music band from Poltava, formed in November 1988. The band's leader, composer and producer is Anatoly Rozanov. In the first years the band's frontman was Vadim Kazachenko, but in 1992 he left the band and started his solo musical activity. 
The band was formed in November 1988. The collective of musicians headed by Anatoly Rozanov, who worked as an accompanist for Mikhail Muromov's "Vysshiy Pilotage", had prepared by that time several of their own songs, which were tried out at concerts and warmly welcomed by the audience. The debut album was recorded in Poltava, the hometown of most of the musicians. For this purpose a studio was quickly assembled in the rehearsal room of one of the Poltava enterprises, where the future "freestyle" musicians started their way to the stage.

The band consisted of musicians who knew each other closely since 1983: Sergey Kuznetsov (computer, keyboards, backing vocals), Sergey Ganja (guitar, backing vocals), Nina Kirso (vocals), as well as ex-participants of Moldavian VIA "Horizon" Vladimir Kovalev (guitar, backing vocals) and Anatoly Kireev (vocals), Dmitry Danin (keyboards, composer) and Muscovite Alexander Bely (keyboards, arrangement) who joined them in the process of working with Mikhail Muromov. The songs were composed by the leader and sound engineer Anatoly Rozanov, lyrics were written by Sergey Kuznetsov.

In the process of creating the album it happened that Anatoly Rozanov and Sergey Kuznetsov, experimenting, wrote some songs in a different style than the one that suited Anatoly Kireev, a manly baritone "à la Tom Jones", and a tenor was needed. So Vadim Kazachenko, also from Poltava, who had just left the ensemble "Festival", joined the group.

The majority of Poltava acquaintances were skeptical that "guys from the province can create something like this". In this connection, it was decided to call the album "Get it!".

The album was recorded by the sound engineer of Poltava regional radio Leonid Sorokin, known for his work with Maxim Dunayevsky and the ensemble "Festival" (films "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers", "Ah, Vaudeville", "Green Van", etc.). But soon Alexander Bely returned to Moscow, and he was replaced by another Poltava resident, keyboardist and backing vocalist Anatoly Stolbov. In order to make concert performances look more spectacular, drummer Alexander Nalivaiko was hired to the band (before that the band worked without a drummer, with a rhythm machine).

The album was handed over for distribution to Andrey Lukinov's Moscow recording studio "Zvuk". A couple of months later the band's songs became popular all over the country, and the famous concert administrator Rafael Mazitov invited "Freestyle" on tour.

The band's first concert took place on May 16, 1989 in Barnaul. The second album was recorded in just three weeks in July 1989. It featured the hit song "I Don't Believe You" by Anatoly Rozanov and Sergey Kuznetsov, performed by Nina Kirso (the video clip made for this song by Kiev director Tatiana Miller was often broadcast on various TV channels). But for the first time on TV the band appeared in the summer of 1990 in the program "50x50" with the song "Yellow Roses" (music by A. Rozanov - lyrics by S. Kuznetsov).

There is an opinion that "Freestyle" is a family business project, that Anatoly Rozanov created the band especially for his wife Nina Kirso. A careful analysis of the material of the first four albums (1989-1991) shows that this is far from true: in the first album, the songs were equally distributed among all three soloists.

In 1991, the video for the song "It hurts me, it hurts!" appeared on the screens, which became a megahit. In the credits it was written "Vadim Kazachenko and the group 'Freestyle'". As a consequence, soon Vadim Kazachenko left the group, starting a solo career.

In 1992, the singer and guitarist from Kremenchug Sergei Dubrovin was accepted to the vacant place of vocalist in the group "Freestyle", as a result of the competition. In the mid-1990s the song "Ah, what a woman!" became the business card of "Freestyle". With this song the band became the Laureate of the TV Festival "Song-1996". But in the summer of 2001 Sergey Dubrovin left the band, moving to Germany to pursue a solo career. Sergey Vyazovsky became the next soloist of the band. He did not participate in recording new songs, but sang their old hits with male vocals at the band's concerts. In March 2002, Vyazovsky left Freestyle, also moving to the FRG. In 2015, Wiazowski suffered a coronary death. He died on August 29, 2020 after 5 years of coma.

It was decided not to look for more vocalists "from the outside", and the male songs in the band were performed by the permanent member of "Freestyle" Sergey Kuznetsov, who, being the author of the lyrics of most of these songs, thus represents their "author's" version. He acts as a soloist of the group and in new sound tracks of the group.

Different musicians cooperated with the group throughout its creative way. 
In 2004, Yuri Savchenko, a graduate of Odessa Conservatory, became the arranger of the "Freestyle" group, who had previously proved himself by making arrangements and remixes for Kristina Orbakaite, the group "Prime Minister", Diana Gurtskaia, Boris Moiseyev and other famous performers. Since 2005 Yuri Savchenko also takes part in concert performances of "Freestyle" as the second keyboardist; besides, drummer Yuri Zirka sometimes performs with the band.

In 2005 the band released a compilation album "Kapelka. Favorite Songs", which included 17 songs sung by Nina Kirso in different years, including three brand new numbers. Since the same year more than 100 radio stations have been rotating the new songs of "Freestyle" group: "Kapelka", "And I loved you", "Snowflakes were falling", "It all seems to you" and others.

The collective became the Laureate of the International Music Awards "Golden Sharmanka" and "Songs of the Sea"[6], participated in large concert programs "Disco of the USSR", "Disco of the 1980s", "Disco of the 1990s", "Mirage - 18 years", "Idols of the 1990s" and "Songs of the 1990s". In addition, the band starred in TV show-concerts "Mesto Vstrechi - INTER", "Benefis Nikolo", "Folk Music", "Nasha Pisnya", "Shlyager-Parade", "Jan Tabachnik" and "Honor to Invite", and often appeared in programs of Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian TV channels. The band celebrated its twentieth anniversary with a large concert tour through the cities of Russia, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, which ended with a gala concert in the Palace of Sports in Kiev (the video version of this event was successfully shown on many Ukrainian TV channels).

Some presentations of new compilation albums were held in Moscow and Kiev: in Moscow club "Admiral" the anniversary album of composer Anatoly Rozanov "Ah, what a woman" was presented, and in Kiev club "Arena" the band performed together with a lot of young artists, who in their own way sang many hits of "Freestyle".

February 16, 2012 in Poltava was the opening of a new recording music studio "Studio Freestyle" - according to many experts, the first world-class studio in Ukraine, a completely unique project, created from scratch according to all accepted norms for facilities of this kind.

June 1, 2018, the band's lead singer Nina Kirso suffered a severe stroke. For some time "Freestyle" worked with a purely male lineup, several charity concerts were held with the participation of Ukrainian pop stars; all the fees from these concerts were transferred to Nina's treatment. According to the conclusion of doctors, Nina Kirso could no longer return to active life, and since February 2019 in the group Freestyle new soloist Nata Nedina. On April 30, 2020, Nina Kirso died.