Six grannies from the Buranovskiye Babushki band won the Russian national contest late on Wednesday night to have the honor of representing Russia at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan on May 22-26, RIA Novosti reported.
The sextet of babushkas faced a tough competition in the final selection from 24 more Russian contenders, including 2008 Eurovision winner Dima Bilan, but in the end they won the hearts of jurors and TV viewers by performing ‘Party for Everybody’ in Udmurt language.
The colorful grannies, with some of them over 70 years old of age, do not speak English and their folk style performance includes own songs and covers of many international music hits. They mostly sing in Russian and Udmurt.
Armenian News
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