Nelly Ciobanu

Nelly Ciobanu
Ciobanu in Moscow, 2009
Background information
Born	28 October 1974 (1974-10-28) (age 37)
Origin	Moldova
Occupations	Singer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1993–present
Website	www.nellyciobanu.com

Nelly Ciobanu (born October 28, 1974) is a Moldovan singer. Ciobanu graduated from music college of the city of Tiraspol. Nelly made her debut on stage in 1993, with her brother as part of duo "Master Dinamit". She represented Moldova in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.

Biography

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" (North Korea), in 2003 - second prize at the festival "New Wave" in Jūrmala, the Grand Prix of K. Shulzhenko contest (Kharkiv, Ukraine), 2nd place in national pre-selection for Eurovision Song Contest 2005, 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 Patricia Kaas and Mike Bolton. On 24 December 2005 her daughter, Mirela Christiana was born.

Eurovision 2009

Nelly Ciobanu represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia 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.^[1]

References

1. ^ http://www.eurovision.tv/page/moscow2009/the-participants/final

External links

• Official website

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Geta Burlacu with "A Century of Love"	Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009	Succeeded by Sun Stroke Project & Olia Tira with "Run Away"

Persondata
Name	Ciobanu, Nelly
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Date of birth	28 October 1974
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