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Music etnopolis group Go_A 22 Feb won the final of the National selection of Eurovision-2020. There they performed the song Solovey, where the judges and audience votes had obtained an absolute victory. At the first press conference on February 25, founder of Taras Shevchenko said that means their band name Go_A.
In the festival circles of Ukraine capital on the musicians from the band Go_A heard often: in 2016, they released their debut album, recorded together with singer Katya Chilly and generally toured the Ukraine at various local events. January 22 it became known that they were included in the list of participants of the National selection of Eurovision-2020 in Ukraine. Mass Ukrainian audience did not know before, which means the name of the group Go_A. Therefore, Taras Shevchenko, who founded the group, decided to “dot the i”.
It is actually very simple: the name Go_A is the word go (with English – LifeStyle 24) – to go, and starostynsky letter alpha, which means the source of everything – the house, the roots, and sometimes even God. For us, this means camping on our cultural roots. But, of course, everyone can invest in the content its meaning for yourself
– said Shevchenko.
The musicians also at the press conference said that the creation Solovey songs used folk motifs, before submitting to the contest the song changed, and for the main event in Rotterdam to translate it will not. Because their main purpose was to show this Ukrainian song from Ukraine.
“Under the terms of the Eurovision folk song cannot be used, but the basis really was part of a folk song. When we were just doing a draft, then focused on the song I still know from when I studied folklore at the University. But we altered in the previous version of the song ended tragically, so we thought that we have the ability to alter the text so that everything turned out much better. After all, how can we cry… By the rules of Eurovision is possible that the song was sung not only in Ukrainian but also in any language that I want to send a country song, and remake, we will not. But again, the goal was precisely to the Eurovision song contest was Ukrainian song in Ukrainian language…” – said vocalist Ekaterina Pavlenko.
See the online broadcast of the channel 24 with the participation of Go_A: video