Tatjana Mihhailova-Saar (russian: Татьяна Михайлова, born 19 June 1983), better known as Tanja or Tanja Mihhailova is a Russian-Estonian pop singer and actress. She was born in

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, and has lived in Estonia from a very young age. Tanja has been a member of several bands in her professional career and has performed in several stage musicals. She represented

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in the

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with the song " Amazing" and finished in 12th place in the semi-final, failing to qualify.

Musical career

Tanja started singing at a very young age, participating in numerous contests and song festivals in Estonia, Russia and Ukraine. In 1998 she won the contest "Utrennaja zvezda" in Jurmala,

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and in 2002 she took part of "Fizz superstar 2002" Baltic singing competition.

Nightlight Duo

With the Estonian producer

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and together with Estonian singer Ly Lumiste, Tanja formed the techno duo band Nightlight Duo in 2001. The band released two albums, ''Jäljed liival'' ("Traces in the sand"), and ''Miks ma ei suuda su maailma muuta'' ("Why can't I change your world"). The latter album won the award for the best album of the year, ''"Aasta uustulnuk 2002"''. Nightlight Duo competed twice in ''

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'', Estonia's selection for the

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. In 2002, their song ''Another Country Song'' got second place in Eurolaul and a year later their song ''I can b the 1'' came fourth. Both songs were produced and written by Sven Lõhmus. The band disbanded in 2004 due Lumiste's pregnancy and Tanja continued with her musical career.

Jz Belle

With the producer and composer Timo Vendt, Tanja created the band ''Jz Belle'' in 2004. The first album (with covered songs only) "Jz Belle" was released in 2004. The second album "Teemant" was released in 2006 and three radio singles were released from this one.

Other bands and shows

Finished with the Jz Belle project, Tanja also starred in the band ''Sunday Mood'' with Timo Vendt and the Canadian guitarist Alex Pier Federici, with whom they released an album in English called "Something more" in 2009, with great success in the Baltic countries. In this period Tanja performed in the show "Queen – The doors of Time" in Theatre Vanemuine in

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, together with Broadway artist

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and Estonian singer

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. She had also participated in a few Estonian television contests (TV3), such as "Laulud tähtedega" (Estonian version of ''

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'') in 2010/11, obtaining second place, behind

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and

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Gemini

In 2012, she released her 6th solo album, Gemini. Three singles were released from the album: "Supernatural", "Sind ootan ikka veel" (feat. Mikk Saar) and "All In My Head".

Eurovision Song Contest 2014

Tanja competed in the Estonian national final,

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, for the chance to compete in the

in Copenhagen, Denmark. She won the national final by her song, " Amazing" with 53 percent of the votes. On 15 March, the song was officially released (together with the stage-act). She failed to qualify for the final, finishing 12th in the first semi final with 36 points.

After Eurovision

Tanja shared stage with

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at his Tallinn concert on 28 June 2014. Tanja will also perform with her biggest concert of her career called "Amazing Lie" at the festival

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in July 2014 in Tallinn. In June Tanja went to

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to shoot her new music video for her summer single Forevermore. She is the backup juror for Estonian jury panel in the

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, Austria, and she was the Estonian spokesperson during the voting.

Eesti Laul 2021

Tanja participated in

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with her song "Best Night Ever". She failed to qualify from the second semi final.

Discography

Albums

*''Jz Belle'' (2004) *''Teemant'' (2006) *''Gemini'' (2012) *''Amazing EP'' (2014) *''Elan päev korraga'' (2015)

Singles

*"Kaasa mind vii" (2006) *"Sind nii kaua pole olnud siin" (2007) *"Sind ikka ootan" (2007) *"Supernatural" (2012) *"Sind ootan ikka veel" (feat. Mikk Saar) (2013) *"All in My Head" (2013) *" Amazing" (2014) *"Forevermore" (2014) *"Külmunud maa" (2014) *"Elan päev korraga" (2015) *"Hääletu peal" (2015)

References

External links

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