Soso Pavliashvili was born 29 June 1964 in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. He graduated from Tbilisi State Conservatoire as a violinist. Pavliashvili became a public figure at the age of 24 as a member of the ensemble Iveria. He achieved his first serious success in 1989 after speech on a poetry delivered at the Jurmala Young Pop Singer Competition. first album was released in 1993.