The main news of the past weekend in musical world was the victory of the Ukrainian singer Jamala at Eurovision 2016..

Jamala is not the singer's real name

The true name of the star is Susanna Jamaladinova. Nickname Jamala the singer came up with it by shortening her last name. This happened before the New Wave 2009 competition: having arrived in Jurmala, the girl quickly became one of the undisputed leaders of the competition and won the New Wave Grand Prix, sharing first place with the Indonesian Sandy Sandorro. Alla Borisovna Pugacheva after Jamala performed the song “Mama’s Boy,” she gave the young singer a standing ovation.

To return home, the star’s parents had to divorce

Although Susanna connects her destiny with Crimea, she was born in Kyrgyzstan in the city of Osh, where her great-grandmother was deported during the deportation of the Tatars from Crimea. My great-grandfather and all the men on my grandmother’s side died at the front. The singer's father is Tatar, her 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. The family decided to move as soon as Jamala was born, but it took six years to buy a house and move the family. It was impossible to find someone who would agree to sell the house to returning Crimean Tatars, so the mother, whose nationality did not raise suspicions, was in charge of the purchase. The parents even had to temporarily divorce so as not to leave a “Tatar trace” in the mother’s documents. According to the singer, it was morally very difficult to decide to take such a step.

Ukraine's leading contenders for this year's Eurovision Song Contest include a 32-year-old Crimean Tatar and her heartbreaking song about the mass deportation of her people ordered by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to Central Asia in 1944.

Singer Jamala won the first semi-final of the national selection with her song “1944”, receiving the highest rating from the judges and the largest number of support votes from TV viewers during SMS voting. At the same time, the overwhelming majority of Crimean Tatars were unable to participate in the vote because they live in Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014.

I'm really sorry. I know that I have a lot of supporters in Crimea. A lot of people wrote to me that they sent SMS anyway because they support me. I tell them - you wasted your money, the SMS was not counted, but they said that they sent it anyway,” the singer said in an interview with the Ukrainian edition of RFE/RL.

Jamala's speech On February 6, at the semi-finals in Kyiv, it caused widespread resonance and overwhelming support.

Today, with your music, you made me understand the pain that we lost Crimea. “I just cried with you,” said jury member singer Ruslana after Jamala’s performance.

Jamala's performance with the song “1944”:

"SONG-DEDITION"

The composition in English with choruses in the Crimean Tatar language tells about the deportation of almost 250 thousand Crimean Tatars in May 1944. The Soviet government accused the Crimean Tatars of collaborating with the German Nazis during the occupation of the peninsula and ordered their deportation to Central Asia and remote areas of Russia.

Where is your mind? Humanity is crying.

You think you're gods but you're all mortal

Don't take my soul, our souls, - sings on English language Jamala.

Then a chorus sounds in the Crimean Tatar language, which is borrowed from the so-called unofficial national anthem of the Crimean Tatars “Winds of Alushta”, repeated with the refrain:

I did not enjoy my young years,

I couldn't live here.

It is believed that between 30 and 50 percent of those forcibly resettled died in the first two years after the deportation. Last November, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported a resolution that recognized the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 as genocide.

This is really a song about my family, about my grandmother. I couldn’t help but write about it. I really experienced this story both on stage and when I wrote. This is a dedication song. It was difficult for me to sing it,” says Jamala in an interview with the Ukrainian edition of RFE/RL.

Jamala's real name is Susana Jamaladinova. She was born in 1983 in Kyrgyzstan, where her father’s parents were deported. Jamala began studying music from early childhood. First she studied at a music school, and then, upon her family’s return to Crimea, she entered the Simferopol School of Music, and then to the Kyiv National Academy of Music in opera vocal class.

But her true hobby was performing jazz songs. WITH adolescence Jamala participated in vocal competitions. She won the main prize at the New Wave festival in Jurmala, Latvia, in 2009.

In 2011, Jamala reached the final of the Ukrainian Eurovision Song Contest with the song Smile. However, before the last round, she refused to participate in the competition, protesting against what she believed were violations in the voting procedure.

Crimean Tatar politicians promised that they would appeal to the Eurovision organizers to ensure that measures were taken that would allow Crimean residents to participate in voting in the second semi-final, which will take place on February 13, and then in the final on February 21.

Jamala also says that the composition “1944” is not only about the past. It also makes me think about Jamala’s family, which still lives in Crimea.

Now the Crimean Tatars are in occupied territory, it is very difficult for them. They feel a lot of pressure, they disappear without a trace. And this is scary, I wouldn’t want history to repeat itself,” Jamala notes.

A native of Kyrgyzstan, the daughter of a Crimean Tatar and an Armenian from Nagorno-Karabakh, the “native” Ukrainian singer Susana Jamaladinova, better known as the winner of Eurovision 2016 Jamala, “lit up” at a corporate party at the Rosa Khutor ski resort in Sochi (Russia, Krasnodar Territory) .

Jamala (Ukrainian Jamala, Crimean-Tat. Camala, Jamala; real name Susanna Alimovna Jamaladinova, Ukrainian. Susanna Jamaladinova, Crimean-Tat. Susana Camaladinova, Susana Dzhamaladinova) is a Ukrainian opera and jazz singer(lyric-dramatic soprano), performing original music at the intersection of jazz, soul, world music and rhythm and blues, electronic music. Jamala became famous for her performance at the International Competition of Young Performers “New Wave 2009” in Jurmala, where she received the Grand Prix.

Jamala is the winner from Ukraine at Eurovision 2016 in Stockholm with the song “1944”, which is dedicated to the deportation of the Crimean Tatars during the USSR. According to the singer, the song has political overtones. She admitted this to the Russian prankster Alexey Stolyarov, who called her under the guise of the Minister of Culture of Ukraine Yevgeny Nishchuk, Lenta.ru reports.

“Then it definitely wouldn’t have made it to Eurovision, it would have been seen as a political action. This is not an arena for political slogans. Of course, he is there, of course. But you and I know this in secret,” Jamala said.

Without justifying the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, historical fact There are numerous examples of cooperation between the Crimean Tatars and the German occupation authorities. As well as the extermination of the Jews of the peninsula by Tatar soldiers in the service of the Wehrmacht. Which was the reason for their deportation in 1944.

The Ukrainian performer has not been to Crimea, where her parents live, for two years. According to the singer, coming there could be used against her. But Jamala traveled to Russia, which Ukraine considers an occupier of the peninsula, even after March 2014, when Crimea and Sevastopol became part of the Russian Federation. For example, at the height of the ATO in Donbass, a Ukrainian singer performed at a party in one of the clubs in the Sochi resort Rosa Khutor.

According to the results audience voting At Eurovision 2016, the representative of Russia Sergey LAZAREV won, according to the results of voting by the professional jury, the Korean from Australia Demi IM won. Jamala Susanovna, as the singer from Ukraine is lovingly called online, ended up in first place as a result of summing up the points.

As it became known, Tatiana SKUBASHEVSKAYA, the daughter of Stanislav SKUBASHEVSKY, deputy head of the administration of the President of Ukraine Viktor YANUKOVYCH, was involved in the promotion of Jamala in Ukraine.

“Tanya, having gone to Kyiv to follow her dad, was involved in promoting an unknown singer to almost no one at that time. She wrote lyrics for her in English, filmed videos, organized performances, airtime on M1, etc. It hadn’t hit Jamal’s head yet.” genocide,” she was just an average performer with a jazz voice.

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A member of the Danish professional jury, which assessed the performances of the participants in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, admitted that Ukraine mistakenly received the maximum score from Denmark. 12 points from the Danish jury were intended for a contestant from Australia, but an error was made when summing up the results.

In reality, Ukrainian singer Jamala did not receive a single point from Denmark, TASS reports with reference to EurovisionWorld. “This is my biggest mistake, and I honestly admit it,” said the chairman of the Danish jury, Hilda Heik. Also, the Danish judges gave an incorrect assessment to Sweden, which received four points instead of seven.

On her Facebook page, Hilda Heick admitted her mistake. “No one is more upset than me right now,” she wrote on her Facebook page. social network. With the new setup, the gap between second-place Australian singer Demi Im and Jamala was reduced to nine points.

Dami Im - Sound Of Silence (Australia) 2016 Eurovision Song Contest

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin proposed sending the leader of the Leningrad group Sergei Shnurov to the next Eurovision Song Contest. He wrote about this on his Twitter. “We will send Shnurov to the next Eurovision. He won’t win, but he will send them all somewhere,” Rogozin wrote.

The leader of the Leningrad group, Sergei Shnurov, quickly responded to the proposal to send him to the next Eurovision, which, thanks to Jamala’s victory, will be held in Ukraine in 2017. And he was categorical as always. “We survived. It turns out that out of 140 million citizens, even just one can be sent to... only one. The deputy prime minister of a nuclear power writes about this on his Twitter.”

Two petitions appeared on the Internet demanding the cancellation of the voting results at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. The English version received almost 17 thousand votes and continues to gain popularity. The page with the petition states that when the petition is signed by 25 thousand users, it will be sent to the European Broadcasting Union and the Eurovision organizers.

“This year the winner was not the one who really should have won the competition. We have no doubt about the fairness and confidentiality of Eurovision, which is why we believe that there is a need to review the voting results,” the appeal says.

Russian fans of Sergei Lazarev created a separate petition, where they demand not only to cancel the results of the current vote, but also to hold accountable the “biased” judges who deliberately underestimated the Russian participant’s scores. In case of refusal to comply with these demands, users are calling for a boycott of the next competition, which will be held in Ukraine in 2017. Almost a thousand people signed this stronger version of the petition.

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In the final of the national selection on February 21, Ukrainians decided on the name of the artist who will represent the country at Eurovision 2016. 32-year-old Crimean Tatar Jamala won with the song “1944” about tragic fate of his people during the mass deportations organized by Stalin during the Second World War. Ukraine returns to the competition after being absent last year following the events on 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 “surgyunlik”. All 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 was unprecedented in the history of the Soviet regime, as it covered an entire nation. The operation involving 32,000 NKVD agents lasted two days, from May 18 to May 20, 1944. As the singer herself notes on Facebook, “last year I composed “1944,” a landmark composition 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 to the entire Crimean Tatar people in 1944. (….) Unfortunately, people still have not learned peaceful coexistence and tolerance. This is a very personal song for me, and I would really like the message it contains to be heard as much as possible. more people both in our country and abroad.”

Context

Eurovision and Jamala with political overtones

Sveriges Radio 02/24/2016

“My home is Crimea”

Radio Liberty 02/13/2016

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 Russian Federation in March 2014, in violation of international agreements previously signed 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 and refrain from threats and the use of force against it. Neither the Ukrainian state nor the international community recognized Russia's annexation of the peninsula.

Since the annexation, Russian authorities have daily harassed Crimean Tatars and other pro-Ukrainian activists. Searches in the premises of the Mejlis and in the houses of Tatars, as well as their frequent detentions, have become commonplace. The only TV channel of the Crimean Tatars, 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.

The Tatars are the indigenous Crimean people, descendants of the Crimean Khanate founded in 1441. At the end of the 18th century, the Khanate was declared independent from the Omani Empire, and Catherine II's Russia 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 events in Ukraine over the past two centuries. On the first anniversary of the revolution in the winter of 2013, Jamala and the vocalist of the Ukrainian group “Boombox” recorded the song “Zliva”. In 2015, the Tatar singer recorded “The Way to 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 cry.” Jamal's parents and grandfather still live on 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 becomes another way for Ukraine to draw the attention of the international community to the illegal annexation of Crimea and the alarming situation with human rights on the peninsula. The State Duma The Russian Federation has already condemned Jamala’s participation in the music competition.

JAMALA – THE SUN OF TAVRIDA

Ukrainian singer of Crimean Tatar origin Jamal considered an inconvenient performer. And all because she doesn’t shock the audience with cheap scandals, doesn’t sing “sticky” songs and doesn’t promote her name with duets with popular colleagues. Her songs are filled with meaning and taken from the depths of the soul, and her unconventional five-octave vocals mesmerize the audience. And this is the only thing the Ukrainian winner wants to do for the rest of her life.

Musical family

From early childhood, the life of the future singer was not characterized by carelessness. Born Susana Jamaladinova(this is Jamala's real name) in the Kyrgyz city of Osh in 1983. Her paternal ancestors were deported from Crimea to Kyrgyzstan in 1944. And my mother’s ancestors (Armenians by nationality) had to leave Nagorno-Karabakh after dispossession. Jamala's parents met at the music school, where Galina was a pianist, and Alim was the conductor of his ensemble, which performed Crimean Tatar music, as well as melodies of the peoples of Central Asia. The Jamaladinov family celebrated their daughter’s first birthday in Melitopol, Ukraine. Jamala’s father dreamed of returning to his historical homeland in Crimea, but in the 1980s there was an unspoken ban on the movement of Crimean Tatars to the peninsula and, moreover, the sale of housing to them. Then Jamala's parents decided to file a fictitious divorce. The father stayed with his two daughters to live in Melitopol, and the mother went to the village of Malorechenskoye (Kuchuk-Uzen) not far from Alushta, where she rented a room and began teaching music. After 4 years, she managed to buy a home and reunite with her family.

In love with jazz

From the age of three, Susana sang at all family holidays and friendly gatherings; she instantly fell into the image that she invented for herself, copied famous performers, and reproduced their vocal parts by ear. Papa Alim regularly brought home folk music- Crimean Tatar, Iranian, Azerbaijani... Therefore, he still considers his first teachers and authorities in in the world of music, it is the parents. Even before bed, my mother played a record for her daughter so that she would fall asleep peacefully. As soon as the music ended on one side, the girl woke up and started crying.

Susana was lucky enough to meet arranger Gennady Astsaturyan, who instilled in her a love for the art of jazz. At first, he forced the girl to listen to recordings of the great. Of course, such unchildish vocals were initially a burden for young Jamala. But Gennady did not deviate from the planned plan. One day he gave her a cassette with Ella’s songs and told her to memorize them for the next meeting. At that time, Susana did not know English, but this did not stop her teacher. The aspiring singer had to learn all the songs by ear, taking up the task with maximum responsibility. When she came to Astsaturyan to perform jazz compositions, he did not even listen, giving her a new cassette. He knew very well that the persistent Susana would teach her too. Thanks to this preparation, she entered the Simferopol Music School without any problems. During classes, the girl studied classics, and then hurried to the basement, where she played in her jazz group “Tutti”.

Looking for a teacher

The next step life path Jamala became the Kiev National Academy of Music, where she entered the opera vocal class. But there the girl had to face serious problems, because of which she wanted to quit studying several times. The fact is that due to the authoritarian pedagogical approach of one of the teachers, Susana’s cords often failed to close due to nervousness, and she lost her voice. The teacher allowed herself to insult the student, telling her that her voice was only suitable for shouting on the beach: “Barbecue!” As a result, the girl switched to another teacher - Natalya Gorbatenko. After that, she became the best student on the course and graduated from the academy with honors.

New wave of Jamala

They immediately made her an offer, which not every graduate receives. Susana was invited to work at opera house Switzerland. But her boyfriend, her first and crazy love, did not want to let the girl go. He even invited her to marry him in order to keep her in Ukraine, but she did not want to start a family in such a situation.

I dreamed of going on an internship at La Scala in Milan and devoting my life to opera. However, fate decreed otherwise. Jamala has been participating in singing competitions since she was 15 years old. At the international show “Voices of the Future” in Nizhny Novgorod, she was awarded the Grand Prix. But turning in creative life The singer's year was 2009 and her victory in the “New Wave” competition in Jurmala. She presented to the public and the jury a cover version of the song “History Repeating” by the British group Propellerheads, and performed the Ukrainian folk song

“Vershe, miy vershe” and his own composition “Mama’s Son”.

First try After such success, Jamala began to actively tour, participate in television shows and received the “Person of the Year” award in the “Idol of Ukrainians” category. She was invited to perform main role in the opera “The Spanish Hour”. Then there was participation in an opera play on a Bond theme. Then the British actor Jude Law simply fell in love with her voice. And in 2011, Susana decided to take part in the all-Ukrainian selection for international competition , for whom I wrote my new song

"Smile." The singer reached the final, but after voting lost to Zlata Ognevich and Mika Newton, who became the winner of the internal selection. The voting results provoked a scandal and suspicions of fraud. The national television company decided to hold a repeat vote, but Zlata Ognevich also refused to participate in it.

All or nothing The singer’s second studio album, “All Or Nothing,” was not long in coming. Having such extraordinary vocals, he does not write instantly recognizable songs. She does not try to reach the maximum audience and win commercial laurels. Jamala does not strive for quick popularity, she tries to create only the music that is close to her, passes all the compositions through herself and always believes in what she sings about.

While she does not feel like a successful singer and believes that real fame comes over the years, like real wisdom, and the love of viewers and listeners, the favor of the public is tested by time.

calls successful those artists whose music and thoughts they continue to return to after decades, whose work is necessary and relevant.

Acting debut In 2014, Jamala decided to try herself in a new role and accepted the offer famous director Olesya Sanina to star in the film “The Guide”, action

which takes place in 1933. After the premiere, the director called the leading actress a wonderful actress with a great future. It’s interesting that after the screen tests no one supported Oles Sanin’s choice, but he immediately recognized the acting talent in the modest oriental girl. By the way, during filming, the debutante was most worried about how she would play the kiss scene, which her father would later see. Impressed by her work in the film “The Guide”, she wrote the song “Why do my eyes ache?” At the same time, the performer began to actively participate in public events, speaking out in support of the unity of Ukraine after the outbreak of hostilities in the country.

Winner Despite the fact that she promised herself not to participate in the competition anymore, in 2016 she decided to forget old grievances and move forward. After traveling around Sri Lanka, she took up her preparations with new strength and inspiration. Jamala wanted to use your creativity and vocal skills to tell the whole world about the tragedy of her people. This is how the song “1944” appeared, dedicated to the deportation of the Crimean Tatars after the liberation of the peninsula.Soviet troops

Serious passions erupted around this composition. There was a possibility that they would see a political context in the song and remove it from the competition. Fortunately, this did not happen and Jamala managed to convey his message to an international audience. She received high marks from the competition jury and television viewers. The sum of these points brought Jamala a well-deserved victory in the. She became the second Ukrainian singer (after) who was awarded this creative award and international recognition. Since childhood, Jamala has moved forward, not stopping in the face of difficulties, not being afraid of experiments, and, finally, she was rewarded for this. She was also awarded the title of People's Artist of Ukraine.

On stage the singer is expressive and bright, but in life she is very restrained, punctual and calm.

admits that in such a difficult time for her homeland, she cannot write cheerful songs, her soul is filled with other emotions, but she believes and waits...

DATA She likes to read books about the lives of famous musicians, she is also interested in various genres of cinema, she improves her English, performs

with concerts, participates in charity events, never loses touch with the Crimean Tatar community and tries to exceed her capabilities in any matter, because she is a born perfectionist. One of my favorite singers Jamals - American performer Ukrainian origin

. The Grammy Award nominee managed to make a surprisingly clear statement about Ukrainian music and culture on the world stage far from her homeland. This is precisely why Jamala admires her. In this she sees real patriotism - without PR and slogans. Updated: April 7, 2019 by: