Sergey Lazarev
Lazarev in 2013, photo by rusak/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Sergey Vyacheslavovich Lazarev
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR (now Russia)
Date of Birth: 1 April, 1983
Ethnicity: Russian, Cossack, Ukrainian
Sergey Lazarev is a Russian singer, dancer, and actor.
He was placed 3rd in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 and 2019. Sergey is the son of Valentina Viktorovna Lazareva and Vyacheslav Yuryevich Lazarev. He has two children.
He has stated:
My grandmother was born in a village near Poltava, so somewhere deep in my soul, one quarter of me has Ukrainian roots.
Sergey’s paternal grandfather is named Yuri Lazarev.
Sergey’s maternal grandfather is named Viktor.
In 2012 in an interview he has stated, that he has Ukrainian roots:
“My grandmother was born in a village near Poltava, so somewhere deep in my soul, one quarter of me has Ukrainian roots,”
source: https://gazeta.ua/ru/articles/celebrities/_ona-i-za-menya-sobiralas-zamuzh-lazarev-o-novom-romane-kudryavcevoj/474493
He’s not just Russian; firstly, his mother belongs to the Russian Cossack people, who have historically been heavily mixed with non-Slavic groups. Additionally, there’s some intrigue about his father’s surname. Lazarev’s name could have Armenian or Jewish origins. As a matter of fact during the Russian Empire era, the Lazarevs were a prominent noble Armenian family in Moscow.
However, he keeps quiet about his DNA test results, preferring to keep that information under wraps.
The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 results are out. He was placed 3rd again.
The rest are the following:
John Lundvik (Sweden) – 6th
Michael Rice (United Kingdom) – 26th (last)
Victor Crone (Estonia) – 19th
Kate Miller-Heidke (Australia) – 9th
Congratulations to Duncan Laurence of the Netherlands! I’ll be adding him to this site later.
He was placed 3rd in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
He will represent again this year.