Olia Tira
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Olia Tira is a singer based in Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

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Early life

Tira was born in 1988 into a Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 military family in Potsdam
Potsdam
Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

, East Germany. She spent a few years there and moved to Chişinău
Chisinau
Chișinău is the capital and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial centre and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc...

. She first appeared in festivals and concerts when she was 14 years old.

Tira attended school in Cahul
Cahul
-Demographics:According to the last Moldovan census from 2004 there were 35,488 people living within the city of Cahul and 1,317 people within Cotihana....

 and is currently a student in the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in Chişinău.

Tira's first album, Your Place or Mine?, was released in December 2006 by Nordika Multimedia. The songs were all written by Ruslan Taranu.

Eurovision Song Contest

After participating in the 2006 and 2007 Moldovan national finals and finishing fourth in the 2009 Moldovan national final with Unicul Meu, she was selected to represent Moldova in the
Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010
Moldova will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 and will select their entry through a national final, O melodie pentru Europa , organised by Moldovan broadcaster TRM .-O melodie pentru Europa 2010:...

 Eurovision Song Contest 2010
Eurovision Song Contest 2010
The Eurovision Song Contest 2010 was the 55th annual Eurovision Song Contest, broadcast from the Telenor Arena in Bærum, Greater Oslo, Norway. It was the third time Norway had hosted the contest, having previously done so in 1986 and 1996. The 2010 winner was Germany with Lena singing "Satellite",...

, along with SunStroke Project
SunStroke Project
SunStroke Project are a Moldovan dance/pop trio composed of Sergei Yalovitsky , Anton Ragoza and Sergey Stepanov , the band's producer is Aleksei Myslicky. They are famous for representing Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010...

. They finished 22nd place in the Eurovision song contest final.
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