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Eden Golanעדן גולן‎
Golan in 2018
Background information
Born	(2003-10-05) 5 October 2003 (age 21) Kfar Saba, Israel
Origin	Moscow, Russia
Occupation	Singer
Years active	2015–present
Website	www.edengolan.com

Eden Golan (Template:Lang-he; Template:Lang-ru; born 5 October 2003) is a Israeli singer who grew up in Russia. She began her career by taking part in the Russian selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015, and afterwards in the Russian television competition The Voice Kids. She is set to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

Early life

Golan was born in Kfar Sava in 2003. When she was six years old, she and her parents moved to Moscow for permanent residence due to her father's work, where she spent 13 years. Both her parents were born in the Soviet Union to families of Jewish heritage, her father's family hailing from Latvia and her mother Olga's family from Ukraine; her family left the then-Soviet Union for Israel, before moving to Russia in her childhood. Her grandfather, Yuri, graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University and worked for the newspaper Soviet Youth. Golan has a younger brother, Sean. According to Golan, she had mixed feelings about her time living in Russia, and that while she started her music career there, she was also uncomfortable due to frequent manifestations of antisemitism. Golan and her parents moved back to Israel in 2022. The immediate cause of the move back to Israel was the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but according to Golan the family would have moved to Israel eventually anyhow.

Career

In 2015, Golan took part in the Russian selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015. In the final, she finished fifth, scoring 22 points, eight fewer than the eventual winner Mikhail Smirnov. In 2016, she performed at the competition New Wave in Crimea, including performing her song "Howl at the Moon" in a duet with Nyusha. In 2018, Golan became a finalist in the fifth season of the show The Voice Kids, representing Pelageya's team. She collaborated with Yinon Yahel.

After her return to Israel, In 2023, Golan participated in the Season 2 finale of I Can See Your Voice Israel and was eliminated in the first round.

In preparation for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation decided to once again select the country's representative for the competition through cooperation with the Keshet 12 channel and Rising Star. Golan won all stages of the show, performing Whitney Houston's "I Have Nothing" and Aerosmith’s I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing for the final, and ultimately won both the jury and public vote, being selected to represent Israel in the contest. Organisers of Eurovision are facing calls to ban her participation over the war with Gaza.

Discography

Singles

• "Schastye" (2015)
• "Ghost Town" (2022)
• "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" (2022)
• "Taxi" (2023)
• "Dopamine" (2023)

Notes

1. In March 2014 Crimea was unilaterally annexed by Russia and is since then is under dispute by Russia and Ukraine. According to Ukrainian law, since June 2015 visiting Crimea is only legal after obtaining permission from the State Migration Service of Ukraine.

References

1. "Вернулась из Москвы и будет представлять Израиль на Евровидении: знакомьтесь - Эден Голан". Retrieved 7 February 2024.
2. ^ ""מרגישה שאני צריכה להוכיח את הישראליות שלי, אבל אין מה להוכיח. אני הכי ישראלית שיש"". mako.co.il (in Hebrew).
3. "Eden Golan chosen to represent Israel in Eurovision". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 7 February 2024. Eden Golan, whose family moved from Israel to Russia when she was six and moved back here two years ago, already has a professional career abroad.
4. Gutterman, Steve (18 March 2014). "Putin signs Crimea treaty, will not seize other Ukraine regions". Reuters.com. Archived from the original on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
5. "Granting of special permits to enter Crimea". State Migration Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
6. "Эден Голан. Команда Пелагеи" (in Russian). Channel One Russia.
7. "עדן גולן בראיון: "אני רוצה לייצג את המדינה שלי בגאווה"". EuroMix (in Hebrew).
8. "הכוכב הבא-פרק 20: עדן גולן נבחרה שוב לביצוע הטוב ביותר" (in Hebrew). EuroMix. 31 January 2024.
9. "גמר "הכוכב הבא": נחשפו 4 השירים והחלה ההצבעה בדרך לאירוויזיון". ice.co.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 6 February 2024.
10. Zeikner, Avi (6 February 2024). "עדן גולן תייצג את ישראל באירוויזיון 2024" [Eden Golan will represent Israel at Eurovision 2024]. EuroMix (in Hebrew). Retrieved 6 February 2024.
11. "Israel chooses Eurovision 2024 entrant amid calls for a boycott". 8 February 2024 – via www.bbc.com.
12. "Israel picks Eurovision 2024 contestant amid calls for boycott". The Independent. 8 February 2024.
13. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/arts/music/israel-eurovision-war-boycott.html

External links

• Official website

• 2003 births
• 21st-century Israeli women singers
• 21st-century Russian Jews
• 21st-century Russian women singers
• Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Israel
• Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2024
• Israeli expatriates in Russia
• Israeli people of Latvian-Jewish descent
• Israeli people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
• Living people
• People from Kfar Saba
• Russian people of Latvian-Jewish descent
• Russian people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
• Singers from Moscow