UKRAINE DECIDED 2012: GAITANA TO BAKU
ABOUT THE SHOW
Ukraine 2012 National Final ended today with Gaitana Essami as the winner of the show and therefore representative of Ukraine in the Baku Eurovision Song Contest. Once again the oikotimes.com readers predicted the winner through our web poll.
RESULTS
41 points for Gaitana — Be My Guest
38 points for Max Barskih — Dance
35 points for Oksana Nesterenko — Mondo Blu
34 points for NEREALNYE (The Incredibles) — Just A Dream
28 points for Eduard Romanyuta — I’ll Never Let Go
27 points for Masha Shazonova Tyhon Levchenko — I Close To You
27 points for Renata — Love In Sunlight Rays
23 points for Olya Polyakova — Lepestok
23 points for Ulyana Rudakova — Ty Ne Odyn
22 points for Igor Tatarenko — You’re My Life
21 points for RAPIRA — Get Over
19 points for Marta — My Heart Is Sorrowing
19 points for Andrij Bohomolets — Are You Waiting For Me
19 points for Marietta — Rainbow
18 points for BONDarchuk — I Don’t Know Why
18 points for Treeorange — New Day
17 points for Myhajlo Hrytskan — Ya Tak Iskal Tebya
16 points for Shanis — Dream
14 points for Lena Voloshyna — Let It Out
07 points for Vitalij Halaj — I Want To Love
05 points for Band Legkyj Flirt — MegaMix
INFORMATION ABOUT THE WINNER
Gaitana Essami, born on 29 September 1979 in Kyiv), is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter, the only Afro-Ukrainian celebrity in the country. Her music combines elements of jazz, funk, soul, and folk music. Gaitana was born in Kyiv, at the time in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in present-day Ukraine), but subsequently moved to the Congo where her father, Klaver Essami, was born. She lived there for five years. Afterward, Gaitana moved back to Ukraine with her mother, but her father stayed in Brazzaville where he holds a transportation business. According to the Female Magazine (Ukraine) her father is a chief of the Congo telecommunications.
She sings in Ukrainian, English, Russian, but she also knows French and Lingala. Gaitana has a degree in economics from a lyceum of Economics. When she was younger Gaitana finished a music school where she played on saxophone. All her music and songs she composes by herself. She is the candidate to master of sport in table tennis. Other sports that get her involved include, but not limited are fitness and mount cycling. Her full name is Gaita-Lurdes. She has a pet, the dog Pipita. Gaitana has a collection of purses. She can be claimed a pioneer in the Ukrainian RB, particularly in her song The Lonely Pose. In the song can traced elements of jazz and pop-music. Gaitana was a guest performer at Kvartal-95.
SUMMARY OF THE SONGS
Now, let’s see the singing part in the final show. Shanis opened the show with a happy performance which was poor in my view. Vitalij Halaj and his uptempo song was simply dreadful for my Eurovision eyes and the vocals were totally bad. Max gave a very good performance as one of the favorites and his entry is clearly for Eurovision. Olga then came up with an indifferent song with ethnic elements which definitely worths to ignore. Eduard Romanyuta and his two backing singers although tried hard didn’t allow ny space for likeness as the song was also something indifferent. Band Legkyj Flirt was the sixth act today with their mediocre “Megamix” which had something missing to make it a winner.
Igor Tatarenko gave his uptempo song a good boost as the dramatic performance was something I personally liked. Vocals were bad though. Myhajlo Hrytskan seems to be too old for Eurovision but it was obvious he entered the competition for the honor instead of the ticket to Baku. Masha Shazonova Tyhon Levchenko gave a sweet and descent performance but the song is not as strong as Eurovision needs. Marta though impressed me because the song was very unique and interesting. I hoped she could surprise us with the results. Gaytana and her uptempo song seems quite the favorite for the show but I have to wonder whether the Eurovision curse on colored singers will apply again. She is famous enough and she is awaiting to rock Europe. Oksana Nesterenko performed in Italian a very operatic song but the high notes were struggling not to mention shouting sound a like. RAPIRA was the lucky 13 and had three guitarists accompanying her. Nothing interesting in the song but the vocals were excellent. Andrij Bohomolets performed playing the piano, a nice and good song for Eurovision but if you listen to the studio version you will see the live version performance is weak.
BONDarchuk is something interesting to see on stage but the vocals were better than the tune itself. Renata’s mid tempo song with rock elements was also very good and could have easily done it. Treeorange performed a fanky song with lots of trumpets in it. Lounge song, maybe catchy but not for Eurovision. Winners of talent show hosted by Philip Kirkorov, NEREALNYE (The Incredibles) back then known as Unrealistic Boys gave a descent performance and the outcome left us with good impressions. Ulyana Rudakova despite the kitsch dress, performed in a very sweet and melodic way. Marietta and her song “Rainbow” gave also a good impression as the vocals were excellent although the tune is outdated. Lena Voloshyna was last but she gave an outstanding performance. The song and the vocals were excellent from the Belarusian artist.
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