Dinner with a star Guest – Olga Satsyuk
The TUT.BY correspondent decided to follow the fate of the young artists who performed in previous years. Participants of the children's international competition told aboutwhether they are going to, or have already connected their lives with music or show business.
2003
The first at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen was Olga Satsyuk from Kobrin. The girl sang the song "Dance" in Belarusian. Ranked 4th out of 16 countries.
What is Olga thinking and dreaming about today?
"The outgoing 2012 was a transitional year for me in many respects, both creatively and personally. The teenage stage in my life is coming to an end, and this is always associated with certain difficulties, such as changing the repertoire, image. That's what I'm working on my team.But along with the changes in my life, there are also such familiar components as concerts, competitions and filming, as well as my third-year studies at the Belarusian University of Culture and Arts at the department pop vocal. Also, for several years now I have been painting, actively experimenting and I hope that the result of my efforts will soon be seen at a solo exhibition. There was also a stage in my life with the "Paints" group, but for a number of reasons I did not get the results I needed from the project, although in fact I still remain the soloist of the group. Apart from solo work I am collaborating with talented musicians and arrangers from all over the country. But I would like to pay special attention to my tandem with a promising young musician from my hometown of Kobrin Sergey Poshelyuzhny under creative pseudonym VIPY YO.
Speaking specifically about 2012, at the beginning of it I was actively involved in the charity project Give Children a Dream. As part of this project, I gave master classes, was a member of the jury, and was also the host with my close friends Zhenya Bulka and Anton Martynenko. In the fall, I had an exciting trip with our artists far beyond the borders of Belarus, to be more precise, to Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog, where I VII festival"Youth - for the Union State".
And, of course, this year Belarus chose the tenth representative for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, in honor of which Belteleradiocompany organized a large-scale show with all the contestants of previous years. I performed the song "Don" t let me fall ", on the creation of which in different time such musicians as the group "Litesound", Peter Elfimov and the group "Brown Velvet" worked. Many guys who performed after me at the Junior Eurovision became real friends for me, with whom we communicate outside concert venues. Eurovision has become a successful springboard for me in my childhood career, I always worry about all the representatives of our country, and I wish you good luck and.
But I am sure that even more changes are waiting for me in next year, where there will be new duets, and, possibly, new competitions. I really want to open a school for young performers. I think that we have a lot of talented children in our country. Therefore, I want to find good specialists and realize our plans. I would like to help children who do not yet know in which direction and how best to move in music.
I am 19, my career is just beginning, I have many projects and plans, my dreams are to work with the best performers and music producers. Two years ago I started writing songs. I hope they show up in the new year.
2004
Egor Volchek from Mazyr at the age of 12 represented Belarus at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Sing with me" in the city of Lillehammer (Norway). The boy took 14th place.
Egor Volcheksteppedfrom Junior Eurovision to Adult
"After the performance at the Junior Eurovision, there was a break for a couple of years. But then he returned to music again. Nevertheless, he took the choice of profession more seriously and entered the Belarusian State University at the Faculty of Economics, international management. But he never gave up singing.
For some time he sang in the Sky-Tai group. But six months ago I realized that there was no growth and that I needed to move on somewhere. Recorded new project and decided to test his strength this year in . I take part in the ONT project "Academy of Talents".
After entering the university, I thought that everything would calm down, calm down, and I would become calmer about music. But that did not happen. Now I understand that the scene draws me to itself. In that academic year I am writing a diploma and I am already graduating from the university, but I still don’t want to work in my specialty. In addition to singing, now I'm trying to remember the basics of playing the saxophone. After all, once I went to a music school to play this instrument.
Now, while I am writing my diploma, I am slowly thinking about the future and about the direction in music that I want to do. Most likely, it will not be a pop or rock direction, probably, I will still choose something dance.
2005 year
Ksenia Sitnik was born in Mozyr. Since 2001, she has been studying at the pop singing studio. With the song "We are together" Ksenia performed at the Junior Eurovision 2005 in the Belgian city of Hasselt. Sitnik returned to Belarus with a victory.
In plans - admission to international journalism
Because of busy schedule and preparation for admission, it was not possible to contact Xenia. But I managed to talk with Ksenia Sitnik's mother - Svetlana Statsenko:
“Now Ksenia is finishing school and all the emphasis is on preparing for admission. Her daughter is going to enter international journalism. Despite the fact that Ksenia is not going to connect her life and future profession with music, she continues to practice vocals to maintain her tone. Now we are not preparing material for the competition, sing more English songs.
Most recently, the ONT channel invited Ksyusha to perform at the New Year's light. It turned out to be an interesting experiment, Ksenia covered Britney Spears' song "Oh...Baby, Baby... Oops!" in Belarusian. It turned out pretty weird."
2006
Andrey Kunets from Mozyr, at the age of 10, performed at the international contest "Eurovision-2006" in Bucharest (Romania) with the song "New Day". The boy took second place.
Andrew chose a creative profession
A few years after participating in the Junior Eurovision, Andrey released an album called "New Day", changed his image and began to listen to better music.
Today the guy is 17 years old, he is in the 11th grade and is seriously preparing for admission. It was not possible to catch him at home, as he is completely immersed in study and tutoring. According to Andrey's mother, he is not engaged in music now, as a turning point and his voice is mutating. Where the young man will go, mother did not answer, she only emphasized that the profession will be connected with creativity and Andrei will try his hand in Minsk.
2007
Alexey Zhigalkovich started singing at the age of 5. He received pop singing lessons from Olga Vronskaya, Nelly Dushchinskaya, Pyotr Elfimov. In 2007 he brought the second victory from the Junior Eurovision Song Contest from Rotterdam (Netherlands). Performed with the song "With friends".
From artist to filmmaker
"Today I am studying senior class and I am preparing to enter the Belarusian Academy of Arts in the department of directing feature films. There is no time for music right now. Fully immersed in directing.
At one time, I learned about the Minsk film school. Signed up there and after the first lesson received interesting task, after which I realized that this area is close to me. Now I shoot videos, write scripts, go to preparatory courses at the Academy of Arts. I'm getting ready to shoot a creative anti-smoking social video."
2008
Trio Daria Nadina, Alina Molosh, Karina Zhukovich represented Belarus in 2008 in Limassol, Cyprus with the song "Heart of Belarus". The girls took 6th place.
From Baranovichi to Moscow
"Karina Zhukovich finished 9 classes in Baranovichi and entered the Moscow School of Music on pop-jazz vocals. Upon admission, Karina passed the exam invocals by typing 100 points out of 100. Alina Molosh entered the Minsk College of Arts for pop-jazz vocals. Daria Nadina is still at school, the future is going to be connected with creative profession. In plans - receipt in London. But he is not going to quit vocals, he wants to continue doing this business, regardless of future profession" - said the teacher of girls, artistic director Center musical art them. Mulyavina Svetlana Statsenko.
year 2009
Yuri Demidovich has been involved in music since childhood. Even in the second grade, Yura entered the gymnasium-college at the Belarusian state academy music. In 2009, in Kyiv, Yuri Demidovich performed at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Magic Rabbit", where he took 9th place.
Singing did not quit
Today Yura is 16 years old and he continues his studies at the gymnasium-college at the Belarusian State Academy of Music at the department choral conducting. In which direction he will move further, he does not yet know, since it is at this time that the voice mutation occurs. As for plans for the future, according to Yuri, it can be judged that he will definitely become a musician and, possibly, go to study abroad.
2010
2010 was a special year for Belarus. Junior Eurovision took place in the Belarusian capital. Daniil Kozlov I didn't have to travel far from Zhabinka. With the song "Music Light" Daniil took 5th place.
Draws the souls of people
Now Daniil is in the 10th grade, he takes part in various competitions, for example, most recently - in, which was held on our portal. Behind the performances at the festival children's creativity"Land fell with white wings", a charity concert tour in Italy and many other competitions.
"I want to connect my life with music. As for musical direction, then the closest pop. In addition to music, I really like to draw abstract things, for example, the souls of people. From plans for the future - I would very much like to go to the adult Eurovision and take part in the New Wave, Daniel told TUT.BY.
2011
Lydia Zablotskaya performed at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Yerevan (Armenia) with the song "Angels of Good". Among all the participants took 3rd place.
Lydia's dream: "Become a TV presenter and open music studio"
Now Lida is still 14 years old and she is studying in the 9th grade, but she is building quite specific plans for the future. For a year, interest in music has not weakened. The girl is still engaged in vocals, participates in various projects, performs at city and republican concerts.
"Vocal is my hobby, which I will never give up. In a few years I plan to enter the faculty of journalism. In the future I want to become a TV presenter and open my own music studio. I think that the studio can be opened in Minsk or in hometown Mogilev. I think that one thing will not interfere with another and I will be able to combine everything" Lydia shared.
- Olya, on the way to Copenhagen, you probably somehow imagined future competition. And what did it really turn out to be?
- All the way I wanted to come quickly and look at the stage where I will perform. But I was not afraid to speak, although I knew that there would be 8 thousand people in the hall. I was afraid when I was very young: at the age of 4, I went on stage for the first time.
- What was the most difficult part of the competition for you?
- Sing and dance at the same time. And I still had to make the whole hall dance - I had never made such a big effort on stage before. But from this song I myself want to dance, and the audience was on their ears! Although no one there understood any words or what Belarus was (because in Denmark Belarus is called quite differently, in three words), but everyone danced and tried to sing along with me ... Everyone now says that it is very good - 4th place but it's still embarrassing. We prepared for many months and the rehearsals in Copenhagen were so difficult! It was necessary to sing your song 5 times in a row without a break and every time as if you were in last time take the stage...
- And Katya Lipovskaya, whose song did you sing, supported you? She is much older than you though.
- We became very good friends with Katya back in September, when we learned that we would go to the competition together. And at Eurovision, she always told me: "The stage is our home. Do you like to come to your house? And you grew up on the stage."
- Did you manage to see Copenhagen?
- Yes, I even managed to go to the cinema - it's as big as a five-story building there. I saw a movie about dolphins. I also went to the water park large aquarium- you walk for a long time, and around you are fish, lampreys, crayfish ... But I didn’t see the famous "Mermaid" - we were not advised to look at it, because the "Mermaid" was very far from the hotel, and we were also told that people who look at "The Little Mermaid" become very sad. I love Andersen though.
- You often perform - don't concerts interfere with studying at school?
- We have to try to combine everything. Therefore, whenever I go somewhere, I take textbooks with me. And in Copenhagen she forced herself to learn lessons. By the way, tomorrow I have a dictation in Russian... It happens that teachers scold me, but I'm not offended, quite the contrary. What else can I expect when I haven't been at school for two weeks?
- Interesting, do you have time to play at all?
- IN Lately once. Lessons, music school... and so on.
- And not sad about it?
- I'm never sad. Because there are a lot of friends - very, very, very. In every town.
We were able to find almost all the participants of the Junior Eurovision in social networks. They have thousands of friends, many have new musical achievements.
2003
Olga Satsyuk
The first is always the hardest. From our country, nine-year-old Olga Satsyuk entered the unbeaten stage with the song "Dance" and took 4th place.
Now the singer is 21 years old, and she loves heavier music. She performs with the Prime-band group, in which she is also the author of many songs, shoots videos and works as a teacher at the Discovery rock school. And she also manages to paint, work as a TV presenter for Belarus 3 and study at BGUKI as a pop vocalist.
2004
Egor Volchek
At Eurovision, 12-year-old Yegor presented the song "Spy with me", took 14th place.
In 2012, he tried to get into the final of the national selection for Eurovision, and also took part in the ONT project "Talent Academy". The culmination can be considered participation in the TV show "I want to Meladze!". Now the guy is 23 years old, he lights up in many music programs and is preparing a solo album for release.
2005 year
Ksenia Sitnik
Our first winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest Ksenia Sitnik gained fame for a long time. At the time of the Eurovision Song Contest, the girl was only 10 years old. Her song “We are together” then sounded on mobile ringtones for a long time and made kids at matinees. Now Ksenia is 20 years old, she comprehends journalism in Prague, but she does not forget about vocals. Sometimes she comes to Belarus, on the streets of Minsk they still recognize her and ask for an autograph.
2006
Andrey Kunets
The ten-year-old blond boy fell in love with the audience and took 2nd place at Eurovision with the song "New Day". Some time later, he released an album of the same name. For some time nothing was heard about him, and then he surfaced in the TV show “Talent Academy. Third course. Now Andrei is a 19-year-old student of the third year of BSUKI with a degree in Variety Art.
2007
Alexey Zhigalkovich
11-year-old Aleksey Zhigalkovich repeated the feat of Ksenia Sitnik and took first place with the song "With Friends". But over time, the guy realized that directing was closer to him in spirit, and took up shooting clips and short films. Now Aleksey is a student of the Faculty of Screen Arts of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. And recently, in one of the capital's clubs, the 19-year-old director, together with Svyatoslav Poznyak, presented music video gypsy theater Gipsy Band.
2008
Daria Nadina, Alina Molosh, Karina Zhukovich
The bright trio performed the song "Heart of Belarus" at Eurovision and took 6th place.
Alina Molosh is now 18 years old, graduating from an art college, devoting herself entirely to music and has been trying herself as a vocal teacher at the Discovery rock school for six months now. She is the recipient of many music awards. Karina Zhukovich is now 19 years old, she entered the Moscow School of Music for pop-jazz vocals and participated in the Ukrainian song show "X-factor". Dasha Nadina studies at one of the British universities. Musical career does not intend to continue. All three girls are still friendly, but they communicate mainly on the Internet, since they still live in different countries.
year 2009
Yuri Demidovich
The 12-year-old "magic rabbit" Yuri Demidovich jumped onto the stage of Eurovision and jumped to 9th place. Yura's life is still closely connected with music. The guy has a gymnasium-college at the Belarusian State Academy of Music, the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory behind him. Last year, the "magic rabbit" entered the conducting department. Now he is 19 years old.
2010
Daniil Kozlov
13-year-old Daniil Kozlov with the song "Music Light" took 5th place. The guy is still actively passionate about music, participates in dozens charity projects. In his creative arsenal, performances at the festival of children's creativity "Land under white wings". Now the 18-year-old guy is planning to go to the adult Eurovision and take part in the New Wave.
2011
Lydia Zablotskaya
13-year-old Lydia Zablotskaya from Belarus entered the stage with the composition "Angels of Good". The song contest convinced the girl that the element of her life was journalism. Now Lida is studying at the Institute of Journalism of Belarusian State University, she is 17 years old.
year 2012
Egor Zheshko
11-year-old Ilya came to Eurovision with the song "Sing with me" and took 3rd place. It should be noted that the boy was the author of both the text and the melody of his composition. Now Ilya is 13 years old, he studies at the gymnasium-college of arts. Akhremchik, goes in for sports ballroom dancing, swimming and continues to perform. Behind the shoulders of the young artist, participation and victories in republican and international competitions, including "New Movement", "European Cup", "New Children's Wave".
year 2014
Nadezhda Misyakova
Last year, the star performed the song "Sokal" and took 7th place. Now the girl is 15 years old. She enjoys music lessons and is actively engaged in creativity - singing and painting, playing the piano. Recently I got to the final of the V Republican creative radio contest "Young talents of Belarus".
2015
Ruslan Aslanov
This year, the participant from Belarus at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest Daniel Yastremsky took only 11th place.
The Junior Eurovision, of course, is much less intense than the adult one. But in it our country has achieved much greater success. Moreover, Belarus was one of the founding countries of the competition and invariably participates in it every year. And in the ranking for all the years, our country has been confidently among the leaders, having won 2 victories, once taking 2nd place, 2 times taking 3rd place, 2 times - 4th, and 2 times - 5th place.
We note several features of the competition in comparison with the adult version. First, the child must sing exclusively in national language countries, and secondly, all children, regardless of the place, are credited with 12 points. We decided to remember all the Belarusian participants in the competition, and also to see how they look now, and how their fate has turned out.
2003 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Song: dance
Song language: Belorussian
Final place: 4
Glasses: 103 (12 - Croatia, 12 - Poland, 10 - Latvia, 10 - Macedonia, 10 - Norway, 7 - Romania, 7 - Sweden, 6 - Cyprus, 6 - Malta, 5 - Greece, 5 - Belgium, 5 - Great Britain, 4 - Denmark, 3 - Holland, 1 - Spain)
Interesting Facts: Belarus participates in Junior Eurovision since the founding of this competition - 2003
Fate after the contest: in 2016 Olga graduated from BGUKI and works at the leading Belteleradiocompany. He continues to sing and leads an active lifestyle, participates in photography as a model. Released a new one in 2019 clip
Performance
Winner performance – Dino “Ti Si Moja Prva Ljubav” (Croatia)
Current photo (photo 2018-2019)
2004 - Lillehammer, Norway
Song: Sleep with me
Song language: Belorussian
Final place: 14
Glasses: 9 (4 - Romania, 3 - Poland, 1 - Latvia, 1 - Greece)
Interesting Facts: Yegor Volchek also participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003 as a backing vocalist
Fate after the contest: vocalist of the cover band YellowsTone, which works both in Belarus and in Russia. Married in 2018
Performance
Winner Performance – María Isabel “Antes Muerta Que Sencilla” (Spain)
Current photo (photo 2014-2019)
2005 - Hasselt, Belgium
Song: We are together
Song language: Russian
Final place: 1
Glasses: 149 (12 - Malta, 12 - Latvia, 12 - Russia, 10 - Croatia, 10 - Romania, 10 - Great Britain, 10 - Norway, 10 - Spain, 8 - Greece, 8 - Serbia and Montenegro, 7 - Cyprus, 7 - Macedonia, 6 - Denmark, 6 - Sweden, 5 - Belgium, 4 - Holland)
Interesting Facts: all countries gave Sitnik at least 4 points
Fate after the contest: Ksenia graduated from the university in Prague and currently works at the Czech wedding agency marryme.cz. The girl is actively involved in photo shoots.
Performance
Current photo (2016-2019)
2006 - Bucharest, Romania
Andrey Kunets
Song: New day
Song language: Russian
Final place: 2
Glasses: 129 (12 - Portugal, 12 - Malta, 12 - Russia, 10 - Romania, 10 - Ukraine, 10 - Sweden, 8 - Spain, 8 - Greece, 8 - Croatia, 6 - Belgium, 6 - Serbia, 6 - Cyprus, 5 - Macedonia, 4 - Holland)
Fate after the contest: graduated from BSUKI
Performance
Winner performance – Anastasia and Maria Tolmacheva “Spring Jazz” (Russia)
Current photo (2014-2018)
2007 – Rotterdam, Holland
Song: With friends
Song language: Russian
Final place: 1
Glasses: 137 (12 - Portugal, 12 - Malta, 12 - Lithuania, 10 - Russia, 10 - Bulgaria, 10 - Ukraine, 8 - Armenia, 8 - Serbia, 8 - Macedonia, 8 - Sweden, 7 - Greece, 7 - Romania, 5 - Belgium, 4 - Georgia, 4 - Holland)
Interesting Facts: the victory was won with a margin of only 1 point
Fate after the contest: Works at Zalex Films, shoots video various subjects, including music videos. No longer acts as a performer
Performance
Current photo (2014-2018)
2008 - Limassol, Cyprus
Song: Heart of Belarus
Song language: Russian
Final place: 6
Glasses: 86 (10 - Russia, 10 - Belgium, 7 - Serbia, 7 - Malta, 6 - Bulgaria, 5 - Romania, 5 - Armenia, 5 - Macedonia, 5 - Ukraine, 4 - Holland, 4 - Greece, 3 - Lithuania, 3 - Cyprus)
Interesting Facts: this is the only time when no one went to the competition from Belarus solo artist, and the trio
Fate after the contest: Dasha Nadina graduated from the university in 2018 and, apparently, lives in London. Karina Zhukovich got married, changed her last name to Shevtsova and works in the editorial office of VOGUE magazine in Moscow. Alina Molosh continues to perform on various stages in Minsk both solo and as a vocalist of KOROL PROJECT.
Performance
Winner performance – Bzikebi “Bzzz…” (Georgia)
Current photo (2017-2019)
2009 - Kyiv, Ukraine
Song: Magic Bunny
Song language: Russian
Final place: 9
Glasses: 48 (7 - Ukraine, 6 - Russia, 6 - Macedonia, 5 - Georgia, 4 - Belgium, 3 - Holland, 3 - Romania, 1 - Armenia, 1 - Cyprus)
Interesting Facts: for some time, a real boom began around the song of Yuri Demidovich, someone saw in her words “etis-atis-animatis” almost a call of the devil
Fate after the contest: Yura Demidovich left to study in Moscow. There he continues to study music and plays football.
Performance
Winner performance – Ralf “Click Clack…” (Holland)
Current photo (2017-2019)
2010 - Minsk, Belarus
Daniil Kozlov
Song: Music light
Song language: Russian
Final place: 5
Glasses: 85 (12 - Georgia, 12 - Latvia, 10 - Armenia, 10 - Russia, 7 - Macedonia, 6 - Ukraine, 6 - Moldova, 4 - Lithuania, 3 - Holland, 3 - Malta)
Fate after the contest: keeps singing
Performance
Winner performance – Vladimir Arzumanyan “Mama” (Armenia)
Current photo (2017-2018)
2011 - Yerevan, Armenia
Lydia Zablotskaya
Song: good angels
Song language: Russian
Final place: 3
Glasses: 99 (12 - Russia, 12 - Moldova, 12 - Ukraine, 8 - Armenia, 8 - Lithuania, 8 - Holland, 8 - Georgia, 7 - Latvia, 4 - Bulgaria, 3 - Macedonia, 3 - Sweden, 2 - Belgium)
Interesting Facts: scored an equal number of points with the representative of Russia. But more countries voted for the Belarusian, and therefore she was on the pedestal
Fate after the contest: studies at the Faculty of Journalism of Belarusian State University, works at ATN
Performance
Winner performance – Candy “Candy Music” (Georgia)
Current photo (2017-2018)
Performance
Winner performance – Anastasia Petryk “Sky” (Ukraine)
Current photo (2016-2018)
2013 - Kyiv, Ukraine
Song: Sing with me
Song language: Russian
Final place: 3
Glasses: 108 (12 - Russia, 10 - Moldova, 10 - Malta, 10 - Children's jury, 8 - Ukraine, 8 - Georgia, 8 - Holland, 7 - Macedonia, 6 - Azerbaijan, 6 - Armenia, 6 - San Marino, 5 - Sweden)
Interesting Facts: All participating countries gave our country at least 5 points. Interestingly, Ilya also participated in Eurovision 2012. Truth is in the background
Fate after the contest: studies at BGUKI, dances
Performance
Winner Performance – Gaia Cauchi “The Start” (Malta)
Current photo (2015-2017)
Performance
Winner performance – Vincenzo Cantiello “Tu primo grande amore” (Italy)
Current photo (2016-2018)
