Dasha was born on August 25, 1980, in Norilsk, USSR. She grew up with a passion for music and theater, to which she devoted most of her early years. At the age of 18, she entered the Moscow Conservatory, where she studied composition. She began composing her own songs at a young age. Charusha, also drawn to acting, enrolled at the Moscow theater school GITIS, from which she graduated as a drama actress in June 2010. She appeared in several Russian films and series while also writing music for cinema and working on her own album. Her first major success was her collaboration with Andrey Karasyov on the music for the film Silent Souls, which was released in October 2010, was presented at the Venice Film Festival, and received very positive reviews.

In 2014, Dasha produced the film Cold Front, in which she played one of the main female roles and also wrote the music. The film was shot in Normandy in December of that same year. The international breakthrough came with the premiere of Hardcore in September 2015 at the Toronto Film Festival. The first first-person action film, directed by Ilya Naishuller, in which she took part as an actress and also wrote the music, proved to be a global phenomenon.