Timuș Leonida

About

Leonida Timuș, born on May 17, 1998, in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, is a multidisciplinary artist of Gagauz origin on her father's side and Russian on her mother's side, recognized for her musical talent and ability to weave diverse cultures through music. Her career began in childhood, singing in kindergarten at the age of three, and attending the art school in Kuhnești at six, where she studied dance, keman, and piano, graduating in 2010. She participated as a soloist in the choirs of Toader Bubuiog and Mihail Berezovski schools, and in 2013, she took theater and acting courses, debuting on stage with performances in multiple languages. A graduate of Istanbul University with a specialization in Radio-TV and Cinematography, she is fluent in six languages – Romanian, Russian, English, French, Italian, and Turkish – and knows elements of Arabic, Kurdish, Portuguese, and Spanish, which has allowed her to perform international concerts, including at the Turkish Festival in Chicago and on TRT Avaz, performing works by Mevlana, Yunus Emre, or ilahis such as "Tale'al Bedru Aleyna." Established in Turkey since 2015-2016, alongside her mother who had already been living there for over two decades, Leonida considers this country her "second homeland" and continued her artistic education here, releasing EPs under Süreç Medya and founding her own company, ONY Production. Her achievements include awards such as "Best Female Artist from the Turkish World," performances on TV programs like TRT 2's "Hayat Sanat," and collaborations with artists like Abdurrehim Heyit or Prof. Erdem Özdemir. She composed a march for the Turkish special police and created a video in yellow-green, symbolizing freedom and fraternity, in response to Islamophobia in France, promoting messages of peace and love through multicultural music, including in French. Converted to Islam four years ago, after a family friend gifted her the Quran in Romanian, Leonida intensely researched the religion for 1-2 years, renouncing the Christianity she practiced since childhood in church choirs; she received the name Eda and uses art for dawah, considering the microphone a great power. Her artistic family – with relatives involved in the arts – influenced her path, and the move to Turkey was motivated by missing her mother. Today, at 28 years old, she works as a visual artist, designer, and producer, connecting cultures through concerts and social media, promoting human unity inspired by Sufi figures.