Kaiia

Alina Șleahtițkaia (known as Kaiia) (born July 18, 1990) is a Romanian singer. Kaiia was born in Ukraine but her family moved to the Republic of Moldova a few years after her birth. Her father is Ukrainian and her mother is Moldavian with Romanian backgrounds. She graduated from “Mihai Eminescu” High school. After high school she attended the Pedagogic Industrial College, in Cahul, Moldova, in the music department. During college she had participated to different concerts which were organized in her native town and she also sang at local parties and in Chisinau where she performed songs written on her own. By that time she had already worked with a few composers from Chisinau. At present she studies at “Andrei Saguna” University, Faculty of Communication and Political Sciences, in the Journalism department. Kaiia is the latest artist who joined MAAN Studio, the same team that created Alexandra Stan who, under their management, won a lot of music awards since the release of her first hit two years ago. Kaiia’s career began when she was only a child. She started singing when she was only 5 years old and she used to play in the backyard of her parents house organizing, along with her cousin and her friends singing contests. In that childhood game she was pretending to be a pop star invited to sing, to dance, but she was also the funny presenter who was always joking and playing tricks/ fooling around. She has described her childhood as happy and with plenty of funny episodes. Along the years she took part in several festivals and music contests. Two years in a row, that is 2008 and 2009, she participated to “Faces of Friends” Festival. She also was one of the contestants of the first reality show in Moldova “Star Factory” in 2009.