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Russia In The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Russia participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 which took place on 21 November 2015, in Sofia, Bulgaria. The Russian broadcaster, Russia-1, selected their entry through a televised national final. Mikhail Smirnov won it and represented Russia with his song "Mechta (Dream)". He finished 6th in the final of the contest with 80 points. Background Prior to the 2016 Contest, Russia had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest ten times since its debut in . Russia have participated at ever contest since its debut, and have won the contest once in with the song "Vesenniy Jazz", performed by Tolmachevy Twins. The twin sisters went on to become the first act from a Junior Eurovision Song Contest to represent their country at the Eurovision Song Contest, performing the song " Shine" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Before Junior Eurovision National final The Russian broadcaster, Russia-1, revealed the details about the selection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Smirnov (singer)
Mikhail Alekseevich Smirnov (russian: Михаил Алексеевич Смирнов; born 30 April 2003) is a Russian singer, songwriter and actor. He represented Russia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Mechta" (russian: Мечта, en, Dream), where he placed sixth. Smirnov was a finalist of the second season of ''The Voice Kids'' in Russia, an actor in the musical ''Ivanhoe'', and a multiple grand prize winner of many Russian and international vocal competitions. Early life and career Early beginnings Smirnov was born on 30 April 2003 in Moscow in a family of mathematicians. When he was three, Smirnov suddenly began to stutter and his parents sent him to singing lessons as a therapy. Smirnov has a huge number of Gran Prix on various Russian and international vocal competitions. He says that his major achievement is the final of the TV show '' The Voice Kids'' (''Голос. Дети''). Junior Eurovision 2015 and latter part of his care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Savicheva
Yulia Stanislavovna Savicheva (russian: link=no, Ю́лия Станисла́вовна Са́вичева; born 14 February 1987) is a Russian singer who represented Russia in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey. Biography Savicheva was born on 14 February 1987 into a family of musicians in the city of Kurgan on the edge of Siberia, located east of the Ural Mountains. Frequent visitors to her parents' home included several Russian songwriters and music producers. Yulia's father (an avid piano player) would regularly compose songs for his daughter to sing; this would subsequently prove to be the beginning of Yulia's career as a singer. Savicheva's first onstage experience as a singer occurred at the age of four, with the group Agatha Christie. Her dancing there earned her a standing ovation. After this, she began participating in a dance group where, despite her age, she performed as a soloist. A year later, when she was six, the group (in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Shulgina
Anna Alexandrovna Shulgina (russian: Анна Александровна Шульгина; born June 21, 1993, in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian film and stage actress, folk-rock-singer and television presenter. Biography Born in Moscow on June 21, 1993, in the family of the singer Valeriya and composer Alexander Shulgin. In 2009, she graduated from the Moscow central school with in-depth study of specific subjects. In the same year he entered the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. In 2013 she made her debut as a television presenter in the program ''Our way'' on the TV channel ''Russia-1 Russia-1 (russian: Россия-1) is a state-owned Russian television channel, first aired on 14 February 1956 as Programme Two in the Soviet Union. It was relaunched as RTR on 13 May 1991, and is known today as Russia-1. It is the flagship ch ...''. In 2014 she released her first single, “Give a Shance to Dream” in collaboration with the young hip-hop artist SLEM. References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yulia Nachalova
Yulia Viktorovna Nachalova (russian: link=no, Ю́лия Ви́кторовна Нача́лова; 31 January 1981 – 16 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian singer, actress and television presenter. Early life Nachalova was born in 1981 in Voronezh in a musical family. Her grandfather, a combine driver and Hero of Labour, played accordion and balalaika. Both Nacholova's parents were professional musicians working at the Voronezh Philharmonic. Nachalova was taught singing from birth and performed for the first time at the age of five in the Philharmonic. Career Nachalova rose to fame in Russia as a child star following her participation in the Channel One programme ''Morning Star'' in 1991. Recognising her potential, her family moved to Moscow. In 1992, she presented the children's music programme ''Tam-tam novosti''. At the age of 14, Nachalova flew to New York to participate in the music competition Big Apple-1995, where she won the Grand Prix. She has claimed that one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sati Kazanova
Sataney Setgalievna Kazanova (russian: link=no, Сатаней Сетгалиевна Казанова), better known as Sati Kazanova (russian: link=no, Сати Казанова), (born 2 October 1982 in Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR) is a Russian singer, fashion model, actress and TV personality. Until May 2010, she was one of the three vocalists of the Russian pop girl group Fabrika (Russian: Фабрика; Factory in English). In 2002, she took part in the first season of the Russian talent show ''Star Factory'' as a member of Fabrika, where they finished second. She won the Astra (Russian: Астра) award for most stylish female singer in 2006. On 5 October 2009 she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Republic of Adygea by the President of the republic, Aslan Tkhakushinov. In 2011, she hosted the show '' The Phantom of the Opera'', and in 2013 she became a participant in the show ''One to One!''. Personal life She studied at the Russian Academy of Music and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nul Points
The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest is selected by a positional voting system. The most recent system was implemented in the , and sees each participating country award two sets of 12, 10, 8–1 points to their ten favourite songs: one set from their professional jury and the other from televoting, with only televoting used in the semi-finals, and both jury and televoting in the final. Overview Small, demographically-balanced juries made up of ordinary people had been used to rank the entries, but after the widespread use of telephone voting in the contest organizers resorted to juries only in the event of a televoting malfunctions. In , Eircom's telephone polling system malfunctioned. Irish broadcaster RTÉ did not receive the polling results from Eircom in time, and substituted votes by a panel of judges. Between 1997 and 2003 (the first years of televoting), lines were opened to the public for only five minutes after the performance and recap of the final song. Between 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitris Kontopoulos
Dimitris Kontopoulos (Greek: Δημήτρης Κοντόπουλος born November 9, 1971, in Athens, Greece) is a Greek music composer. Personal life Dimitris Kontopoulos was born in Athens, Greece on November 9, 1971. After graduating from the Ziridis school, he continued his studies in film scoring at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. Kontopoulos is married and has two children. Career Kontopoulos became active in the music industry in 1999–2000. In 1999 he released as a producer the album 'Etsi ime ego' by Iro. The singles of the album 'Etsi eime ego' and 'Tipota' topped the Greek charts making the producer famous nationally. In 2001, he released the second album of Iro as a producer and composer. The singles 'Apogeiosi', 'Etsi eine oi sxeseis' and 'Moni mou' also topped the charts. In 2002, he produced and composed the album of Giannis Vardis. The first single of the album 'Gia ena lepto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic ( Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Language
Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is one of four living East Slavic languages, and is also a part of the larger Balto-Slavic languages. Besides Russia itself, Russian is an official language in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, and is used widely as a lingua franca throughout Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to some extent in the Baltic states. It was the ''de facto'' language of the former Soviet Union, Constitution and Fundamental Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977: Section II, Chapter 6, Article 36 and continues to be used in public life with varying proficiency in all of the post-Soviet states. Russian has over 258 million total speakers worldwide. It is the most spoken Slavic language, and the most spoken native language in Europe, as well as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Voice Kids
''The Voice Kids'' is a version of '' The Voice'' TV series franchise in which children participate. Versions The first such variation was '' The Voice Kids'' from the Netherlands, which was followed by other international variants: : Franchise with a currently airing season : Franchise with an upcoming season : Franchise with an unknown status : Franchise that had ceased to air : Franchise that was cancelled during production : Original version (Netherlands) Alumni Some of the singers who have participated in ''The Voice Kids'' have also participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, a junior version of the Eurovision Song Contest. They include: * Darina Krasnovetska (Ukraine) * Daneliya Tuleshova (Kazakhstan but competed in ''The Voice Kids Ukraine'', winner) * Max Albertazzi (Netherlands) * Anne Buhre (Netherlands) * Alisa Kozhikina (Russia, winner) * Angélina Nava (France, winner) * Roksana Węgiel (Poland, winner) * Helena Meraai (Belarus but competed in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across eleven time zones and shares land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than any other country but China. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and largest city is Moscow, the largest city entirely within Europe. Saint Petersburg is Russia's cultural centre and second-largest city. Other major urban areas include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. The East Slavs emerged as a recognisable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. Kievan Rus' arose as a state in the 9th century, and in 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia In The Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Russia first competed in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in . Their first win came in , when the Tolmachevy Twins won for Russia with "Vesenniy jazz". Their second win came in , when Polina Bogusevich won for Russia with "Wings". Their worst result to date has been achieved by Tanya Mezhentseva and Denberel Oorzhak with the song "A Time for Us" in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 where they placed 13th. RTR has represented Russia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The broadcaster has selected Ekaterina Ryabova to represent Russia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Kyiv with the song "Malenkiy prints". Ekaterina Ryabova represented Russia once again in 2011 with the song "Kak Romeo i Dzhulyetta". She was also the first returning artist in the history of the Junior Eurovision. Russia had initially confirmed their participation in the 2022 contest, however on 26 February 2022, the Russian broadcasters VGTRK and Channel One Russia suspended their EBU me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
