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Dami Im Does Australia Proud At Eurovision

by Music-News.com on May 15, 2016

in News,Noise Pro

Ukraine has won the this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden and in Australia all eyes were on Dami Im.

The Ukraine winner Jamala overtook Australia’s Dami Im in the last moment as the public vote came in.

Jamala’s politically charged lyrics have been causing tensions with neighbouring Russia, who were the bookmakers favourite to win but the European judges were not quite expecting the impact Dami Im from the other side of the planet would have.

Jamala won with a haunting rendition of the ballad 1944, a song about Joseph Stalin’s mass deportation in 1944 of entire ethnic Tatar population from Crimea, has been understood to parallel Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.

On winning Jamala said “I want peace and love for everyone!”.

Dami Im performed ‘Sound of Silence’.

Eurovision 2016 | Rankings

Ukraine 1st
Australia 2nd
Russia 3rd
Bulgaria 4th
Sweden 5th
France 6th
Armenia 7th
Poland 8th
Lithuania 9th
Belgium 10th
The Netherlands 11th
Malta 12th
Austria 13th
Israel 14th
Latvia 15th
Italy 16th
Azerbaijan 17th
Serbia 18th
Hungary 19th
Georgia 20th
Cyprus 21st
Spain 22nd
Croatia 23rd
United Kingdom 24th
Czech Republic 25th
Germany 26th

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