Rita Dakota

Singer and songwriter, participant in the television projects "Factory of Stars-7" and "Main Stage". The ex-wife of another "manufacturer" - Vlad Sokolovsky. After school, Rita was thinking of going to the Glinka College of Music, but she changed her mind and signed up for the Forte vocal studio in Minsk. It was during training in this studio that the girl took the pseudonym Dakota (translated from Portuguese, this means "versatility"). In 2005, Rita took part in the Belarusian Star Stagecoach talent contest. In 2007, on the Channel One project, the Star Factory-7 project was launched by the brothers Konstantin and Valery Meladze, and 17-year-old Dakota became a participant in it. The artist didn't make it to the finals, losing prizes to Anastasia Prikhodko and Mark Tishman, however her song "Matches" became the most downloaded song of the project following the results of seven seasons, and the singer herself gained millions of fans. Gradually, Rita left the television screens and organized her rock band "Monroe", with which she successfully performed at the music festivals "Kubana" and "Invasion", and also toured the country. In 2015, Rita participated in the music project "Main Stage" on the channel "Russia-1". Like the Star Factory, on the project, Dakota performed only her own songs. A new wave of love for Dakota fans was brought by the song "Half a Man", which the girl wrote in 2016.