Tanja Mihhailova

Tanja Mihhailova
Tanja Mihhailova (2014)
Background information
Birth name	Tatjana Mihhailova
Born	(1983-06-19) 19 June 1983 (age 33) Kaliningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Origin	Estonia
Genres	Pop
Years active	2001 – present
Website	tanjamusic.com

Tatjana Mihhailova-Saar (Russian: Татьяна Михайлова, born 19 June 1983), better known as Tanja or Tanja Mihhailova is a Russian-Estonian pop singer and actress. She was born June 19, 1983 in Kaliningrad, Russian SFSR, but has lived in Estonia from a very young age. Tanja has been a member of several bands in her professional career and has performed in several stage musicals. She represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the song "Amazing".

Tanja started singing at a very young age, participating in numerous contests and song festivals in Estonia, Russia and Ukraine. In 1998 she won the contest "Utrennaja zvezda" in Jurmala, Latvia and in 2002 she took part of "Fizz superstar 2002" Baltic singing competition.

As a musical actress, she has played the lead roles in Fame (Carmen Diaz), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Spider Woman) and Cabaret (Sally Bowles).

With the Estonian producer Sven Lõhmus and together with Estonian singer Ly Lumiste, the girls formed the techno duo band Nightlight Duo in 2001. The band released two albums, Jäljed liival ("Traces in the sand"), and Miks ma ei suuda su maailma muuta ("Why can't I change your world"). The latter album won the award for the best album of the year, "Aasta uustulnuk 2002".

Nightlight Duo competed twice in Eurolaul, Estonia's selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2002, their song Another Country Song got second place in Eurolaul and a year later their song I can b the 1 came fourth. Both songs were produced and written by Sven Lõhmus.