Birgit Õigemeel
| Birgit Sarrap | |
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Birgit Sarrap
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Birgit Õigemeel |
| Born |
24 September 1988 Kohila, Estonia |
| Genres | Pop |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Labels | MTH Publishing / Enjoy Entertainment |
| Website | www.birgit.ee |
Birgit Sarrap (née Õigemeel, born 24 September 1988) is an Estonian singer.
She started her musical career as a choir singer on Estonian Television children's choir and learned the violin at Kohila Music School.
Birgit is the first winner of Estonian Idol Eesti otsib superstaari. In 2007, at the Italian culture festival "L'Olivo d'Oro" (Golden Olive) Birgit was the first non-Italian to receive the "Golden Olive Branch" award.
Birgit Õigemeel represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden with the song "Et uus saaks alguse" ("So There Could Be a New Beginning"), qualifying from the first semi-final of the competition from 10th place, and placing 20th in the final, scoring 19 points.
Prior to the participation, she tried to enter the contest twice, in 2008 and 2012, but yet with no success. In 2002, when the contest was held in Tallinn, she was on stage during the interval act as a choir artist.
Birgit Õigemeel has been involved with professional theatre productions: in 2007 she played the role of Sylvia in the stage play "Two Gentlemen of Verona" (written by William Shakespeare and directed by a well known Estonian director/actor Lembit Peterson) at the Estonian theatre Theatrum. At the theatre Vanemuine, she has played Maria Von Trapp of "The Sound of Music" (opened in 2010) and appeared in supporting roles in a popular ethno musical "Peko" (premiered in 2011 as an open-air production in Värska). As of the autumn of 2016, she plays Sophie in the Estonian production of "Mamma Mia". In her spare time she occasionally plays with an amateur company in her home town Kohila.
Birgit is married to her manager Indrek Sarrap. She gave birth to their first child, a boy, in October 2013. Their second child, a girl was born in 2016. They live in Tallinn.
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