Nelly Ciobanu was born on October 28, 1974 in Moldova. She has graduated from music collage of city of Tiraspol. She has made her debut on stage in 1993, with her brother as part of duo “Master Dinamit”.
Ciobanu is a winner of multiple international competitions: in 1998 won second prize at the festival “Yalta - 98” (Ukraine), 1999 “Grand Prix” at the “Discovery” in Bulgaria (for the performance of a song of composer Liviu Stirbu ), the second prize at the festival “Voice of Asia” (Almaty, Kazakhstan), in 2000 - the first prize at the festival “Slavic Bazaar” in Belarus, the bronze medal of “Delphian Games” in Russia, in 2002, the golden prize of the festival “Spring of April” (North Korea), in 2003 - second prize at the festival “New Wave” in Jurmala, the Grand Prix of K. Shulzhenko contest (Kharkiv, Ukraine), 2nd place in national pre-selection for Eurovision Song Contest 2005, was jury member at “Five Stars. Sings in 11 languages: Moldovan, Russian, English, Italian, and even Korean. She has toured with many Russian artists and international stars such as Patricia Kaas and Mike Bolton. On 24 December 2005 her daughter Mirella-Christiana was born.
In 2009, Nelly will represent Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Hora Din Moldova”. She is in Semi Final 2! |
