Born on 9, April, 1959 in Tbilisi, Georgia Marika Chikovani graduated Tbilisi Public school № 47 and the Department of the Georgian Philology at Tbilisi I. Javakhishvili State University. At various times she had teaching practice. She has issued research works and articles about the fiction of the famous Georgian writer Guram Dochnashvili.

  She studied music at the same time at Tbilisi №1 music school and D. Arakishvili № 1 specialized school where she did a course of choir conducting.

  Marika started singing at the age of 6. She was on the stage together with her brother Gigla since her very first years at school performing both Georgian and foreign songs. They were accompanied on the piano by their father Zurab Chikovani. The brother and sister were prize-winners of many school and republican competitions. At the same time they, together with other children, performed in a concert broadcast by the Moscow central TV channel. As children, Marika sang the second part and Gigla sang the first one. In the family ensemble Marika, together with her youngest sister Gvantsa, does the first part (lyric soprano). As the ensemble member she took part in many music events and international festivals in Georgia and the former Soviet Union.

  Marika’s husband, Andro Torotadze, a physicist by training and a businessman by profession, graduated the Department of Physics as a theoretical physicist at Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University and worked at the sub-department of theoretical physics there. His research works have been published in various authoritative scientific journals both in the former USSR and abroad. He is the author of many newspaper articles too.

  Marika’s two children Alexander (Sandro) and Nino were born in 1990 and 1992, correspondingly. Sandro graduated the ESM College and is now doing a business administration and management course at Tbilisi Technical University. He speaks two foreign languages, English and Russian, and he has studied music too, graduating Tbilisi № 10 music school doing the piano class of the Honoured Pedagogue of Georgia Tariel Beradze. Sandro is keen on music, both classical and modern and he enjoys singing and dancing, too. Having good sense of humour, he has also tried composing some poetry too. 

  Nino is going up to University after graduating Tbilisi № 57 public school with honours this year. She is going to do the psychology course at University. Like her brother, Nino speaks two foreign languages, English and Russian, with a Cambridge certificate for her English. Nino studied music too, doing her piano course at Tbilisi № 10 music school. She plays both classical and modern pieces of music on the piano. As a little girl, she took her singing and dancing classes at the “Bastibubu” children’s studio, famous all over Georgia. She also took dancing classes at a choreography studio and participated in various musical events and concerts.