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Year 2 of Lockdown, Day 75
Today disappeared as well. And I ought to post something ~relevant~ but I don't have the energy, plus this is one of my favourite songs, so.
Daily Dimash 7: Daididau
This is another of Gloria Wu's videos, where she has put together the background of the song. And this time, it's a Kazakh song. I... never knew anything about Kazkhstan. Which I realise I should remedy.
"Young people, don't forget the country which lost its land and suffered for two centuries"
- Magzhan Zhumabayev
I have added more info [about the song] below, since the video is obviously only doing highlights.
Also Dimash is (as you can probably work out without being told! *g*) wearing the national costume (which is just gorgeous), but what is probably less obvious is that the other musicians behind him are his fellow university students that he brought in for the occasion:
Dimash Daididau- the story behind the song with English subtitles
The basic performance from The Singer, without subtitles or any extras:
ETA. And a version WITH subtitles: Singer 2017 E07 - Daididau - Full Version【EN_GE_IT_KZ SUBS
There are several recordings of Dimash performing this song, but won't add all of them... (there are too many. You can find a list here.)
So I have chosen a handful, first of all the one from Bastau (also 2017, after The Singer), which opens with 100 Dombra players. It's very emotional, since this is Dimash's first solo concert and he is performing for a home audience:
From an interview with his mother (from about 26:30) she says that Daididau is her favourite of Dimash's songs. She goes on to explain how he came to perform it: He liked the song so much that he made an arrangement of it, working with a musician, an arranger, an orchestra and a conductor. His parents were surprised that he had chosen an 'old' song, thinking that he would prefer a more modern love song. However they understood once they'd heard the arrangement.
Below is his performance at Slavic Bazaar (which he went on to win) from 2015 and goodness he looks so YOUNG! He was 21, but I think the hair makes him look younger. This video also has English lyrics that can be sung:
And here is the official music video from 2012. He was 18 in 2012, however he was only 15 when he first made the arrangement, so it's easy to understand why his parents were surprised, it's not the usual kind of song for a teenager to love. I think that despite the '2012' date, the video must be from when he was 15-16, he looks very young.
Finally, a fancam from his New York Concert (10/12/2019 Arnau Concert), which includes him talking about the song to begin with. And how, when he first made the arrangement, had a dream to one day perform it at a big stadium in New York for all his international fans. And now the dream had come true. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
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More indepth info (from here):
This song is based on a poem by famed poet and patriot Magzhan Zhumabayev. Dimash plays dombra, the traditional Kazakh instrument, while singing Daididau.
Magzhan Zhumabayev (Мағжан Бекенұлы Жұмабаев; 25 June 1893 – 19 March 1938) was writing about freedom and modernization. In 1912 his Kazakh poetry collected with the "Şolpan" name was published and quickly became popular among Kazakh intellectuals. In 1917 he had been taking part in the creation of Kazakh "Alaş" party and Alaş Orda Kazakh national government at both All-Kazakh congresses as delegate of Akmolinsk Oblast. He was accused of being Pan-Turkist member of Alaş Orda and Japanese spy, and was arrested in Petropavl and got convicted for 10 years. In 1934 Maksim Gorky and Peshkova received the letter from him and due to their intercession Magzhan Zhumabayev was emancipated before the appointed time. During his time in prison, he was mistakenly informed that his wife left him. The song Daididau is a response to this information:
"Are you determined to leave me?
To whom shall I divulge my sorrow?"
However, just half a year after his release and being re-united with his wife, he was arrested in Almaty again and executed by shooting of NKVD on 19 March 1938.
ETA (from Murat Omar): Moreover, Zuleikha ('Daididau' was Magzhan's nickname for her) fought for releasing Magzhan when he was initially imprisoned. She went to Moscow to meet Russian colleagues/writers and they helped to release him, but (as stated above) after six month he was arrested again and executed in 1938. For many years she hid and saved all his manuscripts and they were published only in 80s...
Dimash Masterpost
Daily Dimash 7: Daididau
This is another of Gloria Wu's videos, where she has put together the background of the song. And this time, it's a Kazakh song. I... never knew anything about Kazkhstan. Which I realise I should remedy.
"Young people, don't forget the country which lost its land and suffered for two centuries"
- Magzhan Zhumabayev
I have added more info [about the song] below, since the video is obviously only doing highlights.
Also Dimash is (as you can probably work out without being told! *g*) wearing the national costume (which is just gorgeous), but what is probably less obvious is that the other musicians behind him are his fellow university students that he brought in for the occasion:
Dimash Daididau- the story behind the song with English subtitles
The basic performance from The Singer, without subtitles or any extras:
ETA. And a version WITH subtitles: Singer 2017 E07 - Daididau - Full Version【EN_GE_IT_KZ SUBS
There are several recordings of Dimash performing this song, but won't add all of them... (there are too many. You can find a list here.)
So I have chosen a handful, first of all the one from Bastau (also 2017, after The Singer), which opens with 100 Dombra players. It's very emotional, since this is Dimash's first solo concert and he is performing for a home audience:
From an interview with his mother (from about 26:30) she says that Daididau is her favourite of Dimash's songs. She goes on to explain how he came to perform it: He liked the song so much that he made an arrangement of it, working with a musician, an arranger, an orchestra and a conductor. His parents were surprised that he had chosen an 'old' song, thinking that he would prefer a more modern love song. However they understood once they'd heard the arrangement.
Below is his performance at Slavic Bazaar (which he went on to win) from 2015 and goodness he looks so YOUNG! He was 21, but I think the hair makes him look younger. This video also has English lyrics that can be sung:
And here is the official music video from 2012. He was 18 in 2012, however he was only 15 when he first made the arrangement, so it's easy to understand why his parents were surprised, it's not the usual kind of song for a teenager to love. I think that despite the '2012' date, the video must be from when he was 15-16, he looks very young.
Finally, a fancam from his New York Concert (10/12/2019 Arnau Concert), which includes him talking about the song to begin with. And how, when he first made the arrangement, had a dream to one day perform it at a big stadium in New York for all his international fans. And now the dream had come true. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~~
More indepth info (from here):
This song is based on a poem by famed poet and patriot Magzhan Zhumabayev. Dimash plays dombra, the traditional Kazakh instrument, while singing Daididau.
Magzhan Zhumabayev (Мағжан Бекенұлы Жұмабаев; 25 June 1893 – 19 March 1938) was writing about freedom and modernization. In 1912 his Kazakh poetry collected with the "Şolpan" name was published and quickly became popular among Kazakh intellectuals. In 1917 he had been taking part in the creation of Kazakh "Alaş" party and Alaş Orda Kazakh national government at both All-Kazakh congresses as delegate of Akmolinsk Oblast. He was accused of being Pan-Turkist member of Alaş Orda and Japanese spy, and was arrested in Petropavl and got convicted for 10 years. In 1934 Maksim Gorky and Peshkova received the letter from him and due to their intercession Magzhan Zhumabayev was emancipated before the appointed time. During his time in prison, he was mistakenly informed that his wife left him. The song Daididau is a response to this information:
"Are you determined to leave me?
To whom shall I divulge my sorrow?"
However, just half a year after his release and being re-united with his wife, he was arrested in Almaty again and executed by shooting of NKVD on 19 March 1938.
ETA (from Murat Omar): Moreover, Zuleikha ('Daididau' was Magzhan's nickname for her) fought for releasing Magzhan when he was initially imprisoned. She went to Moscow to meet Russian colleagues/writers and they helped to release him, but (as stated above) after six month he was arrested again and executed in 1938. For many years she hid and saved all his manuscripts and they were published only in 80s...
Dimash Masterpost
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