Vera Musaelyan

Vera Vyacheslavovna Musaelyan (born January 29, 1988, in Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast) is a Russian singer, musician, and songwriter. She is the founder, lead singer, and leader of the pop rock band AloeVera.

Biography Vera Musaelyan was born on January 29, 1988, in Nizhny Tagil to a mixed Armenian-Azerbaijani family. At the age of 16, she moved to Yekaterinburg, where she entered the Faculty of Economics at the Ural State Technical University (USTU-UPI), but a year later transferred to the Faculty of Journalism at Ural State University (USU). During her student years, she became acquainted with the Yekaterinburg music scene, was a keyboardist in the band Alai Oli, and socialized with members of the bands Sansara and Kurara. In October 2023, she announced that she had received a residence permit in Germany and moved to Berlin. Musaelyan herself describes the band's work as songs about "a feeling of freedom." Musaelyan herself notes that she only writes about what she has experienced herself and does not know how to come up with fictional stories. Musaelyan attributed this to her civic position and marriage to opposition politician Ilya Yashin. In November 2021, the first known list of banned artists appeared, which included AloeVera. In February 2024, Meduza published a new list of "banned" artists, including 50 names, which again included AloeVera. In July 2021, personal photos of Musaelyan and Yashin were leaked online. In October 2021, the couple announced their divorce. Musaelyan cited "different views on life" as the reason for the separation.

Vera speaks Eastern Armenian with a Baku accent.