ANI LORAK (зразок написання твору на тему "My favourite singer")

Ani Lorak is one of the most successful Ukrainian artists in recent years. She has recorded more than a hundred songs in a variety of music styles, from soul and punk to pop and rock.

She was born in 1978 in the small town of Kitsman, Chernivtsi oblast, Ukraine. At the age of four she had already decided that she wanted to become a singer and during her school years she regularly took part in singing competitions.

When Ani was six she was sent to a children’s home together with her younger brother.

When she was fourteen, she entered popular Pervotsvit contest and won. This was the beginning of a long and productive international career as a professional singer, which would take her to every corner of Europe and even to the USA.

In 1991 Ani won the Big Apple music competition in New York and was nominated Discovery of the year at the popular Ukrainian festival Tavria games. The same year she released her first album Khochu letat (I want to fly). Her second CD Ya vernus (I will return) followed in 1998 and became in an immediate success. In 1999 she was awarded the title of Honoured Artist of Ukraine. More success came in 2008 when Ani represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrad. She regardlly tops nationally beauty polls, has starred in musicals and films, hosts TV shows, runs a restaurant in the centre of Kyiv and still finds time to work as a charity campaigner. Also Ani helped to publish and promote several children’s books.