Ksenia Sobchak and Maxim Galkin met with Nursultan Nazarbayev

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The ceremony of awarding the 13th annual national prize in the field of popular music "Muz-TV 2015. Gravity" has died down in the capital of Kazakhstan. Literally. A strong wind damaged the scenery at the Astana Arena stadium, spoiled the red carpet for the stars, however, despite the bad weather, the show was a success.

The ceremony was attended by many stars of Russian and Kazakh show business, and even the head of state Nursultan Nazarbayev personally came to the show, he received a special prize "For Contribution to Life" from Joseph Kobzon. “I entered this stage in order to greet Russian pop stars, Kazakhstani artists on behalf of myself, on behalf of my people, to thank for your friendship and joint performance. We are neighbors - Russia and Kazakhstan, we are in a single Eurasian union. Russians feel at home in Kazakhstan and Kazakhstanis in Russia - also at home. Isn't that happiness? " - said Nazarbayev. The politician also stressed that "Kazakhstan is doing everything for art."

The hosts of the ceremony this time were Andrey Malakhov, Ksenia Sobchak, Maxim Galkin, Lera Kudryavtseva, a popular KVN participant Nurlan Koyanbaev and Kazakh actress Asel Sagatova.

Among the winners of the special Muz-TV award in the World Breakthrough of the Year nomination were the artists of the Astana Ballet Theater. Roza Rymbaeva received the award "For contribution to the development of the music industry in Kazakhstan", Kairat Nurtas was recognized as "The best artist of the year in Kazakhstan". We could not help but remember about one of the founders of the "A-studio" group, the sudden death of Batyrkhan Shukenov. The Batyr Prize "For Contribution to the Development of the Music Industry of Kazakhstan and Russia" was received on stage by the musician's elder brother, Baurzhan.

Special prizes were awarded to tenor Nikolai Baskov "For his contribution to the development of the music industry", Valeria was noted as the "Singer of the Decade", the "A-studio" collective was named "The Best Group of the Decade".

Once again, the "Best Performer" was Philip Kirkorov. And Ani Lorak was named “Best performer”. Singer Emin Agalarov won the Best Album award "True", and the clip "You are my happiness" by Nikolai Baskov and Sophie received the award as "Best Video". Anita Tsoi's video “My air, my love” was recognized as “The best female video”, and “7 figures” by Sergey Lazarev as the “Best male video”.