Ciobanu is a winner of multiple international competitions : in 1998 won second prize at the festival " Yalta - 98 " ( Ukraine ) , 1999 " Grand Prix " at the " Discovery " in Bulgaria ( for the performance of a song of composer Liviu Stirbu ) , the second prize at the festival " Voice of Asia " ( Almaty , Kazakhstan ) , in 2000 - the first prize at the festival " Slavic Bazaar " in Belarus , the bronze medal of " Delphian Games " in Russia , in 2002 , the golden prize of the festival " Spring of April " ( North Korea ) , in 2003 - second prize at the festival " New Wave " in Jūrmala , the Grand Prix of K. Shulzhenko contest ( Kharkiv , Ukraine ) , second place in national pre-selection for Eurovision Song Contest 2005 , was jury member at " Five Stars . Sings in 11 languages : Romanian , Russian , English , Italian , and even Korean . She has toured with many Russian artists and international stars such as Patricia Kaas and Mike Bolton . On 24 December 2005 her daughter , Mirela Christiana was born
Eurovision Song Contest 2005
Eurovision Song Contest 2005
Nelly Ciobanu