In 1988 she won the first Miss Belarus title when she was a student of the Belarusian Academy of Arts. Anzhelika Anatolyevna Agurbash (, Anzhalika Anatolieuna Agurbash, née Yalinskaya, in the period from 1990 to 2001 performed as Lika Yalinskaya (Belarusian: Lika Yalinskaya). Lika Yalinska)[3], born May 17, 1970, Minsk, USSR) is a Soviet, Belarusian and Russian[4] singer, actress, model and TV presenter, in 1990 - 1995 - a member of the group "Verasy", Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus (2006). Winner of the Golden Gramophone and Sound Track awards, participant of the Song of the Year festival[5]. Biography She was born on May 17, 1970 in Minsk. At the age of six, she performed popular songs, imagined herself on stage. During her school years, she studied in a theater studio and at a music school. At the age of 16 - in the 9th grade, she starred in the lead role in the film "Exam for the Director", before that she participated in the extras in another film. She graduated from the Minsk Theater and Art Institute. In 1988, she won the first beauty contest in the Belarusian SSR "Minsk Jumper"[6]. At the beginning of her career, her name was Lika Yalinskaya[7]. From 1990 to 1995 she sang in "Verasy". She created the Lika art club, a republican public association. Yalinskaya`s first fame outside Belarus was brought in 1994 by the romance "No, these tears are not mine..." to lyrics by Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu and music by Mikael Tariverdiyev, featured in Alois Brenč`s film "A Novel in the Russian Style"[8]. He became a laureate of the competitions "Slavianski Bazaar", "Golden Hit", "At the Crossroads of Europe". After leaving Verasy, she took up a solo career. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, Lev Leshchenko became its producer in Moscow[9]. In 2002, she married Nikolai Agurbash, and he became the singer`s producer. 2004-2006 was a period of active promotion of Angelica Agurbash`s videos on Russian TV channels. At first, there was no success. According to critics, the reasons for this are the extremely weak musical material, the singer`s problems with charisma, the lack of a bright timbre, as well as "bad taste, provincialism and vulgarity". At the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, she represented Belarus in the semi-finals with the song "Love Me Tonight", its producer was Philip Kirkorov. But Agurbash did not get into the final stage, taking 13th place in the semifinals. In 2009, an album of songs by Maxim Fadeev "Love! Love? Love..." with the hit "Rose on the Snow"[13]. Guru Ken noted that the album turned out to be very "faded": "An absolutely faceless singer sings one completely formulaic song after another. It is absolutely impossible to understand who is singing this. The title song is performed as if by Sofia Rotaru. The playful "Goodbye, Dima" and "Dear O.O." are sung, it seems, by Katya Lel. Chanson "Rose on the Snow" - it looks like Marina Khlebnikova. If it were not for the relatively expensive arrangements, one could even sin on a collection of parodies of the domestic stage from some hardworking KVN woman"[14]. Nikolai Fandeev`s review was even more categorical. In his opinion, "Max managed to ... to sell one button for the price of five suits... And the restaurant thing "Dear O.O." is the height of vulgarity and vulgarity of everything that Angelica Agurbash has ever done"[15]. In 2011, Agurbash held a show in the Kremlin, which included duets with famous Russian pop artists, her partners were Boris Moiseev, Alexander Marshal, Alexander Buynov, Dmitry Malikov, Philip Kirkorov[16]. On September 25, 2012, the singer released the album "You Didn`t Know Me Like That". The most famous compositions in the album are "Fly" and "River", which in 2010 and in 2011 made it to the final of the "Song of the Year". On January 26, 2015, the premiere of the play "The King of Clubs - Card of Love" with Angelica Agurbash and Emmanuil Vitorgan in the lead roles, with the participation of Lyudmila Maksakova on the stage of the Mayakovsky Theater[17]. From February 8 to May 24, 2015, Angelica took part in the show "One to One!" on the Russia-1 TV channel, where she took 4th place according to the results of the viewer`s SMS voting[18]. On May 30, 2015, in Moscow, Agurbash took part in the charity auction of the Konstantin Khabensky Charitable Foundation "Through the Eyes of a Child". The lot provided by Angelica was successfully sold, and the proceeds were used to treat children with cancer[19]. On June 24, 2015, in Moscow, together with the production center of Mikhail Gutseriev, the premiere of a new song "I don`t see the sun behind the night" to the lyrics of Mikhail Gutseriev and the music of Andrey Ktitarev took place. The composition was broadcast on radio stations in Russia[20]. On July 9, 2015, the opening ceremony of the XXIV International Festival "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk" was held in Belarus, where Agurbash became the guest of honor and host of the Festival together with Vadim Galygin, and also performed the composition "More, More" with Dmitry Malikov[21][22]. On September 12, 2015, the XII races for the prize of the President of the Russian Federation were held at the Central Moscow Hippodrome, where Agurbash and Sergey Zhigunov became the hosts[23]. On February 6, 2016, Agurbash became a participant in the show "One to One! Battle of the Seasons" on the Russia-1 TV channel[24]. On September 12, 2016, Agurbash and Armenian singer Arame on RU. TV presented their duet called "Was and Passed"[25]. On January 26, 2017, Agurbash presented to the public her new video with the song "Thursday in Your Bed". The premiere took place on the RU. TV[26]. In July 2018, the singer took part in the "Heat" music festival in Baku[27]. In June 2021, she lost a court case to Belcoopsoyuz, according to which she is obliged to return to the organization 40 fur products worth $83,000, which she took for sale in 2018[28]. Public position Angelica Agurbash supports the opposition to the political regime in Belarus, in connection with her participation in the solidarity event she was briefly detained in Russia[29]. In June 2021, the authorities of the Republic of Belarus opened a criminal case against her for inciting hatred and insulting Alexander Lukashenko. A criminal case was initiated against her under Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code (Incitement of hatred or discord), which provides for up to 12 years in prison, and Part 2 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code (Insulting the President) - up to three years. According to the Belarusian Prosecutor General`s Office, the singer was arrested in absentia. The Belarusian authorities sent an appeal to the Prosecutor General`s Office of the Russian Federation to extradite her for punishment in Belarus[30][31]. Personal life Her first husband was Belarusian actor and director Igor Lenev (born August 9, 1958),[32][33] and the marriage lasted two years.[7][9] Daughter, Daria Igorevna Yalinskaya (born March 14, 1988), graduated from the State University of Management with a degree in Management in Show Business, worked with Timati. She lived with bodybuilder Valery Bizyuk (the relationship lasted 6 years)[9]. Son: Nikita Valeryevich Yalinsky (born July 4, 1997). Her second husband is Nikolay Agurbash (from 2001 to 2012)[6]. In August 2012, a divorce from Nikolai Agurbash took place, the reasons for which both ex-spouses spoke in detail in the media.[7][10] Son: Anastas Nikolaevich Agurbash (born August 19, 2004). Since 2012, she has been in a relationship with Kazakh businessman Anatoly Pobiyakho (born 1971), In 2015, it became known about the dissolution of the engagement and the end of the relationship.