Alenka Star Be

Alеna Aurum (formerly Alenka Star Be; full name Alyona Aleksandrovna Fedotova;

Early life Alyona Alexandrovna Fedotova was born on 16 October 2009 in the Russian city of Odintsovo. She later moved to a village near Zvenigorod, where she began creating and uploading videos to the video-sharing app Likee. Initially, Fedotova studied at a secondary school and took courses in choreography, singing, and drawing. As her videos grew in popularity, she switched to homeschooling so that she could focus on video-blogging and performing at concerts.

Career

On May 22, 2018, Fedotova registered the account "@alenka_star_be" on Likee, and began publishing videos under the name Alenka Star Be. After two years of active blogging, she became one of the app's top ten most popular social media influencers globally. In 2021, she ranked fourth in popularity among all Likee bloggers within the Commonwealth of Independent States; at the time, her channel had over 22 million subscribers.

On 28 October 2022, Fedotova performed a collaboration with Russian singer Maria Iankovskaia and the Zu Rock Band called "MNE NRA." Fedotova and Iankovskaia subsequently launched a joint talk show of the same name, airing weekly from 11 November 2022 to 2 June 2023 on Radio Kids FM. The show featured Victoria Solovyova, Nastya Kosh, Aminka Vitaminka, and other popular Russian video bloggers. On the day of the song's release, Fedotova made a guest appearance on the fourth episode of the third season of the program The Nastya and Vova Show on STS Kids. On 8 September 2023, she released the song "Multistory" under a new stage name, Alena Aurum, and published the song's music video a week later.

Reception Russian music critic Vadim Ponomarev, who has reviewed several of Fedotova's songs on his online web blog Guruken, has called Fedotova a "phenomenon" on the children's internet. Ponomarev gave a positive review of the single "I Don't Write Anymore" in August 2021, noting Fedotova's unique vocal qualities.

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