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Nelly Ciobanu (born on October 28, 1974 in Cantemir) is a Moldovan singer. She graduated from a music college in the city of Tiraspol. She made her debut on stage in 1993 with her brother as part of the duo "Master Dinamit".

Ciobanu is a winner of multiple international competitions: in 1998, she won second prize at the festival "Yalta - 98" (Ukraine), 1999 "Grand Prix" at the "Discovery" in Bulgaria (for the performance of a song of composer Liviu Stirbu ), the second prize at the festival "Voice of Asia" (Almaty, Kazakhstan), in 2000 - the first prize at the festival "Slavic Bazaar" in Belarus, the bronze medal of "Delphian Games" in Russia, in 2002, the golden prize of the festival "Spring of April" (North Korea), in 2003 - second prize at the festival "New Wave" in Jurmala, the Grand Prix of K. Shulzhenko contest (Kharkiv, Ukraine), 2nd place in national pre-selection for Eurovision Song Contest 2005, was jury member at "Five Stars". She sings in 11 languages, including: Moldovan, Russian, English, Italian, and even Korean. She has toured with many Russian artists and international stars such as Patricia Kaas and Mike Bolton. On 24 December 2005, her daughter Mirella-Christiana was born.

In 2009, Nelly represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Hora Din Moldova". She was in Semi-Final 2, and placed in the Eurovision Grand Final as #14. .