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Kseniya Simonova
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Kseniya Oleksandrivna Paskar (Ксенія Олександрівна Паскар; née Simonova; Си́монова; born 22 April 1985) is a Ukrainian performance artist who does sand animation, graphic design, illustration, cinema, and literature. She holds the title of Merited Artist of Ukraine and rose to prominence in 2009 after winning Ukraine's Got Talent. She was the only one to receive two Golden Buzzers on two different "The Champions" series of the Got Talent franchise: America's Got Talent: The Champions and Britain's Got Talent: The Champions, both in 2019.
Simonova was born in 1985, in Yevpatoria, a town on the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine, which was then a part of the Soviet Union. Her mother, Irina Simonova, is an artist, a theatrical designer and teacher of fine arts. Her father, Alexander Simonov, is a former military officer who runs a business in furniture design. Since she was a child, Kseniya painted, drew and designed with her mother.
Simonova's parents discouraged her from a career as an artist. She explained, "It is a constant struggle. I knew that and was ready for it. If you chose this profession, you're struggling all your life. You do not enjoy everyday life - like comfort, and buying furniture... You're always looking for something more, and actually, I was never interested in a life of comfort and buying furniture."
In 2007 Simonova married Igor Paskar, a theatre director, journalist and magazine editor. They have two sons.
Simonova graduated from the Artistic School of Yevpatoria and studied at the School of Fine Arts, where she wrote research papers on English folk poetry and 15th and 16th century English folk songs and ballads. She also translated folk poetry and poets, including William Shakespeare, Robert Burns and George Gordon Byron. In 2002, Simonova pursued a major in psychology and graduated from the Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University in 2007 with honors and a scientific specialization in psychophysiology. While studying these sciences, Simonova also entered the Ukrainian Academy of Printing in 2003, where she studied graphic design.
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