Alsou & Enrique Iglesias

Having performed with the likes of Enrique Iglesias, Bon Jovi, and Nelly, Russian singer Alsou is one of her homeland's most successful musical exports of the noughties. Born in Bugulma, Tatarstan in 1983 to an oligarch father and architect mother, she lived with her grandmother in Siberia until the age of eight, before moving to Moscow where she attended a private music school. After a brief spell in New York, she emigrated to London, where she studied architecture, but after performing Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" at her brother's wedding, she was encouraged by...