Ksenia Sitnik

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Ksenia Sitnik (Ксенія Сітнік in Cyrillic, sometimes also transliterated as Kseniya Sitnik) was the winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005, with the song My Vmeste (We Are Together), written by herself. She was born on 15 May 1995 in Mozyr, where she still lives. Her father is a businessman and her mother is a director of UMES music school. She is in the fourth grade of school No 13. Her hobbies include singing, dancing and drawing. Ksenia has an older sister who also takes part in children’s song contests.

Ksenia started her career at a very early age. She has taken part in many festivals such as the Chernobyl Way charity show and the festivals 'Falling Stars' in Nova Ruda, Poland and 'Star Light' in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Ksenia won prizes in the Golden Bee festival as well as the Grand Prix at the international children contest 'Vitebsk-2005' in Belarus. She became famous across Europe after her victory at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2005, where she represented her home country, Belarus. Despite the song not being popular in pre-contest polls (for example, in the 'Europrediction' poll, held by Oikotimes.com, Ksenia came last with no points), she won, albeit narrowly - she had only three points more than the runner-up, Antonio José from Spain.