Alexey Zhigalkovich

Alexey Zhigalkovich
Background information
Born (1996-04-18) 18 April 1996 (age 28)
OriginMinsk, Belarus
InstrumentVocals

Alexey Alexandrovich Zhigalkovich (Belarusian: Аляксей Аляксандравіч Жыгалковіч; born 18 April 1996 in Minsk) is a Belarusian singer. He participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 and won with one point more than the Armenian runner up. He sang the song "S druz'yami". It was a song with a fast tempo and energetic dancing. He wrote this song himself.[1]

He was the second winner of this contest from Belarus, after Ksenia Sitnik in 2005.[2]

Alexey is a prize-winner of several other international musical contests in Belarus, Italy and Bulgaria:

  • 2005: He sang Lo zio Bé (Дзе каза рогам) at the Italian song contest Zecchino d'Oro. The song won the Zecchino d'Argento prize for the best non-Italian song.[3]
  • 2006: II prize for children singers at the Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk[4]
  1. ^ Илона Галицкая заняла девятое место на международном детском конкурсе Евровидение-2007 Archived 2008-10-20 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  2. ^ Junior Eurovision Song Contest: History of the Contest
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2011-05-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ “Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk” of 2006 Archived 2011-08-16 at the Wayback Machine