Nicole Fuentes
From Kazakhstan Encyclopedia
Template:Multiple Nicole Fuentes, also Nicole Fuentes-Kalifatidis (born February 11, 1984 in Almaty, raised in Moscow, Russia) is a singer.
Nicole majored in Theatre, Acting, and Directing. In 2005, Nicole along with songwriter and producer Nick Terzis recorded the album Give Me Your Number in Greece which climbed the Greek and the European Singles Charts and it was a top 20 Hit.
An intensive year of work and travel back and forth between France and Sweden allowed Nicole to meet her current producers, Stefan Εberg and Tord Backstrφm. In October 2006 they began creating their 1st hit song Shut Up! The following year, they presented their top 5 songs to Lionheart international and Universal in Sweden where their singles Shut up! and Razborka were released. Nicole secured a publishing deal with Lionheart International which is part of the Universal Music Group. Most importantly Nicole wrote two songs with Grammy-nominated producer Marcus Black.
In 2008, the song, Razborka, was broadcast during Sweden’s most prestigious event of the year, the Music Festival (Melodifestivalen). This song was then a feature of a Melodifestivalen 2008 compilation album which was sold throughout Europe along with a DVD which featured her performance. Nicole was selected as a participant for the Eurovision Song Contest (an annual competition held among active member Countries of the European Broadcasting Union). The song Razborka was widely listened to in Sweden, Finland, Russia, Greece and Ukraine.
