Draft:Inessa Mikhno

Inesa Serhiivna Mikhno (born December 23, 1990, Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Ukrainian singer, television presenter, songwriter, and director of large-scale events, concerts, and television shows. She is also actively engaged in scientific activities, independently writing scientific articles published in Ukraine and abroad. In addition, she is an eco-activist and a proponent of rational nature management aimed at improving public welfare.

Biography
She grew up in a family of an engineer and a biologist, but from childhood, she professionally studied choreography at the Donetsk Choreographic School, specializing in "Classical Choreography," and music, majoring in piano. She enjoyed writing songs and participated in the school vocal ensemble. After finishing the 9th grade at a secondary school, she seriously pursued the exact sciences and continued her creative path in the "Panair" ensemble, which focused on supporting Greek culture and creativity.

She started working at the age of 11, creating her own business projects to earn money for her music project.

In 2020, she created her own projects "Celebrity Awards" and "TOP-20 Successful Personalities of the Capital," where influential and well-known Ukrainians were honored for their achievements in various categories, which received widespread public response and was based on both open voting and the evaluations of a competent jury.

In 2008, she moved to Kyiv to enter university, where she continued her creative activities, collaborating with well-known artists as a show ballet artist and backing vocalist, and performing in entertainment venues.

In 2012, she released two self-produced music albums that did not gain popularity, as, according to the singer, no funds were invested in promotion and production.

In 2016, she published her own collection of prose and poetry Reflection, which was highly praised by literary critics and artists, but after the available copies were sold, the book was no longer published.

In 2016, she created the project "Ksanti" whose tracks became popular, and the music videos were actively rotated on music channels. The songs were played on radio stations in Ukraine, and the singer was a frequent guest on radio shows.

Since 2016, she created her own program on the "Bambarbia TV" channel, where she talked about tourism and leisure.

Since 2017, she has become a presenter on several internet channels dedicated to private events and parties in Ukraine. Later, she continued her career as a presenter on other TV channels.

She has repeatedly participated in international events and concerts in Ukraine and abroad as part of the ensemble team.

She is the co-founder of projects such as the "Spirituality - the Path to the Future" festival, "Woman’s Fashion and Beauty Festival," "International Festival of Beauty MISS&MRS.PERFECT BEAUTY OF UNIVERSE," "Missis Grand Beauty," "Fashion Life Evening," "Successful Women about Beauty, Spirituality, and Art," "Miss&Missis Royal Beauty Universe," and the "International Summit of the Ukrainian Diaspora in Geneva."

Since 2021, she has worked as a director of television shows and a host of entertainment programs, while actively engaging in concert activities.

She has collaborated with TV channels such as "Prіamyi," "Pravda Tut," "Fashion TV," "1+1," "Bambarbia TV," "TalkTV," "Ukraine (TV channel)," "RSI," and "Obozrevatel TV."

In March 2022, she moved from Kyiv to Chernivtsi, where she lived for two months, renting an old house. There, she wrote and recorded (without a studio or equipment) songs like "Stop the War" and "Why." Due to the lack of work and the continuation of the war, she had to move to Geneva, where her friends invited her. She received temporary asylum in Switzerland, where she started working as a vocalist and volunteer, teaching vocals to anyone interested and working online as a scriptwriter for a TV channel. In 2022, she wrote 10 songs for her first album, 6 of which were released by 2024. In 2023, she created her own visualized show together with Pravdin Production (Ukraine), with which she started concert activities in Europe and Asian countries.

With the project INESSA, which was created in 2022 and consists of English-language songs and a visual show, she conducted a concert tour in European countries in 2023. The visual-vocal show also received recognition at concert venues in Singapore. The track "Without You" repeatedly topped global charts and received several awards, including "Discovery of the Year" and "New Wave 2023."

She is the author of the project "Stories Written by War," which she developed together with poetess Diana Golde.

The theme of the vocal-visual project "INESSA" is space, femininity, relaxation, feelings. Its features include mystery, enigma, uncertainty, sadness, independence, and loneliness, acceptance of life as it is, and the philosophy of love.

In 2024, the singer notes that she is actively working on new material and participating in concerts and festivals.