Uzari


Yuri Naurotski, better known by his stage name Uzari, is a Belarusian singer and songwriter. He represented Belarus at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with Maimuna with the song "Time".
Previously, he competed in the Belarusian national final in 2012 with the song "The Winner", coming in 5th place, and in 2013 with the song "Secret", coming in 8th place. He was also one of Anastasia Vinnikova's backing singers at Eurovision Song Contest 2011.
He co-composed Belarus's entry into the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014, "Sokal" by Nadezhda Misyakova which came in 7th place out of 16th with 71 points
Uzari and Maimuna represented Belarus at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, but failed to qualify for the final. They finished 12th in semi-final 1.

Biography

Uzari was born in a family of musicians in the third generation. His mother is a singer, a soloist of the National academic concert orchestra, and his father is a holder of higher musical education in the trumpet class. Uzari studied in several schools: General education, theater and music. In 2008 he entered the St. Petersburg University of culture and arts at the jazz Department and successfully graduated in 2013
In 2008, Uzari started working in the theater :ru:Мюзик-холл |"Music Hall" and was seen by the Directors: he played the role of Kai and Raven in the musical "Snow Queen". The first public composition of Yuri was "What is between us", which in 2011 was awarded the "Song of the year of Belarus". In the same year in the summer Uzari became the representative of Belarus at the International competition of young performers of popular music :ru:Новая волна 2011|"New wave". Earlier Uzari went to the Eurovision song contest 2011 as a bacing singer Anastasia Vinnikova.
In 2012 and 2013 Uzari participated in the selection for Eurovision and reached the finals with the songs "The Winner" and "Secret". In 2014, he became a producer, composer and arranger of the song "Sokal", which Nadezhda Misyakova performed at the Junior Eurovision song contest. Finally, in 2015 Uzari together with Belarusian violinist Maimuna presented Belarus at Eurovision 2015 with the song "Time". Although the song did not reach the final, Uzari said that the Eurovision song contest was "only one of the European competitions", which was a big and significant step for him.
Uzari is the winner of the award of :ru:ОНТ |ONT channel "Song of the year of Belarus". In 2016, he founded his production company ". In the same year, Yuri took part in the Ukrainian TV show ":ru:Голос страны|Voice of the country", hitting the team of Tina Karol.

UZARI

UZARI is a musical project of the Belarusian artist and composer Uzari Navrotsky.
In 2012 Uzari performed at the festival "Slavic Bazaar in Vitebsk" and since then has been actively touring.
In 2013 he released the song "Secret", with which he participated in the Belarusian National qualifying round for the Eurovision song contest.
In 2016, the first single in Belarusian "Mora" was released, which received the award "Song of the year of Belarus".
In 2017 came out the following Belarusian singles "The Opposite" and "I imagine".
In February 2019 the single has been released.
On April 10, 2019, the album has been released.

Music

As a singer