Sopo Nisharadze

Sopo Nischaradze (2010)

Sopo Nisharadze ( Georgian სოფო ნიჟარაძე [ sɔpʰɔ niʒɑrɑdzɛ ]; born February 6, 1985 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian actress and songwriter . She represented Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 .

Life

Youth and Studies

Supported by her mother, she started singing at an early age. She later studied piano and singing at the State Conservatory in Tbilisi, where she graduated with honors. She then completed an apprenticeship at the Theater der Künste (ATIS) and at the Academy for Music (GNESINY), where she also passed her final examination with distinction.

Musical career

At the age of three she entered a stage singing for the first time. In 1993 she was invited by Jasung Kachidze, a well-known Georgian conductor and film music composer, to join the children's music studio , where she sang the first voice in some performances and TV shows. In 1997 she was noticed by the French journalist Bernard Pivot when she appeared in the French embassy with Sous le ciel de Paris .

At the age of 17 she had won various singing competitions, including “Bravo, Bravissimo!” In the Mini Scala ( Italy ), the “Crystal Note” ( Moscow , Russia ) and the “Crystal Pine” ( Borjomi , Georgia). She had also taken part in festivals in Russia, Turkey , Italy, Latvia and Georgia and had her first leading roles in musicals such as Romeo and Juliet .

In 2003 she moved to Moscow. A year later she took on the leading role in the Russian performance of a musical by Gérard Presgurvic in the operetta theater. In 2005 she was in the finals of the New Wave Festival in Jūrmala , Latvia. As a result of the military clashes between Russia and Georgia in the Caucasus conflict in 2008 , she returned to Georgia.

Eurovision Song Contest 2010

On February 27, 2010, Nischaradze was selected in an internal competition of the Georgian Public Broadcasting Corporation to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest . For their song, a jury selected six out of 100 submitted titles for a national competition. The ballad Shine (dt. Light ), composed and texted by Hanne Sorvaag, Harry Sommerdahl and Christian Leuzzi, was elected to a public event in the even-Hall in Tbilisi in the first place. The song is said to have previously been offered to Celine Dion . On May 27, 2010 she was represented in the second ESC semi-final in Oslo and reached the final, which took place two days later. There she took ninth place.

In 2011 Nischaradze read out the Georgian scoring for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf .

In 2014 her second album We Are All was released .

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1. ↑ cf. Commentary by Peter Urban in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest ( Memento from June 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (ARD, May 29, 2010, 1:02:55 min)
2. ↑ https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/sofianizharadze

Web links

Commons : Sopo Nischaradze  - Collection of Images

• Myspace: Official website of Sopo Nischaradses (English)
• Eurovision Song Contest: Official self-presentation (English)