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Participant profile: ESC 2017 Belarus national selection –  KATTIE

Kattie
Kattie

Kattie (real name is Ekaterina Rudnitskaya) is a very popular Belarussian singer. Recently she graduated from musical college, speciality- vocal, after continued studying in the Institute of modern knowledges of Shirokov and work as vocalist in Premier Orchestra.

Last year Kattie also wanted to take part in the Belarus national selection and did not qualify to the final. But she was in the final of the selection as a special guest and performed her song Rainbow.

In February 2016 she was one of the leaders of a big international music chart – Jamendo. And also in the same month the singer got The Academia Music Awards 2016 for the best pop-rock song of February on Los Angeles, USA.

In May 2016 Kettie was a finalist of the international music contest WWMC in Rome, Italy, where she got a special prize from judges.

On 20 January her number is #6. Kattie ‘s song for 2017 is Wild Wind. The authors are Anders Hansson (Sweden) and Sharon Vaughn. Anders was one of the composers of the song Children Of The Universe  (ESC 2014 UK – Molly). Sharon wrote Waterline (ESC Ireland 2012 – Jedward) and Survivor  (Helena Paparizou, Sweden MF 2014) and other famous songs.

You can hear Wild Wind below.

ARTICLE BY: Eliana Goncharova