Alina Zalozna

Alina was born in 1996, in Kherson (Ukraine) in an artistic family. Her childhood she spent attending a lyceum of arts - a public school with art classes integrated, where her major was choreography. However, at her teen years, she discovered her interest in music, firstly she started to play the guitar and sing at a local music studio, where she learned and performed pop, rock, and blues repertoire in ensemble classes.

  At 18, she decided to continue her music studies professionally. In Kherson Music College she was influenced by experienced and jazz-driven teachers, became a soloist in Kherson's big band, started to make her first jazz arrangements and compositions, and took part in national and international jazz competitions and workshops. After graduation from college Alina moves to Kyiv to study in Kyiv R. Glier Music Academy and to explore new for her jazz scene. 

In 2019 she won the first prize in the Baku jazz competition. In 2020 her co-composed song “Alicia`s Song” was featured in an album by Hans Peter Salentin and Hans Fuecker - “Living Room”.  In 2023 Alina released her debut album of Ukrainian folk songs in her original jazz arrangements “Ukrainian Melodies”  with well-known Ukrainian jazz musicians: Borys Mohylevskyi, Oleksandr Malyshev, Denys Dontsov, Valentyn Korniienko and Pavlo Halytskyi. 

Nowadays Alina is finishing her Master`s degree, teaches jazz vocal for kids in music school, and performs her music, arrangements as well as jazz standards with her ensembles. As a lead singer at the end of 2023, she had a mini-tour with the Land Forces jazz orchestra - a military big band based in Chernihiv.