Svetlana Khanova, Pelageya's mother and a former jazz singer, became a theater director after losing her voice and taught directing and acting in Novosibirsk [3]. She currently serves as the producer and director of her daughter's band. Pelageya's surname, Khanova, is the surname of her mother's last husband [4]. Although her parents intended to name her Pelageya, the registry office recorded the child as Polina. This error was corrected when she received her passport [5]. The name Pelageya belonged to the singer's great-grandmother [6]. At the age of 4, she performed on stage for the first time [7]. At age 8, Pelageya was admitted without exams to the Novosibirsk Special Music School (College) at the Novosibirsk State Conservatory, becoming the first vocal student in the school's 25-year history. When she was 9 years old, she met Dmitry Revyakin, leader of the band "Kalinov Most," who sent a videotape of Pelageya to the "Utrennyaya Zvezda" (Morning Star) television program in Moscow. Since there was no folk music category at the time, Yuri Nikolaev invited her to participate in the "Morning Star" winners' contest, where she took first place and earned the honorary title of "Best Folk Song Performer in Russia 1996" and a $1,000 prize [7][8]. Would you like me to translate this text into a more formal academic style or adapt it for a biographical article?