Iryna Petrivna Fedyshyn (, born in

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) is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter.

Biography

Iryna Fedyshyn was born on 1 February 1987 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, into a family of musicians. From an early age, she showed musical, vocal and stage abilities. Fedyshyn's father, although himself a musician, hoped that his daughter would succeed at

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. However, Iryna took to the synthesizer, on which she learned to improvise and write her first songs. At the age of thirteen, the girl decided to get a musical education and went to study at a music school. Thanks to her home education, she was immediately accepted into the fourth grade of the music school, from which she graduated with honors. There she also conducted concert programs. She studied economics at the

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and at the same time took private music and vocal lessons.

Musical career

Fedyshyn participated in youth music competitions and festivals, where she won prizes. Some songs were included in the rotation on Ukrainian radio stations. In 2005, she performed in the semi-final of the Ukrainian national selection for the

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, and in 2006 and in 2009 she performed in the concert program "Schlager of the Year". In 2015 Iryna Fedyshyn won the Ukrainian-language song contest "Ukrainian Format" with the song "Sertsia stuk". In 2016, she performed concerts in Ukraine, visited several dozen cities. On 4 November 2016, in Kyiv, in the October Palace, her solo concert "Tsvite Kalina" took place. In 2018, she took part in the eighth season of the TV show "

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". In 2020, Iryna Fedyshyn and her husband fell ill with

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, this became known after her recovery. In September 2020, she presented the song "Tam de ty", which entered the top ten most popular hits on radio stations in Kyiv and Ukraine, and the music video for it gained more than a million views on YouTube. Later that year, the singer released several Christmas-themed songs. Since January 2021, the singer took part in the project

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on the TV channel "

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", but dropped out in the fourth episode. On 2 March, Fedyshyn presented the

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"Obiimy".

Personal life

Fedyshyn lives in Lviv and is married to producer Vitalii Chovnyk. They have two sons: Yura and Oleh.

Discography

; Studio albums * ''Tvii anhel'' (2007) * ''Ukraina koliaduie'' (2007) * ''Parol'' (2012) * ''Ukraina koliaduie. Nove'' (2013) * ''Tsvite kalyna'' (2015) * ''Ty tilky mii'' (2018)

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fedyshyn, Iryna 1987 births Living people 21st-century Ukrainian women singers Ukrainian pop singers Ukrainian folk singers Ukrainian women pop singers Ukrainian women folk singers Musicians from Lviv