Svitlana Tarabarova

Svitlana Vasylivna Tarabarova (; born 26 July 1990) is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, music producer, and actress.

Biography Tarabarova was born on 26 July 1990 in Kherson in a large family. Her father worked in a factory and her mother was a kindergarten teacher. As a child she dreamed of becoming a chauffeur and then a singer. She attended music school and various clubs. At the age of 13 she became a member of the dance group "Oasis". After graduating from school, she moved to Kyiv. She graduated from the Kyiv Municipal Academy of Variety and Circus Arts.

She is the winner of the Song of the Year 2014 music award and the Golden Firebird award in the Breakthrough of the Year category. For three years in a row (2017–2019), her songs were chosen as amongst the best songs of the year in the Ukrainian Music Platform Music Award.

On 11 October 2016, Tarabarova married her director Oleksii Bondar. On 9 September 2018 she gave birth to a son Ivan and on 23 September 2020, her daughter Mariia was born.

In 2023, she became the music producer of , the Ukrainian national selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Since then, she has written three entries that would go on to be selected for the contest: "" performed by Anastasiia Dymyd (which placed fifth in ), "Hear Me Now" performed by Artem Kotenko (which placed third in ) and "" performed by Sofiia Nersesian (which placed second in , the country's best result since ).

Discography

Studio albums 2014: 2015: 2018: 23:25 2023: 2026:

Extended plays (EPs) 2016: