During the lock down in Europe over the Eurovision period in May, many Eurovision singers did home videos of other Eurovision artists songs. In the wake of ESC COVERS COVER2COVER singing competition, we will feature some of these so South African artists in particular can get an idea how it is done. Nor Bert of EuroVisionMusic picked the ones as he followed the whole series.
The tenth video is JAMALA from UKRAINE (who represented her country at the 2016 Eurovision song contest with 1944 and won it, covering the Eurovision winner from the NETHERLANDS 2019 – ARCADE of DUNCAN LAURENCE.
Anna Trincher duetted with her mentor Jamala (winner of the 2016 Eurovision with 1944) in the final of Golos Krainy (The Voice of Ukraine- season 8). Together they performed Crazy In Love by Beyoncé.
Anna gave a confident and assured performance on the stage as she sang with all her heart and soul. She also performed on her own the Christina Aguilera hit Candyman.
Anna eventually finished in third place but she has come a long way since representing Ukraine at the 2015 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. I am sure she has big future ahead of her in the entertainment business where she has already released several top music videos and hits and acted in a top teen drama.
The winner of The Voice of Ukraine 2018 was Olena Lutsenko.
You can see Anna’s performances in The Voice of Ukraine final below.
Anna Trincher recently made an impressive performance in the Blind Auditions on The Voice of Ukraine – season 8 where she performed Zlyva by Jamala.
Anna has just released a cover of another Jamala hit. This time she has released a video clip for the song Sumuyu (Missed). Her powerful and confident vocals do massive justice to this soulful track..
Sumuyu can be downloaded at Soundcloud and you can the video clip below.
Jamala premiered her brand new single during the interval of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest final. The song is called I Believe In U and it is a soulful, anthemic and upbeat song. Now Jamala has released the official video clip for the song.
The video is directed by Ihor Stekolenko. The video was filmed in Portugal in Sintra, Ericeira, Lisbon, and the Alentejo area.
Jamala won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine with 1944.
Artist and Song Announcement by Kyiv Eurettefriend (Designed by Carolina Añazgo Leo):
“I’m Kyiv Eurettefriend, and finally the country that i represent and gave Ruslana and Jamala the glory of winning Eurovision and the right to host it is choosing its Eurostar. I’m thankful for that, and i was busy doing lots of things to keep all the other Eurofriends happy! And how i’m doing this? With a cup of my famous homemade tea, of course! And for me, everyday is a tea party, literally!
By the song Contest! I’m so esc-cited to see how my country is having a national final. And finally, i can find out who’s defending the host country this year! Please, enjoy the show.” – By Kyiv Eurettefriend
Jamala was the proud winner of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with her emotive song 1944. Next up for Jamala is a headlining concert at the prestigious Alfa Jazz Fest to be held in Lviv, Ukraine on 28 June. The one off special concert is billed as The Soul Of Jamala.
The concert will be in two parts. First Jamala will perform with a jazz quartet performing many standard jazz songs as well as Crimean Tatar folk songs. The second part of the show will showcase songs from Jamala’s latest album released in 2015, Breathe.
You can see Jamala perform 1944 at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest below.
We will open the competition for the JAMALA t-shirt and JAMALA bag also to people other than GROOT FM radio listenaars. There is one t-shirt and one bag up for grabs.
Interested Euro fan outside of the Groot FM catchment area must do the following.
Send you name and e-mail address to info@esccovers.com
Answer two simple questions
1 – Is Riaan Grobler a Groot FM presenter – yes or no
2 – Is Jamala Ukraine’s second Eurovision winner – yes or no
Unfortunately the t-shirt is a LARGE so you do not have a choice of size.
You will be put into the draw for both prizes, but there will be two winners, one gets the t-shirt and one the bag. The first name drawn has a choice – t-shirt or bag, the second name drawn will have to settle with whatever is left.
Unfortunately if the winners are outside of South Africa, you will have to pay the postal cost – 6 euro for the t-shirt and 5 euro for the bag. We have a sponsor (courier company) should the winners be South African (unfortunately they do not deliver overseas so then we have to post it).
Jamala has returned to Ukraine after her victory at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with her song 1944.
You can see her emotional return at the airport, where many press and fans are waiting to greet her, in the video below which has English subtitles. The video editor was Aleksandr Popenko.
