In the final of the national selection on February 21, the Ukrainians decided on the name of the artist who will represent the country at Eurovision 2016. 32-year-old Crimean Tatar Jamala won the victory with the song "1944" about the tragic fate of her people during the mass deportations that Stalin arranged during the Second World War. Ukraine is returning to the competition after being absent last year following the events on the Maidan, the annexation of Crimea and the war in the east of the country.

The song "1944" was written by Jamala in two languages: English and Tatar. She talks about the biggest tragedy in the history of her people, the deportation, which the Tatars themselves call "surgunlik". The entire Tatar people, 200 thousand people, were deported from Crimea by order of Stalin under the pretext of collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. In terms of speed and scale, this deportation became unprecedented in the history of the Soviet regime, as it embraced an entire people. The operation involving 32,000 NKVD agents lasted two days, from May 18 to 20, 1944. As the singer herself notes on Facebook, “last year I composed '1944', a composition that is iconic for me. I was inspired to write it by the story of my great-grandmother Nazyl-khan about the tragedy that happened to our family and the entire Crimean Tatar people in 1944. (….) Unfortunately, people have not yet learned peaceful coexistence and tolerance. This is a very personal song for me, and I would very much like the message that it contains to be heard by as many people as possible both in our country and abroad. "

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Eurovision and Jamala with political overtones

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"My home is Crimea"

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The situation in Crimea raises concerns

Le Huffington Post 02/10/2016 Crimea (2 million inhabitants and 27,000 square kilometers of territory) was illegally annexed by the Russian Federation in March 2014 in violation of international agreements signed earlier by Moscow. The most famous of them is the Budapest Memorandum, according to which Russia pledged to respect the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, refrain from threats and the use of force against it. Neither the Ukrainian state nor the international community recognized the annexation of the peninsula by Russia.

Since the annexation, the Russian authorities have persecuted Crimean Tatars and other pro-Ukrainian activists on a daily basis. Searches in the premises of the Mejlis and in the houses of the Tatars, as well as their frequent detentions, have already become commonplace. The only Crimean Tatars' TV channel ATR, which openly called for a boycott of the referendum on joining Russia, stopped broadcasting on the peninsula in March last year. About 7,000 Tatars were forced to flee their historical homeland, while the leader of the Crimean Tatar people's movement, Mustafa Dzhemilev, and the chairman of the Mejlis, Refat Chubarov, were banned from entering Crimea for five years.

Tatars are the indigenous Crimean people, they are descendants of the Crimean Khanate founded in 1441. At the end of the 18th century, the Khanate was declared independent of the Oman Empire, and the Russia of Catherine II quickly annexed its territory. In the following years, the Tatars became a minority due to the appearance of a large number of Russian peasants, who were offered favorable conditions by the imperial authorities.

The song "1944" is not Jamala's first composition about the events in Ukraine over the past two centuries. On the first anniversary of the 2013 winter revolution, Jamala and the vocalist of the Ukrainian group Boombox recorded the song Zliva. In 2015, the Tatar singer recorded Shlyakh Dodoma about the annexation of Crimea by the Russian authorities. In one of her last interviews, she said: "I cannot remain silent when my people are crying." Jamala's parents and grandfather still live in the occupied peninsula.

She recently reported that Michel Legrand's team contacted her and offered to collaborate in the future.

Jamala's participation in Eurovision 2016 is another way for Ukraine to draw the attention of the international community to the illegal annexation of Crimea and the alarming human rights situation on the peninsula. The State Duma of the Russian Federation has already condemned Jamala's participation in a music competition.

In the second semi-final of Eurovision, the Ukrainian singer Jamala, who sang a song about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, made it to the final. The use of the popular music competition for political provocations is already becoming traditional. If in 2009 the Russian authorities managed to block such an action by Georgia, then two Ukrainian ones were successful.

Eurovision with political overtones

Eurovision 2016, which takes place in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, will not do without a political scandal. Ukrainian singer Jamala successfully performed in the second semi-final and reached the final of the competition. Jamala sang the song "1944" dedicated to the deportation of the Crimean Tatars.

Representatives of the Russian authorities have repeatedly said that in fact they are talking about a political provocation on the part of Ukraine. Back in February, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Vadim Dengin, expressed hope that Eurovision would not allow a Ukrainian performer's song about the deportation of Crimean Tatars to participate in the competition. According to Dengin, such compositions only politicize the event. He also told RIA Novosti that he believes that the votes in support of the song were played at the national selection in order to "hurt Russia once again."

"Putin's reluctance" from Georgia and "Russia, goodbye" from Ukraine

It should be noted that this is far from the first attempt to use the Eurovision Song Contest for political purposes. Moreover, the Russian authorities have already managed to block such actions. In 2009, at Eurovision in Moscow, Georgia was supposed to be represented by the group Stephane and 3G with the song We Don "t Wanna Put In. The song was perceived by ear as an allusion to the then Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin. The lines" We don "t wanna put in / The negative move, / It "s killin" the groove "by ear can be perceived as" We don't want Putin / This is destruction / This is killing all the buzz. " After the internal qualifying round for Eurovision-2009, performer Stefane said that the performers themselves do not hide such a subtext, and the song is Georgia's protest against Russia's actions during the 2008 Russian-Georgian armed conflict. The European Broadcasting Union demanded that Georgia amend the lyrics of the song, which violated the rules of the competition. However, in response, Georgia refused to perform at Eurovision-2009.

But a similar, but more subtle provocation from Ukraine took place in the midst of another Ukrainian political crisis of 2007-2008. In 2007, the country at the Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki was represented by Verka Serduchka (pseudonym of Andrey Danilko) with the song Dancing Lasha Tumbai. Then she even managed to take second place, becoming a real sensation of this competition. However, in the simple set of words "Lasha Tumbai" the phrase "Russia, goodbay" was clearly heard.

In 2007, the country at the Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki was represented by Verka Serduchka (pseudonym of Andrey Danilko) with the song Dancing Lasha Tumbai. Photo afp.com

Crimean Tatar woman half against winged Lazarev

Jamala herself (real name Susanna Jamaladinova) is a Crimean Tatar on her father's side, her mother is an ethnic Armenian. Jamala was born in the city of Osh (KirSSR, USSR). But her childhood passed already in the Crimea, in the village of Malorechenskoye near Alushta, where she and her family returned from the places of former deportation.

Jamal began her career as an opera singer. Later she began to perform jazz and soul. Jamala became famous for her performance at the International Competition for Young Performers "New Wave 2009" in Jurmala, where she received the Grand Prix.

In 2011, she first tried to take part in Eurovision, but she lost in the qualifying tournament, but with such a politicized song, she was guaranteed success in the qualifying round in Ukraine. By the way, the same Andriy Danilko, whose song provocation was already successful in 2007, was on the Ukrainian jury at the qualifying stage this year.

We will remind, Russia at Eurovision-2016 is represented by Sergey Lazarev. The Russian singer made it to the final of Eurovision 2016 from the first semifinal with the song You Are The Only One. Together with him, performers from Austria, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Hungary, Cyprus, Malta, the Netherlands, Croatia and the Czech Republic got to the final of the competition.

In the second semi-final in Stockholm, in addition to Ukraine, nine more countries were chosen to perform at the last stage of Eurovision - Latvia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Australia, Serbia, Poland, Israel, Lithuania and Belgium. The final of the music competition will take place on Saturday 14 May.

Stockholm hosted the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest. The Ukrainian singer Jamala showed her number - bookmakers call her the main rival of Sergey Lazarev in the fight for first place. "Lenta.ru" tells about Jamal and her song "1944", the most discussed at the competition.

Jamala (Susanna Jamaladdinova) has been studying music since early childhood. She is 32 years old, she was born in Osh (Kyrgyzstan), where her great-grandmother was exiled during the deportation of the Tatars from Crimea. Great-grandfather and all the men from the side of the grandmother died at the front. Her father is Tatar, mother is Armenian.

In 1989, Susanna's family managed to return to Crimea, to the village of Malorechenskoye (formerly Kuchuk-Uzen), where their ancestors lived. It took six years to buy the house and move the family. It was impossible to find someone who would agree to sell the house to the returning Crimean Tatars, so the purchase was handled by the mother, whose nationality did not arouse suspicion. The parents even had to temporarily divorce in order to clean up the "Tatar trace" in the mother's documents. According to the singer, it was morally very difficult to decide on such a step.

Susanna graduated with honors from the P.I. Tchaikovsky in Kiev in the class of opera singing, but she preferred pop music to the career of an opera singer.

Fame came to her in 2009 after winning the New Wave competition for young performers in Jurmala - Jamala was awarded the Grand Prix. In 2011, her first, English-language album For Every Heart was released. At the same time, the singer makes her first attempt to get to Eurovision. According to her, she was supposed to win the qualifying competition in Ukraine, but did not pass due to judicial machinations.

Five years later, having released four albums, Jamala tried again. She composed the song “1944” about two years ago for the album “Come on” (2015), but this piece was too different from the rest of the material in terms of sound, mood, and was not included in the album.

The lyrics of the song are rather abstract, but according to Jamala's stories, they are based on the story of the great-grandmother Nazylkhan, who was deported to Central Asia in 1944 with five small children in her arms. Great-grandfather at that time fought in the Red Army. Nazilkhan Aishe's little daughter died on the way. The soldiers accompanying the train did not allow the child to be buried and threw him to the side of the road like rubbish.

The news that Ukraine will go to Eurovision with a song about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars caused a violent reaction from Russian politicians and parliamentarians. Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Ruslan Balbek called Jamala's number a dance on the bones. Deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Vitaly Milonov spoke of the song as a provocation from Ukraine. The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Vadim Dengin expressed the hope that the Eurovision leadership will not allow the song to participate in the competition.

Video: TV Channel STB

When strangers come
Come to your house,
They kill you all
And they say: "we are not to blame."

Where is your mind?
Humanity is crying.
Think you are gods
But everyone is mortal.

I didn't grow up here.

We could build the future
Where people would be free
To live and love.
The happiest time.

Where is your heart?
Humanity is in revolt.
Think you are gods
But everyone is mortal.
Do not swallow my soul, our souls.

I am not satisfied with my youth
I didn't grow up here.

I couldn't get enough of my homeland.

Jamala has not been to Crimea for two years, where her parents live (“my arrival there can be used against me”). Near-political scandals do not please her. The singer says that the audience from Petrozavodsk, Samara and other Russian cities, who come to her concerts, is "even dearer to her than the Ukrainians."

Video: Jamala | Jamala / YouTube

Jamala, a 32-year-old Ukrainian singer of Armenian-Tatar origin, won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. How does Jamala's biography and personal life develop?

Jamala's real name is Susanna Alimovna Jamaladinova. The nickname "Jamala" was formed from the first part of her surname.

Susana Dzhamaladinova is a Ukrainian opera and jazz singer (lyric and dramatic soprano) who performs her own music at the intersection of jazz, soul, world music and rhythm and blues, electronic music and gospel.

Jamala first became famous for her performance at the International Competition for Young Performers "New Wave 2009" in Jurmala, where she received the Grand Prix.

In May 2016, Jamala became the winner from Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm with the song "1944", dedicated to the theme of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars.

Susanna Dzhamaladinova was born on August 27, 1983 in the city of Osh (KirSSR, USSR). Father - Alim Ayyarovich Dzhamaladinov, Crimean Tatar, mother - Galina Mikhailovna Tumasova, Armenian, whose family comes from Nagorno-Karabakh.

Her childhood was spent in Crimea, in the village of Malorechenskoye near Alushta, where she and her family returned in 1989 from the places of deportation of the Crimean Tatar people.

The parents met in Kyrgyzstan within the walls of a music school. Her mother is a pianist, and her father is a choral conductor, who had his own ensemble performing Crimean Tatar folk music and the music of the peoples of Central Asia.

Her sister married a Turk and lives in Istanbul. Jamala herself is a Muslim.

From early childhood, Jamala began to study music. She made her first professional recording at the age of 9, performing 12 Crimean Tatar children's and folk songs in the studio.

After graduating from the music school No. 1 in the piano class in the city of Alushta, she entered the Simferopol Music College named after V.I. P.I.Tchaikovsky.

Then Jamala graduated with honors Kiev National Music Academy. PI Tchaikovsky, opera vocal class.

Jamala planned to devote herself to classical music and leave to work as a soloist of the famous Milan opera La Scala, but her serious hobby for jazz and experiments with soul and oriental music changed her plans.

On the big stage, Jamala first performed at the age of fifteen. Over the next few years, she took part in dozens of vocal competitions in Ukraine, Russia and Europe and received a number of prestigious awards.

After performing at the jazz festival of young performers Do # Dj junior 2006, where she received a special prize, the famous choreographer Elena Kolyadenko invited her to perform the main role in the multi-genre musical "Pa".

An important event in her career was her performance at the International Competition for Young Performers "New Wave" in Jurmala in the summer of 2009.

Contrary to the statements of the main director of the competition about the "non-format" of the participant, she not only made it to the final, but also received the Grand Prix, sharing the first place with the Indonesian performer.

Despite a busy touring schedule, Jamala continues to pursue classical music.

In the summer of 2009, she sang the title role in the opera Spanish Hour by Maurice Ravel, and in February 2010 she took part in an opera production by Vasily Barkhatov based on Bondiana, where her performance was noted by the famous British actor Jude Law.

Jamala lives in Kiev. Parents live in the village of Malorechenskoye near Alushta. They have a private boarding house. The singer's grandfather lives in Crimea.

Little is known about Jamala's personal life. But it is reported that Jamala is not married.

According to the singer, she is not falling in love and so far she has not experienced a great feeling in life. Only once was there a young man, without whom Jamala, as she put it, was very bad.

The singer said that her mother was more than once interested in when she would fall in love. The girl does not have any special criteria for a future candidate for her heart, the main thing is that the young man is sincere.

Jamala. Want to know where she grew up and trained? How is her personal life going? Now we will tell you about everything.

Singer Jamal: biography, childhood and adolescence

She was born on August 27, 1983 in Kyrgyzstan. Later, the family moved to the sunny Crimea. Susana Dzhamaladinova - this is the real name of our heroine. And the current pseudonym of the singer is an abbreviated form of her last name.

In what family was the future star of Ukrainian show business brought up? Her parents are also musicians. It was they who instilled in Susana a love of art. Mom has been working as a teacher at a music school for many years. And my father received a higher education as an orchestra conductor.

The girl demonstrated her vocal abilities at the age of 3. She performed a touching song for her parents and grandparents. This was just the beginning. At the age of 9, Susana recorded an album of children's songs on a tape cassette.

In Alushta, the girl attended two schools - a regular and a music school. For several years she learned to play the piano.

Student years

Having received a "certificate of maturity", Susana went to Simferopol. There, the girl entered the music school at the department of "opera vocal". She was considered one of the best students.

Our heroine continued her education in Kiev. She managed to enter the National Academy of Music the first time. As a student, she participated in various competitions and festivals.

The beginning of creative activity

The brunette set herself the task of conquering Ukraine and other countries. She came up with a creative pseudonym for herself - Jamala. The singer became interested in oriental music and jazz.

The first who drew attention to the talented girl was producer Elena Koledenko. She invited Susana to her musical "Pa". Our heroine started rehearsals. In 2007, the premiere took place with her participation.

Jamala decided to demonstrate her vocal abilities at the "New Wave" competition. This was in 2006. She managed to pass the qualifying rounds and become one of the participants. Jamala and the singer from Indonesia were awarded first place.

In the period from 2009 to 2010. the girl performed at the opera. On account of her participation in several productions ("Spanish Hour", opera based on Bondiana and others).

In 2011, Jamala went to the Eurovision qualifying round. Hundreds of young and talented performers fought for the right to represent Ukraine in this competition. Unfortunately, Susana did not pass the qualifying round at that time.

Present time

In 2012, the girl took part in the Ukrainian show Stars in the Opera. She performed in tandem with Vlad Pavlyuk. Their duet turned out to be strong and successful. As a result, Vlad and Jamala were recognized as the winners of the project.

Our heroine is not going to stop there. The brunette masters such as soul, blues and jazz. Her concerts take place not only in Russia and Ukraine, but also outside these two countries.

Jamala is a singer who was lucky enough to perform at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. She will represent Ukraine with the song "1944", which tells about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars. What are her chances of winning? It is difficult to judge this yet.

Personal life

Many fans want to know if Jamala is dating anyone. The singer carefully protects her personal life from outside interference. She had stormy romances. But they did not flow into a serious relationship. At the moment, the singer is not married. She has no children.

In an interview with print media, Jamala has repeatedly admitted that she devotes most of her time to work. The girl lives in Kiev, and her parents live in Alushta.

Finally

Now you know who Jamala is. The singer has great talent, great external data and a rich inner world. We wish her success in her work and on the love front!