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An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘Freestylo’

  • Freestailo Lives

    Thanks to J’s comment on an earlier post for this update on who freestailo is: According to this YouTube Video: His name is Ernar Kaldynov, was born in Karoi, small village in Western Kazakhstan. in 2007 he took part as singer with dombra(Kazakh National Instrument) in SuperStar.KZ show (Kazakh version of American Idol), but did […]

  • By Request

    So far Borat’s “national anthem” and Freestailo are the most popular search requests on this site. And people wondering what exactly Mr. Freestylo is saying make up a large percentage of visitors to this site. So I thought I’d post the lyrics in Kazakh (so you can sing along at home) and then translated into […]

  • Freestyler

    A follow-up on Freestailo, the YouTube star from Kazakhstan. Many people in Kazakhstan have been trying to figure out where he got the idea from. Also, while there are some Kazakh words in there (“Analain” which means “dearest” and “Kyzdari” which means, “girls” or “women”) there is also a lot of nonsense, like “Waka Maka”. […]

  • Fut-Fut-Fut-Freestailo

    How did I miss this? About one year ago, in December of 2007, during the Superstar KZ (Kazakhstan’s version of American Idol or Pop Idol) auditions a guy came on clearly from the villages with a cheap sweater and a bad haircut. He was holding a dombro and the judges perhaps expected a typical Kazakh […]