AA-1 Sings!

[Twitch]

Here's a free mp3, Ксения Ларина - Дотронься(Dotronsya), I assume it's free because it's free to download from here http://www.zaycev.net/. (Click on Ксения Ларина - Дотронься to download, my direct link wouldn't work.)

And for those who don't trust my knowledge of the Russian alphabet (don't blame you) here a site that confirms that Kseniya Larina is Ксения Ларина in the Russian alphabet. http://www.peoples.ru/art/music/pop/larina/

But there are other songs and interviews and pictures all on her site, which I already linked.

[garçoncanadien]

Не, вы понимайте по русски !! :d

[Twitch]

Being able to switch between the Russian Cyrillic letters and their Roman letter equivalents is about all I can do (only really useful if you are looking for something you know the name of on a Russian site, like music by a certain singer . I only know about a dozen or so words in Russian and an odd phrase or two.
This is an important one to know: Вы говорите по-английски?
Pronounced, bold syllables stressed: Vi gavareetye pa angleeskee?
Means: Do you speak English?
So I've been told, but don't hold me to it.

[spysmasher]

For some reason, my comp cannot read the Cyrillic letters on her site, but they show up fine on other Russian sites that I have visited. As for why her name is spelled that way on the cd – beats me! I have only just begun to learn how to do the old Cyrillic-Roman switcheroo. One thing I have observed, though, is that there are apparently alternative ways that certain Cyrillic letters can be transliterated into the Roman alphabet. For example, there is a Russian girl group called Блестящие which I have seen rendered as Blestyachie or Blestyashie or Blestyaschie or even Blestyashchie. (I will refrain from saying, “It’s all Greek to me” … oops! I just said it!)


And congrats, Rwd, you were the first to correctly identify AA-1(Kseniya) in the picture! You win a cookie.

[Twitch]

It's all Greek to me, the irony of that phrase in this context. The Cyrillic alphabet is named after St Cyril, a Greek monk, and the Russian alphabet is based on the Greek alphabet with new letters added to cover the Slavic sounds that do not exist in Greek.

For Блестящие I would've put this Blestyashchie but я can be ya or ia and ш is sh but is easily confused with щ is shch. But I am only guessing and there are different systems of transliteration, only someone fluent in Russian could tell you.

EDIT: Have you tried going to character encoding (under the View menu in Firefox) and switching it to Cyrillic character encoding, it's what I had to do before they would render right, even though on other sites they have rendered correctly.

[rwd716]

Do you guys see that add for skin cream? LOL! NM!

Anywho, that's a great song if it really is AA-1. I'll just trust that it is and say WOW!

[nurvonic]

wow what a great song. come back to us AA-1!

[spysmasher]

I found a place where you can hear Kseniya's song that is on the cd I bought. It's here:

http://www.russiandvd.com/store/prod...35067&genreid=

Her song is track 6 (К. Ларина “Пузырьки лимонада”).

This is apparently another version of the cd that I got. The cover is different and the order of the songs is different, but the title is the same. I don't have my cd handy at the moment, and I can't remember if mine has quite as many tracks as this one. Anyway, Kseniya's song is the same.

[aditya8617]

Alizee version from Russia!

[aFrenchie]

Great voice, Kseniya! Cool song too.