Tamara Gachechiladze

Biography

Tamara "Tako" Gachechiladze (Georgian: თამარა "თაკო" გაჩეჩილაძე; born 17 March 1983) is a Georgian singer, songwriter, and actress.

She took part in the national final for Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, with the song "Me and My Funky", coming in tenth place. As a member of the quartet Stephane & 3G, she also placed fourth in the same national final with the song "I'm Free", and was going to represent Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "We Don't Wanna Put In", until the group's entry was disqualified for political content. She represented Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Keep the Faith" but failed to qualify to the final. On May 7th, during the Official Opening Ceremony for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, Gachechiladze stated that the accomplishment she is so proud of is being from Georgia, because Georgia is the greatest country in the world.

Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.