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In 2022, Rita Dakota turned 29 years old. The singer has long abandoned the daring punk style for which she was previously compared to Avril Lavigne. Today she is a blond, glamorous beauty with prominent cheekbones, full lips, a “Hollywood” smile and a stunning figure, which our heroine is proud of and demonstrates at every opportunity. Perhaps she has simply matured, but it is possible that her new unoriginal image is a “gift” from plastic surgeons and cosmetologists.
The singer's childhood and youth
Margarita Sergeevna Gerasimovich - the real name of the famous singer Rita Dakota , was born in the capital of Belarus - Minsk on March 9, 1990 . She grew up in a family that experienced financial difficulties, but in which they loved the girl very much and tried to make Rita a happy child. Her mother, who worked as a teacher, and her grandfather, a military pensioner, noticed Margarita’s musical talent that manifested itself very early. Little Margarita Gerasimovich organized impromptu concerts for her family and neighbors, and she was especially good at songs from the repertoire of Kristina Orbakaite and Natasha Koroleva . Therefore, it was decided to send Rita to a music school for the vocal department. At the music school, Margarita Gerasimovich mastered playing the piano and at the same time took vocal lessons. Margarita Gerasimovich performed with the music school choir in many European countries. Despite the fact that studying at the music school took a lot of time, nevertheless, Rita did not forget about her friends and children's games, preferring “boy games”: “Cossack robbers”, “tanks”, climbing trees and fences.
Rita Dakota in childhood
In 4th grade, young Margarita Gerasimovich first presented a song of her own to listeners at a school concert. Rita really liked performing in front of the public and composing songs, so while still a school student, Margarita Gerasimovich created a punk band. The author of the repertoire was herself. At the same time, Rita sold some of her works to radio stations. Since the girl was still very young and was not taken seriously, Margarita Gerasimovich came to all business negotiations with one of the adults.
Rita Dakota in her youth
After graduating from high school, Margarita Gerasimovich intended to enter the Mikhail Glinka Music College. However, she changed her mind and went to study at the Minsk vocal studio “Forte”. It was there that Margarita Gerasimovich chose the pseudonym Dakota - this Portuguese word means “multifaceted”.
Biography
Rita Dakota (real name Margarita Gerasimovich) was born on March 9, 1990 in Minsk. The family lived in a poor area of the city, but the girl’s parents tried to ensure that their daughter did not lack anything. As a child, the girl spent a long time walking with the children from the yard, preferring to play Cossack robbers and other “boyish” games.
Young Dakota dreamed of creating music since childhood. She performed songs by Natasha Koroleva and Kristina Orbakaite for the neighboring grandmothers, and secretly dreamed of becoming a famous composer. The girl wrote her first poem at the age of five. It was dedicated to toys and was called "Steady Little Soldier."
Rita Dakota on stage
The future singer’s mother noticed her daughter’s talent, and when she was seven years old, she sent her to a music school. At the entrance exams, Rita performed the song “Moscow Nights.” After some thought, the girl was enrolled in piano lessons, and she studied vocals as a free listener, joining the school choir. Musical education was easy; together with other children, Rita performed at international festivals and competitions.
At the age of eleven, Dakota became the author of her first song. She wrote her first serious composition, being impressed by the French film “Leon” and the composition “Shape of my heart” by the British musician Sting. She performed this song with a school friend at her fourth grade graduation party.
Rita Dakota
Already at the age of fourteen, Dakota was actively writing songs for her punk band and selling musical sketches to radio stations. In order for the girl and her business proposal to be taken seriously, she had to take one of the adults with her.
After school, Rita planned to enter the Glinka Music College, and learned about the outstanding vocal teacher Gulnara Robertovna. The teacher helped record demos of Dakota's songs in order to maintain copyright on them. At the same time, Rita became interested in graffiti and learned to draw. Then graffiti artists from Portugal were visiting Minsk; they saw the singer’s drawings and described them as “dakotat”. The girl liked this word so much that she made it her pseudonym.
Rita Dakota
The first steps in her creative biography were participation in the Belarusian talent competition “Star Stagecoach” in 2005. However, the project did not bring the girl victory, since the competition jury accused the singer of lack of patriotism due to singing the song in English.
Such an event almost became an obstacle for Rita to achieve her goal, but the girl continued to fight. She firmly decided to realize herself on stage.
A fateful moment for her will be participation in the large-scale Russian reality show “Star Factory”. It is the television musical project “Star Factory” that opens up new opportunities for Rita.
The beginning of Dakota's career
It cannot be said that the beginning of Margarita Gerasimovich’s musical career was successful. So, in 2005 she became a participant in the Belarusian music competition “Star Stagecoach”. Unfortunately, Rita Dakota did not take a prize. Moreover, the jury categorically spoke negatively about the aspiring singer, even accusing her of being unpatriotic in choosing a song for the competition in English.
Rita Dakota
History of appearance
Plastic or not?
Celebrity opinion
Dakota is always open to communication and when asked if she has had plastic surgery, she explains that this query is the most popular in the search engine, but not everyone knows that she still has her beloved crooked nose and, moreover, is generally afraid to even give blood from her finger.
The singer is sure that there are people who need plastic surgery, for example, for medical reasons. But doing it on your own is stupid, especially before the age of 30. Only at this age does a person become sufficiently spiritually oriented and consciously perceive the world.
In the case of Dakota, the metamorphoses occurred a little differently.
Brain plastic surgery
The singer assures that there was plastic surgery, but the correction affected only the brain and soul. Dakota has changed so much inside that it affects her appearance. The plump girl was transformed and fell in love with her body, life, and the whole world.
Previously, Dakota hated femininity until she realized that it was not lingerie, heels, silicone or artificial eyelashes. Femininity is fire inside, strength. Before this, the singer saw femininity only superficially, but then she understood the whole essence of this word. Now she can light people up, make them happy, create, create. Dakota learned to accept herself as she is - a gentle mother, a beautiful wife, a person in a man's suit, and so on. You can change externally, but inside you will forever remain a woman. This is the strength.
What is Rita Dakota's strength?
Rita's fans admire her figure - slender legs, toned body. The wife of Vlad Sokolovsky said that she was not always like this. A few years ago, it also had its shortcomings. She was like everyone else, a fat pomp, with acne on her face, dirty hair, until she realized what was what.
Dakota put on display old photos where, according to her, she worked hard in the gym and went on diets after the Factory, but there was practically no result. And now, the girl doesn’t go to the gym and doesn’t force herself with food, and she looks a hundred times better. What's the secret?
It is simple and complex at the same time. The singer claims that the problem lies inside, in the head. And she even plans in the future to help girls fight their complexes and teach them to accept their bodies. It is important that you gain inner awareness of yourself and learn to listen to your body.
In 2022, Dakota vacationed in Bali for a whole month and did not gain any weight. She walked a lot, swam, went to the mountains, gorges, danced, visited a massage therapist.
In her opinion, you need to look after your figure correctly, using active exercise and proper nutrition. It is important to have a balance of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
Moreover, Rita is against diets, after she was convinced that the kilograms lost through diet come back. In addition, such restrictions are harmful to health and lead to depression. The girl does not hide the fact that she uses constricting corsets, saying that stars are the same people and go to all sorts of tricks.
Participation in the “Star Factory”
We can say that the first breakthrough on the musical Olympus for Rita Dakota was her participation in 2007 in the project “Star Factory -7”, the authors of which were brothers: Konstantin and Valery Meladze. Thanks to an idea from friends: to sell and perhaps donate a couple of her songs to the participants of the “Factory” as an advertisement, Dakota successfully completed all the tours and ended up in the television version of the project, where she performed songs exclusively of her own authorship. And although Dakota did not make it to the finals of the competition, the first places went to Mark Tishman and Anastasia Prikhodko, her song “Matches” became a hit after all seven seasons of “Star Factory”. Thus, Rita Dakota won the love of millions of fans. However, as the singer herself admitted, she was very disappointed after participating in the “Star Factory”: she had neither money nor the support of friends. In the future, Margarita decided to focus more on composing songs rather than performing them.
Rita Dakota at the star factory (left)
Consequences of divorce
She herself decided to inform her fans about this and released the recording “My divorce from Vlad” on her YouTube channel. Rita said that she had heard rumors about her husband’s infidelities before, but she refused to believe them. When these rumors were confirmed by facts (including videos), it turned out that Sokolovsky had been “running to the left” for a very long time, starting from the period of their romantic meetings.
In her speech, Rita refutes rumors that she started a fuss with a high-profile divorce for the sake of PR. “I will not make public the details of his guilt, although many times I tried to make the recordings of his adventures public,” she said. She also added: “I wanted to humiliate him, to trample him, but I decided not to do this: I can’t hit him when they hit me, because I know how much it hurts.”
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The divorce process, although Rita and Vlad do not give food for gossip, promises to be loud. According to rumors, Dakota wants Sokolovsky to leave her and her daughter an apartment; in return, she offers to give him full ownership of the SokolovskyDakota YouTube channel. As Rita’s lawyer said, the channel brings in very good income and will be an equivalent alternative to an apartment.
Rita is not going to prevent Vlad from seeing his daughter: “Even though he turned out to be a bad husband, Mia’s father is forever, adores her, pays a lot of attention.” Vlad, in turn, posts videos on the Internet twice a week where he walks with Mia. He now tries to compensate for his infidelity by not giving any comments about the divorce and not trying to denigrate his wife.
Fans of the talented singer are trying to support Rita, wishing her “to get out of all this mud safely.” They hope that she will show a strong character here too and will soon delight everyone with new songs.
The singer's work: solo performances, composing
According to the signed contract, Rita Dakota did not have the right to leave Moscow after the completion of Star Factory 7. The girl needed a job, and besides, she did not want to be a performer of other people's songs. Pretty soon Rita organizes the rock group “Monroe”, where she realizes herself as a singing author. With her rock band, Rita Dakota begins to tour the country and successfully perform at various festivals, such as “Invasion”, “Kubana” and others. Thanks to her daring and aggressive image, Dakota began to be called the Russian Avril Lavigne: the same bright makeup, dreadlocks, tattoos...
Rita Dakota and the rock group "Monroe", with which she successfully performed at music festivals
Famous performers notice Dakota’s work and buy her songs. Rita Dakota's original songs were included in their repertoire by such stars as Svetlana Loboda , Zara , Yolka and many others.
In 2015, Dakota became a participant in another musical project - “Main Stage”, which aired on the “Russia -1” channel, where she performed her own songs, as well as on the “Star Factory” project. The singer’s mentor on the show was the famous producer Viktor Drobysh . At this competition, Rita Dakota reached the semi-finals.
Rita Dakota and the rock band Monroe
2016 was a successful year for Dakota: the singer gained great popularity among her fans thanks to her new song “Half a Man.” After this, Rita Dakota writes many new songs and shoots videos.
Creative path
Even at the age of 17-18, the talented girl amazed music teachers with her sonorous and strong voice. Vocal teacher Gulnara Robertovna was convinced that Rita would become a show business star. Now the singer not only conquers the main stage of the country, but also writes wonderful songs for other solo performers.
"Star Factory-7"
In 2007, the girl tried herself as a composer. Having created about 10 discs with demo versions of her own songs, Margarita went to the project - the famous director Andrei Sychev launched the new season of “Star Factory”. The girl did not plan to participate in the music show, so she was not at all worried about her performance. But Rita passed the casting and even became a finalist.
At the “Star Factory”, Dakota continued to write songs (“Matches”, “To the Best Friend”, “I Knew Everything”). Margarita helped her competitors write songs because she didn’t even hope to win Konstantin Meladze’s show. Third place went to Sokolovsky’s duet “BiS”.
After the project, the girl’s life was difficult. The fame gained at the Star Factory was not enough to start a solo career with his own songs. Rita refused to perform musical compositions by other authors, so she diligently wrote songs for other pop stars.
In the Rock group MONROE, Margarita discovered a different side of herself. The quartet included three more guys who had previously sung and played guitar in the popular groups “Fantastika”, “Radio Chacha” and “Double Fault”. Ilya Mikhalchenkov played bass guitar, Dmitry Vatov and Igor Rybin played guitars. The team traveled a lot to open their songs to foreign listeners. We achieved success at the international performances “Kubana” and “Invasion”.
"Main Stage"
A new musical project was launched on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, where an experienced girl decided to take part. Ani Lorak, Loboda, Anita Tsoi argued that Rita would be able to defeat the project with the help of her songs. At the closed casting, the singer decided to perform the song “Gloves,” which greatly surprised the jury. Behind the scenes, the girl was supported by Natasha Banteeva, a participant in the “Battle of Psychics,” which greatly alarmed the other participants.
Rita was surprised when she found out that she already had fans on the show. Participation in the “Star Factory” significantly increased the girl’s popularity. But Dakota claimed that she came to Meladze’s show confused and unsure of her abilities. And in 2015, Konstantin Meladze became one of the “Main Stage” mentors, so Rita dreamed of joining his team again.
In an interview, Margarita stated that she would only sing songs of her own composition, as this plays a great role in promoting her as a composer. The show's jury did not object.
Songs and videos
Every musical creation of the girl has a meaning that she tries to convey to her fans. Rita's followers on Instagram are surprised at how easily the singer survived her divorce from Vlad Sokolovsky. Margarita stated in the comments that difficult life circumstances helped her write new works.
Songs of Rita Dakota:
- “Matches” - the girl wrote the composition during the “Star Factory” project. A week after the premiere, the song became incredibly popular, surpassing even Irina Dubtsova (a participant in the Meladze show, season 4) in ratings.
- “Half a Man” - Rita dedicated it to her husband in 2016.
- “Tenderness,” the girl wrote after the birth of her long-awaited daughter Mia. Margarita shows warm maternal feelings in the video, which was filmed in 2022.
- “Tsunami” was created a few months after the divorce. In the song, Rita frankly told her family story, which is related to her father’s alcohol addiction. The video starred actress Agata Muceniece, the wife of the famous actor Pavel Priluchny.
- “New Lines” - a musical composition released in 2022, in which Margarita stated that she was happy without Sokolovsky. The talented singer's video was filmed in Bali during sunset.
After her divorce from Vlad, Dakota began writing songs at an accelerated pace. The singer draws inspiration from spending time with her little daughter Mia and traveling around her beloved island of Bali. In 2022, Rita’s new musical composition will be released, which will not contain sad motives.
The singer's personal life
The story of Rita's acquaintance with her future husband is quite romantic. Rita Dakota and musician Vlad Sokolovsky met in 2007 on the project “Star Factory - 7”. Young Rita and Vlad became very good friends and jokingly called each other “sister and brother.”
On this television project, Vlad Sokolovsky creates a duet called “BiS” together with his friend Dmitry Bikbaev. This group is quickly becoming popular and takes first place in the charts of music channels and radio stations.
With a bright appearance, blue-eyed blond Vlad Sokolovsky became a star in Russian show business and the idol of millions of fans.
Rita Dakota and Vlad Sokolovsky wedding
Sokolovsky and Dakota occasionally meet at major social events and continue to maintain good friendly relations. However, after some time, having met at the birthday party of their mutual colleague, the matured Rita Dakota and Vlad Sokolovsky looked at each other with different eyes. Vlad did not recognize Rita at first: a beautiful hairstyle replaced dreadlocks, a long dress, high heels and discreet makeup simply transformed the girl. A romance began to rapidly develop between Dakota and Sokolovsky. Pretty soon the couple stunned their friends and fans with the news of their upcoming marriage. In 2015, Vlad and Rita vacationed together on the island of Bali, where the guy proposed his hand and heart to his beloved girlfriend, and she happily agreed to become his wife. The wedding of a couple in love took place in Moscow in June 2015 in one of the churches. It is noteworthy that exactly 25 years ago, Vlad Sokolovsky’s parents celebrated their wedding on the same day. And five days later, Vlad Sokolovsky and Rita Dakota celebrated this important event in their lives with a magnificent banquet in retro style.
Rita Dakota and Vlad Sokolovsky
In the spring of 2022, it became known that Rita was expecting a child, and on October 23, 2022, Vlad Sokolovsky and Rita Dakota became the parents of a charming girl, giving her a romantic name - Mia. The young mother and father were overwhelmed with emotions, which they talked about on their YouTube channel.
Rita Dakota with her husband and daughter
Rita Dakota now
Rita and Vlad continued to maintain their blog in 2022, in which they shared details of their personal lives and creativity. The young family showed footage of rehearsals, friendly gatherings, travel, and shared joyful events (whether it was paying off the mortgage or Mia’s first successes). The Sokolovskys gave the impression of a successful and ideal family.
In August 2022, fans were shocked by the news of the couple's breakup. Rita Dakota announced on her Instagram that she was divorcing Vlad because of his numerous infidelities during the period from the wedding to the last days.
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The girl expressed resentment due to the fact that a lot of mutual friends and relatives knew about her husband’s infidelities. At the same time, many of them, including Sokolovsky’s father, covered up Vlad’s infidelities.
At the moment, the couple have already divorced. The divorce process could hardly be called simple; the division of property lay ahead of them, since Vlad refused to voluntarily leave everything to his wife and daughter. Dakota's interests were represented in court by Katya Gordon. According to Ekaterina, until this moment she was fulfilling the task of solving the problem behind the scenes. But the plans to “agree behind the scenes and peacefully” did not come true. Gordon placed responsibility for this on Sokolovsky, noting that it was difficult to trust “someone who lied so much.” As a result, the recently acquired apartment of the ex-spouses was transferred to Mia, and Rita no longer has anything to do with the once family business (the Zharovnya chain of grill bars).
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Fortunately, the star’s loneliness did not last long: Rita soon met a new love. The talented beauty’s chosen one was her artistic colleague, director and music video director Fyodor Belogai.
Wedding
The couple decided not only to sign at the registry office, but also to get married in a church. The celebration was originally scheduled for June 3, 2015. But soon Rita and Vlad announced that they were postponing the celebration to the 8th. And all because of the MUZ-TV award, where most of their guests should go.
On June 8, 2015, singer Dakota and Vlad Sokolovsky officially became husband and wife. Their wedding turned out to be bright and magnificent. The bride and groom invited their close friends, relatives and colleagues: Alexander Revva, Yulia Kovalchuk, singer Elka, Sergei Lazarev and others (150 people in total).
The lovers decided to abandon traditional wedding attributes, such as riding in a snow-white limousine and being sprinkled with rose petals. Together, the couple threw a gangster party in the spirit of the movie “Once Upon a Time in America.” Guests drove up to the Royal Bar restaurant, located on the shore of the Khimki reservoir, in vintage cars. The hall in which the celebration took place was decorated with flowers and garlands. Large playing cards depicting the bride and groom were hung on the walls.
Dakota's Diet Guidelines
You need to lose weight wisely. The main thing is to follow the following rules:
you can eat whatever you want, except sweets, flour, smoked and fatty foods;- dishes need to be steamed, stewed, boiled, baked;
- You can eat your last meal 3 hours before going to bed.
In the morning, Dakota eats a piece of cheese, an omelet, and drinks tea. He usually eats an apple for lunch. Lunch consists of stewed cabbage with meat. He has an afternoon tea, juice, and coffee. Dinner – chicken cutlets and vegetables.
Nutritionists believe that Rita almost adheres to the methods of proper nutrition, with the exception of taking unhealthy foods on rare occasions.
