Tatiana Kurtukova

Tatyana Sergeyevna Makeeva ( Kurtukova; born 9 September 1993, Khabarovsk, Russia) is a Russian singer-songwriter, actress, and teacher, performing Russian folk and bard. She gained wide recognition after releasing the single "Matushka".

Biography Early years She was born on 9 September 1993, in Khabarovsk, her mother was educated as a political scientist, and her father was an engineer. In her childhood, she moved with her parents to Penza,

In 2016, she received a bachelor's degree in "Concert performer. Ensemble soloist. Teacher." After graduating from the Ippolitov-Ivanov Institute, she began teaching at the Penza College of Arts while simultaneously studying at the Penza State University, where she earned a master's degree in "Psychologist-educator".

Teaching career She taught at the Penza College of Arts, focusing on voice training in the theater department, and later theoretical disciplines, including "Musical arrangement for performances" and "Folk artistic culture". She performed with the folk group "Plamen’" and worked at the theater "Revolver".

Later, she taught vocal voice training and acted as a musical illustrator at the Moscow Youth Theater "Revolver". According to her, she became interested in music at an early age.

In 2008, she won the Grand Prix of the Third Festival-Contest of Children's and Youth Creativity "Window to Europe," held in Saint Petersburg. In 2009, she performed military-themed folk songs at the "Orlyata Rossii" festival in Tuapse, winning the Grand Prix. In 2014, she won the international competition "Optinskaya Vesna" in the town of Kozelsk, Kaluga Oblast. In 2018, she represented Penza Oblast in the "New Star" competition on the Zvezda TV channel. That same year, she released several songs under the pseudonym TAiNA.

In 2022, Tatiana Kurtukova released singles "Matushka" and "Russkaya Zima," with lyrics and music by Petr Andreev.

She performed the song "Matushka" on the Russia-1 TV channel on Andrey Malakhov's show "Songs from the Heart".

In 2023, she released the singles "Glaza" (Eyes), "Rodniki" (Springs), and "Ya Lyubila Sokola" (I Loved a Falcon), and in 2024, the singles "Romashka-Vasilek" (Chamomile-Cornflower) and "Odnogo" (One). That year, the single "Matushka" entered the top-10 charts of Shazam, VK Music,

The official music video for "Matushka," published on YouTube in 2024, garnered over 170 million views, while a video of her performance on the "Zhar-Ptitsa" channel gained more than 100 million views.

In November 2024, she issued the six–track EP U istoka (At the Source) through Gamma Music. In April 2025, InterMedia reported the single "Nalivnoye yablochko," written by Anatoly Alekseev and Anna Lepskaya and released by Gamma Music. On 12 June 2025 (Russia Day) she released "Russkaya doroga" ("Russian Road"), also through Gamma Music; a music video premiered the same day. Her 2025 duet with Oleg Gazmanov on "Ozyora siniye" ("Blue Lakes") credits words and music to Gazmanov. On 12 September 2025, she released the single "S dobrom" ("With Kindness"), again via Gamma Music. Kurtukova has discussed her folk style and early training in city television interviews, including a 2024 segment on Moscow 24's Intervyu program.

Personal life In 2019, she married Nikita Makeev, an international law attorney.

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