Polina Gagarina
Pop Singer
Famous for her second place finish at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, this pop singer is also well known for her Russian chart-topping singles "The Play is Over" (2012), "No" (2012), "A Million Voices" (2015), and "Cuckoo" (2015).
At the start of her career, she won the 2003 edition of the Russian reality talent competition Star Factory and subsequently joined a pop group called Playgirls.
She voiced the character of Dorothy in the Russian dubbed version of Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return.
The daughter of a ballet dancer, she was born in Moscow, Russia, but raised in Greece. Her first marriage, to Russian entertainer Pyotr Kislov lasted from 2007-2010 and produced a son named Andrey. She married photographer Dmitry Iskhakov in 2014. In 2017, the couple welcomed a daughter.
She lost the Eurovision Song Contest to Russian-born-Georgian singer Nina Sublatti.