Jamala VKontakte. Jamala managed to change everything: nationality, political views and even gender. The beginning of creative activity

The singer first appeared on big stage at 15 years old. She dreamed of becoming a soloist of the famous Milanese opera La Scala. But in 2009 I entered the competition “ New wave", won it and became famous. About the dream of becoming opera diva Since then, Jamal has been forgotten, but she has successfully built a pop career.

Biography of Jamala

The winner of Eurovision 2016 was born in Kyrgyzstan. When she was six years old, she moved with her family to Crimea. The singer spent her childhood near Alushta in the village of Malorechenskoye. Her parents are musicians. Mom sings beautifully and works as a teacher at a music school, while dad once graduated from conducting, he even had his own ensemble performing the Crimean Tatar folk music and music of the peoples of Central Asia.

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It is not surprising that Susana early childhood loved to make music. She made her first professional recording at the age of 9. This was her first album of children's songs.

To the sound engineer's surprise, it only took the little girl an hour. There were at least 12 songs, but the girl managed to perform them one after another, without making a single mistake.

After graduating from music school No. 1 in piano in her native Alushta (Ukraine), she entered the Simferopol music school them. Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and then to the National Academy of Music. Tchaikovsky (Kyiv) in opera vocal class, graduated with honors.

The young singer was the best on the course and had big plans for the future. Namely, to connect your life with classical music and try your luck in Milan. The girl dreamed of becoming a soloist of the famous Milanese opera La Scala. But a serious passion for jazz and oriental music changed her plans.

Jamala performed on the big stage for the first time at 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.

Elena Kolyadenko became a producer who was one of the first to notice the talented aspiring certified singer. They started collaborating and quickly found common language. In Kolyadenko’s musical called “Pa” she was a soloist. The premiere took place in 2007. This role played in the singer’s work great value.

But still turning point Susana's career began with a performance at the international competition for young performers “New Wave” in the summer of 2009. Contrary to the statements of the main director of the competition about the participant’s lack of format, she not only made it to the finals, but also received the Grand Prix.

With her victory in Jurmala, Jamala moved into the category of top performers, performing at many venues from Moscow to Berlin.

Within a few months, she took part in almost all the main TV shows in Ukraine, from the Teletriumph 2009 award and One Night Only (a tribute to Michael Jackson by Ukrainian top artists) to Alla Pugacheva’s Christmas Meetings.

Cosmopolitan magazine called her the discovery of the year, she receives the ELLE Style Award in the Singer of the Year category and the Person of the Year 2009 award in the Idol of Ukrainians category.

In the summer of 2009 she performed main party in Maurice Ravel’s opera “The Spanish Hour”, and in February 2010 she took part in Vasily Barkhatov’s opera production based on Bond, where her performance was noted by the famous British actor Jude Law.

In the spring of 2011, the singer’s debut album “For Every Heart” was released, almost entirely consisting of Jamala’s original compositions. The sound producer of the record was the famous Ukrainian musician Evgeniy Filatov.

In January 2012, the “Stars in the Opera” show aired on the “1+1” TV channel, in which Jamala performed together with Vlad Pavlyuk. On March 4, at the gala concert of the show participants, the jury awarded victory to Jamala and Vlad Pavlyuk.

Jamala participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song “1944”, dedicated to the deportation of the Crimean Tatars after the liberation of Crimea Soviet troops in 1944. According to Jamala, the plot of the song is based on the stories of her ancestors. Despite controversy over its possible political context, the song was not removed from the competition. Jamala took second place in the semi-finals of the competition and then won the final. This victory was the second for Ukraine at Eurovision in the history of its participation.

The singer's clothing matches her music. She believes that it is important to find harmony. Favorite colors are green and brown.

Jamala lives in Kyiv, and her parents are still in the village of Malorechenskoye near Alushta. They have a private boarding house. The singer's favorite holiday has always been her mother's birthday.

Personal life

Little is known about Jamala's personal life. By her own admission, great love she didn't know yet. Her mother often wonders when she will meet her betrothed, but this has not happened yet. Her career takes up too much of the singer’s time.

By the way, the girl does not have any special criteria for the future candidate for her heart; the main thing is that the young man is sincere.

London, May 20. Edition published in London in Bulgarian Bulgarian times reported that the Eurovision winner with the song “1944” Jamala was a boy named Abdulkhair at her birth on August 27, 1983 in the Kyrgyz city of Osh. She changed her gender after surgery in 2006 and became Susanna Jamaladinova. As proof, the publishing house publishes a photograph in which a secondary feature left over from her male past is clearly visible - the Adam's apple, the Adam's apple.

Regarding her victory, the publication writes that, in principle, there is nothing new in this, because in 2014 the Eurovision was won by an Austrian Thomas Neuwirth, better known as the bearded woman Conchita Wurst.

In his other articles Bulgarian times informs its readers about the singer’s grandfather, who served the Germans in one of the ten Crimean Tatar battalions formed by the Germans. It is especially emphasized that they were formed exclusively by volunteers. In April-May 1944, they entered into battle with units Soviet Army who liberated Crimea from the Nazis. The defeated remnants of these battalions flee from Crimea, but do not stop fighting - the Tatar SS Mountain Jaeger Regiment under the command of SS Standartenführer Fortenbach was formed from their remnants. Its number was 2,500 Crimean Tatars.

The publication also notes that the deportation of 1944, which Jamal laments in his song, was far from the first in the history of the Crimean Tatar people. During the Crimean War, the Turks resettled part of the Crimean Tatars to Bulgaria, which was then part of Ottoman Empire. There they became famous for their predatory lifestyle and monstrous atrocities during the suppression of the Bulgarian uprisings. That is why, when Bulgaria was liberated by Russian troops in 1878, almost 100% of the Crimean Tatars fled to Turkey and the largest Crimean Tatar diaspora in the world, numbering about 150 thousand people, still lives there.

Obviously, if relations between the EU and Turkey continue to deteriorate, as is happening now, then Jamala has a real chance of winning Eurovision again. This time with the song “1856”.

If you look closely at Jamala’s biography, you can easily notice that she changed not only her gender, but also everything else. So, for example, initially she called herself a Tatar - it was easier to live in the USSR. Later she renamed herself Crimean Tatar. If necessary, she also called herself Armenian - according to her mother’s nationality.

Her relations with Russia are also interesting: she took part in the Usadba Jazz festivals three times in Moscow and St. Petersburg, took part in the celebration of Moscow City Day and even in a ceremony in memory of the attack on the USSR in Berlin.

Later she changed her views and starred in the film “The Guide,” which talks about repressions in the early 30s in the same USSR.

The film, without a doubt, is a striking example of modern Ukrainian cinema. He talks about how, on orders from Moscow, kobza bandura players are shot in Ukraine. The unfortunate kobzars are gathered in Kharkov for the Republican Congress of Singers folk song, and then, under the guise of being sent to the All-Union Congress in Moscow, they are loaded onto a train, taken to the forest and shot there. Traditional friends of Ukraine - US citizens - are trying to thwart Moscow's plans to destroy Ukrainian culture. The role of the Ukrainian singer Olga Levitskaya, the American’s lover, was entrusted to the real Ukrainian Jamala. Despite the fact that even the Ukrainian authorities announced that there was not a single document about this mythical execution, money was allocated for the filming. Moreover, a monument to non-existent victims of a fictitious execution was unveiled in the Kharkov region.

The film was shot before Euromaidan and the return of Crimea. Let us recall that the film “Unbroken”, glorifying the commander of Bandera’s army, Roman Shukhevych, was shot back in 2008. And in Crimea, in October 2011, in the village of Krasnokamenka, a ceremonial burial was held for a deserter from the Red Army, SS Obersturmführer Dengiza Dagci. All these facts indicate that Ukraine was confidently moving towards the creation of a nationalist state, regardless of Russia’s actions in Crimea.

In 2014, Jamala strongly condemned the decision of her compatriots to join Russia, and cried a lot about the fate of the unfortunate people suffering under the heel of the Russian occupiers. However, she went to greet 2015 precisely to the occupiers - to corporate party to the Red Fox residence at Rosa Khutor near Sochi.

Obviously, singing there contributed to the improvement of her financial condition, although it did not correspond to the views she proclaimed.

Interesting changes have also occurred with Jamala's political views. In October 2009, she spoke at the Party of Regions congress, where she was nominated as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. Later, in the television program “The Truth of Roman Skrypnyk”, when asked by the presenter whether she would sing a song at a rally organized by President Yanukovych, she answered in the affirmative and stated that the elected president must be loved, as US citizens do in relation to their president.

However, in December 2013, she appeared at Euromaidan and announced that she supported all actions leading to the overthrow of President Yanukovych.
The Eurovision management was also unlucky with Jamala, who supported her claims that the winning song “1944” was not political. However, returning to Ukraine after the victory, Jamala said exactly the opposite. It is interesting that the organizers of Eurovision did not react to this properly.

It becomes obvious that to win Eurovision you need to sing an anti-Russian song, to get Nobel Prize in literature, you need to write Russophobic works, and to receive the Nobel Peace Prize you only need to bomb five or six states.

Jamala is a Ukrainian singer and actress of Crimean Tatar-Armenian origin, People's Artist of Ukraine since 2016. The singer performs in musical genres jazz, soul, funk, folk, pop and electro. In addition, Jamala has repeatedly taken part in opera productions.

Jamala represented Ukraine at the international music competition"Eurovision-2016". The second attempt to perform at the prestigious competition turned out to be.

Jamala is a creative pseudonym (the initial letters of the singer’s surname), her real name is Susanna Jamaladinova. The future singer was born on August 27, 1983 in a small town in Kyrgyzstan. The singer's childhood and teenage years were spent in Malorechenskoye, not far from Alushta.

Jamala is a Crimean Tatar on her father’s side and an Armenian on her mother’s side. Her great-grandmother and children were deported from Crimea in May 1944, but the singer’s father always wanted to return to his historical homeland - he managed this by cunning. In one of her interviews, Susanna Jamaladinova said that in the 1980s in Crimea there was an unspoken ban on the sale of real estate to relatives of deported Tatars. And her family found nice house, and in 1986 they registered it as maiden name mother: for this, the parents had to get a fictitious divorce.

Jamala's parents, like many residents of the resort village, were engaged in tourism business- They have a private boarding house near Alushta. The singer’s mother played the piano beautifully and often accompanied soloists during pregnancy. Perhaps that’s why Jamala started singing at the age of one and a half - this was in a nursery group. In general, she developed quickly: at nine months the baby learned to swim, and at nine years old she already knew for sure that she would become a singer.

The girl studied at music school, participated in many children's competitions. She won the “Children's Rain” competition and, as the winner, recorded an album, songs from which were often played on Crimean radio.

Loving parents did not want their daughter to become professional musician, but they didn’t dissuade her either. At the age of 14, Jamala entered the music school in Simferopol. In class she studied classics and opera music, and after classes in the basement she played in her own jazz group, “Tutti.”

At the age of 17, Jamala entered the National Academy of Music in Kyiv. The selection committee did not want to accept the girl until they heard her range of four octaves. Jamala was the best on the course, she dreamed of solo career at Milan's LaScala. Maybe this would have happened if not for her passion for jazz and experiments in this direction.

Music

Jamala's creative biography began in childhood. The singer's debut on the big stage took place at the age of 15. Then there were performances at European, Russian and Ukrainian competitions, victories, prestigious awards and special prizes. Once a demo version of Jamala's performance on jazz festival in Italy was heard by the famous Ukrainian choreographer Elena Kolyadenko. She offered the singer the main role in the musical “Pa” and advised her to participate in the “New Wave”.

Susanna Dzhamaladinova spent a long time preparing for the festival in Jurmala in 2009, and it was then that her creative pseudonym appeared. The singer passed the Kyiv selection, then the Moscow one. From her first performance she loudly announced herself. After performing the composition “Little Son,” the contestant gave a standing ovation. Jamala received the Grand Prix at New Wave 2009 - the victory became a powerful impetus for her career. After the festival, the singer gave two solo concerts in the Ukrainian capital and took part in many television programs. Her tour schedule was dense and tense.

In mid-2009, Jamala was invited to the main role in the opera The Spanish Hour. The following winter she sang in an opera play on a Bond theme - then her voice was admired English actor.

In 2011, Jamala participated in the selection for Eurovision. She performed with the song Smile, but lost in the final. The singer does not believe in the integrity of the closed vote and believes that she was judged unfairly.

In the same year, the singer released her debut album, which included compositions written by her. On March 9, 2013, Jamala's second studio album, All or Nothing, was released. And in 2015, the singer presented the album “Podikh”, the first album with a non-English title. The disc includes songs written by Jamala independently and in collaboration: “Promise”, “Sister’s Lullaby”, “Bolshe”, “Drifting Apart” and others.

"Eurovision 2016"

Five years later, Jamala again participated in the national selection for Eurovision from Ukraine. The singer says her father was rooting for her with all his heart. He specially went to his grandfather and said that Jamala had written a song that would definitely win. The first semi-final of the Ukrainian casting took place on February 6, 2016, the second semi-final took place a week later - based on the results of these selections, five contestants qualified for the final.

In the final of the competition, the singer performed the composition “1944” on English. In one of her interviews, she said that the song is dedicated to the memory of her ancestors, her great-grandmother Nazylkhan, who was deported from Crimea in May 1944. The woman never returned to her native Crimea.

The final took place on February 21, 2016 at live two Ukrainian TV channels at once. The jury members - , Ruslana and - had to determine the winner. They gave points from 1 to 6 collectively. Jamala received 5 points, losing to The Hardkiss. But the audience, who cast their votes for Jamal, also had to vote.

The singer admitted that participation in the competition was not easy for her - it was easier to give several concerts. This time the final was open, so the contestants could follow the progress of the voting.

Jamala won Eurovision 2016, which took place in Sweden in May. According to the audience vote, the leader became, but the outcome of the competition was decided by the jury, which rated the act low Russian singer. As a result, Lazarev ended up only in 3rd place.

After winning the music competition, Jamala first released a mini-album, which included the song that brought the girl victory and four more compositions, and then a full-fledged fourth studio album with the same name. The album was released on June 10, 2016 in Europe, the album was released by the Universal Music Group label. The release in the United States took place on July 10 of the same year under the Republic Records label. In addition to the title track, the album includes 11 more songs in English.

Also in 2016, Jamala received the title People's Artist Ukraine.

Personal life

On stage Jamala is bright and emotional, but in life she is calm, reserved, punctual and smiling. She hardly talks about her personal life, joking that she doesn’t have enough time for it. As the singer admits, she wants to have a family, but what kind of husband can withstand her busy schedule.

Jamala travels a lot, communicates with interesting people, falls in love. Soon she began to hint that she was in love and, perhaps, would soon get married. She wanted to see her chosen one kind and attentive. The singer invests the money she earns in the development of creativity so that her music and videos can adequately compete with the hits of world stars.

April 26, 2017 Jamala. Her chosen one was Bekir Suleymanov, with whom the singer had maintained a relationship since 2016. Jamala's wedding took place in Kyiv on Tatar traditions- the newlyweds underwent the nikah ceremony in the Islamic cultural center, which was held by the mullah.

Already in May, journalists and colleagues of the artist noticed Jamala’s rounded belly and decided that the singer was pregnant. But Jamala denied these rumors, saying that such an optical illusion was created by the white loose suit in which the singer appeared at the concert.

Jamala now

Thanks to Jamala's victory music festival Eurovision 2017 took place in Kyiv.

As the semi-finals approached, the singer began making semi-political statements. In an interview with Reuters, Jamala spoke about some kind of Russian provocation and called on society to “not let Russia spoil Eurovision.” The artist did not specify what provocations she was talking about, but asked Ukrainians to be careful. At the same time, the Russian Eurovision participant did not even make it to the competition. A singer with disabilities was unable to cross the border due to a performance in Crimea.

In the final of the competition on May 13, Jamala, as the winner of last year, performed her own new song “I Believe in U”, the premiere performance of which took place just the day before, on May 12, at the Kiev Sports Palace at the singer’s solo concert. The song was also soon released as a single in support of the concert program of the same name.

Jamala wrote the words and music for the composition “I Believe in U” herself. The artist dedicated this song to those people who support and inspire the singer.

Also in 2017, a video clip for this song was released. The video was filmed over three days, filming took place in Portugal, in the Lisbon suburbs of Sintra and Ericeira and in the Alentejo region. The director was Igor Stekolenko, familiar to music fans from videos for the rock group Okean Elzy and the group Brutto.

Main roles in music video performed by popular Portuguese actors. The role of the adult protagonist of the video clip went to Bruno Lagrange, who is familiar to television viewers in Portugal and the world from his participation in the popular Portuguese series “Queen of Flowers.” The main character as a teenager was played by Gonçalo Vilardebó, and the roles of the boy's parents were played by the actor couple Fabio Taborda and Vanessa Taborda, husband and wife in real life.

The video premiered on May 17 at official YouTube channel Jamals.

In the same year, Jamala showed herself as an actress. The singer played the role of a maid of honor in the film “Polina”. Also in 2017, Jamala appeared as a cameo in the television film “Jamala’s Struggle” and the documentary “Jamala.UA”.

Also, 2017 became a year of awards for the singer. Jamal received music award“YUNA” in the nominations “Best Solo Artist”, “ Best Song"(1944) and "Best Duet" for the song "Lured." The singer performed this composition together with “DakhaBrakha”. In addition to the above, the artist has the all-Ukrainian award “Woman of Ukraine 2017” in the “Culture” category and the “Viva! The most beautiful 2017” in the “Pride of the Country” category.

Discography

• 2011 –For Every Heart
• 2012 – For Every Heart: Live At Arena Concert Plaza
• 2013 – Allor Nothing
• 2014 – Thank You
• 2015 - “Pidih”
• 2016 – “1944”

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

Singer Jamala: biography, childhood and youth

She was born on August 27, 1983 in Kyrgyzstan. Later the family moved to sunny Crimea. Susana Jamaladinova is the real name of our heroine. And the singer’s current pseudonym is a shortened form of her last name.

In what family was the future star of Ukrainian show business raised? 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 higher education specializing in orchestra conductor.

The girl demonstrated her vocal abilities at the age of 3. She sang 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 school and a music school. Over the course of 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 in the opera vocal department. She was considered one of the best students.

Our heroine continued her education in Kyiv. 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 person to notice the talented girl was producer Elena Koledenko. She invited Susana to her musical “Pa”. Our heroine began 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.

Between 2009 and 2010 the girl performed in the opera. She has participated in several productions (The Spanish Hour, an opera based on Bond and others).

In 2011, Jamala went to the Eurovision qualifying round. Hundreds of young and talented performers competed for the right to represent Ukraine at this competition. Unfortunately, Susana did not make it through the qualifying round.

Present tense

In 2012, the girl took part in the Ukrainian show “Stars in the Opera”. She performed in pairs 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 music 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 whirlwind romances. But they did not flow into a serious relationship. On at the moment the singer is not married. She has no children.

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

In conclusion

Now you know who Jamala is. The singer has great talent, excellent appearance and rich inner world. Let's wish her success in her work and on the love front!

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 jazz art. 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 one of Susana's teachers at nervous soil Often the cords would not close and she would lose 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. dreamed of going on an internship at Milan's La Scala theater and dedicating my life opera art. 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 a cover version of the song “History Repeating” to the public and jury. British group Propellerheads, performed 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

In the spring of 2011, Jamala released her debut album “For Every Heart”. Most of the songs in the collection are Susana’s original compositions, one of which she performed on native language. 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 of the famous director Oles Sanin to star in the film “The Guide”, action which takes place in 1933. After the premiere, the director named the performer leading role 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 and speak 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 in Sri Lanka, she began to prepare 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 by Soviet troops. Jamala's grandfather survived this horror. He was 16 years old when the doors were opened in Crimean houses, given 15 minutes to get ready and told that they were being evicted. There were more than 180 thousand people.

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 came second Ukrainian singer(after), which 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...

FACTS

Likes to read books about life famous musicians, she is also interested in various genres of cinema, she is improving her English, performing 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 on the world stage, far from her homeland. Ukrainian music and culture. This is precisely why Jamala admires her. In this she sees real patriotism - without PR and slogans.

Updated: April 7, 2019 by: Elena