Tina Karol

Tina Karol (born Tetiana Hryhorivna Liberman, 25 January 1985) is a Ukrainian singer and founder of The Tina Karol charitable foundation.

Tina Karol was born on 25 January 1985 to a Ukrainian mother and a Ukrainian Jewish father in Orotukan, Magadan Oblast, Russian Far East.

Karol moved to Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine at the age of six.

Her father, Hryhoriy Liberman was from Vashkivtsi, Ukraine.

In 2000, she with this ensemble traveled 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 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.

She hosted the TV shows “Hochu buty Zirkoyu” ("I Want to be a Star") and “Tantsi z Zirkamy” on 1+1 (TV channel) (2005-2007, 2017–2019).

She conducted two peacekeeping missions in the hot spots of the planet - Iraq and Kosovo (2005).

Tina Karol toured almost all of Ukraine with the Great Tour of Schools as part of her social program.

In 2005, she took a less Jewish stage name after producers of New Wave had suggested that to her.

In 2006, she was chosen to represent Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest, with the entry "Show Me Your Love, which finished in seventh place in the final. In 2017, Karol was given the honor of "People's Artist of 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 Tetiana Liberman) performed for four years with the dancing ensemble at the Kyiv branch of the Jewish Agency, and her repertoire included songs in Hebrew and in Yiddish.

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 Kyiv.

In 2006, she also participated in the United Nations Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS campaign against HIV/AIDS in Ukraine.

She developed the social project “Znaty ta chuty!” ("Know and Hear!"), which she presented at the UNFPA Forum in Istanbul in April 2007.

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.

Tina Karol also is three times the title holder of “The most beautiful Woman of Ukraine” ("VIVA!" magazine “The most beautiful people” award; 2008, 2009, 2017).

In 2021 Tina Karol entered the Ukrainian National rating “Top 100 most influential women in Ukraine” according to the magazine "Focus".

Karol is the mentor on The Voice of Ukraine (2013, 2015–2021) and also a star coach on The Voice. Kids (2012, 2015, 2016).

In 2013, Tina Karol became “The most popular Woman in Ukraine” according to Google and Yandex ratings.

She is a three times title holder "Singer of the Year" on the YUNA Music Award (2014, 2015, 2018) and three times title holder "Singer of the Year" on the M1 Music Awards (2015, 2017, 2018).

On June 1, 2014, on Children's Day, Tina Karol founded “The Tina Karol charitable foundation”.

It is a charity initiative of the singer, which aims to help children's oncology departments of city and regional hospitals in all cities of Ukraine.

As a public figure and philanthropist Tina Karol also cooperates with the United Nations Population Fund on various social programs.

In the autumn of 2017, Karol became the first Ukrainian artist who performed seven concerts in a row at the Palace Of "Ukraine"— the main concert venue of the country.

The seventh show was charitable.

Children and doctors, who are helped by the Tina Karol Foundation, were invited to it.

In the summer of 2018, Tina Karol set an absolute record in the history of Ukrainian pop music — she gave 77 concerts during her all-Ukrainian tour “Intonations”.

Throughout her career, Tina has recorded nine studio albums, three mini-albums, six live albums, seven soundtracks, forty singles, one audiobook, and three hits collections.

The May 2023, videography of the Ukrainian singer Tina Karol includes forty-eight music videos, nine documentaries, four mood videos, and one lyric video.

Since 2020, she has been a judge at Vidbir, Ukraine's National Selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Tina Karol won more than 25 Grand Prix and first prizes at various international music competitions and festivals.

Her voice range is more than 4 octaves (from the F of the small octave to the Fis of the fifth octave).