User:KylieTastic/Nastia (DJ)

Nastia (born May 20, 1987) is an Ukrainian DJ that has performed countries around the world in clubs, and at events and festivals, including KaZantip and Tomorrowland. She performs around 200 events a year in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia. Playing a mixture of electronic music styles including techno, house and G-funk preferring not to specialize stating that she would be "bored if I only played in one style". She plays both in the mainstream festivals and clubs as well as underground Ukrainian clubs such as Port in Odesa, Scheme in Kyiv and Closer in Kyiv.

Career
While studying in Donetsk in 2004 she started dancing in a club, but soon moved into DJing performing in clubs, her first performance in Ivano-Frankivsk was in 2005. She performed at the KaZantip festival from 2006 until 2011, has had her own radio show on Kiss FM Ukraine since 2006, and from 2010 she was a resident at Russian night club Arma17 in Moscow.

In 2013, Nastia founded the Ukrainian vinyl only record label called Propaganda Records, named after the last name of her weekly radio show Propaganda on Kiss FM Ukraine.


 * https://www.kyivpost.com/lifestyle/closer-star-kyiv-clubs.html
 * https://mixmag.net/feature/nastia-a-new-star-rises
 * https://www.internationalmusicsummit.com/nastia-international-womens-day-feature/
 * http://www.technostation.tv/dj-nastia/


 * http://mixmag.net/feature/nastia-a-new-star-rises


 * https://www.trackitdown.net/news/show/104368.html


 * http://watchthedj.com/djs/nastia


 * http://crackmagazine.net/article/music/nastias-top-5-tracks-that-saved-her-life/
 * https://www.be-at.tv/artists/nastia


 * http://mixmag.net/feature/nastia-keep-on-dancing
 * http://www.deephouseamsterdam.com/interview-nastia/


 * http://www.lanazione.it/firenze/cosa%20fare/tenax-discoteca-1.2576020
 * https://djmag.com/content/nastia-clubbing-culture-you-have-nothing-if-you-dont-have-family-proper-friends


 * http://mixmag.net/search?q=Nastia


 * https://www.residentadvisor.net/record-label.aspx?id=17488 "NECHTO Records"
 * https://electronicgroove.com/nastia-launches-new-label-nechto/

Personal life
She was born in Fashchivka in the Donetsk Oblast region of Ukraine, and has two older sisters, who introduced her to electronic music. Growing up she wanted to be a dancer, and after school started work as a go-go dancer. She was married to fellow DJ Anatoly Topolsky (now separated), but now is married tojournalist and politician Serhiy Leshchenko. They have a daughter called Ulyana, who her mother helps look after when Nastia is travelling for work. Although she has no fixed plans, she may only work as a DJ until 35, and is considering then getting a degree in psychology.

In August of 2016 she was involved in a sandal with Serhiy Leshchenko over the purchase of an apartment in Kyiv for 7.5 million UAH ($281,000). It was claimed that according to his tax declaration he had no money to buy the apartment, Serhiy Leshchenko denied any impropriety stating the money came from a loan and Nastia herself.

Discography

 * Maslo (EP) released on 12" Vinyl in 2013 with Nilla Records


 * ZBIRKA released on 12" Vinyl in 2016 featuring her own single Safari along with four other tracks on her own label Propaganda Records.

She is also credited on two more Propaganda Records releases as Anastasia Topolskaia, Yate ‎– Beautiful People and Verrina & Ventura ‎– Coclea EP.