during PrePartyES 2024 Throughout her career, Barbu has worked with Moldovan band
Trigon on an alternative jazz-folk experiment. She writes her own lyrics, composes the music for most of her songs, and collaborates on the arrangements with her crew. In 2006, Barbu signed a three-year contract with Cat Music Records under
Sony Music office in Bucharest. Barbu's main success has been the release of her single "Îngerul meu" () in
Romania. The song, ranked first, remained in the Romanian Top 100 for eleven weeks and was much featured on
MTV Romania. On 14 December 2006, Barbu was selected to
represent Moldova at the
Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "
Fight". At the contest, she qualified from the semi-final on 10 May 2007 and ultimately placed 10th in the final on 12 May 2007, scoring 109 points. In 2012, Barbu began collaboration with musical producer
Radu Sirbu and songwriter Ana Sirbu under the label Rassada Music. At the end of the summer Natalia premiered her new track, "I Said It's Sad", which she says is a major style change for her. The new song reached No. 1 position in Top 10 Airplay Moldova. Later in 2012, she released "Iubire Cu Aroma De Cafea" and "Confession", which participated at the Romanian national selection for
Eurovision Song Contest 2013. Barbu was selected to take part in
Etapa națională 2024, the Moldovan national final for the
Eurovision Song Contest 2024, with the song "
In the Middle". She came first in the audition round on 13 January 2024 and qualified for the final. There, she was selected as the Moldovan entrant for the contest. At the contest, the singer failed to qualify from the first semi-final on 7 May 2024, placing 13th out of 15 with 20 points. ==Personal life==