Mariya Yaremchuk Марія Яремчук | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Mariya Yaremchuk (2014) | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Mariya Nazarivna Yaremchuk |
| Also known as | Maria Yaremchuk |
| Born | (1993-03-02)2 March 1993 (age 32) Chernivtsi, Ukraine |
| Genres | Pop,pop-folk |
| Occupation |
|
| Years active | 2012–2018(on hiatus) 2023(brief return) |
Mariya Nazarivna Yaremchuk (Ukrainian:Марія Назарівна Яремчук; born 2 March 1993), alsotransliterated asMaria Yaremchuk, is aUkrainian singer. Yaremchuk representedUkraine in theEurovision Song Contest 2014 held inCopenhagen, Denmark. She finished 6th in the grand final out of 26 countries.[1]
Yaremchuk was born in Chernivtsi and is the daughter ofPeople's Artist of Ukraine and singer, musicianNazariy Yaremchuk and his second wife, Darina.[2] Mariya was named after her paternal grandmother.[3] Yaremchuk's father died of stomach cancer when she was two years old. Friends and family have stated that Mariya was very dear to her well-known father.
"My mother told me that my father liked to take my pillow with him on tour. He never parted with it. And when he came from America, where he was being treated for cancer, he bought a camera. He filmed how we lived. At the age of 16, I found the recordings in the attic. Before that, I knew about my dad that he was a legend of Ukrainian pop music. And in the pictures, I saw a sensitive and beautiful man. And a handsome man. I have never met such men. "
— Mariya Yaremchuk[3]
Yaremchuk has an older half-sister Vera from her mother's first marriage and two brothers by her father's side, Dmytro and Nazariy. People's Artist andHero of UkraineVasyl Zinkevych is hergodfather.[4]
Yaremchuk considers herself an apolitical person, but in December 2013 she declared that she "in the elections and in general, morally, and as a singer" supported (the political party)Party of Regions.[5][nb 1]
Yaremchuk was a finalist of the TV projectHolos Krainy. She reached fourth place. In 2012, she represented Ukraine at the international contest of young singersNew Wave 2012, where she came in third.[6] Yaremchuk was sponsored byRinat Akhmetov during this festival.[6] Akhmetov is friends with, one of the organizers ofNew Wave,Igor Krutoy.[6] Mariya also participated inEvrobachennya 2013 – Natsionalyni vidbir, the national final used for finding Ukraine's representative in theEurovision Song Contest, where Mariya came fifth with the song "Imagine".
On 21 December 2013, Yaremchuk won theUkrainian national final for theEurovision Song Contest 2014 with her song "Tick-Tock". On 6 May 2014 was held the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest and Mariya qualified in the Grand Final. In the Grand Final, she finished sixth out of 26 countries.[10]
During her Eurovision participation, Yaremchuk received a lot of international media attention due to her being the Ukrainian representative in a contest with Russia in the wake of theannexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.[11][12] At the #HappyWall inCopenhagen, Yaremchuk wrote "Proud to be Ukrainian".[13]
After the Eurovision Song Contest, Yaremchuk released a string of singles. In 2015, she released a cover of her father'ssignature song "Rodyna" on the day of the twentieth anniversary of his passing.[14] Following that, she released "Do tebe" in 2016. In 2017, Yaremchuk released "Ty v meni ye", which music video was filmed byAlan Badoev.[15] "Ty ve meni ye" peaked at 105 of theTopHit radio charts.[16]
In March 2018,The Legend of Carpathians (Ukrainian:Легенда Карпат,romanized: Lehenda Karpat) was premiered at the 70thCannes Film Festival. In this film, Yaremchuk portrayed Marichka, the lover of folklore heroOleksa Dovbush.[17]
In early 2018, Yaremchuk's manager announced that the singer is going on an indefinitehiatus.[18]
"I will still sing, but I am taking a time-out and I am closing the project Mariya Yaremchuk. Consciously, now understanding myself. I don't see the point in singing the music I sang, in the name I used to wear. It's hard to leave a fortune. Eurovision, all those clips are a lot. It's hard to say "bye-bye" to everything and destroy everything. I was afraid. I had been taking the move for a whole year – it's not impulsive, it's not an emotion. This is a conscious decision."
— Mariya Yaremchuk, 2018[18]
Since then, she did not release any material, nor appeared at concerts and on television programmes. Yaremchuk stopped updating her social media pages in May 2018, but returned shortly in June 2020 to post two Instagram posts to promoteNetflix's filmEurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, which was partially inspired by her Eurovision 2014 stage performance.[19][20]
In 2023, she was part of the interval act 'Music Unites Generations' during the second semi-final of theEurovision Song Contest 2023 alongsideZlata Dziunka andOtoy [uk].[21]
Yaremchuk states that she belongs to theHutsul ethnic group.[17] As of 2021, she resides inLviv.[22]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UKR | UK [23] | ||||||||||||||||
| "So mnoy opyat'" (Со мной опять) | 2012 | — | — | — | |||||||||||||
| "Imagine" | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| "Tebe ya znaydu" (Тебе я знайду) | 2013 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| "Tick-Tock" | 2014 | — | 190 | ||||||||||||||
| "Do tebe" (До тебе) | 2016 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| "Ty v meni ye" (Ти в мені є) | 2017 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| "Do nestyamy" (До нестями) | — | — | |||||||||||||||
| "Nazavzhdy" (Назавжди) | 2018 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| "Sword and shield" (Щит і меч)[24] | 2023 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| "—" denotes a single that did not chart. | |||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 | Succeeded by |
