The breakthrough of the year in my country

Original video 

As we know, our youtube world is now totally obsessed with cover versions of popular and surprisingly, around 6 months ago, British singer(originally from Italy) and a young actor from Kazakhstan united together and made a cover version of Sting's song "English Man in New York". 


The didn't simply made a cover version of it, but they've changed lyrics with common kazakh words and slangs. The original video was filmed in the kitchen of Son Pascal (British singer) and the song is called: "English man in Shimkent". Shimkent is a small town located on the South of Kazakhstan. 


While he played on the small guitar, Anaur Nurpeisov (Kazakh actor) made beat sound with a shake of coffee;) Obviously, Son pascal has an amazing voice and he's pretty good at pronouncing all these complicated kazakh words like, "bratishke"(brother), "chai"(tea), "besbarmak"( tradition dish) and so on;) 

Anuar and Son

Anuar Nurpeisov

Son Pascal

Here's the link for the original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRZkz0hDQDs


Thanks to the enormous success of the video, young men aimed to film official video for the song with spending no money at all. They actually went to the "Shimkent" and filmed local people and even found a car that they sang about. It's a high quality video with funny stuff in it, you really want to watch it: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25n_Zlez8oc


Boys are now performing both in the UK and Kazakhstan. The even made a short tour couple of months before. I have to say, their creativity makes a lot of people wish that the whole world will know Kazakhstan not only because dirty "borat" fame. Son and Anuar are now working on some other videos and another successful video called "Chaika Aigul", where "Aigul" is a traditional kazakh name and "chaika" mean gull or a woman that never pays her bills and takes benefits from men.  Have a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcEs8kQo768


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