Urban Symphony represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.

The band is made up of all string instrument players. It centers around 20-year-old lead singer and violinist Sandra Nurmsalu, who became famous through the popular show “Kaks takti ette”, which also launched the careers of many other Estonian Eurovision Song Contest representatives. She is joined by viola player Mann Helstein, cellist Johanna Mängel and cellist Mari Möldre.

They took part with the song Rändajad in the Eurovision final on the 16th of May 2009 and they won the 6th position, Estonia’s best position since 2002.

In autumn 2007, Sandra Nurmsalu took part in the singing talent show called "Kaks takti ette", biennially held by the Eesti Televisioon and broadcast nationwide. In a week of the contest, the contestants were tasked to form bands each on their own and each to produce a performance with it. Sandra had studied the violin for two years in the Georg Ots Music School and had previously arranged the song "Nothing Else Matters" of Metallica for a string set of the school, she decided to use one again. Sandra turned to her former school, where she was introduced to Mann Helstein playing the viola, Johanna Mängel playing the cello, a female contrabass player and a male keyboardist.

The band re-scored the song "Hungry" by Kosheen and were pleased with the resulting televised and video recorded live performance. At the end of the TV series, Sandra, Mannu and Johanna agreed to continue their collaboration. Johanna brought the new cello player Mari Möldre to the band. In the same while, Sven Lõhmus, a music producer invited the group to work with him. The first track the team completed was "Rändajad" for the contest of Eesti laul, the Estonian selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. The song went on to gain 6th place in the Eurovision final. For this project, Marilin Kongo and Mirjam Mesak joined the group to sing backing vocals.

According to esctoday, Rändajad is the 3rd best song in this decade!

The Eurovision Song Contest project needed to back voices. They are not a part of Urban Symphony group anymore, but Urban Symphony featuring Marilin Kongo and Mirjam Mesak won 6th place in Europe's Favourite TV Show.

Marilin Kongo

Back vocal singer Marilin Kongo is 22. She got introduced to music through dancing, which she has been practicing since the age of five. In addition to dancing and singing, she is very closely engaged in a multitude of musical projects.

Mirjam Mesak

18-year-old Mirjam Mesak was also singing back vocals. She has been actively involved in music for ten years and at the moment she is studying classic song besides preparing to finish secondary school. Mirjam first appeared on the Eurovision Song Contest stage at the age of twelve, when she was part of an interval act at the Eurovision Song Contest held in Tallinn in 2002. In Helsinki in 2006, Mirjam sang back vocals to Gerli Padar in the Estonian entry Partners In Crime.