Today I picked up a copy of Russian “Rolling Stone”, which I must say is a more interesting read in Russian. Of course the bulk of the magazine is composed of the same articles found in the English version translated into Russian (this month’s cover article – Robby Williams’ comeback), but there are also a few articles written specifically for the Russian version about Russian artists.
This month’s issue provided a short article about a Russian folk ensemble from the Udmurtia Republic near the Ural Mountains. The group, called Бурановские Бабушки (Buranovskiye Grandmothers), sing covers of popular Russian and Western songs in their native Udmurt language, which is a language spoken by 500,000 people and belongs to the same language family as Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian.
Because none of the singers knows English they all learned the songs already translated into Udmurt, and “find their own meanings” in the translated texts. “Now we think that this is our native song”, one of the grandmothers says about their version of Russian rock legend Viktor Tsoi’s “A Star Called the Sun”. Apparently they will be traveling to France, Germany, and Estonia to perform in the future. Check out the links below for some videos of the ladies.
Russian News Feature:
The Babushki singing that “Venus” song (This should be on MTV, look how those ladies dance!)
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