JAMALA - THE SUN OF TAVRIDA
Ukrainian singer of Crimean Tatar origin Jamalu considered an uncomfortable performer. And all because she does not shock the audience with cheap scandals, does not sing "sticky" songs and does not promote her name in duets with popular colleagues. Her songs are full of meaning and taken from the depths of the soul, and the non-standard five-octave vocals fascinate the audience. And only this Ukrainian winner wants to do all her life.
Musical family
From early childhood, the life of the future singer was not distinguished by carelessness. Was 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 the ancestors of the mother (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 her ensemble, which performed Crimean Tatar music, as well as the melodies of the peoples of Central Asia. The Dzhamaladinovs' family celebrated their daughter's first birthday in the Ukrainian Melitopol. Jamala's father dreamed of returning to his historical homeland in Crimea, but in the 1980s there was an unspoken ban on the Crimean Tatars moving to the peninsula and, moreover, selling them housing. 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) near Alushta, where she rented a room and started teaching music. After 4 years, she managed to buy a house 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 entered the image that she invented for herself, copied famous performers, reproduced their vocal parts by ear. Pope Alim regularly brought home folk music - Crimean Tatar, Iranian, Azerbaijani ... Therefore, he still considers his first teachers and authorities in 
the world of music is the parents. Even before going to bed, my mother put a plate for her daughter so that she could calmly fall asleep. As soon as the music ended on one side, the girl woke up and began to cry.
Susana was fortunate enough to meet the arranger Gennady Astsaturyan, who instilled in her a love of jazz. At first, he forced the girl to listen to the recordings of the great. Of course, such unchildish vocals were at first a burden for young Jamala. But Gennady did not deviate from the plan. Once he gave her a cassette with Ella's songs and told her to memorize it for the next meeting. Then Susana did not know English, but this did not stop her teacher. The aspiring singer had to learn all the songs by ear, getting down to business with the utmost responsibility. When she came to Astsaturyan to perform jazz compositions, he did not even listen, giving her a new cassette. He knew perfectly well that the persistent Susana would learn her too. Thanks to such training, she entered the Simferopol Music College without any problems. In the classroom, the girl studied the classics, and then hurried to the basement, where she played in her jazz group "Tutti".
In search of a teacher
The next stage in Jamala's life was the Kiev National Music Academy, where she entered the opera vocal class. But there the girl had to face serious problems, 
because of which she wanted to quit school several times. The fact is that due to the authoritarian pedagogical approach of one of the teachers, Susana often suffered from uncoupling of the ligaments due to nervousness, and she lost her voice. The teacher allowed herself to insult the student, told her that her voice was only good for shouting on the beach: "Barbecue!" As a result, the girl moved to another teacher - Natalya Gorbatenko. After that, she became the best student on the course and graduated from the academy with honors.
Jamala's new wave
She was immediately offered an offer, which not every graduate receives. Susana was invited to work at the opera house in Switzerland. But her boyfriend, the 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. she dreamed of going for an internship at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and dedicating her life to the art of opera. However, fate decreed otherwise.
Jamala has been participating in song competitions since she was 15. At the international show "Voices of the Future" in Nizhny Novgorod, she won the Grand Prix. But the turning point in the singer's creative life was 2009 and the 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, sang the Ukrainian folk song "Verche, my verse" and her own composition "Mamenkin's son".
First try
After such success, Jamala began to actively tour, participate in TV shows and received the "Person of the Year" award in the "Idol of Ukrainians" nomination. She was invited to perform 
the main role in the opera "Spanish Hour". Then there was a participation in a performance-opera on the theme of Bondiana. Then 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 an international competition, for which she wrote her 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 results of the vote provoked a scandal and suspicions of falsification. The national TV company decided to re-vote, but Zlata Ognevich 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 own compositions, one of which she performed in her native language. 
The singer's second studio album, "All Or Nothing", was not long in coming. With such outstanding vocals, he does not write instantly recognizable songs. She does not try to reach the audience as much as possible and win commercial laurels. Jamala does not strive for quick popularity, 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.
Until she feels like a successful singer and believes that real fame comes over the years, like real wisdom, and the love of viewers and listeners, the public's favor is tested by time. calls successful those artists, to whose music and thoughts they continue to return 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 "Guide", action 
which is set in 1933. After the premiere, the director named the leading actress a wonderful actress with a great future. Interestingly, after the screen test, no one supported the choice of Oles Sanin, but he immediately considered acting talent in an oriental modest girl. By the way, during filming, the debutante was most worried about how she would play the scene with the kiss, which her father would see later. Under the impression of working in the film "Guide", she wrote the song "Why do you want my eyes?" At the same time, the performer began to actively participate in public events, to support 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 took up the preparation with renewed vigor and inspiration. Jamala wanted to tell the whole world about the tragedy of her people with the help of your creativity and vocal skills. 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 the Crimean houses, they were given 15 minutes to get ready and they were told that they were being evicted. There were more than 180 thousand of them.
Serious passions were played out around this composition. There was a possibility that the song would be seen in a political context and removed 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 jury of the competition and viewers. The sum of these points brought Jamala a well-deserved victory for. She became the second Ukrainian singer (after) to receive this creative award and international recognition. From childhood, Jamala went forward, not stopping before difficulties, not afraid of experiments, and, finally, 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 funny songs, her soul is overwhelmed with other emotions, but she believes and waits ...
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She loves reading books about the life 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 contact with the Crimean Tatar community and tries to surpass her capabilities in any business, because she is a born perfectionist.
One of my favorite singers Jamaly Is an American performer of Ukrainian origin. The Grammy Award nominee managed to make an amazing statement on the world stage about Ukrainian music and culture far from her homeland. It is for this that Jamala adores her. In this she sees real patriotism - without PR and slogans.
Updated: April 7, 2019 by the author: Elena
Jamala, a 32-year-old Ukrainian singer of Armenian-Tatar origin, won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. How does Jamala's biography and personal life develop?
Jamala's real name is Susanna Alimovna Jamaladinova. The nickname "Jamala" was formed from the first part of her surname.
Susana Dzhamaladinova is a Ukrainian opera and jazz singer (lyric and dramatic soprano) who performs her own music at the intersection of jazz, soul, world music and rhythm and blues, electronic music and gospel.
Jamala first became famous for her performance at the International Competition for Young Performers "New Wave 2009" in Jurmala, where she received the Grand Prix.
In May 2016, Jamala became the winner from Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm with the song "1944" dedicated to the theme of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars.
Susanna Dzhamaladinova was born on August 27, 1983 in the city of Osh (KirSSR, USSR). Father - Alim Ayyarovich Dzhamaladinov, Crimean Tatar, mother - Galina Mikhailovna Tumasova, Armenian, whose family comes from Nagorno-Karabakh.
Her childhood was spent in Crimea, in the village of Malorechenskoye near Alushta, where she and her family returned in 1989 from the places of deportation of the Crimean Tatar people.
The parents met in Kyrgyzstan within the walls of a music school. Her mother is a pianist, and her father is a choral conductor who had his own ensemble performing Crimean Tatar folk music and music of the peoples of Central Asia.
Her sister married a Turk and lives in Istanbul. Jamala herself is a Muslim.
From early childhood, Jamala began to study music. She made her first professional recording at the age of 9, having performed 12 children's and folk Crimean Tatar songs in the studio.
After graduating from the music school number 1 in the piano class in the city of Alushta, she entered the Simferopol Music College. P. I. Tchaikovsky.
Then Jamala graduated with honorskiev National Music Academy. PI Tchaikovsky in opera vocal class.
Jamala planned to devote herself to classical music and leave to work as a soloist of the famous Milan opera La Scala, but her serious hobby for jazz and experiments with soul and oriental music changed her plans.
On the big stage, Jamala first performed at the age of fifteen. Over the next few years, she took part in dozens of vocal competitions in Ukraine, Russia and Europe and received a number of prestigious awards.
After performing at the jazz festival of young performers Do # Dj junior 2006, where she received a special prize, the famous choreographer Elena Kolyadenko invited her to perform the main role in the multi-genre musical "Pa".
An important event in her career was her performance at the International Competition for Young Performers "New Wave" in Jurmala in the summer of 2009.
Contrary to the statements of the main director of the competition about the "non-format" of the participant, she not only made it to the final, but also received the Grand Prix, sharing the first place with the Indonesian performer.
Despite a busy touring schedule, Jamala continues to practice classical music.
In the summer of 2009, she performed the title role in the opera Spanish Hour by Maurice Ravel, and in February 2010 she took part in an opera production by Vasily Barkhatov based on Bondiana, where her performance was noted by the famous British actor Jude Law.
Jamala lives in Kiev. Parents live in the village of Malorechenskoye near Alushta. They have a private boarding house. The singer's grandfather lives in Crimea.
Little is known about Jamala's personal life. But it is reported that Jamala is not married.
According to the singer, she is not falling in love and has not yet experienced a great feeling in life. Only once was there a young man, without whom Jamala, as she put it, was very bad.
The singer said that her mother was more than once interested in when she would fall in love. The girl does not have any special criteria for a future candidate for her heart, the main thing is that the young man is sincere.
London, May 20... Published in London in Bulgarian Bulgarian times reported that the winner of Eurovision with the song "1944" Jamala 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 proof, the publishing house publishes a photograph where a secondary sign is clearly visible, left over from her male past - an Adam's apple, an Adam's apple.
Regarding her victory, the publication writes that, in principle, this is nothing new, because in 2014 Eurovision was won by an Austrian Thomas Neuwirthbetter 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 ten Crimean Tatar battalions formed by the Germans. It is especially emphasized that they were formed exclusively by volunteers. In April-May 1944, they fought with units of the Soviet Army that were liberating Crimea from the Nazis. The defeated remnants of these battalions flee from the Crimea, but do not stop fighting - from their remnants, the Tatar SS Mountain Jaeger Regiment was formed under the command of SS Standartenfuehrer Fortenbach. Its number was 2500 Crimean Tatars.
The publication also notes that the deportation of 1944, about 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 the Ottoman Empire. There they became famous for their predatory lifestyle 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 with 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 gender, but everything else. So, for example, initially she called herself a Tatar - it was easier to live in the USSR. Later she was renamed the Crimean Tatar. If necessary, she also called herself Armenian - by her mother's nationality.
Her relations with Russia are also interesting: she took part three times in the "Usadba Jazz" festivals 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 "Guide", which talks about the 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, kobzar bandura players are shot in Ukraine. The unfortunate kobzars are gathered in Kharkov for the republican congress of folk 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. 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 beloved, 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 to shoot the film. Moreover, a monument to non-existent victims of a fictional execution was unveiled in the Kharkiv region.
The film was shot even before Euromaidan and the return of Crimea. Recall that the film "Unbroken", glorifying the commander of the Bandera army Roman Shukhevych, was filmed back in 2008. And in Crimea in October 2011, in the village of Krasnokamenka, a ceremonial burial of a deserter from the Red Army, SS Obersturmführer was made Dengiza Dagji... 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 thumb of the Russian invaders. However, she went to meet 2015 exactly to the invaders - to a corporate party at the Red Fox residence on 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.
Jamala's political views also changed interestingly. In October 2009, she speaks at the congress of the "Party of Regions", where she was nominated as a presidential candidate Victor Yanukovich... Later, in the television program Roman Skrypnik's Truth, when asked by the host, she would have sung 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 came to Euromaidan and announced that she supported all actions leading to the overthrow of President Yanukovych.
No luck with Jamala and the Eurovision leadership, who supported her claims that the winning song of 1944 was not political. However, after 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 in order to win the Eurovision Song Contest it is necessary to sing an anti-Russian song, to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature it is necessary to write Russophobic works, and to receive the Nobel Peace Prize it is only necessary to bomb five or six states.
Susana Jamaladinova was born in Kyrgyzstan, and over time, her family moved to Crimea. The childhood of the future singer was spent near the city of Alushta in the village of Malorechenskoye.
Assessment
Profession: singer
Date of Birth: August 27, 1983
Height and weight: 173 cm. 61 kg.
Place of Birth: Osh, Kyrgyzstan
Best works: Smile
Awards: Concorso Europeo Amici della musica, First place in the "New Wave" competition
Social network: Facebook , Instagram, Twitter
Susanna grew up in a family of professional musicians. Her mother is a wonderful singer and teacher of a music school, and her dad is a conductor by education, she began to teach her daughter from an early age everything they know about music. Now the parents run a small boarding house in Crimea.
Dzhamaladinova showed her outstanding vocal abilities at the age of three, and already at the age of nine she recorded an album of 12 children's songs. To the amazement of the sound engineer, she showed real professionalism, having spent only an hour recording in the studio.
Susana went to the music school of Alushta, where she studied piano. Later she became a student at the music school in Simferopol, where she already studied opera singing.
After moving to Kiev, full of opportunities, Jamaladinvoa continued her musical education, enrolling in the National Academy of Music. While studying there, she actively attended various festivals and competitions. Her first notable victory was the third prize at the "Crimean Spring".
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Over time, Jamala caught the eye of the famous Ukrainian choreographer Elena Kolyadenko, who eventually became the producer of the singer and made her the main soloist in her musical "Pa", which premiered in 2007. The singer became known to a wide audience of listeners thanks to the "New Wave" competition, where she not only won first place, but also showed herself as a bright and memorable singer.
In 2009, Jamala took part in the production of the opera "Spanish Hour", and a year later she played in an opera performance based on Bondiana. In 2011, the artist's debut album For Every Heart was released on iTunes, and in 2012 she won the Stars at the Opera show on the 1 + 1 channel.
In the spring of 2013, Jamala's second album All or Nothing was released. In the same year, she broke off her contract with producer Elena Kolyadenko, wanting to be not just a popular performer performing songs in Russian, but to experiment with different musical genres. She is interested in showing herself in soul, jazz, classical and blues.
Personal life
Unmarried. Have no children. He carefully hides the details of his personal life from prying eyes and the media.
Interesting Facts
Real name - Susana Jamaladinova
In 2012 she took part in the show of the channel "1 + 1" - "Stars in the Opera", together with Vlad Pavlyuk. As a result, the duo won
Learned to swim at nine months with the Swim Before Walking program
From 2001 to 2007 she was the soloist of the vocal quintet Beauty Band
Being a Crimean, she does not publicly recognize the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula, the Republic of Crimea to Russia
In 2010 she starred in the film "The True Story of the Scarlet Sails", and in 2013 the singer in the film "The Guide, or Flowers Have Eyes"
In 2010 she took part in an opera production by Vasily Barkhatov based on Bondiana, where her performance was noted by the famous British actor Jude Law
Her father is a Crimean Tatar and her mother is an Armenian
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Discography
2011 - For Every Heart (on iTunes)
Jamala (Susanna Dzhamaladinova) is a Ukrainian singer who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song 1944. Her music combines features of jazz, rhythm and blues and ethnicity, and her rich lyric-dramatic soprano makes each performed composition unique.Jamala's childhood and family
The girl was born in Kyrgyzstan, where her great-grandmother, a Crimean Tatar, fled after the deportation of the long-suffering people from the peninsula. Later, the family returned to their homeland, to the Crimea, where Susanna spent her childhood in the village of Malorechenskoye near Alushta. 
Her parents are musicians: dad, Alim Aiyarovich Dzhamaladinov, at one time graduated from the conducting school, and her mother, Galina Mikhailovna Tumasova, sang beautifully and taught at a music school. It was she who noticed that the voice of the three-year-old daughter somehow intoned in a special way - when Susanna sang children's songs, everyone froze in amazement.
Already at the age of 9, the talented girl recorded an album with cover versions of popular children's songs. To the sound engineer's amazement, it only took her one hour. The girl was able to perform them one after another 12 compositions, without making a single mistake. For such an achievement, my mother gave Susanna a Barbie doll.
The girl went to a music school in Alushta, where she mastered the piano. After graduation, she became a student at the Music College of the city of Simferopol (specialty "Opera Vocal").
After graduation, Susanna continued her musical education at the Kiev National Music Academy. Being the best student on the course, the girl dreamed of performing professionally opera arias and performing in the legendary opera La Scala. However, later she became more interested in experiments with ethnic oriental music and jazz motives.
The beginning of the career of the singer Jamala
Since the age of 15, the singer has repeatedly taken part in song festivals and competitions: Ukrainian, Russian, European, often winning prizes. After performing at the competition of young jazz performers, where she won a special prize "Dodge-2001", she was noticed by choreographer Elena Kolyadenko, who recognized the talent of the aspiring singer and invited her to her musical "Pa".Therefore, soon the audience saw the girl on stage together with the ballet Freedom, who took part in the production. According to many critics, the velvety depth of Susanna Dzhamaladinova's voice fascinated more than the complex movements of the dancers.
Jamala on the "New Wave"
However, the turning point in the singer's career was the victory in the youth competition "New Wave 2006". Susanna, who performed under the pseudonym Jamal (her stage name is formed from the first syllables of her surname), literally "tore up" the audience with her powerful voice and brilliant improvisation. She sang three songs: the folk song "Vershe miy, verse", a humorous composition of her own composition "Mamenka's son" and a track of the British group "Propellerheads" called "History Repeating". Ironically, the master of ceremonies was Sergei Lazarev, who lost to the Ukrainian woman at Eurovision 7 years later.Jamala - History Repeating (New Wave 2009)
The victory instantly made Jamala the new "star" of Ukraine. Soon after the triumph, she gave a series of concerts in Kiev 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. They had serious disagreements regarding the singer's creative plans. According to Jamala, Elena demanded to perform songs exclusively in Russian, as well as record duets with popular Russian artists. The singer did not want to limit herself to pop music - she was interested in expressing herself in soul and jazz, in classics and blues.
Inspired by her victory at the New Wave, Jamala decided to try her hand at another equally popular contest, Eurovision, but did not pass the qualifying round, losing to another Ukrainian woman, Mika Newton. The jury doubted the fairness of Mika's victory, but Jamala said that she would not re-participate in the selection.
Instead, the girl spent all her creative efforts on recording her debut album For Every Heart, which was released in spring 2011. It includes 12 new compositions and 3 songs performed by Jamala on the "New Wave" in 2009. In 2012, the singer became the winner of the Stars in the Opera show, paired with Ukrainian vocalist Vlad Pavlyuk.
Jamala and Vlad Pavlyuk in the "Stars at the Opera" show
