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Eurovision 2023: Jamala on rescuing Crimean folk songs from Russian invasion

2023-05-11 07:52
How Ukraine's 2016 Eurovision winner Jamala saved traditional Crimean folk songs from the war.
Eurovision 2023: Jamala on rescuing Crimean folk songs from Russian invasion

After winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016, Ukrainian singer Jamala set about saving the traditional music of her persecuted Crimean Tatar people. Then during the war in 2022, she feared the songs had been lost for good.

When Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last February...