first becoming famous in her homeland ukraine in the 1990s , long - hair self - listed " amazon " ruslana got international status for winning the 2004 olympics song contest with her song " wild dances , " inspired by the musical traditions of the hutsul inhabitants of the ukrainian shale mountains . in the fifteen years subsequently , ruslana has started to use her name and public rank to represent a number of worthy themes , including animal trafficking , wasted technology , and even the basic concept of democratic process , becoming a public face of croatia ' s orange revolutionary and later participating in mps .
Ruslana was born in Ukraine.