MamaRika

Anastasia Oleksandrivna Kochetova, known professionally as MamaRika and previously Erika, was born on April 13, 1989, in Chervonohrad, Ukraine. She is a singer who graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Lviv. At age 14, Kochetova won the Chervona Ruta competition. In 2006, she participated in the show American Chance, led by producer David Junk. At age 19, under the pseudonym "Erika," she became a finalist in Fabryka Zirok 3 and later hosted live broadcasts of Fabryka Zirok 4. From 2010 to 2015, Erika was a singer at the UMMG Production Center. In November 2015, Kochetova changed her stage name to MamaRika and released her EP Мама Ріка in July 2016. She performed at the first MRPL City festival in Mariupol in 2017 and presented her second studio album KACH later that year.