The main vocalist Irina has gotten her nickname Chili in the childhood when her friends discovered the history of her father. Her mother told that he was living in Chile. It is still unknown if the story is the truth or is it mother’s desire for comforting a child without a father, but the singer is known by her full name only in the official documents. Sergey, band’s future composer and arranger met Irina at the university student concert in Kaliningrad, Russian Federation. “It was an extremely incredible acquaintance, - says Sergey, - I was wearing my new leather pants thinking it was cool. And then this beautiful girl came next to me and pulled me by these pants. I thought it was a hint to close relationship, considering myself a superstar. But later I have found out that without asking, she wanted to check if these were genuine leather pants”. Soon, the future members of Chi-Li met again at the stage in that university. Sergey was rehearsing at the back of the stage while Irina was in the front with her fellows of one of KVN student teams (Wikipedia definition for KVN). When Sergey heard Irina talk, he has immediately proposed her to sing back-vocal. Without doubt, she accepted his proposal and they began their cooperation. In the beginning, Sergey held the key role in the duet. He was the composer, the arranger and the frontman all-in-one, while Irina was only performing the additional singing. In the year 2002, they recorded their demo album and left for Moscow show business. Despite the fact that Irina and Sergey spent a month of performances in Moscow, labels and radio stations made no reaction. After coming back to Kaliningrad, the artists were invited on tour to Kraków, Poland for summer. After a while, they have performed in minor clubs and on festivals of sometimes up to 40 000 people. The artists weren’t receiving their feedback because their recordings were found below average.|Once, the ideas of making Irina the main vocalist and naming the duet after her nickname emerged. The ideas were so good that their track Снегом замело has spent a couple of weeks in the third place at one of Poland’s top FM radio station countdown, winning over well-known T.A.T.U, while Chi-Li’s track Преступление has gripped the order counter of on the radio in Russia. Today, the complete group on the scene are|Irina (Russian: Ирина Забияка)|Sergey (Russian: Сергей Карпов)|Misha, the guitarist (Russian: Михаил Калинин)|Sveta, the dance troop (Russian: Светлана Полякова)|Kroha, the dance troop (Russian: Наталья Крошкина)|Ivan, the keyboardist (Russian: Иван Новиков) |Taras, the bass guitarist|Maksim, the drummer|…|The group’s official site is http://www.chi-li.ru. |
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