Helen Kalandadze ( ka, ელენე კალანდაძე) is a Georgian television presenter and singer. She co-hosted the
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in
Tbilisi alongside
Lizi Pop.
Life and career
Early life
Kalandadze was born in
Tbilisi. She attended secondary school in
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre in Brussels, before returning to Georgia to attend
Ilia State University
Ilia State University ISU (Georgian: ილიას სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი) was founded in 2006 as a result of a merger of six different academic institutions with long and varied histories. Currentl ...
. She graduated from the Faculty of Business Administration and Tourism Management in 2011.
Career
In 2009, Kalandadze participated in the
Georgian version of ''
Star Academy''. She later began working in television presenting.
In 2010, Kaladadze performed as a backing singer to
Sofia Nizharadze
Sopho "Sofia" Nizharadze ( ka, სოფო ნიჟარაძე, ) is a Georgian singer, actress, and songwriter who represented Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song " Shine". Nizharadze was a judge on the TV shows ''Geo ...
at the
Eurovision Song Contest 2010. Later, in 2013, she won the first season of ''Erti Ertshi'', Georgia's version of ''
Your Face Sounds Familiar''. Kalandadze later moved to Israel, where she worked as a manager at a tourism company. In Israel, she resided in
Rishon LeZion
Rishon LeZion ( he, רִאשׁוֹן לְצִיּוֹן , ''lit.'' First to Zion, Arabic: راشون لتسيون) is a city in Israel, located along the central Israeli coastal plain south of Tel Aviv. It is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan ar ...
, and took part in ''
HaKokhav HaBa L'Eurovizion 2017''.
Kalandadze founded the organization Teen Club Studio with Sopho Toroshelidze and Nina Tsitlauri, which provides a space for teenagers to sing, play musical instruments, and receive vocal training. In October 2017, she was announced as one of the co-hosts of the
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017, along with
Lizi Pop.
In 2019 she was one of the Georgian commentators (alongside Gaga Abashidze and, only for the grand final, Nodiko Tatishvili) for the
Eurovision Song Contest 2019, and in 2020 she commented the
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020.
During the Grand Final of the
Eurovision Song Contest 2022, she would have served as the spokesperson announcing the Georgian jury votes;
however, due to technical difficulties during the voting processes, they were instead announced by
Martin Österdahl
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.
References
Living people
21st-century women singers from Georgia (country)
Ilia State University alumni
Star Academy participants
Your Face Sounds Familiar winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women television presenters from Georgia (country)
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