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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Bogotá
- Active from
- 1979
Discography
- О тебе2003
- Слідом за тобою2005
- Тайные желания2008
- Только сегодня2010
- Be My Guest2012
- Voodoo Man2015
- The Best UA2024
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- 12,995
- Total plays
- 114,052
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Gaitana Essami (Ukrainian: Гайтана Ессамі), born on 29 September 1979 in Kyiv), is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter, the only Afro-Ukrainian celebrity in the country. Her music combines elements of jazz, funk, soul, and folk music. Gaitana will represent Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Early life Gaitana was born in Kiev, at the time in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in present-day Ukraine), but subsequently moved to the Congo where her father, Klaver
Key facts
- Born
- Gaita-Lurdes Klaverivna Essami , ( 1979-03-24 ) 24 March 1979 (age 47) , Kyiv , Ukrainian SSR , USSR
- Genres
- Pop dance-pop R&B
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter
- Instrument
- Vocals
- Years active
- 2003–present
- Website
- gaitana .com /en
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Republic of the Congo
- Place of birth
- Kyiv
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- Ukrainian
- Participant in
- Eurovision Song Contest 2012
- Field of work
- music composing
- Genre
- funk
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- gaitana.com/en
- Image
- GaitanaUkrainianface.png
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- Commons category
- Gaitana
- date of birth
- 1979-09-29
- nominated for
- MTV Europe Music Award for Best Ukrainian Act
- pseudonym
- Essami
- start of work period
- 2003-00-00
- different from
- Gaitana
- social media followers
- 38900
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
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Encyclopedic overview
Gaita-Lurdes Klaverivna Essami (Ukrainian: Гайта-Лурдес Клаверівна Ессамі; born 24 March 1979), known professionally as Gaitana (Ukrainian: Гайтана), is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter. Essami's style of pop music has been described as containing elements of jazz, funk, soul, and folk. She represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, performing the song "Be My Guest" and placing 15th in the final.
Gaitana is the third Eurovision contestant of African origin ever to be born in the former USSR, after Lithuanian singer and guitarist Viktoras "Victor" Diawara of LT United and Estonian singer Daana Ots of Suntribe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gaitana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.