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| Jamala won Eurovision in 2016 |
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Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova (born 27 August 1983), better known by her stage name Jamala, is a Ukrainian singer, actress and songwriter. She represented Ukraine and won the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden with her song 1944.
Susana Jamaladinova was born in Osh, Kirghiz SSR, to a Crimean Tatar father and an Armenian mother. Her Crimean Tatar ancestors were forcibly resettled from Crimea to the central Asian republic under Joseph Stalin during World War II, although her own relatives fought on the Soviet side. In 1989 her family returned to Crimea. Her maternal ancestors are Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh. They were well-to-do peasants until her great-grandfather's land was confiscated and he was exiled to Osh where he changed his Armenian name to make it sound more Russian.
Jamala speaks Russian as her mother tongue, and she is also fluent in Ukrainian and English which she learned as an adolescent. Though she wrote some songs in Crimean Tatar, she is not fluent in the language.
Her parents divorced for about four years so that her mother could purchase a house in Crimea for the family under her maiden name. During this period, Soviet authorities did not allow ethnic Crimean Tatars, like her father, to purchase property in Crimea.
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Jamala has been fond of music since her early childhood. She made her first professional recording at the age of nine, singing 12 folk and children's Crimean Tatar songs. She entered the Simferopol Music College and later graduated from Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine as an opera singer, but preferred a career in pop music.
On 14 February 2010, she released her first single You Are Made of Love from her debut studio album For Every Heart. She released It's Me, Jamala as the second single on 18 October 2010.
On 23 November 2010, she released Smile as the third single from the album.
Early in 2011, she participated on the national selection show in an attempt to represent Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Smile. The song was a crowd favorite and Jamala herself managed to land a spot in the finals of the competition. However, she later decided to withdraw from the competition.
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On 8 November 2012, she released Ya Lyublyu Tebya as the lead single from her second studio album All or Nothing.
She released Hurt as the second single, and Kaktus in Ukrainian Ка́ктус» was released on 6 March 2013, as the third and final single from the album. She released All or Nothing on 19 March 2013, through Moon Records Ukraine.
On 25 September 2014, she released Zaplutalas, in Ukrainian Заплу́талась, as the lead single from her debut EP Thank You. The EP was released on 1 October 2014, through Enjoy Records.
On 26 March 2015, Ochyma was released as the lead single from her third studio album. Shlyakh dodomu, in Ukrainian Шлях додо́му, was released as the second single on 18 May 2015.
On 15 June 2015, Podykh, in Ukrainian По́дих, was released as the third single. She released her album Podykh on 12 October 2015, through Enjoy Records.
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Jamala successfully represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song 1944.
The song is about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 and particularly about her great-grandmother, who lost her daughter while being deported to Central Asia. Jamala wrote the song's lyrics in 2014.
In the second semi-final of the contest, Jamala performed 14th and was one of ten participants who qualified for the grand final. It was announced later that she placed second, scoring 287 points, and won the televoting with 152 points.
On 14 May 2016, Jamala won the competition with 534 points. Jamala's song was considered by Russian media and lawmakers to be critical of the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine in Donbass. For this reason it has been announced that no other flags than the official country-participant are allowed in the arena for the Eurovision Song Contest. This included a ban for flags like Crimean Tatars' flags to be in audience, and only the Ukrainian flags was allowed for her Crimean Tatars' supporters.
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| Jamala won Eurovision in 2016 |
After winning Eurovision 2016, she has gone on to publish many songs, including I Believe in U, which she performed at Eurovision 2017 as an interval act, along with Zamanyly.
On 17 May 2016, it was announced that the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry would be nominating Jamala as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
On 12 October 2018, Jamala released her fifth studio album, Kryla. The title track was released as the first single on 21 March 2018. She had previously performed the track as the interval act for the 2018 Ukrainian National Selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, Vidbir.
On 26 April 2017, Jamala married Bekir Suleimanov. Their relationship became known in September 2016, when she appeared with him at the Manhattan Short Film Festival. The couple married in the Islamic Cultural Center of Kyiv using the traditional wedding ceremony Nikah. Suleimanov had recently graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Department of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and is an activist of the Muslim Crimean Tatar community.
More information: The Guardian
1944 is a song written and performed by Ukrainian singer Jamala. It represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 and won with a total of 534 points.
The lyrics for 1944 concern the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, in the 1940s, by the Soviet Union at the hands of Joseph Stalin because of their alleged collaboration with the Nazis.
Jamala was particularly inspired by the story of her great-grandmother Nazylkhan, who was in her mid-20s when she and her five children were deported to barren Central Asia. One of the daughters did not survive the journey. Jamala's great-grandfather was fighting in World War II in the Red Army at this time and thus could not protect his family. The song was also released amid renewed repression of Crimean Tatars following the Russian annexation of Crimea, since most Crimean Tatars refuse to accept the annexation.
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| Jamala won Eurovision in 2016 |
The song's chorus, in the Crimean language, is made up of words from a Crimean Tatar folk song called Ey Güzel Qırım that Jamala had heard from her great-grandmother, reflecting on the loss of a youth which could not be spent in her homeland. The song features the duduk played by Aram Kostanyan and the use of the mugham vocal style.
Jamala represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, performing in the second half of the second semi-final...
1944 is the first Eurovision song to contain lyrics in the Crimean language. She won the final receiving the second highest televoting score and second highest jury vote.
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In a February 2016 interview with The Guardian, Jamala said that the song also reminded her of her own family living in Crimea nowadays, claiming that since the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea the Crimean Tatars are on occupied territory. The song lyrics, however, do not address this annexation. Eurovision rules prohibit songs with lyrics that could be interpreted as having political content.
On 9 March 2016, a tweet from the European Broadcasting Union confirmed that neither the title nor the lyrics of the song contained political speech and therefore it did not breach any Eurovision rule, thus allowing it to remain in the competition.
Immediately after the selection of this song, some Russian politicians, as well as authorities in Crimea, accused the Ukrainian authorities of using the song to offend Russia and capitalising on the tragedy of the Tatars to impose on European viewers a false picture of alleged harassment of the Tatars in the Russian Crimea.
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When strangers are coming
They come to your house
They kill you all
and say
We’re not guilty
not guilty.
Yaşlığıma toyalmadım
Men bu yerde yaşalmadım
Yaşlığıma toyalmadım
Men bu yerde yaşalmadı.
When strangers are coming
They come to your house
They kill you all
and say
We’re not guilty
not guilty.
Yaşlığıma toyalmadım
Men bu yerde yaşalmadım
Yaşlığıma toyalmadım
Men bu yerde yaşalmadı.
Jamala
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