Ukraine: "1944" by Jamala - Winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2016 - BBC 

Today, After Russia-Ukraine War, it is much more meaningful.

yall... she literally JUST won eurovision, something she put her heart and soul into for six months? shes of course going to be emotional, and it hasnt sunk in literally ten minutes after being announced as the winner. anyone with common sense knows that wouldnt equal an exactly amazing performance. _she still snapped_

This wasn't just a song. It was a warning.

I dont care if people dislike this, I think its one of the best songs that ever was on Eurovision. Her vocal performance is astonishing

This is a masterpiece. I love the music and her performance. She touches me with it and that rarely happens with other songs. Congratulations Jamala! I am very happy for you.

Last year, I actually didn't understand her song, but now when I listened again, I cried. Thank u very much, thank for your emotions. I understood what happening in your country. I wish and pray everything will be ok soon.

When did all these comments about her being a bad singer pop up? I watch this every year because of how moving her voice is and the visuals and backing make it so much more stunning.

How artist can put words together so accurately and simply "when strangers are coming, they come to your house, they kill you all and say - we're not guilty, not guilty", exactly what they say...

*She sings in Tatar Turkic I think, so it sounds 90% Turkish.*

this song has so many dislikes online....so who da fuck voted for this in the EU? the jury voting was also a bad joke....music experts who are voting politically? wtf? this is like an oscar voting....

Stop War.. Our prayers with you Ukraine...🇹🇷🇺🇦

Who is here in 2023 and thinks that this fits very well also for today?

Who else hears the souls of the hundreds of thousands of people that died as a result of the mass deportation that happened in 1944 and annexation of Crimea in 2014 scream for justice as she screams in 2:16?

Its just as meaningful now than before💔 wishing the people of 🇺🇦 safety and peace. 🇬🇧🇺🇦💞

Today I understand completely the emotions that this song brought back 6 years ago on that stage. The lyrics make so much sense today 24th February 2022. Pray 🙏 for Ukraine 🇺🇦

Daughter of Crimean Tatar father, Armenian mother who is from Ukraine performing with politically charged song in Tatarian Turkic. How beautiful is this fact?! Please at least in these kinds of performances, drop the placeless chauvinist comments, or putting flags and take credit for nationalizing it. The song presents exactly the opposite. Represents ALL humanities suffer.

She is Living her grandmother ‘s life now. The life is recurrens.

You can see how jealous russian are from dislikes.They just don't want people to see.

I’m watching this is 2020 and still have goosebumps all over my body...

For everyone, who doesnt understand why she won. Simple answer. She unites the hearts of countries that were under soviet union pressure and corruption. She sang it beautifully, had good runs and the emotion was feelable in everyway possible. The Tree stands for the lost lives. Its a perfect combination story + music + her vocal range and emotion behind it. Eurovision is not only about vocals and the music itself, its about uniting the hearts of the people in Europe, having beautiful emotion behind it having a meaning as a reason to sing such a song.

I cry every time I listen to this song!

Stay strong Jamala and Ukraine in these horrible times. 1944 and 2022.

Don't be haters guys, this is beautiful and so is the message Love from The United States

And now she is herself a war refugee, something which she only sang about before.

Not everyone will understand what Jamala sings but that's exactly my favourite song because i'm ukrainian and understand her so much.. i also like turkish words there. I cried about this song so much I mean look what is happening in our world??!! "They kill you all and say we're nit guilty, not guilty" .. That's exactly what is happening now so please stop this hate about this song, i would be so grateful. Thank you and spread love and peace.

This song hits different today🇦🇿🇺🇦

As soon as I heard about the news with Ukraine, I immediately ran back here... please be safe and well everyone... be strong and continue fighting for what you believe in... sending my love and prayers to Ukraine from the US 🇺🇦 💙

For me this is the best song ever on the Eurovision song contest, keep coming back to it.

You can see how much feels she feels right that time, she keep on losing her voice because this song means so much for her people, her family member. Its beautiful . I'm so happy she won!!

This song has so much meaning and purpose I can’t doubt that or dare to doubt it. She sang something that meant something to her and her origin. There is nothing wrong with that.

No matter how many years from that very moment has passed I watch this and realize how united and powerful Ukrainian nation is! We are unbreakable whatever happens to us, people, whatever happens!

Selam Ukraine...Selam all my Tatar Brothers and Sisters....we love you !!!!

This song touched me... I was really happy when Jamala won. Congratulations Ukraine! Hope this year the same happens to Portugal and Salvador wins! Love from Portugal :)

I don’t speak the language but this song speaks to me in so many ways. Amazing!

This is the BEST. You can hear and feel every emotion of this song. Can’t stop listening to this song.

She did not just sing the song, she experienced all the pain and made us feel it.

When I heard this song first time, I didnt understand a word of what she was singing (wasnt paying attention), but I cried because of the emotion she had. I think that is a great thing if one performer can transmit emotion to somebody who is watching her on TV. Did she deserve to win, was it politics, etc. I really dont care. She sang it the way I felt it and I "believed" her. And thats why I think this song is good.

Congratulations Ukraine.

She has so much emotion in her voice. I cry every time 🥺 you can feel her pain.

Her dinlediğimde tüylerim diken diken oluyor. Hikayeni sonuna kadar bizlere hissettirdin Jamala 😟 🇹🇷

From the 12-year-old singing this song, I looked up and discovered the Europe Song Contest and this amazing singer and her song "1944" which won. WOW, I thought, what are they talking about. I watched the official video and so moved by it I went to research 1944 and found out what happened to the Crimea population. I watched documentaries and studied the Ukraine map and I just want to thank RU-vid for making it possible for a 72-year-old musical Grammy to enjoy the world and learn along the way. I am so taken by Ukraine that I am still studying it. Bravo all of you!

If you think her voice is bad, just remember that she just won. Give her a break people

Stay strong Ukraine!! Turks are with you. 🇺🇦 Welcome to Turkey Jamala. We love you

Amerika'da yaşıyorum. Azerbaycan'dan gelen ve buranın vatandaşı olan bir arkadaşım "keşke benim de bir Türkiye döküməntim (TC kimliğim) olabilseydi" dedi. Ülkemin ve pasaportumun kıymetini o zaman anladım. Türkiye hasreti çeken tüm Türklere selam olsun!

Ne mutlu Türk’üm diyene! 🇰🇿🇦🇿🇹🇷

The way that tree just lit up is amazing they really did a good job setting the stage up for her

Who would have thought that this song will relive history in present times. As of November 2022

No longer only about 1944...

i love that this was posted 3 years ago but the comments are still active

Absolutely deserved that win

That was MORE then just a song being performed!! That was powerful

I think I've watched this 100x in the past year. She's amazing I felt every emotion of every word. Music is universal no matter what language its in.. Bravo

Loved the emotion she had while singing. Really took it to another level. Kind of obsessed with this.

Very moving. Watched this on Anna from Ukraine’s recommendation. She spoke about it this morning.

This song hurts more than ever now

When I first heard the song, I did not fully appreciate the straightforward lyrics, but it's really grown on me. I love Wild Dances and Stefania, but for me, this was Ukraine's best entry. This is my favourite Eurovision winner of the century so far. A cry straight from the heart, with fantastic vocals to top

Omg guys, what are u talking about? Jamala deserved Winner. You made her a winner when voted for her! Russian, you made her a winner when gave her 10 points. The difference between Lazarev and Jamala just few points, by the way Ukraine gave u 12 points. So why u do this? Why u hate her so much, why u insult her and try to change something every day? It's not her fault that jury didn't like Lazarev! And stop talking that Ukraine paid money! Ukraine has a bad political situation now and we didn't care about Eurovision. It was a big surprise for us that Jamala won, nobody aspected it! But we are so happy now!)))Guys why u didn't vote for Australia? Jury gave her maximum points but u just put her on 4th place! Of course jury wanted Australia's winner. But u helped Ukraine to win! So please respect now Jamala's victory and millions people who voted for her! Please, Russians haters, try to be kinder!!! Europe, welcome to Ukraine, we try to do all the best in 2017!!!✌️✌️✌️

who came here because they forgot why its in Ukraine this year?

She lives the song, i can see the pain in her eyes while saying "Vatanıma doyamadım" means i could not get enough of my homeland.

This and Molitva must be two most underrated songs in the history...They deserve 1 bilion views

Song two language 🇹🇷🇺🇦

Пройшло майже 5років - сльози та мурашки по тілу! Супер!

The story repeats. 24.02.2022.

ages like fine wine

Amazing, sincere song. Nowadays it's rare that the singer composes his own song to tell his own story at Eurovision. Jamala did. So great this international platform is being used to send a powerful message. Some people don't like hearing the truth, they just want to hear meaningless candy pop so they dislike the song.

The way she sings this song is so emotional...The more I listen, the more haunting it gets.

It’s very emotional. My heart is broken for Ukraine ppl for children. I’m amazed to see so much strength of the women leaving Ukraine and theirs husbands, fathers of their children to save them from this senseless war from a psycho man. Standing with you Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤️🇦🇱

This song means so much more. Love to Ukraine from the United States 🇺🇸💙🇺🇦

How could this win.. omg this song is so shity , guess political circumstances were the main factor here

Vatanıma doyamadım...

2:40 probably the greatest camera shot in all of Eurovision

"Gençliğime doyamadım, ben bu yerde yaşayamadım" The Turk has no friend other than the Turk, because we have always been on the side of the right. We with Ukraine, Syria, Palestine, Somalia, Myanmar and all oppressed peoples.

I am albanian i thought this song was going to win the first time i listened to it.the singer is absolutely amazing

REALLY? That song won? o.O Now I definitely don't regret not watching the final.

İnsan, dinleyenler ağlamasın diye duyguyu ortada verir ama kadın ağlayarak girince insan her dinlediğinde kendini tutamiyor Huzur içinde uyuyun kırım Türkleri 🙏😭

Yaşanan derin acılar sürgünler zülümler soykırımlara inat, Türk yoluna devam ediyor..Hedef Kızıl elma

Plz, when people say she's singing off key. This was right after she won, ofc she feels like crying

I wish this great song had more views and people new what it is about and how power her message is. War is the worst thing.

This song is so misunderstood too many people think this is a song to honor those who died in ww2 but it’s about the deportation and murder of Crimean Tatars under Stalin

I love her message. This song is perfect. What Russia did and continues to do is horrible.

Am I the only one who adore this song?! Why this much hate?! This song is sooo beautiful! So happy that she won❤

Gençliğime doyamadım ♡

Lithaunia supports you. One day a man behind all will be punished. Stay Strong, we believe in you 💙💛

Slava Ukraine. Support from Azerbaijan🇦🇿🇺🇦. Ukraine are our brother

Eurovision? More like PoliticVision

Elina from the Voice kids made this song a masterpiece.

History repeats unfortunately 😭🇺🇦 Europe, please save Ukraine - Save Europe! 🙏🏼 Don’t ignore this aggression, otherwise it will come to our houses across Europe.

Wondering where she is right now , praying for Ukraine

Don't understand the hate. I think the song is quite good. Amazing voice and nice rythm. Better than any shitty pop song.

I love her mindset about her history more than I love her voice.

More relevant now than ever before

In May 2016, I was there, in the Globen Arena in Stockholm to attend this Semi-Final and also the Final. It was my very first Eurovision week in real. Such a huge, incredible and unforgettable experience ! And Jamala's voice is forever in my heart. Lots of love and support to all the Ukrainian people ✊💪 🇨🇵❤️🇺🇦

2020 1 ocak çok hüzünlü bir hikaye ve ses olağanüstü

she truly deserved to win. yes, eurovision is political. but this song and performance were one of the best this night, and she’s also so lovely! i think she absolutely deserved to win.

O kadar bayıldım ki bu şarkıya hissettirdiklerine o ayağa kalkarkenki sesiyle görüntüye mest oluyorum tebrikler jamala başarıların daim olsun😍😍😍😍

Пройшло вже скільки років, а досі мурахи по шкірі з перших акордів і до останньої ноти

Türkler 🇹🇷 Ukrayna 🇺🇦 Halkının Yanında.. Pray For Ukraine 🇺🇦

Eurovision da yarı Türkçe şarkı söyleyerek 1.oldu

This song would be sung at the opening of the Eurovision honoring every genocide that have happened in our world.

She is absolutely amazing!! I can’t stop listening over and over!