page_title: Alyona alyona
section_title: Singing career
hierarchical_section_title: Alyona alyona / Singing career
caption_attribution_description: English: Alyona Alyona in the Spiegeltent at Haldern Pop Festival 2019. Deutsch: Alyona Alyona im Spiegelzelt am Haldern Pop Festival 2019.
context_page_description: alyona alyona is a Ukrainian rapper and songwriter of Ukrainian language. She released her debut album, Pushka, in 2019, followed by a mini-album the same year, V khati MA.
  Alyona is considered "the new rap star of Ukraine", and "the sensation of Ukrainian rap" by Ukrainian media. In an article titled "15 European Pop Acts Who Matter Right Now", The New York Times likened her to Azealia Banks.
context_section_description: Alyona started writing rap music in the middle of the 2000s, with multiple attempts to reach a wider audience. Her initial stage name was Alyona Al.kaida.
  Under her current alias, alyona alyona released her first videoclip in October 2018, for the song called "Rybky" («Рибки»). On October 24, she released the second videoclip of the same track, this time with professional directing. On November 12, alyona alyona released the videoclip of "Holovy" («Голови»), which had a million views on YouTube in the first month. This was followed by two more videoclips: "Vidchynyai" («Відчиняй») on November 30, and "Zalyshayu sviy dim" («Залишаю свій дім») in December. The latter symbolically depicts the artist leaving Baryshivka, her home town.
  In January 2019, in the middle of a political scandal involving President Poroshenko, alyona alyona released a new song, titled "Obitsyanki” («Обіцянки» – "Promises"). Later that year, on April 8, alyona alyona released her first album, Pushka («Пушка»), as well as the videoclip of the homonymous main track. The album features four previously released songs, as well as nine new ones, including "Padlo" («Падло»), in a duo with Alina Pash. Alyona was praised in the Vogue issue of that month as "Ukraine's most unlikely rap star".
  alyona alyona performed at the Sziget Festival, Budapesta, in August 2019. In decembrie 2019, she wrote the lyrics of "Vilna" («Вільна»), a song performed by Tina Karol an Julia Sanina and included in the soundtrack of the Ukrainian feature film Viddana.
  On February 7, 2020, alyona alyona signed with the Polish label Def Jam Polska.
caption: alyona alyona at Haldern Pop Festival 2019, Germany
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