Eurovision Song Contest: Ukraine
Eurovision Song Contest started 60 years ago as an ambitious project that was supposed to be broadcasted in more than 20 European countries. It goal was to share works of musicians and singers from a various cultural background and to have a broadcasting unit that would unite people living in different parts of Europe.
The idea seems to work well. Since the day of its first broadcasting, there was not a single year, when Eurovision Song Contest didn’t show up. It is the longest-running TV program in the world, which involves nearly 50 participating countries and is broadcasting on four continents. In 2015 in addition to all European countries, Australia also joined the contest.
Ukraine started its participation in Eurovision in 2003, and right the next year the country won the first prize. Ruslana with her energetic ‘Wild dances’ based on Ukrainian folk motives literally shook the whole contest and obviously won the prize.
Ukraine started its participation in Eurovision in 2003, and right the next year the country won the first prize. Ruslana with her energetic ‘Wild dances’ based on Ukrainian folk motives literally shook the whole contest and obviously won the prize.
In 2005 Kyiv hosted the 50th Eurovision Contest. After Ruslana’s great success many other participants brought energetic folk motives in their shows which made Kyiv’s contest special.
On the 60th Contest in Stockholm this year Ukraine was first again, with Jamala’s song ‘1944’. The song tells the story of downtrodden Crimean Tatar people, who were deported from their home places by Stalin’s regime.
Despite all the claims, prior to the day of the contest, that ‘1944’ is ‘too sad’, ‘too slow’ and ‘too political’ to win the contest, Jamala showed an absolute opposite of that, bringing Eurovision to Ukraine again.
Today six Ukrainian cities are competing for the right to host next year’s show. They are Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Kherson. The voting is open now, and on 20th of July, Ukrainian National TV and radio will broadcast a ‘City Battle’ program, City Battle where each of the six mentioned cities’ delegates will show their proposal to the audience. Surely with any of them winning, the 2017 contest will be an awesome event both for Ukraine and whole Europe.
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