songs: Let it Be, Yesterday
language: Udmurt
performer: Buranovskiye Babushki
The "Buranovo Grannies" were the feel-good story of the 2012 Eurovision contest, where they finished 2nd with their song Party for Everybody. An actual group of singing grandmothers from Udmurtia (a republic in the Russian Federation), they're all over 70 and are now bona fide pop stars. Certainly the novelty of a bunch of elderly women singing in a language most people (Russians included) had never heard (nor heard of) is a component of their celebrity.
But listen to them; they sing beautifully, honestly, with none of the glitz that surrounds them on stage. It's obvious it comes from somewhere culturally deep and rich (which makes the contrast at Eurovision all the starker).
So, here they are singing Let it Be (accompanied by a group called Sappy), followed by Yesterday.
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