Jamala

Susana Alim qızı Camaladinova (born 27 August 1983 in Osh) is a Ukrainian singer of Crimean Tatar origin, People's Artist of Ukraine (2016), winner of music competitions. wave-2009 " and" Eurovision-2016". Performs songs in the styles of jazz, soul, funk, folk, pop and electro, participates in opera productions and shows.

She has released six studio, two national, one concert and three mini-albums, one maxingle with songs in Ukrainian, English, Russian and Crimean Tatar. She starred in the film "Guide" by Ukrainian director Oles Sanin. She won the 8th New Wave contest in Jurmala and the 61st Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm. She has received nine Yuna statuettes, two Elle Style Awards, the Man of the Year, the Best Fashion Awards, the Red Apple Awards, the Eurostory Awards, the Marcel Bezençon Award and the Cosmopolitan. Awards".

Susana was born in Osh, Kyrgyz SSR, in the family of Crimean Tatar Alim Jamaladinov and Armenian Galina Tumasova. The family soon moved to Melitopol, and in the late 1980s to the village of Malorichenske, near Alushta. She grew up in a family of musicians - her mother worked as a teacher at a music school, and her father - a conductor by education .

From an early age, Susan participated in various children's competitions, such as "Star Rain" (1992), "Living Springs" (1993). From 1992 to 1998 she studied piano at the Alushta Music School in Alushta, after which she entered the Simferopol Music School, graduating in 2001, and then the National Academy of Music of Ukraine in Kyiv, where she received her academic education. At the final exam, she performed the part of Violetta from the opera "La Traviata" by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi and received the highest grade, and then received a diploma with honors. Interestingly, even before entering the Kyiv University, jazz coryphaeus Igor Bryl invited Susanna to enter the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, but her father forbade her to enter this educational institution.

During her studies, Susan participated in various Ukrainian and foreign festivals, such as "Voices of the Future" (2000, Russia), "Crimean Spring" (2001), "Do # J Junior" (2001), "Il Concorso Europeo Amici". della musica ”(2004, Italy). She sang in the women's a cappella quintet "Beauty Band" (2001-2007), as part of which in 2006 she participated in "DO #J junior", where she was noticed by choreographer Olena Kolyadenko and invited to a solo role in her own musical "Pa" (2008). Thus, Olena Kolyadenko became Jamali's first producer.

After graduating, Susan had to choose between classical and jazz. She sent her own recordings to the Zurich Opera House. At that time, she already had an offer to do an internship at the famous La Scala Opera House in Milan, and had already decided to choose the opera, as unexpectedly received an offer to participate in the 8th International Competition "New Wave". Susana agreed and took part in a competition under the pseudonym Jamala, which is the first part of her last name. During the three days of the competition, she performed the song "History repeating" from the repertoire of the British duo "Propellerheads", the Ukrainian folk song "Oh my poem, my poem" and the solo song "Mother's son". In the end, she and Indonesian contestant Sandy Sondoro scored 358 points each, thus dividing the victory into two.

After the New Wave contest, Jamala continued her collaboration with Olena Kolyadenko, but later stopped her due to creative differences. In 2010, its new producer was Igor Tarnopolsky, cooperation with him lasted until May 2021.

Shortly after winning the competition, she received the Man of the Year award in the "Idol of Ukrainians" category, and Cosmopolitan magazine called it the "opening of the year." In 2009-2010 she took part in "Christmas Meetings" with Alla Pugacheva, played in Maurice Ravel's opera "Spanish Hour" and in Vasily Barkhatov's opera production based on "Bondian", and this performance was noted by the famous British actor Jude Law.

On February 28, 2010, a documentary film starring the singer "Anatomy of the Voice" was shown on the Inter TV channel. Jamala", in which scientists tried to study the processes in the human body of a singer. In the spring, Jamala won the ELLE Style Award in the Singer of the Year category, and in the summer she visited Los Angeles, where she turned down an offer to move to the United States with Walter Afanasieff for fear of fearing that the famous American producer.

In the fall of 2010, with the song "Smile", Jamala took part in the national selection for the 56th Eurovision Song Contest. She won the first semifinal, and in the final according to the results of the voting she took the third place, losing to Zlata Ognevich and Mickey Newton, who won. The result of the selection shocked the society due to the suspicion of falsification of the voting results. The main reason was that under Mickey Newton 29 thousand 64 messages were sent from 1996 telephone numbers, while under Jamal - 10 thousand 800 messages from 6365 telephone numbers. The results of the online voting were also under suspicion. On February 28, NTU decided to re-vote for the three finalists of the national selection, but Jamala and Zlata Ognevich rejected the proposal because they did not believe in the transparency of the voting system.

On April 12, 2011, Jamala's first solo concert took place at the October Palace, where she presented her first album "For every heart", released under the label "Moon". Work on the album lasted almost a year - the recording of the first songs began in the spring of 2010. It includes twelve main and three bonus songs, which she performed at the New Wave contest. The arranger and music producer of the album was the Ukrainian musician Yevhen Filatov, and the author of the words was the Ukrainian poetess Tetyana Skubashevska. The album also included the Crimean Tatar folk song "Pencereden", which Jamala dedicated to the memory of her grandmother Edie, and two songs created while still studying at the conservatory - "Find me" and "Without you".

In 2011, UEFA management invited Jamali to write a special song for Euro 2012. On December 2, at the draw ceremony of the final part of the championship, the singer presented the song "Goal", the lyrics of which were written by Tatiana Skubashevskaya, and the music producer - Eugene Filatov.

In 2012, Jamala took part in the vocal show "Stars in the Opera", which is an adaptation of the British format "Popstar to Operastar". The show was filmed and shown on 1 + 1 TV channel. She performed in a pair with opera singer-student Vlad Pavlyuk. During seven broadcasts, they sang from world hits and Soviet classics to operettas and operas. In the last, eighth broadcast, the winners of the show were announced, which were Jamala and Vlad Pavlyuk, as well as Alexander Ponomarev and Irina Kulik. That same year, Jamala received the Best Fashion Awards in the Special Inspiration category.

On March 19, 2013, at the same time on more than 60 digital platforms, the singer's second album "All or nothing" was released. Yevhen Filatov and Milos Yelich were involved in the work on the album. In it, Jamala recorded a soul in Russian for the first time, authored by Russian writer of Ukrainian origin Victoria Platova. Jamala co-wrote the lyrics of most of the English-language songs with Olena Chubuklieva, a former soloist with Sirena. The album also includes the Crimean Tatar folk song "Unutmasan". Jamala personally presented the album on April 26 at a solo concert at the October Palace. That same spring, the album was released on gramophone record, and received the ELLE Style Award in the Singer of the Year category.

In the second half of 2013, Jamala took part in the MTV EXIT campaign against human trafficking. As a narrator, she starred in the documentary Life for Sale, in which she told the stories of three migrant workers from Ukraine.

In the spring of 2014, Jamala received the Red Apple Awards in the Art category for her contribution to the development of culture and peace. In the autumn, the film "Guide" by Ukrainian director Oles Sanin was released, in which Jamala played the role of actress and singer of the Drama Theater in Kharkiv Olga Levitskaya and performed the song "You're my thrill". Even before the film was released in cinemas, the singer presented the song "Why?", Which was dedicated to the memory of Ukrainian kobzars and lyricists destroyed in the USSR in the early 1930s. In the same year, Jamala starred in the television musical "Alice in Wonderland" directed by Maxim Papernik, playing the role of Goose. The musical was shown on New Year's Eve on the Ukraine TV channel.

On October 1, 2014, the third, this time mini-album of the singer "Thank you" was presented, the music producers of which were Yevhen Filatov and the guitarist of the singer Serhiy Yeremenko ("Perfect Man"). The album includes the Ukrainian-language song "Zaplutalsya", which the singer presented on September 25. The album is mostly electronic and contains six songs written by the singer herself, Maria Q, Art Antonyan ("My Lover") and Victoria Platova ("Confused", "Song of Friendship").

That same fall, Andriy Khlyvnyuk invited Jamal to cooperate. The three of them, together with Dmytro Shurov, recorded the song "Rain", which was presented on the eve of the anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine at a thematic forum at the Art Arsenal, dedicated to the fateful events of last year. The song became a musical composition for the film "Winter that changed us" and the project "TSN" - "94 days. Euromaidan through the eyes of TSN". The duo of Jamala, Andriy Khlyvnyuk and Dmytro Shurov and their song "Rain" also won the nominations "Best Duet" and "Best Song" at the YUNA Music Award in 2016.

During 2012-2014, Jamala took part in the Jazz Manor jazz festival three times - in St. Petersburg and Moscow. She was the headliner of the Alfa Jazz Fest International Jazz Festival in Lviv and the O-Fest International Opera, Operetta and Musical Festival in Kyiv.

On October 12, 2015, the singer's fourth album "Breath" was presented on Radio Aristocrats. Eugene Filatov became the music producer of the album. The lyrics and music were co-written with Victoria Platova, Art Antonyan, Roman Cherenov, known as Morphom, and The Erised. "Breath" also contains songs based on poems by Ukrainian writer Lina Kostenko and Russian poetess Marina Tsvetaeva. The album won the Best Album nomination for the 2016 YUNA Music Award, and the song "Other" became the soundtrack to the TV series of the same name by Russian director Alexander Yakimchuk.

On January 26, 2016, Jamala announced that she would take part in the national selection for the 61st Eurovision Song Contest, and according to the results of the draw, on February 6, she performed in the first semifinal of the national selection, performing the author's song "1944" past, including the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people. According to the results of the audience vote and the jury, Jamala reached the final of the national selection, in which she won.

In April, along with other musicians, she participated in the recording of Usein Bekirov's album "Taterrium", in which she performed her own instrumental part in the songs "The song in the folk style" and "Boyna".

During her songwriting competition in Stockholm, the singer won the Eurostory Awards 2016 for Best Line in a Song Competition, as well as the Marcel Bezençon Award in the Art Prize category. After the singer's second rehearsal on the Eurovision stage, Russian music critic of Armenian origin Artur Gasparyan named Jamala's song, number and vocals the best in this year's competition.

On the night of May 15, in the Eurovision final, Jamala won with 534 points, and on May 16, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko awarded her the honorary title of "People's Artist of Ukraine". During her songwriting, Jamala signed with Universal Music Group to release her album "1944" in Europe on June 10 and in the United States on July 10.

The premiere of the TV movie "Look at yourself!" Took place on July 20 on UA: Pershiy and Public Television channels. journalist Bohdan Kutepov about the singer's victory at the Eurovision Song Contest.

In the fall, Jamala took part in the filming of the seventh season of the vocal show "Voice of the Country", and also presented the song "Seduced", which she recorded with the Ukrainian ethnic group "DahaBrakha". On December 8, the film "My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan" directed by Olena Demyanenko was released, the musical composition of which was the song "Promise" from the album "Breath".

In early 2017, Jamala won the nominations "Best Solo Artist", "Best Song" and "Best Duet" of the music award "YUNA-2017", in the nomination "Culture" of the All-Ukrainian award "Woman of Ukraine-2016", as well as in the nomination "Pride of the Country" award "Viva! The most beautiful-2017 ". In the spring, as part of the Flower Expo Ukraine exhibition in Kyiv, she received a certificate from the Dutch company StoKolex to name a new tulip variety after her.

At the beginning of April, the documentary "Jamala.UA" directed by Anna Akulevich was released, and at the end of this month the singer married public activist Seit-Bekir Suleimanov.

In May, Jamala took part in the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest. In the first semifinal she presented a symphonic version of the song "1944", which became the soundtrack to the film "Another's Prayer" by Ukrainian director and actor of Crimean Tatar origin Akhtem Seitablaev, and sang "Seduced", and in the final - the song "I believe in U" , which she dedicated to Ukraine.

Filming of Oleksiy Panteleyev's "Sky" began in June, with the singer playing one of the roles, and in July the documentary "Jamalas kamp" by Swedish television journalist Elin Jensson was presented in Kyiv., which has already been shown in Sweden on SVT1.

On March 7, 2018, the Ukrainian animated film "Stolen Princess: Ruslan and Lyudmila" directed by Oleg Malamuzh was released, for which Jamala recorded the musical composition "You are my love". Jamala also dubbed and recorded a song for the American animated film Ralph the Destroyer 2: The Internet, in which the voice of the Injector distiller will speak. In the same spring, Jamala received the All-Ukrainian Woman of Ukraine Award 2017 in the Show Business category and the ELLE Digital Awards in the Person with the Most Information Drives category.

On October 12, the fifth album "Wings" was presented, which was joined by Ukrainian jazz pianist Yuhym Chupakhin and guitarist of the band "Ocean Elzy" Vladimir Opsenitsa. The album consists of 10 songs, 7 of which are written in Ukrainian and 3 more in English. In support of the album, Jamala toured eight cities in Ukraine from November to December.

In the same month, the documentary "Crimea: Russia's Dark Secret" about Russia's occupation of Crimea and human rights violations on the peninsula was released, and Jamal gave an interview to director Jamie Doran.

On January 13, 2019, the premiere of the hip-hop carol "Good Evening" with the participation of Jamala took place on Christmas Eve. [74] The author of the idea was rapper Yarmak, who invited Jamal and five other performers to create a carol, Alina Pash, LAUD, Mr. Makoundi and members of Den Da Funk and Fame. On February 1, she released the English-language single "Solo" by Addis Eminich, Vanessa Campagna and sound producer Brian Todd. In April, the single entered the top 10 of the two British charts Upfront Club and Commercial Pop.

In the spring of 2019, Jamala took part in the filming of the fifth season of the show "Voice. Children ", where she became a coach.

• 2011: For every heart
• 2013: All or nothing
• 2015: Breath
• 2016: 1944
• 2018: Wings
• 2021: We

• 2012: For every heart: Live at Arena concert plaza

• 2019: 10
• 2020: My own

• 2014: Thank you
• 2016: 1944
• 2021: 5:45

• 2019: Solo

• winner of the international competition of young performers "New Wave".
• "Opening of the Year" according to Cosmopolitan magazine.
• Award "Man of the Year 2009" in the nomination "Idol of Ukrainians".

• Award "Showmania-2009" in the nomination "Opening of the Year".
• ELLE Style Award-2009 in the Singer of the Year category.

• Best Fashion Awards in the special category "Inspiration".

• ELLE Style Award 2012 in the Singer of the Year category.

• Red Apple Awards in the Art category for contribution to the development of culture and peace.

• YUNA-2016 Music Award in the nominations "Best Solo Artist", "Best Album" ("Breath"), "Best Song" ("Rain"), "Best Duet" ("Rain") Andriy Khlyvnyuk, Jamala and Dmytro Shurov).
• Eurostory Awards 2016 for the best line in the song contest at the Eurovision Song Contest - "You think you are gods, but everyone dies".
• Marcel Bezençon Award in Best Artistic Performance.
• winner of the 61st Eurovision Song Contest.
• honorary title "People's Artist of Ukraine".
• title "Honorary Citizen of Kyiv".
• the Cosmopolitan Awards in the Special Inspiration of the Year category.

• YUNA-2017 Music Award in the nominations "Best Solo Artist", "Best Song" ("1944"), "Best Duet" ("Seduced" by Jamal and "DahaBrah").
• All-Ukrainian award "Woman of Ukraine-2016" in the nomination "Culture".
• award "Viva! The most beautiful-2017 "in the nomination" Pride of the country".

• All-Ukrainian award "Woman of Ukraine-2017" in the nomination "Show Business".
• ELLE Magazine's Digital Awards in the category of "Person with the Most Information".

• YUNA-2019 Music Award in the Best Performer category.

• Jamala received a personal star on the Walk of Fame in Kyiv.

Alim Jamaladinov is the singer's father, a Crimean Tatar. When Crimean Tatars were deported to Central Asia, his family moved to Kyrgyzstan. There he was born, raised and met Jamala's future mother - Galina Tumasova. This took place at a music school, where she was a pianist, and he was the choral conductor of his own ensemble, which performed Crimean Tatar folk music, as well as music of the peoples of Central Asia.

Halyna Tumasova (Tumasyan) - mother of the singer, Armenian. At one time, Galina's grandparents were forced to leave Karabakh, where they came from, for Central Asia, because their family was dispossessed. At that time, Galina's father Mikhail was only five years old. Galina herself was born in Kyrgyzstan and became the seventh child in the family. At that time, her grandmother was forty-five years old and her grandfather was sixty-five.

Alim Jamaladinov has always wanted to return to the homeland of his ancestors in the village of Kyuchuk-Ozen in the Crimea. But in the 1980s, deported Crimean Tatars were barred from returning to Crimea and buying real estate. Then the singer's parents decided to divorce. Jamala lived with her father and older sister Evelina in Melitopol, Zaporizhia, and her mother rented a room in the village of Malorichenske and taught at a music school. Within four years, she managed to buy a house, which her family moved to, and later the entire Jamaladin family.

Seit-Bekir Suleimanov is the singer's husband, a Crimean Tatar. He was born on October 29, 1991 in Simferopol, Ukraine. He graduated from the Taras Shevchenko National University and graduated from the Kyiv School of Economics. He works as an economist and also participates in socio-political projects to solve the problems of Crimean Tatar youth. On March 27, 2018, the couple gave birth to a boy, Emir-Rahman, and on June 19, 2020, a second boy, Selim-Giray.

• Activist Vitaliy Sedyuk ran onto the stage during Jamali's encore performance at Eurovision 2017 and bared his buttocks.
• The repertoire of the Kyiv pro-band Mat noir includes the single "I love you, Ja", dedicated to Jamali.
• Jamala speaks Ukrainian, Russian, Crimean Tatar and English. He professes Islam.