During the last years, Yana Kay has become the very top level femalevocalist and performer in Baltic States. It is professionalism, qualityand taste, all together in: the actress with voice and greatpersonality.

Yana is modeling for many top Baltic Fashion magazines,speaks four languages and major part of her repertoire consists of songsin English. In addition to Yana's great talent, her personality helpedher to win recognition and success.

Being the author and composer of all her songs, Yana says: "My lyricsare coming from my heart, but the inspiration is from God …" The armyof Yana's admirers is growing with each year and each new song.

They aresaying Yana is "real", but the truth is that very nice and easy-goingwoman in life, when lights are on… suddenly, becomes unstoppable, fullof charm and charisma, heartbreaking lady, spreading positive energy andgiving all herself on the stage till the end.

The talented little girl with a good set of vocal chords started musicschool majoring in piano at age 6. Her performing nature was alsosearching for realization and at 7, she began dancing in a choreographicstudio and became involved in the entertainment business.

Yana graduatedfrom Music School at age 16 and there was no question on the directionof future career. The Cultural College of Baltics was the next step forher, where during 4 years she has studied show business, entertainment,and become a professional art director and learned how to produce shows.

In the beginning of professional career Yana performed in majornightclubs using all her dancing and artistic abilities, solo and/orwith accompaniment of a show-dance group. Once, the introduction ofsuccessful show program has lead to the invitation to perform in Greeceat the largest music halls and clubs around the country.

Upon returningto home state Yana Kay has achieved the level that allowed her to workas a singer on a full time basis.(1997) the first release of Yana Kay was on the CD MAXI-Single of thecover version of the number one hit song "My Heart Is Your Sweet Home".

The absolute leader in the Baltic States was consequently recognizedabroad, which started the international assimilation of Yana`s work.(1998) the second CD Single contains the hit "Let Me Fly With You Away"as well as a bonus track: "Just Come and Stay With Me".

The songs indifferent compilations are released in countries like Canada, Venezuelaand others. The both songs as well as all following releases werewritten by Yana, implying on her successful growth into songwriter andcomposer.

The other CD Single including hit "How Can I Forget?" had become evengreater success resulting in expanding releases in various countriessuch as Indonesia, Rumania, Russia and Czech Republic. The single hasalso contained a reggae hit "Baby Girl" performed by Yana Kay with herpartner FORS.

The duet of Yana Kay and FORS was the separate project,which in fact became extremely popular in Russia. The "Baby Girl" becamenumber one international hit on major Russian radio stations and FORSwith Yana Kay were invited to receive prize as international stars atthe annual "Smashing Hit FM Award" where participated such mega stars asSash! and Tarkan.

The event was followed by hard rotation of the "Baby Girl" video on MTV Russia as well as the one-hour live interview on MTVRussia.(1999) the next CD Single of Yana Kay - "I Wanna B" contributes furtherto her recognition as a songwriter, composer and the performer on theinternational level.

The single gets into compilation in China, CzechRepublic, Indonesia, Rumania, Russia, Hong Kong and Mexico.Yana Kay has been performing together with the leader of European dancemusic DJ Bobo during his world tour "Magic".

During the visit of thelegend group "Boney M" in Baltic States they performed together withYana Kay.(2000) Yana Kay participated in the national final for the "EurovisionSong Contest 2000" where out of 10 songs reaching the final, 3 songswere written, composed and performed by Yana.

The solo album of Yana Kay "Loveland" has been released in spring ofyear 2000.The album allowed her to spread further to new countries and the mostsmashing event was introduction of Yana Kay art in Indonesia, thecountry, 200 times bigger than Yana's homeland.

(2001) From the beginning of the year Yana starts working on the newEnglish album and at the same time makes experimental song in Russian.Beyond all expectation, the absolute smashing single "Prikosnis" ("Touchme", in Russian) was born.

Once heard by anyone the song is making turn-around, breaking allstandards and moving to completely new generation hit. "Prikosnis" winsall the dance floors in Baltics and during amazingly long time was atthe top of all major radio stations.

The success was so obviously big, that people started saying that thiscould not be repeated again, but … they were wrong!!! In September ofthe same year took off the second smash hit "Vspominay menja" ("Rememberme", in Russian), which was the anthem of summer 2001.

(2002) is a year of long tour around the country and release of theRussian album "Vsjo po-drugomu" that by all mass media groups referredas the most powerful and unique album that includes electronic musicexperiments based on UK garage and 2 step sound.

Such a talented andunordinary piece of creation as EVERITHING's DEFERENTLY or Vsjopo-drugmu in Russian is by all hearts named as the first and at themoment the only one album of the kind on all the east European marketwhere Russian language is in use.

Big support and "long life" for thefamous Yana's hits is received from the underground music society inRussia who are playing various remixes and thus, the hits continuerocking the main Russian underground dance floors.

Yana's video for "Vsjo Po-drugomu" won the best female artist video atthe LNT Music Video Awards 2002. As to continue, at the endof 2002 - Yana has presented new single called "Ti i Ya" (You and Me),which is successfully rotating on main radio stations, giving the hopeto all the fans for the soon release of the second album in Russian.

Yana was offered and agreed to become the new face of the Swedishfashion house "Panos Emporio".(2003) Yana begins the year with active participation in new projectF.L.Y., representing Latvia at the 48th international song contestEurovision 2003.

Latvian super-stars trio (Yana Kay, Martin Freiman andLauris Raynix), became people's favorite, receiving nick name "Dreamteam" is releasing album under the title "Never look back". Yanasuccessfully combines participation in this project with her solo workand as a result - in April is coming out new single "Tears in the rain",written with co-author American lyricist Thom McGair and this altogethergave a start to writing of new English album, release of which isplanned for the beginning of year 2004.

For the song "Tears in therain" was filmed a video, but the song itself at summer have risen tothe top positions of all radio stations in the Baltics.