Tatu will pay for everything (Izvestia.Ru - Russia)Time of publication: 11.06.2004 |
News scandals are born around group Tatu, while the old ones still glow in the background. Elena Kiper, co-author of the major hits of the group, "Nas ne dogonyat" and "Ya soshla s uma", yesterday won her year long case against "Neformat", as a result she got back her rights to the songs, as well as half-a-million rubles are to be paid to her.
The core of the conflict was based on complaints from Elena against the producer of the group Ivan Shapovalov. Last year alone Tatu sold seven million copies of their album, of which four million is the number of English copies, one million Russian copies and two million copies of singles. But the co-author of the songs "Nas ne dogonyat" and "Ya soshla s uma" didn’t receive any payments that Shapovalov owed her for these songs. According to experts, we are talking hundreds of thousands of dollars. The conclusion of the precedent conflict for Russian show-business was in favor of Kiper.
Meanwhile, the girls of group Tatu, Julia Volkova and Lena Katina, announced that their long-suffered duo will live. And even start recording a new album. The doubts about Volkova and Katina’s capabilities arouse as a result of their statement during the reality show “Tatu in Podnebesnaya”, that they are not satisfied with their producer Ivan Shapovalov any more. After that there was a news “vacuum”. Besides the rumors of Julia Volkova’s pregnancy, which turned out to be true. Finally the girls have recovered from the distress, resolved the problem of to whom “Tatu” belongs and announced their plans.
According to them, the new album will be recorded in London this summer. It’s release is possible to be this fall-winter. As to who will produce the new album is not known. Very possibly it will be Elena Kiper, who was in talks with the group about this earlier this year. But Elena Kiper still didn’t give a definite answer.
As to the information that surfaced last week regarding the fact that Tatu decided to change their name to “Tema”, is not true, the group’s name will remain unchanged.
Source: Anton Pomeschikov for Izvestia.Ru
Translated by katbeidar for TatySite.net |
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