Eva Rivas

Eva Rivas (Armenian Եվա Ռիվաս, Russian Ева Ривас; born July 13, 1987 in Rostov-on- Don, actually Valeria Alexandrovna Reschetnikowa - Zaturjan ) is a Russian -Armenian singer. She represented Armenia at the Euro Vision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo with the song Apricot Stone.

Biography

Eva Rivas was born in 1987 as Walerija Reschetnikowa - Zaturjan (Russian Валерия Решетникова - Цатурян ) in the Soviet Union. Her father has Russian, Armenian and Greek ancestors. Her mother is from Armenia. Her musical training began in elementary school, where she was a member of the Armenian chorus. In 1996, she joined the residents in her hometown of Armenian Children's Choir Arewik, which they should belong to 2004. During this time she performed as a chorus member of both Russian and foreign-language pieces of different genres and also performed as a solo artist in appearance. With the ensemble, she won several national awards in Russia and collaborated with the singer Arame. They also had success as a solo singer. In 1997, Rivas won the youth competition Scarlet Flower, two years later with the Russian Delphi games in Saratov two silver medals, where she recited a song of Armenian artist Rosi arms.

In addition to her singing career is over 1.90 m wide Eva Rivas left in 2003 to train as a model. At the same time, she participated with success in several regional beauty contests and enrolled a year later at the Southern Federal University Rostov-on- Don for the subjects Economics and International Relations a. 2005 Rivas won the title of Vice - Miss Caucasus and the Golden Voice of Rostov. In the same year the 17 -year-old won the music competition Armenian Song of the Year and the Festival of Russian Pjatj Swjosd in Sochi for himself and moved to Moscow. Then the producer Valeriy Saharyan became aware of Rivas, who cared for his company Armenian production since December 2008.

2009 Rivas presented during the competition Tashir with Tamam Aschkharh a work of the Armenian singer and poet Sayat Nova ( 1722-1795 ). In the same year was followed by a music video in which she performed the song. In 2010, Rivas is the first time the Armenian preselection for the Euro Vision Song Contest (ESC ) in part. The composed by Armen Martirosyan and Karen Kavaleryan (including lyricist of the ESC Posts by Dima Bilan, Dsmitry Kaldun and Ani Lorak ) English pop song Apricot Stone, she won the competition in mid-February against eight rivals. Thus Rivas represented Armenia at the 55th Euro Vision Song Contest on May 27, 2010 in Oslo in the second semi-final. She managed to move into the two days later held the final, where she finished in seventh place. From international bookmakers Rivas had been traded as Mitfavoritin to win.