Dmitry Koldun was born on June 11th, 1985 in Minsk, Belarus. He is Belarusian pop-artist, who also is the winner of “Factory of Stars 6” competition. Koldun will represent his country of Belarus at Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with a song called “Work your magic”.
Dmitry Koldun was born on June 11, 1985 in Minsk. Since the age of four Dima so much desired to become a doctor that he graduated from the medical class of the Minsk High School in the course of time, and he was not a second-rate student at all as he managed to graduate with a silver medal. According to his mom’s memories, Dima managed to do his homework during his school breaks after the lessons, and spent his out-of-school time outdoors making his dear grandma feel nervous. At the age of eleven Dima fall in love for the first time with his classmate who vigorously rejected the feelings of the future artist. Giving way to despair the teenager wrote the short story “Polkan the dog - Peter’s friend”, where all one hundred and sixty six words started with the letter “P”. The work was by the way published in the column “Records” of “Argumenty i Fakty v Belorussii” daily. In 2002 Koldun entered the faculty of chemistry of the Belarusian State University. Dima refused to become a doctor and prepared to become a professional chemist. And being the bearer of the “magic” surname (Koldun means “magician”) “conjured” such unreal substances that he himself was astonished. What strange force could suddenly attract him, a serious young man, a potential scientist, to show-business? In 2004 Dmitry Koldun suddenly became the finalist of the RTR-television project “People’s artist-2”. In 2004-2005 he worked in the State Concert Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus headed by Mikhail Finberg and in the “Grand-Prix” studio headed by the composer Oleg Eliseenkov who is still his business partner. In the same year Dmitry took part in the concerts of the National Festival of Belarusian sons and poetry “Molodechno-2005” and of al Arts Festival “Slavyansky Bazar in Vitebsk”. In 2006 Koldun became the winner of the “Star Factory” of Viktor Drobysh” on the “First Channel”. During the project Dmitry performed “Still loving you” with the legendary group Scorpions, after which he was invited by the soloist Klaus Meine to perform this song within the limits of the joint tour. After the victory in the “Star Factory” Koldun concluded a contract with the “National Music Corporation” and became the soloist of the reorganized group “K.G.B.” (Koldun, Gurkov, Barsukov). In 2007 Koldun tried out for “Eurovision” and became the candidate from Byelorussia. At one of the most conservative European music contests the artist of Victor Drobysh will perform a Philip Kirkorov’s song set to the words of the famous songwriter Karen Kavaleryan. Recording of the song and a photo-session took place in Athens on the eve of the Old Style New Year, during which an appropriate image was invented for the “Eurovision” participant. |
