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Ester Peony

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About

Quick Facts

Name
Ester Alexandra Crețu

Born
21 July 1993

Nationality
🇷🇴 Romanian

National Selection
Selecţia Naţională 2019

In Eurovision
2019 Tel Aviv

Song
On A Sunday (2019)

Biography

Ester Peony is a singer and songwriter. She was born in Câmpulung, Romania, but grew up in Montreal, Canada. At the age of twelve she returned to Romania and went to  the Dinu Lipatti High School of Art in Pitești. At 13 she transferred started studying classical guitar.
 
In 2013 she was accepted to the Faculty of Musical Interpretation at the conservatory in Bucharest, where she studied jazz. A year later, Ester Peony started composing for several Romanian artists. In 2015, she started posting cover versions of songs on Youtube. Later that year, she attained commercial success in Romania with her single “Sub aripa ta”. The song ranked at the top of the Romanian charts for several consecutive weeks. At the same time, Esther began to perform both solo and in a country-wide tour with Puya, Vescan, Doddy and Anastasia.
 
In 2018 they released the first EP, “Dig It”, with songs mainly composed by Ester. In 2019, she won the national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest and represented her country with the song “On a Sunday”. In november of the same year, she released the follow up “7 roses”. She also featured at the HIDDN and RudeLies song “Dernière danse”.
 
In 2020 she came up with a new song, “Me pone loca”, and in 2022 she teamed up with Sasha Lopez for the song “Tatoué”.

Entries

On A Sunday

Country
🇷🇴 Romanian

Year
2019

Language
English

Lyrics
Ioana Victoria Badea

Music
Ester Alexandra Crețu
Alexandru Șerbu

Backings
Antonia Elena Liţă
Adela-Daniela Baranci
Alexandru Şerbu
Vlad Mircea
Valentin Cristian Chiş

Results Semi

Points: 71
Position: 13
Running order: 6

Results Finals

Points: –
Position: –
Running order: –