Dina Garipova

Dina Fagimovna Garipova is a Tatar bornRussian singer. In 2012, Garipova won the Russian version of singing competition The Voice, Golos. Garipova was selected by the Russian broadcaster Channel One to represent Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malm, Sweden, with the song What If. At the competition, she qualified from the first semifinal and placed fifth in the final, scoring 174 points. In 2015, Garipova was one of five jurors for Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015.

Garipova was born onMarch 1991, in Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan, Russia, to a family of physicians. From the age of six, Garipova studied singing at the Zolotoy mikrofon Theatre, with Elena Antonova as her vocal coach. Garipova studied journalism at the Kazan Federal University. When Garipova graduated from Zolotoy mikrofon, she toured with the Tatarstan singer Gabdelfat Safin.

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