She was born on October 28, 1957, at the 9th railway station of Djangiztobe in the Semipalatinsk region, where she also graduated from a boarding school. She was one of 8 children in the family. Her father, a railroad worker, passed away in 2014, and her mother, Aytu, a homemaker, died in 2013.
Her older brother also became a musician and had a significant influence on her in childhood. After school, Rymbaeva studied at the Semipalatinsk Music College for three years.
In 1975, she first participated in a song contest dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Th...