Geta Burlacu

Geta Burlacu (; born Georgeta Povorozniuc on 22 July 1974) is a Moldovan singer. She represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song "A Century of Love", written by Vica Demici and Oleg Baraliuc.

Career Burlacu began singing at the age of 7. She studied violin at the music school in Bălți and graduated from the College of Music in Balti as a violinist. In 1993 she went to the Academy of Music in Chișinău to study jazz and folk music. After graduation in 1997, Burlacu stepped on the professional scene. She has performed in Germany, France, Ireland, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, and China. She has won numerous awards at national and international festivals in jazz, pop, and folk.

From 1998 until 2011, Burlacu worked as a singer in the vocal jazz band Univox. From 2005 to 2007, she was a professor of jazz voice at the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in Moldova. In 2006, she won a scholarship from the Soros Foundation. In 2007, Burlacu participated in an international tour with the Cuban band Buena Vista Social Club in Romania. In 2008, she represented Moldova at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "A Century of Love" which failed to qualify receiving 36 points, tying with Slovenia in points and placing 12th. In 2009, she participated in the Golden Stag Festival, where she reached the finals in Brasov, Romania.

From 2009 to the present, she performed with the National Symphony Orchestra TeleRadio-Moldova, as well with the jazz bands Alex Calancea Band, ANGRY Band, and the folk music band Taraf lăutăresc. In 2010, she toured Europe with Alex Calancea Band. In 2011, Burlacu participated in the concert Women Day in the celebration Forty Years La Francophonie organized by UNESCO in Paris. In 2012, she released an album of Christmas carols, Să ningă cerul peste noi, and participated in a charity concert with the Black & White and Jazz Big Band (Tiraspol) in the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

She gave numerous recitals in the Main Square of the Republic of Moldova in a concert dedicated to the Independence Day of Moldova. She attended the Moldovan Festival in London, taking part in social and charity projects. She was named Goodwill ambassador to the United Nations Population Fund in Moldova.

In 2013, she implemented a long-held dream and appeared in The Erotic Carousel by David Hare and directed by George Tavadze at the Eugene Ionesco theater in Chișinău.

In 2014, at the invitation of the Association Connexions Moldavie and with the support of the Office for Diaspora Relations, Burlacu held two concerts, Winter Jazz in Paris and Luxembourg, where she was warmly welcomed by Moldovan diaspora representatives and heads of the Moldovan Embassy in Belgium and France. This was the first official concert of representatives of Moldovan Culture in Luxembourg.

Competitions 2009 – Finalist of the International Festival Golden Stag (Golden Stag), Romania 2008 – Winner of the local pre–selection Eurovision 13/09/2007 – Laureate of the Ethno–jazz festival Trigon, Chișinău 02/07/2007 – Laureate of the International Festival Faces of Friends, Moldova 30/04/2007 – Opening Concert Soloist Buena Vista Social Club, National Theatre, Bucharest, Romania 2007–27–04 – Opening Concert soloist Buena Vista Social Club, Opera, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2004 – Winner at the International Jazz Festival DODJ 2001 – Special Prize of the National Festival of Folk Music Tamara Ceban Moldova 2001 – Participant of the International Festival International Festival of Universal Music (FIMU), Belfort, France 2001 – Participant of the international music festival New Impro Music Fest, Moldova 2001 – Soloist of Folk Music Orchestra in Romanian Folk Music Week, Germany 2000 – Participant of the international festival International Festival of Universal Music (FIMU), Belfort, France 2000 – Participant of the international festival of art, INTACT, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2000 – Participant of the international festival Jazz Weekend, Moldova 2000 - Participant of the National Festival "Mărţişor" Moldova 1999 – Participant of the international festival Jazz Weekend, Moldova 1997 – Diploma international contest Golden hits, Belarus 1997 – Grand Prix of republican competition Young Star, Moldova

Discography 2005 Ce n-ca da sa mor diseara 2008 La Porta Pamantalui 2009 O Sete Nebuna 2010 Cine Iubeshte 2012 Sa ninga cerul peste noi