Fabienne Liechti is a Los Angeles based professional ballroom dancer.

She is best known for her appearances with singer Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan

Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...

, drummer and percussionist Sheila E and So You Think You Can Dance

So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. TV series)

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 dancer Dmitry Chaplin

Dmitry Chaplin

Dmitry Chaplin is an Russian dancer and an Emmy Nominated choreographer, best known for being a Top 10 finalist on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance . He was famous for constantly performing shirtless, with one solo routine having him rip off his shirt.-Biography:Chaplin was born in...

 on the American live fundraiser show American Idol

American Idol

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, Idol gives back

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 on Fox

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 Television. With American television host Carrie Ann Inaba

Carrie Ann Inaba

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 and professional dancer Artem Chigvintsev

Artem Chigvintsev

Artem Chigvintsev is a Russian professional dancer, born at Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic, RSFSR, Soviet Union, specialising in Latin dancing.He moved to the United States in 2003, and began dancing with champion ballroom dancer Giselle Peacock, who became his wife...

 she completed the instructional video series for ABC

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’s TV series Dancing with the Stars

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.

She is the multiple Swiss National Champion in Ballroom Dancing, a two-times Finalist at the French Open, Finalist at the German Open (World Super Series), Romanian Open, Holland Masters, Belgium Open, Swiss Dancesport Festival, took seventh at the Blackpool Dance Festival

Blackpool Dance Festival

The 8-day Blackpool Dance Festival is the world's first and most famous annual ballroom dance competition of international significance, held in the Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England since 1920. It is also the largest ballroom competition: in 2003, 1539 couples from 54...

 in Professional Rising Stars Latin and got awarded six-times by the Swiss Olympic Association

Swiss Olympic Association

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 for international high-ranked front achievements.

Biography

Liechti began her dancing career with four years old in a kid’s dance group. At the age of six she began taking ballet and ice skating classes, followed by ballroom dancing, piano and singing. When she was 18 years old, she moved to London

London

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 where she began dancing with German professional ballroom dancer Sven Ninnemann for eight years.
After, Liechti moved to Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 and got education in commercial acting and classical voice.

External links

• http://www.dancesportinfo.net/Couple/Sven_Ninnemann_and_Fabienne_Liechti_1469/Results.aspx
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad65kHnzJAE
• http://www.nzz.ch/2002/10/29/sp/article8HMGT.html
• http://www.emsbs.ch/breaking_news.29.htm
• http://www.danceplaza.com/index.tpl?style=results&action=couple&what=883
• http://www.alexbolshov.com/main
• http://www.goc-stuttgart.de/news/index.php?nwaction=shownews&nwmode=archiv&nwpassword=&nwlogin=&showtopic=&newsmonth=200508
• http://www.profitanzsport.de/Turniere/ergebnisse_05.html
• http://www.ltv-berlin.de/aktuell/index.php?timespan=2005-08