Yulia Samoilova will represent Russia at the international Eurovision singing competition. She was supposed to fight for victory last year, but the Ukrainian authorities banned her from entering their country. Since the competition was held in Kyiv, even the founders of the event themselves could not influence the situation.
Yulia was helped through this and other difficult events by her relatives and simply those who were not indifferent to her situation. We will find out right now who influenced the life and fate of Yulia.
Yulia's husband Alexey Taran
After an unsuccessful vaccination (according to the singer’s relatives), Yulia Samoilova became a disabled person of the first group, she developed spinal amyotrophy. But thanks to my strong character and determination, Julia did not lose faith in herself and continued to do what she loved, in which she eventually succeeded.
Her husband Alexey Taran also had a significant influence on her. The girl met him via the Internet.
“Actually, at first I didn’t like him, and I thought that we would be nothing more than just friends!” - the singer said in one of her interviews.
But everything turned out completely differently than Samoilova could have imagined. She honestly admits that at first she did not behave very nicely: she was capricious, she constantly didn’t like something, but Alexey was persistent and tolerated all the quirks. He has become a reliable support for her and helps her cope with all difficulties. By the way, administrative issues in Yulia’s work are also Alexey’s business.
They've been together for nine years now, but official marriage They live a little over three years. They didn’t have a wedding as such, but they are planning a magnificent celebration a little later.
Alla Borisovna is known for supporting young people talented musicians and helps them on the path to success as best he can.
When Yulia came to “Factor A” and first appeared on the stage of the show, Alla Pugacheva, who sat on the jury, immediately warned the girl: “Don’t think that we will give you a discount for the stroller.” Yulia was not at all offended, because she herself also believes that in relation to people with disabilities, leniency is the worst help. But after such an introduction by the Prima Donna, the singer did not expect that at the end of the song Pugacheva would rise from her chair and applaud with tears in her eyes.
Alla Borisovna also appreciated Yulia’s talent as a composer and even bought one of her songs.
During difficult situation before Eurovision in 2017, Pugacheva also did not stand aside and supported Yulia.
“Many thought that the choice of such a participant from Russia was a provocation. But what is the provocation here? Doesn't she have the right to compete in this competition? She talented singer and composer and can take part if the organizers of the competition have nothing against it,” Diva told the Dozhd channel.
Gosha Kutsenko also supported Yulia and sang a duet with her.
The singer said that she wrote the song and initially saw Gosha Kutsenko in it, and he, in turn, was not against participating in such a small project. True, the song seemed sad to the actor (and singer), and he asked to redo the words, but in the end everything was left in its original form, finding another way out of the situation.
“Gosha listened to the song and said that it was too “heavy” - the lyrics needed to be redone. My husband and I tried this and that, but the alternative options didn’t work, this text seemed to have become attached to the song. In the end, it remained the same, but was “highlighted” with Ruslan Lukyanov’s competent New Year’s arrangement,” Yulia said in an interview with StarHit.
Oksana Samoilova and Dzhigan
Few people know that Dzhigan’s wife is the cousin of Yulia Samoilova. Until the age of 15, the girls grew up together and even lived in the same house for some time. Later Oksana left for Moscow, where she met Dzhigan.
Despite her family ties, Julia doesn’t want anyone to think that Dzhigan is helping her in her career. Even when the question of a serious, expensive operation arose, Julia did not consider it right to turn to her sister for help, but collected the necessary amount herself.
However, the girls good relations. Oksana is proud of her sister, as she said in her video message, which was broadcast on the “Let Them Talk” program with the participation of the singer.
“Yulia wanted to sing all her life, but I didn’t want anything. (Laughs.) We were punished equally, scolded equally, that is, our parents did not make any difference between us. She grew up like a completely normal child. Perhaps this is why what is happening now is happening. We are proud and happy. Yulia has wanted to sing all her life and has been striving for this (to participate in Eurovision. - Ed.) all her life,” Oksana shared.
There is little time left before Eurovision, now Yulia has thrown all her energy into preparing for the performance and rehearsing the number. They say that some countries have already invited Yulia to come to them with a performance, music lovers from different corners Earth.
Let us remind you that the Eurovision semi-finals will be held in Lisbon on May 8 and 10, and the final on May 12. Yulia Samoilova will come with the song I Won’t Break.
Yulia Samoilova is a talented young singer whose energy and determination are admirable, because the girl is chained to wheelchair, but this did not stop her from achieving success in the musical field. In 2013, she became a finalist in the music competition “Factor A” and received a personal honorary prize from Alla Pugacheva. In 2017, Yulia Samoilova was elected representative of Russia at music competition Eurovision, but Ukraine, which hosted the competition this year, refused to let her into the country, so in 2018 the singer went to represent the country in Lisbon, bypassing the qualifying competitions, but did not make it to the finals.The childhood of Yulia Samoilova. Disease
Yulia was born and raised in the city of Ukhta, Komi Republic. IN Soviet times People from all over the country came there to work, and for the same reason Yulina’s parents ended up there. My father worked as a miner, my mother worked in the service sector. 
The family lived a simple life happy life until disaster happened. After an unsuccessful vaccination against polio (according to the singer’s relatives, in reality vaccination cannot be the cause of this disease), little Yulia began to have health problems. She stopped walking and began to melt before our eyes. Treatment did not work positive dynamics, the doctors' forecasts were disappointing. By the age of 13, the girl was given a final diagnosis - “Werdnig-Hoffmann spinal amyotrophy” - and given the first disability group.
However, little Yulia turned out to be a real fighter. Not paying attention to the ridicule of her cruel peers, she attended a regular school. In the end, the offensive attacks towards her stopped, the girl learned to “take the blow” and solve her problems herself. Her parents, who never treated her daughter as a disabled person, helped a lot with this, as well as music lessons, which became the meaning of her whole life.
Back in early childhood The girl showed excellent vocal abilities. She still remembers her first performance at New Year's party, where the young artist received a storm of applause for her performance of Tatyana Bulanova’s song “Don’t Cry” and received a huge doll as a gift. From that moment on, she began to study vocals: first with her mother, and then with a professional teacher from the local Palace of Pioneers.
At the age of 10, Yulia first performed at big concert, feeling like a professional artist. Since then she has performed regularly at school discos, repeatedly became a laureate of regional music competitions, worked as a singer in a local restaurant for six months. In 2008, the girl organized her own rock band, which lasted two years.
Yulia Samoilova on the show “Factor A”
A turning point in the life of the young singer was her participation in the music competition “Factor A” in 2013. Julia hesitated for a long time whether she should get involved in this adventure. However, her parents supported her, and Yulia’s young man volunteered to accompany her to Moscow.“Factor A”: Yulia Samoilova – Prayer (2013)
The talented girl immediately impressed the selection committee and easily passed the casting. And during the performance of the competition song “Prayer,” members of the jury, headed by Alla Pugacheva, greeted Yulia standing. As a result, Samoilova took second place and received Alla’s personal “Golden Star” from the hands of the Prima Donna.
This competition became a powerful impetus in future career singers. She remained in Moscow and continued her active creative activity. Julia has collaborated with many famous artists, among whom are Olga Kormukhina, Gosha Kutsenko, Lolita; actively toured the country and took part in music festivals.
Yulia Samoilova – We are together (Paralympic Games in Sochi)
In 2014, the singer was invited to perform at the opening ceremony of the Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi. The girl sang the song “We Are Together,” the words of which touched all the spectators:
Anything can happen, my friend.
Believe in luck, don't be sad
We can get through everything together.
Eurovision scandal
In March 2017, it became known that Yulia Samoilova would represent Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv. The composition Flame is Burning (“Fire is Burning”) by Leonid Gutkin, who previously helped Dina Garipova and Polina Gagarina with songs for Eurovision, was chosen for the competition.When the Russians learned about the results of the selection, the majority unanimously supported the brave girl. There were also those who did not advise Yulia Samoilova to go to Eurovision, but only because the competition was to take place in Kyiv. Supporters of this point of view were worried that due to the tense political situation the girl might be offended.
Yulia Samoilova – Flame is Buning
There was also a scandal. A couple of days before the announcement of the selection results on another Channel One project - the show “Minute of Fame” - Renata Litvinova, who was sitting on the jury, insulted the one-legged dancer Evgeniy, advising him to “fasten his other leg.” After this, some viewers considered Yulia Samoilova’s choice to be a kind of “nod to the disabled,” who were offended by the phrase voiced on the federal channel. Julia herself called this incident ridiculous.
But foreign Internet users did not greet Russia’s choice so warmly. It was not Yulia herself who was criticized (her performance, on the contrary, was highly praised), but the decision of Channel One, which many called a “forbidden technique.” " Slavic countries, stop using people with disabilities in your propaganda!”, “Russia is sending a girl into the breach as a target for booing. Hold on, Julia!” – such comments were found in the discussion of her performance on the official website of the competition.
However, a week after the announcement of the selection results, the SBU banned Yulia from entering Ukraine for a three-year period. According to representatives of the department, the singer violated the legislation of Ukraine - in 2015 she visited the Crimean peninsula, which was regarded as a violation of the state border. As a result, Russia refused to participate in the competition. Moreover, all federal channels refused to broadcast Eurovision.
Personal life of Yulia Samoilova
Julia has common law husband Alexey Taran, whom she met at the age of 20 via the Internet. Since then, the young man has always been close to his beloved, supporting her in all her endeavors. 
Now Alexey is organizing her concerts and accompanies her on tours, being the administrator and tour manager of the singer.
Yulia Samoilova now
After Yulia was refused entry into Ukraine, Channel One prepared an official statement: in 2018, Yulia Samoilova will represent Eurovision without any castings, regardless of which country becomes the winner and the next hostess of the competition. The victory was won by the disabled Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral, and in May 2018 Julia went to Lisbon.Eurovision: Yulia Samoilova - I won't break
However, Yulia and her song “I won’t break” (“I won’t break”) failed to make it to the final of the show. Since the organizers of the competition introduced the division into semi-finals in 2004, Russia has always reached the Eurovision final.
How many people with disabilities achieve great career success? And now we can safely discard from among them at least another half of those who were able to climb to the top. One of these is Yulia Samoilova. It’s hardly appropriate to talk about luck or luck here, because what this girl did was not a miracle, but the result of hard work on herself, and, of course, talent. But in order to perform on stage in front of an audience of thousands, Julia had to overcome many fears and complexes.
The girl wanted to be seen as a talented performer, and not as a pathetic disabled person who received applause only because she decided to go on stage. I must say that she succeeded and now the whole country knows about her and is proud of Yulia.
Height, weight, age. How old is Yulia Samoilova
As soon as the young girl began to gain popularity, rumors immediately spread about her height, weight, and age. How old is Yulia Samoilova? This year she turned 29 years old. There is no information about the girl's height and weight. No one was probably interested in what parameters a disabled girl had.
Today Yulia Samoilova (photos in her youth and now are almost the same) is extremely popular, but many predict that the peak of the singer’s fame is still ahead. One cannot but agree with this, because all Eurovision participants automatically attract the views and attention of millions of compatriots. Last year, Yulia was not allowed to compete in Ukraine for political reasons, but this year she will definitely get there.
Biography and personal life of Yulia Samoilova
Since the girl woke up famous, everyone has been interested in the biography and personal life of Yulia Samoilova. The singer was born in Ukhta (Komi Republic), in a working-class family. Mother - Margarita Samoilova, father - Oleg Samoilov. As the girl’s parents say, she was born healthy, and the illness that made her disabled came to Julia later.
Despite all the difficulties that disabled children often face, Yulia went to a regular school, despite the ridicule of the children. It was hard, but also educational. The girl did not want to feel inferior, wanting to gain knowledge at a regular school.
Everything that Yulia Samoilova encountered in her childhood and youth made her stronger, she became independent and persistent, which helped her achieve good results in her career.
Of course, the fact that the girl will be able to perform on stage with popular Russian singers, Julia never dreamed of it. The first delight in vocals was at children's matinees; from that time, Yulia began to study vocals with her mother, and later with a teacher.
IN early years Yulia Samoilova often sang at discos and occupied prizes at regional song competitions. 10 years ago, the girl also managed to lead a group that lasted two years.
Yulia’s first and main step into show business was participation in the song television project “Factor A”. Then, she managed to conquer the jury and touch the audience with a gentle performance of the composition “Prayer”. At the end of the project, Yulia took second place and received the Alla Pugacheva Prize.
In 2017, Yulia Samoilova was supposed to perform at the Eurovision song contest, but due to political differences between the countries, the girl was banned from entering Ukraine. In the same year, Yulia Samoilova will go to international competition, just with a different song.
Although it is difficult for people with disabilities to arrange their personal lives, this is not about today's heroine. Yulia Samoilova is the wife of Alexey Taran.
Family and children of Yulia Samoilova
News on the topic “Family and children of Yulia Samoilova” often flashes online. As you know, the girl maintains her own vlog, in which you can see how the everyday life of the rising star goes. It was from the vlog that fans of creativity learned that she had become a godmother to her friends’ baby. Unfortunately, the girl cannot have her own children.
In general, Yulia Samoilova’s family consists of her parents, husband and cousin, who turned out to be the well-known Oksana Samoilova, model and wife of the popular Dzhigan. It is unknown whether Oksana maintains contact with her relative Yulia.
Yulia's mother worked in the service sector, and her father was a miner.
According to the singer herself, now her family has also become a whole team that is preparing her to participate in Eurovision 2018.
Yulia Samoilova's husband - Alexey Taran
The husband of the wheelchair-bound singer attracts a lot of attention. The first and only husband of Yulia Samoilova is Alexey Taran. Usually, girls with disabilities do not bask in male attention, and therefore do not go through offers. This is definitely not an option for Yulia, who gained self-confidence over time. The girl met the guy in social network without disclosing your disability. When meeting in reality, the guy was not scared off by the sight of Julia. But this was only the beginning of the tests that she prepared for her chosen one. As the girl herself admits, due to her bad character, she repeatedly tested the man’s strength, and he steadfastly endured Julia’s whims, thanks to which he received love and reciprocity.
To this day, Julia is surprised by her union with Alexey, because they have little in common, apparently, a simple law played a role here: “Opposites attract!”
Yulia Samoilova's illness - why is she in a chair
As soon as the girl entered the stage, they immediately began to wonder what kind of illness Yulia Samoilova had - why was she in the chair? According to the singer, she was born completely healthy, but with the disease gene. She could have lived a normal life all her life with the gene for spinal amyotrophy Werding-Hoffmann, but the polio vaccine provoked terrible consequences.
It was vaccination that became the impetus for the fact that at the age of 13, Yulia received disability (first group). This is a terrible illness that forever confined the girl to a wheelchair, but did not break her spirit. Yet, despite all the obstacles that Yulia has to overcome on her way, she not only did not give up, she spread her wings and is flying towards her dream.
Yulia Samoilova's song for Eurovision 2018
Yulia Samoilova's song at Eurovision 2018 caused a lot of noise. Some consider the girl not talented enough to participate in such a large-scale song contest from Russia. Some suspect that the country is using limited opportunities singers to take first place in the competition. Still, most of the listeners approved of the song with which the girl will go to represent the country in Portugal this year.
IN lately news related to Eurovision 2017 is attracting increased attention. We recently wrote about who will represent Russia at Eurovision in Kyiv. Participant of the main vocal competition Russia's representative for Europe is Yulia Samoilova, who recently underwent complex back surgery. And now many Eurovision fans are interested in the fate of this particular participant, as well as the details of her personal life.
So, the other day it became known that Yulia Samoilova is a relative famous rapper Dzhigan.
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This year Eurovision will be held in Kyiv, thanks to Jamala's victory in Stockholm. The other day it became known that in Kyiv there will be the longest red carpet in the entire history of the competition, and this will be another reason to talk about the music competition.
And if in Ukraine they are discussing the victory of the group O. Torvald in the national selection, then in Russia everything that concerns Yulia Samoilova is in great demand. I must say that many, upon hearing the girl’s last name, thought about the wife of rapper Dzhigan, Oksana Samoilova, who is now expecting her third child. As it turned out, Yulia and Oksana Samoilov are relatives, and not just cousins.
Yes, Oksana and I are relatives. More precisely, cousins. We do not hide this fact, however, we also see no point in shouting about it left and right.
Note that on at the moment Russia's representative at Eurovision is in Finland, where she went with her husband for rehabilitation after undergoing surgery in September.
