disk=1283 Anatomy, Disk 2
7. http://www.bard.ru/cgi-bin/disk.cgi?disk=1357 Concert on radio