Jagshemash, I like you! Do you like me?

There is more to Kazakhstan than killing gypsies and Jews. Infact it isn't at all like Borat's caricature of the central Asian country. Svetlana L'vovna Gayman (Rus. Светлана Львовна Гейман) known by the stage name Linda (Rus. Линда) was born to a family of German origin in southern Kazakhstan, then the second largest republic of the Soviet Union. At a young age she moved to Moscow where she attended the Moscow Music School, and by the age of 19 in 1994, had released her debut album Songs of the Tibetan Llamas (Rus. Песни Тибетских Лам / Pesni Tibetskikh Lam). Her music is a mix of rock, pop, electro, and folk, and her look is just as eclectic - although she always tends to look like a witch (see photo).

A quick note on her official web address. In 1990 the suffixes for web addresses were assigned to almost all countries around the world. The USSR was given .su (Soviet Union), however a few months later the country ceased to exist and the successor states were all given their own suffix, Russia got .ru, Ukraine got .ua, Kazakhstan got .kz and so on. Russia however still holds .su and despite attempts to terminate its use, in 2001 new .su addresses began to be issued. It isn't thought that the choice of a .su address for Linda's site holds any political ignorance, rather that it was chosen because linda.ru was already taken.


http://www.linda.su/ (Official site - Includes audio streams of her entire back-catalogue)

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