Irina Gribulina

Irina Gribulina Ирина Евгеньевна Грибулина
Gribulina in 2013
Background information
Birth name	Irina Yevgenevna Gribulina
Born	(1953-09-29) September 29, 1953 (age 71) Sochi, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Singer, composer, poet

Irina Yevgenevna Gribulina (Russian: Ирина Евгеньевна Грибулина; born September 29, 1953,^[1][2][3] Sochi)^[4] is a Russian pop singer, composer, poet. She was the winner of the Television Festival Pesnya goda' 87.^[5][6][7]

Gribulina was born September 29, 1953, in Sochi. Her mother was an operetta actress and singer in Sochi,^[8] and her father was journalist and writer.^[9] She has written poetry and music performed on stage Sochi native city.^[10]

In 1962^[1] and 1972^[11] she studied at the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Dmitri Kabalevsky.^[8] From age 14 she began to act in a professional pop stage with well-known local artists those years.^[8]

After graduating from the conservatory Gribulina performed her own songs, and began working as a composer and a poet with many famous domestic singers and actors.^[8] The first performers of her songs were Valery Leontiev and Lyudmila Gurchenko.^[8]

Irina Gribulina is the author of music and poems to songs, hymns and musicals.^[12]

In 1996 Gribulina gave birth to a daughter, Anastasia.^[12][13]

• Official Site
• Ирина Грибулина: «Человек должен учиться не ради оценок, а ради знаний»