Valeria Gribusova

Valeria Gribusova (in Belarusian, Валерыя Грыбусава; born 1995) is an award-winning Belarusian singer who performs as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Belarus under Mikhail Finberg. In 2015, when just 20 years old, she won first prize in the Belarus Slavianski Bazaar Competition. In 2017, she participated in the Ukrainian version of The Voice. She is the lead singer of the band VAL.

Biography
Born in Mogilev on 12 February 1995, Valeria Gribusova particaped in Ludmila Zukova's children's ensemble Yaritsa from the age of five. She later attended the Mogilev Gymnasium where she matriculated with honours in choral music and art in 2013. She went on to study in the Pop Art department of the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts.

In 2016, together with the sound producer Vlad Pashkevich, Gribusova founded the VAL Music Project releasing the singles Кто ты есть (Who Are You) and Ветер во сне (Wind in a Dream) the same year.

Gribusova, as a part of VAL, will represent Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, with the song "Da Vidna" after winning Belarus' national selection Natsionalniy Otbor 2020 on 28 February 2020

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Category:1995 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Mogilev
Category:Belarusian pop singers
Category:21st-century singers
Category:The Voice (franchise) contestants
Category:Belarusian female singers
Category:21st-century women singers
Category:Belarusian Eurovision Song Contest entrants
Category:Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2020