Тіна Кароль (Tina Karol) is a Ukrainian-Jewish singer born in the Russian Far East in 1985. At the age of six, however, she moved to Ukraine where she began touring with a Jewish dance ensemble as a teenager. She traveled with the ensemble to the United States in 2000 when she was just 15 years old. In 2006, she represented representing Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 as Тіна Кароль. From there, she rose to prominence as one of Ukraine's most famous celebrities, serving as a coach on "The Voice of Ukraine" for eight seasons between 2013 and 2021. In 2020, she joined Vidbir to help select future Ukrainian Eurovision participants. After the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in early 2022, Тіна Кароль began touring Europe to raise funds and awareness for the nation and her people.