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[edit] About Myself
I am Ukrainian-Romanian borned in Cernăuţi . I'm a fan of the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 Ruslana.
- Date of birth : 27 March 1983.
- Occupation : esctoday.com editor , eurovision-romania.tk editor , journalist
- Interests : I like the womans with black hair. I want to represent Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 . I want to release soon my first album . I want to learn the French language.
- Zodiac : Aries
- Place of birth : Cernăuţi
- Favorite singers : Ruslana , Anna Lesko , Luminiţa Anghel , Dima Bilan , Marie N , ABBA
- Favorite songs : Wild Dances , Heart on Fire , The Same Star , Let Me Try
- Eurovision favorite countries : Romania , Ukraine
[edit] About Ruslana
Ruslana Lyzhychko (born May 24, 1973 Ukrainian: Руслана Степанівна Лижичко) is the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 from Lviv, Ukraine. Born in 1973, she is a singer, dancer, producer, composer, conducter, and piano player. She writes, composes and produces her own songs and music videos.
[edit] Political career
Ruslana started her political career in the beginning of 2006 being a member of Ukraine's parliament. Among the priorities of her legislative activity she named the work out of laws about patronage of art, job placement for students and defense of intellectual property right. Ruslana run for Parliament on a party ticket of Our Ukraine bloc.
[edit] Musical Career
Ruslana started her career as a winner of Slavyanskiy Bazar song competition in 1996. Her debut album, Мить весни. Дзвінкий вітер (In an instant of spring. Sonorous wind), which was released in 1998, received high praise from the critics. It was a relative success given the overall state of Ukrainian music market of that time. Still, wider recognition didn't come until 1998 with the song Svitanok (Sunrise) and the album Myt' Vesny - Dzvinkyj Viter Live. Svitanok was the first big video clip in Ukraine. In 1999 she worked on the Christmas musical Ostanne rizdvo 90th (The Last Christmas of the 90's), which won the Ukrainian Movie of the Year award. Albums that followed were Останнє різдво 90-x (1999), Найкраще, and Добрий вечір, тобі... but were all commercial flops. Her album Dyki Tantsi (Wild Dances) which was issued in 2003 went double platinum in Ukraine, selling over 200,000 copies. According to the latest sales results (as of 2005), over 500,000 of "Dyki Tantsi" were sold in Ukraine, making the album 5x platinum.
She won the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Wild Dances, which earned 280 points, receiving points from 34 of the 35 other countries participating in the contest (the exception being Switzerland).
In 2004's disputed Ukrainian presidential elections, she declared her support for Viktor Yushchenko. She was one of the scores of prominent figures that addressed the mass crowds rallying in support of Yushchenko's demand that his original defeat be declared fraudulent. At one stage she was even quoted as saying she was ready to go on hunger strike for the cause.
In 2005, Ruslana appeared at the Eurovision Song Contest held in Kyiv. She performed a new song called Heart on Fire. The performance included her carrying a torch-blower. She also interviewed contestants in the green room area during the voting part of the show.
Ruslana designed the cover for Jonathan Safran Foer's "The Unabridged Pocket Book of Lightening" which was produced as part of Penguin Books' 70th birthday celebrations.
In 2006, she is a candidate for Yushchenko's party, Our Ukraine, in the Parliamentary elections of March 2006. She was number five on the election list [1] and was chosen into parliament.
Ruslana also plans to release a new album this year.
