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Dmitry Koldun's profile

How it all started...

Dima  Koldun was born on June 11th, 1985 in Minsk. It seemed nothing foreboded career in the field of music for this lean and skinny boy. He was good at school and treated all subjects equally. He was seeking for something new and thrilling, tried a lot of things and enjoyed them. He was very enthusiastic in his many hobbies and sometimes these hobbies were quite peculiar. As an example  one day he wrote a text, where all words started with the same letter. This piece of work was edited in a weekly newspaper "Arguments and Facts Belarus". However this event had no impact on Dima's future profession. He didn't become "a shark of a pen". He did not join those who worked in the polymeric materials manufacturing plant either, despite the fact that he graduated from the State University, faculty of chemistry.

But his elder brother then decided for himself: "Either you will play the guitar or will go to wash floors", he warned Dima. And the guitar became Dima's true"girl-friend". It turned out that the guy had a good ear for music and also pleasant voice. The result of the efforts revealed itself very quickly  Koldun, the junior, came to stage-manage a band of musicians.They started their regular rehearsals in a school basement or a garage, making the residents of nearby houses get scared with the loud roar of guitars. He also became a frequent participant of different youth singers competitions, which he never left without getting a prize.

First steps towards fame

Grass-roots first heard about Dmitry Koldun in 2004, when he participated in "Russia" TV channel show  "People's artist-2". The project hair designer Sergey Zverev created an image of a bright blond for Dmitry. The young debutant reached the final competition, but he didn't get top positions, though he made an impression on the audience  they memorized Dmitry.

Not long before "People's artist" competition Dmitry worked in Belarus state concert orchestra conducted by Michael Finberg. The singer was a soloist in "Grand-prix" vocal studio, managed by composer Oleg Eliseenkov. Dmitry performed with this group at Belarusian folklore festivals: "Molodechno-2005" and "Slavonic bazaar". But he didn't forget about different other music competitions either. In that very 2005 D.Koldun got into the final of the national Belorussian project together with "Starry stage-coach" young participants. He was also invited by "Storm Alert" Moscow joint KVN team to participate in KVN Euroleague. There Dmitry was able to demonstrate his good sense of humour and vocality during musical off-periods.

In November 2006 D.Koldun made up his mind to participate in "EuroFest" screening test from Belarus republic for the first time, with his own song "Maybe". But then he did not manage to get into "Eurovision 2006" international competition. But he kept dreaming of it.

The "Star Factory"

However his participation in the casting for the First TV channel project "Star Factory-6" under Viktor Drobysh was a success. On March 10, 2006 the beginner singer determinately declared from the TV screen: "Koldun, you are the best!". And he did as he said  on June 29 Dima won at "Star Factory" qualification by the audience voting. One of the brightest Dima's appearance in the competition was joint performance of "Scorpion's song "Just Loving You". The legendary group soloist Klaus Meine liked Koldun's performance so much that he invited him to join them in the tour.
Since June 2006 Dmitry became the soloist in renewed "KGB" pop-group (Koldun, Gurkova, Barsukov). The pop -group was produced by Viktor Drobysh, the composer. The group performed in "Factory" guest performance tour, after which it passed into oblivion.

"Eurovision"

In 2007 Dmitry Koldun again decided to storm "Eurovision", which had to be carried out in Finland, Helsinki. In November 2006 under severe competition he wins over Belarus semi-final screening test for "Eurovision-2007" with the song "The Angel the Dream" (music by D.Koldun, lyrics by D.Lis), which later was replaced with a new one (an acceptable practice according to the competition regulations). In January 2007 he gloriously won in the finals with the song "Work Your Magic" (music by F.Kirkorov, lyrics by K.Kavaleryan).

Since Dima's conquest the active preparation for "Eurovision-2007" started, including endless rehearsals and promo-tours. In St.Petersburg video clips on a song "Work Your Magic" and its Russian version "Give Me Power" (lyrics by A.Morsin) were shot. The video was directed by a well-known clipmaker Oleg Gusev.

On May 10, 2007 Dmitry under Filip Kirkorov management successfully performed in semi-final screening test, in that way for the first time he managed to bring Belarus, his homeland, into "Eurovision-2007"'s final. Two days later, by the results of the international audience voting, he took honorable 6th place.

By his performance at "Eurovision-2007" the singer declared of himself as a gifted performer. Viktor Drobysh and Filip Kirkorov started hot disputes for the right  to produce Dima. For months they had been debating in mass- media. But as it turned out  to no purpose. Since 2007 composer Alexander Lunev, who created the famous "Eurovision-2006" hit "Never Let You Go" for Dima Bilan, becomes Dmitry Koldun's producer.

The Debut Album

Since that moment the creative work on Koldun's debut album and his regular performance in concerts started. In parallel since December 2007 till March 2008 the singer, together with actress Natalya Rudova, participated in the First TV channel show "Two Stars-2". Dmitry tried very hard to teach the actress to sing, but he turned to be much worse in teaching than in singing. The result of duet's efforts was the 6th place. However they became champions in nomination "the mostly frequently saved by the audience participants": the spectators liked these two performers so much that they didn't want them to leave the project.

On February 1, 2008 at "Sound track" prize-giving Koldun won in the nomination "Sexy M" and presented a new song by Alexander Lunev "Tsarevna" ("Princess"). In March 2008 a video clip was shot on this song. It was directed by clipmaker from Ufa Vitaly Mukhametzyanov. The main idea of the clip was to feature artist Dmitry Koldun's life. The idea was to show not only working routine moments  concert performance, rehearsals, but also his leisure hours. That's why that video came out to be very dynamic: it displayed the love story, sports work-outs and extreme motorbike ridings. Famous boxer Kostya Dzyu was invited to the shooting. He played the role of Dima's coach.

On March 8, 2008 ondIMA kOLDUH e more clip on Lunev's song "I am for you" (director O.Gusev) was put into rotation. The same video clip was used by the First TV channel in "The Beauty Demands for..." musical.
In the summer of 2008 Dmitry took part in "Slavonic bazaar" yearly festival in Vitebsk, where he presented new songs "Surrender" and "Through the Veins", recorded on his own. In parallel with work on the official album "The Angel in the Rain", to be released this autumn, according to A.Lunev's plans, Dmitry records songs of his own. He himself  writes the music and lyrics to the songs.

It is just the beginning...