Sataney Setgalievna Kazanova (), better known as Sati Kazanova (), (born 2 October 1982 in Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR) is a Russian singer, fashion model, actress and TV personality. Until May 2010, she was one of the three vocalists of the Russian pop girl group Fabrika (Russian: Фабрика; Factory in English). In 2002, she took part in the first season of the Russian talent show Star Factory as a member of Fabrika, where they finished second.

She won the Astra (Russian: Астра) award for most stylish female singer in 2006.

Sati Kazanova

On 5 October 2009 she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Republic of Adygea by the President of the republic, Aslan Tkhakushinov.

Sati Kazanova

In 2011, she hosted the show The Phantom of the Opera, and in 2013 she became a participant in the show One to One!.

Sati Kazanova

Personal life

She studied at the Russian Academy of Music and she lives in Moscow.

Sati was born in Kabardino-Balkaria and her ethnicity is Adyge. She is a now Hindu and a vegetarian and practices yoga.

On 8 October 2017 Sati Kazanova married Italian photographer Stefano Tiozzo in Vladikavkaz. They previously met at a wedding of common friends and relatives and later started a long-distance relationship, before deciding to marry in less than six months.

The couple are followers of Vishwananda, a Hindu guru from the island of Mauritius.

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1982 births

Living people

People from Kabardino-Balkaria

Circassian people of Russia

Russian pop singers

Fabrika members

Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music

Fabrika Zvyozd

Russian Academy of Theatre Arts alumni

21st-century Russian women singers

Russian Hindus

Winners of the Golden Gramophone Award

Converts to Hinduism from Islam