The beginnings of the career of this duo is participation in TV contest "Zornaya rostan". The prize they won in this project were 100 hours of free recording in studio of BTRC. There they recorded first album 'Za lihimi za marozami". Aleksandra and Konstantin are laureats of different Republican and International contests. Aleksandra Kirsanova is laureat of Slavyanski Bazar 2002. They were awarded Best Arrangement in International Astana 2003 contest (Kazakhstan). Laureats of contest of ethnic and folk music "Etnosphere 2002" (Poland).Artists of State Concert Orchestra of Belarus. 

The backing singers will be Peter Elfimov and Vjacheslav Sharapov from the band Pesnjari, which simply translates as 'Singers'.

The Singer
 
Alexandra is a scary looking woman. She appears to be one of those new-age types, whose bedsit is one big candle-filled fire risk. What she does with her collection of wooden beads boggles the mind. And she has one of the worst live voices I've ever heard. I'm thinking she would sound like this halfway through a water birth. When attempting to sing My Gallileo, the cum-face she adopts makes her look like Ann Widdicombe.

Terry Gilliam look-a-like Konstantin...

The Past
  
They don't have one in the contest, so there's not much to say. Apart from jolly good luck.

The Song
 
One of the more bizarre songs of the year. It casts a small jokey glance towards Dolly Parton, a furtive look at a Tirollean yodeller, and a cheeky wink to Cotton Eye Joe.
And the mess it makes is somehow quite charming. I know I shouldn't, and beat me with a soaking chamois if you will, but I quite like this. If this is pop music in Belarus, then you have to fear for their future as an economic force.

Overall
For days to come, at least a handful of people will be saying "where did you come from, where did you go" about Alexandra & Konstantin. I hope Belarus make it to the final, though, being as they are on the extremities of the Eurovision firmament. A bit like poor little Billy Elliott when he's surrounded by the posh kids at the daaance school.
I'm looking forward to see if Alexandra can pull off that yodelling technique so ably employed by the re-mixing team in the studio version of the song. She's likely to have an epileptic fit if she attempts it.
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In a Nutshell
"Pagan Poo"
 

My Gallileo
 
I'm not a stay-at-home, and heady
Is the quest and venture mode
Road is there for me to tread it
All-dimensional road

Round I go
Desperate to reach new horizons
Circles grow
But you...

You're the pier
Center in my life
My Galileo
I rotate to you, I'm here

Wind is high and branches rattle
On the shattered window pane
And the dust has not yet settled
I'm leaving again

Round I go
Desperate to reach new horizons
Circles grow
But you...

You're the pier
Center in my life
My Galileo
I rotate to you, I'm here
I'm here again

My Galileo...

You're the pier
Center in my life
My Galileo
I rotate to you, I'm here
I'm here again

I'm here again

My Gallileo
 
I'm not a stay-at-home, and heady
Is the quest and venture mode
Road is there for me to tread it
All-dimensional road

Round I go
Desperate to reach new horizons
Circles grow
But you...

You're the pier
Center in my life
My Galileo
I rotate to you, I'm here

Wind is high and branches rattle
On the shattered window pane
And the dust has not yet settled
I'm leaving again

Round I go
Desperate to reach new horizons
Circles grow
But you...

You're the pier
Center in my life
My Galileo
I rotate to you, I'm here
I'm here again

My Galileo...

You're the pier
Center in my life
My Galileo
I rotate to you, I'm here
I'm here again

I'm here again
Prediction Semi Final 8th
Final 6th
Terry Gilliam
(with a woman on his arm) 
Konstantin
 (alone)