Natalie Gioia

Natalie Gioia, born Natalia Sibekina on 16 May 1982 in Kyiv, is a Ukrainian-Russian electronic music vocalist and songwriter whose career runs through nearly the entire modern trance-vocal canon. She grew up in the small Russian town of Armavir, and her path into electronic music was indirect — while touring in Africa she met the Italian impresario Flavio Demichelis, signing an Italian-language contract that produced her 2006 single "Che donna vorrei." She returned to Ukraine in 2009, where she met her husband Valeriy Sibekin, and that change in personal circumstance reset her musical direction toward EDM and trance. Her first EDM collaboration appeared on the Angelu label, immediately attracting producers EDU and Tucandeo. The Alex M.O.R.P.H. partnership followed and produced her breakthrough: "Dreams" (2013) was released on A State of Trance, reached the Beatport Trance Top 5, and was included on Armin van Buuren's Universal Religion Chapter 7. "The Reason" (2014) followed on ASOT, the Bobina collaboration "Addicted" (2015) on Spinnin', and across the late 2010s her vocals appeared on releases through Armada, Black Hole Recordings, Suanda Music, Interplay Records and Garuda, in partnership with Roger Shah, Eximinds, Rene Ablaze, Roman Messer and others. "Shine" with RAM & Talla 2XLC reached number six in the A State of Trance Tune of the Year 2021 listener vote — among the highest-ranking vocal-trance placements of that year. Her catalogue has continued at the same pace through the mid-2020s. "Viva L'Opera" with Armin van Buuren appeared on the A State of Trance Ibiza 2024 compilation, "Freedom's Call" and "Breathe" followed in 2025, and "Shattered" and "Beauty Within" arrived in 2026. Her sustained Spotify monthly listener base in the six-figure range reflects an audience that follows trance-vocal releases specifically rather than chart pop — placing her among the most consistently active female vocalists in the genre's 2010s-2020s catalogue, comparable in productivity to Christina Novelli and Audrey Gallagher.