Solomiia Lukianets

Solomiya Andreevna Lukyanets is a Ukrainian operatic soprano whose vocal range could occupy three octaves by the age of fifteen. In 2017, she was enrolled in the and officially named the youngest professional opera singer in the entire country of Ukraine, although she had popularly held the title since the early 2000's.

She is a scholarship holder of the . She was once called "the hope for Ukrainian opera". Lukyanets also performs pop, jazz, and folk music, in addition to the piano and the flute. In 2015, she informed journalists that she had no idols, and she was going to be the world's first Solomia Lukyanets. In 2017, however, she informed journalists that her primary inspirations were David Bowie, Lady Gaga, and Marilyn Manson.

Early childhood music career Lukyanets comes from a long heritage of musicians. Her aunt, Victoria Loukianetz, is an opera singer at the Vienna State Opera, who occasionally performs at La Scala, and the Metropolitan Opera. Her grandfather, , who died in 2021, was the deputy concertmaster at the National Opera of Ukraine. Her great-grandfather, , was also a famous music teacher and musician in Ukraine.

Lukyanets parents were both musicians trained by Oleksandr Bilnov. Lukyanets' father, Andriy Lukyanets, was a drummer and musician under the tutelage of Oleskandr Bilnov, which is where he met Lukyanets' mother.

Lukyanets began singing at the age of two, singing along to classical music that her mother would play for her on cassette tapes. Her mother, Olena Bilnov, a trained pianist and graduate of a conservatory, initially introduced her to classical music not with the aim of cultivating a performer, but to soothe her as an infant. However, Lukyanets' evident musical sensitivity soon encouraged her parents to pursue formal training. By age three, she was attending early childhood music education classes in Kyiv several times a week, despite the logistical challenges of commuting from the city's Troieshchyna district.

In 2009, she won first place in the "Children's New Wave" of 2009. After earning the award, she sat in the front center seat of the National Opera of Ukraine while serenaded by the Italian opera singer Alessandro Safina, who performed his song Luna. The awards were broadcast nationally by STB in partnership with the newspaper Fatky. Later that night, she returned to the stage to perform her own serenade for the artist Vera Remazhevska. As part of the celebration, the city's landmark statue, Manneken Pis, was dressed in a costume representing Prince Yaroslav the Wise, a historical figure of Kievan Rus. Lukyanets was selected by the European Association of Ukrainians to symbolize Ukraine's young artistic talent abroad. She was ultimately defeated in the final round by the 7 year old singer Anya Tkach, who earned a recording with Universal music and a trip to Disneyland.

When the Euromaidan erupted in 2013, Lukyanets went to the Maidan at Independence Square and attempted citizen journalism. She brought her video camera and filmed the protests from the ground. She wrote blog posts and filmed vlogs from the middle of the square, and put them on the internet. People from all over the world wrote to her and asked her questions. She later told reporters: After all, many [of my fans] could not even understand from the news what was happening here. In the world, 87% of musicians are not interested in politics, they are engaged in their careers. Music is their politics. She sang a song written in Italian and English, neither of which were her native tongue. The song was "Time to Say Goodbye (Con te partirò)" by Andrea Bocelli and Francesco Sartori. Her performance drew early interest from two of the show's coaches, Lena Meyer-Landrut and Johannes Strate, who turned their chairs during the audition. The third coach, Mark Forster, turned later in the performance. The latter performance reportedly moved the all-female jury to tears, despite the fact that they did not understand the lyrics. The prize included €500, which she used to help cover the expenses of her week-long stay in Brussels.

In addition to her studies in Berlin, Lukyanets began composing her own music. Her first original song addressed the inner world of a teenager, combining elements of rock and classical music.

Adult music career Lukyanets continues to perform in concerts.

In 2020, Lukyanets earned the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin award.

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on April 29, 2022, Lukyanets performed the National anthem of Ukraine alongside her mother, who played piano, and the tenor Stanislav Vypovskyi. On the video she posted of the performance to YouTube and her other social media accounts, she wrote: My country is being destroyed. My country is being destroyed by [the] Russian army. Russian soldiers shoot on civilians, they rape Ukrainian women and looting Ukrainian people. It shows that they don't know what is honor and they are inhumane. That will have consequences and It will have its price. The whole world is seeing the truth. Ukraine will never forget.