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Kseniya Simonova

Kseniya Oleksandrivna Simonova (born 22 April, 1985) is a Ukrainian performance artist; she is involved in sand animation, graphic design, illustration, cinema, and literature. She is a Merited Artist of Ukraine and rose to prominence in 2009 after winning Ukraine's Got Talent. She is the only one to receive two Golden Buzzers on two "The Champions" series of the Got Talent franchise: America's Got Talent: The Champions and Britain's Got Talent: The Champions, both in 2019. Kseniya creates beautiful and touching stories with just sand and her hands. After triumphal win on the show, she has performed her sand animation shows all over the word in more than 70 countries. In addition to sand, Kseniya has worked with other materials and invented her own techniques, such as snow animation, liquid sand animation, and plastic animation.