Jamala
{{Short description|Ukrainian singer (born 1983)}}
{{about|the singer}}
{{family name hatnote|Alimivna|Dzhamaladinova|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Jamala
| image = Jamala Volia Space 2024 (cropped).png
| caption = Jamala in July 2024
| native_name = {{nobold|Джамала}}
| native_name_lang = uk
| birth_name = Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova ({{lang|crh-Latn|Susana Alim qızı Camaladinova}})
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1983|08|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Osh, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union {{small|(present day Kyrgyzstan)}}
| origin = Crimea
| genre = {{flatlist|
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| occupation = Singer
| instrument =
| years_active = 2001–present
| label = {{flatlist|
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| website = {{URL|jamala.ua}}
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Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova{{efn|Crimean Tatar: {{lang|crh-Latn|Susana Alim qızı Camaladinova}}; {{langx|uk|Суса́на Алі́мівна Джамаладі́нова|Susána Alímivna Dzhamaladínova}}, {{IPA|uk|sʊˈsɑnɐ ɐˈl⁽ʲ⁾imiu̯nɐ dʒɐmɐlɐˈd⁽ʲ⁾inowɐ|IPA}}; {{lang-rus|Суса́на Али́мовна Джамалади́нова|Susána Alímovna Dzhamaladínova|sʊˈsanə ɐˈlʲiməvnə dʐəməlɐˈdʲinəvə|links=yes}}.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-jamala-eurovision-crimean-tatar-singer/27541517.html|title=Crimean Tatar Singer Hopes To Take People's Tragedy To Eurovision|date=9 February 2016|author=Viktoria Veselova|language=|website=rferl.org|publisher=Radio Liberty|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127143403/https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-jamala-eurovision-crimean-tatar-singer/27541517.html|archivedate=27 November 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/culture/jamala-performs-turkey|title=Jamala performs in Turkey|date=18 August 2016|author=Alisa Antonenko|language=|website=day.kyiv.ua|publisher=The Day|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20210416091130/https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/culture/jamala-performs-turkey|archivedate=16 April 2021}} (born 27 August 1983), known professionally as Jamala,{{efn|Crimean Tatar: {{lang|crh-Latn|Camala}}, also spelt {{lang|crh|Джамала}} in Cyrillic; {{langx|uk|Джама́ла|links=no}}, {{IPA|uk|dʒɐˈmɑlɐ|IPA}}; {{lang-rus|Джама́ла||dʐɐˈmalə|links=no}}.}} is a Ukrainian singer. She represented {{Esccnty|Ukraine|y=2016}} and won the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with her song "1944". In 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024 she served as a judge at Vidbir, the Ukrainian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. In November 2023, Russia added Jamala to its wanted list.{{cite web |title=Jamala: Ukrainian Eurovision winner added to Russia's wanted list |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67478220 |website=BBC News |access-date=20 November 2023 |date=20 November 2023}}
Early life
Susana Dzhamaladinova was born in Osh, Kirghiz SSR, to a Muslim Crimean Tatar father and an Armenian mother.{{cite web |url=http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/index2.php?param=pgs20111/14 |title=Welcome to Ukraine |website=www.wumag.kiev.ua |access-date=15 May 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://bunews.com.ua/lifestyle/item/ukraines-crimean-tatar-singer-jamala-promises-to-embarrass-putin-and-bring-stalins-crimes-to-eurovision |title=Ukraine's Crimean Tatar singer Jamala promises to embarrass Putin and bring Stalin's crimes to Eurovision Song Contest |website=bunews.com.ua |access-date=15 May 2016 |archive-date=25 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225081543/http://bunews.com.ua/lifestyle/item/ukraines-crimean-tatar-singer-jamala-promises-to-embarrass-putin-and-bring-stalins-crimes-to-eurovision |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://vogue.ua/article/culture/muzyka/zhurnal-den-s-pevicey-dzhamaloy.html|title=Журнал: день с певицей Джамалой|work=Vogue UA|date=17 December 2015 |access-date=15 May 2016}}Ruban, Mariya. "[http://ukr.segodnya.ua/culture/stars/dzhamala-hochu-pyshnuyu-krymsko-tatarskuyu-svadbu-591306.html Джамала: "Хочу пишне кримсько-татарське весілля"]". Cегодня.UA. 10 February 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2015. {{in lang|uk}}"[http://ua-report.info/news/dzhamala_moja_mama_khristianka_armjanka_papa_krymskij_tatarin_musulmanin/2011-02-25-349#.VTUVyuGrHiU Джамала: Моя мама христианка-армянка, папа крымский татарин-мусульманин] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224164516/http://ua-report.info/news/dzhamala_moja_mama_khristianka_armjanka_papa_krymskij_tatarin_musulmanin/2011-02-25-349#.VTUVyuGrHiU |date=24 February 2016 }}". UA-Report. 25 February 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2015. {{in lang|ru}}"http://thenordar.com/jamala-interview-public-talk/ Интервью с Джамалой на Public Talk". Арт-журнал Thenordar. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2015. {{in lang|ru}} Her Crimean Tatar ancestors were forcibly resettled from Crimea to the central Asian republic under Joseph Stalin during World War II, although her own relatives fought on the Soviet side.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/05/11/jamalas-ukraine-eurovision-song-stirs-up-russia/|title='They kill you all': why Ukrainian Eurovision winner, Jamala, angered Russia with her 1944 song|author=Colin Freeman|date=14 May 2016|work=The Telegraph|access-date=15 May 2016}} In 1989 her family returned to Crimea.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} Her maternal ancestors are Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh region.{{in lang|ru}} [http://russia-armenia.info/node/27493 Сусанна Джамаладинова (Джамала): История моих армянских корней начинается с Карабаха | Центр поддержки русско-армянских стратегических и общественных инициатив]. Russia-armenia.info (15 May 2016). Retrieved on 2017-12-21. They were well-to-do peasants until her great-grandfather's land was confiscated and he was exiled to Osh where he changed his Armenian name to make it sound more Russian.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}
She grew up in a family of musicians — her mother worked as a teacher at a music school, and her father was a conductor by education.{{Cite journal |date=December 2016 |title=Клецкин М.В. Интерпретация ценностного отношения в античности и в Новое время |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/1999-2793.2016.12.18120 |journal=Философия и культура |volume=12 |issue=12 |pages=1654–1663 |doi=10.7256/1999-2793.2016.12.18120 |issn=1999-2793|doi-access=free }}
Her parents divorced for about four years so that her mother could purchase a house in Crimea for the family under her maiden name. During this period, Soviet authorities did not allow ethnic Crimean Tatars, like her father, to purchase property in Crimea.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}
Career
=2010–2015: Early work=
Jamala has been fond of music since her early childhood. She made her first professional recording at the age of nine, singing 12 folk and children's Crimean Tatar songs. She entered the Simferopol Music College{{cite web|last1=Veselova|first1=Viktoria|last2=Melnykova|first2=Oleksandra|title=Crimean singer in line to represent Ukraine at Eurovision|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/11/crimean-singer-in-line-to-represent-ukraine-at-eurovision|website=The Guardian|access-date=11 February 2016|date=11 February 2016}} and later graduated from Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine as an opera singer, but preferred a career in pop music.
File:Jamala IFF2012.jpg on 13 July 2012.]]
On 14 February 2010, she released her first single "You Are Made of Love" from her debut studio album For Every Heart. She released "It's Me, Jamala" as the second single on 18 October 2010. On 23 November 2010, she released "Smile" as the third single from the album. Early in 2011, she participated on the national selection show in an attempt to represent {{Esccnty|Ukraine|y=2011|Ukrainian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest}} at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Smile".{{cite web|url=http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=ukraine_a_new_final|title=Ukraine: a new final!|work=Eurovision.tv|access-date=15 May 2016}} The song was a crowd favorite and Jamala herself managed to land a spot in the finals of the competition. However, she later decided to withdraw from the competition.{{cite web|url=http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/16920 |title=Ukraine: Jamala withdraws from national final |last=Hondal |first=Victor |date=1 March 2011 |publisher=EscToday.com |access-date=1 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303073349/http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/16920 |archive-date=3 March 2011 }} On 12 April 2011, she released her debut studio album For Every Heart through Moon Records Ukraine. On 8 November 2012, she released "Ya Lyublyu Tebya" ({{langx|ru|«Я Люблю́ Тебя́»}}, {{langx|en|"I Love You"}}) as the lead single from her second studio album All or Nothing.
She released "Hurt" as the second single, and "Kaktus" ({{langx|uk|«Ка́ктус»}}, {{langx|en|"Cactus"}}) was released on 6 March 2013, as the third and final single from the album. She released All or Nothing on 19 March 2013, through Moon Records Ukraine. On 25 September 2014, she released "Zaplutalas" ({{langx|uk|«Заплу́талась»}}, {{langx|en|"Confused"}}) as the lead single from her debut EP Thank You. The EP was released on 1 October 2014, through Enjoy Records. On 26 March 2015, "Ochyma" was released as the lead single from her third studio album. "Shlyakh dodomu" ({{langx|uk|«Шлях додо́му»}}, {{langx|en|"The way home"}}) was released as the second single on 18 May 2015. On 15 June 2015, "Podykh" ({{langx|uk|«По́дих»}}, {{langx|en|"Breath"}}) was released as the third single. She released her album Podykh on 12 October 2015, through Enjoy Records.
= 2016–present: Eurovision Song Contest and subsequent projects =
Jamala successfully represented {{Esccnty|Ukraine|y=2016}} in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "1944".{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/11/crimean-singer-in-line-to-represent-ukraine-at-eurovision|title=Crimean singer in line to represent Ukraine at Eurovision|newspaper=the Guardian|access-date=15 May 2016|date=11 February 2016|last1=Veselova|first1=Viktoria|last2=Melnykova|first2=Oleksandra}} The song is about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 and particularly about her great-grandmother, who lost her daughter while being deported to Central Asia.{{cite news|url=http://qha.com.ua/en/culture-art/jamala-entered-eurovision2016-national-selection/135789/ |title=Jamala entered Eurovision-2016 national selection |date=26 January 2016 |work=QHA.com.ua |access-date=23 February 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303054406/http://qha.com.ua/en/culture-art/jamala-entered-eurovision2016-national-selection/135789/ |archive-date=3 March 2016 }}[https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35630395 Eurovision: Ukraine's entry aimed at Russia], BBC News (22 February 2016) Jamala wrote the song's lyrics in 2014. In the second semi-final of the contest, Jamala performed 14th and was one of ten participants who qualified for the grand final. It was announced later that she placed second, scoring 287 points, and won the televoting with 152 points{{cite web|url=http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/by-year/contest?event=2133|title=Eurovision Song Contest 2016 Second Semi-Final|work=Eurovision Song Contest|access-date=15 May 2016}} On 14 May 2016, Jamala won the competition with 534 points.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36295168|title=Ukraine's Jamala wins Eurovision 2016|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=15 May 2016|date=15 May 2016}} Jamala's song was considered by Russian media and lawmakers to be critical of the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the "ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine" in Donbas.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/15/eurovision-2016-furious-russia-demands-boycott-of-ukraine-over-j/|title=Eurovision 2016: Furious Russia demands boycott of Ukraine over Jamala's 'anti-Kremlin' song|author=Telegraph Reporters|date=15 May 2016|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=15 May 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/may/14/ukraine-wins-eurovision-jamala-1944|title=Eurovision 2016: Ukraine's Jamala wins with politically charged 1944|author=Heidi Stephens|newspaper=the Guardian|access-date=15 May 2016|date=15 May 2016}}
After her Eurovision Song Contest victory, she was awarded the title People's Artist of Ukraine by then-Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko.{{cite web|url=http://eurovoix.com/2016/05/16/ukraine-jamala-awarded-title-peoples-artist-ukraine/|title=Ukraine: Jamala Awarded Title "People's Artist of Ukraine"|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Eurovoix|last=Granger|first=Anthony}} She has then continued to release new music, including "I Believe in U", which she performed at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 as an interval act, along with "Zamanyly".
On 17 May 2016, Poroshenko announced that the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry would be nominating Jamala as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.{{cite web|url=http://en.vnews.agency/news/culture/20231-ukraines-foreign-ministry-to-nominate-jamala-for-unicef-goodwill-ambassador.html|title=Ukraine's Foreign Ministry to nominate Jamala for UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Vector.news|access-date=17 May 2016|archive-date=25 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225081517/http://vectornews.eu/news/culture/20231-ukraines-foreign-ministry-to-nominate-jamala-for-unicef-goodwill-ambassador.html|url-status=dead}}
On 12 October 2018, Jamala released her fifth studio album, Kryla. The title track was released as the first single on 21 March 2018. She had previously performed the track as the interval act for the 2018 Ukrainian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, Vidbir.
In 2022, she appeared in season 26 of the Polish TV show Taniec z Gwiazdami (Dancing with the Stars).{{Cite web |title=Ukraińska piosenkarka Jamala w show "Taniec z Gwiazdami" |url=https://www.polsat.pl/news/2022-07-21/ukrainska-piosenkarka-jamala-w-show-taniec-z-gwiazdami/ |access-date=2022-09-24 |website=www.polsat.pl |language=pl}}
Jamala performed "1944" during the flag parade in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, alongside fellow past Ukrainian entrants Go_A, Tina Karol, and Verka Serduchka.{{Cite news |last=Hainey |first=Fionnula |date=13 May 2023 |title=Eurovision 2023: Who are GO_A, Jamala, Tina Karol, and Verka Serduchka? |work=The Manchester Evening News |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tv/eurovision-2023-who-go_a-jamala-26902526 |access-date=14 May 2023}} One year later, she was the Ukrainian spokesperson at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
Personal life
On 26 April 2017, Jamala married Bekir Suleimanov.[http://gazeta.lviv.ua/2017/04/26/dzhamala-vijshla-zamizh-foto/ Джамала вийшла заміж (ФОТО) – Львівська газета] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115195303/http://gazeta.lviv.ua/2017/04/26/dzhamala-vijshla-zamizh-foto/ |date=15 November 2018 }}. Gazeta.lviv.ua (26 April 2017). Retrieved on 2017-12-21. Their relationship became known in September 2016, when she appeared with him at the Manhattan Short Film Festival. The couple married in the Kyiv Islamic Cultural Center using the traditional wedding ceremony Nikah. Suleimanov had recently graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Department of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and is an activist of the Muslim{{cite news|url=http://www.thenational.ae/arts-life/music/eurovision-winning-entry-1944-a-harrowing-family-tale-about-stalins-deportation-of-muslim-tatars|title=Eurovision winning entry: 1944, a harrowing family tale about Stalin's deportation of Muslim Tatars|work=The National|date=15 May 2016|access-date=15 May 2017}} Crimean Tatar community.[http://qha.com.ua/en/society/jamala-married-seitbekir-suleymanov/140581/ Jamala married Seit-Bekir Suleymanov] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622193153/http://qha.com.ua/en/society/jamala-married-seitbekir-suleymanov/140581/|date=22 June 2018}}, QHA (26 April 2017)
In November 2017, Jamala announced that she and Suleimanov were expecting their first child together.{{cite web|url=http://esctoday.com/153631/ukraine-jamala-expecting-first-baby/|title=Ukraine: Jamala is expecting her first baby|date=30 November 2017|publisher=ESCToday|last=Knoops|first=Roy}} On 27 March 2018 their son Emir-Rahman Seit-Bekir ogly Suleimanov was born.[https://www.unian.info/m/society/10061315-ukraine-s-jamala-gives-birth-to-a-baby-boy.html Ukraine's Jamala gives birth to a baby boy], UNIAN (29 March 2018)
Jamala is fluent in Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar, Russian and English.
In February 2022, amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she and her two children left Ukraine and initially took refuge in Romania, before eventually landing in Turkey.{{cite web |first1=James |last1=(No last name) |title=Jamala, winner of Eurovision 2016, took refuge in Romania. She crossed the border with her two young children, while her husband returned to Kyiv |url=https://247newsbulletin.com/politics/141257.html |website=24/7 News Bulletin |access-date=28 February 2022}}{{Cite web |title=Eurovision birincisi Jamala Türkiye'ye sığındı |url=https://www.sozcu.com.tr/hayatim/magazin-haberleri/eurovision-birincisi-jamala-turkiyeye-sigindi/ |access-date=2022-03-02 |website=www.sozcu.com.tr |date=March 2022 |language=tr}}
After February 24, 2022, the celebrity participated in the GIDNA project from Future for Ukraine Charity Foundation. While reading the votes at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, she announced that she was expecting her third child.
Discography
=Studio albums=
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| scope="col" style="width:14em;"| Title
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| scope="row"| For Every Heart
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| scope="row"| All or Nothing
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| scope="row"| Подих (Podykh) |
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| scope="row"| Крила (Kryla) |
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| scope="row"| Ми (My) |
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| scope="row"| Qırım (Crimea)
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=Live albums=
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| scope="col" style="width:14em;"| Title
! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Details |
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| scope="row"| For every heart. Live at Arena Concert Plaza |
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=Compilation albums=
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| scope="col" style="width:14em;"| Title
! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Details |
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| scope="row"| 1944
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| scope="row"| 10
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| scope="row"| Свої (Svoi) |
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=Remix albums=
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| scope="row"| Solo
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=Extended plays=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |
| scope="col" style="width:14em;"| Title
! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Details |
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| scope="row"| Thank You
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| scope="row"| 1944
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| scope="row"| 5:45
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=Singles=
Filmography
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Music videos ! Year ! Song ! Director ! Cinematographer |
| 2009 |
| rowspan=2|2010
| You're Made of Love + (in Russian) | Kateryna Tsaryk | Yuriy Korol |
| It's Me, Jamala + (in Ukrainian)
| Charley Stadler | Fraser Taggart |
| rowspan=2|2011
| Smile | Maksym Ksionda |
| Find me
| John X Carey | |
| 2012
| Я люблю тебя (in Russian) | Serhiy Sarakhanov | Yevheniya Drach, Mykola Bulavskyi |
| rowspan=3|2013
| Кактус (in Russian) | Denys Zakharov | Denys Zakharov |
| All These Simple Things
| — |
| Depends On You + (in Russian)
| Viktor Vilks |
| 2014
| Чому? (in Ukrainian) | Denys Zakharov, Oles Sanin |
| rowspan=2|2015
| Заплуталась (in Ukrainian) | Anatoliy Sachivko | Mykyta Kuzmenko |
| Иные (in Russian)
| Mikhail Emelianov | Viktor Fedoseev |
| rowspan=3|2016
| Шлях додому (in Ukrainian) | Anna Kopylova | Denys Lushchyk |
| 1944
| Anatoliy Sachivko | Mykyta Kuzmenko |
| Обещание (in Russian)
| Denys Zakharov, Olena Demianenko | Oleksiy Moskalenko |
| rowspan="2"| 2017
| rowspan="2"| Ihor Stekolenko | rowspan="2"| Denys Lushchyk |
| Сумую (in Ukrainian) |
| rowspan="3"| 2018
| Ти любов моя (in Ukrainian) | Oleh Malamuzh | Teodor Neshchadym |
| Крила (in Ukrainian + in Kazakh)
| Anna Kopylova | Anton Fursa |
| The Great Pretender
| rowspan="2"| Anna Buriachkova | rowspan="2"| Svitlana Aparina |
| rowspan="3"| 2019
| Solo |
| Ціна правди (in Ukrainian)
| Kateryna Tsaryk, Agnieszka Holland | Yuriy Korol |
| Забирай (in Ukrainian)
| Anton Shtuka | Ivan Fomichenko |
| rowspan="2"| 2020
| Жалі (in Ukrainian) | Dmytro Cherniavskyi | Anton Fursa |
| Эндорфины (in Russian)
| Maksym Kotskyi | Dmytro Cherniavskyi |
| rowspan="4"| 2021
| Вірю в тебе (in Ukrainian) | Anna Kopylova | Anton Fursa |
| Моя земля (in Ukrainian)
| Nazar Dorosh | Nazar Dorosh |
| Потайки (in Ukrainian)
| Oleksandr Guzhelya | Ilya Sostanovskyi |
| Новий рік з тобою (in Ukrainian)
| Tima Darmenov | Vlad Penkov |
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{{wikiquote|Jamala}}
- {{Official website|http://jamalamusic.com/}} {{in lang|uk|ru}}
- {{YouTube|user=jamalaofficial}}
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