Kazakh DJ Imanbek Zeikenov has snagged a Grammy for Best Remixed Recording for “Roses,” a chart-topping remake of rapper SAINt JHN’s melodious hit that went viral on TikTok and also acquired over 1 billion plays on Spotify.
The 20-year-old self-taught manufacturer and also ex-rail transportation worker from northern Kazakhstan ended up being the first artist from a post-Soviet country to win the desirable award outside classic and choral classifications. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is likewise a Grammy victor, along with previous U.S. President Bill Clinton and Italian actor Sophia Loren, for a kids’s spoken-word cd.
The unanticipated pop star Imanbek made history by edging out remixes by RAC, Morgan Page, Louie Vega as well as Haywyre at Sunday’s socially distanced occasion.
An online feed revealed Zeikenov expressing shock as well as excitement while approving the honor from Mexican singer-songwriter Lupita Infante.
” Thanks my mama, thanks my father, thanks my team … many thanks GRAMMY,” he said through video web link, holding up the gilded gramophone prize.
” The GRAMMY is ours,” Zeikenov proclaimed in the Russian language in a succeeding Instagram Story.
Imanbek’s unanticipated success, from putting out an illegal remix on social networks in 2019 to seeing it come to be an over night global phenomenon, reflects the power shift in popular song from sector powerhouses to young audiences.
” Now, I need to show that I’m not a one-hit marvel,” the new Grammy winner told The New York Times in a 2020 meeting.
Russian Journalists Air ‘Silent Broadcasts’ to Dodge Prosecution
Russian journalists in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk have actually started broadcasting “quiet broadcasts” as a means to prevent prosecution, the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty information electrical outlet reported Monday.
The live-streams of protests without commentary comply with the apprehensions of several reporters in current months for “involvement in unsanctioned rallies,” RFE/RL’s Siberian affiliate Sibir.Realii reported.
” Such insurance coverage is our symbolic answer to the repressive setting encountered by journalists,” Tatyana Khlestunova, a press reporter from the Prosto Gazeta (Just A Newspaper) outlet who was imprisoned for numerous days for her coverage, informed Sibir.Realii.
Protesters in Khabarovsk have actually been requiring to the roads in support of jailed ex-governor Sergei Furgal because last July, when he was detained on charges of murder that allegedly happened over a years back.
Khlestunova included that the March 10 sentencing of a neighborhood Orthodox archpriest to 20 days behind bars for openly sustaining the militants was the last straw that motivated the reporters’ “silent programs.”
Russia has classified RFE/RL as well as its affiliates as “international representatives.”