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Hard bop/post-bop pianist Eldar Djangirov has accomplished a thing that almost all jazz performers — pianists or elsewhere — won’t accomplish: he landed a agreement with a significant label (Sony Classical) when he still wasn’t older enough to vote. It isn’t uncommon for folks to learn to try out jazz …

Susana Jamaladinova, better known by her stage name Jamala, is a Ukrainian vocalist/songwriter and celebrity who found out international achievement in 2016 after being successful that year’s Eurovision Track Contest. Given birth to in 1983 to a Crimean Tatar dad and an Armenian mom, Jamaladinova began performing at age nine. …