Education
Jamala's childhood (real name - Susana Alimovna Dinova) passed in the Crimea, in the village of Malorechenskoye near Alushta, where she and her family moved in 1989 from Kyrgyzstan.
She studied at the music school number 1 in piano in Alushta.
Then she entered the Simferopol Musical College. P. I. Tchaikovsky, and after - to the Kyiv National Musical Academy. P. I. Tchaikovsky in the class of opera vocals, which she graduated with honors.
Creative activity
Jamala began to study music from early childhood.
Already at the age of 9, a talented girl recorded an album with cover versions of popular children's songs. To the amazement of the sound engineer, it took her only one hour. The girl managed to perform 12 songs one after another without making a single mistake. For such an achievement, her mother gave Susanna a Barbie doll.
Being the best graduate of the Kurskiev Tchaikovsky Academy, Jamala planned to devote herself to classical music and leave to work as a soloist of the Milanese La Scala opera, but a serious passion for jazz and experiments with soul and oriental music changed her plans, determining the direction of her future career.
During her studies, Susana took part in various Ukrainian and foreign festivals: "Voices of the Future" (2000, Russia), "Crimean Spring" (2001), "Dо#Dj junior" (2001), "Il Concorso Europeo Amici della musica" ( 2004, Italy).
From 2001 to 2007, Jamala sang in the women's a cappella quintet "Beauty Band", in which in 2006 she took part in "Do#Dj junior", where choreographer Elena Kolyadenko noticed her and invited her to play a role in her own musical "Pa" ( 2008).
Elena Kolyadenko became the first producer of Jamala.
"New wave"
The turning point in the career of the singer was the victory in the youth competition "New Wave-2009". Susanna, who performed under the pseudonym Jamala (her stage name is formed from the first syllables of her surname), literally “teared” the hall with her powerful voice and brilliant improvisation. She sang three songs: the folk song "Top Up, Top Up", a humorous composition of her own composition "Mama's Boy" and a track by the British group "Propellerheads" called "History Repeating".
In the end, she and Indonesian contestant Sandy Sondoro each scored 358 points, thus splitting the victory between them.
Carier start
The victory instantly made Jamala a new "star" of Ukraine. Soon after the triumph, she gave a series of concerts in Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine and Russia. In 2009, the girl was invited to the opera Spanish Hour, and in 2010 she was invited to an opera production based on Bondiana.
At the same time, the girl broke off professional relations with Elena Kolyadenko.
On April 12, 2011, Jamala's first solo concert took place in the October Palace, where she presented her first album For Every Heart, released under the Moon Records label.
In 2012, Jamala took part in the vocal show "Stars at the Opera", which is an adaptation of the British format "Popstar to Operastar". The show was filmed and shown by the 1+1 TV channel. The singer performed in tandem with student opera singer Vlad Pavlyuk.
On March 19, 2013, the singer's second studio album, All or Nothing, was released. Evgeny Filatov and keyboardist Milos Yelich were involved in the work on the album.
In 2014, Jamala starred in the television musical "Alice in Wonderland" directed by Maxim Papernik, playing the role of the Caterpillar. The musical was shown on New Year's Eve on the TV channel "Ukraine".
On October 1, 2014, Jamala's first mini-album, Thank You, was released, the musical producers of which were Evgeny Filatov and the guitarist from the singer's group, Sergey Eremenko.
In the fall of 2014, Andrey Khlyvnyuk offered Jamala to cooperate. The three of them, together with Dmitry Shurov, recorded the song "Zliva", which was presented on the eve of the anniversary of the start of the Euromaidan in Ukraine at a thematic forum in the Mystetsky arsenal dedicated to the events of the past year in the country.
On October 12, 2015, on the air of "Radio Aristocrats", Jamala's fourth studio album - Podikh was presented.
"Eurovision"
In autumn 2010, Jamala decided to take part in the national selection for the 56th Eurovision Song Contest with her own song "Smile". The singer won the first semi-final, and in the final, according to the voting results, she took third place, losing to Zlata Ognevich, as well as Mika Newton, who won.
On January 26, 2016, Jamala announced that she would take part in the national selection for Eurovision 2016, and according to the results of the draw, on February 6, Jamala performed in the first semi-final of the national selection, performing the author's song "1944", dedicated to the tragic events of the past, in particular deportation of the Crimean Tatar people. According to the results of the audience voting and the jury, Jamala reached the final of the national selection, in which she won.
In 2016 in Stockholm, Jamal with the composition "1944". The song tells about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944. Jamala's grandmother was a witness to these events - her words sound in the chorus of the song.
In September 2016, the light saw this composition.
On January 22, 2017, the premiere of the seventh season of the Voice of the Country project took place, where Jamala acted as one of the coaches. On April 23, her ward Anna Kuksa took 4th place in the final of the competition.
The artist intends to return to the show at the stage of live broadcasts, which is scheduled for April 11, 2018.
Personal life
April 26, 2017 . The economist and businessman Bekir Suleymanov became her chosen one. He is 8 years younger than his chosen one.
March 27, 2018 - a boy whom he and Bekir named Emir-Rahman Seit-Bekir ogly Suleymanov.
Interesting Facts
Her parents are musicians: her father, Alim Aiyarovich Jamaladinov, once graduated from a conducting school, and her mother, Galina Mikhailovna Tumasova, sang beautifully and taught at a music school.
Jamala is fond of yoga.
The singer professes Islam.
At the beginning of May 2017, Ukrposhta presented a stamp number 1555 with the image of Jamala.
In 2010, Jamala received the "ELLE Style Award" in the "Singer of the Year" nomination.
In 2012, Jamala received the "Best Fashion Awards" in the special nomination "Inspiration".
In 2013, Jamala received an award in the "Singer of the Year" nomination of the "ELLE Style Award".
In the spring of 2014, Jamala released the song "Why?" as the soundtrack to the film "The Guide".
On May 20, 2016, Jamala received the Cosmopolitan Awards in the special nomination "Inspiration of the Year".
The Dutch called Jamal.
In March 2017, Jamala became the face of the Swedish cosmetics brand Oriflame.
In March 2018, Jamal "You are my love." This song plays during the end credits of the cartoon "The Stolen Princess: Ruslan and Lyudmila".
Interesting Quotes
"To be happy, it is important to be sincere. Experience pain, happiness, tears, laughter. Give up the mask and just be yourself. This will help both in work and personal life. This is to find your happiness. People now forget about sincerity"
"My life credo is an Arabic proverb: "No vessel can hold more than its volume, except for a jug of knowledge - it is constantly expanding"
London, 20 May. Published in London in Bulgarian edition Bulgarian times reported that the winner of Eurovision with the song "1944" Jamal at her birth on August 27, 1983 in the Kyrgyz city of Osh was a boy named Abdulkhair. She changed gender after surgery in 2006 and became Susanna Jamaladinova. As evidence, the publishing house publishes a photograph where a secondary sign is clearly visible that remains from her male past - Adam's apple, Adam's apple.
Regarding her victory, the publication writes that, in principle, there is nothing new in this, because in 2014 the Austrian won Eurovision Thomas Neuwirth better known as the bearded woman Conchita Wurst.
In my 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 of the Soviet Army, liberating the Crimea from the Nazis. The defeated remnants of these battalions flee from the Crimea, but do not stop fighting - from their remnants the Tatar Mountain Jaeger Regiment of the SS was formed under the command of SS Standartenführer Fortenbach. Its number was 2500 Crimean Tatars.
The publication also notes that the deportation of 1944, about which Jamala moans in her 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 in Bulgaria, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. There they became famous for their predatory way of life and monstrous atrocities during the suppression of the uprisings of the Bulgarians. 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 of 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 see that she changed not only her gender, but everything else. So, for example, initially she called herself a Tatar - it was easier to live in the USSR that way. Later she was renamed the Crimean Tatar. When necessary, she also called herself an Armenian - according to the nationality of her mother.
Her relations with Russia are also interesting: she took part in the Usadba Jazz festivals in Moscow and St. Petersburg three times, took part in the celebration of the Day of the City of Moscow 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 vivid example of modern Ukrainian cinema. He talks about how, on orders from Moscow, kobza bandura players are shot in Ukraine. Unfortunate kobza players are collected in Kharkov for the Republican Congress of Folk Song Singers, 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. The traditional friends of Ukraine - US citizens - are trying to prevent Moscow's plans to destroy Ukrainian culture. The role of the Ukrainian singer Olga Levitskaya, the beloved of the American, 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 of the film. Moreover, a monument to non-existent victims of a fictitious execution was opened in the Kharkov region.
The film was made before the Euromaidan and the return of Crimea. Recall that the film “Unbroken” that glorifies the commander of the Bandera army, Roman Shukhevych, was filmed back in 2008. And in the Crimea in October 2011, in the village of Krasnokamenka, a solemn burial of a deserter from the Red Army, SS Obersturmführer Dengiz Dagji. All these facts testify that Ukraine was steadily 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 wept a lot about the fate of the unfortunate people suffering under the heel of Russian invaders. However, she went to meet the year 2015 precisely to the occupiers - to a corporate party at the Red Fox residence at Rosa Khutor near Sochi.
Obviously, singing there contributed to the improvement of her material condition, although it did not correspond to the views she proclaimed.
Interesting changes have also taken place with the political views of Jamala. In October 2009, she speaks at the congress of the Party of Regions, where she was nominated as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine Victor Yanukovich. Later, in the television program “The Truth of Roman Skrypnik”, when asked by the host if 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.
No luck with Jamala and the leadership of Eurovision, which supported her claims that the winning song "1944" is not political. However, after returning to Ukraine after the victory, Jamala said exactly the opposite. Interestingly, the organizers of Eurovision did not respond properly to this.
It becomes obvious that to win the Eurovision you need to sing an anti-Russian song, to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature you need to write Russophobic works, and to receive the Nobel Peace Prize you just need to bomb five or six states.
The main news of the past weekend in the music world was the victory of the Ukrainian singer Jamala at Eurovision 2016.
Jamala is not the real name of the singer
The true name of the star is Susanna Jamaladinova. Nickname Jamal the singer came up with, shortening her last name. It happened before the New Wave 2009 contest: having arrived in Jurmala, the girl quickly became one of the undisputed leaders of the contest and won the New Wave Grand Prix, sharing first place with Indonesian Sandi Sandorro. Alla Borisovna Pugacheva after Jamala performed the song "Mama's Son", she gave the young singer a standing ovation.
To return to their homeland, the parents of the star had to get a divorce
Although Susanna connects her fate with the Crimea, she was born in Kyrgyzstan in the city of Osh, where her great-grandmother was deported during the deportation of the Tatars from the Crimea. Great-grandfather and all the men from my grandmother died at the front. The singer's father is Tatar, mother is Armenian. In 1989, Susanna's family managed to return to the Crimea, to the village of Malorechenskoe (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 the returning Crimean Tatars, so the purchase was made by the mother, whose nationality did not arouse suspicion. 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 on such a step.
Why does the current winner of Eurovision Susana Jamaladinovna - the same singer Jamala - do not like to talk about her family, who completely refused to move to Kyiv?
She keeps saying that her father does not want to leave the house in the expensive resort village of Malorechenskoye near Alushta: “We were among the first Crimean Tatars who bought a house in Crimea. My mother taught piano, and my father is a conductor by profession. But he realized that he would not be able to provide for his family if he made music, and began to grow vegetables and fruits. We have a large garden there - there are figs, and persimmons, and pomegranates ... "
- For a long time I persuaded my parents to leave. But, they said no Jamala says. - They built a house with their own hands and grew a garden, and now I asked for a second to give up all this .... They are, of course, in the Crimea. All my attempts, conversations were crowned with nothing. Mom can't leave dad, dad can't leave grandfather... It's very painful and hard. I understand that they cannot go. That pomegranate tree that grows in our yard, persimmon, figs ... This house, it’s impossible to leave everything like that. They are not even afraid of, say, dying, no matter how scary it may sound, but they refuse to leave this house.
To put it mildly, Jamala is a hypocrite. None of her family is going to die at all. On the contrary, the family really thrives. All relatives of the "Ukrainian patriot" received Russian citizenship and are quite satisfied with their lives. Moreover, they unanimously issued the so-called. "Putin's certificates" of rehabilitation and now receive rabid benefits on utility bills - 50% discounts on water, electricity and gas, enjoy free vouchers to a sanatorium.
The only problem for Jamala’s parents is that the Tatar neighbors themselves reproach their father: “Why did your daughter decide to sing such a song?”
- It's all at the level of bazaar conversations. I keep telling them to ignore Susana reassures.
Although no matter what the crazy daughter sings, no one throws grenades and Molotov cocktails into the yard of her parents. Normal people live here. This is not Maidan Ukraine, the Crimeans do not suffer from “embroidery of the brain”.
A few months ago, the Bandera blockade hit the singer's family hard. So, according to Jamala herself, her father was ready to independently heat the house with firewood, just not to leave his native Crimea. However, today all Ukrainian villagers are offered to drown with dung. Having remained in the "Muscovite occupation", Jamaladinov Sr. is spared such a prospect.
- In Alushta and Simferopol, they gave light for at least a couple of hours, and my father was told that there would be no light for two months. The father replied that he had firewood and coal... The only problem was communication. Here it is difficult. Mom was very bored. And when we met with her, my mother cried ..., – shared the “eurostar”.
- Fortunately, my mother comes to me often. She helps her sister look after the children, takes care of the big house. So I try to give her a break, entertain her. We are like two friends: we walk a lot, go to the cinema and go shopping.
No one in Crimea prevents such contacts. The singer said that she managed to see her family after the energy blockade of the peninsula. However, for some reason, she refused to comment on the current situation on the South Bank. Otherwise, we would have to talk about the frantic influx of Russian holidaymakers. And we would have to compare the well-being of our own Crimean old people with the nightmare of Ukrainian reality.
Here is another characteristic revelation of Jamala:
- My dad sends fruits from our garden to me in Kyiv every autumn and winter. Persimmon, figs, pomegranates. Now, on the so-called border with Crimea, he has to give a bribe to let these fruits pass - he leaves a box of persimmons or figs for the border guards. He always tells me about it with tears in his eyes, because he collected these boxes for me with such love! I answer him: “Baba, this is such a trifle! The main thing is that they were allowed to transport at least that way. ” We rejoice in trifles that should be the norm for everyone.
It remains to add that the Ukrainian border guards are robbing the old Tatar man. One box for yourself - and a whole container ahead, to Kyiv, blaming the "Poroshenko-Islamist" blockade.
However, today the Jamala family has a very specific reason to hate the Russian administration. The Jamaladinov clan suddenly lost an illegal tavern on the coast! Like many Mejlis institutions, the resort tavern did not meet any sanitary standards, worked without taxes, and it was closed. As they say, a quote without comment:
- Now the new government is “ennobling” the coast with inhuman methods. Demolish all cafes and restaurants in the coastal strip. A tractor arrives and razes to the ground what people have been investing in for many years. Leaves without a piece of bread, because everyone lives a dream of summer and tourists.
And I, for example, it was thanks to such an institution that I received a higher education. We had a family cafe with four tables: my mother cooked, for example, manti, my father cooked pilaf, I washed the dishes, and my sister served and counted the people in the hall. Without him, neither I nor my sister would have had the opportunity to study at the conservatory.
Jamala's sister Evelina married a Turkish citizen and moved to live in Istanbul.
Jamala is a Ukrainian singer and actress of Crimean Tatar-Armenian origin, since 2016 she has been a People's Artist of Ukraine. The singer performs in the musical genres of jazz, soul, funk, folk, pop and electro. In addition, Jamala has repeatedly become a participant in opera productions. The artist represented Ukraine at the international music contest "Eurovision-2016". The second attempt to speak at the prestigious competition was successful.
Childhood and youth
Jamala is a creative pseudonym (the initial letters of the singer's last name), 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 Malorechensky, not far from Alushta.
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Singer Jamala
In 2011, the singer released her debut album. March 9, 2013 was the release of the second studio album "All or Nothing". Two years later, she presented Podikh, the first album with a non-English title.
After 5 years, Jamala participated in the national selection for Eurovision from Ukraine. The singer says that her father supported her with all his heart. He specially went to his grandfather and said that Jamala had written a song that would definitely win. In an interview, she said that the song "1944" is dedicated to the memory of her ancestors, great-grandmother Nazylkhan, who was deported from the Crimea in May 1944. The woman never returned to her native Crimea.
Read also 7 singers who married their producerJamal, which took place in May in Sweden. After winning the music competition, Jamala first released a mini-album, which included the song that brought her victory and four more songs, and then the discography was replenished with a full-fledged fourth studio album with the same name. .
In this 2017, Jamala also showed herself as an actress. The singer played the role of a maid of honor in the film "Polina" and appeared in the documentaries "Jamala's Struggle" and "Jamala.UA". In 2018, the singer released the album "Kryla", the tracks of which were recorded by Ukrainian jazz musician Yefim Chupakhin and guitarist of the group "" Vladimir Opsenitsa.
Personal life
April 26, 2017 . Her chosen one was Bekir Suleymanov, with whom the singer has maintained relations since 2014. The bridegroom of the performer is from Simferopol. In Kyiv, he received a serious economic education, and later studied medical radiophysics.
Bekir is 8 years younger than his wife, but this did not prevent them from finding a common language. It was Suleimanov who convinced the singer to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest. According to the performer, he argued his arguments by drawing on the sheet a diagram of the pros and cons of Jamala's future performance.
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Jamal with her husband and son
Jamala's wedding took place in Kyiv according to Tatar traditions - the newlyweds underwent a nikah ceremony at the Islamic Cultural Center, which was conducted by a mullah. On March 27, 2018, Jamala became a mother for the first time. A son was born in the family, who was named Emir-Rahman Seit-Bekir.
Today, the singer does not hide her family happiness. Photos of Jamala with her husband and son regularly adorn her " Instagram and appear in the media.
Jamal now
In May 2019, the artist presented the track "Solo", which was written especially for her by an international team of authors led by British composer Brian Todd. The song became an international hit, peaking at the top of two UK charts.