The 2016 visa winner Jamala performed in the German visa qualifiers over the weekend.
Jamala performed over the weekend in Germany. AOP
Jamala won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016 with a song he composed himself in 1944. Jamala, real name Susana Jamaladinovaa song composed by Stalin of the Tatar persecution in Crimea, forcing some 250,000 Tatars to flee their homes.
Jamala himself has now had to flee his home in Kiev after the Russians invaded Ukraine.
Jamala survived the getaway and was seen over the weekend in the German visa qualifier Germany 12 Points – der Deutsche ESC-Vorentscheid.
Jamala sang the Ukrainian flag of 1944 in his hand.
The next day he appeared in the Romanian visa qualifiers.
Revenues from SMS voting in both countries were directed to the Ukrainian army.
– You know for sure that the 1944 song has, sadly, a new meaning for me. But we win. Again, Jamala wrote today, Monday Instagram.
In his latest Instagram update, written in Ukrainian, Jamala hopes people will stay calm. At the same time, he recalled how the Russian propaganda machinery is trying to increase disagreements.
– Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes, Jamala’s writing ends.