Vocalist Tatiana Shmailyuk of Ukrainian fashionable steel frontrunners JINJER is celebrating seven months of sobriety.

On Saturday (July 15),the 36-year-old singer shared a brand new mirror selfie on Instagram and he or she captioned it: “#7monthssober immediately. Let’s examine how far I can get”.

Final December, Tatiana spoke to Radioactive MikeZ, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM program “Wired In The Empire”, about how she met her husband, former SUICIDE SILENCE and present P.O.D. touring drummer Alex Lopez. She stated: “I met him by means of Web. After all, he was a well-known particular person within the heavy music trade. So I appreciated him. After which it type of occurred that they [SUICIDE SILENCE] invited us to be a assist act for them in Bratislava, Slovakia again in 2017. So I used to be, like, ‘Effectively, that is future.’ We took an image collectively after the present. After which we began chatting by means of Web. It was not very constant speak — as soon as a month, as soon as each three months, quick [messages]. After which we have been speaking about us, JINJER, coming to the States, and at the moment it appeared not possible to come back right here, as a result of, oh my God. [Laughs] And a 12 months after, in 2018 I feel, we went to the USA supporting CRADLE OF FILTH. And he got here to our present to say hello and stuff. After which right here and there, that is the way it occurred. So I feel I made it occur. [Laughs]”

When Radioactive MikeZ famous that she was the “aggressive one,” Tatiana clarified: “Not aggressive, no. I simply was extra enthusiastic. what I imply. Typically girls should do step one to get what we wish. [Laughs]”

Tatiana additionally talked about what it was about Alex‘s look that first drew her to him. She stated: “Yeah, I felt like he seems like me, however like a male model of me. We’re each shorties, brown eyes, brown hairs. I really like Mexican tradition, and he is full-blown Mexican.”

Requested how she likes residing in Whittier, California, the place she shares a house with Lopez, Tatiana stated: “Effectively, I prefer it as a result of it is in the midst of every thing — half-hour to downtown L.A., half-hour to Laguna Seashore, half-hour to a different seashore to a different seashore and one other seashore, after which an hour to Huge Bear mountains. So it is the proper location. However I do not exit a lot as a result of, actually, I did not discover something to exit to. [Laughs] And I’ve plenty of work to do, so I am simply sitting there chilling in the home, having fun with the solar and hummingbirds flying right here and there. So, [it’s] fairly cool. I really like California generally — it is a phenomenal place. I do not suppose there is a large distinction between [Whittier] and one other small city someplace in California.”

JINJER will embark by itself headline tour following the band’s assist dates on DISTURBED‘s 2023 “Take Again Your Life” trek with fellow particular visitors BREAKING BENJAMIN. The headline trek kicks off on September 7 in Huntsville, Alabama, making stops throughout Canada and the U.S., together with Quebec Metropolis, Montreal, Toronto and extra earlier than wrapping up in Vancouver on September 25. A number of of the tour’s stops are produced by Stay Nation.

JINJER performed its first stay present since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on June 10, 2022 ultimately 12 months’s version of the Greenfield Competition, which was held in Interlaken, Switzerland. The live performance came about simply days after it was introduced that JINJER had been given permission from authorities to go away their war-torn nation and tour Europe as ambassadors of the nation.

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