i remember my great-grandmother nazilkhan, for me she was like an image of my consciousness, she was such a bright person. and it's like she asked me to release her soul, release this story and release thousands of souls. this is a story about 1944 about deportation. there is no information about the crimean tatars, thousands of people were killed. when i wrote this song, i thought: "oh my god, no, it's too much, it's too sad, i'm not ready for it." to sing, she waited a whole year for the national selection for eurovision. i decided that if you have a story, if you have something to say to your audience, to your listeners, you should do it. i have three minutes to live it. to see more meaning in the eurovision winners, they sought to connect through political and... mala holds this note at the climax of the song, it seems to release all these emotions, dispossession, suffering and trauma, somehow it does the impossible. made jamala an international star, not so much because her song became a hit, but because the song was politically provocative, which is what drew her to european au