THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ANDREY KUNETS

Thank you for visiting our page at Angelfire. Please come back and visit again! On this site we'll include everything about this singer, including photos, a biography, an annotated list of videos, YouTube videos, breaking news, and more. In these pages, I might include some information about how I originally became a fan and about what makes this star so special in my estimation. Thanks for taking a look at this site. Be sure to get in touch with your thoughts and suggestions. I'll be updating frequently, so please check back often. The link to Andrey's Videos is at the bottom of this page. We have added a 2008 Junior Eurovision Song Contest page. Visit JESC page to read about this happening. Final vote totals KIDSMUSIC-2008: 1. “Robinson” (Russia, [Ishim] 2. Billy Gilman (USA) 3. “the magicians of court” (Russia, Voronezh) “Libera” (England) 4. Andrey [Kunets] (Belarus') 5. Declan Galbraith (England) Andrey with the JESC 2008 Belarus Participants

Leaving the stage after practice at the Slav Bazaar 2008 Belarusians win 43 medals at 5th CIS Junior Delphian Games Representatives of Belarus have won 13 gold, 17 silver and 13 bronze medals at the 5th CIS Junior Delphian Games which was held in Minsk on October 22-23. The final gala concert with the participation of winners of the Games was held in the Belarusian Philharmonic Society. Andrey Kunets became the best one in the nomination “Pop-Song”. The Belarusian participants took all the medals for dulcimer and accordion playing (senior group) and one medal (junior group). The Belarusians also took all the three medals in the nomination “Web-design”. During the 5th CIS Junior Delphian Games in Minsk, the Belarusian team had the biggest number of participants – 280 people. They competed with others in 16 nominations. The CIS Junior Games aim at developing the global idea of the Delphian Games as the supreme forum of arts preserving and augmenting the cultural heritage of the peoples, upbringing the youth in the spirit of tolerance and respect to other cultures. The Games are held once in two years. The first CIS Junior Delphian Games took place in Bryansk in 2002, the second games — in Chisinau in 2004, third games — Kyiv in 2005, fourth fames — Astana in 2006. Music art is traditionally the most represented kind of art during the competitions. Riga to Host Belarus’ Gala-Concert in May A gala-concert of well-known artists of Belarus will take place in Riga on May 15. The event has been organized by the Embassy of Belarus in Latvia, the Culture Ministry of Belarus and the Producer’s Center Devro. The gala-concert is a part of the public and cultural action "We Are Belarusians" initiated by the Culture Ministry in 2008. The action’s main objective is to popularize spiritual and cultural values of the Belarusian people and demonstrate the achievements of the Belarusian contemporary musical, choreographic, pop and theatre art. A non-commercial event is set to restore traditional fruitful cultural contacts between the two countries, intensify art and youth exchanges, familiarize Latvians with the Belarusian contemporary musical art, BelTA learned from the Embassy of Belarus in Latvia. Partaking in the gala-concert will be the leading collectives and artists renowned outside Belarus, such as ensembles Khoroshki, Pesnyary, Syabry, Verasy, winners of the children’s contest Eurovision Kseniya Sitnik, Andrei Kunets and others. New Day Nightingale warbles are softly revoiced Ground and smoky ribbon of river are sleeping yet Late lights of stars in the sky You should just open your eyes to meet sunrise New day comes up in pearl rays Fly away, my sweet night dream – it’s time to leave New day comes up Wise morning will throw open this world for love and good Colored light spots on the dome of night In a moment sun will rotate its carousel Neither shadows nor masks at holy day-dawn Everybody is defenseless as a child while day breaks New day comes up in pearl rays Fly away, my sweet night dream – it’s time to leave New day comes up Wise morning will throw open this world for love and good. English translation of words to "Be Examined All Around" We will think only about good, songs to sing and to dance with the friends. The load of the concerns of unnecessary is dropped, as if old charge, which raises dust, forgotten in the pantry. Rainy in the sun believe we will be during the day, In the rainbow with the colored clouds. By song we dawn will wake, Song we by [podarmi] to the people - Way her sing and us us they do not forget… And clouds will take off into the bottomless height, as the flocks of white birds, dazzling birds. REFRAIN: Be examined all around - and you will see sky, cloud, the sun and flowers. Be examined all around - and then you will understand, for what you on the earth live. I will write picture by the water color: white steamship on the aqueous smoothness. Grandmother bakes [aladi], tasty and grandson for, it strews the dough by sweet caramel. And clouds will take off into the bottomless height, as the flocks of white birds, dazzling birds. REFRAIN (2 times) A picture from May 2008

Practice at the Bazaar 2008 Belarusian Artists Give Performance In Kiev The concert of Belarusian performers in Kiev became a remarkable cultural event in the Belarusian-Ukrainian relations, BelTA learnt from the Belarusian Embassy in Ukraine. The performance of the Belarusian pop stars was held at the Ukraine National Palace on December 8. All the tickets for the show were sold. All the citizens and guests of the Ukrainian capital that came to the Ukraine National Palace showed an authentic interest in the Belarusian art. The show lasted three hours and the audience demanded an encore of the old and new songs by Verasy, Pesnyary, Alexander Tikhanovich and Yadviga Poplavskaya and many others. Andrei Kunets, the rising star of the Belarusian pop stage got an especially warm welcome. The young Belarusian singer who had his birthday that day received birthday gifts and happy birthday wishes from his fellow-singers and Ukrainian fans. The concert in the Ukrainian capital was the finale of the public and cultural campaign “From Belarus With Love”. It was organized under the auspices of the Belarusian Embassy in Ukraine. Concert in Kiev to crown the action "We are the Belarusians". Famous performers and bands such as Irina Dorofeeva, Yadviga Poplavskaya and Alexander Tikhanovich, bands "Khoroshki", "Pesnyary", "Syabry", Inna Afanasieva, Petr Elfimov, Ksenia Sitnik and Andrey Kunets. Andrey Kunets and Masha Novik Are Winners of The Festival Orpheus in Venice, Italy - March 2008 Andrey Kunets, who won the Grand Prix at the Slavonic Bazaar-2007 contest and was second at the Junior Eurovision-2006, has recently returned from Venice with another victory. He was placed fi rst at the 1st International Orpheus in Italy-2008 Youth Festival-Carnival while 6-yearold Masha Novik was second among vocalists in her age group Both Andrey and Masha are Svetlana Statsenko’s pupils — an Honoured Art Figure of Belarus and Artistic Leader of the Vladimir Mulyavin National Centre of Musical Art. The festival lasted for ten days at several grounds simultaneously. The event brought together over 900 young talents from all over the globe. The variety of genres was surprising and included vocal, playing musical instruments, choreography, circus art, painting and drawing and fashion. The vocal competition lasted two days. The participants were divided into 4 age groups. Andrey Kunets withstood competition from his 10-12-year peers while Masha Novik (Belarus’ second entrant) competed with young soloists aged between 5 and 9. “Masha has been studying at the Vladimir Mulyavin National Centre of Musical Art for only six months and winning second place at such an international contest is a huge achievement for her. We should also take into account her age and that it was her first competition,” says Svetlana Statsenko. Alongside a diploma, Andrey Kunets has been awarded a statuette in the shape of a gilded note with a Swarovski crystal inside it. Masha Novik received a second degree diploma and a gilded harp also decorated with Swarovski crystals.

Andrey Kunets from Belarus Wins Grand Prix of Children’s Musical Contest “Vitebsk-2007” A special prize and a diploma of the winner of the Grand Prix of the 5th International Children’s Musical Contest “Vitebsk-2007”, which was held within the framework of the festival of arts “Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk”, were awarded to Andrey Kunets representing Belarus. A special prize and a diploma of a prizewinner – the winner of the first prize of the contest were given to Otar Andriadze from Georgia. Ernest Deryabin representing Ukraine and Arina Doronina representing Russia won the second prize. Kiki from Bosnia and Herzegovina was give the third prize. In line with the resolution on the children’s musical contest apart from a special prize and a diploma the Grand Prix winner will also get $5 thousand; the winners of the first, second and third places will get $3 thousand, $2 thousand and $1 thousand respectively. Moreover, Belarusian Andrey Kunets and Russian Arina Doronina were given special prizes of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia Union State – digital cameras. Kristina Svetlichnaya from Belarus and Lev Saprygin from Russia were awarded the special prizes the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State as well. The jury also instituted its own prize and presented it to Nojus Bartaska from Lithuania. A diploma of the International Federation of Festival Organizations (FIDOF) was conferred on the youngest participant of the contest - Kylyshbek Zhaksybekov representing Kazakhstan. Some 22 young singers from 19 countries took part in the contest. At present all prizewinners and their senior colleagues – Belarusian and Russian pop stars as well as the winners of the previous children’s song contests are taking part in a festive gala concert “Cornflower Country” in the Summer Amphitheater.

Andrey Kunets Wins Second Place at Junior Eurovision Song Contest-2006 The Belarusian participant Andrey Kunets took the second position at Junior Eurovision 2006. The contest was held in Bucharest, Romania on December 2. The 10-year-old boy from Mozyr scored 129 points for singing his song “New Day”. Portugal, Malta and Russia gave Belarus maximum scoring of 12 points. 10 points were awarded to Andrei by Romania, Ukraine and Sweden, 8 points - by Spain, Greece and Croatia, 6 points - by Cyprus, Serbia and Belgium, 5 points - by Macedonia, 4 points - by the Netherlands. The winner of the contest is Russia with sister twins Masha and Nastya Tolmachevy (154 points) singing the Spring Jazz. Molly from Sweden (116) finished the third. Other contestants scored the following points: Spain (90), Serbia (81), Romania (80), Belgium (71), Cyprus (58), Ukraine (58), Croatia (50), Malta (48), Netherlands (44), Greece (35), Portugal (22), Macedonia (14). Belarusian voters provided the highest vote (12 points) to Russia. This year 15 countries took part in the competition. According to the Junior Eurovision rules, contestants cannot be older than 15. A song has to be sung in the national language. A televised version of the contest was captured by 25 million people worldwide. 4,000 spectators watched the live show at the Sala Polivalenta. Ksenia Sitnik took part in the show as a special guest. She sang her hit “We are Together” and awarded the cup upon the Tolmachevy sisters. For Belarusian TV viewers the live broadcast from Bucharest was arranged by Belteleradiocompany on the First Channel and Belarus’TV. Denis Kurian from ATN was the presenter.

Andrey's Biographical Sketch Name: Andrey A. Kunets. Birth date: December 7, 1995. Locality of birth: Mozyr, Belarus. Place of residence: Mozyr. What place in your town do you like the best and why? City Park. Zodiac sign: Sagittarius. What are the positive and negative traits of your character? Persistence, kindness, tenderness, sense of humour. Negative: stubbornness, laziness. Favorite school subjects: Russian literature, Astronomy. What profession do you dream about? Singer. Hobbies: Sing and draw. Favorite sports: Cycling. Favorite movie: Russian TV series "My Fair Nanny". How did you take up music?: From mom’s insistance. Favorite bands: UME’s Studio from Mozyr. What is your Eurovision song about? A new day, joy, light, love. What music events did you partake? Land under the White Wings (1st place, Mozyr), Golden Bee (Grand Prix, Klimovichi), People’s Friendship (Grand Prix, Kaizerslautern). What or who is your main inspiration?: My tutor, Svetlana Adamovna Statsenko. Life credo: Sing No Matter What! Sing in Spite of Stuff! Sing to Keep on Dreaming! Sing for Luck! Favorite animal: Dog. What is your favorite dish and who cooks it? Chicken Mozyr, made by mom. Your favorite color, what do you associate it with? White/kindness, yellow/sun. Favorite author or book: A. Pushkin. Do you believe in any signs? I believe in God. The most unusual present you have ever got: A DVD for the Grand Prix. Country or city you dream of to visit, what is its main appeal for you? Moscow, want to see its architecture, the Red Square. What performer would you like to sing together with? Polina Smolova. What made you take part in Eurovision selection round? Took advice of my tutor. Novyi Den' (New Day) Words and music written by Andrey when he was just 10 years old. Andrey was born on the 7th of December in 1995 in the small beautiful town of Mozyr in Belarus. In primary school his favorite activity was singing. In 2003 Andrey entered pop musical studio UMES. Currently he is a soloist of the Muliavin National Musical Art Centre where he keeps on improving his vocal skills under the guidance of Svetlana STATSENKO. Andrey is a very industrious, sociable and inquisitive person, loves music and the stage. Andrey & Friend's Videos Junior Eurovision Song Contest - 2008