Olga Show

Olga Show

Born in Cheboksary,the capital of Chuvashia ex-Soviet Union, Olga Kholodnaya started studying the violin with the age of five. Olga Kholodnaya studied since the age of 12 classical music at the Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium München and Hochschule für Musik München. She studied with Zakhar Bron, Markus Wolf and Didier Lockwood. Olga Kholodnaya played with the Bayerische Philharmonie and Junge Münchner Philharmonie. She recorded Funk, Electro, House, and Hiphop since the age of 15. She started playing in the street Olga Show worldwide. In 2006 Olga Kholodnaya performed for the World Cup Opening in Munich Allianz Arena. Olga Kholodnaya survived a heavy injury. She learned to walk again. She never gave up playing the violin she went on playing the violin for her listeners as soon as she could. Music gave her the strength. In 2010 Olga Kholodnaya has recovered from the injury consequences to continue her path. Since 2012 Olga Kholodnaya plays with Marino Colina, the drummer of Olga Show. Olga Show are pioneers of the music style "violin and drums". After many years of solo performance in the street in 2011 Olga Kholodnaya started using the loop station Boss RC 30 for her performance and started experimenting with effects Boss and beats. this is how she composed Night in Istanbul and arranged famous classical tunes like Canon in D from J. Pachelbel, Libertango from A. Piazzolla. She covered Eminem`s 8 Mile, Christina Aguilera Genie in a Bottle, Nirvana - Smells like teen Spirit. She recorded a self made CD and sold over 3000 copies traveling to Turkey,Georgia, Azerbaijan, Munich and Berlin. In Berlin Olga was playing mostly in the Metro Stations Friedrichstraße and Kottbusser Tor. She was celebrated by the audience , but banned by the Metro authorities, because of the prohibition of use of amplifiers in the Berliner Metro. This is how she started to play outside of the metro - in the streets of Berlin. Her favourite spots became Friedrichstraße next to Dussmann , Kurfürstendamm , next to Karstadt and Alexanderplatz under the Bridge. As she did not like to play with electronic beats from her loop station , Olga was looking for a drummer to play her music with. This is how she met Marino Colina the current drummer of Olga Show and Raul Marcos the former Bassist. The Band consisted of 3 people and had a huge success playing under the bridge in Alexanderplatz. Selling over 300 CDs per week and having large crowds

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