{{Short description|Russian singer-songwriter (born 1966)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2013}} {{expand Russian|date=March 2024|topic=bio}} {{Infobox musical artist | image = Olga Arefieva 2007.jpg | caption = | years_active = 1985–current | birth_name = Olga Arefieva | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|9|21|df=y}} | birth_place = Verkhnyaya Salda, Russia | origin = | genre = Singer-songwriter, rock, folk, dance, reggae | occupation = Singer, composer, poet | instrument = Vocals | label = | website = {{URL|www.ark.ru/ins/english/index.html}} }}
'''Olga Arefieva''' (Arefeva, '''Russian''': Ольга Арефьева) (born 1966 in Verkhnyaya Salda<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=21 September 2019|title=Ольга Арефьева, Одностишия (сборник) – читать онлайн полностью|language=Russian|trans-title=Olga Arefieva, Odnostyshia (collection)|url=https://www.litres.ru/olga-arefeva/odnostishiya/chitat-onlayn/|website=ЛитРес – библиотека электронных книг|date=3 April 2016 }}</ref>) is a Russian singer-songwriter, poet and musician.<ref>[http://www.ark.ru/ins/english/times.html Rock Away Summer at Love Street] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105040846/http://ark.ru/ins/english/times.html |date=5 January 2012 }} by Alexander Kushnir, "Moscow Times" 28 July 1994</ref>
Her poetry was described by literary critics as a combination of realism and mysticism, possibly inspired by the absurdism of Daniil Kharms or the magic realism of Gabriel Márquez.<ref>[http://www.ark.ru/ins/articls/alexandrova.html Subject of death in works by Olga Arefieva (Russian)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227200130/http://ark.ru/ins/articls/alexandrova.html |date=27 December 2012 }} by Anna Aleksandrova, Русский язык, литература, культура в школе и вузе. Киев, 2009. N6 (30). С. 40–45.</ref> She is a member of the Union of Russian Writers.
==Discography== *''Batakakumba'', Arefieva and band The Ark, 2000<ref>[http://www.bard.ru/cgi-bin/disk.cgi?disk=1284 Batakakumba]</ref> *''Anatomy'', Disk 1 and Disk 2, 2000<ref>[http://www.bard.ru/cgi-bin/disk.cgi?disk=1282 ''Anatomy'', Disk 1]</ref><ref>[http://www.bard.ru/cgi-bin/disk.cgi?disk=1283 ''Anatomy'', Disk 2]</ref> * Concert on radio, 2002<ref>[http://www.bard.ru/cgi-bin/disk.cgi?disk=1357 Concert on radio]</ref> * Snow, 2011 * Theater, 2013 * Jan, 2016 * Clay, 2016 * Angel and girl, 2017 * Trybirds, 2017 * Yiao, 2018 * Hina, 2020 * ''Ko-Mix'', 2021 * Amona Fe, 2023
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.ark.ru/ins/english/index.html Official website (English)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101073411/http://www.ark.ru/ins/english/index.html |date=1 January 2013 }} * {{URL|www.ark.ru/|Official website (Russian)}} * {{YouTube|u=kalagrafia|Olga Arefieva}} * [http://www.russiandvd.com/store/person.asp?id=975&media=&type=artist&genreid= Links to selected CD] * [http://www.bards.ru/person.php?id=1908 Her site] on bards.ru * {{facebook|OlgaArefieva|Her accounts}}, [http://olga-arefieva.livejournal.com Livejournal], [https://twitter.com/kalagrafia Twitter], [http://vk.com/olga_arefieva Vkontakte] *[http://www.ark.ru/ins/english/boltyan.html Air with Olga Arefieva] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020013832/http://ark.ru/ins/english/boltyan.html |date=20 October 2012 }} on Echo of Moscow with Natella Boltyanskaya, 1 March 1998 * [http://arefieva.kroogi.com/?locale=en Olga Arefieva] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331185824/http://arefieva.kroogi.com/?locale=en |date=31 March 2016 }} on Kroogi
;Examples of songs on YouTube posted by author *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd8nkISTgaY "The Juggler"] by Olga Arefieva and group The Ark' *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nEB29Qh7Ew&list=PLB901DE0BE2C4D5BB "Not in tact"] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BujY0z8Rtc0&list=UU2TXBfVlLraD6brJ_drEmmw&index=3 "Do you have anything to tell?"] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg8HZcN-K8E&list=UU2TXBfVlLraD6brJ_drEmmw&index=15 "Autumn"] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_pKzvybqbQ&list=UU2TXBfVlLraD6brJ_drEmmw&index=10 "Asymmetry"]
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Arefieva, Olga}} Category:Russian reggae musicians Category:Russian women singer-songwriters Category:Russian singer-songwriters Category:Russian women poets Category:Russian women musicians Category:Living people Category:1967 births Category:Soviet women singer-songwriters Category:Soviet singer-songwriters Category:20th-century Russian women musicians Category:21st-century Russian women musicians Category:20th-century Russian writers Category:21st-century Russian writers Category:20th-century Russian women singers Category:21st-century Russian women writers