Krystyna Viktorivna Voloshchuk (née Herasymova; Ukrainian: Кристина Вікторівна Волощук, née Герасимова; born 28 August 1990), better known as Luna (Ukrainian: Луна), is a Ukrainian indie pop singer-songwriter, model and former photographer.[1][2]

Biography

She was born on 28 August 1990 in the city of Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany in the family of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany serviceman. A few years later the family returned to Ukraine.[3] Her music was praised by critics for the combination of electronic music with a melancholy mood, and also for references to '90s pop culture.[4]

Career

On 20 May 2016 a presentation of the debut album "Mag-ni-ty"[5] took place in Kyiv, which debuted in the top 20 of iTunes Ukraine.[6] On 23 May the album "Snowfall" by electronic artist Shumno was released, featuring Luna in the vocal recording for the song "Wake" Following this, there was an autumn tour called "Zatmenie" during which Luna performed in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, and Riga. On 28 October 2016 Luna released the mini-album "Sad Dance". On 7 November 2017 the album "Island of Freedom" was released, consisting of eight songs. "Island of Freedom" was part of a duology, with the second part titled "Enchanted Dreams"[7] released on 24 October 2018. The album included 11 songs, with Krystyna Herasymova and Oleksander Voloshchuk as producers. The album debuted at number 1 on the iTunes Ukraine chart and at number 2 on the iTunes Russia chart. On 4 October 2019 Luna released her fourth album, "Trans" which includes 10 songs in the style of club electronic music. On 14 August 2020 the singer released her second mini-album, "Fata Morgana" featuring five dance tracks. In May 2023, Luna released the album "Illusion" – her first album entirely recorded in Ukrainian language.[8]