When Ukraine announced that LELEKA would represent the country at Eurovision 2026, many international viewers discovered her for the first time. But in reality, her story had started long before the Eurovision stage. And it is not just a story about music. It is a story about migration, identity, adaptation, and the strange feeling of living between several versions of yourself at once. Not a “Typical Eurovision Artist” In recent years, Eurovision has increasingly become a co

She was born on the territory of today’s Ukraine, became one of the defining artists of the Parisian avant-garde, and proved that art does not have to live only inside museums. It can exist on fabric, in movement, in clothing, and in everyday life. Her story is not a simple story of successful migration. It is a story of how not to disappear in Europe, but to add your own rhythm to it.