Sofia Nizharadze

Sopo Nischaradse (Georgian სოფო ნიჟარაძე [ sɔp ʰ ɔ niʒɑrɑdzɛ ]; born February 6, 1986 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian actress and songwriter. She represented Georgia in the Euro Vision Song Contest 2010.

Life

Youth and studies

Supported by her mother, she began in early youth with artistic singing. Later she studied piano and singing at the State Conservatory in Tbilisi, graduated from there with honors. Subsequently, she completed training at the Theater of the Arts ( ATIS) and the Academy of Music ( GNESINY ), where she also took off her final exam with distinction.

Musical career

At the age of three she first stepped onto a stage singing. She was invited by Jasung Kachidse, a famous Georgian conductor and film music composer, to the children to join music studio, where she sang the first voice in some performances and TV shows in 1993. In 1997, she fell to the French journalist Bernard Pivot, when she appeared in the French Embassy with Sous le ciel de Paris.

At 17, she had won various singing competitions, including " Bravo, Bravissimo! " In the mini Scala (Italy ), the "Crystal Note" ( Moscow, Russia), the "Crystal fir tree " ( Borjomi, Georgia). In addition, she participated in festivals in Russia, Turkey, Italy, Latvia and Georgia and acquired first leading roles in musicals like Romeo and Juliet.

In 2003, she moved to Moscow. A year later she played the leading role in the Russian performance of a musical by Gérard Presgurvic in operetta theater. In 2005 she was a finalist of the New Wave Festival in Jurmala, Latvia. As a result of the military conflict between Russia and Georgia in the Caucasus conflict in 2008, she returned to Georgia.

Euro Vision Song Contest 2010

February 27, 2010 Nischaradse was selected in an internal competition of the Public Broadcasting of Georgia to participate in the Euro Vision Song Contest. For their song, a jury of 100 submitted titles from six for a national competition. The ballad Shine ( dt light), composed and written by Hanne Sorvaag Harry Sommerdahl and Christian Leuzzi, was elected at a public event in the even- Hall in Tbilisi in the first place. The song should have been previously offered Céline Dion. On 27 May 2010, it was represented in the second ESC semi-final in Oslo and two days later reached the finals taking place. There she finished ninth.

2011 leaving Nischaradse the Georgian scoring for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2011 in Dusseldorf.