Biography
Christian Kostov is a young Russian and Bulgarian singer who performs in a popular music genre, the finalist of the first season of the television show "Voice. Children ", Finalist of the Bulgarian project" X Factor ", owner of the second place of the international competition" Eurovision 2017 ".Childhood
Christian Kostov was born the capital of Russia on March 15, 2000. His birthday fell on the sign of the zodiac fish. The mother of a young vocalist named Zaura is a native of Kazakhstan. Father Christian is called Konstantin, by nationality he is Bulgarian.
Christian himself does not consider his family musical, which confessed about 2014 interview. Evaluating the musical taste of parents, he assures that he has grown in good music. His father appreciates Frank Sinatra's work, Tom Jones, Brian Adams, Queen and Elton John. Mother loves music George Michael, Stevie Wander and Ella Fitzgerald.
Already at an early age, the boy stretched to musical art. Therefore, parents, barely Christian, turned six years old, decided to record it in the Moscow Children's vocal ensemble "Fidgets". Participation in the life of the musical team predetermined the creative biography of Christian. Creativity fascinated the boy and became the meaning of his life.
So, by 14 years old Kostov could boast of participation in the concert in the Kremlin with Julia at the beginning, performances in the "fidget", both in Russia and abroad, as well as at the opening of Eurovision 2010, which was held in Moscow. The following year, he has already become one of the winners of the children's competition of international Sound Kids, winning the Grand Prix. Thus, Christian became a representative of the Jazz Parking Production Center. Here he received a vast experience of the speeches "live."
Music
In 2012, Kostov, being a member of Bulgaria, took the seventh place at the competition of popular music "Children's new wave". In the same year, he received an invitation to a children's project under the direction of Lina Arifungulina - "School of Music". On this show, he entered the three winners.
In 2013, at the 13th age, Christian Kostov decides to take part in the debut season of the television project "Voice. Children "in Russia. Mentors in it were famous figures of the Russian musical community - Dima Bilan, Pelagia and Maxim Fadeev.
For casting March 14, 2014, Kostov chose the song Alicia Keys "If I Ain't Got You". A good execution of a hita on blind auditions provided it with great success: None of the project mentors was unanimous to his singing. However, Christian preferenceed working with Bilan, which never regretted.
The same song gave him a ticket to the final, where he fulfilled the composition was born Anusi "You Know". But the audience gave a greater number of votes to the opponent of Christian Kostov - Lero Axelrod, who went to the Superfinal to represent the team of Dima Bilan. According to Christian himself, without such a mentor, he would not become a finalist.
Successful speech on the Russian music competition contributed to the desire of the singer to continue the music career, and in 2015 he became a member of the "X factor" project in Bulgaria. After passing the casting, it turned out that Christian is the youngest vocalist who participated in the fourth season of the show.
On the project he performed sololy, and in duets. At one of the stages with Darina, Yotovaya Christian Kostov performed the song "Kranden Lov". Also in the final of the competition, which took place on January 25, 2016, he sang together with Vasil a found song called "With God, my love" and took second place.
In the summer of 2015, Christian Kostov had a debut video for the song "Listen to Rain", which Natalia Pavlova wrote. The clip was filmed in St. Petersburg.
In early October last year, the singer released another clip on the song "NE Si Za Men". The author of the text of the song is Ventisislav Chanov, music and arrangement wrote Isaac Evans, Ray Hegees and Nigel Butler. Vasil Stefanov reached the clip on it.
For the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, which took place in Kiev from 9 to 13 May 2017, Bulgaria pushed Christian Kostov as his representative. This became known on March 13, 2017. The 17-year-old singer is not accustomed to be the youngest participant in vocal competitions, and Eurovision has not exceeded.
Christian performed the song "Beautiful Mess" in the final on May 13, 2017. The song is written in the collaboration of three composers: one of them Swede is nationality, the second - Austrian, the third is a native of Bulgaria. A song dedicated to those who are for what he believes throughout the soul wrote specially for the competition.
As a result, 17-year-old Christian took second place, losing only the singer from Portugal El Salvador to Colleva. It should be noted that the young man bypassed all the favorites, on which bookmakers were focused.
Clip Kostov "Beautiful Mess" for Eurovision 2017 has already scored hundreds of thousands of views.
Christian Kostov after the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 participated in the tour of the tour. The news about the approval of his participation has become a big gift for him on the 17th anniversary. He is divided with his audience with the public in "Instagram". Many posts artist duplicates in Twitter and VKontakte. You can also see its current photos. Christian loves to participate in fashionable photo shoots, the guy changes the color of the hair, periodically repainting in a blond or simply decorating himself with bright strands. According to some information, the growth of Christian is 183 cm, and its weight reaches 75 kg.
Personal life
In 2014, rumors about the novel of Christian Kostov with a superfinalist of the project "Voice" began to actively spread on the Internet and press. Children »Ragha Haniev. Raddu at some point seriously began to consider him a girl.
However, Christian himself was denied this information to the blitz interview for his fan club. Only friendship connected him with a young singer.
Christian Kostov Now
In 2018, the singer changed in the personal life of the singer. Christian Kostov began to notice in the company of two-time silver winners of the 2018 Olympiad Evgenia Medvedeva. It is assumed that young people became acquainted with a talk show dedicated to Eurovision. Evgeny to Toronto did not prevent close communication and departs, where the girl continued to train under the leadership of Brian Orser.
With Christian, young figure skater is still talking virtually. The fact that Medvedev becomes his wife's wife, speech does not go, but the girl intrigued fans with a picture of a diamond rings, which she placed on social networks.
In January 2018, the artist became the EBBA Award winner - European Border Breakers Award, as well as Public Choice Award awards, which is defined by the popular vote. At the awards ceremony, Christian represented Bulgaria.
The popularity of the singer dictated and an increase in the rhythm of his life. Kostov's fans created the Team Kris community, his speeches are waiting in different parts of the planet. For the week, Kostya manages to visit three countries with concerts.
Christian Kostov has a personal channel on Youtube hosting, where the young man places the last records of cover versions in its performance, program shots, where he participated in recent times. In the fall, the singer presented the hit "Depth", for half a year the video collected about a million views. Now plans the release of a mini-album, which was called "Get IT". The premiere is declared on July 27.
Singles
- 2015 - "READY TO FLY"
- 2015 - "Listen to the rain"
- 2016 - "Do not si for men"
- 2016 - "Vdigam Level"
- 2017 - "YOU GOT ME GIRL"
- 2017 - "Beautiful Mess"