Marina Maximilian Blumin

Marina Maximilian Blumin was born in 1987 in Dnipro

Marina Blumin was born on 15 December 1987 in Dnipropetrovsk, in the Soviet Union. In 1990 she moved to Israel with her family and grew up in the Pardes Katz neighborhood of Bnei Brak. Her mother, a pianist and piano teacher, taught her piano from a young age.

She studied in the music program of Ironi Alef High School in Tel Aviv. As a teenager she sang in jazz clubs and with the band Common Bond. She also acted in the Cameri Theater productions Requiem and The Producers and took part in the Acre Festival.

She did not serve in the IDF because she received an exemption for mental health reasons. Instead she volunteered at the Ben Shemen Youth Village, teaching children singing and voice development.

In 2007 she reached the final of Kokhav Nolad 5 and came in second. In 2008 she released the duet "Mi Haya Ma'amin" with Boaz Ma'uda and her first solo single. Her first album, Step into My World, came out in 2013, and her Hebrew album Armonot Ashan followed in 2016.

In 2009 she had her first full television role in the drama Pillars of Smoke and hosted a Kokhav Nolad program on Channel 24. She later starred in the third season of Fauda.