Hello, thank you. A very good reaction to this "MASTERPIECE of ART for all time" from "Divine Diana Diva" as I like to call her. For me personally, her very best performance/music video of all time. And that despite the fact that she has made so many great and even epic performances since her early childhood until today. She is very versatile. I await further reactions to Diana. All the best and greetings from Germany. 🌻 🌻 🌻
Спасибо вам за реакции на песни Дианы! 👍 Предлагаю ещё одну прекрасную работу в исполнении Дианы на презентации её альбома в Бард-клубе ,, Гнездо Глухаря,, - ,, Twist in My Sobriety,, 🤩th-cam.com/video/sBC3C1USHHo/w-d-xo.html
ДИАНА АНКУДИНОВА ( в 14 лет ) при исполнении "Реченьки" открыла свои великолепные певческие и артистические СПОСОБНОСТИ в мире ШАМАНСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ. Подобной ДИАНЕ такой ПЕВИЦЫ в Мире больше нет.
Remember this is right at the beginning - one of the judges had suggested after the previous song that she needed to do a song in Russian. She came back with a legendary performance in Old Russian. Simply the most compelling voice singing today.
💥🎶💥🎶 Magnificent. Haunting and other worldly!! Thank you for explaining the story, before leaving the song, as it helped to understand the vocal wailing and inflexions. I can't get over that she is only 14 years old in this clip. Astounding!!🔥🔥🔥🔥 Your reaction was so spot on and I so appreciate your enthusiasm for her talent. Wow, just wow!!! Peace J ✌ ☮ 💕
Отличная, даже великолепная реакция ! Ну а мастерство Дианы трудно поддаётся осмыслению. Такой талантище , редкостное явление ! Ну а это видео с "Реченькой" являет собой пример неподражаемого мастерства и одновременно материалом для изучения вокалистами желающими достичь новых высот в своём деле.
Good reaction. Thank you very much. Diana is an amazing singer. I agree with you, her voice is very beautiful. Thanks for the reaction. Pay attention to Diana's last performance on the main stage of the country, in the Kremlin Palace. Thanks .Good luck with everything.
Диана,одна из лучших исполнительниц этой песне,она настолько шикарно исполнила данную композицию,что все были трансе и магии ее голоса,настоящая чародейка...
There are moments when words, adjectives, cannot describe someone's talent, words just do not measure up or give enough credit. Diana is such a talent that does not need accolades. The fact she exists is rewarding enough. We can only humbly bow and feel honoured to witness Diana's voice in her lifetime.
Awesome vocal ability and power and stage presence, AMAZING!! I've probably watched this video more than any other, I watch every reaction to it that I can find. Thanks for the fantastic reaction Hap and stay safe.
Thank you very much! This performance was on the show -"You are super" in 2018. Diana became the winner, and in 2019 on the show "You are super. Superseason" received the Grand Prix.I watched Diana's playlist on your channel and realized that you haven't seen a lot. This is worthy of attention. 2018 (14 years old.) 1. "Derniere dance" 2."Rechenka" 3."It's, a man's, man's...woald" 4."Tomorrow is a lie" 2019(15 years old) 1."Wicked game" 2. "Blizzard" 3"Human" "Showmaskgoon"2021(18 years old. Victory) was insanely interesting. Diana took part in an adult show for the first time among the participants already known throughout the country. I think that you will enjoy other performances of Diana at the Showmaskgoon. I really like "The Crow" 👍👍👍👏👏👏💜💚❤🧡
Link 2018 "Derniere dance" "It's a man's...world" "Tomorrow is a lie" th-cam.com/video/mve3-fEuTHA/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/qQGfO36K1B0/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/6caTfbq4XyA/w-d-xo.html
Must check out "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "The Crow" from last fall on the Russian singing competition between established singers where they are the judges. "Can't Help Falling in Love" was her opening song. It brought the house down! "The Crow" was also a spectacular performance and more of a pop vibe. Looking forward to seeing your reaction to both!!
Greetings from Russia! Very good reaction! Like from me! Isn't that great? Even without knowing the language, this performance of Diana causes goosebumps on the skin of any normal person, where he would not have been and in whatever country he lived!😀👍✌
Again I am speechless and absolutely in awe. That was magnificent 😱✨. Let’s just appreciate this god given gift 😊. It was nice to have this brief introduction to this song at the beginning to understand the story, but it wasn't necessary for the appreciation of this fantastic accomplishment. Like you HAP, my mouth was hanging open until the end of this performance. Thanks, it was brilliant and to the point💯🥰🙋🏻♀️.
привет! Диана Анкудинова подарок от высших сил! я каждый день в течении года подписываю на Диану не менее 5 жителей города! можете вы сделать подобное в вашей местности?
By that time, 14, she was singing already for 9 years! Cause till 3 she couldn't even speak and had to take some logoped treatment to develop speach. Logoped found some unique vocal abilities and advised Diana to sing more to further develop speach and vocal abilities...
Diana, an extremely, talented young lady with a magical, mystical presence about her. Her voice so very unique. I just love her!! Hope to see more of of her musical creativeness in the future. By the way the sound she did with her voice was yodeling. Which she does extremely well, also! Loved your reaction, Hap!! very perceptive and liked the explanation of the song. 💜🎵💜🎵
Да, очень ждём от неё новых удивительных вокальных, музыкальных спектаклей! Очень уникальный голос и харизматичный артист, трудолюбивый и целеустремлённый человек!
I Love your Reaction to that Performance,and you are right with your opinion that Diana is something else and is it always mind boggeling to hear her vocalizations and jodelings at that Young age and It is real but is not normal it can't bei real! 😂😂❤️
Yes-- at 14. Stunningly talented. Vocally - Storytelling - Stage presence. Everything. What a career to watch! And a beautiful person inside and out. The woman watching BTW is her adoptive mother, who recognised her talent early and linked her with a great vocal coach / mentor. I heard that this coach, who worked with Diana to develop this piece, died shortly before this performance? If so -must have been challenging.
Thank you so much for the wonderful words about Diana! We inhale at the beginning of the song, listen spellbound, and exhale at the end covered in goosebumps!
Special thanks to an adoptive mother who found out talent of her's "by mistake"...actually sending her to a vocal coach to aggust some problems with speech. And a great lesson to all of us...what seems a tragedy (being an orphan) can actually be a life saving fact.
What a wonderful reaction! I really appreciated the intro with the story of Rechenka. I'm a 68 yr. old fan of music; I've grown up with many singers and groups - Beatles, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, Roberta Flack - t I can't think of any [first off, none are contraltos - Cher would be, I believe], but who could sing like this - maybe some Opera contralto [I'm not familiar with Opera] but Diana is truly a phenomenon - I haven't heard anything/anyone like her. For me, even Dimash with his vocal technique, and vocal calisthenics doesn't hit me like Diana - it's the passion, it comes from a deep place - her life experience and that along with her unusual larynx [sounds like a reed instrument, like a bassoon].
This is an old wedding ritual song, it's like a puzzle, it consists of phrases taken from ritual songs. Where it is sung in a whisper is like the words of a deceased mother, because in Russia since ancient times it was believed that the river is the border between the world of the living and the dead, as in the mythology of others countries. So the girl-orphan came to the river to tell the mother that she was being given away for the unloved, to a strange family, ask for blessings and cry.
Well, better late than never! This is one of her first absolute masterpieces-it is so incredible. Some time ago, she took to performing this a cappella in her concerts, and apparently she is now opening her shows in total darkness with this song, a cappella. Can you imagine!?!
Я была на ее концерте и слышала акапелла "Реченьку". Воздействие невозможно передать словами. Это невероятная, совсем другая, реальность. Чудесный мир волшебства.
@@aniramavit9522 Oh, I kind of envy you. Maybe in the future she will come to Germany to perform live concerts. I would so like to visit a concert from her. All the best and greetings from Germany. Гугл-перевод. О, я немного завидую тебе. Возможно, в будущем она приедет в Германию, чтобы дать живые концерты. Я бы так хотела попасть на ее концерт. Всего наилучшего и привет из Германии. 🌻 🌻 🌻
Great reaction, man! Thank you! But a couple of notes: the character is not asking her mother' s blessing, she's an orphan. And because of that the song is with an "open final" - one can interpret it so that the character drowned herself. Sad enough, but the rendition is still great!
Rechenka/ Sweet River You are a river, my sweet river. You are flowing, you are not lulling. You are a child, but my child, You sit, but do not smile. Oh, girlfriends, yes my darlings, Oh, but nothing to be happy about me. Oh, but nothing to smile at me. We have horses, the yard is full, And the room is full of guests. I don’t have a father, mother, There is no one to bless me ... Losing You are a river, my sweet river. You are flowing, but you are not lulling. You are a child, but my child, You sit, but do not smile....
Great review & nice to see you took the time to explain the story. I followed the thread of Diana to your page and now I'm here for the good variety you have in your reviews. I couldn't find one artist I think you'll like - Aurora, a young singer / songwriter from the Netherlands. Most of her performances are songs she wrote - give her live performances a look. "Runaway" th-cam.com/video/Fc7XWW_Ehb8/w-d-xo.html "Through the Eyes of a Child" th-cam.com/video/ncG9zTzsisE/w-d-xo.html
Before this one she did a song called this is a man’s world and then after that she did this one and this is the one that got her started and really noticed and then can’t help falling in love. What is the one that’s sealed her fate into the career she has now, and if you watch this, you will notice right toward the end you will see a woman sitting off to the side, wearing glasses with her hands in a ball. That is her adoptive mother, the wonderful and well respected and admired. lrina
Thanks for this great review. I really appreciated the summary of the song before the performance. Diana never just sings the words and melody of a song, she lives through and tells the story to the listeners. She believes in her songs and it shows in her performances. Let me suggest another artist who lives in their music. Aurora is a Norwegians writer and performs with an incredible voice and performing style. Two samples to get you started "Through the Eyes of a Child" th-cam.com/video/ncG9zTzsisE/w-d-xo.html and "Runaway" th-cam.com/video/Fc7XWW_Ehb8/w-d-xo.html .
This is an old Russian ritual song: An orphan girl should to get married and goes to the river, the border between the living and the dead, and asks her mother for the blessing (mother's whisper) ... The horses are in the courtyard. The guests are gathered and the wedding celebration begins. In Russia, it was customary to sing sad songs at weddings to scare off evil. This should drive away evil spirits and bring good luck. Such songs were called 'crying'. Diana's rendition of this song is spectacular, mysterious ... great, a masterpiece ... every time! Lately she sang this song Acapella to prove that she sings live without a 'synthesizer' or anything like that: - th-cam.com/video/OGF5uhM69g4/w-d-xo.html. * Alla Pugacheva, a famous Russian singer, sang this song before, but completely different - th-cam.com/video/1hJdZ8cyqDg/w-d-xo.html
I kinda wish that your version of the story behind the song was true, but the origins and meanings behind the song are much darker and deeper. These types of songs originated in a time and place where there was always a war or armed conflict going on somewhere nearby and raids were common for retaliation, looting or collecting slaves. The young girl/women was an orphan and because of this as her parents have been lost to the village either by death or enslavement. A rich family, probably the local leader or tax collector, has taken her in but she is treated as just another servant. As she has now come of age she has been promised to another stranger from afar that she has never met or seen, and also realises that although it is a contract of marriage, with her poor position she will still be bound to another, basically as a servant and breeder of his children in a loveless relationship. The river is seen as the symbol or way to the other side, the other side of life that is death. Therefore she goes to the river to communicate her concerns to her dead mother, hoping for a sign of what she should do. She really only has two choices, accept her fate as an unloved wife far from where she grew up, or drown herself in the river and again be with her mother. The ending is deliberately ambiguous as is she taking the boat to her wedding ceremony or is she taking the boat far from the bank before jumping out.
Еще одна сторона этой истории в песне - эта девочка-сирота, которая росла в чужой семье. Таких девочек выдавали замуж как можно скорее, чтобы не кормить лишний рот. И конечно против их желания. И вот, совсем юную девушку выдают замуж. Ей страшно. Она боится будущего, она совсем одна, и идет к реке просить благословения.
Good reaction. Thank you very much. Diana is an amazing singer. I agree with you, her voice is very beautiful. Thanks for the reaction. Pay attention to Diana's last performance on the main stage of the country, in the Kremlin Palace. Thanks .Good luck with everything.
Прекрасная реакция! Эмоциональная, осмысленная, искренняя. Спасибо!
Спасибо, что вы с нами 🤘♥️🇸🇰. За реакцию 👍👍👍
Она не ст ой планеты она чудо природы,. Диана. Анкудинова из России, волшебница, шаманка!!
I can tell that more discoveries await you if you dig a few more years ago, during the period when Diana was 13, 11, 10 years old ))
Это шедевр от юной Дианы и ее визитная карточка!🌷🌷🌷
Спасибо за реакции на Диану Анкудинову!!!
Фантастическое выступление Дианы!
Диане - браво!
Fantastic performance by Diana!
Diana - bravo!
ВАУ 🤩 Это музыкальная бомба 💥 сброшенная на весь грешный мир!
Hello, thank you. A very good reaction to this "MASTERPIECE of ART for all time" from "Divine Diana Diva" as I like to call her.
For me personally, her very best performance/music video of all time.
And that despite the fact that she has made so many great and even epic performances since her early childhood until today.
She is very versatile. I await further reactions to Diana.
All the best and greetings from Germany. 🌻 🌻 🌻
Спасибо вам за реакции на песни Дианы! 👍 Предлагаю ещё одну прекрасную работу в исполнении Дианы на презентации её альбома в Бард-клубе ,, Гнездо Глухаря,, - ,, Twist in My Sobriety,, 🤩th-cam.com/video/sBC3C1USHHo/w-d-xo.html
ДИАНА АНКУДИНОВА ( в 14 лет ) при исполнении "Реченьки" открыла свои великолепные певческие и артистические СПОСОБНОСТИ в мире ШАМАНСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ.
Подобной ДИАНЕ такой ПЕВИЦЫ в Мире больше нет.
Remember this is right at the beginning - one of the judges had suggested after the previous song that she needed to do a song in Russian. She came back with a legendary performance in Old Russian. Simply the most compelling voice singing today.
Lady DI 👑👑👑👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹
💥🎶💥🎶 Magnificent. Haunting and other worldly!! Thank you for explaining the story, before leaving the song, as it helped to understand the vocal wailing and inflexions. I can't get over that she is only 14 years old in this clip. Astounding!!🔥🔥🔥🔥 Your reaction was so spot on and I so appreciate your enthusiasm for her talent. Wow, just wow!!! Peace J ✌ ☮ 💕
Phenomenal ARTIST! DIANA ANKUDINOVA undoubted talent with a great future!
Отличная, даже великолепная реакция ! Ну а мастерство Дианы трудно поддаётся осмыслению. Такой талантище , редкостное явление ! Ну а это видео с "Реченькой" являет собой пример неподражаемого мастерства и одновременно материалом для изучения вокалистами желающими достичь новых высот в своём деле.
Всегда нравились ваши реакции! Это действительно невероятно! Спасибо!!!
Thanks for reaction and very good comments!
DIANA REALLY BRILLIANT!
Thank you for your attention to the work of Diana Ankudinova.
Спасибо
Good reaction. Thank you very much. Diana is an amazing singer. I agree with you, her voice is very beautiful. Thanks for the reaction. Pay attention to Diana's last performance on the main stage of the country, in the Kremlin Palace. Thanks .Good luck with everything.
Диана,одна из лучших исполнительниц этой песне,она настолько шикарно исполнила данную композицию,что все были трансе и магии ее голоса,настоящая чародейка...
Diana Ankudinova is Diana Ankudinova and there is no other such singer and never will be!
There are moments when words, adjectives, cannot describe someone's talent, words just do not measure up or give enough credit. Diana is such a talent that does not need accolades. The fact she exists is rewarding enough. We can only humbly bow and feel honoured to witness Diana's voice in her lifetime.
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Very well said. Greetings from Germany. 🌻 🌻 🌻
Well said!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Waw!!! Thank you!!! Diana-14yo!!! Amazing!!! Fantastik!!! Awesome!!!🙏❤️👍💓💖✨🙀🤯
Ребенку всего (Ди.)14лет.
Awesome vocal ability and power and stage presence, AMAZING!! I've probably watched this video more than any other, I watch every reaction to it that I can find. Thanks for the fantastic reaction Hap and stay safe.
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Thank you very much! This performance was on the show -"You are super" in 2018. Diana became the winner, and in 2019 on the show "You are super. Superseason" received the Grand Prix.I watched Diana's playlist on your channel and realized that you haven't seen a lot. This is worthy of attention. 2018 (14 years old.) 1. "Derniere dance" 2."Rechenka" 3."It's, a man's, man's...woald" 4."Tomorrow is a lie" 2019(15 years old) 1."Wicked game" 2. "Blizzard" 3"Human" "Showmaskgoon"2021(18 years old. Victory) was insanely interesting. Diana took part in an adult show for the first time among the participants already known throughout the country. I think that you will enjoy other performances of Diana at the Showmaskgoon. I really like "The Crow"
👍👍👍👏👏👏💜💚❤🧡
Link 2018
"Derniere dance"
"It's a man's...world"
"Tomorrow is a lie"
th-cam.com/video/mve3-fEuTHA/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/qQGfO36K1B0/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/6caTfbq4XyA/w-d-xo.html
She s amazing! Thank you for honest reaction. True feelings are very important today for everybody! Thank you again!
👏👏👏👏🎧🎧🎧🎧🌹🌹🌹🌹
DEUTSCHLAND . DIANA DANKE FÜR DEINE LIEDES , DÜSSELDORF V I K T O R. 🇩🇪
Indeed a masterpiece, for any age! The control, being able to yodel whilst being lifted into the boat, outstanding end to this song.
Must check out "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "The Crow" from last fall on the Russian singing competition between established singers where they are the judges. "Can't Help Falling in Love" was her opening song. It brought the house down! "The Crow" was also a spectacular performance and more of a pop vibe. Looking forward to seeing your reaction to both!!
Greetings from Russia! Very good reaction! Like from me! Isn't that great? Even without knowing the language, this performance of Diana causes goosebumps on the skin of any normal person, where he would not have been and in whatever country he lived!😀👍✌
Again I am speechless and absolutely in awe. That was magnificent 😱✨. Let’s just appreciate this god given gift 😊.
It was nice to have this brief introduction to this song at the beginning to understand the story, but it wasn't necessary for the appreciation of this fantastic accomplishment. Like you HAP, my mouth was hanging open until the end of this performance. Thanks, it was brilliant and to the point💯🥰🙋🏻♀️.
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Thanks Haps - You looked just like the judges, while hearing it...!
Thank you
привет! Диана Анкудинова подарок от высших сил! я каждый день в течении года подписываю на Диану не менее 5 жителей города! можете вы сделать подобное в вашей местности?
By that time, 14, she was singing already for 9 years! Cause till 3 she couldn't even speak and had to take some logoped treatment to develop speach. Logoped found some unique vocal abilities and advised Diana to sing more to further develop speach and vocal abilities...
Diana, an extremely, talented young lady with a magical, mystical presence about her. Her voice so very unique. I just love her!! Hope to see more of of her musical creativeness in the future. By the way the sound she did with her voice was yodeling. Which she does extremely well, also! Loved your reaction, Hap!! very perceptive and liked the explanation of the song. 💜🎵💜🎵
Да, очень ждём от неё новых удивительных вокальных, музыкальных спектаклей! Очень уникальный голос и харизматичный артист, трудолюбивый и целеустремлённый человек!
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In a very real way, it is her story. She is an orphan.
Thanks.
Это простО.НЕРЕАЛЬНО,ШОК!!!!!!❤❤❤СПАСИБО
I Love your Reaction to that Performance,and you are right with your opinion that Diana is something else and is it always
mind boggeling to hear her vocalizations and jodelings at that Young age and It is real but is not normal it can't bei real! 😂😂❤️
Yes-- at 14. Stunningly talented. Vocally - Storytelling - Stage presence. Everything. What a career to watch! And a beautiful person inside and out. The woman watching BTW is her adoptive mother, who recognised her talent early and linked her with a great vocal coach / mentor.
I heard that this coach, who worked with Diana to develop this piece, died shortly before this performance? If so -must have been challenging.
Thank you so much for the wonderful words about Diana! We inhale at the beginning of the song, listen spellbound, and exhale at the end covered in goosebumps!
Special thanks to an adoptive mother who found out talent of her's "by mistake"...actually sending her to a vocal coach to aggust some problems with speech.
And a great lesson to all of us...what seems a tragedy (being an orphan) can actually be a life saving fact.
Послушайте " Blizzard", "Tomorrow is A Lie", это тоже выступления Дианы на конкурсе "Ты супер".
What a wonderful reaction! I really appreciated the intro with the story of Rechenka. I'm a 68 yr. old fan of music; I've grown up with many singers and groups - Beatles, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, Roberta Flack - t I can't think of any [first off, none are contraltos - Cher would be, I believe], but who could sing like this - maybe some Opera contralto [I'm not familiar with Opera] but Diana is truly a phenomenon - I haven't heard anything/anyone like her. For me, even Dimash with his vocal technique, and vocal calisthenics doesn't hit me like Diana - it's the passion, it comes from a deep place - her life experience and that along with her unusual larynx [sounds like a reed instrument, like a bassoon].
Thanks for the Great kind reaction!
This is an old wedding ritual song, it's like a puzzle, it consists of phrases taken from ritual songs. Where it is sung in a whisper is like the words of a deceased mother, because in Russia since ancient times it was believed that the river is the border between the world of the living and the dead, as in the mythology of others countries. So the girl-orphan came to the river to tell the mother that she was being given away for the unloved, to a strange family, ask for blessings and cry.
Thanks for your lovely reaction, absolutely amazing,this is our girl miss Diana ❤.
Nothing surprising us anymore.
Well, better late than never! This is one of her first absolute masterpieces-it is so incredible. Some time ago, she took to performing this a cappella in her concerts, and apparently she is now opening her shows in total darkness with this song, a cappella. Can you imagine!?!
Я была на ее концерте и слышала акапелла "Реченьку".
Воздействие невозможно передать словами. Это невероятная, совсем другая, реальность. Чудесный мир волшебства.
@@aniramavit9522 Oh, I kind of envy you. Maybe in the future she will come to Germany to perform live concerts. I would so like to visit a concert from her.
All the best and greetings from Germany.
Гугл-перевод.
О, я немного завидую тебе. Возможно, в будущем она приедет в Германию, чтобы дать живые концерты. Я бы так хотела попасть на ее концерт.
Всего наилучшего и привет из Германии. 🌻 🌻 🌻
@@aniramavit9522 Песня без музыки - справка без печати!
@@vyacheslav7841 Песня без музыки -- высшая степень вокального мастерства
Great reaction Hap Finally lol 😆!!!
Magnificent is just about right. :)
Great song choice John Jorgensen!!
Thanks for reaction!
Love Diana!! Enjoyed your amazement!! She’s incredible!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Terrific commentary and reaction!
Great reaction, man!
Thank you!
But a couple of notes: the character is not asking her mother' s blessing, she's an orphan. And because of that the song is with an "open final" - one can interpret it so that the character drowned herself. Sad enough, but the rendition is still great!
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Спасибо большое за реакцию ♥️ ❤❤❤
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Rechenka/ Sweet River
You are a river, my sweet river.
You are flowing, you are not lulling.
You are a child, but my child,
You sit, but do not smile.
Oh, girlfriends, yes my darlings,
Oh, but nothing to be happy about me.
Oh, but nothing to smile at me.
We have horses, the yard is full,
And the room is full of guests.
I don’t have a father, mother,
There is no one to bless me ...
Losing
You are a river, my sweet river.
You are flowing, but you are not lulling.
You are a child, but my child,
You sit, but do not smile....
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Бомбическое выступление ,за Диану всегда лайк,спасибо за реакцию и что смотрите русских певцов .👍👏💐💕🙋🇷🇺
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You need look at,, crow "from Diana Ankudinova
turn on Russian subtitles and get a few hundred thousand more fans
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Listen to the new great singer - Grace Cummings - Heaven
Her name is pronounced as D-Anna Un-Cu-Dean-O-Va and not Nova at end of her name
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Great review & nice to see you took the time to explain the story. I followed the thread of Diana to your page and now I'm here for the good variety you have in your reviews. I couldn't find one artist I think you'll like - Aurora, a young singer / songwriter from the Netherlands. Most of her performances are songs she wrote - give her live performances a look.
"Runaway" th-cam.com/video/Fc7XWW_Ehb8/w-d-xo.html
"Through the Eyes of a Child" th-cam.com/video/ncG9zTzsisE/w-d-xo.html
Before this one she did a song called this is a man’s world and then after that she did this one and this is the one that got her started and really noticed and then can’t help falling in love. What is the one that’s sealed her fate into the career she has now, and if you watch this, you will notice right toward the end you will see a woman sitting off to the side, wearing glasses with her hands in a ball. That is her adoptive mother, the wonderful and well respected and admired. lrina
Thanks for this great review. I really appreciated the summary of the song before the performance. Diana never just sings the words and melody of a song, she lives through and tells the story to the listeners. She believes in her songs and it shows in her performances.
Let me suggest another artist who lives in their music. Aurora is a Norwegians writer and performs with an incredible voice and performing style. Two samples to get you started "Through the Eyes of a Child" th-cam.com/video/ncG9zTzsisE/w-d-xo.html and "Runaway" th-cam.com/video/Fc7XWW_Ehb8/w-d-xo.html .
This is an old Russian ritual song: An orphan girl should to get married and goes to the river, the border between the living and the dead, and asks her mother for the blessing (mother's whisper) ... The horses are in the courtyard. The guests are gathered and the wedding celebration begins. In Russia, it was customary to sing sad songs at weddings to scare off evil. This should drive away evil spirits and bring good luck. Such songs were called 'crying'.
Diana's rendition of this song is spectacular, mysterious ... great, a masterpiece ... every time! Lately she sang this song Acapella to prove that she sings live without a 'synthesizer' or anything like that: - th-cam.com/video/OGF5uhM69g4/w-d-xo.html.
* Alla Pugacheva, a famous Russian singer, sang this song before, but completely different - th-cam.com/video/1hJdZ8cyqDg/w-d-xo.html
I kinda wish that your version of the story behind the song was true, but the origins and meanings behind the song are much darker and deeper. These types of songs originated in a time and place where there was always a war or armed conflict going on somewhere nearby and raids were common for retaliation, looting or collecting slaves. The young girl/women was an orphan and because of this as her parents have been lost to the village either by death or enslavement. A rich family, probably the local leader or tax collector, has taken her in but she is treated as just another servant. As she has now come of age she has been promised to another stranger from afar that she has never met or seen, and also realises that although it is a contract of marriage, with her poor position she will still be bound to another, basically as a servant and breeder of his children in a loveless relationship. The river is seen as the symbol or way to the other side, the other side of life that is death. Therefore she goes to the river to communicate her concerns to her dead mother, hoping for a sign of what she should do. She really only has two choices, accept her fate as an unloved wife far from where she grew up, or drown herself in the river and again be with her mother. The ending is deliberately ambiguous as is she taking the boat to her wedding ceremony or is she taking the boat far from the bank before jumping out.
Dark indeed.
Еще одна сторона этой истории в песне - эта девочка-сирота, которая росла в чужой семье. Таких девочек выдавали замуж как можно скорее, чтобы не кормить лишний рот. И конечно против их желания. И вот, совсем юную девушку выдают замуж. Ей страшно. Она боится будущего, она совсем одна, и идет к реке просить благословения.
Сильное, магическое исполнение!!!
Диана Анкудинова уникальная, неподражаемая!!! Лучшая!!! 💎
Спасибо за реакцию на Диану Анкудинову!!! Лайк!!!
Good reaction. Thank you very much. Diana is an amazing singer. I agree with you, her voice is very beautiful. Thanks for the reaction. Pay attention to Diana's last performance on the main stage of the country, in the Kremlin Palace. Thanks .Good luck with everything.
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Diana Ankudinova in Kremlin