Natalya Igorevna Vetlitskaya (Russian: Ната́лья И́горевна Ветли́цкая, 17 August 1964) is a Soviet and Russian singer and actress, popular in the 1990s, who released six studio albums between 1992 and 2004. She retired from the music scene in 2009 and, as of 2018, resides in Spain.
Natalya Vetlitskaya was born in Moscow, to nuclear physicist Igor Arsenyevich (1935-2012) and his wife Evgenia Ivanovna (born 1939), a piano teacher.
She studied at the Moscow School No.856, and, a self-described 'ugly duckling', hated sports lessons there, because, being the smallest in the class, had to stand always the last in the line. "I've always dreamt of becoming a doctor, and yet could never stop imagining myself on stage, singing or dancing," she later remembered. At the age of ten she began to study ballet and for ten years, since fourteen, was regularly taking part in dancing competitions. She enrolled into music school to learn piano, which she graduated in 1979.