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Tornike Kipiani, born 11 December 1987 in Tbilisi, is a Georgian singer who performs in the rock and roll genre. He began his working period in 2014, and in 2021 he took part in the Eurovision Song Contest, representing Georgia at the competition.
He holds Georgian citizenship and speaks Georgian. MusicBrainz also lists him as a male artist from Georgia.
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Last.fm. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Georgia
- Active from
- 1987
Discography
- Take Me as I Am2020
- You2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 16,049
- Total plays
- 92,301
Tags
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1987-12-11 ) 11 December 1987 (age 38) , Tbilisi , Georgian SSR , USSR
- Occupation
- Singer
- Years active
- 2014–present
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Georgia (country)
- Place of birth
- Tbilisi
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- Georgian
- Participant in
- Eurovision Song Contest 2021
- Genre
- rock and roll
Show 3 more facts
- date of birth
- 1987-12-11
- name in native language
- თორნიკე ყიფიანი
- start of work period
- 2014-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Tornike Kipiani (Georgian: თორნიკე ყიფიანი; IPA: [toɾnikʼe qʼipiani]; born 11 December 1987) is a Georgian singer. Kipiani started his musical career at the age of 19, forming the band The Circular Corner. In 2012, he auditioned for the Georgian talent show Magtifan on Maestro, placing in the top five of the competition. Kipiani also won the first season of X Factor Georgia in 2014, mentored by Tamta.
He entered the selection process for Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "You Are My Sunshine", sung with Giorgi Bolotashvili. The song finished 23rd out of the 25 entries in the national final. However he was selected to represent his country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 after winning Georgian Idol. He was to perform in Rotterdam, Netherlands with the song "Take Me as I Am", however the contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, he represented Georgia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "You", but he failed to qualify to the grand final.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tornike Kipiani” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.