Biography
Yulia Olgevna Volkova is half of the Russian duo tATu with Lena Katina. The girls are best known for the controversy from them kissing on television.
She was born on February 20, 1985. At the age of 6, Volkova enrolled in music school and began learning how to play the piano. When she was 9, Volkova became a member of the children's singing chorus Neposedi, from which she would later meet fellow t.A.T.u singer, Lena Katina. At age 11, Volkova transferred to a school fostering artistic talent, and three years later left Neposedi to join t.A.T.u. She has insisted that she was banned from Neposedi for misbehaving, but Neposedi representatives deny this, saying that she simply graduated as all of their members did at a certain age.
she developed a vocal fold cyst in 2004 and she underwent surgery to remove the cyst in October 2004. Yulia had left t.A.T.u. to go solo in March 2009.