David "Dato" Khujadze is a Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 popular pop-singer in Russia

Russia

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 and Israel

Israel

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 and a former politician.

In early 1990s he participated in Flash and Sahe Georgian pop bands. He started his solo career in 2000. Using national melodies

Music of Georgia

Georgia has rich and still vibrant traditional music, which is primarily known as arguably the earliest polyphonic tradition of the Christian world. Situated on the border of Europe and Asia, Georgia is also a home of variety of urban singing styles with the mixture of native polyphony, Middle...

 and soul, dancing rythmes of reggae and Latina. In 2002 he released his first album I want you to want this and I don't want to hurt you in 2003. In 2005 Sand Dream album was released. This album includes 16 songs and 2 video – Forgive me and Sand Dream.
Dato also had a brief political career in the government of Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze

Eduard Shevardnadze

Eduard Shevardnadze is a former Soviet, and later, Georgian statesman from the height to the end of the Cold War. He served as President of Georgia from 1995 to 2003, and as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party , from 1972 to 1985. Shevardnadze was responsible for many top decisions on...

. He briefly served in the Georgian parliament, but his political career ended with the Rose Revolution

Rose Revolution

The "Revolution of Roses" was a change of power in Georgia in November 2003, which took place after having widespread protests over the disputed parliamentary elections...

, which toppled Shevardnadze and brought Mikheil Saakashvili

Mikheil Saakashvili

Mikheil Saakashvili is a Georgian politician, the third and current President of Georgia and leader of the United National Movement Party.Involved in the national politics since 1995, Saakashvili became president on 25 January 2004 after President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned in a November 2003...

 to power.

Prizes and achievements:

- Grand-Prix of Slaviansky Bazar musical festival in year 2000;

- Grand-Prix of Black Music Festival in Moscow

- Special prize of Voice of Asia

Voice of Asia

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festival (Kazakhstan)

- Duet with American rapper Coolio

Coolio

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 at his sole concert in Tbilisi;

- Musical experience with American band Puerty Motion

- Frequent Singer of year in Georgia;

- Music Video on Dato’s song Mahindji Var, produced by ParanoiaFilm company, became the laureate of 15th Moscow International Advertising Festival, participated in out-of-competition program of Cannes Lions festival and New York Film and video festival, was shown at Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferraud.

Notable singles of Dato are "Makhinji Var" and "Janaia" in collaboration with Ligalize.