Christiana Loizu

Christiana Loizu was born and raised in Larnaca, Cyprus. She began singing at the age of 12 at Silva Makamian's local private singing School. During her childhood, she competed at local and national competitions in Cyprus and Bulgaria, where she won several awards.

In 2005, Loizu participated at a music contest for the first time in Veliko Tarnovo and received the first prize. In 2007, she moved to Bulgaria, where she obtained her Bachelor's degree in Opera Singing and her Master's degree in Vocal Coaching from the National Academy of Music "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" in Sofia.[2]

In 2010, she won the Get on Stage talent show in Cyprus, where she earned a scholarship for a foundation course at the SLP College of Performing Arts in Leeds, UK.

In 2014, Loizu teamed up with Maria Moskofian and auditioned to represent Cyprus at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Sailing Ships, Pirates and Dragons", however, it was not selected. [3]

Loizu’s participation at Bulgaria’s X Factor in 2015 led her to the finals of the competition.[2] Her most memorable performances at the talent show was Lara Fabian's "Je t'aime" (winning song of the competition) and "Con te partirò", which she sung with BTR’s lead singer Atanas Penev at the final. [4]

As the winner of the talent show, she signed a recording contract with one of the major labels in Bulgaria, Virginia Records. In the same year, she released her debut single "Phoenix" in English. Her second single "Edno v Edno" (transl. as "One in One") is written in collaboration with the Swedish hit makers Olof Lindskog, Hayley Aitken and Jai Waetford.

After winning The X Factor and in 2018, she began live performances all over Bulgaria. In 2016, Loizu starred in the leading role of Maria-Magdalena and toured Bulgaria with the concert version of the renowned rock-opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber – "Jesus Christ Superstar" (courtesy of the Plovdiv National Opera) from April 2016 to September 2017. In November 2017 she auditioned to represent Cyprus at the annual Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Fuego". The committee chose Eleni Foureira to represent the country at the competition.

In 2018, she was selected by the jury of the Musical Theatre "Stefan Makedonski" in Sofia to play the leading role of Christine Dae from the "Phantom of the Opera" as well as Hava from "Fiddler on the Roof" in 2019.

In 2020, she participated in Season 2 of the Bulgarian TV show "The Masked Singer" as The Predator, where she finished third. In 2021 she took the role of Daisy Buchanan in a Bulgarian musical inspired by The Great Gatsby at the National Musical Theatre "Stefan Makedonski" in Sofia https://musictheatre.bg/event/9.