Zhanulka
Zhanna Shatalova, better known by the pseudonym Zhanulka, is a Ukrainian singer, musician, and a songwriter.
Biography
Youth
Shatalova was born in Donetsk and lived there until the age of 10. At the age of 13 she began to play ukulele. In 2014, her family moved to Kyiv, and in September 2018 they moved to Segovia, Spain, and later to Cullera. Shatalova made the film "Farewell, Valencia" about her life in Spain.Music career
In Spain, Shatalova bought a guitar, and she started to record covers in GarageBand. She first became popular when her covers were published by some popular Instagram accounts, and 20,000 people followed her:Zhanna: When I arrived in Spain and they bought me a cool guitar, I thought, that I could record covers. I did «Нервы», «Стрыкало» and a few more. They started to take off, and then suddenly in a month I was published by several Instagram accounts with millions of followers such as singer.ru. After this, 20,000 people followed me very quickly. Many, of course, quickly unsubscribed, but these were the first subscribers.She published her first song "Huarachi" on SoundCloud. She also released her second song "Bite my Lips" on SoundCloud, after that, her followers increased to 2,000.
In the summer of 2019, Shatalova moved to Valencia.
In 2021, she released the song "kiskis" which became popular on TikTok. On July 9, the mini-album "Valencia" was released. Shatalova devoted the album to the time when she lived in Spain and was inspired by the people there. The album received a rating of 7.5 out of 10 stars from Russian critic Alexei Mazhaev. After the release of her mini-album, her first tour was announced. On November 5, 2021, her remastered album of old songs titled "call me what you want" was released.
On January 29, 2022, a track with the rock group Papin Olimpos titled "Let's Try" was released. On February 4, she released the track "я любя." On July 1, after the invasion of Ukraine she released the song "portraits" and on September 9 she released an acoustic version of the song.