Katarína Talánová

Life

Katy was born in Ilava and grew up in Dubnica nad Váhom. She is the daughter of Ladislav Talán and Andrea Talánová. She has an older sister, Lucia Talánová, and a younger half-brother, Ladislav Talán, a professional dancer known as Slim Kein who represents Stred Crew from Zvolen. He has practised breaking since 2009 and also collaborates with Katy. Her parents divorced when she was two. She attended the Pavol Demitra primary school with a focus on sport in Dubnica nad Váhom.

Career

At the age of eight, Katy entered her first singing competition during a family holiday in Italy and won. Encouraged by that success, she went on to take part in singing and dance competitions. Alongside singing, she attended dance classes for five years.

In 2006, aged fifteen, she took part in the third season of Slovensko hľadá SuperStar, reaching the semi-finals among the eleven remaining female singers.

In 2009 she moved to Tenerife, where she performed her own show in clubs and travelled around the Canary Islands. Her show featured a Russian dancer and a Cuban dancer, and they appeared on local television several times.

In 2014 she reached the final of X Factor as part of the girl group Joy$, formed by the show’s judges. After the group disbanded in 2015, Katy continued as a solo artist.

In 2015 she travelled to Miami, where she filmed the music video for her first single, Shining Star.

In 2016, while pursuing modelling in India, she collaborated with an Indian producer on Dream World. Its music video explores good and evil.

She represented Slovakia at Miss Model of the World 2016 and Miss Global Beauty Queen 2016 in South Korea, winning a gold award for singing. That year she also represented Slovakia at the World Championships of Performing Arts (WCOPA) in California, where she won silver.

In 2018, she won Queen & Beauty Universe.