Singer Dakota (real name - Margarita Gerasimovich) is not only an excellent vocalist, but also a very talented composer and lyricist. Today, her songs are performed by such famous artists as Ani Lorak, Anita Tsoi, Dominik Joker and others.
Childhood
Her date of birth is March 9, 1990. She was born in the capital of Belarus, the city of Minsk. As a child, Rita was not particularly interested in the typical games for girls: Barbie dolls and coloring books with princesses lay under the bed. And at that time she herself was chasing in the yard and playing war games and Cossack robbers with the boys.
But performance skills began to show even then. In the evenings, among other peers, Rita entertained local grandmothers with yard concerts. The boys sang the songs of Andrey Gubin and the Ladybug group, and the girls sang the songs of Natasha Koroleva, Tanya Ovsienko and Kristina Orbakaite.
Music school
Mom noticed her daughter's musical talent as a child. She heard how purely from the point of view of intonation Rita sings songs, read poems that shewrote; heard the melodies she composed. The family decided to send the girl to study at a music school. Then, as a seven-year-old child, having come with her mother to enter the piano department, she conquered the main vocal teacher with her singing. As a result, it was decided, in addition to studying to be a pianist, also to sing in the choir. Later, thanks to the pedagogical skills of the teachers and the natural gift of Rita, she became one of the best members of this vocal group. Singer Dakota with her team went on tour in almost all European countries. It should be noted that the singer Bianca, pianist Vlasyuk and other famous personalities were members of this choir at different times.
Tough choice
After graduating from music school, fourteen-year-old Rita decided to enter the music school. Glinka at the faculty of composition. All the documents were collected, but at the last moment, literally in front of the doors of the school, she changed her mind. As the singer Dakota herself admitted, she unexpectedly came to the conclusion that if a person studies painstakingly, she can eventually understand how the right music is written. But you can learn how to write good music only if you have talent. Deciding then that the composition would be her hobby, she went to improve her vocal abilities by entering the Forte pop vocal studio.
Star Factory
Failing to pass the casting for participation in the Belarusian musical show project "Star stagecoach", singer Dakota (see photo below), accused by membersthe jury, in "lack of patriotism" for performing the song in English, for some time gave up the desire to build a solo career.
At that time, she was much more interested in writing her own compositions. Therefore, when Rita learned from her friend Armen (a well-known singer in Belarus) about the beginning of the casting of the seventh "Star Factory", she decided to get there by all means to show her author's works to Konstantin Meladze. To do this, she made a demo of her songs, firmly intending to prove to the producer that she would make a good composer.
But things didn't work out the way Dakota had planned. The singer, whose biography proves the versatility of her talent, was accepted to the TV project "Star Factory-7" as a participant.
During the project, Rita wrote several new songs, met a lot of creative people. The teachers appreciated her vocal abilities, recognizing her voice as one of the best in the history of the Star Factory. Margarita became the finalist of the project. She recorded such popular author's songs as "Matches", "I knew everything", "One" and "Best friend".
Meet Dominic Joker
At the end of the project, numerous tours of the "manufacturers" followed, in one of which the singer Dakota met Dominic Joker, also a graduate of one of the previous "Fabrics". At that time he was a successful singer, composer and producer. Subsequently, these two creative people became close friends. But friendship is not the only thingconnected. Dominic and Rita recorded several joint songs. Their most famous work is the soundtrack to the TV series "Mom-Moscow".
On the brink of poverty
At the end of the tour, Dakota, still bound by a contract, turned out to be unclaimed. But obligations did not allow her to leave for her native Belarus. In the absence of work, there was practically no means of subsistence. She lived in a little room outside the Moscow Ring Road, practically starving, but she did not lose her spirit. The desire to create music has not disappeared either.
There was a school not far from Rita's then home. The girl asked the watchman to let her into the assembly hall at night to compose new songs on the old piano. There, covering herself with a blanket, she recorded the fruits of her creativity on a voice recorder, once donated by Konstantin Meladze. At some point, the realization came that her songs might be of interest to other artists. Dakota offered them for performance to several novice performers. When she realized that her creations were in demand, she began to cooperate with the "stars" of a higher rank.
When all the difficulties are over
Now that the difficult period in Margarita's life is over, she is a sought-after composer and lyricist. Suffice it to mention a few songs that are now heard on the waves of all radio stations. The song "I Will Remember" performed by Alexander Marshal and T-killah, "Sky" performed by Elka, "Not Needed" performed by Svetlana Loboda.
Also, Dakota is now taking part in the Main Stage project, where she mainly performssongs of his own composition.
Singer Dakota and Vlad Sokolovsky: a love story
They met back in 2007, being members of the "Star Factory-7". It's interesting, but then they became very friends and talked a lot, jokingly calling each other "brother and sister." At the end of the project, they did not communicate for a long time. Dakota is a singer whose personal life has never been made public. But there were a lot of rumors about the stormy adventures of Sokolovsky. Among his girls were models, and singers, and dancers … She created an independent rock band, and then for some time she was generally on the verge of poverty.
Later, when success came to Rita, and her songs became in great demand, they met at one of the parties. By that time, Vlad had changed his shoulder-length wavy hair to a fashionable haircut, and his youthful “outfit” to a suit and tie. He matured and became a man. She was no longer an ardent rebel in sneakers, obsessed with rock music. Perhaps these circumstances allowed them to look at each other in a new way. After this meeting, they no longer parted, but hid their relationship from the general public for a long time. And after some time, their joint photos from various events began to appear in the press. It was then that the fans suspected that there was something more between them than a friendly relationship. And indeed, the couple soon admitted that they were in love and happy. And after a year and a half of relationship, Vlad and Dakota finally got married.
The singer and Vlad Sokolovsky, whose wedding took place on June 8, 2015years, now they are enjoying family life, they are jointly engaged in creative activities (Rita writes songs, and Vlad performs them). It is also known that the guys decided to go into business and opened several points of mobile fast food.
I want to believe that this beautiful couple will live happily ever after. And Dakota will write and sing many more beautiful songs that will delight her loyal fans.
