Geta Burlacu

Geta Burlacu (born Georgeta Povorozniuc on 22 July 1974) is a Moldovan singer. She represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song "A Century of Love” written by Vica Demici and Oleg Baraliuc.
Career
Burlacu began singing aged seven. She studied violin at the music school in Bălți and graduated from the College of Music in Balti as a violinist. In 1993 she went to the Academy of Music in Chisinau to study jazz and folk music. After graduation in 1997, Burlacu stepped on the professional scene. She has performed in Germany, France, Ireland, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, and China. She has won numerous awards at national and international festivals in jazz, pop, and folk.
From 1998 until 2011, Burlacu worked as a singer in the vocal jazz band Univox. From 2005 to 2007, she was a professor of jazz voice at the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in Moldova. In 2006, she won a scholarship from the Soros Foundation. In 2007, Burlacu participated in an international tour with the Cuban band Buena Vista Social Club in Romania. In 2008, she represented Moldova at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "A Century of Love" which failed to qualify receiving 36 points, tying with Slovenia in points and placing 12th. In 2009, she participated in the Golden Stag Festival, where she reached the finals in Brasov, Romania.
From 2009 to the present, she performed with the National Symphony Orchestra TeleRadio-Moldova, as well with the jazz bands Alex Calancea Band, ANGRY Band, and the folk music band Taraf lăutăresc. In 2010, she toured Europe with Alex Calancea Band. In 2011, Burlacu participated in the concert Women Day in the celebration Forty Years La Francophonie organized by UNESCO in Paris. In 2012, she released an album of Christmas carols, Să ningă cerul peste noi, and participated in a charity concert with the Black & White and Jazz Big Band (Tiraspol) in the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
She gave numerous recitals in the Main Square of the Republic of Moldova in a concert dedicated to the Independence Day of Moldova. She attended the Moldovan Festival in London, taking part in social and charity projects. She was named Goodwill ambassador to the United Nations Population Fund in Moldova.
In 2013, she implemented a long-held dream and appeared in The Erotic Carousel by David Hare and directed by George Tavadze at the Eugene Ionesco theater in Chisinau.
In 2014, at the invitation of the Association Connexions Moldavie and with the support of the Office for Diaspora Relations, Burlacu held two concerts, Winter Jazz in Paris and Luxembourg, where she was warmly welcomed by Moldovan diaspora representatives and heads of the Moldovan Embassy in Belgium and France. This was the first official concert of representatives of Moldovan Culture in Luxembourg.
Competitions
2009 – Finalist of the International Festival Golden Stag (Golden Stag), Romania
2008 – Winner of the local pre–selection Eurovision
13/09/2007 – Laureate of the Ethno–jazz festival Trigon, Chisinau
02/07/2007 – Laureate of the International Festival Faces of Friends, Moldova
30/04/2007 – Opening Concert Soloist Buena Vista Social Club, National Theatre, Bucharest, Romania
2007–27–04 – Opening Concert soloist Buena Vista Social Club, Opera, Cluj, Romania
2004 – Winner at the International Jazz Festival DODJ
2001 – Special Prize of the National Festival of Folk Music Tamara Ceban Moldova
2001 – Participant of the International Festival International Festival of Universal Music (FIMU), Belfort, France
2001 – Participant of the international music festival New Impro Music Fest, Moldova
2001 – Soloist of Folk Music Orchestra in Romanian Folk Music Week, Germany
2000 – Participant of the international festival International Festival of Universal Music (FIMU), Belfort, France
2000 – Participant of the international festival of art, INTACT, Cluj–Napoca, Romania
2000 – Participant of the international festival Jazz Weekend, Moldova
2000 - Participant of the National Festival "Mărţişor" Moldova
1999 – Participant of the international festival Jazz Weekend, Moldova
1997 – Diploma international contest Golden hits, Belarus
1997 – Grand Prix of republican competition Young Star, Moldova
Discography
2005 Ce n-ca da sa mor diseara
2008 La Porta Pamantalui
2009 O Sete Nebuna
2010 Cine Iubeshte
2012 Sa ninga cerul peste noi
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20080120173446/http://www.phoenix.ro/artist/geta/ [RO]
http://esckaz.com/2008/mol.htm
External links
1974 births
Living people
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2008
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Moldova
21st-century Moldovan women singers
English-language singers from Moldova