the Singer recalled that it all started with a joke, uttered a year ago in the program of the First channel “Evening Urgant”.
MOSCOW, June 15. /Offset. Anastasia Silkina TASS/. Latin American singer and actress Natalia Oreiro has submitted documents to obtain Russian citizenship. She announced this in an interview TASS.
the Singer recalled that it all started with a joke, uttered a year ago in the program of the First channel “Evening Urgant”.
“I was in the program, Ivan Urgant, and he told me that I was the most Russian among foreign women. I told him that I have no doubt. And I said that Putin would have to give me citizenship. I said it as a joke, not as a request for that to happen, but of course, I would love to get Russian citizenship,” she said.
Oreiro said that Russian fans often give her a souvenir passport. “Today, I have a lot of Russian passports, which I gave the fans, about 15. But they’re not real,” — said the singer.
Natalia Oreiro was born on may 19 1977 in Montevideo. At 16, the young actress moved to Argentina, where her career has blossomed. At the turn of the 2000s, years Oreiro became known worldwide thanks to the Argentine television series “Wild angel”, where she played the role of Milagros. She combines her acting career with music and released four Studio records.
Oreiro is a goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF in the region of the Rio de La Plata.
In 2001 Oreiro first visited Russia, which, according to her, immediately felt a spiritual bond.
Since then, the singer almost every year come on tour in Russia, where she formed a great fan club. Fans call her “our Natasha” for sincerity in work and ease in communicating with them. Oreiro teaches Russian language, performed the Russian version of their international hits, and recorded in three languages (English, Spanish and Russian) the song United By Love for the world championship on football in 2018 held in Russia. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Victory in 2020, the singer performed “We need one victory” (“the Tenth our landing battalion”) of Bulat Okudzhava.
