Born in Soviet Georgia and raised in Moscow, Tinatin Japaridze (Vocalist, Songwriter, Author, Journalist, Radio Personality) is an artist of infinite pedigree who composes and performs a wide spectrum of material, host and produces her own radio show as a United Nations Correspondent in New York City and UN Radio.
She wrote an international hit “Is It True?” that came second at 2009 Eurovision Song Contest and was also featured at the Swedish Idol Finals of 2009, performed and later recorded by a #1 Swedish recording artist, Erik Gronwall. Tinatin was awarded by ESC European Music Awards as the Lyricist of the Year and also received a special award for the Best Song of the Year “(“Is It True?”) The song was consecutively hailed in December of 2010 as the Eurovision Song of the Decade and a #1 Eurovision song in the five-decade history of the contest. Previous participants, both artists and composers, include Celine Dion, ABBA, Julio Iglesias, Diane Warren and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Tinatin is currently creating a one-woman stage show with Broadway arranger/composer/musical director, Timothy Graphenreed, is a true story that was inspired by Tinatin’s much-anticipated memoir, Beyond Borders, currently in the works alongside Chuck Taylor, a renowned author and journalist, former Sr. Correspondent for Billboard Magazine. The upcoming memoir is a fascinating story of a girl’s journey through the Iron Curtain when the Great American Songbook was a forbidden fruit…to all but one Soviet child with an all-American dream.
Tinatin is the model of a sophisticated professional – it is not surprising that both European and American media from Billboard right across are on her case.
Represented by Steven C. Beer of Greenberg Traurig, LLP and signed worldwide to Kobalt Music Publishing, alongside hit-makers Gwen Stefani, Kelly Clarkson, One Republic, Lionel Richie and William Orbit, Tinatin’s self-penned song “Connected” was voted by the John Lennon Song Contest’s executive jury as the Pop Song of the Year in 2008.
“Wild,” co-written and recorded by Tinatin, was voted in 2007 by international critics as a Billboard Magazine Top 10 Critics’ Pick. That same year, her single “Thinking of Someone Else” topped the Music Week dance charts throughout Europe.
Tinatin’s debut solo release “We the Peoples,” based on the United Nations Charter, is the only UN anthem endorsed by the organization’s top officials, and led Tinatin to be named one of 2008′s “Artists To Watch” in Billboard magazine. In a critique in Billboard, the single was deemed “a penultimate, contemporary anthem honoring the mission of the United Nations, perhaps more relevant than ever, given the flux of worldwide politics… a resonant affirmation that politics actually have potential to unite.”
Today, the Soviet-born artist’s career is on the verge of catapulting into mainstream international success with chart-topping hits in the charts, self-penned columns in leading newspapers and magazines, worldwide media interest in her unusual story and her work as a United Nations radio personality.
Described by Christopher Neil, who is not only Tinatin’s executive producer but also the creative force behind Celine Dion, Mike & the Mechanics and Sheena Easton – she is an artist with an “outstanding voice for people who want to make great music,” Tinatin stands as a young, charismatic musician, singer and songwriter with the talent and moxie to forge one of the choice debut artists of the year.
