Anastasiya Oleksiyivna Kamenskykh (born in Kyiv, Ukraine, 4 May 1987), known professionally as NK, is a Ukrainian pop and R’n’B singer, actress, TV presenter, judge and mentor of X-Factor vocal show, founder and owner of sport clothes NKsport, author of NKblog etc.

Contents 1 Childhood life and education 2 Music career 3 TV career 4 Business career 5 Social media 6 Other 7 Music activity in figures 8 Discography 8.1 Studio albums 8.1.1 Potap & Nastya 8.1.2 NK 8.2 Singles 8.2.1 NK 8.2.2 Potap & Nastya 9 Awards 10 References 11 External links Childhood life and education

She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. At the age of 5, she took part in educational programs for family exchanges and lived some time in France. At the age of 6 she moved to Italy and lived there for seven years. She continued studying at the Pechersk School International in Kyiv, and at music school. NK graduated from music school at the age of 15 and started taking professional ballet classes. She did ballet for 8 years. She also was a student at the Wisconsin International University in Ukraine.[1]

NK is a cosmopolitan girl. She speaks five languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English, Italian and Spanish.

Music career

In 2004 the name of NK as a singer thundered at «Black Sea Games» festival for the first time, where she received a grand prix and won all kinds of awards. One year later she got the UBN Awards at the «Opening of the Year» nomination in London in 2005.

During 2006-2017 NK was a singer at “Potap&Nastia”, a most popular duo among Russian speaking people. The Duo became very popular, received multiple awards and world wide prominence.

In 2017 she began her solo project NK. That year she broke the market with her first solo video and song #thatsmytypeofnight which went viral in social media. Same year she released Christmas acoustic album and Christmas TV-Show “Xmas with NK” which featured the most famous Christmas hits in 4 languages (English, Italian, Russian and Ukrainian): "All I want for Christmas",[2] "Last Christmas",[3] "Have yourself a merry little Christmas" [4] and self-written songs.

After the release of the first song, each following track by NK achieved multimillion views on YouTube. The next song to be released was “Dai Mne” in March 2018.[5] It was followed by another original "Trymay" (ukr."hold") written by NK herself.[6] The song sounded in every leading music chart in Ukraine. Moreover, in September 2018 NK exclusively presented her Ukrainian song "Trymay" on the biggest Italian radio station Radio Rai.

Shortly after, NK released a song written in English and Spanish called Peligroso. The song was written in collaboration with multiple Latin Grammy Awards winner Yoel Henriquez, Cris Chil (composer) and Oleksii Potapenko (composer) and produced by Ali Alvarez from Magnus Media - a company managed by Marc Anthony. The song was presented at the most popular TV and radio shows in Latin America including ¡Despierta América! on Univision[7], Total Acceso and Titulares y Más on Telemundo[8], Centro on CBS WBZ4[9] and ¡Hola! TV. Under Peligroso promo tour, NK also attended the 2018 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year gala and the 19th Annual Latin Grammy Awards ceremony becoming the first artist from Ukraine to be invited there. "Peligroso" reached number 24 on Billboard's Tropical Songs chart and remained there for four weeks.[10]

On October 12 NK released her first solo album “No Komments” and a video for a song LOMALA.[11] The album includes 10 tracks written in English, Ukrainian and Russian.

In December 2018 was nominated for 5 categories at M1 Music Awards becoming the most nominated female artist. There she was awarded with Female Artist of the Year and Best Music Video of the Year. TV Channel Ukraine recognized NK with the Best International Star award too.

TV career

2007 – “Dancing with the stars” star participant on 1+1 channel in Ukraine

2008 – a star participant of the TV project on the First channel «Two stars» in Russia

2010 – a star participant of the vocal TV project on the 1+1 channel «Star + Star» in Ukraine;

2010 - a TV presenter of the «Guten Morgen» morning program on M1 music channel in Ukraine .

Since 2016 till now – a TV presenter of the children’s version of the program «Make a comedian laugh, Children» on 1+1 channel in Ukraine

Since 2017 till now - judge and mentor of «The X-Factor» vocal show. The singer with an invaluable experience was entrusted with an important mission — to find real talents and point in the right direction on the path of creative development. In 2018, NK's mentees ZBSband became the winners of the 9th season of the show[12]. They were the first band to win it ever.

2017 – special Christmas movie and acoustic album «Xmas with NK», which features the most famous Christmas hits in 4 languages (English, Italian, Russian and Ukrainian): «Xmas with NK», «All I want for Christmas», «Last Christmas», «Have yourself a merry little Christmas» and self-written songs.

Business career

Since 2017 – launchs her own brand of sportswear – NKsport. NK’s love for sports, desire to self-improve and inspire her fans to change for the better have turned into a successful project - NKsport. Number of collections since 2017: 10

Social media

Instagram @kamenskux – 3m followers

Youtube channel NKofficial – 763K subscribers

Motivation and sport Instagram account @nkblog – 565K followers.

Other

Since 2015 she has run her own lifestyle video blog NKBLOG on YouTube. NK was the first Russian-speaking pop artist to start a Youtube video blog. The chief aim of her social media policy is to motivate modern youth to participate in an active lifestyle.

Since 2017 she is a regular participant of the charity program Charity Weekend. Funds collected from concert programs are transferred to the Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.

In 2017 NK started cooperating with a charity organization “Giznelub” (ukr. “Cheerful Person”). She actively participates in collecting clothes as well as giving away food for senior citizens on an ongoing basis. By 2018 she was involved in 2 campaigns. The singer also launched an auction of selling personal and concert clothing to collect funds for the same purpose. All the donations are forwarded to open spots were seniors could get free food and clothes daily. In 2018 she helped to open 2 spots of that kind.

2018 NK is an honorary friend of the UEFA Women’s Champion League 2018.

Music activity in figures Albums 8 Videos 34 Magazine covers more than 50 Number of awards more than 50