Natia Todua
Natia Todua ( Georgian ნათია თოდუა ; born March 12, 1996 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian singer . She won the seventh season of The Voice of Germany in 2017 .
Life
Todua's parents studied business administration and after the Georgian-Abkhaz War fled to Tbilisi in the early 1990s , where Natia Todua was born in 1996. When she was two years old, her parents moved with her and her sister three years her senior back to their homeland, the Gali Rajon in Abkhazia . There she grew up in the border town of Nabakewi . After finishing school, she moved with her sister to Tbilisi, where she studied economics at the Caucasus University . But she did not finish her studies. In Tbilisi she heard jazz and blues for the first time . At a young talent competition she got to know the band Wakis Parki , which she employed as a background singer and later as a soloist. Two years after Todua, her mother and younger brother also moved to Tbilisi, and her father stayed in Abkhazia. Her participation in The X Factor in Georgia (2014) and Ukraine (2015) was unsuccessful .
Todua came in August 2016, an au pair - visa to Germany and worked in Munich and Kirchheim unter Teck . In order to be able to continue to participate in The Voice of Germany 2017 after the successful blind audition , she took an intensive German course to extend her visa by one year. In her blind audition, she received all four jury votes and chose Samu Haber , who accompanied her to victory.
She lives with a German-Georgian couple in Bruchsal and has music lessons there. Before her victory at The Voice of Germany , her goal was to study at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim . On February 22, 2018, she took part in Our Song for Lisbon , the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 . For this, their first single, My Own Way, was released on February 20, 2018.
From January 2019 she will be on the jury of Georgian Idol , the Georgian counterpart to DSDS .
Web links
- Natia Todua at laut.de
- Rainer Kaufmann: Gali, Tiflis, Bruchsal and a big dream. caucasian-post.com, November 24, 2017
- Armin Herberger: What does “The-Voice” Natia Todua actually do? bnn.de, October 24, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ NDR: ESC preliminary decision: These are the candidates. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Emily Herbert: Georgia: Georgian Idol Jury Members Revealed. In: Eurovoix. December 11, 2018; Retrieved December 12, 2018 (UK English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Todua, Natia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | თოდუა, ნათია (Georgian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1996 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi , Georgia |