Gaitana
Gaitana ( Ukrainian Гайтана , transcribed Hajtana , actually Hajta-Lurdes Essami , ukr: Гайта-Лурдес Ессамі ; born September 29, 1979 in Kiev ) is a Ukrainian pop singer . She is the daughter of a Congolese and a Ukrainian.
At the age of five Gaitana moved with her parents to the Congo, and when she was ten, she returned to Kiev with her mother.
As a child she competed in table tennis before she put a sporting career behind music as a teenager. She tried her hand at different styles of music and was a singer in various bands before she became successful with her own mix of styles. After a contract with the Ukrainian record label Lavinia , her first album, which was released in 2003, was very popular. She composes her mostly Ukrainian-language songs herself.
In the Ukrainian preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 , she prevailed against 21 competitors. With the pop song Be My Guest , she survived the semi-finals in Baku on May 24th and reached 15th place for her home country in the ESC final two days later.
Discography
Albums
- 2003: О тебе
- 2005: Слідом за тобою
- 2007: Капли дождя
- 2008: Кукабарра
- 2008: Тайные желания
- 2010: Только сегодня
Singles
- 2006: Два вікна
- 2007: Шаленій
- 2009: Нещодавно
- 2012: Be My Guest
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gaitana Going Strong Ukraine's Soulful Singer Talks whatson-kiev.com, approx. 2008
Web links
- Homepage
- Ukraine: Gaitana at eurovision.de
- Gaitana at Discogs (English)
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SURNAME | Gaitana |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hajtana; Essami, Hajta-Lurdes (real name); Гайтана (Ukrainian); Ессамі, Гайта-Лурдес (Ukrainian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian pop singer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 29th September 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev |