People's Artist of Georgia (1991) and Russia (2004)[1] Gverdtsiteli was born on 18 January 1962 in Tbilisi, in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Her father came from a Georgian aristocratic family, and her mother was Inna Kofman, a Jewish woman and granddaughter of a rabbi from Odessa.

In the early 1970s, she became a soloist of a children's music group called Mziuri, with which she toured the countries of Soviet Union.

[3] At the age of 19, Gverdtsiteli finished in second place at the All-Union Festival in Dnipropetrovsk and won the international competition "Red Carnation" in Sochi.

[2] In 1982, she took part in a popular music competition in Dresden, in 1988 she won the Golden Orpheus song contest, then performed as a guest artist at the festivals in Sopot and Sanremo.

In 2010, she performed the part of Carmen on the stage of the Dnipropetrovsk Opera House with the Milanese baritone Giovanni Ribichesu.