Dima Bilan

Name: Dima Bilan
Real Name: Victor Belan
Birthday: 24 December, 1981
Country: Russia
Profession: Singer
Height: 182cm
Weight: 68kg

Dima Bilan was born on 24 December 1981. He spent his childhood in Karachaevo-Cherkezia/Eastern Russia.

On September 21st, the ceremony of presenting premiums of MTV-Russian Music Awards took place and Dima received two awards; as the best performer and actor of the year.

On November 3rd, Dima went to Lisbon to present Russia in the ceremony Europe Music Awards. In December 2005 Dima received two golden gramaphones for the song ” You Must Be Close To Me” in Saint Petersburg and Alma Ata (Kasachstan). At shootings of “New Songs about the Main Things” he received Grand Prix of the First Channel from the professional jury.

Dima became the man of the year in the sphere of show-business because the most voters gave their voices for him according to the version of Rambler.

At the end of the year he accepted the invitation from an American agency to sound treks for the musicale Peter Pan. On March 14th, 2006 Dima took part in ” Golden Street Organ” of ” International Music Awards” where he got the award as “The Best Singer of theYear”.

In Euro- Vision he was second with his song ” Never Let You Go”…..

In the middle of March, 2006, Dima Bilan was chosen internally by the Russian broadcaster Channel One to have the honour of representing Russia at the biggest musical contest in the world, the Eurovision Song Contest, that year in Athens, Greece. Out of 37 participating countries, Dima took second place with the dark pop song Never Let You Go, equalling Russia’s best ever showing at Eurovision - Alsou’s Solo was runner-up back in 2000.

Dima scored 248 points - 44 behind winning song Hard Rock Hallelujah by Finland’s Lordi - and received the maximum 12 points from a total of seven countries: Armenia, Belarus, Finland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine. The only countries to not award Dima any points were Monaco and Switzerland.

Dima’s stage performance included two dancing ballerinas and a white piano covered in red rose petals, from which a ghost-like female figure emerged halfway through the song (much to the audience’s delight). Dima wore a white vest with the number representing his place in the contest’s running order - 13 and 10 in the semi-final and final respectively. Due to Russia’s poor result the previous year, Dima had to qualify for the final at the semi-final on May 18. He qualified in the top ten there (finishing 3rd with 217 points) and moved directly to the final on May 20 as a bookies’ favourite, following his strong semi-final performance.

Prior to the contest, Russian website RIN.ru reported that the head of Dima’s hometown, Ust Jeguta, had promised to name one of the streets in his honour if he won.

Discography:
2003 Ya nochnoy khuligan (Я ночной хулиган - I’m a Nighttime Hooligan)
2004 Na beregu neba (На берегу неба - At The Heaven’s Shore)
2006 Time Is River (internationa album debut)
2003 Ya tebya pomnyu (Я тебя помню - I Remember You)
2003 Eto bуla lyubov’ (Это была любовь - It Had Been Love)
2004 Not That Simple
2004 Ty dolzhna ryadom byt’ (Ты должна рядом быть - You Should Be By My Side)
2006 Never Let You Go

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