Freestylo (Фристайло) – an epic kazakh akyn (“ақын”, Kazakh folk poet and singer). He became famous on the talent show Superstar KZ (Superstar France prototype). In March 2007, the respective video, from the show, was all over Youtube.
Young kazakh man presented himself as Ernar (kazakh translation – “courageous camel”). His full name is Ernar Kaldynov (Russian: Ернар Калдынов). He lives in the Ust-Kamenogorsk (Russian: Усть-Каменогорск) oblast. Ernar played something that reminded eurodance (experts say that it was Culture Beat by Mr. Vain) on dombra and was cheerfully reading some text.
The combination of this talented young man’s image, dombra and the music itself brought lots of entertainment. Almost instantly 9000 remixes appeared. While the akyn himself became popular all over the world, overshadowing Borat, and turned into a hero in native steppes.
Freestylo appeared one more time on the contest’s Super Final and caused a storm of applause.
He played frank notes on a simple but touching song about love. It turned out that simple words were enough to win all hearts.
Audition:
Super Final Live:
Original song (?). Kazakhstan pop music singer R.Lizer – Freestailo:
The best cover, in my humble opinion:
Lyrics, Translations below ->
