Lidia Isac

Lidia Isac
Lidia Isac at Meet & Greet Eurovision 2016
Background information
Born	(1993-03-27) 27 March 1993 (age 23) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Origin	Moldova
Genres	Pop
Occupation(s)	Singer journalist
Instruments	Vocals Piano
Years active	2013–present

Lidia Isac (Russian: Лидия Исак, born 27 March 1993) is a Moldovan singer. She represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Falling Stars".

Lidia Isac was born on 27 march 1993 in Saint Petersbourg, Russia. Her mother and father were Moldavian students that met each other during the studies. After few months after Lidia’s birth, they moved back to Moldova.

Lidia started doing music since being a child. When she was 7 she began to study piano at “Maria Biesu” musical school in Chisinau. She was into music, but she never thought about singing. At the age of 13, her teacher of French noticed she has a strange deep voice, too low for a little tiny girl. She thought that Lidia can sing and suggested her to learn some songs by Edith Piaf. And she was right. After performing them on some concerts in school, all teachers named her “Little Edith Piaf”.

Lidia participated and won a huge amount of competitions. Her first international contest was at the age of 13, in Bulgaria - “Serebryanaia Yantra”, she won the special prize of the audience.

Her latest achievements are the participation in the final of “New wave 2014” international contest in Yurmala, third place in the “East Bazaar 2013” competition in Yalta, two-times participant in the national final of Eurovision Song Contest, Grand-Prix of the “Baltic Supertars” contest in Sankt-Petersburg, first place in “Meikin Asia 2015” in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, reporting for a Moldovan TV Channel from Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna being there with SunStroke Project (ESC2010 representative of Moldova). Lidia represented Moldova at Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm with the song “Falling Stars”. She recorded a french version entitled "Pluie d'étoiles".

Some of Lidia Isac’s songs topped the national radio charts in Moldova. One of the Lidia’s song was written by the Grammy nominees Bridget Benenate, Niklas Pettersson and Mikael Albertsson. The song “Falling Stars” was weeks in a row on the 13th place in Top 50 Viral Spain, on Spotify.