Tina Karol

Tina Karol
Karol in May 2006
Background information
Birth name	Tetyana Hryhorivna Liberman
Also known as	Tina Karol
Born	(1985-01-25) 25 January 1985 (age 32) Orotukan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Origin	Ukraine
Genres	Soul, Pop music
Occupation(s)	singer,actress
Instruments	voice
Years active	2005—present
Labels	Lavina music
Website	Official website (Russian)

Tina Karol (Ukrainian: Тіна Кароль; 25 January 1985), born Tetyana Hryhorivna Liberman (Ukrainian: Тетяна Григорівна Ліберман), is a Ukrainian singer. Karol represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006.

Born on 25 January 1985 to a Ukrainian mother and Jewish father in Orotukan, Magadan Oblast, Russian Far East, Karol moved to Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine at the age of six. Her father, Grigoriy Liberman was from Vashkivtsi, Ukraine. Karol confessed in 2006 she often felt discriminated against in school because of her Jewish last name. She is fluent in both Ukrainian and Russian. As a teenager Karol (under her real name Tetyana Liberman) performed for four years with the dancing ensemble at the Kyiv branch of the Jewish Agency, and her repertoire included songs in Hebrew and in Yiddish. In 2000 she with this ensemble traveled to the United States, where the group’s appearances raised money for Jewish Agency for Israel programs in Ukraine.

Karol graduated from a music school, and later from the Gliere Music College in Kiev, where she studied pop vocal in the Faculty of Singing. In her fourth year, she was awarded a scholarship by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament). Karol has participated in numerous youth, regional, international and Jewish singing contests as well as musicals and theatrical shows. Karol became the soloist of the Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces as well as a television personality.