Ruslana

Ruslana was born in Lviv, Ukraine. Since she was four years old, she studied at an Experimental Music School and sang in a band. Ruslana graduated from a music Conservatory as pianist and conductor. The beginning of Ruslana’s “star” career started with winning the international song festival Slovians’kyj Bazar in Vitebsk, Belarus in 1996. She has won in the Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul in May 2004. The winning song Wild Dances was folk regarding music, performance and costumes. The style is a combination of ethnic sounds of the mountain people of the Hutsuls with modern rock, pop and dance elements. Ruslana actively supported the democratic processes in Ukraine in winter 2004/2005 and became a cult figure of the Orange Revolution. From spring 2006 to Summer 2007 she was a Member of Ukrainian Parliament. Rusłana's new project Wild Energy combines the art of music and video production, literature and social commitment in an unique way. The album Wild Energy will be released in spring 2008. It includes cooperations with R&B stars T-Pain and Missy Elliot. The first single "Moon of Dreams" feat. T-Pain will also be released in spring 2008. Ruslana is a DJ for the fictional radio station "Vladivostok FM" in Grand Theft Auto IV with Wild Dances (Ukranian FM Version) being on the playlist for the same station.