Dina Garipova was born 22 years ago in the city of Zelenodolsk in the Republic of Tatarstan to a family of physicians. She has been fascinated by music since early childhood and from the age of six she took classes in singing.
Throughout her short career, she has won several music competitions such as the Firebird Russian National Song Contest in 1999, the Republican Festival "Constellation" in 2001 or the International Contest in Estonia in 2005. As a member of the Golden Microphone Theatre she participated at the International Contest in France where their musical won the Grand Prix. In 2010 she performed her first solo concert which took place in her hometown Zelenodolsk.
In 2012 Dina emerged as winner of the reality talent show The Voice of Russia where Dima Bilan was one of the four coaches. As a winner of the show, she received the main prize which was a contract with one of the largest music corporations in the world, Universal Music. Now, besides working in the music business, she studies journalism at the Kazan University.
Her Eurovision entry has been written by two Swedish producers Gabriel Alares and Joakim Björnberg in cooperation with the Russian musician Leonid Gutkin who is very famous in all Russian speaking countries as a former bass guitarist of the rock pop band Autograph.
