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How it all started...

Dima Koldun was born on June 11th, 1985 in Minsk. Nothing seemed to foreshow a musical career for this gangling and skinny boy. He was equally good at all school subjects. He was always trying himself in something new and thrilling, tried a lot of things and enjoyed them. He was very enthusiastic in his many hobbies and sometimes those hobbies were quite unusual. As an example &150; one day he wrote a text, where all words started with the same letter. This piece of work was published in a weekly newspaper "Arguments and Facts Belarus". However this event had no impact on Dima's future profession. He didn't become a wordsmith. Neither did he join those who worked at a polymer plant, despite the fact that he graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry, Belarus State University.

First steps towards fame

Grass-roots first heard about Dmitry Koldun in 2004, when he participated in "Russia" TV channel show &150; "People's Artist-2". The project hairstylist Sergey Zverev created an image of a bright blond boy for Dmitry. The young debutant reached the final competition, but he didn't get any award, though he made an impression on the audience &150; they remembered Dmitry.

In November 2006 D. Koldun made up his mind to participate for the first time in EuroFest casting to represent Belarus Republic, with his own song "Maybe". However then he failed to get into "Eurovision 2006" international song contest. But he kept dreaming of it…

The "Star Factory"

However his participation in the casting for the First TV Channel project "Star Factory-6" under Viktor Drobysh was a success. On March 10, 2006 the beginner singer determinately declared from the TV screen: "Koldun, you are the best!" And he did as he said &150; on June 29 Dima won at "Star Factory" qualification by the audience voting. One of the brightest Dima's appearances in the competition was joint performance of the Scorpio's song "Just Loving You". The legendary group soloist Klaus Meine liked Koldun's performance so much that he invited him to join them in a tour.

Since June 2006 Dmitry became the soloist in renewed "KGB" pop-group (Koldun, Gurkova, and Barsukov). The pop-group was produced by Viktor Drobysh, the composer. The group performed in a "Star Factory" road show, after which it sank into oblivion.

"Eurovision"

In 2007 Dmitry Koldun again decided to conquer Eurovision contest, which was to take place in Finland, Helsinki. In November 2006 under severe competition he wins over Belarus semi-final casting for Eurovision-2007 with the song "Angel of Dream" (music by D. Koldun, lyrics by D. Lis), which later was replaced with a new one (an acceptable practice according to the contest regulations). In January 2007 he gloriously won in the finals with the song "Work Your Magic" (music by F. Kirkorov, lyrics by K. Kavaleryan).

On May 10, 2007 Dmitry under Filip Kirkorov management successfully performed in semi-finals, in that way for the first time he managed to bring Belarus, his homeland, into Eurovision-2007 finals. Two days later, by the results of the international audience voting, he gained the honorable 6th place.

The Debut Album

Since that moment the creative work on Koldun's debut album and his regular performance in concerts started. In parallel from December 2007 to March 2008 the singer, together with actress Natalya Rudova, participated in the First TV Channel show "Two Stars-2". Dmitry tried very hard to teach the actress to sing, but he turned out to be much worse in teaching than in singing. The result of duet's efforts was the 6th place. However they became champions in nomination "The most frequently saved by the audience ": the audience liked those two performers so much that they didn't want them to leave the project.

On March 8, 2008 one more clip on Lunev's song "I am for you" (director O.Gusev) was put into rotation. The same video clip was used by the First TV channel in "The Beauty Demands for..." musical.

New Cycle in the Music Fate

In October 2008 Dmitry accepts the invitation by the authors of a remake of the rock-opera "Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta", composer Alexey Rybnikov ("Juno and Avos'") and Dmitry Chetvergov (guitar) to record an audio version of the protagonist. Later, having been persuaded by the authors of the musical, he agreed to perform the legendary outlaw on stage. Fisrt-night show of the project will take place in late November 2008.

On November 7th, 2008, Koldun and his musicians appeared in the Minsk Palace of Sports (Belarus) to open a concert of the legendary German group Scorpios, where he presented to the versed audience six songs he had written himself ("Bad News", "Unemployed Love", "Angel of Dream", "It's not Paradise", "Southbound Train" and a new version of "Give Me Power").19 January 2009 Dmitry, who used to perform on stage of the Palace of Sports as the EuroFest Contest winner tried himself as a host of the national musical TV project EuroFest 2009 (Belarus) and sang several songs as a special gest.
In February 2009 together with his colleague Alexander Astashonok (of the "Roots") the singer establishes his own sound recording studio Yashcheritsa (Lizard) in Moscow. His fans are given an opportunity to monitor its activities and witness recording process and rehearsals of the group in the on-line mode
On April 29th 2009 the singer presented his first ever recital named "KOLDUN" in the city of Korolyov, the Moscow Region. Together with his group of musicians Dmitry presented his fans both well-known songs and new ones, some of which will be included into his maiden album. The live sound of the concert, powerful and beautiful voice of Dmitry Koldun's were highly appreciated by the audience.