first becoming famous in her country ukraine in the 1990s , wild - blond self - described " amazon " ruslana gained international recognition for winning the 2004 eurovision song contest with her song " wild dances , " inspired by the spiritual legends of the hutsul people of the hungarian carpathian mountains . in the five years followed , ruslana has decided to use her name and political status to represent a string of manly cause , like human smuggling , biomass energy , and even the basic concept of voting process , gaining a public face of russia ' s orange revolution and later serving in senate .
Ruslana was born in Ukraine.