Alyona Lanskaya

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After advancing to the semi-finals, held on December 21, 2011, she qualified for the Eurofest 2012 finals as one of the five chosen from the 15 entries. On February 14, 2012, she won the right to represent her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan with her song "All My Life".{{cite web|url=http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=46293&_t=alyona_lanskaya_to_represent_belarus |title=Alyona Lanskaya to represent Belarus | News | Eurovision Song Contest - Malmö 2013 |publisher=Eurovision.tv |date=1985-09-07 |access-date=2012-11-25}}

However, on February 24, 2012, it was announced that she was disqualified after the Belarusian President conducted an investigation leading to her "unfair" win in Eurofest 10 days earlier after rumors circulated that the producers had rigged the televoting giving her 12 points making her the winner. In response to the allegations, the president ordered an immediate investigation and later confirmed them to be true. She was replaced by Litesound instead, who got second place in Eurofest finals.{{cite web|title=Litesound as new Belarusian representative in Baku|url=http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=47293&_t=litesound_as_new_belarusian_representative_in_baku|work=24 February 2012|publisher=Eurovision.TV|access-date=24 February 2012}}

{{Main|Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013}}

After the disqualification from Eurofest 2012, Lanskaya entered again the following year to represent Belarus in 2013 with the song "Rhythm of Love" written by Leonid Shirin, Yuri Vashchuk and A. Shirin. On December 7, 2012, Lanskaya won the national final, gaining top marks from both the public and jury vote,{{cite web|url=http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=alyona_lanskaya_to_represent_belarus_in_malmoe|title=Alyona Lanskaya to represent Belarus in Malmö!|work=EBU|access-date=7 December 2012}} and represented Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden. On March 4, 2013, it was revealed Lanskaya's song was officially changed to the song "Solayoh."{{cite web|url=http://escxtra.com/2013/03/solayoh-for-alyona/ |title=Belarus: "Solayoh" for Alyona | escXtra |access-date=2013-03-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921061219/http://escxtra.com/2013/03/solayoh-for-alyona/ |archive-date=2013-09-21}} In 2013, Lanskaya released her second studio album, Solayoh.

During the 2020 Belarusian presidential elections and the protests that followed them, Alyona Lanskaya actively supported Alexander Lukashenko, and said ex-presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was wrong. She described the peaceful actions of the opponents of the authorities in the following words, “Belarusians are simply tired of being poor, and they wanted to become beggars.”{{cite web| author =Отто Э.| date =2020-08-17| url =https://www.kp.ru/daily/217170/4271680/ | title =Шоу-бизнес разделился: Крыжановский назвал Ермошину "врагом Беларуси", а Ланская всецело поддерживает власть |publisher =Комсомольская правда| access-date = 2020-11-08 }} Lanskaya performed in the support of Lukashenko's regime, participated in pro-government car rallies.{{cite web| author =Зайцева А.| date =2020-10-17| url =https://news.tut.by/society/704432.html| title =С Ланской и жалобами на "агрессию другой стороны". Как автопробег "За Беларусь" приехал на родину Лукашенко| publisher =TUT.BY| accessdate =2021-01-06| archive-date =2020-12-19| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20201219153424/https://news.tut.by/society/704432.html| url-status =dead}}{{cite web| author =| date =2021-01-05| url =https://42.tut.by/713787| title =Instagram удалил профиль певицы Алены Ланской| publisher =TUT.BY| accessdate =2021-01-06| archive-date =2021-01-05| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20210105120140/https://42.tut.by/713787| url-status =dead}}

On January 5, 2021, Alyona Lanskaya's Instagram page, where she shared, among other things, her thoughts on the situation in the country, was blocked. The singer had 22,000 subscribers. She commented on the ban, “You can block me either on VKontakte, or Instagram, or Facebook because social networks have never played such an important role for me as for other people.” At the same time, the singer also stated that if the page is not unblocked within a day, she would file a complaint to the Militsiya to “investigate this case.”

• Лабиринты судьбы – 2010
• Solayoh – 2013
• Я жива - 2018

• "Solayoh" – 2013

• "Everybody Get Up!"
• "Тише-тише"
• "Life is Ok!"
• "Небо знает"
• "Бумажная любовь"
• "Белая ластаўка"
• "Дави на газ"
• "Васiльковае неба"
• "Папараць-кветка"
• "На краю"
• "Солео" (Solayoh Russian vers.)
• "All My Life" - 2011
• "Rhythm of Love" - 2012
• "Сказка о любви" (You're the Lucky One, Russian vers.)
• "You're the Lucky One"
• "Speak"
• "Спит" (Speak, Russian vers.)
• "I'm Alive"
• "Я Жива" (I'm Alive, Russian vers.)

• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeMZb-YYyRQ Alyona Lanskaya - Спит]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQj6UA5C0Zw Alyona Lanskaya - Speak]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Kt8DPgHDU Alyona Lanskaya - Solayoh]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBzY-tt90e4 Alyona Lanskaya - Одинокие сердца]

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