How Ukraine's 2016 Eurovision winner Jamala saved traditional Crimean folk songs from the war.
"I'm really so excited," she says, speaking in the city. But she's also "so scared because can you imagine singing for an audience in the Crimean Tatar language for a whole concert?
The song was inspired by her great-grandmother, one of about 200,000 Crimean Tatars who were deported in cattle trains without food or water in 1944. "Russia really wanted everyone to accept this song as political," Jamala says. "Actually, they spent a lot of money for this. They did a special TV show and so on just to say, 'Oh my God, there's something political in this song.' But anyway, the people understand the truth."Jamala sang at a vigil in London on the anniversary of the Russian invasion in February
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