Nyusha Russian Singer With 4.8M Instagram Followers

Early life

Nyusha was born Anna Vladimirovna Shurochkina on 15 August 1990 in Moscow. Her father, Vladimir Shurochkin, was a member of the group Laskovyi Mai, and she grew up in a family of musicians. She began performing on stage at the age of eleven with a group called Grizli, which toured in Russia and Germany. At seventeen she adopted the stage name Nyusha.

Career

In 2007 she won the television talent contest STS Lights Up a Superstar. The following year she took seventh place at the international New Wave 2008 competition. She released her first single in 2009 and signed with Warner Music in Russia, the label listed against her name. Her debut album, Choose a Miracle, appeared in 2010. In 2011 she released the singles "Vyshe" ("Higher") and "Il Hurts" ("Hurts"), the second of which was later named by Afisha magazine among the most memorable Russian pop hits of the preceding two decades.

Her second studio album, Union, was released in 2014. Its fourth single, "Tsunami", reached number one on the radio chart. In 2015 she released "Gde ty, tam ya" ("Where Are You, There I Am"), a dance-pop single inspired by Indian culture. In 2018 she joined Arash, Pitbull and Blanco on "Goalie Goalie", a football anthem released at the time of the FIFA World Cup. Her third album, Solaris Es, followed in 2020, and its songs were accompanied by music videos that were combined into a single musical film. Her music is classed as pop and contemporary R&B, and on record she has two albums and four singles between 2011 and 2020.

Nyusha has worked outside music too. She voiced the character Gerda in the Russian version of the animated film The Snow Queen, which reached cinemas on 31 December 2012, and she voiced the role of Gip in the Russian release of The Croods in 2013. On television she became a host of the TopHit chart on Muz-TV in 2012, coached a team on the fourth season of The Voice Kids in 2017 and served on the jury of the vocal show Success. In 2025, with her sister Maria Shurochkina, she won the second season of the TNT competition Treasures of the Emperor.

In 2023 she signed with the Russian label Velvet Music. In late 2024 she became a member of the jury of the Green Prize of the Russian Environmental Operator, and she has been involved in environmental projects since 2020, including a role as an ambassador for a recycling initiative.

Recognition

Nyusha has won four awards on record. In 2011 she received the MTV Europe Music Award for Best MTV Russia Act, and she has also won the Golden Gramophone Award, the Muz-TV Awards and the ZD Awards. Her single "Kiss" won a Golden Gramophone Award in 2017. In December 2023, at a concert in Ashgabat, she was given the honorary title Honored Artist of Turkmenistan.

Public roles

Beyond entertainment, she has acted as an ambassador for environmental causes. She took part in the first Glamour Eco Awards in 2020 as an activist for recycling and was named ambassador of the Green Prize in 2024. Her Instagram account had about 4.8 million followers as of October 2026, and her YouTube channel had about 633,000 subscribers in May 2025.

Personal life

Nyusha married Igor Sivov in 2017.