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Participant profile: ESC 2017 Belarus national selection – Isaac Nightingale (real name Vadim Kapustin)

Isaac NIghtingale
Isaac Nightingale

Vadim Kapustin is the famous Russian  composer, musician and singer, who will take part in the Belarus National selection for Eurovision 2017 as Isaac Nightingale. Vadim was born on 19 September 1973 in Barnaul (Russia). He loved music so much from his childhood.

In the 1990s Vadim lived in Berlin, Germany and worked in the Russian Chamber Theatre there and then in the 2000s Vadim returned to Russia , where he created the group Triangle Sun. It was the first group that took part in the 2007 Global Gethering Festival in London.

In 2016 Vadim decided to leave his group and started a solo project under the name of Isaac Nightingale. He went to Los Angeles for the recording of a solo album. His album was recorded in one of the most famous Hollywood studios – Rusk.

Then, in September 2016 Vadim became a contestant of season five of The Voice Russia. He was in Leonid Agutin’s team and got to the quarter-finals.

Vadim was selected as one of 13 participants for the Belarus National selection for Eurovision 2017 under the name of Isaac Nightingale and the song On The Red Line. This song Vadim wrote himself.  In the final of selection on January 20 his number is # 5.

The refrain of the song:

But the sun is shining however 
I don’t wan’na fall sleep in light
I don’t wan’na know now and ever who’s right

Can we find the way out 
in the middle of twisted play
Can we still be friends now
would you take all the fills away
Can we put the guns down
it is always been on your mind
Take a look around now
would you take this another time
We’re standing on red line.

You can hear the audio of On The Red Line below.

ARTICLE BY: Eliana Goncharova