Alsou

She was born into a Tatar family. Her father, Ralif Rafilovich Safin is the owner of a football team and was named the 100th richest Russian by Forbes Magazine in 2004. Alsou's mother, Razia Iskhakovna, is an architect. She has a younger brother Renard and an older brother Marat. At 5 years old she asked her parents for a piano. She was then allowed to attend a private music school. After some time of playing the piano she picked singing. Her first name, spelled 'Alsu' in Russian, means "rose water" in the Tatar language. She uses the English-spelling 'Alsou' outside of Russia and the CIS. In the early '90s, she moved to Moscow when her father became the vice president of Russia's biggest oil company. Until the age of 8, she lived with her grandparents in Siberia. She has an older brother, Marat, and a younger brother, Renard. Daughter Safina was born September 7, 2006, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Second daughter Mikella was born April 29, 2008.