page_title: Tina Karol
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Tina Karol / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Tina Karol performing in the semi-final dress rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, representing Ukraine.
context_page_description: Tetyana Hryhorivna Liberman, known professionally as Tina Karol, is a Ukrainian singer, actress, and television presenter. She represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song "Show Me Your Love", placing seventh. Karol has since become a mentor on The Voice of Ukraine and jury for Ukrainian Eurovision National Selection.
context_section_description: Born on 25 January 1985 to a Ukrainian mother and Ukrainian Jewish father in Orotukan, Magadan Oblast, Russian Far East. Karol moved to Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine at the age of six. Her father, Grigoriy Liberman was from Vashkivtsi, Ukraine. Karol confessed in 2006 she often felt discriminated against in school because of her Jewish last name. She is fluent in both Ukrainian and Russian. As a teenager Karol (under her real name Tetyana Liberman) performed for four years with the dancing ensemble at the Kiev branch of the Jewish Agency, and her repertoire included songs in Hebrew and in Yiddish. In 2000 she with this ensemble travelled to the United States, where the group’s appearances raised money for Jewish Agency for Israel programs in Ukraine.
  In her fourth year, she was awarded a scholarship by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament). Karol has participated in numerous youth, regional, international and Jewish singing contests as well as musicals and theatrical shows.  Karol became the soloist of the Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces as well as a television personality. In 2005 she took a less Jewish stage name after producers of "New Wave" had suggested that to her. In 2006 she commented on this "It was a part of my agreement with the producers, but, to be honest, I am glad I changed my name. I felt like it hindered me in my life”.
  In 2006 Karol won at the casting for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song "I Am Your Queen" and therefore represented Ukraine at the event finishing 7th, scoring 145 points, with a revised version of the song entitled "Show Me Your Love".  In 2006, Tina Karol released her debut album Show Me Your Love, and another album entitled Nochenka, with some of the songs of the first album in Russian and Ukrainian. Also in 2006, she started studying by correspondence at the National Aviation University in Kiev. In 2006, she also participated in the United Nations's Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS campaign against HIV/AIDS in Ukraine.
  In 2007, she released her new album Polyus Prityazheniya and wrote a fairy tale, Pautinka, a story about a caterpillar, portraying the show business as Tina has experienced it. Philipp Kirkorov, Alla Pugacheva and Verka Serduchka all have "parts" in the story.
  On 16 January 2009, Viktor Yushchenko awarded Karol the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine. In October 2009 she was ranked 92nd in a top 100 of "most influential women in Ukraine" compiled by experts for the Ukrainian magazine Focus.
  In February 2009, she received the Most Beautiful Singer of Ukraine of 2008 award from the organizers of the beauty contest Miss Ukraine Universe-2009. In February 2009, for the second time, she received the title "The Most Beautiful Woman of Ukraine" according to the readers of the glossy edition VIVA!. The premiere of the new song "Do not be afraid, boy" was also held there. In March 2009, two songs - "U neba poprosim" from the album "Pole of Attraction" and a new composition "Lyubol" - became soundtracks for two television series.
  In the spring of 2011, together with Sergei Lazarev and the duo Alibi became the host of the music project "Maidan's" on the Ukrainian TV  channel Inter.
  In the fall of 2012, she served as a contestan coach on Ukrainian reality talent show The Voice Kids on 1+1 TV channel, and in the spring of 2013 she went on the third season of The Voice on 1+1 TV channel as a coach.
  On November 24, 2013, Tina Karol's all-Ukrainian tour kicked off with the solo tour Syla kokhannya ta holosu (The power of love and voice), which ended in late February 2014.
  On February 6, 2014, the fifth album Pomnyu (I remember) was released, which included 7 compositions. On February 14 the premiere of the film "The Power of Love and the voice" was held, based on the show of the same name 
  March 26, 2014, won the award "Yuna" in the nomination "The best singer of the year." June 1, 2014 opened a charity fund to help cancer patients Polyus prityazheniya. In 2014, the release of the single "My ne ostanemsya druzyami (#MNOD)" was released, in the s
caption: Karol performing at the Eurovision Song Contest, 2006
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