Monika Linkyte
Pop Singer
Lithuanian pop singer who represented her native country in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015, performing a duet with Vaidas Baumila titled "This Time." The track subsequently rose to a top sixty position on Austrian music charts.
Before competing in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, she sang for Lithuania in the 2014 New Wave competition and tried for the Lithuanian selection in the 2007 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, as well as in the 2010-2014 Eurovision Song Contests.
Her early single "Skestu" brought her to international attention, particularly in Latvia and Russia.
She was born in Gargzdai, Lithuania, and raised in Vilnius.
She finished eighteenth in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, ultimately losing to Swedish vocalist Mans Zelmerlow.