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Tatu singer Julia Volkova looked very different in new photos, as she pouted for the camera in an Instagram post.
Russian pop duo Tatu, made up of Volkova and Lena Katina, now both 38, rose to stardom in 1999 – the same year President Putin first came to power.
Julia, who sported a short pixie haircut during her pop music heyday, captioned her photo: “Everyone knows how often I like to change hairstyles, haircuts, color, and especially, my love is long hair”.
Julia has since become a mother of two after topping the UK charts with All the Things She Said, while Lena is now married to millionaire businessman Dmitry Spiridonov.
Lena was seen sporting a visible baby bump while singing some of the band’s hit music over the weekend.
The duo appeared on stage together for the first time since their last reunion in 2016, singing Not Gonna Get Us before Gazprom-backed Zenit St Petersburg’s clash with Spartak Moscow.
Speaking ahead of the match in front of thousands of Russian fans, they exclaimed: “Nothing can stop this”.
The duo are best known for their 2002 track All the Things She Said, which caused international controversy for its steamy music video in which Julia and Lena portrayed an underage lesbian couple.
In the video that caused shockwaves at the time, the then-17-year-olds kissed in the rain while being watched by fellow students in the playground.
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At the time, Ant and Dec’s morning music show CD:UK, stated: “It is not really suitable for children” and banned the raunchy video, as did BBC’s Top Of The Pops.
Tatu came out of retirement as Putin’s censors seek to remove any trace of their band amid a crackdown on LGBT propaganda, part of a wave of repressions in Russia during the war in Ukraine.
Julia, who joined a bid to become a Russian MP in 2021, was previously faced with backlash after appearing on Lie Detector, a Russian TV show, back in 2014.
The Russian songstress hit headlines after she stated that she would condemn her son if he came out as gay.
On the show, according to a translation, she said: “Yes, I would condemn him, because I believe that a real man must be a real man.
“God created man for procreation, it is nature. The man for me is the support, the strength of… I won’t accept a gay son.
“Two girls together – not the same thing as the two men together.
“It seems to me that lesbians look aesthetically much nicer than two men holding their hands or kissing.”
