Alexey Zhigalkovich Explained

Alexey Zhigalkovich
Birth Date:	1996 4, df=y
Origin:	Minsk, Belarus
Instrument:	Vocals

Alexey Alexandrovich Zhigalkovich (Belarusian: Аляксей Аляксандравіч Жыгалковіч; born 18 April 1996 in Minsk) is a Belarusian singer. He participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 and won with one point more than the Armenian runner up. He sang the song "S druz'yami". It was a song with a fast tempo and energetic dancing. He wrote this song himself.^[1]

He was the second winner of this contest from Belarus, after Ksenia Sitnik in 2005.^[2]

Alexey is a prize-winner of several other international musical contests in Belarus, Italy and Bulgaria:

• 2005: He sang Lo zio Bé (Дзе каза рогам) at the Italian song contest Zecchino d'Oro. The song won the Zecchino d'Argento prize for the best non-Italian song.^[3]
• 2006: II prize for children singers at the Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk^[4]

Notes and References

1. http://starlife.com.ua/posts/123.html Илона Галицкая заняла девятое место на международном детском конкурсе Евровидение-2007
2. http://www.junioreurovision.tv/page/history Junior Eurovision Song Contest: History of the Contest
3. Web site: Archived copy . 2011-05-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111003191515/http://www.zecchinodoro.org/album_dei_ricordi/index.php?page=interprete . 2011-10-03 . it.
4. http://festival.vitebsk.by/en/2006/ “Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk” of 2006