Sergio Galoyan and Diana Ringo
Iconic Producer Sergio Galoyan on the Long Road to Release ‘Found Love’, his new collaboration with Ave Trio and His Vision for The Krasnaya Polyana Music Hub
Sergio Galoyan is a name synonymous with some of the most influential electronic music of the 2000s, most notably as the producer/songwriter behind t.A.T.u.’s global hits “All The Things She Said” and “Not Gonna Get Us.” Today, his work is finding a new audience as “All The Things She Said” experiences a massive viral resurgence via the TV series Heated Rivalry. In this conversation, Galoyan opens up about his life and work in the music industry. The interview, conducted by Diana Ringo, finds the producer living and working in the stunning locale of Krasnaya Polyana, a mountainside ski resort near Sochi which reflects a deeper change in his approach.
Galoyan talks about the complex, decades-long journey to release his tracks “Wide Gate” with Ave Trio and the Drax-featured “Found Love,” to his new mission to transform Krasnaya Polyana into a vibrant music center by producing rock bands like Gorny Vozduh and BTPG. Galoyan gives an unfiltered perspective on his current relationship with the t.A.T.u. members, his thoughts on artists like Katy Perry and Halsey being inspired by his work, his extensive list of dream collaborations including Mark Ronson and Billie Eilish, and the specific gear and production philosophies—from his early days with FastTracker to his modern Genelec and Neumann setup—that have defined his decades-long career.
Diana Ringo: Nice to see you finally, Sergio. So, how are you? How have you been doing? Where exactly are you now?
Sergio Galoyan: I’m in Moscow right now.
Diana Ringo: Are you working, making some new music?
Sergio Galoyan: Yesterday was Orthodox Christmas, I came here to meet my relatives.
Diana Ringo: So where exactly do you live right now?
Sergio Galoyan: So in Sochi, we have a mountainside called Krasnaya Polyana. It’s a ski resort, I live there.
Diana Ringo: You released your new song, “Wide Gate” with Ave Trio. Can you tell me something about the production? How did the collaboration happen?
Sergio Galoyan: So these guys, they live in Montenegro, they’re called Ave Trio. They are my old friends. There are three of them in the band. One of them, Alexander Korenkov, who is, I think, a genius opera singer. His voice is just amazing. He used to be the lead voice in the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. And then when the war started, he left Russia and went to Montenegro. I was there as well, and we met. First of all, we did a separate band called Dramatic Orchestra with him and his girlfriend, who are the lead singers. The band didn’t go really well. And then I went back to Russia, and one day he sent me his new songs with his band, Ave Trio. And he told me, “Can you do a remix?” I was listening, and I fell in love with the track. And I did a remix, which is “Wide Gate”. How did you like the song, by the way?
Diana Ringo: I liked it a lot. But what kind of genre do you think it is? Because it’s kind of like opera, a bit electronic…
Sergio Galoyan: We call it Gothic House, because it’s very gothic. It’s like a very dark, gothic style.
Diana Ringo: I really liked the song because it’s nice that you are continuing to experiment with different genres and voices and so on. I also really enjoyed the song “Found Love,” for which you released the music video, I think this year, yes?
Sergio Galoyan: So the story of this song is very long because I wrote it maybe 10 years ago. And I wrote it for Julia Volkova from t.A.T.u. We did a little demo recording, but I don’t know why, Julia didn’t really fit into this track. I mean, she sang nicely to the song, but she didn’t really feel the vibe of the song. And her solo project 10 years ago was a totally different genre than this song. And then I re-recorded this song with Drax. He’s a famous songwriter. He’s famous for working with Kylie Minogue, Madonna, lots and lots of top names in the industry. And I re-recorded with him because his voice is so nice and powerful. And then I went to live in Los Angeles and met Maria Skobeleva. She’s a very famous director. She shoots videos for Quincy Jones, G-Eazy, all the top rappers in Los Angeles. She’s originally from Russia. She used to be famous here in Russia because she was a star. She was a TV presenter for the biggest children’s talent show, “Morning Star.” We met in Los Angeles with Maria, and we were driving around and I was playing my music for her. And she said, “Wow, this track is amazing.” And she kept listening, listening, listening to this track. And she fell in love with this track so much that one day she called me and told me, “Sergio, I will shoot a video for your music.”… I didn’t know what kind of video, I thought maybe on a phone or something. And I told her, “Send me to watch.” And she sent me a full video with her playing the lead role. She’s in the video. And I was like, “Maria, how much do I owe you? She said, “Sergio, I’m so in love with this track, I just give it to you for free. I’m the leading star in this video, so let’s release it.” And that was maybe five years ago. And then she was trying to convince the actor, the Spanish guy who’s in the video as well. He said that he wouldn’t give us permission to release his visuals. For five years, almost every month, we spoke to this guy to give us permission to release the video. I don’t know why, but he wasn’t asking for money or something. He just said, “I don’t want to be in this video.” I think because of an internal conflict between her and him. Something like that. He was like jealous or something. And then five years later, last month, he gave us permission and we released it.
Diana Ringo: That’s a very unusual story because an actor should be glad that he appeared in such a great video. That’s a very strange story.
Sergio Galoyan: Yeah, but it took us 10 years to release it. Like 10 years for the first recording and then 10 years later we shot the video. That’s amazing.
Diana Ringo: I enjoyed both versions because I listened to the demo with Volkova and the version with Drax.
Sergio Galoyan: Thank you. But at that time, 10 years ago, Julia was looking for uptempo songs, to be on the radio and stuff. She was building her solo career. And of course, I understand that she was looking for maybe four-on-the-floor beats, maybe some triumph songs, some bangers. And this song is kind of a bit laid back. Kind of easy listening. I mean, it’s still an interesting, amazing song. It’s one of my favorites in my career. But I understand Julia as well because, if she took this song at that time, I don’t think it would become a huge hit. So that’s why maybe she didn’t take it.
Diana Ringo: And are you planning to work with both of them, the t.A.T.u. project or not? With Julia or Lena in the future? Because now they are starting to perform again and having great success also.
Sergio Galoyan: I don’t think so because a couple of years ago, we were doing a huge tribute show and at that time, we invited them to participate. And they were acting a little bit crazy. We got fed up with both of them. And still, I don’t hear any apologies from them for that time, for making us feel like… they caused damage to us. They tried to stop our tribute show, and they asked for big money from us. That was a huge scandal in Russia because at one point I told Lena to stop singing my songs because she didn’t comply with this tribute show. So we got fed up, and I stand on the position that because of this situation, what happened, she needs to first apologize. I’m not angry with her but it would be nice if she apologizes and then we can start talking about new songs for them. If that ever happens, I would love to write new songs for them. And I think Julia is on her way to that as well because my co-writer, Valery Polienko, saw Julia maybe a week ago. And Julia was asking about me and told him to say hi to me and everything like that. So I’m waiting for the same from Lena. And then we will start negotiating what we can do together again.
Diana Ringo: Yes, I understand. And a lot of fans are waiting for this. So I definitely understand.
Sergio Galoyan: I know. But our internal relationship needs to be ecological.
Diana Ringo: Yes, of course, I understand. But what else are you working on right now? Any new projects which you wish to announce?
Sergio Galoyan: Yes, I have different projects right now. So I’m trying to move forward the musical culture of the place I live. So it’s Krasnaya Polyana. We’re trying to make Krasnaya Polyana a music center of Russia. I feel that I can really help develop the musical style of Krasnaya Polyana. And I took two rock bands there to produce. One of them is called Gorny Vozduh, which translates as “Mountain Air”. The second project is called BTPG. They are both rock projects. Gorny Vozduh is more like skateboard music, like Arctic Monkeys, something like that. BTPG is more like… more rocky, more like Limp Bizkit, more like Rage Against the Machine. Right now we are mixing a new track of the band in Sweden with my friend Thomas Juth.
Diana Ringo: Yes, I really enjoyed the song. But it’s definitely something different. It’s more like with live music, live instruments. Did you play guitar or something here?
Sergio Galoyan: No, I’m just a music producer in this band. Yeah, because the musicians are so amazing. I don’t need to play anything here. So these two projects are to move forward the musical culture of Krasnaya Polyana. Krasnaya Polyana is famous for being a top ski resort in Russia, I think in the whole world because it’s so amazing. Sochi is a seaside, it’s the Black Sea. And Krasnaya Polyana is 40 kilometers toward the mountainside, it’s the Caucasian Mountains. So beautiful, so amazing. And we have huge music festivals there called New Star Festival, Zhara festivals. So we are trying to make this place the musical capital of Russia. I think my task there is like this. So besides these two projects, I’m working with my friend called Alex Toris. He’s a musical TikTok pranker. We are doing music which sounds like the ’90s. Which exactly sounds like it was made in the ’90s. And he goes on the streets and asks people to listen to this music and shoots reactions of people, how they like it or don’t like it. He got a million streams. Many million streams because of his appearance. He has fake mustaches. And he looks kind of funny, like a guy from the ’90s, like teleported from the ’90s to today. So I’m helping him with his project. Also, I was working with a girl. She’s a fitness blogger. She has more than a million followers on Instagram. I took her from the beginning. She asked me if I can help her with her career, and I said yes. She couldn’t really sing, and she started going to a teacher. She took six months to learn how to sing properly, and we recorded the song. It’s unreleased yet, but it’s going to be released maybe in a couple of months. But she’s amazing. She’s called Kristina Zhuravleva. She lives, I think, in Dubai. She flew from Dubai to Krasnaya Polyana just to meet me and to try to record something. She’s amazing, she’s a really hardworking girl. And I think she can be something at least in Russia, she can be a good influencer, a music influencer. Also… what else have I been doing? Yeah, I was working on my solo material. My composer stuff. Several years ago I released an EP called Sargas.
Diana Ringo: Yes, I know.
Sergio Galoyan: So I’m continuing to write that kind of music right now. So maybe, I don’t know, maybe this year I will release something under Sergio Galoyan. I also have a side project, “Sergio Galoyan featuring.” And I have three different singers that I recorded songs with. And I will release it as an EP, “Sergio Galoyan featuring” these three different singers. It’s going to be three different songs in Russian under my name and my EP. I cannot play it for you because it’s still developing. But they are amazing songs. It’s a project really, really close to my heart. So I’m trying to keep myself a little bit busy.
Diana Ringo: I’m wondering, what made you decide not to do Moscow but to do Krasnaya Polyana as your music hub?
Sergio Galoyan: Well, because I’ve achieved so much in Moscow already, and I don’t see people that I can work with there. They sing my songs anyway. I mean, name the Russian artist who didn’t re-sing “All The Things She Said” or “Not Gonna Get Us”. Name one. Pugacheva, Rotaru, all the tribute stars from the tribute album. Like everybody. I worked with everybody. So my task right now is to find some special artist. Some artist that doesn’t want to be in Moscow, doesn’t want to be in the capitalistic kind of, show business kind of stuff. I want to find something real. People who play music not for money, not for success, but do it really, really well. And Krasnaya Polyana is the place for that because there is no music industry in Krasnaya Polyana. It’s a small village. But a small village with very talented people who visit there. The closest analogy is how in Bali they have a place called Ubud. This is a small village, but every talented person goes there because it’s so spiritual, so nice, so good. Krasnaya Polyana is a bit like Ubud because many people from Ubud come to Krasnaya Polyana to live because they miss the snow and skiing and stuff. So I think right now in Russia, that’s the only place I know for this kind of people. And I met so many good DJs there, singers, musicians, amazing.
Diana Ringo: Maybe it’s the nature that’s inspiring people.
Sergio Galoyan: Yeah, definitely, the nature. And because Moscow is the capital, it still feels like politics. Politics, people talk about politics here, people maybe discussing the stuff with the war and everything like that. Krasnaya Polyana, it’s different. It’s like on Mars. There’s no war there, nothing. It’s just a place in the mountains. We only talk about music and skiing. That’s it. And maybe hiking.
Sergio Galoyan: Yeah. So we only talk about music, skiing, hiking, and just going swimming in a river or something. It feels very natural, very close to a human soul and everything like that. And I think when we started t.A.T.u., we were like that. We didn’t want any money or success. We just did what we really did and we became successful. But in Moscow, every person you meet either wants to be a superstar or wants to be a millionaire. Well, because everybody from Russia is coming to the center of Russia, to Moscow for the money, for the success. That I don’t like, to be honest.
Diana Ringo: I really like that you are still inspired to do things for your soul, for your mind, and not just for money.
Sergio Galoyan: Yeah, I think it’s the best way, the best path to do what you really want to do, not to do it for something or for someone.
Diana Ringo: That’s good that you can work with opera singers and beginner singers.
Sergio Galoyan: Yeah, I’m all about experiments. I have so much experience now in music, in producing music, writing music, that I can share with beginners, to guide. If I really see a talented singer who wants to be a good singer, I can mentor, I can supervise, I can help. And if I see an opera singer who is a top opera singer, I can do something there as well because opera singers don’t have experience with electronic music. So this is a synergy.
Diana Ringo: What kind of gear do you use to compose music? What’s your favorite software and so on?
Sergio Galoyan: So I have a MacBook, a new one… it’s here, I can show you. Right now I’m in my country house in Moscow. I have these two Genelecs.These are amazing speakers that I can hear everything. I compose in Logic Pro on MacBook. So MacBook, I will tell you the specifications right now. I also have an iMac with Logic Pro, so it’s also my favorite program. So I also do music. So these are the specs.
Diana Ringo: Yes, M3.
Sergio Galoyan: With 18 gigs of memory. And I have two terabytes SSD. Well, this is a top-of-the-line computer, which is good. For the recording I use… it’s not here but I took it to Krasnaya Polyana… I have a preamp called Avalon 737, it’s really good, with a compressor, with an equalizer. And for the microphone I use a Neumann U87 which is one of the best microphones ever.
Diana Ringo: And do you have a keyboard? Do you play the music on a keyboard, or on a guitar when you compose?
Sergio Galoyan: Yes, on a guitar usually.
Diana Ringo: But is it more difficult to compose electronic music if you use a guitar?
Sergio Galoyan: When you compose on a guitar, your task is to think, to create a harmony and a melody. And then when you have it composed, harmony plus the melody, you go to Logic and you have musical typing. And you just use the regular keyboard on a MacBook, you type your harmony and melody there. Let me show you my keyboard, this one I bought 20 years ago in Los Angeles when we recorded the second t.A.T.u. album. I have this MiniMoog Voyager. So all the basses on the second t.A.T.u. album in my songs were composed exactly on this one. I have all the t.A.T.u. gold and platinum discs here.This one is gold from France. This one is gold from the United States. This one is platinum from Italy. So many. This is from the UK. So I’m having fun here.
Diana Ringo: I know when you started out it was like a DOS computer and it was more difficult to compose, can you tell me about that process? How did you work back then?
Sergio Galoyan: So that was maybe the middle of ’96. Last century. My mother bought me a computer called, I think that was Spectrum X or something like that. Or maybe a Russian version which only had DOS. It was before the Windows ages. And the programming language was Basic. And I was so fascinated by this idea of having a computer that I started to seek ways to program it. I bought some Russian journals with the program codes in Basic language. And then the technology went a little bit further, and the next computer they gave me was Delta-S or something like that. Delta-C. Which had floppy disks. And one of my friends brought me a floppy disk with this sequencer, music sequencer called FastTracker. And I was so fascinated by this idea to write music on a computer that I spent the next couple of years learning how to program this FastTracker. For your understanding, the FastTracker is a shell, but it’s a shell of code you type. So if you type code and it gives you… you use some samples. It doesn’t have any synthesizers inside it. It’s just a shell in which you can type. But you use recorded samples. A recorded sample of a bass drum or a string or something like that. And it doesn’t have any effects. So if you want a delay, you need to type by fingers. You have one line of, for example, of a synth sound sample. And if you want a delay, you should manually type the second line, which is quieter, and the third line, which is quieter, and the fourth line, which is quieter. And you have a delay like that. That was a really long process of learning that. But I mastered it, and I started writing tracks on this shell, FastTracker. And that’s how I came across electronic music.
Diana Ringo: You also studied producing at GITIS?
Sergio Galoyan: So my higher education is GITIS, and they had an academic department called theatrical producer—that’s what I learned, that’s my education.
Diana Ringo: And do you want to apply it further, maybe in making some music videos or so on?
Sergio Galoyan: Yeah, I shoot as a director. I shot my own video for my project called “Everything” with Nieri all day.
Diana Ringo: Yes, I saw this one. Very good.
Sergio Galoyan: So I directed that. And then I had a singer called Nicoletta maybe five years ago. I shot the video for her as a director called “Yad.” You can type on YouTube Nicoletta and then the Russian “Yad” [Poison]. I directed that. I directed several videos that I don’t want people to know that I did, but I have experience with that.
Diana Ringo:. And what kind of music were you inspired by when you first began making music for t.A.T.u., and which bands or DJs or musicians were your favorites?
Sergio Galoyan: That’s easy because I was a huge fan of The Prodigy. And I was a huge fan of Metallica. And then at that time there was a rave revolution happening in the world. And I was a huge fan of every rave track that I came across. So t.A.T.u. is a synthesis of guitar music, Prodigy rhythms, and all the rave dance stuff that was at that time.
Diana Ringo: And how did your music tastes evolve in later years when you started making music?
Sergio Galoyan: So after the first album of t.A.T.u., I moved to London by invitation. I met The Prodigy and started producing Keith Flint’s solo album because Interscope Records asked me to help him with his solo career. So I moved to London to work with him, and then I met a cult producer called Youth, Martin Glover. Youth. He’s a very big producer in the music industry. He’s the ex-bassist of the band Killing Joke, and he used to work for Paul McCartney and lots of rock bands. So he influenced me a lot because he told me about a new sound—a sound that is more classical in a way, but more modern. It’s the sound called British Pop. And he was like the best in British Pop at that time. British Pop is like Coldplay, Paul McCartney, like all the rock British pop music. So that influenced me a lot. That’s why I took that knowledge to the second t.A.T.u. album. And the second t.A.T.u. album is more in a rock style.
Diana Ringo: Yes. And how did you feel the working process differed in Russia and America? And what did you like about America and what was not something you liked?
Sergio Galoyan: Well, it’s sky and earth. So when I went to America and we started making the second t.A.T.u. album, that was a bit of paradise for me because they fulfilled my every wish. I could think of something—I don’t know—like a rare instrument that you cannot find anywhere. And I could tell the studio manager I needed it, and he would bring it to me in 15 minutes. So, for the “Cosmos” song, which is on the second t.A.T.u. album, I approached the studio manager and asked him, “Can you get me the most expensive electric guitar available in Los Angeles right now?” And he brought me an amazing-sounding Gibson. I never even imagined playing an instrument like that. And he brought me this in 15 minutes. “This is the most expensive Gibson guitar you can find right now in Los Angeles.” So, I recorded the guitar for “Cosmos,” and then I told him, “Okay, this is amazing.” Maybe a week later, I was recording guitar for the “Novaya Model” track. And I told him, “Okay, bring me the most expensive acoustic guitar.” And in the next 15 minutes, he brought me the most expensive acoustic guitar in Los Angeles that I recorded for the “Novaya Model” track. So that was amazing. I can tell you a story about this MiniMoog Voyager. I was thinking what kind of bass I wanted, for example, for “Cosmos” or “Novaya Model.” And I approached the manager and asked him, “What kind of synthesizer sounds the most expensive?” And he told me, “Oh, we have a MiniMoog, the best for basses.” And I told him, “Okay, get me one.” He called me, and 15 minutes later he brought me exactly this synthesizer. And then I realized that he didn’t rent it; he bought it for me. Can you imagine? He took $5,000 and bought me the most amazing-sounding synthesizer that I could find. So, for me, it was like a producer’s paradise with these guys. They’re so professional. They create such an atmosphere that you can create even more, and they give you everything you need—like everything, whatever you ask.
Diana Ringo: But were there any things that you didn’t like about America?
Sergio Galoyan: I didn’t like how Marlboro cigarettes taste because they made me sick. I couldn’t smoke those cigarettes. So, I didn’t like Marlboro cigarettes. I didn’t like that I was eating too many burgers and was becoming fat. The food portions are so big in America. Otherwise, it was amazing because that was my honeymoon. Before we went to America to record the second album, I married my wife, who was a manager for t.A.T.u. So, we spent several months on a beach in the best hotel, and that was amazing. So, these two things I didn’t like: the Marlboro taste and the big portions of the burgers.
Diana Ringo: How do you feel when there is heavy inspiration from your music, like with Katy Perry?
Sergio Galoyan: Yes, I know that, not only Katy Perry, Billie Eilish as well. She took some inspiration for one of her tracks. She took a sample from the song “Show Me Love”. Lots of artists… that band… the husband of Cameron Diaz [Benji Madden] as well, Good Charlotte, also plagiarized mine. And I can name you many more because we have a little chat between the writers who work on t.A.T.u., and they always post things like, “this is a rip-off”. I mean, it’s good that they still, I mean 20 years later, they still want to sound like us. So, in a way, it gives my ego a boost. And it tells me that we actually made a bit of a revolution in the music industry. We brought some new sound that people try to integrate, or steal. So, it’s good, I like it. For example I can talk to you about the exact case of the singer Halsey.
Diana Ringo: Yes.
Sergio Galoyan: So with the singer Halsey it’s a very nice case because they approached me with the cover song, they took “All The Things She Said” as a reference for the chorus and wrote new verses for that. And then I was listening, and it sounded like a new song. And my chorus of “All The Things She Said” didn’t really fit those verses. And I told them, “Let’s write a new chorus for that.” And we did. We created a new chorus for the song “Nightmare.” And then they told me, “Okay, because, it was so inspired by t.A.T.u. and your sound, we will give splits to all the writers.” Not just me or, for example, Elena Kiper, but to all the writers of “All The Things She Said.” Because it was so inspired by the song “All The Things She Said.” So, I think Katy Perry should have done that, because she’s so inspired by our creativity. It would be nice if she gave us some percentage, not huge, 50% of the song or something like that, maybe two or three percent would be nice and feel fairer. And Billie Eilish as well, and many other singers. So, of all these singers, only Halsey handled it really well, and I’m so thankful for that. But still, she didn’t get a Grammy, I’m still dreaming of getting a Grammy for some reason.
Diana Ringo: With whom would you like to collaborate if your dream collaboration happened?
Sergio Galoyan: Well, I would definitely like to collaborate with Charlotte Gainsbourg. She’s a French singer. I think she’s amazing. Charlotte Gainsbourg. Well, of course, Billie Eilish, she’s amazing. I would love to, but I know she writes for herself, but maybe in the future. Selena Gomez, definitely. Hailee Steinfeld. I love her timbre. She’s amazing. Well, Rita Ora, of course. Let me see… Well, Natalie Taylor, of course. Natalie Taylor. She’s amazing. Taylor Swift, yes, of course. Well, I’d like to do more for Halsey. I would definitely love to… this is a kind of a dream for me, but if I ever do a track with Mark Ronson as a producer, a producer collab. That’s a dream for me. Mark Ronson is just amazing. Just amazing. I’d really like to use Estas Tonne as a guitar player. I think he is amazing. Estas Tonne. I love the singer Fousheé, her famous song is “Deep End.” Well, of course, Olivia Rodrigo is an amazing singer. I got to know her because she did a cover of “All The Things She Said,” which is amazing. Gracie Abrams, she’s amazing. Oh my god. Such a nice deep voice. I love it. Well, Duncan Laurence is good. I’d like to collaborate with him. Well, of course, my dream is collaborating with like French underground musicians like Kavinsky, Daft Punk, Sébastien Tellier. But these are not singers, but more like music producers, but this is my dream to maybe one day meet these guys and do something. Sebastian as well, an amazing music producer. I have so many vinyls by Sebastian. I love this sound. Okay, let me see, maybe… Yeah, I think this is quite a big list. So, you see, I’m aiming for up-and-coming singers. Well, most of the list is either underground or up-and-coming, but talented. That’s what I do.
Diana Ringo: Do you also sing, or not?
Sergio Galoyan: No, I don’t.
Diana Ringo: Why?
Sergio Galoyan: I don’t love the popularity of my own self. I don’t like when people recognize me on the streets. I don’t like when people treat me like a star. I’m just a simple person, that’s it. I don’t like too much attention. To be honest, I don’t like attention at all. I love to sit in a studio and write good tracks. All the attention is for the artist. My ideal is different. So that’s why I never sing myself.
Diana Ringo: But for yourself, do you like to sing or not? Is it something you enjoy?
Sergio Galoyan: No, not really.
Diana Ringo: Because I wanted to say that in Finland we have a great karaoke culture.
Sergio Galoyan: So, in my life, two of the worst activities you can do are going to karaoke or bowling. Yeah, because every time I, a professional music producer, go to karaoke and hear how people sing, oh my god. I cannot stand it. It’s just the worst. Only two times I’ve been to karaoke, which I enjoyed, and it was with professional singers. We went one time with Teona Dolnikova and Irina… I forgot her surname, but she was on Pop Idol in Russia. And we went with professional singers. I like that because it’s more like a concert. But unprofessional singing is just scratching my ears.
Diana Ringo: You just need to drink more and go on the stage also and just have fun, like a party.
Sergio Galoyan: Yeah, that I don’t like to do. I don’t like to drink in public, because, yeah, you need to keep yourself like this.
Sergio Galoyan: But anyway, I should come back to my usual stuff that I do. It was nice to meet you.
Diana Ringo: Nice to meet you too!
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