Mariya Nazarivna Yaremchuk ( uk, Марія Назарівна Яремчук; born 2 March 1993), also transliterated as Maria Yaremchuk, is a

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singer and actress. Yaremchuk represented

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in the

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held in

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, Denmark. She finished the 6th in the grand final out of 26 countries.Maria Yaremchuk to represent Ukraine at Eurovision Song Contest 2014

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(21 December 2013)

Early life

Yaremchuk was born in Chernivtsi and is the daughter of

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and singer, musician

Nazariy Yaremchuk Nazariy Nazarovych Yaremchuk ( uk, Назарій Назарович Яремчук) was a Hutsul Ukrainian singer, born in the village of Rivnya, Chernivtsi Oblast. He was posthumously named Hero of Ukraine in August 2021. Until his death in 19 ...

and his second wife, Darina. Mariya was named after her paternal grandmother. Yaremchuk's father died of stomach cancer when she was two years old. Friends and family have stated that Mariya was very dear to her well-known father. Yaremchuk has an older half-sister Vera from her mother's first marriage and two brothers by her father's side, Dmytro and Nazariy. People's Artist and

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is her godfather. Yaremchuk considers herself an apolitical person, but in December 2013 she declared that she "in the elections and in general, morally, and as a singer" supported (the political party)

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Music career

2012: ''Holos Krayiny'' and New Wave 2012

Yaremchuk was a finalist of the TV project ''

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''. She reached fourth place. In 2012, she represented Ukraine at the international contest of young singers '' New Wave 2012'', where she came in third.Мария Яремчук съездила на «Новую волну» на деньги Ахметова ''Maria Yaremchuk on "New Wave" because of money of Akhmetov''
Glavkom (29 July 2012) Yaremchuk was sponsored by

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during this festival. Akhmetov is friends with, one of the organizers of '' New Wave'',

Igor Krutoy Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy (russian: Игорь Яковлевич Крутой) or Ihor Yakovych Krutyi ( uk, Ігор Якович Крутий, born on July 29, 1954), is a Ukrainian and Russian music composer, performer, producer and musical p ...

. Mariya also participated in Evrobachennya 2013 – Natsionalyni vidbir, the national final used for finding Ukraine's representative in the

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, where Mariya came fifth with the song "Imagine".

2013–2014: Eurovision Song Contest

On 21 December 2013, Yaremchuk won the Ukrainian national final for the

with her song " Tick-Tock". On 6 May 2014 was held the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest and Mariya qualified in the Grand Final. In the Grand Final, she finished sixth out of 26 countries. During her Eurovision participation, Yaremchuk received a lot of international media attention due to her being the Ukrainian representative in a contest with Russia in the wake of the Crimean Crisis. At the #HappyWall in

, Yaremchuk wrote "Proud to be Ukrainian".

2014-2018: Further success in Ukraine and acting debut

After the Eurovision Song Contest, Yaremchuk released a string of singles. In 2015, she released a cover of her father's

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"Rodyna" on the day of the twentieth anniversary of his passing. Following that, she released "Do tebe" in 2016. In 2017, Yaremchuk released "Ty v meni ye", which music video was filmed by

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. "Ty ve meni ye" peaked at 105 of the TopHit radio charts. In March 2018, ''The Legend of Carpathians'' (

: Легенда Карпат) was premiered at the 70th

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. In this film, Yaremchuk portrayed Marichka, the lover of folklore hero

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2018-present: hiatus

In early 2018, Yaremchuk's manager announced that the singer is going on an indefinite

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. Since then, she did not release any material, nor appeared at concerts and on television programmes. Yaremchuk stopped updating her social media pages in May 2018, but returned shortly in June 2020 to post two Instagram posts to promote

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's film '' Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga'', which was partially inspired by her Eurovision 2014 stage performance.

Private life

Yaremchuk states that she belongs to the

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ethnic group. As of 2021, she resides in

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Discography

Singles

Notes

References

External links

Official website
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