Dominika "Domi" Hašková (born 3 May 1995) is an American-born Czech singer. She represented the Czech Republic in the

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in 2022 with her electro-pop group We Are Domi. The band made it to the finals and finished 22nd overall.

Early life

Hašková was born on 3 May 1995 in

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, USA to

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and Alena Hašková. Her father was goalie for the

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between 1992 and 2001. They left Buffalo in 2002 after her father was traded to the

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. They spent the

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, Canada before returning to Detroit. The family moved to Prague's

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district, where she attended an international school, when she was 13. Her parents divorced in 2012. She has an older brother, Michal, and a younger brother from her father's second marriage. Hašková began playing the

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when she was six because it made her feel like a princess. In Prague, she sang in the choir and took private singing lessons and considered studying musicals prior to her audition for

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, when she decided to pursue singing. She stopped playing flute during university to focus on singing, composing and performing.

Music

At age 15 in 2010, Hašková participated in the inaugural run of ''

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'', where she was one of fourteen acts chosen for the finals. After her first year at Leeds College of Music, she attended a Norwegian jazz camp to learn more about Scandinavian music. In her second year, she met Norwegian classmates Casper Hatlestad and Benjamin Rekstad, with whom she formed We Are Domi in 2016. They released their first song, "Let Me Follow", in 2018. After the

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started in the UK and they finished their Master's degrees, they moved the band's center of operations to Prague. We Are Domi gained popularity after being chosen to represent the Czech Republic in the

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with their song " Lights Off". They reached the finals and finished 22nd overall.

Personal life

Because she was raised in the United States and later attended an international school in Prague, Hašková's main language is English and she speaks

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without an accent.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Haskova, Dominika American pop singers American women pop singers 1995 births Living people Musicians from Buffalo, New York Singers from Prague Alumni of Leeds College of Music Electropop musicians English-language singers from the Czech Republic 21st-century Czech women singers American people of Czech descent Czech flautists Czech women flautists