Nelea Ciobanu-Mărgineanu (born 28 October 1974), known professionally as Nelly Ciobanu (), is a Moldovan singer. Ciobanu graduated from music college of the city of

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and later made her debut on stage in 1993, with her brother as part of duo "Master Dinamit". She represented Moldova in the

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with the song " Hora din Moldova", placing 14th.

Life and career

Ciobanu is a winner of multiple international competitions: in 1998 won second prize at the festival "Yalta - 98" (Ukraine), 1999 "Grand Prix" at the "Discovery" in Bulgaria (for the performance of a song of composer Liviu Stirbu ), the second prize at the festival "Voice of Asia" (Almaty, Kazakhstan), in 2000 - the first prize at the festival "Slavic Bazaar" in Belarus, the bronze medal of "Delphian Games" in Russia, in 2002, the golden prize of the festival "Spring of April" (

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), in 2003 - second prize at the festival "New Wave" in

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, the Grand Prix of K. Shulzhenko contest (

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, Ukraine), second place in national pre-selection for

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, was jury member at "Five Stars. Sings in 11 languages: Romanian, Russian, English, Italian, and even Korean. She has toured with many Russian artists and international stars such as

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and Mike Bolton. On 24 December 2005 her daughter, Mirela Christiana was born. She is married to Iurie Margineanu.

Eurovision Song Contest

Nelly Ciobanu represented

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in the

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with the song " Hora Din Moldova" which was written by her and composed by Veaceslav Daniliuc. She ranked 14th with 69 points in the Final. It was announced on 16 January 2012 that Nelly Ciobanu would try to represent

once more, with the song "Turn on the light"

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ciobanu, Nelly 1974 births Living people 20th-century Moldovan women singers Place of birth missing (living people) People from Cantemir District 21st-century Moldovan women singers Eurovision Song Contest entrants